Labour category: 1663 books
Inequality and Prosperity
Social Europe vs. Liberal America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What are the relative merits of the American and European socioeconomic systems? Long-standing debates have heated up in recent years with the expansion of the European Union and increasingly sharp political and cultural differences between the United States and Europe. In Inequality and Prosperity,...
The Influence Machine
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate Capture of American Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
An illuminating history and groundbreaking investigation tracing how a single trade organization turned itself into the most dangerous political weapon in America
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When Americans hear the words “Chamber of Commerce,” many still think of the local business associations that spruce up Main...
New Forms of Worker Organization
The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class-Struggle Unionism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
As bureaucratic labor unions are currently under assault throughout the world, most have surrendered the achievements of the mid-20th century, when the working class was a militant force for change. As unions implode and weaken, workers are independently forming their own unions, rooted in the tradition...
Contagious Capitalism
Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "reform and openness" will lead to political liberalization. This book challenges that assumption and the general relationship between economic liberalization and democratization. Moreover,...
Root-Cause Regulation
Protecting Work and Workers in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Work is now more deadly than war, killing approximately 2.3 million people a year worldwide. The United States, with its complex regulatory system, has one of the highest rates of occupational fatality in the developed world, and deteriorating working conditions more generally. Why, after a century...
Citizen Rauh
An American Liberal's Life in Law and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
"Joe Rauh was the type of lawyer who comes along maybe once in a generation---talented, politically astute, effective, and stubbornly devoted to principles, the type of person who not only could but did make a difference. He deserves a biography that explores not only his persona, but the America...
by Nick Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Examining the traditionally predominant role of the state in shaping employment patterns and social policy in France, French Industrial Relations in the New World Economy analyzes the impact of globalization on French industrial relations.
Looking at the changing economic context of industrial...
The Invention of Free Labor
The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labor--labor that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon--Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of al labor agreements punishable by imprisonment. By the eighteenth...
Global Woman
Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
In a remarkable pairing, two renowned social critics offer a groundbreaking anthology that examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide
Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles,...
by Dale Gieringer, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
California NORML Guide to Drug Testing is the authorative and indispensable guide to: dealing with drug testing on short notice; drug test detection times; medical marijuana and drug tests; drug tests and DUI, and what’s wrong with drug testing. Paul Armentano, deputy director of NORML writes, “This...
Karl Marx
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: April 10, 2017
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Plus d'un siècle après sa mort, Karl Marx apparaît bien comme le premier théoricien du «socialisme scientifique» (même s'il n'est pas l'inventeur de cette expression, déjà utilisée avant lui par Proudhon) et,...
Working in Hollywood
How the Studio System Turned Creativity into Labor
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A history of the Hollywood film industry as a modern system of labor, this book reveals an important untold story of an influential twentieth-century workplace. Ronny Regev argues that the Hollywood studio system institutionalized creative labor by systemizing and standardizing the work of actors,...
by Tamara L. Falicov, Ben Goldsmith, Janice Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Locating Migrating Media details the extent to which media productions, both televisual and cinematic, have sought out new and cheaper shot locations, creative staff, and financing around the world. The book contributes to debates about media globalization, focusing on the local impact of new sites...
Living the Revolution
Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the period's most volatile labor strikes. Jennifer Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women of New York and New Jersey...