Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
Dead Labor
Toward a Political Economy of Premature Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
A groundbreaking consideration of death from capitalism, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century
From a 2013 Texas fertilizer plant explosion that killed fifteen people and injured 252 to a 2017 chemical disaster in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, we are confronted all too often with...
by Luigi Fabbri
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Un libro chiave della storia del pensiero anarchico e dell'organizzazione operaia, quanto mai attuale e raccontato da uno degli interpreti più illustri del movimento.
by Louis Asare
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
As you read this book, you will understand the strategic policies and measures that the Chinese government has pursued to transform indigenous china into the most industrialized country of the world. The future of the nation is bright. This book will bring to your notice everything that you need to...
The China Price
The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
In this landmark work of investigative reporting, former Financial Times correspondent Alexandra Harney uncovers a story of immense significance to us all: how China's factory economy gains a competitive edge by selling out its workers, environment, and future. Harney's firsthand reporting brings...
China on Strike
Narratives of Workers' Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary, and most underreported labor struggles of our time. China on Strike, the first English-language book of its kind, provides an intimate and revealing window into...
Blacklisted
The Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
This is a story of a bitter struggle, in which collusion with the UK police and security services resulted in victimization, violence and unemployment, with terrible effects on families and communities. Drawing on first-hand accounts of the workers, Blacklisted reveals how, when major construction projects...
Someplace Like America
Tales from the New Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life—through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis—the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness....
The Working Class Majority
America's Best Kept Secret
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
In the second edition of his essential book—which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gender, and the social crisis following 2008—Michael Zweig warns that by allowing the working class to disappear into categories of "middle class" or "consumers," we also...
Slaves into Workers
Emancipation and Labor in Colonial Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
In the Sudan, native Sudanese slaves served Sudanese masters until the region was conquered by the Turks, who practiced slavery on an institutional scale. When the British took over the Sudan in 1898, they officially emancipated the slaves, yet found it impossible to replace their labor in the country's...
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...
Race and the Invisible Hand
How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2003
From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test—and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies...
American Workers, American Unions
The Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Highly acclaimed and widely read since its first publication in 1986, American Workers, American Unions provides a concise and compelling history of American workers and their unions in the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first.
Taking into account recent important work...
Black Americans and Organized Labor
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
In Black Americans and Organized Labor, Paul D. Moreno offers a bold reinterpretation of the role of race and racial discrimination in the American labor movement. Moreno applies insights of the law-and-economics movement to formulate a powerfully compelling labor-race theorem of elegant simplicity:...
by Peter R. Odell
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
The oil industry is the world’s largest commercial enterprise. Its extent is global; international issues are consistently influenced by considerations of oil production and consumption, while the international communications networks of the larger oil companies rival those of many nations*.* In...