Erik Loomis: 3 books
Out of Sight
The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A provocative analysis of labor, globalization, and environmental harm by the award-winning historian and author of A History of America in Ten Strikes.
In the current state of our globalized economy, corporations have no incentive to protect their workers or the environment. Jobs moves seamlessly...
by Erik Loomis
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
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
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Empire of Timber
Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
The battles to protect ancient forests and spotted owls in the Northwest splashed across the evening news in the 1980s and early 1990s. Empire of Timber re-examines this history to demonstrate that workers used their unions to fight for a healthy workplace environment and sustainable logging practices...