Labour category: 1663 books

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by Pierluigi Rausei
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 4, 2013

La sesta edizione racchiude le novità di legislazione, prassi amministrativa e giurisprudenza che riguardano l’insieme di tutte le violazioni penali e amministrative del diritto del lavoro, della previdenza sociale e della sicurezza sui luoghi di lavoro. In particolare la Parte I, è dedicata all’avviamento...
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Class Acts

Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels

by Rachel Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2007

In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention. Drawing on in-depth interviews and extended ethnographic research in a range...
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Struggle or Starve

Working-Class Unity in Belfast's 1932 Outdoor Relief Riots

by Seán Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

In October 1932, the streets of Belfast were gripped by vicious and widespread rioting that lasted the best part of a week. Thousands of unarmed demonstrators fought extended pitched battles against heavily-armed police. Unemployed workers and, indeed, whole working-class communities, dug trenches...
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by Susan Eisenberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

The fiercely lyrical poetry of Stanley’s Girl is rooted in Susan Eisenberg’s experience as one of the first women to enter the construction industry and from her decades gathering accounts of others to give scaffolding to that history. Eisenberg charts her own induction into the construction workplace...
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by Richard Sennett
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011

A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."—Studs Terkel, author of Working In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting...
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Sex, Race and Class-The Perspective of Winning

A Selection of Writings 1952–2011

by Selma James, Nina López
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

Branching off Marx’s theories of class struggle, this impressive collection of essays on workers’ rights as they pertains to women’s rights aims to educate and inform those interested in radical feminist labor theory. Arguing that class struggle manifests itself as the conflict between the reproduction...
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by Benjamin Disraeli
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018

The infant George Augustus Frederick succeeds to the wealthy dukedom of St James on the death of his father, whose sister's husband (Earl Fitz-pompey) expects to be ward of the young duke. Instead George is entrusted to a neighbour, Mr Dacre, a Catholic. Over time Fitz-pompey dazzles George with his...
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by Morris E. Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012

Learn how to maximize the Attorney-Client relationship to give your employment law case the best chance of success! Many of us have experienced unfair or hostile treatment in the work place. Let's face it, the employment world is generally not democratic and can be brutal. Sometimes matters...
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Song of the Stubborn One Thousand

The Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985-87

by Peter Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016

Offers a detailed view of the organizational and strategic challenges of a long strike under difficult conditions Provides a better understanding of the complex relationship between the Mexican women strikers and the Teamsters union, which had long ignored them but was finally compelled to...
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The Tejano Diaspora

Mexican Americanism and Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin

by Marc Simon Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011

Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos established settlements in nearly all the places they...
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Defiant Braceros

How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom

by Mireya Loza
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016

In this book, Mireya Loza sheds new light on the private lives of migrant men who participated in the Bracero Program (1942–1964), a binational agreement between the United States and Mexico that allowed hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers to enter this country on temporary work permits. While...
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Mexican Inclusion

The Origins of Anti-Discrimination Policy in Texas and the Southwest

by Matthew Gritter
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Immigration across the US-Mexican border may currently be a hot topic, but it is hardly a new one. Labor issues and civil rights have been interwoven with the history of the region since at least the time of the Mexican-American War, and the twentieth century witnessed recurrent political battles...
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Conflicting Commitments

The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston

by Shannon Gleeson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012

In Conflicting Commitments, Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards apply to all workers, yet this principle clashes with increasingly restrictive immigration...
Cover of Growing Up Hard in Harlan County
by G. C. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

G.C. "Red" Jones's classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying...
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