Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
Drawing the Line
The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2006
Some of the most beloved characters in film and television inhabit two-dimensional worlds that spring from the fertile imaginations of talented animators. The movements, characterizations, and settings in the best animated films are as vivid as any live action film, and sometimes seem more alive than...
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Sean Thomas Dougherty celebrates the struggles, the dignity, and the joys of working-class life in the Rust Belt. Finding delight in everyday moments—a night at a packed karaoke bar, a father and daughter planting a garden, a biography of LeBron James as a metaphor for Ohio—these poems take pride...
Working
People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston Globe
A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller
Studs Terkel’s classic oral history Working is a compelling look...
Looking Up at the Bottom Line
The Struggle for the Living Wage
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Remarkable! An energizing, engaging book that can lead to the end of homelessness for over 1,000,000 minimum wage workers. This book takes off where all the other minimum wage, living wage books end.
Michael Stoops, National Civil Rights Organizer for the National Coalition for the Homeless
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I Am Not a Tractor!
How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
I Am Not a Tractor! celebrates the courage, vision, and creativity of the farmworkers and community leaders who have transformed one of the worst agricultural situations in the United States into one of the best. Susan L. Marquis highlights past abuses workers suffered in Florida’s tomato fields:...
Life on the Line
One Woman's Tale of Work, Sweat, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
"Engaging--. Terrific--. Takes us over the collar line with grace and authority."--The New York Times
As a veteran reporter throughout the "downsizing" years of the auto industry in the United States and Canada, Queens-born Solange De Santis covered her fair share of auto...
Autoworkers Under the Gun
A Shop-Floor View of the End of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
The bureau of labor statistics reports that in 2008 there were 15.3 million union members in the United States; 400,000 of which belong to the United Auto Workers
Written by a long time labor leader with first hand insights into the topic
The economic crisis has put increased pressure on organized labor, prompting a growing interest in the subject
The Last Three Miles
Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
An investigative history of Depression Era power brokers and labor wars in the construction of the Pulaski Skyway across the New Jersey Meadowlands.
In the 1930s, as America’s love affair with the automobile began, cars and trucks leaving the nation’s largest city were dumped out of the...
The Color of Work
The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Histories of the civil rights movement have generally overlooked the battle to integrate the South's major industries. The paper industry, which has played an important role in the southern economy since the 1930s, has been particularly neglected. Using previously untapped legal records and oral history...
The Homestead Strike
Labor, Violence, and American Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
On July 6, 1892, three hundred armed Pinkerton agents arrived in Homestead, Pennsylvania to retake the Carnegie Steelworks from the company's striking workers. As the agents tried to leave their boats, shots rang out and a violent skirmish began. The confrontation at Homestead was a turning point...
by Thomas Tramble, Wilma Tramble
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2007
A hub of transportation and industry since the mid-19th century, West Oakland is today a vital commercial conduit and an inimitably distinct and diverse community within the Greater Oaklandmetropolitan area. The catalyst that transformed this neighborhood from a transcontinental rail terminal into a...
by Daniel DiSalvo
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Government-workers unions have been political juggernauts in the U.S. since the unseen collective-bargaining-rights revolution of the 1960s and ’70s. These unions are different and more powerful than those that battle owners and managers in the private sector. To advance their interests, unions in...
by Robert W. Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
“…The purpose of this book is to present the true conditions of workers in automobile plants, and to contrast the wages of the workers in this industry with the millions of dollars in profits made by the corporations. This analysis is of particular importance, since the technical organization...
Whose Detroit?
Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
America's urbanites have engaged in many tumultuous struggles for civil and worker rights since the Second World War. In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the struggles of Motor City residents during the 1960s and early 1970s and finds that conflict continued to plague the...