Labour category: 1663 books
Working for Equality
The Narrative of Harry Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
“When I went to work for Lockheed-Georgia Company in September of 1952 I had no idea that this would end up being my life’s work.” With these words, Harry Hudson, the first African American supervisor at Lockheed Aircraft’s Georgia facility, begins his account of a thirty-six-year career that...
What Do We Need a Union For?
The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The rise in standards of living throughout the U. S. in the wake of World War II brought significant changes to the lives of southern textile workers. Mill workers' wages rose, their purchasing power grew, and their economic expectations increased--with little help from the unions. Timothy Minchin...
by Lucille Milner
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Lucille Milner describes her early years as a reformer. She documents her work as a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and work with other progressive organizations.
A política do precariado
Do populismo à hegemonia lulista
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Em seu novo livro, o sociólogo e professor da Universidade de São Paulo, Ruy Braga, utiliza os instrumentos teóricos da sociologia marxista crítica a fim de propor uma leitura inovadora da história social do Brasil - do populismo fordista ao atual lulismo hegemônico -, tendo como vetor analítico...
Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW
Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, California
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, and California share the experiences of conquest and annexation to the United States in the nineteenth century and mass organizational struggles by rural workers in the twentieth. Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW offers a comparative examination of...
Working the Land
A History of the Farmworker in England from 1850 to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This book offers a new history of the farmworker in England from 1850 to the present day. It focuses on the paid worker, considering how the experiences of farm work – the work performed, wages earned and conditions of hiring – were shaped by gender, age and region. Combining data extracted from...
Sonst knallt's!
Warum wir Wirtschaft und Politik radikal neu denken müssen
Language: German
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Unsere Wirtschaftsordnung, aber auch unsere politische Landschaft sind völlig aus dem Lot geraten. Immer mehr Menschen haben das Gefühl, nur noch für den Staat zu schuften und fühlen sich benachteiligt. Die Steuern sprudeln, aber die Infrastruktur verfällt. Unser Bildungssystem: eine chaotische...
Bright Modernity
Color, Commerce, and Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Color is a visible technology that invisibly connects so many puzzling aspects of modern Western consumer societies—research and development, making and selling, predicting fashion trends, and more. Building on Regina Lee Blaszczyk’s go-to history of the “color revolution” in the United States,...
Maid to Order in Hong Kong
Stories of Migrant Workers, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Middle-class Chinese women in the global city of Hong Kong have entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers over the past three decades, and the demand for foreign domestic workers has soared. A decade ago some foretold the decline in foreign workers and the influx of mainland workers. But today...
The Elements of Police Hostage and Crisis Negotiations
Critical Incidents and How to Respond to Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Run a safe and successful crisis negotiation-from start to finish!
The Elements of Police Hostage and Crisis Negotiations: Critical Incidents and How to Respond to Them reduces the negotiation procedures for hostage, barricaded, and suicide incidents to their basic elements, providing quick...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Globalization has been strongly shaping and transforming both national economies and individual careers in recent decades. These profound changes have had significant consequences for individual careers of men and women both during and after their employment career. This impressive new collection...
Africa, Tropical Timber, Turfs, and Trade
Geographic Perspectives on Ghana’s Timber Industry and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
This book examines development issues, particularly spatial integration, in Sub-Saharan Africa regarding its tropical timber trade, and the related formal-informal operational turf creation, control and dynamics. Focusing primarily on Ghana, Owusu examines the scramble to control the timber trade...
FIELDS, FACTORIES OR WORKSHOPS
or Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Fields, Factories and Workshops: or Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work is a persuasive landmark anarchist communist text on the theories and practise of workers’ self-management by Peter Kropotkin. It is, arguably, among the most influential and positive statements...
The Socialist Manifesto
The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
From one of the most prominent voices on the American Left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today
With the stunning popularity of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Americans are embracing the class politics of socialism. But what, exactly, is...