Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
An Unfinished Revolution
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War, with Marx writing on behalf of the International Working Men’s Association. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they agreed on the urgency of suppressing slavery and the cause of “free labor.”...
Equality for Contingent Faculty
Overcoming the Two-Tier System
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Vice President Joseph Biden has blamed tuition increases on the high salaries of college professors, seemingly unaware of the fact that there are now over one million faculty who earn poverty-level wages teaching off the tenure track. The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story entitled "From...
by Heinz Duthel
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The first Great Depression. The Second Great Depression.
The Great Depression was a dramatic, worldwide economic downturn beginning in the late 1920s and lasting through most of the 1930s.
The Second Great Depression. 2007- 2017
Most of the logic used to support...
She Was One of Us
Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Although born to a life of privilege and married to the President of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt was a staunch and lifelong advocate for workers and, for more than twenty-five years, a proud member of the AFL-CIO's Newspaper Guild. She Was One of Us tells for the first time the story of her...
All-American Anarchist
Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive...
Subterranean Fire (Updated Edition)
A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Smith shows how a return to the fighting traditions of US labor history, with their emphasis on rank-and-file strategies for change, can turn around the labor movement.
Subterranean Fire brings working-class history to light and reveals its lessons for today.
No Right to Be Idle
The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as "unproductive citizens." Before that, disabled people had contributed as they were able in homes, on farms, and in the wage labor market, reflecting the fact that Americans...
Commonsense Anticommunism
Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America's "first line of defense" against Communism. In this surprising account, Jennifer Luff shows how the American Federation of Labor fanned popular anticommunism but defended Communists' civil liberties...
by Junius Irving Scales, Richard Nickson, Telford Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Born in 1920 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Junius Scales, whose great-uncle had been governor of the state, grew up in the privileged environment of his family’s estate. The only black people he knew were the servants. Wanting to improve the lot of workers, mainly African-American, he joined the...
by Steve Early
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress brings together recent essays and reporting by labor journalist Steve Early. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers, whether they’re trying to democratize their union, win a strike, defend past contract gains, or bargain with...
American Empire
The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
A compelling look at the movements and developments that propelled America to world dominance
In this landmark work, acclaimed historian Joshua Freeman has created an epic portrait of a nation both galvanized by change and driven by conflict. Beginning in 1945, the economic juggernaut awakened...
by William C. Blizzard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Chronicling the West Virginia Mine Wars of the 1920s, this first-hand account of the coal miners' uprisings offers a new perspective on labor unrest during this time period. Complete with previously unpublished family photographs and documents, this retelling shares the experiences of Bill Blizzard,...
Basic Income
A Transformative Policy for India
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditional monthly cash payment. In a context...
by Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, Steven D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1996
A fundamental critique of American law and legal thought, Against the Law consists of a series of essays written from three different perspectives that coalesce into a deep criticism of contemporary legal culture. Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, and Steven D. Smith challenge the conventional representations...