Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
You Can’t Eat Freedom
Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ongoing economic revolution brought about by increasing agricultural mechanization. Political empowerment for black southerners coincided with the transformation...
Knocking on Labor’s Door
Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically since the 1970s. In recent years, many have argued that the crisis took root when unions stopped reaching out to workers and workers turned away from unions. But here Lane Windham tells a different...
Working for Respect
Community and Conflict at Walmart
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce—young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work—Walmartism—in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a...
Labor Movements
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in inequality within and between countries, steady or indeed rising unemployment and underemployment, and the marked increase in precarious work and migration,...
The Deepest Wounds
A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D. Rogers traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's key northeastern sugar-growing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth century, when human impact on the environment...
Prisoners of the American Dream
Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States
Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world’s most industrially advanced nation...
by Anson Rabinbach
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century notion of digital organisms. Step by step—from Jacques de Vaucanson and his Digesting Duck, through Karl Marx’s Capital, Hermann von Helmholtz’s social thermodynamics,...
A Woman's Wage
Historical Meanings and Social Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
In this updated edition of a groundbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on three issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which...
In Solidarity
Essays on Working-Class Organization and Strategy in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
As the economic crisis continues to ravage the globe, increasing numbers are looking for alternatives to the market.
The Chicago Teachers Union, Walmart workers, Longshoreman on the West Coast, and many other labor struggles have recently broken out across the US. This has sent many searching...
by Vodopivec Milan; Gunatlilaka Ramani; Mayer Markus
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Sri Lanka has long been regarded as a model of a successful welfare state in a low-income setting, yet it has not succeeded in creating a suffi cient number of "good jobs" for the increasing number of young people. Hence, young Sri Lankans perceive their country as an unjust and unequal society, in which...
by Bob Blain
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
The Most Wealth explains how we can achieve full employment and genuine social security with more free time to realize our natural destiny on earth, well-being and free time to enjoy ife. The key is understanding money as a medium of communication that exists to insure that we all share the work and share the wealth.
Contexts of Social Capital
Social Networks in Markets, Communities and Families
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
The concept of social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of their social networks in "getting ahead." Social capital isn’t just about the connections in networks, but fundamentally concerns the distribution of resources on the basis of exchanges.
This volume focuses...
Bonjour Laziness
Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Your company wants you to be loyal. You should feel lucky–after all, your job is a privilege (think of all those who would like to have it). And you know (despite what you’ve read about Enron and WorldCom) that management has your best interests at heart. Your goal is to devote yourself to the...
by Ezequiel Adamovsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In Anti-Capitalism, activist and scholar Ezequiel Adamovsky tells the story of the long-standing effort to build a better world, one without an abusive system at its heart. Backed up by arresting, lucid images from the radical artist group United Illustrators, Adamovsky details the struggle against...