Labour category: 1663 books
by Jeremy Brecher
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! to bring American labor history to a wide audience. Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America and tells this exciting hidden...
Retirement on the Line
Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
In an era when people live longer and want (or need) to work past the traditional retirement age, the Vita Needle Company of Needham, Massachusetts, provides inspiration and important lessons about the value of older workers. Vita Needle is a family-owned factory that was founded in 1932 and makes...
by Mary Harris Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Among the most stirring works of labor history ever written, this autobiography of Mother Jones (née Mary Harris) chronicles the life of a woman who was considered a saint by many, and by others, "the most dangerous woman in America." A forceful and picturesque figure in the American labor...
by Staughton Lynd, Daniel Gross
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Legendary legal scholar Staughton Lynd teams up with influential labor organizer Daniel Gross in this exposition on solidarity unionism, the do-it-yourself workplace organizing system that is rapidly gaining prominence around the country and around the world. Lynd and Gross make the audacious argument...
Caro Ministro Poletti
Quello che gli italiani si sentono di comunicare ai loro nuovi governanti.
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Una lettera al Ministro del lavoro da parte del suo più grande amico, il popolo italiano.Una lettera semplice che ricorda le priorità, le necessità ma non ammette che si dimentichi lo stile, il metodo, il ricordo della grandezza del lavoro, della nobiltà del lavoro.Una lettera diversa da quella...
Making It
Why Manufacturing Still Matters
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
A veteran New York Times economics correspondent reports from factories nationwide to illustrate the continuing importance of industry for our country.
In the 1950s, manufacturing generated nearly 30 percent of US income. But over the decades, that share has gradually declined to less than...
Doing History from the Bottom Up
On E.P. Thompson, Howard Zinn, and Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In the 1960s historians on both sides of the Atlantic began to challenge the assumptions of their colleagues and push for an understanding of history "from below." In this collection, Staughton Lynd, himself one of the pioneers of this approach, laments the passing of fellow luminaries David...
What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do
Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Stephanie J. Shaw takes us into the inner world of American black professional women during the Jim Crow era. This is a story of struggle and empowerment, of the strength of a group of women who worked against daunting odds to improve the world for themselves and their people. Shaw's remarkable research...
Blacklisted
The Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
This is a story of a bitter struggle, in which collusion with the UK police and security services resulted in victimization, violence and unemployment, with terrible effects on families and communities. Drawing on first-hand accounts of the workers, Blacklisted reveals how, when major construction projects...
by Jill Blee
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
On 3 December 1854 a bloody battle between gold miners, soldiers and police raged for fifteen minutes at the Eureka Lead in Ballarat. But this brief conflict, which had been brewing for years, would have momentous consequences overturning the accepted social order and bringing democracy to Victoria. EUREKA introduces you to the people and events that shaped this key moment in Australias history.
The Death of Holden
The bestselling account of the decline of Australian manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Holden is one of the few brands that has an emotional grip on Australia (Qantas being another). The closure of the Holden factory in Adelaide is not just the end of a business - it's the end of an era, of a story, and of a great Australian dream.
When Holden signalled that it would close its...
Man for All Seasons
The Life and Times of Ken Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
**A major biography of Ken Douglas, the most powerful union leader in modern New Zealand history.**Ken Douglas was raised in a hardworking, tough-talking, union-focussed Wellington family and got into union politics as a very young working man. Hard-nosed, pragmatic and never scared of a scrap, he...
Intern Nation
How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Millions of young people—and increasingly some not-so-young people—now work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand magazine offices, legislative backrooms, and Hollywood studios, but they also deliver aid in Afghanistan, map the human genome, and pick up garbage. Intern Nation...
The Devil Is Here in These Hills
West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
“The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I’ve ever read.” —John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan
On September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On...