Labour category: 1663 books
The Working Class Majority
America's Best Kept Secret
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
In the second edition of his essential book—which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gender, and the social crisis following 2008—Michael Zweig warns that by allowing the working class to disappear into categories of "middle class" or "consumers," we also...
The Chicken Trail
Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In The Chicken Trail, Kathleen C. Schwartzman examines the impact of globalization—and of NAFTA in particular—on the North American poultry industry, focusing on the displacement of African American workers in the southeast United States and workers in Mexico. Schwartzman documents how the transformation...
Workplace Democracy
An Inquiry into Employee Participation in Canadian Work Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
This book begins with a historical review of how authority in the Canadian workplace has changed over the past century. It proceeds to outline a theory of organization which provides a broad conceptual framework for the empirical analysis which follows. This theory is based on five concepts: the values...
Slaves into Workers
Emancipation and Labor in Colonial Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
In the Sudan, native Sudanese slaves served Sudanese masters until the region was conquered by the Turks, who practiced slavery on an institutional scale. When the British took over the Sudan in 1898, they officially emancipated the slaves, yet found it impossible to replace their labor in the country's...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Many complex systems in civil and military operations are highly automated with the intention of supporting human performance in difficult cognitive tasks. The complex systems can involve teams or individuals working on real-time supervisory control, command or information management tasks where a...
by Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, Steven D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1996
A fundamental critique of American law and legal thought, Against the Law consists of a series of essays written from three different perspectives that coalesce into a deep criticism of contemporary legal culture. Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, and Steven D. Smith challenge the conventional representations...
Global Cinderellas
Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Migrant women are the primary source of paid domestic labor around the world. Since the 1980s, the newly prosperous countries of East Asia have recruited foreign household workers at a rapidly increasing rate. Many come from the Philippines and Indonesia. Pei-Chia Lan interviewed and spent time with...
Whistleblowers
Broken Lives and Organizational Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a dark departure from our standard picture of whistleblowers, C. Fred Alford offers a chilling account of the world of people who have come forward to protest organizational malfeasance in government agencies and in the private sector. The conventional story—high-minded individual fights soulless...
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 1995
Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern American historians,...
by Luis Urrea
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
By the Lake of Sleeping Children explores the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists,and relief workers, fearsome coyotes and their desperate clientele. In sixteen indelible portraits, Urrea illuminates the horrors and the simple joys...
Trampling Out the Vintage
Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Winner of the 2012 Hillman Prize in Book Journalism.
In its heyday, the United Farm Workers was an embodiment of its slogan “Yes, we can”—in the form “¡Sí, Se Puede!”—winning many labor victories, securing collective bargaining rights for farm workers, and becoming a major voice...
Only One Thing Can Save Us
Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Is labor’s day over or is labor the only real answer for our time? In this new book, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan argues that even as organized labor seems to be crumbling, a revived—but different—labor movement is now more relevant than ever...
They Never Come Back
A Story of Undocumented Workers from Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
For Mexicans on both sides of the border, the migrant experience has changed significantly over the past two decades. In They Never Come Back, Frans J. Schryer draws on the experiences of indigenous people from a region in the Mexican state of Guerrero to explore the impact of this transformation...