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Cultures of Solidarity : Consciousness, Action and Contemporary American Workers (88 Edition)
by Rick Fantasia  Publisher Comments A commonplace assumption about American workers is that they lack class consciousness. This perception has baffled social scientists, demoralized activists, and generated a significant literature on American exceptionalism. In this provocative book, a...
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Out To Work : 20TH Anniversary Edition (03 Edition)
by Alice Kessler-harris Publisher Comments First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her...
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The Globalized Woman: Reports from a Future of Inequality
by Christa Wichterich Publisher Comments Globalization creates growth without jobs in the North, structural adjustment in the South, privatization in the East and the dismantling of states everywhere. The author of this extraordinary book uses a mixture of case studies, examples and quotations...
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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...
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The Struggle for a Social Europe
by Andreas Bieler Publisher Comments This book provides a detailed investigation and comparison of the trade unions of five EU member states, Austria, Britain, France, Germany and Sweden, and their positions on EMU. Several European level trade union organizations are also examined. The...
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Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster
by Melissa Fay Greene Publisher Comments One evening in late October 1958, the deepest coal mine in North America "bumped" — its rock floors heaved up and smashed into rock ceilings. Most of the men on the shift perished. But nineteen men were trapped alive a mile below the earth's surface,...
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Condition of Working of the Class in England (87 Edition)
by Friedrich Engels Synopsis This Marxist text is an important document on the social conditions in a Victorian industrial city. Engels describes the conditions of the working class with accuracy, compassion and anger. He discusses the life of the factory hands, the horrible...
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Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself
by Daniel H Pink Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-367 and index....
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Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
by Leon Fink Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-238) and index....
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The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs
by Ray Ginger Publisher Comments Let the people take heart and hope everywhere, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning.-Eugene Debs in 1918 This moving biography presents the definitive story of the life and legacy of the most eloquent...
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Lane Kirkland: Champion of American Labor
by Arch Puddington Publisher Comments " I am gratified that the full account of his indispensable contribution to freedom has finally been written." – Lech Walesa A major force in the American labor movement, Lane Kirkland rose through the ranks of the AFL-CIO to become the...
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Women's Working Lives in East Asia (Studies in Social Inequality)
by Mary C. Brinton Publisher Comments One of the most dramatic economic changes of the past century has been the increase in married women's work outside the home. This volume examines married women's participation in the economies of three East Asian countries - Japan, Taiwan, and South...
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Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
by Thom Hartmann Publisher Comments Unequal Protection The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights Was the Boston Tea Party the first WTO-style protest against transnational corporations? Did the Supreme Court sell out America's citizens in the nineteenth century, with...
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With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today
by Daniel Rothenberg Publisher Comments With These Hands documents the farm labor system through the presentation of a collection of voices--workers who labor in the fields, growers who manage the multi-billion dollar agricultural industry, contractors who link workers with growers, coyotes...
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Allies Across the Border: Mexico's "Authentic Labor Front" and Global Solidarity
by Dale Hathaway Publisher Comments North American workers find their jobs more pressured and precarious but turn on the television and find pundits praising the glories of the global economy. Their counterparts south of the Rio Grande find themselves forced into the arms of global...
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Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America
by W R Rorabaugh Publisher Comments The apprentice system in colonial America began as a way for young men to learn valuable trade skills from experienced artisans and mechanics and soon flourished into a fascinating and essential social institution. Benjamin Franklin got his start in life...
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The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi
by Les Leopold Publisher Comments A CIA-connected labor union, an assassination attempt, a mysterious car crash, listening devices, and stolen documents—everything you'd expect from the latest thriller. Yet, this was the reality of Tony Mazzocchi, the Rachel Carson of the U.S...
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A Power Among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing (Working Class in American History)
by Karen Pastorello Publisher Comments Karen Pastorello’s pathbreaking study is the first biography of Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the first scholarship to place this remarkable leader at the center of the founding of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Bridging the gap...
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The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans and Their Families
by Beth Shulman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-240) and index....
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Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919???1939
by Lizabeth Cohen Publisher Comments This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as they make choices about whether to attend ethnic...
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