Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
by Raymond L. Hogler
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Arguing that the decline in union membership and bargaining power is linked to rising income inequality, this important book traces the evolution of labor law in America from the first labor-law case in 1806 through the passage of right-to-work legislation in Michigan and Indiana in 2012. In doing...
Slave Next Door
Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In The Slave Next Door we find that slaves are all around us, hidden in plain sight: the dishwasher...
by Paul Lafargue
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This ebook has been ported from theanarchistlibrary.org.
M. Thiers, at a private session of the commission on primary education of 1849, said: “I wish to make the influence of the clergy all powerful because I count upon it to propagate that good philosophy which teaches man that he is here...
A Time for Tea
Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2001
In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. A Time for Tea reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements—picturesque women...
In Love and Struggle
The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Born and raised in Alabama, James Boggs came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union activist. Grace Lee was a Chinese...
Betrayal
How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
“Simply put, the leftist labor unions have the Democrats in their pockets. And we’re all paying the price.”
Linda Chavez, President George W. Bush’s original choice for Secretary of Labor and a former union official, is one of the foremost authorities on America’s labor unions. Now,...
The Life of Cheese
Crafting Food and Value in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. Heather Paxson’s beautifully written anthropological study of American artisanal cheesemaking tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value for producers as well as consumers. Dairy farmers and artisans inhabit a...
Underground America
Narratives of Undocumented Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Millions of undocumented immigrants live in the United States under constant threat of imprisonment or deportation. They survive underground, with little protection from exploitation by human smugglers, employers, or law enforcement. Underground America presents the remarkable oral histories of men...
The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport
Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks has explored the U.S.-Mexico borderlands by car and by foot, on horseback, and in the back of a pickup truck. She has shared meals with border residents, listened to their stories, and visited their homes, churches, hospitals, farms, and jails. In this dazzling...
Chasing the Harvest
Migrant Workers in California Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United States
The Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of California’s migrant farmworkers in the 1930s. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycotts captured the imagination...
The Betrayal of Work
How Low-wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans And Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Following its publication in hardcover, the critically acclaimed Betrayal of Work became one of the most influential policy books about economic life in America; it was discussed in the pages of Newsweek, Business Week, Fortune, the Washington Post, Newsday, and USA Today, as well as in public policy...
by J. Randy Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Randy Johnson’s Forced Reckoning delves into politcs, labor issues, family struggles, and wealth inequity. The resounding message proved throughout the book is: You can achieve great things through commitment, change and a drive to do better things with your life.Johnson details his link...
Beyond the Cubicle
Job Insecurity, Intimacy, and the Flexible Self
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
How does the insecurity of work affect us? We know what job insecurity does to workers at work, the depressive effect it has on morale, productivity, and pay. We know less about the impact of job insecurity beyond the workplace, upon people's intimate relationships, their community life, their vision...
Disposable Domestics
Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Illegal. Unamerican. Disposable. In a nation with an unprecedented history of immigration, the prevailing image of those who cross our borders in search of equal opportunity is that of a drain. Grace Chang's vital account of immigrant women—who work as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, nursing...