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Songs of the Factory: Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance by Marek Korczynski 9780801451546
£100.22In Songs of the Factory, Marek Korczynski examines the role that popular music plays in workers' culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory that manufactures window blinds, Korczynski shows how workers make... -
Labor Movements: Global Perspectives by Stephanie Luce 9780745670607
RRP: £17.99£16.04Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in inequality within and between countries, steady or indeed rising unemployment and underemployment, and the... -
Labor Movements: Global Perspectives by Stephanie Luce 9780745670591
RRP: £50.00£43.51Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in inequality within and between countries, steady or indeed rising unemployment and underemployment, and the... -
After Redundancy: The Experience of Economic Insecurity by John Westergaard 9780745601519
RRP: £50.00£43.51This book examines the long-term impact of redundancy on a workforce who lost their jobs when a Sheffield steel company closed one of its plants. The authors set the key findings of a large number of detailed interviews in the context of the discussion... -
The European Union and Industrial Relations: New Procedures, New Context by Stijn Smismans 9780719086724
RRP: £90.00£63.91This is the first book to provide a clear overview and innovative analysis of the multiple ways the European Union affects industrial relations. It frames the EU as the provider of both a new institutional framework and policy context for industrial... -
Employment Relations in Britain: 25 years of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service by Brian Towers 9780631223269
RRP: £30.99£20.01This volume brings together contributions from eminent academics and senior ACAS officials to provide a fascinating account of the agency's achievements, failures and remarkable survival during a period of political upheaval and dramatic economic and... -
New Frontiers in European Industrial Relations by Richard Hyman 9780631186069
RRP: £34.99£22.83Building on the highly successful Industrial Relations in the New Europe, this new text for students of industrial relations and human resource management examines some of the key comparative themes of European industrial relations in the 1990's. A team... -
Poverty in America: A Handbook by John Iceland 9780520276369
£26.15The United States is among the most affluent nations in the world and has its largest economy; nevertheless, it has more poverty than most countries with similar standards of living. Growing income inequality and the Great Recession have made the problem... -
The European Sectoral Social Dialogue: Actors, Developments and Challenges by Anne Dufresne 9789052010526
RRP: £40.90£35.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052010526Author Anne DufresneFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint European Interuniversity PressPublisher European Interuniversity PressWeight(grams)... -
European Dual-Use Trade Controls: Beyond Materiality and Borders by Odette Jankowitsch-Prevor 9782875740762
RRP: £32.50£28.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782875740762Author Odette Jankowitsch-PrevorFormat PaperbackPage Count 155Imprint Presses Interuniversitaires EuropeennesPublisher Presses... -
Sin Patron: Stories from Argentina's Worker-Run Factories by Lavaca Collective 9781931859431
RRP: £19.99£13.56The inside story of Argentina's remarkable movement to create factories run democratically by workers themselves. The worker-run factories of Argentina offer an inspirational example of a struggle for social change that has achieved a real victory... -
Planning Labour: Time and the Foundations of Industrial Socialism in Romania by Alina-Sandra Cucu 9781789201857
RRP: £99.00£79.83Impoverished, indebted, and underdeveloped at the close of World War II, Romania underwent dramatic changes as part of its transition to a centrally planned economy. Like the Soviet Union, it pursued a policy of "socialist accumulation" whereby... -
Blood and Oranges: Immigrant Labour and European Markets in Rural Greece by Christopher M. Lawrence 9781845453077
RRP: £99.00£79.83A compelling, and sometimes chilling, account of the intersection of globalization and neo-racism in a rural Greek community, this book describes the contradictory political and economic development of the Greek countryside since its incorporation into... -
A Social History of Spanish Labour: New Perspectives on Class, Politics, and Gender by Jose A. Piqueras 9781845452964
RRP: £107.00£86.57Focusing on organization, resistance and political culture, this collection represents some of the best examples of recent Spanish historiography in the field of modern Spanish labor movements. Topics range from socialism to anarchism, from the formation... -
The Pleasure of a Surplus Income: Part-Time Work, Gender Politics, and Social Change in West Germany, 1955-1969 by Christine von Oertzen 9781845451790
RRP: £99.00£79.83Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. At a time when part-time jobs are ubiquitous, it is easy to forget that they are a relatively new phenomenon. This book explores the reasons behind the introduction of this... -
Supervision and Authority in Industry: Western European Experiences, 1830-1939 by Patricia van den Eeckhout 9781845456009
RRP: £99.00£79.83The number of studies discussing the labour relationship under industrial capitalism is overwhelming, but the literature on labour and its concrete, day-today shop-floor practices is much less abundant. How and by whom workers were supervised is one of... -
Bondage: Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries by Alessandro Stanziani 9781785330353
RRP: £15.95£13.30For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to... -
The Political Economy of Border Drawing: Arranging Legality in European Labor Migration Policies by Regine Paul 9781789200836
RRP: £27.95£22.58The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different. To explain this variation this book compares the fine-grained legal categories for migrant workers in each... -
Laborers and Enslaved Workers: Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class, 1850-1920 by Marcelo Badaro Mattos 9781785336294
RRP: £99.00£79.83From the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro was home to the largest urban population of enslaved workers anywhere in the Americas. It was also the site of an incipient working-class... -
Strike Action and Nation Building: Labor Unrest in Palestine/Israel, 1899-1951 by David de Vries 9781782388098
RRP: £99.00£79.83Strike-action has long been a notable phenomenon in Israeli society, despite forces that have weakened its recurrence, such as the Arab-Jewish conflict, the decline of organized labor, and the increasing precariousness of employment. While the impact of... -
Flexible Capitalism: Exchange and Ambiguity at Work by Jens Kjaerulff 9781782386155
RRP: £99.00£80.23Approaching "work" as at heart a practice of exchange, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary "flexible" capitalism. It introduces... -
The Political Economy of Border Drawing: Arranging Legality in European Labor Migration Policies by Regine Paul 9781782385417
RRP: £99.00£79.83The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different. To explain this variation this book compares the fine-grained legal categories for migrant workers in each... -
Blood and Fire: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor by Sharryn Kasmir 9781782383635
RRP: £99.00£80.23Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.S. address the dwindling importance of labor throughout the world. The contributors to this volume highlight the growing disconnect... -
Bondage: Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Centuries by Alessandro Stanziani 9781782382508
RRP: £99.00£79.83For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to... -
Alienating Labour: Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary by Eszter Bartha 9781782380252
RRP: £107.00£86.57The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the "masses" with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy - successful at the outset - in the long-term proved to be... -
Autoworkers Under The Gun: A Shop-Floor View of the End of the American Dream by Greg Shotwell 9781608461424
RRP: £19.99£11.82In an industry under attack, a veteran autoworker offers his take on the collapse of the American dream.Book InformationISBN 9781608461424Author Greg ShotwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket BooksWeight(grams) 357g -
Nos Quitan Nuestros Trabajos!: y 20 mitos mas sobre la immigracion (Spanish) by Aviva Chomsky 9781608461011
RRP: £19.99£13.56A timely and accessible guide which debunks the 21 biggest myths and stereotypes in today's heated immigration debate, written by one of the leading and longest-running human rights activists. Claims that immigrants take jobs away from nationals, are a... -
The Civil Wars In U.s Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old? by Steve Early 9781608460991
RRP: £21.99£14.83From forced trusteeships to hostile inter-union raids, American labour has been gripped by a devastating civil war that has resulted in 30 years of decline. With the economic crises putting more pressure on organised labour than ever and prompting a... -
Striking To Survive: Factory Relocations and Workers Resistance in China's Pearl River Delta by Fan Shigang 9781608469093
RRP: £16.99£11.67In China, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class. In the vast export-processing zones along China's southeastern coast, countless so-called 'migrant workers' or 'peasant workers' from interior... -
Alien Policy in Belgium, 1840-1940: The Creation of Guest Workers, Refugees and Illegal Aliens by Frank Caestecker 9781571819864
RRP: £107.00£86.57Belgium has a unique place in the history of migration in that it was the first among industrialized nations in Continental Europe to develop into an immigrant society. In the nineteenth century Italians, Jews, Poles, Czechs, and North Africans settled... -
A Reversal of Fortunes?: Women, Work, and Change in East Germany by Rachel Alsop 9781571817716
RRP: £23.95£19.49German unification brought fundamental, often traumatic changes for the people in eastern Germany. Women as a group were arguably more deeply affected by the changes than any other, and in one area in particular: that of work, which had far-reaching... -
Trade Unions, Immigration, and Immigrants in Europe, 1960-1993: A Comparative Study of the Actions of Trade Unions in Seven West European Countries by Rinus Penninx 9781571817648
RRP: £99.00£79.83European trade unions are among the most influential and powerful institutions within Western economies, in many cases cooperating with the government and employers' associations in socio-economic decision-making processes. Consequently they also play an... -
The Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium by George Ross 9781571811684
RRP: £31.95£26.40European union movements played a central role in promoting a "Europeanmodel of society", a humane industrial relations system, high labor standards, generous welfare states, and collective political representation which reached its pinnacle in... -
Environmentalism from Below: How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet by Ashley Dawson 9781642599701
RRP: £19.99£13.56A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Environmentalism from Below takes readers inside the popular struggles for environmental liberation in the Global South. These communities-among the... -
Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero by Gregor Gall 9781526173096
RRP: £20.00£14.53In the summer of 2022, the little-known leader of a small union became a 'working-class hero'. Facing down media pundits who thought they could walk all over him, he offered a robust critique of the government and provided workers with an authentic voice... -
Organizing for Power: Building a 21st Century Labor Movement in Boston by Aviva Chomsky 9781642593952
RRP: £52.00£34.69Boston's economy has become defined by a disconcerting trend that has intensified throughout much of the United States since the 2008 recession. Economic growth now delivers remarkably few benefits to large sectors of the working class - a phenomenon... -
The Package King: A Rank and File History of Ups by Joe Allen 9781642592498
RRP: £48.00£32.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642592498Author Joe AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books -
Women Working Longer: Increased Employment at Older Ages by Claudia Goldin 9780226532509
RRP: £112.00£107.01Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during the past three decades, despite substantial changes in macroeconomic conditions. Why is this so?... -
Reform, Revolution, and Opportunism: Debates in the Second International, 1900–1910 by Mike Taber 9781642599817
RRP: £19.99£13.56An essential record from the Second International, assembled by Under the Socialist Banner editor Mike Taber.At its height, the Second (Socialist) International (1889-1914) represented the majority of organized workers in the world, with the... -
A Reversal of Fortunes?: Women, Work, and Change in East Germany by Rachel Alsop 9781571819659
RRP: £99.00£79.83German unification brought fundamental, often traumatic changes for the people in eastern Germany. Women as a group were arguably more deeply affected by the changes than any other, and in one area in particular: that of work, which had far-reaching...