Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
Struggle or Starve
Working-Class Unity in Belfast's 1932 Outdoor Relief Riots
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
In October 1932, the streets of Belfast were gripped by vicious and widespread rioting that lasted the best part of a week. Thousands of unarmed demonstrators fought extended pitched battles against heavily-armed police. Unemployed workers and, indeed, whole working-class communities, dug trenches...
Stanley’s Girl
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The fiercely lyrical poetry of Stanley’s Girl is rooted in Susan Eisenberg’s experience as one of the first women to enter the construction industry and from her decades gathering accounts of others to give scaffolding to that history. Eisenberg charts her own induction into the construction workplace...
by Richard Sennett
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."—Studs Terkel, author of Working
In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting...
Sex, Race and Class-The Perspective of Winning
A Selection of Writings 19522011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Branching off Marx’s theories of class struggle, this impressive collection of essays on workers’ rights as they pertains to women’s rights aims to educate and inform those interested in radical feminist labor theory. Arguing that class struggle manifests itself as the conflict between the reproduction...
by Benjamin Disraeli
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The infant George Augustus Frederick succeeds to the wealthy dukedom of St James on the death of his father, whose sister's husband (Earl Fitz-pompey) expects to be ward of the young duke. Instead George is entrusted to a neighbour, Mr Dacre, a Catholic. Over time Fitz-pompey dazzles George with his...
Song of the Stubborn One Thousand
The Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985-87
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Offers a detailed view of the organizational and strategic challenges of a long strike under difficult conditions
Provides a better understanding of the complex relationship between the Mexican women strikers and the Teamsters union, which had long ignored them but was finally compelled to...
The Tejano Diaspora
Mexican Americanism and Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos established settlements in nearly all the places they...
Defiant Braceros
How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
In this book, Mireya Loza sheds new light on the private lives of migrant men who participated in the Bracero Program (1942–1964), a binational agreement between the United States and Mexico that allowed hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers to enter this country on temporary work permits. While...
Mexican Inclusion
The Origins of Anti-Discrimination Policy in Texas and the Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Immigration across the US-Mexican border may currently be a hot topic, but it is hardly a new one. Labor issues and civil rights have been interwoven with the history of the region since at least the time of the Mexican-American War, and the twentieth century witnessed recurrent political battles...
Conflicting Commitments
The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In Conflicting Commitments, Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards apply to all workers, yet this principle clashes with increasingly restrictive immigration...
by G. C. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
G.C. "Red" Jones's classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying...
Independents Day
Awakening the American Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
From The New York Times bestselling author of War on the Middle Class, a powerful look at the critical issues facing America on the eve of the 2008 Presidential election
With up to a million viewers each day, Lou Dobbs Tonight has become one of the most popular news programs in the nation....
Dockworker Power
Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Dockworkers have power. Often missed in commentary on today's globalizing economy, workers in the world's ports can harness their role, at a strategic choke point, to promote their labor rights and social justice causes. Peter Cole brings such overlooked experiences to light in an eye-opening comparative...
Common Sense and a Little Fire, Second Edition
Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Over twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck's Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women's history. Orleck traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American...