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Sweatshop Warriors : Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory (01 Edition)
by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie  Publisher Comments In this up-close and personal look at the heroines who make family, community, and society tick, Miriam Ching Yoon Louie showcases immigrant women workers speaking out for themselves, in their own words. While public outrage over sweatshops builds in...
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U.S. Labor in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Working-Class Struggles and Insurgency (Revolutionary Studies)
by John H Hinshaw Publisher Comments Americans generally like to think of themselves as members of a "middle-class country." Yet even amidst a booming economy the living standard of most Americans is lower than it was a generation ago. Although the longest bull market in history recently...
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The Farmworkers' Journey
by Ann Aurelia Lopez Publisher Comments Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives a rare insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. Over the course of ten years, Ann...
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Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
by Ben Hamper Synopsis The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a no-holds-barred journey through the belly of the American industrial beast....
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Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa
by Jacques E. Levy Publisher Comments “[An] exceptionally interesting and intimate oral history . . . Against a background of motels and all-night cafés and strikes, the high relief in which the characters stand out is truly fascinating. Jacques Levy’s biography of Chavez...
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Take Back Your Time : Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America (03 Edition)
by John De Graaf Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-253) and index....
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Unfinished Struggle : Turning Points in American Labor, 1877-present (99 Edition)
by Steve Babson Publisher Comments Labor scholar and activist Steve Babson's dramatic narrative examines the numerous attempts to organize workers from the Great Uprising of 1877 to the "sitdown" strikes of the 1930s to the present day....
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At Work: The Art of California Labor
by Mark Dean Johnson Publisher Comments A Powerful examination of labor history in California. Includes full-color and b&w images by Tina Modotti, Richard Correll, Henrietta Shore, Diego Rivera and others....
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Beyond Employment: Changes in Work and the Future of Labour Law in Europe
by Alain Supiot Publisher Comments This book is the English edition of what has become widely known as "The Supiot Report," a bold and far-reaching look at the changing nature of work, employment and labor institutions, and systems of regulation and welfare. The author places recent...
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Class Acts: An Anthropology of Urban Workers and Their Union
by E Paul Durrenberger Publisher Comments U.S. labor leaders are constantly developing new programs to revive the union movement. What happens when these plans collide with the daily lives of front-line union staff and members? This book examines the often conflicting interests of key players in...
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New Unionism in the New Society: Public Sector Unions in the Redistributive State
by Leo Troy Book News Annotation Troy (economics, Rutgers U.) describes and analyzes the changes in the economy and labor markets and the subsequent and continuing changes in unions. He contrast new and old unions, detailing the characteristics of the new union movement and patterns...
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Women, Employment and Organizations
by Judith Glover Publisher Comments Brings together the European and North American research on a series of key topics in the field of women's employment. This book explores the topics such as occupational segregation; the pay gap; work-life balance; part-time working; women, work and...
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Common Sense and Labour
by Samuel Crowther Publisher Comments Text extracted from opening pages of book: COMMON SENSE AND LABOUR BY SAMUEL CROWTHEE LONDON: SIR ISAAC PITMAN & SONS, LTD. 1 AMEN COENEE, E. C. 1920 Printed in Garden City, N. Y., U. S. A. All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign...
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The Economics of Gender and Mental Illness
by D. E. Marcotte Publisher Comments While gender has so often been found to be an important determinant of prevalence and outcomes of mental illness, economists have rarely focused on gender differences as a central element of their analyses. In this volume, we direct the focus of research...
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An Organizer's Tale: Speeches
by Cesar Chavez Publisher Comments The first major collection of writings by civil rights leader Cesar Chavez One of the most important civil rights leaders in American history, Cesar Chavez was a firm believer in the principles of nonviolence, and he effectively employed peaceful tactics...
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Britain at Work: 1988 Workplace Relations Survey
by Mark Cully Publisher Comments "Britain at Work presents a detailed analysis of the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey, the largest survey of its kind ever conducted. Across Britain, managers and worker representatives in over 3,000 workplaces completed work-life questionnaires....
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Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila
by Sandy Polishuk Publisher Comments Although married four times, Julia Ruuttila claimed that the love of her life was not a man but a union. From her Industrial Workers of the World origins to the CIO, the International Woodworkers of America, and the International Longshore and Warehouse...
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Between Worlds: Deaf Women, Work, and the Intersections of Gender and Ability (New Approaches in Sociology)
by Cheryl G. Najarian Publisher Comments The purpose of this book is to illustrate the struggles of Deaf women as they negotiate their family, educational, and work lives. This study demonstrates how these women resist and overcome the various obstacles that are put before them as well as how...
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Working Life : the Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work (00 Edition)
by Joanne B. Ciulla Publisher Comments EXPLORING AND EXPLODING OUR NOTIONS OF WORK <BR>Joanne B. Ciulla, a noted scholar in Leadership and Ethics, examines why so many people today have let their jobs take over their lives. Technology was supposed to free us from work, but instead we...
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Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions: International Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Employment Relations)
by Fiona Colgan Publisher Comments Drawing on current research in the field, the book develops a world-wide perspective on trade union gender democracy....
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