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Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class - And What We Can Do about It (Bk Currents) by Thom Hartmann Publisher Comments Nationally syndicated radio host and bestselling author Thom Hartmann exposes the covert war conservatives, and corporations are waging against America's middle class?a war that's reducing the rest of us to a politically impotent working poor. This book... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century by Harry Braverman Publisher Comments This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global by Paul Mason Publisher Comments "This is micro-historical writing at its best."—Walden Bello, author of Dilemmas of Domination "Brilliant."—Ken Loach The stories in this book come to life through the voices of remarkable individuals: child laborers in Dickensian England... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle Over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation) by Don Mitchell Publisher Comments At the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change. Many Californians, reacting to the ravages of the Great Depression, called for a radical reorientation of the highly exploitative labor relations that had allowed... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (John Hope Franklin Center Book) by Kathi Weeks Publisher Comments In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. While progressive political movements, including the Marxist and feminist movements, have fought for equal... (read more) Your price: $25.25 New - Trade Paper
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All Labor Has Dignity (12 Edition) by Martin Luther King Publisher Comments An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justice People forget that Dr. King was every bit as committed to economic justice as he was to ending racial segregation. He fought throughout his... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Death in the Haymarket : Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America (06 Edition) by James Green Publisher Comments A study of America's early labor movement and the 1886 Haymarket bombing at a Chicaco labor rally that killed several police officers discusses the events of the infamous attack, its sensational aftermath, and its devastating repercussions in terms of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Dirty Work: Immigrants in Domestic Service, Agriculture, and Prostitution in Sicily by Jeffrey Cole Publisher Comments Dirty Work explores the lives and work of recent immigrants from Africa, Asia, and elsewhere to the southern Italian region of Sicily. Using extensive research. Jeffrey E. Cole and Sally S. Booth focus on the experiences of foreigners employed in... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $31.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy by Ross Perlin Publisher Comments Millions of young people--and increasingly some not-so-young people--now work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand magazine offices, legislative backrooms, and Hollywood studios, but they also deliver aid in Afghanistan, map the human... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Thunder in the Mountains : the West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21 (90 Edition) by Lon Savage Publisher Comments The West Virginia mine wars--and particularly their climactic episode, the miner's march on Logan in August and September 1921--make for a rousing good story, and no one has told it as well or as fully as Lon Savage does in Thunder in the Mountains... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Marketing Dreams, Manufacturing Heroes: The Transnational Labor Brokering of Filipino Workers by Anna Romina Guevarra Publisher Comments "A splendid and hard-hitting book that exposes the campaigns by some governments to urge their citizens to work overseas, a key and virtually unnoticed aspect of economic globalization." Karen Brodkin, author of How Jews Became White Folks and What That... (read more) Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics by Linda Chavez Publisher Comments “Simply put, the leftist labor unions have the Democrats in their pockets. And we’re all paying the price.” Linda Chavez, President George W. Bush’s original choice for Secretary of Labor and a former union official, is one of the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker by Mike Rose Publisher Comments Read Mike Rose's posts on the Penguin Blog. As did the national bestseller Nickel and Dimed, Mike Rose’s revelatory book demolishes the long-held notion that people who work with their hands make up a less intelligent class. He shows us waitresses... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: the Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi (07 Edition) by Les Leopold Publisher Comments A CIA-connected labor union, an assassination attempt, a mysterious car crash, listening devices, and stolen documentseverything youd expect from the latest thriller. Yet, this was the reality of Tony Mazzocchi, the Rachel Carson of the U.S. workplace; a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Clean Clothes: A Global Movement to End Sweatshops by Liesbeth Sluiter Publisher Comments The Clean Clothes Campaign is a worldwide movement that aims to improve the wages and conditions of sweatshop workers. This is the story of their struggle. Large retailers such as Tesco, Walmart and Carrefour lure shoppers in with prices that seem too... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law by Staughton Lynd Publisher Comments Blending cutting-edge legal strategies for winning justice at work with a theory of dramatic, bottom-up social change, this practical guide to workers rights aims to make work better while reinvigorating the labor movement. A powerful organization model... (read more) Your price: $12.00 New - Trade Paper
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Consuming Mexican Labor: From the Bracero Program to NAFTA by Ronald L. Mize Publisher Comments Mexican migration to the United States and Canada is a highly contentious issue in the eyes of many North Americans, and every generation seems to construct the northward flow of labor as a brand new social problem. The history of Mexican labor migration... (read more) Your price: $30.95 New - Trade Paper
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Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power, and Desire (Society and the Sexes in the Modern World) by Julie Berebitsky Publisher Comments In this engaging book—the first to historicize our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace—Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans attitudes toward sexuality and gender in the office have changed since the 1860s, when... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price: $36.75 New - Hardcover
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Levi's Children: Coming to Terms with Human Rights in the Global Marketplace by Karl Schoenberger Synopsis Over the last decade, ugly allegations of corporate complicity in human-rights violations have exploded into one of the most controversial issues of our time. Companies are being held responsible by human-rights advocates for the injustices that are the... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: the Failure of Reform From Above, the Promise of Revival From Below (07 Edition) by Kim Moody Publisher Comments US Labor in Trouble and Transition tells the story of union decline in America and of the split in the labor movement it led to, following the dismal tale of union mergers and management partnerships that accompanied the retreat from militancy since the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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