Labour category: 1663 books
An Injury to All
The Decline of American Unionism
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes. In this first comprehensive history of the labor movement from Truman to Reagan, Kim Moody shows how the AFL-CIO’s conservative ideology of “business unionism” effectively disarmed unions...
by Cory Booker
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) shares the story of his father’s journey from poverty to middle-class prosperity, but says the bargain that helped his father and other workers achieve the American Dream is now broken. Sen. Booker reflects on the trends and practices contributing to stagnant wages in...
Black Americans and Organized Labor
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
In Black Americans and Organized Labor, Paul D. Moreno offers a bold reinterpretation of the role of race and racial discrimination in the American labor movement. Moreno applies insights of the law-and-economics movement to formulate a powerfully compelling labor-race theorem of elegant simplicity:...
Racism in the Nation's Service
Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Between the 1880s and 1910s, thousands of African Americans passed civil service exams and became employed in the executive offices of the federal government. However, by 1920, promotions to well-paying federal jobs had nearly vanished for black workers. Eric S. Yellin argues that the Wilson administration's...
Organize!
Building from the Local for Global Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Penned by a diverse range of activists, academics, lawyers, artists, and researchers, this book weaves a rich and varied tapestry of strategies for bringing about change in an era of unprecedented economic, social, and ecological crisis. From community-based labor-organizing strategies among immigrant...
My Job
Real People at Work Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
MY JOB: Real People at Work Around the World, is a collection of vivid first-person accounts of real people in unique jobs, in the U.S. and the world. Never before has such a collection of stories been gathered. Building upon the legacy of Studs Terkel’s 1970s bestseller Working, MY JOB goes global...
Freedom to Harm
The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
How much economic freedom is a good thing? This book tells the story of how the business community, and the trade associations and think tanks that it created, launched three powerful assaults during the last quarter of the twentieth century on the federal regulatory system and the state civil justice...
The U.S. Labor Market
Questions and Challenges for Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Public policy is rightly concerned with fostering a vibrant labor market in which individuals can earn their own success, realize their potential, and enjoy the dignity that hard work provides. But public policy faces serious challenges in today’s labor market: low workforce participation and high...
Liberating Temporariness?
Migration, Work, and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Liberating Temporariness? explores the complex ways in which temporariness is being institutionalized as a condition of life for a growing number of people worldwide. The collection emphasizes contemporary developments, but also provides historical context on nation-state membership as the fundamental...
You Can’t Eat Freedom
Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ongoing economic revolution brought about by increasing agricultural mechanization. Political empowerment for black southerners coincided with the transformation...
Knocking on Labor’s Door
Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically since the 1970s. In recent years, many have argued that the crisis took root when unions stopped reaching out to workers and workers turned away from unions. But here Lane Windham tells a different...
by Henry Wood
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This book , first published in the last years of the 19th century, has received a profusion of commendatory notices from the press in all sections of the country. It is simple, yet profound, and makes a "dry subject" positively entertaining. The burning topics of the day, including trusts,...
Reskilling America
Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
From Katherine Newman, award-winning author of No Shame in My Game, and sociologist Hella Winston, a sharp and irrefutable call to reenergize this nation's long-neglected system of vocational training
After decades of off-shoring and downsizing that have left blue collar workers obsolete and...
Working for Respect
Community and Conflict at Walmart
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce—young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work—Walmartism—in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a...