Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Missing Class
Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social movement groups overlook...
by Bruce S. Feldacker, Michael J. Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Labor Guide to Labor Law is a comprehensive survey of labor law in the private sector, written from the labor perspective for labor relations students and for unions and their members. This thoroughly revised and updated fifth edition covers new statutes, current issues, and the latest developments...
by Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, Alexander J. S. Colvin
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Compelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor relations, Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, and Alexander J. S. Colvin give us the first textbook to focus on the workplace outcomes of the production of goods and services in emerging countries. In Labor Relations in a...
Mothers Unite!
Organizing for Workplace Flexibility and the Transformation of Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Mothers Unite!, a bold and hopeful new rallying cry for changing the relationship between home and the workplace, Jocelyn Elise Crowley envisions a genuine, universal world of workplace flexibility that helps mothers who stay at home, those who work part time, and those who work full time balance...
Urban Flow
Bike Messengers and the City
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Bike messengers are familiar figures in the downtown cores of major cities. Tasked with delivering time-sensitive materials within, at most, a few hours—and sometimes in as little as fifteen minutes—these couriers ride in all types of weather, weave in and out of dense traffic, dodging (or sometimes...
by John W. Budd
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
What is work? Is it simply a burden to be tolerated or something more meaningful to one's sense of identity and self-worth? And why does it matter? In a uniquely thought-provoking book, John W. Budd presents ten historical and contemporary views of work from across the social sciences and humanities....
Working through the Past
Labor and Authoritarian Legacies in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Democratization in the developing and postcommunist world has yielded limited gains for labor. Explanations for this phenomenon have focused on the effect of economic crisis and globalization on the capacities of unions to become influential political actors and to secure policies that benefit their...
Ghostworkers and Greens
The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, despite compelling evidence that some pesticides posed a threat to human and environmental health, growers and the USDA continued to favor agricultural chemicals over cultural and biological forms of pest control. In Ghostworkers and Greens, Adam Tompkins reveals...
Condensed Capitalism
Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Corporations often move factories to areas where production costs, notably labor, taxes, and regulations, are sharply lower than in the original company hometowns. Not every company, however, followed this trend. One of America's most iconic firms, the Campbell Soup Company, was one such exception:...
Building China
Informal Work and the New Precariat
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Roughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass migration of peasants moving into the cities, and construction workers account for almost half of them. In Building China, Sarah Swider draws on her research in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai between 2004 and 2012, including living...
The Worker Center Handbook
A Practical Guide to Starting and Building the New Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Worker centers are becoming an important element in labor and community organizing and the struggle for fair pay and decent working conditions for low-wage workers, especially immigrants. There are currently more than two hundred worker centers in the country, and more start every month. Most of these...
by Lawrence Mishel, Josh Bivens, Elise Gould
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
From reviews of previous editions—
*"*The State of Working America remains unrivaled as the most-trusted source for a comprehensive understanding of how working Americans and their families are faring in today's economy."—Robert B. Reich
"It is the inequality of wealth, argue the...
Confronting Dystopia
The New Technological Revolution and the Future of Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
In Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income. Focusing on the economic and political implications of AI, digital connectivity, and robotics for both the Global North and the Global...
Insurgency Trap
Labor Politics in Postsocialist China
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, worker resistance in China increased rapidly despite the fact that certain segments of the state began moving in a pro-labor direction. In explaining this, Eli Friedman argues that the Chinese state has become hemmed in by an "insurgency trap" of...