Ilr Press imprint: 133 books
by Leon Stein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Leon Stein’s gripping narrative of the Triangle tragedy is one of the classics of American history. As the grandson of a onetime Triangle seamstress, I salute the reissue of a book that anyone who cares about labor, past or present, should read."—Michael Kazin, Georgetown University, author of...
She Was One of Us
Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Although born to a life of privilege and married to the President of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt was a staunch and lifelong advocate for workers and, for more than twenty-five years, a proud member of the AFL-CIO's Newspaper Guild. She Was One of Us tells for the first time the story of her...
Disability and Employer Practices
Research across the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book is about the employment of people with disabilities in the United States and the important role of employer practices. Nearly one in five people report some form of disability, and they are only half as likely to be employed as those without disabilities. With the aging workforce and returning...
The Chicken Trail
Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In The Chicken Trail, Kathleen C. Schwartzman examines the impact of globalization—and of NAFTA in particular—on the North American poultry industry, focusing on the displacement of African American workers in the southeast United States and workers in Mexico. Schwartzman documents how the transformation...
They Never Come Back
A Story of Undocumented Workers from Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
For Mexicans on both sides of the border, the migrant experience has changed significantly over the past two decades. In They Never Come Back, Frans J. Schryer draws on the experiences of indigenous people from a region in the Mexican state of Guerrero to explore the impact of this transformation...
We'll Call You If We Need You
Experiences of Women Working Construction
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Susan Eisenberg began her apprenticeship with Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1978, the year president Jimmy Carter set goals and timetables for the hiring of women on federally assisted construction projects and for the inclusion of women in apprenticeship programs....
Failure by Design
The Story behind America's Broken Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
In Failure by Design, the Economic Policy Institute’s Josh Bivens takes a step back from the acclaimed State of Working America series, building on its wealth of data to relate a compelling narrative of the U.S. economy’s struggle to emerge from the Great Recession of 2008. Bivens explains the...
Mobilizing against Inequality
Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Among the many challenges that global liberalization has posed for trade unions, the growth of precarious immigrant workforces lacking any collective representation stands out as both a major threat to solidarity and an organizing opportunity. Believing that collective action is critical in the struggle...
Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks
The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by college students and elite intellectuals, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers largely supported the war effort. In Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks, Penny Lewis challenges this collective memory of class polarization....
Informal Workers and Collective Action
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Informal Workers and Collective Action features nine cases of collective action to improve the status and working conditions of informal workers. Adrienne E. Eaton, Susan J. Schurman, and Martha A. Chen set the stage by defining informal work and describing the types of organizations that represent...
Reading Classes
On Culture and Classism in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Discussions of class make many Americans uncomfortable. This accessible book makes class visible in everyday life. Solely identifying political and economic inequalities between classes offers an incomplete picture of class dynamics in America, and may not connect with people's lived experiences....
When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough
Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The reassuring bromides of "chicken soup for the soul" provide little solace for nurses—and the people they serve—in real-life hospitals, nursing homes, schools of nursing, and other settings. In the minefield of modern health care, there are myriad obstacles to quality patient care—including...
Cleaning Up
How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
To cut costs and maximize profits, hospitals in the United States and many other countries are outsourcing such tasks as cleaning and food preparation to private contractors. In Cleaning Up, the first book to examine this transformation in the healthcare industry, Dan Zuberi looks at the consequences...
My Imaginary Illness
A Journey into Uncertainty and Prejudice in Medical Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How Patients Think
At age twenty-one, Chloë Atkins began suffering from a mysterious illness, the symptoms of which rapidly worsened. Paralyzed for months at a time, she frequently required intubation and life support. She eventually became quadriplegic, dependent both on a wheelchair and...