Robert Forrant: 8 books
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...
Inside and Out
Universities and Education for Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Two overarching questions permeate the literature on universities and civic engagement: How does a university restructure its myriad activities, maintain its academic integrity, and have a transformative impact off campus? And, who ought to participate in the conversations that frame and guide both...
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...
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...
by Susan Grabski, Robert Forrant
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
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...
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.