Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
Terms of Labor
Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Throughout recorded history, labor to produce goods and services has been a central concern of society, and questions surrounding the terms of labor—the arrangements under which labor is made to produce and to divide its product with others—are of great significance for understanding the past...
Depression Folk
Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
While music lovers and music historians alike understand that folk music played an increasingly pivotal role in American labor and politics during the economic and social tumult of the Great Depression, how did this relationship come to be? Ronald D. Cohen sheds new light on the complex cultural history...
How You Can Smash Capitalism With Chocolate
How You Can Smash Capitalism, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
How You Can Smash Capitalism With Chocolate describes the skeezy and oppressive nature of the chocolate industry and gives the reader the tools to do something about it.
Working for Justice
The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Working for Justice, which includes eleven case studies of recent low-wage worker organizing campaigns in Los Angeles, makes the case for a distinctive "L.A. Model" of union and worker center organizing. Networks linking advocates in worker centers and labor unions facilitate mutual learning and synergy...
Playing the Whore
The Work of Sex Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Recent years have seen a panic over “online red-light districts,” which supposedly seduce vulnerable young women into a life of degradation, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof’s live tweeting of a Cambodian brothel raid. But rarely do these fearful, salacious dispatches come...
by Christopher Candland
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
In this first comparative study of organized labor in India and Pakistan, the author analyses the impact and role of organized labor in democratization and development. The study provides a unique comparative history of Indian and Pakistani labor politics. It begins in the early twentieth century,...
Remembering Lattimer
Labor, Migration, and Race in Pennsylvania Anthracite Country
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
On September 10, 1897, a group of 400 striking coal miners--workers of Polish, Slovak, and Lithuanian descent or origin--marched on Lattimer, Pennsylvania. There, law enforcement officers fired without warning into the protesters, killing nineteen miners and wounding thirty-eight others. The bloody...
Labor's Civil War in California
The NUHW Healthcare Workers' Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
A clear analysis of tactics and politics, this thorough account examines the dispute between the United Healthcare Workers (UHW) union in California and its parent” organization the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-one of the most important labor conflicts in the United States today....
by Peter Hitchcock
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other. The cultural representation of labor is a challenge in how globalization is understood. Workers may be everywhere in the world but cultural correlatives are problematic. By elaborating cultural...
Riots and Militant Occupations
Smashing a System, Building a World - A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Riots and Militant Occupations provides students with theoretical reflections and qualitative case studies on militant contentious political action across a range from across Europe to Nigeria, China and Turkey.
This multi-authored, interdisciplinary collection adopts an interpretive and participatory...
The New Ruthless Economy
Work and Power in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2003
In the great boom of the 1990's, top management's compensation soared, but the wages of most Americans barely grew at all. This wages stagnation has baffled experts, but in The New Ruthless Economy, Simon Head points to information technology as the prime cause of this growing wage disparity. Many...
Working for Equality
The Narrative of Harry Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
“When I went to work for Lockheed-Georgia Company in September of 1952 I had no idea that this would end up being my life’s work.” With these words, Harry Hudson, the first African American supervisor at Lockheed Aircraft’s Georgia facility, begins his account of a thirty-six-year career that...
What Do We Need a Union For?
The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The rise in standards of living throughout the U. S. in the wake of World War II brought significant changes to the lives of southern textile workers. Mill workers' wages rose, their purchasing power grew, and their economic expectations increased--with little help from the unions. Timothy Minchin...
by Lucille Milner
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Lucille Milner describes her early years as a reformer. She documents her work as a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and work with other progressive organizations.