Labour category: 1663 books
by Heinz Duthel
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The first Great Depression. The Second Great Depression.
The Great Depression was a dramatic, worldwide economic downturn beginning in the late 1920s and lasting through most of the 1930s.
The Second Great Depression. 2007- 2017
Most of the logic used to support...
The Grandeur and Misery of the Social State
Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 29 November 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
The legal history of the construction of the welfare state gives an idea of its greatness. But this easy-going sovereign, tolerant to protest and accountable for its subjects’ well-being, seems to be struck by misery today. Exposed to systemic financial risks due to the opening of its commercial...
She Was One of Us
Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Although born to a life of privilege and married to the President of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt was a staunch and lifelong advocate for workers and, for more than twenty-five years, a proud member of the AFL-CIO's Newspaper Guild. She Was One of Us tells for the first time the story of her...
All-American Anarchist
Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive...
Subterranean Fire (Updated Edition)
A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Smith shows how a return to the fighting traditions of US labor history, with their emphasis on rank-and-file strategies for change, can turn around the labor movement.
Subterranean Fire brings working-class history to light and reveals its lessons for today.
No Right to Be Idle
The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as "unproductive citizens." Before that, disabled people had contributed as they were able in homes, on farms, and in the wage labor market, reflecting the fact that Americans...
Commonsense Anticommunism
Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America's "first line of defense" against Communism. In this surprising account, Jennifer Luff shows how the American Federation of Labor fanned popular anticommunism but defended Communists' civil liberties...
by Junius Irving Scales, Richard Nickson, Telford Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Born in 1920 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Junius Scales, whose great-uncle had been governor of the state, grew up in the privileged environment of his family’s estate. The only black people he knew were the servants. Wanting to improve the lot of workers, mainly African-American, he joined the...
Strike Back
Using the Militant Tactics of Labor's Past to Reignite Public Sector Unionism Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
During the 1960s and 1970s, teachers, sanitation workers and many other public employees rose up to demand collective bargaining rights in one of the greatest upsurges in labor history. These workers were able to transform the nature of public employment, winning union recognition for millions and...
by Steve Early
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress brings together recent essays and reporting by labor journalist Steve Early. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers, whether they’re trying to democratize their union, win a strike, defend past contract gains, or bargain with...
American Empire
The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
A compelling look at the movements and developments that propelled America to world dominance
In this landmark work, acclaimed historian Joshua Freeman has created an epic portrait of a nation both galvanized by change and driven by conflict. Beginning in 1945, the economic juggernaut awakened...
by William C. Blizzard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Chronicling the West Virginia Mine Wars of the 1920s, this first-hand account of the coal miners' uprisings offers a new perspective on labor unrest during this time period. Complete with previously unpublished family photographs and documents, this retelling shares the experiences of Bill Blizzard,...
Labor and Monopoly Capital
The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital overturned the reigning ideologies of academic...
Basic Income
A Transformative Policy for India
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditional monthly cash payment. In a context...