Labor & Industrial Relations

Working Class Radicals: The Socialist Party in West Virginia, 1898-1920 examines the rise and fall of organized socialism in West Virginia through an exploration of the demographics of membership, oral interview material gathered in the 1960s from party...

Henry George (1839-1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth century. His best-selling Progress and Poverty (1879) captures the ravages of privileged monopolies and the...

Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of American society in favor of the moneyed "upscale" consumer for more than four decades. Christopher R. Martin...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781502955029Author Congressional Research ServiceFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary and most underreported labour struggles of our time. China on Strike, the first English-language book of its kind,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781499217063Author Centers for Disease Cont And PreventionFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565848863Author GeogheganFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint New PressPublisher New Press

In the U.S, Woolworth's department store was the Wal-Mart of the early 20th century. The women who worked the counters, cash registers and storerooms were overworked, underpaid and sexually harassed. This is the inspiring story of how these courageous...

Worker centers are becoming an important element in labor and community organizing and the struggle for fair pay and decent working conditions for low-wage workers, especially immigrants. There are currently more than two hundred worker centers in the...

Locating Migrating Media details the extent to which media productions, both televisual and cinematic, have sought out new and cheaper shot locations, creative staff, and financing around the world. The book contributes to debates about media...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523211432Author Tony BanfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477557426Author Congressional-Executive Commission on ChFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781499234701Author Centers for Disease Cont And PreventionFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781499234633Author Centers for Disease Cont And PreventionFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781499217155Author Centers for Disease Cont And PreventionFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781499216585Author Centers for Disease Cont And PreventionFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher...

This book showcases the inequalities experienced between the Global North and the Global South by exploring the production and distribution model of goods and services worldwide through an analysis of why the structure, framework, and interconnectedness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498014175Author Samuel CrowtherFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 671g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484165768Author Eric LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

In 2017, Workers United/SEIU called veteran organizer Phil Cohen out of retirement to investigate and expose a union-busting plot by Mohawk Industries at a North Carolina carpet mill. His hard-hitting account chronicles the resulting labor dispute that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466337558Author David MacarayFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

A Democracy That Works argues that rather than corporate donations, Republican gerrymandering and media manipulation, the conservative ascendancy reflects the reconstruction of the rules that govern work that has disempowered workers.Using six historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942961096Author Michael CharneyFormat PaperbackImprint Rethinking SchoolsPublisher Rethinking Schools

Common misconceptions about Japan begin with the notion that it is a "small" country (it's actually lager than Great Britain, Germany or Italy) and end with pronouncements that the Japanese think differently and have different values-they do things...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439154809Author Dick J ReavisFormat PaperbackImprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438449548Author Richard SteierFormat PaperbackPage Count 301Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams) 408g

Modern capitalism and political freedom rest on concepts of conscience and morality, and abhor concentrations of unbridled power. In America, that economic and political system developed mechanisms designed to check and balance such power. Despite those...

The principles of trade unionism are based on working people acting together in solidarity with each other, to improve wages, working conditions, and life for themselves and all others. In its most developed forms, this extends not only to the worker...

The principles of trade unionism are based on working people acting together in solidarity with each other, to improve wages, working conditions, and life for themselves and all others. In its most developed forms, this extends not only to the worker...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781097346349Author Antonio DecanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

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...

Crisis in Bethlehem: Big Steel's Struggle to Survive is Pulitzer Prize winner Strohmeyer's account of the collapse of Bethlehem Steel. As editor of the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Globe-Times from 1956 to 1984, Strohmeyer followed the steel industry from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815623434Author Habib LadjevardiFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812276787Author Lester RubinFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812276213Author Herbert R NorthrupFormat HardbackPage Count 770Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

In A New New Deal, the labor movement leaders Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds offer a bold new plan to revitalize American labor activism and build a sense of common purpose between labor and community organizations. Dean and Reynolds demonstrate how...

Immigrant laborers who came to the New South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries found themselves poised uncomfortably between white employers and the Black working class, a liminal and often precarious position. Campaigns to recruit...

Roland Erne's view of transnational trade union networks challenges the assertion that no realistic prospect exists for remedying the European Union's democratic deficit-that is, its domination by corporate interests and lack of a cohesive European...