Labour category: 1663 books
Europe in Revolt
Mapping the New European Left
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
The book covers a broad array, but is all accessible and geared towards a non-specialist readership, as something of a primer.
Every major country in Europe and significant left force is represented — from Scotland to Germany to Spain to Sweden to Greece.
Coherent and overarching political...
by Gérard Kester
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Can democracy only survive if it is participatory? Is participatory democracy a prerequisite for sustainable development? Are trade unions the most appropriate body through which such aims can be implemented? These critical questions are tackled in Gérard Kester's book, Trade Unions and Workplace...
The EU's Government of Industries
Markets, Institutions and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
To what extent is business activity governed at a European scale? Since the advent of the recent economic crisis, the EU’s choices about the euro, debt ratios and interest rates have caught the headlines and highlighted the importance of EU decision-making arenas. However, these macro-economic events...
by Paul Le Blanc
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
From the Marxist-tinged anarchism of the Haymarket martyrs to the Occupy Wall Street movement, these essays give a vibrant sense of the central role of the Left in social movements and struggles of the past and present, and highlights some of the amazing individuals, whose unstoppable energies generated...
The Borders of Integration
Polish Migrants in Germany and the United States, 1870–1924
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The issues of immigration and integration are at the forefront of contemporary politics. Yet debates over foreign workers and the desirability of their incorporation into European and American societies too often are discussed without a sense of history. McCook’s examination questions static assumptions...
Silk Stockings and Socialism
Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The 1920s Jazz Age is remembered for flappers and speakeasies, not for the success of a declining labor movement. A more complex story was unfolding among the young women and men in the hosiery mills of Kensington, the working-class heart of Philadelphia. Their product was silk stockings, the iconic...
by Peter Francia
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
In 1995, promising a more active political presence for unions, John Sweeney was elected president of the AFL-CIO. Labor would develop a "new voice," one that could not be ignored or taken for granted by Democratic and Republican politicians. However, by the summer of 2005 opposition to...
A Global Union for Global Workers
Collective Bargaining and Regulatory Politics in Maritime Shipping
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This is a book about how global unionism was born in the maritime shipping sector. It argues that the industrial structure of shipping, and specifically the interconnected nature of shipping production chains, facilitated the globalization of union bargaining strategy, and the transnationalization...
Labor’s Great War
The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Since World War I, says Joseph McCartin, the central problem of American labor relations has been the struggle among workers, managers, and state officials to reconcile democracy and authority in the workplace. In his comprehensive look at labor issues during the decade of the Great War, McCartin...
There's Always Work at the Post Office
African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor, and left movement histories that too often...
Labor Under Fire
A History of the AFL-CIO since 1979
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate. As America's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO was forced to reckon with severe political and economic headwinds. Yet the AFL-CIO survived, consistently fighting for programs that benefited millions...
Security Culture
A How-to Guide for Improving Security Culture and Dealing with People Risk in Your Organisation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Security Culture starts from the premise that, even with good technical tools and security processes, an organisation is still vulnerable without a strong culture and a resilient set of behaviours in relation to people risk. Hilary Walton combines her research and her unique work portfolio to provide...
Forging a Laboring Race
The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Forging a Laboring Race foregrounds the working black body as both a category of analysis and lived experience.
“How does it feel to be a problem?” asked W.E.B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk. For many thinkers across the color line, the “Negro problem” was inextricably linked to...
The European Democratic Deficit
The Response of the Parties in the 2014 Elections
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The «never-ending crisis» that started in 2008 and the technocratic and fiscal measures demanded by the «Troika» have aggravated the EU’s so-called «democratic deficit» more than ever before. In this essay the principal theoretical and practical dimensions of this phenomenon at the levels...