Trade unions

The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the countrys imagination.

From the dock workers of Saint John in 1812 to teenage "e;crews"e; at McDonald's today, Canada's trade union movement has a long, exciting history.

Men who do "e;women's work"e; have consistently been the butt of jokes, derided for their lack of drive and masculinity.

Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions.

This new edition examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the 'democratic project' which increasingly dominates the fields of comparative development and international relations.

In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States.

Processes of neoliberal globalization have put national trade unions under pressure as the transnational organization of production puts these labour movements in competition with each other.

Deborah Levenson-Estrada provides the first comprehensive analysis of how urban labor unions took shape in Guatemala under conditions of state terrorism.

Cultural warfare and trust: fighting the Mafia in Palermo concentrates on a central issue in research on democratic processes: the development of generalised trust.

Challenging prevailing theories of development and labor, Gay Seidman's controversial study explores how highly politicized labor movements could arise simultaneously in Brazil and South Africa, two starkly different societies.

The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species.

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In this groundbreaking study of organic farming, Julie Guthman challenges accepted wisdom about organic food and agriculture in the Golden State.

Militant Minority tells the compelling story of British Columbia workers who sustained a left tradition during the bleakest days of the Cold War.

The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the countrys imagination.

How do women choose between work and family commitments?

A contemporary classic in Peru, where it was first published in 1986, this book explores changes in the political identity and economic strategies of the Peruvian working class in the 1970s and 1980s.

Higher education has long been contested terrain.

Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products.

For eight days in March 1970, over 200,000 postal workers staged an illegal "e;wildcat"e; strike - the largest in United States history - for better wages and working conditions.

The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the countrys imagination.

From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes.

From the late eighteenth century, the hinterlands of Northern Luzon and its Indigenous people were in the crosshairs of imperial and capitalist extraction.

The story of the last generation of British miners: fathers and sons, brothers and comrades, big hitters and broken men, strikers and scabs.

The book is for non-lawyers, lawyers and foreign audiences with an interest in the American labor and discrimination system.

In einer Welt, die von technologischen Innovationen, demografischen Veränderungen und globaler Vernetzung geprägt ist, wird der Fachkräftemangel oft als eines der drängendsten Probleme unserer Zeit dargestellt.

US Labor in Trouble and Transition tells the story of union decline in America and of the split in the labor movement it led to, following the dismal tale of union mergers and management partnerships that accompanied the retreat from militancy since the 1980s.

In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art - as a passion for self-expression and an activity done out of love, without any concern for its financial aspects - and instead builds a case for understanding art as a form of invisible labour.

By examining the history of the legal regulation of union actions, this fascinating book offers a new interpretation of American labor-law policy-and its harmful impact on workers today.

En collaboration avec Hélène Bois, Jean-Paul Rouleau, Gilles Routhier et Jean SextonLes combats de Gérard Dion pour la démocratisation de notre société et la modernisation du Québec feront de ce pionnier des relations du travail l’un des grands artisans de la Révolution tranquille : à preuve, son engagement en faveur de la déconfessionalisation de la CTCC (future CSN), de la réforme de notre système scolaire, de l’obtention du Code du travail en 1964, du droit de grève dans le secteur public et de la défense des intérêts du Québec.

A life touched by tragedy and deprivation--childhood in her native Ireland ending with the potato famine, immigration to Canada and then to the United States, marriage followed by the deaths of her husband and four children from yellow fever, and the destruction of her dressmaking business in the great Chicago fire of 1871--forged the stalwart labor organizer Mary Harris "e;Mother"e; Jones into a force to be reckoned with.

One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "e;reform and openness"e; will lead to political liberalization.

'A breath of fresh air' - Norman FinklesteinWorkers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world.

Closing Sysco presents a history of deindustrialization and working-class resistance in the Cape Breton steel industry between 1945 and 2001.

Assembled in Japan investigates one of the great success stories of the twentieth century: the rise of the Japanese electronics industry.

This book explores the representation of women and their interests in the world of work across four trade unions in France and the UK.

Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States.

The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions-thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative introductions, and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages-and adds significant new materials, especially on the Byzantine and Islamic worlds and the Mediterranean region.

The book builds an innovative theoretical framework, through which previously neglected international factors are brought into the analysis of transitions to democracy.

In 1950, Mexican American miners went on strike for fair working conditions in Hanover, New Mexico.

One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "e;reform and openness"e; will lead to political liberalization.

Cultural warfare and trust: fighting the Mafia in Palermo concentrates on a central issue in research on democratic processes: the development of generalised trust.