Labour category: 1663 books
Class War, USA
Dispatches from Workers’ Struggles in American History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This book tells the stories of ordinary people who resisted oppression and exploitation throughout United States history. Weber's short essays capture the little known moments of struggle when workers and veterans built movements of hope in the darkest of times. Using evocative imagery, archival photographs and descriptive text Weber brings labor history to life.
by Dr. Karen Messing, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the radiation was harming the...
Health in the City
Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women’s Health in New York City, 1915–1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Shortly after the dawn of the twentieth century, the New York City Department of Health decided to address what it perceived as the racial nature of health. It delivered heavily racialized care in different neighborhoods throughout the city: syphillis treatment among African Americans, tuberculosis...
Working in Steel
The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
In this indispensable study of Canadian industrialization, Craig Heron examines the huge steel plants that were built at the turn of the twentieth century in Sydney and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and Trenton, Hamilton, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Presenting a stimulating analysis of the Canadian...
Reinventing Mutual Recognition Arrangements
Lessons from International Experiences and Insights for the ASEAN Region
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Governments and nonstate actors around the world have signed mutual recognition arrangements (MRAs), but while most of them share the goals of streamlining the recognition of foreign workers' qualifications and boosting labor mobility, the MRAs vary considerably. Implementation challenges faced in...
The New Guide to Identity
How to Create and Sustain Change Through Managing Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
It is, of course, commonplace for corporations to operate sophisticated identity programmes. But identity has now moved way beyond the commercial area. We live in a world in which cities, charities, universities, clubs - in fact any activity that involves more than two or three people - all seem to...
Progressive Lawyers under Siege
Moral Panic during the McCarthy Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
This is a study of a progressive law firm and its three partners. The firm was founded in 1936 and existed until the death of one partner in 1965. The partners were harassed by the FBI primarily for defending labor union members and leaders and the defense of both. The firm’s primary client was...
Unions, Change and Crisis
French and Italian Union Strategy and the Political Economy, 1945-1980
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
First published in 1982, Unions, Change and Crisis represents the first detailed, comparative, historical and theoretically grounded study of two of the major trade union movements of Europe. It brings together the results of the first part of the first major study from Harvard University’s Centre...
Capitalists Against Markets
The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Conventional wisdom argues that welfare state builders in the US and Sweden in the 1930s took their cues from labor and labor movements. Swenson makes the startling argument that pragmatic social reformers looked for support not only from below but also from above, taking into account capitalist interests...
Redeeming the Revolution
The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A tale of sin and redemption, Joseph U. Lenti’s Redeeming the Revolution demonstrates how the killing of hundreds of student protestors in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco district on October 2–3, 1968, sparked a crisis of legitimacy that moved Mexican political leaders to reestablish their revolutionary...
A Serf's Journal
The Story of the United States' Longest Wildcat Strike
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Recalling the JeffBoat incident of 2001, A Serf's Journal is Terry Tapp's formidable first-hand account of American workers in Jeffersonville, Indiana, as they fought a multinational company and their corrupt union to stage the longest wildcat strike in US history.
Marikana
Voices from South Africa’s Mining Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The Marikana Massacre of August 16, 2012, was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of apartheid. Those killed were mineworkers in support of a pay raise. Through a series of interviews conducted with workers who survived the attack, this...
Euroscepticism in Turkey
Power and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This book examines the construction of Euroscepticism in civil society discourse, focusing on Turkey’s possible EU-membership, the ongoing political struggles between different political camps in Turkey and general Western discourse. Applying semi-structured qualitative interviews with Civil Society...
Evaluation of Rail Technology
A Practical Human Factors Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Rapid advancements in train control and in-cab technologies provide significant opportunities for rail operators to improve efficiency and enhance their operations. New technologies often provide elegant solutions to existing problems or new capabilities for the operator. However, new technologies...