Labour category: 1663 books
A Time for Tea
Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2001
In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. A Time for Tea reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements—picturesque women...
A Path for Chinese Civil Society
A Case Study on Industrial Associations in Wenzhou, China
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
This book combines empirical research and theoretical discussions to demonstrate that the civil society paradigm as a western concept could be applicable to the study of state-society relations in contemporary China. However, the growth of Chinese civil society does not necessarily present an adversarial...
In Love and Struggle
The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Born and raised in Alabama, James Boggs came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union activist. Grace Lee was a Chinese...
The Coal Question (Routledge Revivals)
Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The coal industry has always occupied a symbolic place in British economic and political life, inspiring debates and arousing passions throughout the last two centuries. This account of the economics of coal, first published in 1990, is unique in its comprehensive three-part approach. First, Ben Fine...
The Annotated Works of Henry George
Progress and Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Henry George (1839–1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth century. His best-selling Progress and Poverty (1879) captures the ravages of privileged monopolies and the woes of industrialization in a language of eloquent...
Betrayal
How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
“Simply put, the leftist labor unions have the Democrats in their pockets. And we’re all paying the price.”
Linda Chavez, President George W. Bush’s original choice for Secretary of Labor and a former union official, is one of the foremost authorities on America’s labor unions. Now,...
Direct Action & Sabotage
Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The pamphlets reprinted in this collection were first published in the 1910s amidst great controversy; the significant works included are “Direct Action and Sabotage” by William E. Trautmann, “Sabotage: Its History, Philosophy and Function” by Walker C. Smith, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's...
The Life of Cheese
Crafting Food and Value in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. Heather Paxson’s beautifully written anthropological study of American artisanal cheesemaking tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value for producers as well as consumers. Dairy farmers and artisans inhabit a...
Underground America
Narratives of Undocumented Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Millions of undocumented immigrants live in the United States under constant threat of imprisonment or deportation. They survive underground, with little protection from exploitation by human smugglers, employers, or law enforcement. Underground America presents the remarkable oral histories of men...
The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport
Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks has explored the U.S.-Mexico borderlands by car and by foot, on horseback, and in the back of a pickup truck. She has shared meals with border residents, listened to their stories, and visited their homes, churches, hospitals, farms, and jails. In this dazzling...
Chasing the Harvest
Migrant Workers in California Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United States
The Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of California’s migrant farmworkers in the 1930s. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycotts captured the imagination...
The Betrayal of Work
How Low-wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans And Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Following its publication in hardcover, the critically acclaimed Betrayal of Work became one of the most influential policy books about economic life in America; it was discussed in the pages of Newsweek, Business Week, Fortune, the Washington Post, Newsday, and USA Today, as well as in public policy...
by J. Randy Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Randy Johnson’s Forced Reckoning delves into politcs, labor issues, family struggles, and wealth inequity. The resounding message proved throughout the book is: You can achieve great things through commitment, change and a drive to do better things with your life.Johnson details his link...
Beyond the Cubicle
Job Insecurity, Intimacy, and the Flexible Self
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
How does the insecurity of work affect us? We know what job insecurity does to workers at work, the depressive effect it has on morale, productivity, and pay. We know less about the impact of job insecurity beyond the workplace, upon people's intimate relationships, their community life, their vision...