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No One Size Fits All: Worker Organization, Policy, and Movement in a New Economic Age by Janice Fine
RRP: $44.58$38.58Workers and their organizations are facing enormous obstacles today. Corporations wield immense power, not only in the marketplace but also in politics, which has, for many years, effectively blocked the updating of antiquated laws governing labor... -
Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor by Elizabeth J. Perry
$45.46This work is an important addition to the rather limited literature on the social history of China during the first half of the twentieth century. It draws on abundant sources and studies which have appeared in the People's Republic of China since the... -
Mobilizing against Inequality: Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism by Lee H. Adler
RRP: $41.15$37.00Among the many challenges that global liberalization has posed for trade unions, the growth of precarious immigrant workforces lacking any collective representation stands out as both a major threat to solidarity and an organizing opportunity. Believing... -
With God on Our Side: The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital by Adam D. Reich
RRP: $46.30$40.00When unions undertake labor organizing campaigns, they often do so from strong moral positions, contrasting workers' rights to decent pay or better working conditions with the more venal financial motives of management. But how does labor confront... -
Trade Unions and Workplace Democracy in Africa by Gerard Kester
RRP: $231.57$201.86Can democracy only survive if it is participatory? Is participatory democracy a prerequisite for sustainable development? Are trade unions the most appropriate body through which such aims can be implemented? These critical questions are tackled in... -
A Global Union for Global Workers: Collective Bargaining and Regulatory Politics in Maritime Shipping by Nathan Lillie
RRP: $51.44$45.70This is a book about how global unionism was born in the maritime shipping sector. It argues that the industrial structure of shipping, and specifically the interconnected nature of shipping production chains, facilitated the globalization of union... -
A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation by Price V. Fishback
RRP: $51.46$50.17Workers' compensation was arguably the first widespread social insurance program in the United States - before social security, Medicare, or unemployment insurance - and the most successful form of labor legislation to emerge from the early progressive... -
Beyond Decent Work: The Cultural Political Economy of Labour Struggles in Indonesia by Felix Hauf
RRP: $87.48$83.69Beyond Decent Work explores the history of the Indonesian labor movement, using three contemporary case studies to shed light on the development of Indonesia's labor struggles and trade union strategies. Drawing on extensive and recent qualitative... -
Organizing Matters: Two Logics of Trade Union Representation by Guy Mundlak
$172.58Organizing Matters demonstrates the interplay between two distinct logics of labour's collective action: on the one hand, workers coming together, usually at their place of work, entrusting the union to represent their interests and, on the other hand,... -
Self-Employment as Precarious Work: A European Perspective by Wieteke Conen
$189.73Since the 1970s the long term decline in self-employment has slowed - and even reversed in some countries - and the prospect of `being your own boss' is increasingly topical in the discourse of both the general public and within academia. Traditionally,... -
Strike!: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by Jeremy Brecher
RRP: $48.01$32.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638003Author Jeremy BrecherFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
The Guy in the Green Truck: John St. Amand - A Biography by James N. McCrorie
RRP: $32.50$26.81Spotlighting one man's choice to abandon security for chance, this biographical memoir relates the inspiring story of John St. Amand, who left a promising career as a sociologist--along with handsome health and retirement benefits--to take on the... -
Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace by Jonathan D. Karmel
RRP: $48.01$41.41In Dying to Work, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job. Based on heart-wrenching interviews Karmel conducted with injured workers and surviving family... -
Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work by James A. Chamberlain
RRP: $66.90$58.53This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A. Chamberlain argues that paid work and the civic duty to perform it substantially undermines freedom and... -
Women’s Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries by Frances C. Galt
RRP: $137.21$104.39The first book to examine archival material which has not been analysed by other academics, specifically Committee on Equality meeting minutes and ephemera, as well as new oral history interviews conducted by the author with ACTT women activists.About... -
Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor by Kalindi Vora
RRP: $37.72$32.92From call centers, overseas domestic labor, and customer care to human organ selling, gestational surrogacy, and knowledge work, such as software programming, life itself is channeled across the globe from one population to another. In Life Support,... -
Milked: Dairy Farms and the Mexican Workers at the Heart of an American Crisis by Ruth Conniff
RRP: $34.29$23.26A compelling portrayal by the veteran journalist of the lives of farming communities on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border and the surprising connections between them "Conniff brings her skills and insights to a particularly urgent project: moving... -
Free Labor: Workfare and the Contested Language of Neoliberalism by John Krinsky
RRP: $46.31$45.40One of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's proudest accomplishments was his expansion of the Work Experience Program, which uses welfare recipients to do routine work once done by unionized city workers. The fact that WEP workers are denied the... -
Labour, the State, Social Movements and the Challenge of Neo-Liberal Globalisation by Andrew Gamble
RRP: $154.38$109.62With the emergence of neo-liberalism in the 1980s as the dominant domestic and international political-economic orthodoxy, labour as both a social category and political movement tended to be written off or ignored by academics, politicians and... -
Struggle And Mutual Aid: The Age of Worker Solidarity by Nicolas Delalande
RRP: $49.73$32.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635420104Author Nicolas DelalandeFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC -
Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering by Cameron Lynne Macdonald
RRP: $137.22$106.16"Shadow Mothers" shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the 'shadow mothers' they hire. Cameron... -
What a Woman Ought to be and to Do: Black Professional Women Workers During the Jim Crow Era by Stephanie J. Shaw
RRP: $63.47$61.36This work explores the inner world of American Black professional women during the Jim Crow era. It is a story of struggle and empowerment, of the strength of a group of women who worked against daunting odds to improve the world for themselves and their... -
Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago 1880-1930 by Joanne Meyerowitz
RRP: $51.46$50.17Starting with Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Meyerowitz uses turn-of-the-century Chicago as a case study to explore both the image and the reality of single women's experiences as they lived apart from their families. In an era when family all but defined... -
No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers by Andrew Ross
$38.41Are you aware that the T-shirt or running shoes you're wearing may have been produced by a 13-year-old children working 14-hour days for 30 cents an hour? The clothing sweatshop, as a recent string of media exposes has revealed, is back in business... -
Retiring Women: Work and post work transitions by Philip Taylor
$164.00This book considers what work and retirement mean for older women, how each is experienced, and how working fits with other facets of their lives. The authors draw on data collected from women themselves, employers, industry stakeholders and older... -
In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California by Daniel J. O'Connell
RRP: $37.72$32.92A call to action in an ongoing battle against industrial agriculture From the early twentieth century and across generations to the present, In the Struggle brings together the stories of eight politically engaged scholars, documenting their opposition... -
Economic Democracy: The Working Class Alternative to Capitalism by Allan Engler
RRP: $32.50$26.81Identifying capitalism as a system of privately owned corporations, this book envisions an alternative, more equitable form of economic organization within a democracy. Challenging the current system, which centralizes power within a small elite, this... -
A Field in Flux: Sixty Years of Industrial Relations by Robert B. McKersie
RRP: $72.04$62.87A Field in Flux chronicles the extraordinary journey of industrial and labor relations expert Robert McKersie. One of the most important industrial relations scholars and leaders of our time, McKersie pioneered the study of labor negotiations, helping to... -
Rights, Not Interests: Resolving Value Clashes under the National Labor Relations Act by James A. Gross
RRP: $80.62$70.12This provocative book by the leading historian of the National Labor Relations Board offers a reexamination of the NLRB and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by applying internationally accepted human rights principles as standards for judgment... -
Revaluing Work(ers): Toward a Democratic and Sustainable Future by Associate Professor Tobias Schulze-Cleven
$76.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913447222Author Associate Professor Tobias Schulze-ClevenFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Labor and Employment Research AssociationPublisher Labor... -
Improving Air Safety through Organizational Learning: Consequences of a Technology-led Model by Jose Sanchez-Alarcos Ballesteros
RRP: $214.41$185.01The key theme of this book is organizational learning and its consequences for the field of aviation safety. Air safety rates have been improving for a long time, demonstrating the effects of a good learning model at work. However, the pace of... -
The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS by Joe Allen
RRP: $34.29$23.26If the 20th Century was the American Century, it was also UPS's Century. Joe Allen's The Package King tears down the Brown Wall surrounding one of America's most admired companies-United Parcel Service (UPS). The company that we see everyday but know so... -
Low Pay, High Profile: The GLobal Push for Fair Labor by Andrew Ross
RRP: $102.92$96.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565849198Author Andrew RossFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 657g -
Building a Better World: An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada by Stephanie Ross
RRP: $30.79$25.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552667873Author Stephanie RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Fernwood PublishingPublisher Fernwood PublishingWeight(grams) 318g -
Dust and Dignity: Domestic Employment in Contemporary Ecuador by Erynn Masi de Casanova
RRP: $46.30$40.00What makes domestic work a bad job, even after efforts to formalize and improve working conditions? Erynn Masi de Casanova's case study, based partly on collaborative research conducted with Ecuador's pioneer domestic workers' organization, examines... -
Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism by Daniel E. Bender
RRP: $39.43$35.54Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors,... -
Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
RRP: $54.87$36.24For those who want to build a fighting labor movement, there are many questions to answer. How to relate to the union establishment which often does not want to fight? Whether to work in the rank and file of unions or staff jobs? How much to prioritize... -
Work Place Sabotage by Professor Gerald Mars
RRP: $56.59$50.02This title was first published in 2001. The examples cited in this study of sabotage in the working environment range from sophisticated tricks played in Western factories to natural reactions to inferior or unhealthy working practices in, for example,... -
Disability Management and Workplace Integration: International Research Findings by Henry G. Harder
RRP: $92.61$80.40Disability Management is perceived and understood to be an important approach to reducing the negative impact, for workers and the company, of absence due to illness and accidents, and to assisting those with disabilities to enter or re-enter the... -
Redefined Labour Spaces: Organising Workers in Post-Liberalised India by Sobin George
RRP: $231.57$201.86This book discusses the transformation of labour movements and trade unionism in post-liberalised India. It looks at emerging collectivism, both in formal and informal sectors, and relates it to changing political and industrial relations. Bringing...