Labour category: 1663 books
Promoting Skill Transfer for Human Capacity Development in Papua New Guinea
The Role of Externally Financed Infrastructure Projects
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Pacific countries lack workers with construction skills and rely on large firms to import skilled workers for large infrastructure projects. In Papua New Guinea (PNG), for example, the working-age population is estimated to grow by 2.2 million people between 2014 and 2030. The country faces a growing...
Strike for America
Chicago Teachers Against Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century—and perhaps for the last forty years—and the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda for restructuring education, which advocates for more charter schools and tying teacher salaries to standardized...
Taxing the Poor
Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2011
This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O’Brien argue that these policies...
Shadow Mothers
Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the "shadow mothers" they hire. Cameron Lynne Macdonald illuminates both sides of an unequal...
by Paul M. Angle
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This is a horror story of native American violence. It carries a grim lesson for the whole country. Political doctrines have played no part in the violence and murder that have brought much ill fame to one corner of Illinois. On the map, Williamson is just another county. But in history it is a place...
by J. M. D. Pringle
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2018
Unlike Japan, which awoke quickly to the new industrialism of the West, China was content to glide peacefully along, ignoring the rest of the world, pursuing the wisdom of her philosophers and artists. But with the turn of the century, as the devastating effect of foreign imperialism begand to make...
The Jonathan Presidency
The First Year
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
The Jonathan Presidency provides a comprehensive and unique analysis of Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan’s first twelve months in office. The Jonathan Presidency analyzes the ability of the featured Nigerian politicians to deliver their electoral promises, protect and uphold the Nigerian Constitution, and sustain a transparent, citizen-friendly administration.
Men, Mobs, and Law
Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
In Men, Mobs, and Law, Rebecca N. Hill compares two seemingly unrelated types of leftist protest campaigns: those intended to defend labor organizers from prosecution and those seeking to memorialize lynching victims and stop the practice of lynching. Arguing that these forms of protest are related...
Terms of Labor
Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Throughout recorded history, labor to produce goods and services has been a central concern of society, and questions surrounding the terms of labor—the arrangements under which labor is made to produce and to divide its product with others—are of great significance for understanding the past...
by Catherine L. Fisk
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Professional writers may earn a tidy living for their work, but they seldom own their writing. Catherine Fisk traces the history of labor relations that defined authorship in film, TV, and advertising in the mid-twentieth century, showing why strikingly different norms of attribution emerged in these overlapping industries.
Flames of Discontent
The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
On June 2, 1916, forty mostly immigrant mineworkers at the St. James Mine in Aurora, Minnesota, walked off the job. This seemingly small labor disturbance would mushroom into one of the region’s, if not the nation’s, most contentious and significant battles between organized labor and management...
Labor Law in China
Progress and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
The primary aim of this book is to help readers understand the development of the theory and practice of labor law in China, and to familiarize them with major advances and remaining challenges in this field. The author also puts forward suggestions on how to improve labor law in China on the basis...
Depression Folk
Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
While music lovers and music historians alike understand that folk music played an increasingly pivotal role in American labor and politics during the economic and social tumult of the Great Depression, how did this relationship come to be? Ronald D. Cohen sheds new light on the complex cultural history...
How You Can Smash Capitalism With Chocolate
How You Can Smash Capitalism, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
How You Can Smash Capitalism With Chocolate describes the skeezy and oppressive nature of the chocolate industry and gives the reader the tools to do something about it.