Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
Sweatshops at Sea
Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world's first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders. In Sweatshops at Sea, historian Leon...
Take This Job and Ship It
How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Our trade deficit increases by $2 billion a day. Pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists have such influence in Washington that Medicare, by current law, is not allowed to negotiate lower drug prices. We import oil on an ever-increasing scale, putting ourselves into dept with the Saudis, the...
Contested Communities
Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile’s El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1951
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 1998
In Contested Communities Thomas Miller Klubock analyzes the experiences of the El Teniente copper miners during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Describing the everyday life and culture of the mining community, its impact on Chilean politics and national events, and the sense of self...
The Strike That Changed New York
Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
On May 9, 1968, junior high school teacher Fred Nauman received a letter that would change the history of New York City. It informed him that he had been fired from his job. Eighteen other educators in the Ocean HillBrownsville area of Brooklyn received similar letters that day. The dismissed educators...
Prying Open Fortress Europe
The Turn to Sectoral Labor Migration
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
Prying Open Fortress: The Turn to Sectoral Labor Migration is unique in the field of migration studies since it traces the microeconomic motivations of the relevant economic actors who influence labor migration policy. The book updates the study of the political economy of immigration through a focus...
A Fabric of Defeat
The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this book, Bryant Simon brings to life the politics of white South Carolina millhands during the first half of the twentieth century. His revealing and moving account explores how this group of southern laborers thought about and participated in politics and public power.
Taking a broad...
A Fight for the Soul of Public Education
The Story of the Chicago Teachers Strike
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
In reaction to the changes imposed on public schools across the country in the name of "education reform," the Chicago Teachers Union redefined its traditional role and waged a multidimensional fight that produced a community-wide school strike and transformed the scope of collective bargaining into...
Contagious Capitalism
Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "reform and openness" will lead to political liberalization. This book challenges that assumption and the general relationship between economic liberalization and democratization. Moreover,...
Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity
Race and Philanthropy in Post–Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
“Diversity” has become a mantra in corporate boardrooms, higher education, and government hiring and contracting. In Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity, Jiannbin Lee Shiao explains the leading role that large philanthropies have played in establishing diversity as a goal throughout...
Frontiers of Labor
Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics. Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two...
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...
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...
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...
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...