Trade unions

In the 1980s there was a surge of trade union power in South Africa.

In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas.

A history of British trade unions between 1933 and 2000, covering key issues and controversies.

Collective bargaining in the public schools of the nation has its legal roots in the industrial labor model fashioned in the 1930s out of labor strife between union organizers and private businesses.

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Through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, employers and powerful individuals deployed a variety of tactics to control ordinary people as they sought to secure power in and out of workplaces.

Many of America's greatest artists, scientists, investors, educators, and entrepreneurs have come from abroad.

Global capitalism is a precarious system.

This is the first fully annotated edition of Social Problems (1883) and The Condition of Labor (1891), two important works by one of America's most popular social economists.

Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal.

From 1965 to 2005, the United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO) defied the Souths conservative anti-union efforts to become the largest local in Louisiana.

This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.

South Africa came late to television; when it finally arrived in the late 1970s the rest of the world had already begun to boycott the country because of apartheid.

A commonplace assumption about American workers is that they lack class consciousness.

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

The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) encompassed the largest sustained surge of worker organization in American history.

A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes in British history.

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In the fall of 1999, the World Trade Organization (WTO) prepared to hold its biennial Ministerial Conference in Seattle.

Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activists challenged the politics of civility traditionally embraced by old-guard leaders in favor of a more forceful protest strategy.

Higher education has long been contested terrain.

After a generation of retreat and decline, the trade unions are once more starting to command the public agenda and become a major force in political and social life in the UK.

This book has been written by an academician who provided the concept, articulated the changed dynamics in the global arena in trade unionism and has been delineated by a professional who had keenly observed a new situation which has compelled management to seek the cooperation of trade union functionaries; paving the way for a mutual benefit instead of the old paradigm of commensal context prevailing before this win-win situation.

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.

A groundbreaking account of how the welfare state began with early nineteenth-century child labor laws, and how middle-class and elite reformers made it happenThe beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement and to policymakers' efforts to appeal to working-class voters.

In the fall of 1999, the World Trade Organization (WTO) prepared to hold its biennial Ministerial Conference in Seattle.

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This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail.

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

How a distinctive approach to social policy led democracy to flourish in the Federal Republic of Germany despite its past.

Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant.

Organized labor is about the collective efforts of employees to improve their economic, social, and political position.

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

On the 50th anniversary of In Place of Strife, this scholarly study makes extensive use of previously unpublished archival and other primary sources to explain why Harold Wilson and Barbara Castle embarked on legislation to regulate the trade unions and curb strikes, and why this aroused such strong opposition, not just from the unions, but within the Cabinet and among backbench Labour MPs.

This book examines the life and work of a remarkable trade unionist and revolutionary.

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

This study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country.

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.

A case study of the largest industrial concentration in Latin America, this work shows how the unique situation of auto workers led them to articulate demands relevant for the whole working class.

With the introduction of new production methods and technological innovation, tradesmen and workers encountered new challenges.

Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale.

Complex and closely watched, the U.

In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas.

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.

The emergence of a 'new' democratic South Africa under Nelson Mandela was regarded as a high watermark for international ideals of human rights and democracy.

During World War I, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) rose to prominence as an effective, militant union and then was destroyed by a devastating campaign of repression launched by the federal government.

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

This book explains the decline in trade union participation, looking at both macro and micro levels.