Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State
The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 1998
Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State brings together new research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Aviva Chomsky and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago have gathered both well-known and emerging...
Virtual Migration
The Programming of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2006
Workers in India program software applications, transcribe medical dictation online, chase credit card debtors, and sell mobile phones, diet pills, and mortgages for companies based in other countries around the world. While their skills and labor migrate abroad, these workers remain Indian citizens,...
Talking about Machines
An Ethnography of a Modern Job
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This is a story of how work gets done. It is also a study of how field service technicians talk about their work and how that talk is instrumental in their success. In his innovative ethnography, Julian E. Orr studies the people who repair photocopiers and shares vignettes from their daily lives....
Tomatoland, Third Edition
From Harvest of Shame to Harvest of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Four entirely new chapters take up where the current edition leaves off to tell the story behind what president Bill Clinton calls “the most astonishing thing politically in the world we’re living in today.” Estabrook reveals how a rag-tag group of migrant tomato pickers in Florida convinced...
Unprotected Labor
Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Through an analysis of women's reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor protections that formed the foundation of the welfare...
Ambassadors of the Working Class
Argentina's International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
In 1946 Juan Perón launched a populist challenge to the United States, recruiting an army of labor activists to serve as worker attachés at every Argentine embassy. By 1955, over five hundred would serve, representing the largest presence of blue-collar workers in the foreign service of any country...
by Kevin Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1995
A Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Book for 1996"
"Kevin Boyle has done a masterful job of identifying the unique contribution of the UAW, not only to American Liberalism, but also to the nation and to all people. As contemporary labor and society at large search for new directions, this...
Street Democracy
Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
No visitor to Mexico can fail to recognize the omnipresence of street vendors, selling products ranging from fruits and vegetables to prepared food and clothes. The vendors compose a large part of the informal economy, which altogether represents at least 30 percent of Mexico’s economically active...
A Global History of Runaways
Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600–1850
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of Runaways, edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas...
The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market
The Role of Employment Discrimination Policies
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market provides historical background on employment discrimination and wage discrepancies in the United States and on government efforts to address employment discrimination. It examines the two federal institutions tasked with enforcing Title...
At the End of the Shift
Mines and Single-Industry Towns in Northern Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 1996
Mining has played a formative role in the history of Northern Ontario. It has been one of the key generators of wealth in the area since the mid-19th century, and is also responsible for much of the urban development of Ontario's northland. The twelve papers published here came out of the second annual...
The Origins of Right to Work
Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
"Right to work" states weaken collective bargaining rights and limit the ability of unions to effectively advocate on behalf of workers. As more and more states consider enacting right-to-work laws, observers trace the contemporary attack on organized labor to the 1980s and the Reagan era. In The...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Since the 1980s, the world’s working class has been under continual assault by the forces of neoliberalism and imperialism. In response, new labor movements have emerged across the Global South-from Brazil and South Africa to Indonesia and Pakistan.
Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time...
The Influence Machine
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate Capture of American Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
An illuminating history and groundbreaking investigation tracing how a single trade organization turned itself into the most dangerous political weapon in America
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When Americans hear the words “Chamber of Commerce,” many still think of the local business associations that spruce up Main...