Labour category: 1663 books
Jobs with Justice
25 Years, 25 Voices
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Through a series of interviews and essays, this compendium gives voice to the community, labor, immigrant, student, and faith activists that have built Jobs with Justice (JwJ). The book speaks on both the core principles of the organization for workers’ rights and the experiences since its founding...
We'll Call You If We Need You
Experiences of Women Working Construction
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Susan Eisenberg began her apprenticeship with Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1978, the year president Jimmy Carter set goals and timetables for the hiring of women on federally assisted construction projects and for the inclusion of women in apprenticeship programs....
The Union of Their Dreams
Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
A generation of Americans came of age boycotting grapes, swept up in a movement that vanquished California's most powerful industry and accomplished the unthinkable: dignity and contracts for farm workers. Four decades later, Cesar Chavez's likeness graces postage stamps, and dozens of schools and...
From South Texas to the Nation
The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and...
Kitchens
The Culture of Restaurant Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life. A new preface updates this riveting...
Grounds for Dreaming
Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the...
Mother Jones
The Most Dangerous Woman in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Her rallying cry was famous: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." A century ago, Mother Jones was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul of the modern American labor movement. At coal strikes, steel strikes, railroad, textile, and brewery strikes, Mother Jones...
The Death and Life of American Labor
Toward a New Worker's Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The decline of the American union movement—and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of labor
Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues...
by Raymond L. Hogler
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Arguing that the decline in union membership and bargaining power is linked to rising income inequality, this important book traces the evolution of labor law in America from the first labor-law case in 1806 through the passage of right-to-work legislation in Michigan and Indiana in 2012. In doing...
Revolt on Goose Island
The Chicago Factory Takeover and What It Says About the Economic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Revised and updated, with a new afterword by the author
“There is much talk about ‘audacity’ these days, but true chutzpah is when the workers take over the factory and take on the bank. Kari Lydersen’s invaluable account of the Republic sit-down strike is an instruction manual for...
Slave Next Door
Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In The Slave Next Door we find that slaves are all around us, hidden in plain sight: the dishwasher...
Mobsters, Unions, and Feds
The Mafia and the American Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Nowhere in the world has organized crime infiltrated the labor movement as effectively as in the United States. Yet the government, the AFL-CIO, and the civil liberties community all but ignored the situation for most of the twentieth century. Since 1975, however, the FBI, Department of Justice, and...
by Paul Lafargue
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This ebook has been ported from theanarchistlibrary.org.
M. Thiers, at a private session of the commission on primary education of 1849, said: “I wish to make the influence of the clergy all powerful because I count upon it to propagate that good philosophy which teaches man that he is here...
by Bob Barnetson
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Workplace injuries are common avoidable and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts intervening only when necessary to maintain the system's legitimacy. Dr. Bob Barnetson sheds light on...