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The Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium by George Ross 9781571811677
RRP: $183.54$148.49European 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... -
Trade Unions in the New Society by Harold J. Laski 9781032058320
RRP: $49.73$43.04First Published in 1950, Trade Unions in the New Society examines the changing significance of trade unionism and the place they occupy in the democratic world. Harold J. Laski contrasts their function in a capitalist or socialist society with what it... -
A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism by Lisa Phillips 9780252037320
$82.28Dedicated to organizing workers from diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, many of whom were considered "unorganizable" by other unions, the progressive New York City-based labor union District 65 counted among its 30,000 members retail... -
Work and Wellbeing in the Nordic Countries: Critical Perspectives on the World's Best Working Lives by Helge Hvid 9780367663841
RRP: $68.59$60.14The Nordic countries have the world's best working life. Unlike in many other countries, global competition has not created inequality, uncertainty, long working hours, standardization and restrictive managerial control. The main reason for this lies in... -
Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition by Kathleen Barker 9780801433696
RRP: $198.97$172.59The successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact of contingent work—an umbrella term for a variety of tenuous and insecure employment arrangements such as... -
The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States by Marie Gottschalk 9780801437458
RRP: $198.97$171.91Why, in the recent campaigns for universal health care, did organized labor maintain its support of employer-mandated insurance? Did labor's weakened condition prevent it from endorsing national health insurance? Marie Gottschalk demonstrates here that... -
Malled by Caitlin Kelly 9781591845430
RRP: $37.72$25.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591845430Author Caitlin KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism by Betsy Wood 9780252043444
$172.58Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of... -
Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy in Scotland Since 1955 by Jim Phillips 9781474479257
RRP: $44.58$40.45Exploring the social, cultural and political implications of deindustrialisation in twentieth-century Scotland Examines deindustrialisation as long-running, phased and politicised process Draws on documentary source material from a range of... -
StartUp 7, Workbook by Ken Beatty 9780135177631
$42.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780135177631Author Ken BeattyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Prentice HallPublisher Prentice Hall (Higher Education Division, Pearson... -
Shifting Categories of Work: Unsettling the Ways We Think about Jobs, Labor, and Activities by Liza Herzog 9781032376622
RRP: $61.73$54.36What do human beings do when they work, how is work organized, and what are its multidimensional - economic, social, political, biographical, ecological - effects? We cannot answer these questions without drawing on the numerous categories that we use to... -
The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century by Erica Smiley 9781501764813
RRP: $198.97$171.91In The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta bring a novel perspective to building worker power and what labor organizing could look like in the future, suggesting ways to evolve collective bargaining to match the needs of modern people-not only... -
Long Time Coming: Racial Inequality in the Nonmetropolitan South, 1940-1990 by Mark A Fossett 9780367166885
RRP: $68.59$60.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367166885Author Mark A FossettFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 156g -
Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector: Is There a Funding Crisis? by Robert L. Clark 9781848447585
$164.00While retiree health plans are a dying benefit in the private sector, all US states and many local governments extend health insurance coverage to their retired employees. This book is the first to thoroughly examine public sector health insurance plans... -
Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States by Ola Bergstrom 9781843760337
$189.73Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States examines the developments in labour markets in advanced economies in the 21st century, as regards contingent employment. This is defined as employment relationships that can be terminated with minimal... -
Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe by Gabriel Fagan 9781843764328
$189.73Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe addresses the role played by institutions in European wage formation with a focus on EMU and institutional change in labour markets. Under this general heading there are three broad but distinct themes... -
Labor Standards in International Supply Chains: Aligning Rights and Incentives by Daniel Berliner 9781783470358
$164.00The authors examine developments in labor standards in global supply chains over the past thirty years, analyzing factors that create challenges and opportunities for improving working conditions. They illustrate the complex dynamics within and among key... -
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration by Devah Pager 9780226644837
RRP: $75.47$72.51Nearly every job application asks it: have you ever been convicted of a crime? For the hundreds of thousands of young men leaving American prisons each year, their answer to that question may determine whether they can find work and begin rebuilding... -
Department of Justice: Slavery, Peonage, and Involuntary Servitude by Antoinette Harrell 9780967727998
RRP: $23.93$21.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967727998Author Antoinette HarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Antoinette HarrellPublisher Antoinette HarrellWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)... -
Means And Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States by Zoe Baker 9781849354981
RRP: $36.02$24.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354981Author Zoe BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 9781604864823
RRP: $25.71$15.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864823Author Elizabeth Gurley FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 132g -
The Case for a Maximum Wage by Sam Pizzigati 9781509524914
RRP: $60.04$52.95Modern societies set limits, on everything from how fast motorists can drive to how much waste factory owners can dump in our rivers. But incomes in our deeply unequal world have no limits. Could capping top incomes tackle rising inequality more... -
Trade Unions and Democracy: Strategies and Perspectives by Mark Harcourt 9780719069796
RRP: $42.88$30.74Available for the first time in paperback, this book explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. The crisis facing established democratic institutions in the advanced societies has been widely noted. In response, there... -
All Labor Has Dignity by Martin Luther King 9780807086025
RRP: $32.57$22.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807086025Author Dr. Martin Luther KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 215mm *... -
Cartography Of Revolutionary Anarchism by Michael Schmidt 9781849351386
RRP: $15.35$10.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849351386Author Michael SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 163g -
Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009 by Howard Zinn 9781608462599
RRP: $34.29$22.44Howard Zinn has illuminated American history like none other. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University, he wrote more than 20 books, including A People's History of the United States. He was also a known anti-war... -
The Harms of Work: An Ultra-Realist Account of the Service Economy by Anthony Lloyd 9781529204032
RRP: $49.73$38.23This is the first book to discuss workplace harm through an ultra-realist lens and examines the connection between individuals, their working conditions and management culture. It investigates the reorganisation of labour markets and the shift from... -
Free the Children: A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves That Children Can Change the World by Craig Kielburger 9780060930653
RRP: $25.71$20.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060930653Author Craig KielburgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 204mm... -
I Am Not a Tractor!: How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won by Susan L. Marquis
RRP: $51.44$38.71I Am Not a Tractor! celebrates the courage, vision, and creativity of the farmworkers and community leaders who have transformed one of the worst agricultural situations in the United States into one of the best. Susan L. Marquis highlights past abuses... -
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States by Sharon Smith
RRP: $42.87$29.37This revised and updated edition of Sharon Smith's accessible, critical history of the US labour movement examines the hidden radical history of workers' resistance from the nineteenth century to the present.Book InformationISBN 9781608469178Author... -
New Forms Of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism by Immanuel Ness
RRP: $41.15$27.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604869569Author Immanuel NessFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 375g -
Blood and Fire: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor by Sharryn Kasmir
RRP: $47.94$38.73Based 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... -
Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia by Peter Cole
RRP: $48.01$41.41During the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia waterfront was home to the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the United States prior to the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) era. For much of its time, Local 8's majority was... -
The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers' Movement by Stanley Aronowitz
$29.61Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years... -
Labour Under Attack: Anti-Unionism in Canada by Stephanie Ross
RRP: $36.02$29.52This multi-disciplinary edited collection critically examines the causes and effects of anti-unionism in Canada. Primarily through a series of case studies, the book's contributors document and expose the tactics and strategies of employers and... -
A Fight for the Soul of Public Education: The Story of the Chicago Teachers Strike by Steven Ashby
RRP: $65.18$57.75In reaction to the changes imposed on public schools across the country in the name of "education reform," the Chicago Teachers Union redefined its traditional role and waged a multidimensional fight that produced a community-wide school strike and... -
Leading Progress: The Professional Institute of the Public Service Canada 1920–2020 by Jason Russell
RRP: $34.22$28.11One hundred years of progress for Canadians. One hundred years of results for Canadian workers. On February 6, 1920, a small group of public service employees met for the first time to form a professional association. A century later, the Professional... -
The Government of British Trade Unions: A Study of Apathy and the Democratic Process in the Transport and General Workers Union by Joseph Goldstein
$191.44Originally published in 1952, The Government of British Trade Unions analyses the government, in theory and in practice, of one of Britain’s most important labour organizations – The Transport and General Works Union in the first half of the 20th Century... -
Trade Unions by Kevin Hawkins
$160.55Originally published in 1981, Trade Unions was written at a time when there was a widespread belief that Britain’s trade unions were undemocratic, obstructive and strike-prone. This book argues that throughout their history, British trade unions have... -
Trade Unions and the State by W. Milne-Bailey
$191.44Originally published in 1934, Trade Unions and the State is a study of political institutions. This is a lucid account of the diverse views that have been held about the nature, attributes, functions and prerogatives of the State. The book analyses the...