Labour category: 1663 books
Labor Movements
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in inequality within and between countries, steady or indeed rising unemployment and underemployment, and the marked increase in precarious work and migration,...
The Deepest Wounds
A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D. Rogers traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's key northeastern sugar-growing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth century, when human impact on the environment...
Prisoners of the American Dream
Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States
Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world’s most industrially advanced nation...
by Peter R. Odell
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
The oil industry is the world’s largest commercial enterprise. Its extent is global; international issues are consistently influenced by considerations of oil production and consumption, while the international communications networks of the larger oil companies rival those of many nations*.* In...
by Anson Rabinbach
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century notion of digital organisms. Step by step—from Jacques de Vaucanson and his Digesting Duck, through Karl Marx’s Capital, Hermann von Helmholtz’s social thermodynamics,...
A Woman's Wage
Historical Meanings and Social Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
In this updated edition of a groundbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on three issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
The Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law takes the reader through the most important controversies and critical developments in law and U.S. sports. Over the course of 30 chapters, leading scholars explore this expanding and captivating area of law. The Handbook is the first book to gather dozens...
Sweatshops at Sea
Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world's first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders. In Sweatshops at Sea, historian Leon...
Take This Job and Ship It
How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Our trade deficit increases by $2 billion a day. Pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists have such influence in Washington that Medicare, by current law, is not allowed to negotiate lower drug prices. We import oil on an ever-increasing scale, putting ourselves into dept with the Saudis, the...
by Simon Honeyball
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Great Debates in Law is an evolving series of engaging and thoughtful introductions to more the advanced concepts, written by authors who are amongst the foremost thinkers in their field. The series focuses on the key tensions and questions underlying a subject, setting legal developments in their philosophical...
In Solidarity
Essays on Working-Class Organization and Strategy in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
As the economic crisis continues to ravage the globe, increasing numbers are looking for alternatives to the market.
The Chicago Teachers Union, Walmart workers, Longshoreman on the West Coast, and many other labor struggles have recently broken out across the US. This has sent many searching...
by Vodopivec Milan; Gunatlilaka Ramani; Mayer Markus
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Sri Lanka has long been regarded as a model of a successful welfare state in a low-income setting, yet it has not succeeded in creating a suffi cient number of "good jobs" for the increasing number of young people. Hence, young Sri Lankans perceive their country as an unjust and unequal society, in which...
by Bob Blain
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
The Most Wealth explains how we can achieve full employment and genuine social security with more free time to realize our natural destiny on earth, well-being and free time to enjoy ife. The key is understanding money as a medium of communication that exists to insure that we all share the work and share the wealth.
Contexts of Social Capital
Social Networks in Markets, Communities and Families
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
The concept of social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of their social networks in "getting ahead." Social capital isn’t just about the connections in networks, but fundamentally concerns the distribution of resources on the basis of exchanges.
This volume focuses...