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State of the Unions: How Labor Can Strengthen the Middle Class, Improve Our Economy, and Regain Political Influence
by Philip M. Dine  Publisher Comments From steel workers, Teamsters, and coal miners to teachers, actors, and civil servants, union members once accounted for more than one third of the American workforce. At a mere 12 percent, union membership today is a shadow of what it once was. What...
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Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929
by Dana Frank Publisher Comments This book analyses consumer organising tactics and the decline of the Seattle labour movement in the 1920s....
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On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the Charleston 5
by Suzan Erem Publisher Comments Longshoremen stand at the nexus of the global economy, handling nearly every cargo container that enters or leaves any country. Even in the face of cargo "containerization" in the 70s and 80s, a development that decimated longshore unions, they have...
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A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track
by Andy Stern Publisher Comments Andy Stern, one of the most visionary leaders in America today, has fought relentlessly to ensure that Americans' hard work is rewarded in today's hypercompetitive, globalized world. As the newsmaking president of the fastest-growing, most dynamic union...
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Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America
by J Anthony Lukas 
Publisher Comments Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged...
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America
by David K. Shipler
Powells.com Staff Pick The Working Poor is a deeply impressive book, a thorough and balanced study of the millions of Americans living at or around the poverty line. Shipler's varied portraits and interviews are insightful and moving, and his analysis of causes and...
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Bait and Switch
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Powells.com Staff Pick Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable follow-up to Nickel and Dimed, examines life in the ever-increasing population of the white-collar unemployed. Veering from the absurd (Wizard of Oz dolls) to the unsettling (Christian prayer breakfasts...
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The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage
by Alexandra Harney Publisher Comments A landmark eyewitness expos of how China's factory economy competes for Western business by selling out its workers, its environment, and its future In The China Price, acclaimed Financial Times correspondent Alex Harney uncovers the truth about how...
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The Oxford Book of Work
by Keith Thomas Publisher Comments Primal curse or sacred duty? Painful drudgery or the only sure route to human happiness? Work has always evoked conflicting reactions. Yet whether we view it as a tedious necessity or embrace it as a compulsive addiction, it remains an inescapable and...
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Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt
by Ching Kwan Lee Publisher Comments This study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on remarkable fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and...
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The Politics of Telecommunications in Mexico: Privatization and State-Labour Relations, 1982-95 (St. Antony's)
by Judith Clifton Publisher Comments Privatization and policies of economic liberalization were hailed by many critics as key factors which would help lead Mexico towards a process of deeper democratization at the beginning of the 1980s. This book details the single most important...
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Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia
by Wendy Z Goldman Publisher Comments In the annals of Industrialization, the Soviet experience is unique in its whirlwind rapidity. The vast transformations that shook Europe over the centuries--proletarianization, industrialization, urbanization--were telescoped into a mere decade. The...
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
by David Von Drehle
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-325) and index....
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A Lexicon of Labor: More Then 500 Key Terms, Biographical Sketches, and Historical Hightlights Concering Labor in America
by R. Emmett Murray Publisher Comments An innovative and informative mini-encyclopedia of work and workers in America....
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Reds or Rackets?
by Howard Rimeldorf Publisher Comments Why is the American working class different? For generations, scholars and activists alike have wrestled with this question, with an eye to explaining why workers in the United States are not more like their radicalized European counterparts. Approaching...
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Contributions in Political Science #82: Strikes, Dispute Procedures, and Arbitration: Essays on Labor Law
by William B Iv Gould Publisher Comments This penetrating essay collection focuses on the development of dispute procedures in the United States and the legal rules surrounding them. Considered are such enduring matters as unauthorized and wildcat strikes, enforcement of the no-strike...
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Race Against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit (Working Class in American History)
by David M. Lewis-colman Publisher Comments Race against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit examines how black workers' activism in Detroit shaped the racial politics of the labor movement and the white working class. Tracing substantive, longstanding disagreements between liberals...
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The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
by Richard Sennett Publisher Comments A bestselling author draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives bakers, a bartender turned-ad executive, and many others to call into question the terms of a new economy....
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A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track
by Andy Stern Publisher Comments Andy Stern, one of the most visionary leaders in America today, has fought relentlessly to ensure that Americans' hard work is rewarded in today's hypercompetitive, globalized world. As the newsmaking president of the fastest-growing, most dynamic union...
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Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
by Juliet B Schor Publisher Comments This pathbreaking book explains why, contrary to all expectations, Americans are working harder than ever. Juliet Schor presents the astonishing news that over the past twenty years our working hours have increased by the equivalent of one month per year&...
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