Labour category: 1663 books
by Susan Kushner Resnick
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
One morning in 1943, close to eighty men descended into the Smith coal mine in Bearcreek, Montana. Only three came out alive. “Goodbye wifes and daughters . . .” wrote two of the miners as they died. The story of that tragic day and its aftermath unfolds in this book through the eyes of those...
Working for Justice
The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Working for Justice, which includes eleven case studies of recent low-wage worker organizing campaigns in Los Angeles, makes the case for a distinctive "L.A. Model" of union and worker center organizing. Networks linking advocates in worker centers and labor unions facilitate mutual learning and synergy...
Representation and Rebellion
The Rockefeller Plan at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1914-1942
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
In response to the tragedy of the Ludlow Massacre, John D. Rockefeller Jr. introduced one of the nation’s first employee representation plans (ERPs) to the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in 1915. With the advice of William Mackenzie King, who would go on to become prime minister of Canada, the plan—which...
Labors Appropriate to Their Sex
Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2001
In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the growth of urban manufacturing was transforming the contours of women’s wage work and stimulating significant public debate, new legislation, educational reform,...
Playing the Whore
The Work of Sex Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Recent years have seen a panic over “online red-light districts,” which supposedly seduce vulnerable young women into a life of degradation, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof’s live tweeting of a Cambodian brothel raid. But rarely do these fearful, salacious dispatches come...
by Christopher Candland
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
In this first comparative study of organized labor in India and Pakistan, the author analyses the impact and role of organized labor in democratization and development. The study provides a unique comparative history of Indian and Pakistani labor politics. It begins in the early twentieth century,...
Remembering Lattimer
Labor, Migration, and Race in Pennsylvania Anthracite Country
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
On September 10, 1897, a group of 400 striking coal miners--workers of Polish, Slovak, and Lithuanian descent or origin--marched on Lattimer, Pennsylvania. There, law enforcement officers fired without warning into the protesters, killing nineteen miners and wounding thirty-eight others. The bloody...
by Brian Casey
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
This book explores the experience of small farmers, labourers and graziers in provincial Ireland from the immediacy of the Famine until the eve of World War One. During this period of immense social and political change, they came to grips with the processes of modernisation. By focusing upon east...
Labor's Civil War in California
The NUHW Healthcare Workers' Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
A clear analysis of tactics and politics, this thorough account examines the dispute between the United Healthcare Workers (UHW) union in California and its parent” organization the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-one of the most important labor conflicts in the United States today....
by Peter Hitchcock
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other. The cultural representation of labor is a challenge in how globalization is understood. Workers may be everywhere in the world but cultural correlatives are problematic. By elaborating cultural...
Sunshine Was Never Enough
Los Angeles Workers, 1880–2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Delving beneath Southern California’s popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles’s large working class. In a sweeping narrative that takes into account more than a century of labor history, John H. M. Laslett acknowledges...
Broad-Based BEE
Amended Codes & Scorecard
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
In October 2013, the far-reaching Amended BBBEE Codes of Good Practice became effective. These have had a profound impact on businesses in South Africa. In this update of their popular book "Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment", two of South Africa’s leading consultants explain the...
Riots and Militant Occupations
Smashing a System, Building a World - A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Riots and Militant Occupations provides students with theoretical reflections and qualitative case studies on militant contentious political action across a range from across Europe to Nigeria, China and Turkey.
This multi-authored, interdisciplinary collection adopts an interpretive and participatory...
The New Ruthless Economy
Work and Power in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2003
In the great boom of the 1990's, top management's compensation soared, but the wages of most Americans barely grew at all. This wages stagnation has baffled experts, but in The New Ruthless Economy, Simon Head points to information technology as the prime cause of this growing wage disparity. Many...