Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books

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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

Henry George (1839–1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth century. His best-selling Progress and Poverty (1879) captures the ravages of privileged monopolies and the woes of industrialization in a language of eloquent...
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The Farmer's Benevolent Trust

Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945

by Victoria Saker Woeste
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

Americans have always regarded farming as a special calling, one imbued with the Jeffersonian values of individualism and self- sufficiency. As Victoria Saker Woeste demonstrates, farming's cultural image continued to shape Americans' expectations of rural society long after industrialization radically...
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Dulcinea in the Factory

Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia’s Industrial Experiment, 1905–1960

by Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Andrew Gordon, Daniel James
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2000

Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellín was famous as a success story of industrialization, a place where protectionist tariffs had created a “capitalist paradise.” By the 1960s, the city’s textile industrialists were presenting themselves...
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by Susan Grabski, Robert Forrant
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013

Incorporated in 1847 on the banks of the Merrimack River, Lawrence, Massachusetts, was the final and most ambitious of New England�s planned textile-manufacturing cities developed by the Boston-area entrepreneurs who helped launch the American Industrial Revolution. With a dam and canal system to generate...
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Sunshine Was Never Enough

Los Angeles Workers, 1880–2010

by John H. M. Laslett
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

Delving beneath Southern California’s popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles’s large working class. In a sweeping narrative that takes into account more than a century of labor history, John H. M. Laslett acknowledges...
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A Global Union for Global Workers

Collective Bargaining and Regulatory Politics in Maritime Shipping

by Nathan Lillie
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

This is a book about how global unionism was born in the maritime shipping sector. It argues that the industrial structure of shipping, and specifically the interconnected nature of shipping production chains, facilitated the globalization of union bargaining strategy, and the transnationalization...
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Working in Steel

The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935

by Craig Heron
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988

In this indispensable study of Canadian industrialization, Craig Heron examines the huge steel plants that were built at the turn of the twentieth century in Sydney and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and Trenton, Hamilton, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Presenting a stimulating analysis of the Canadian...
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Beyond States and Markets

The Challenges of Social Reproduction

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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

Seeking to extend our understanding of the contemporary global political economy, this book provides an important and original introduction to the current theoretical debates about social reproduction and argues for the necessity of linking social reproduction to specific contexts of power and production. It...
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Class Acts

Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels

by Rachel Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2007

In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention. Drawing on in-depth interviews and extended ethnographic research in a range...
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Between a River and a Mountain

The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War

by Edmund F. Wehrle
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010

Between a River and a Mountain details American labor's surprisingly complex relationship to the American war in Vietnam. Breaking from the simplistic story of "hard hat patriotism," Wehrle uses newly released archival material to demonstrate the AFL-CIO's continuing dedication to social,...
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by Paul F. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013

Paul F. Clark believes union leaders should take advantage of the valuable discoveries made in behavioral science to make their organizations more effective and, in Building More Effective Unions, he offers an accessible and straightforward account of how they can do so. The second edition provides...
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by Erik Loomis
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018

Platform: Loomis blogs at the hugely popular site Lawyers, Guns, and Money, with 550,000 unique visitors for over one million pageviews a month, where his ongoing series “This Day in Labor History” (the basis for this book) won the 2011 Cliopatria Award from the History News Network Media...
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Scattered Sand

The Story of China's Rural Migrants

by Hsiao-Hung Pai, Gregor Benton
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce—”scattered sand,” in Chinese...
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Eight Men Speak

A Play by Oscar Ryan et al.

by Oscar Ryan, Edward Cecil-Smith, Frank Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013

This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The play was banned by the Toronto police after its first performance, banned by the Winnipeg police shortly thereafter and subsequently banned by the Canadian Post Office. The play can be...
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