Labour category: 1663 books
Immigrant City
Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The violence and radicalism connected with the Industrial Workers of the World textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, left the popular impression that Lawrence was a slum-ridden city inhabited by un-American revolutionaries. Immigrant City is a study of Lawrence which reveals that the...
Holding the Line
Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment which occurs when people work together as...
Disposable People
New Slavery in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations....
by David Weil
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
In the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, on the list of big business's priorities, sustaining the employer-worker relationship ranks far below building a devoted customer base and delivering value to investors. As David Weil's...
by Philip M. Dine
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
After years of being ignored by the media and public, labor finds itself squarely in the spotlight - under attack from all angles and fighting back fiercely. No longer can anyone claim that labor's falling membership has made it a mere relic, for its adversaries would not expend so much energy to destroy...
Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2006
Before 1980, sick building syndrome did not exist. By the 1990s, it was among the most commonly investigated occupational health problems in the United States. Afflicted by headaches, rashes, and immune system disorders, office workers—mostly women—protested that their workplaces were filled with...
Bananeras
Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
"[Bananeras] is a vital accounting of the struggles still being waged."—Margaret Randall, author of When I Look Into the Mirror and See You: Women, Terror, and Resistance
Women banana workers have organized themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces,...
Braceros
Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In Braceros, historian Deborah Cohen asks why these temporary migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety...
Unfinished Business
Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of U.S. Work-Family Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Unfinished Business documents the history and impact of California’s paid family leave program, the first of its kind in the United States, which began in 2004. Drawing on original data from fieldwork and surveys of employers, workers, and the larger California adult population, Ruth Milkman and...
On New Terrain
How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Kim Moody analyzes how changes in global capitalism have altered both the composition of the working class and the economic and political ground on which it struggles. From the logistics revolution to the unprecedented concentration of business and wealth in the hands a shrinking few, Moody examines the impact of this new economic terrain on potential working class resistance movements.
The Industrialist and the Mountaineer
The Eastham-Thompson Feud and the Struggle for West Virginia's Timber Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis’s book uses this largely forgotten episode as a...
The Farmer's Benevolent Trust
Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Americans have always regarded farming as a special calling, one
imbued with the Jeffersonian values of individualism and self-
sufficiency. As Victoria Saker Woeste demonstrates, farming's
cultural image continued to shape Americans' expectations of
rural society long after industrialization radically...
Teacher Strike!
Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
A wave of teacher strikes in the 1960s and 1970s roiled urban communities. Jon Shelton illuminates how this tumultuous era helped shatter the liberal-labor coalition and opened the door to the neoliberal challenge at the heart of urban education today. Drawing on a wealth of research ranging from...
by José Pérez Chávez, Raymundo Fol Olguín
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 9, 2017
La Practiagenda Laboral 2017 es ideal para estudiantes de la materia laboral, ya que su contenido parte de los preceptos constitucionales, continuando con la Ley Federal del Trabajo y sus respectivos reglamentos, de los cuales destacan los siguientes: 1. Reglamento de los artículos 121 y 122 de la...