Charles Levenstein: 11 books
by Charles Levenstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
A lifelong academic and teacher, Charles Levenstein has written poetry since the age of fifteen but was rarely published until the year 2000. Toward the end of his career, he watched one of his peers find comfort in projects outside the university environment. His peer built a sailboat as a form of...
Metal Fatigue
American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
On February 4, 1986, the lives of thousands of workers changed in ways they could only begin to imagine. On that day, United Technologies Corporation ordered the closure of the 76-year-old American Bosch manufacturing plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, capping a nearly 32-year history of job loss...
by Madeleine Kangsen Scammell, Charles Levenstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The Toxic Schoolhouse is a collection of articles on chemical hazards endangering students, teachers, and staff in the education system of the United States and Canada. Some of the articles were originally published in a special issue of New Solutions: A Journal of Occupational and Environmental Policy,...
The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912
New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
"In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14 years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills and cotton mills". Thus begins the federal government's Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 . This book follows up, one hundred...
The Cotton Dust Papers
Science, Politics, and Power in the "Discovery" of Byssinosis in the U.S
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
"The Cotton Dust Papers" is the story of the 50-year struggle for recognition in the U.S. of this pernicious occupational disease. The authors contend that byssinosis could have and should have been recognized much sooner, as a great deal was known about the disease as early as the 1930s. Using mostly...
Northern Exposures
A Canadian Perspective on Occupational Health and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
'Northern Exposures' is an important and thought-provoking book that shows how the labor movement has embraced environmental protection and is beginning to create a new and more sustainable vision for the future. Dave Bennett's knowledge and commitment shine through. He is, by turns, the skeptical...
Environmental Unions
Labor and the Superfund
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
During the 1970s and 1980s, a hazardous waste management industry emerged in the U.S., driven by government and polluting industry responses to a hazardous waste crisis. In 1979, labor unions began to seek federal health and safety protections for workers in that industry and for firefighters responding...
Business, Environment, and Society
Themes and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book blends theory and practice to support courses in corporate social responsibility (CSR), business and society, and environmental management and sustainability. Based on her extensive work with companies, the author offers engaging readings and teaching cases that address key challenges for...
Labor-environmental Coalitions
Lessons from a Louisiana Petrochemical Region
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
In 1984, the oil, chemical and atomic workers began a 5-year campaign to win back the jobs of its members locked out by the BASF Corp. in Geismar, Louisiana. The multiscale campaign involved coalitions with local environmentalists as well as international solidarity from environmental and religious...
Who is Nursing Them? It is Us
Neoliberalism, HIV/AIDS, and the Occupational Health and Safety of South African Public Sector Nurses
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book explores the impacts of HIV/AIDS and neoliberal globalization on the occupational health of public sector hospital nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The story of South African public sector nurses provides multiple perspectives on the HIV/AIDS epidemic-for a workforce that played a...
Shoes, Glues and Homework
Dangerous Work in the Global Footwear Industry
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.