Labour category: 1663 books
Labor Law for the Rank & Filer
Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Blending cutting-edge legal strategies for winning justice at work with a theory of dramatic, bottom-up social change, this practical guide to workers’ rights aims to make work better while reinvigorating the labor movement. A powerful organization model called solidarity unionism” is explained,...
Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine
Rival Images of a New World in 1930s Vancouver
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2014
In the early years of the Great Depression, thousands of unemployed homeless transients settled into Vancouver’s “hobo jungle.” The jungle operated as a distinct community, in which goods were exchanged and shared directly, without benefit of currency. The organization of life was immediate...
Care Work and Class
Domestic Workers’ Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Despite constitutions that enshrine equality, until recently every state in Latin America permitted longer working hours (in some cases more than double the hours) and lower benefits for domestic workers than other workers. This has, in effect, subsidized a cheap labor force for middle- and upper-class...
The Worker Center Handbook
A Practical Guide to Starting and Building the New Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Worker centers are becoming an important element in labor and community organizing and the struggle for fair pay and decent working conditions for low-wage workers, especially immigrants. There are currently more than two hundred worker centers in the country, and more start every month. Most of these...
by Michael D. Yates
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In early 2011, the nation was stunned to watch Wisconsin’s
state capitol in Madison come under sudden and unexpected
occupation by union members and their allies. The protests
to defend collective bargaining rights were militant and practically
unheard of in this era of declining union power. Nearly
forty...
Black and Blue
African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred U.S. labor union members were African American. By 1980, the figure was more than one in five. Black and Blue explores the politics and history that led to this dramatic integration of organized labor. In the process, the book tells a broader story about...
A Precariat Charter
From Denizens to Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the social unrest characterized by the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This book explores the normative and legal evolution of the Social Dimension - labour law, social security law and family law - in both the EU and its Member States, during the last decade. It does this from a wide range of theoretical and legal-substantive perspectives. The past decade has witnessed...
Value
The Representation of Labour in Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
This republication of a long out-of-print collection of essays, first published in 1979, focuses on the elusive concept of “value.” The field of study surrounding the theory of value remains comparatively sparse in Anglophone circles, and the essays here aim to answer the question, “Why is Marx’s theory of value important?”
Thinking Union
Activism and Education in Canada's Labour Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1995
Over the past seventeen years, trade union educator D’Arcy Martin has conducted hundreds of courses for Canadian workers. He has learned that there are people-”conscious romantics”-who dream of a more egalitarian world while confronting the obstacles that stand in the way of building it. This book provides a refreshing personal account of union culture and its dynamics.
by Joan Sangster
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in the context of developing theory...
by David Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
This book reveals a sombre aspect of contemporary Canadian history, the administration of justice, infringement of the labour law and the exploitation of the circumstances exposed by the decline of unions. The book traces and chronicles the tribulations of one worker who dares to challenge the government...
by Robin Allen QC, Rachel Crasnow QC, Anna Beale
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union have had a significant impact on UK employment law, but the ultimate contours of this are still developing and emerging, particularly post-BREXIT. In the face of...
Life after Lisbon
Europe’s Challenges to Promote Labour Force Participation and Reduce Income Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
The economic crisis of 2008 has undone much of the progress on improving employment and growth in Europe. The review concludes that policy makers should focus on enabling social policy that allows individuals to achieve their productive potential.