Trade unions

The 1970s are of particular relevance for understanding the socio-economic changes still shaping Western societies today.

In 1938, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) sent communist union organizer Arthur "e;Slim"e; Evans to the smelter city of Trail, British Columbia, to establish Local 480 of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.

In 1938, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) sent communist union organizer Arthur "e;Slim"e; Evans to the smelter city of Trail, British Columbia, to establish Local 480 of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.

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.

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.

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

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

In 1922, a coal miner strike spread across the United States, swallowing the heavily-unionized mining town of Herrin, Illinois.

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.

Their ancestors may have been cargo in the slave ships that arrived in Charleston, S.

Harold Gibbons (1910-1982), leader of St.

Between the 1880s and 1910s, thousands of African Americans passed civil service exams and became employed in the executive offices of the federal government.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as unproductive citizens.

Between the 1880s and 1910s, thousands of African Americans passed civil service exams and became employed in the executive offices of the federal government.

In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D.

Leo Troy describes and analyzes the changes in the economy and labor markets and the subsequent and continuing changes in unions.

2015 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award - Winner2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award - NominatedThe story of the Bell Canada union drive and the phone operator strike that brought sweeping reform to women's workplace rights.

2015 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award - Winner2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award - NominatedThe story of the Bell Canada union drive and the phone operator strike that brought sweeping reform to women's workplace rights.

When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and Economics, was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's movement.

During global capitalismslong ascent from 16001850, workers of all kindsslaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailorsrepeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects.

In 1847, while in Brussels, the German Communist League asked Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx to draft a pamphlet on the principles of communism.

Lynn Williams remains one of the most influential North American union leaders of the twentieth century.

Lynn Williams remains one of the most influential North American union leaders of the twentieth century.

During the Great Depression, the conflicting interests of capital and labour became clearer than ever before.

During the Great Depression, the conflicting interests of capital and labour became clearer than ever before.

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

Against all odds, the miners of Bienfait, Saskatchewan attempted, in 1931, to change their miserable situation by organizing a union.

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

In this indispensable study of Canadian industrialization, Craig Heron examines the huge steel plants that were built at the turn of the twentieth century in Sydney and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and Trenton, Hamilton, and Sault Ste.

The history of labour in Canada is most often understood to mean – and presented as – the history of blue-collar workers, especially men.

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 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.

In the cities of Northeast Brazil where 50 per cent of the population lives in poverty, children play a key role in the local economy—in their households, in formal jobs, and in the thriving informal sector (washing cars, shining shoes, scavenging for recyclables, etc.

In the cities of Northeast Brazil where 50 per cent of the population lives in poverty, children play a key role in the local economy—in their households, in formal jobs, and in the thriving informal sector (washing cars, shining shoes, scavenging for recyclables, etc.

Workfare: Ideology for a New Under-Class reveals the double standards of Neo-Liberal "e;newspeak.

Have Mulroney, Reagan and Thatcher beaten labour into the ground?

This book explicitly addresses racism in the paid workplace, showing how racism, and by corollary sexism, are systemic to society.

This collection of original essays investigates the social, political, and economic transformations associated with the emergence of the so-called new economy, and their impact on the organization of work within Canada.

In this important book, leading scholar Alex Dupuy provides a critical reinterpretation of the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath.

Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America.

In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes.

In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred U.

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments-and why we can't see itOne in four American workers says their workplace is a "e;dictatorship.

In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes.

Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America.

This book, first published in 1994, explores the impact of work and gender roles on union activism, and identifies factors that support and hinder women's representation in trade unions.

This book, first published in 1994, explores the impact of work and gender roles on union activism, and identifies factors that support and hinder women's representation in trade unions.

The 1898 suppression of white phosphorous in the French match industry was a victory of organized labour.

The 1898 suppression of white phosphorous in the French match industry was a victory of organized labour.

Teachers and Teacher Unions in a Globalised World asks a series of pressing questions of teacher educators, teachers and teacher unions worldwide in this era of global capitalism.