Trade unions

Why are unions weaker in the US than they are in Canada, despite the countries'' many similarities?

This book examines the contribution of different Christian traditions to the waves of democratisation that have swept various parts of the world in recent decades.

This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption.

There is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State.

Putting Ireland on trial, Jim Larkin's verdict was damning and resolute.

This first comparative-historical analysis of the regulations that restrict the managerial capacity to dismiss employees and use temporary forms of employment addresses four puzzles that have long troubled the comparative political economy literature.

1918 steht die Schweiz am Rande eines Abgrunds.

';Dalla Costa shows that with the New Deal, the state began to plan the ';social factory'that is, the home, the family, the school, and above all women's labor, on which the productivity and pacification of industrial relations was made to rest.

In 2009, cabin crew in the BASSA union embarked on a historic, two-year battle against British Airways which was seeking to impose reduced crew levels and to transform working conditions.

'Early in my research, a friend with excellent knowledge of the United Auto Workers internal operations told me, "e;Don't give up.

Between 1977 and 1997, there was a precipitous decline in the proportion of US workers with median education (12 years or less) who were represented by a labor union-from 29 to 14 percent; the unionization proportion declined much less among workers with above-median education (19 to 13 percent).

Global capitalism is a precarious system.

'Jane Holgate is a brilliant thinker' - Jane McAleveyIn Arise, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order to regain influence and confront capital.

Len tells his story as only he can: forthright, confident and witty.

Higher education is the site of an ongoing conflict.

From Cuba to Vietnam, from China to South Africa, the October Revolution inspired millions of people beyond the territory of Russia.

'Work hard, have fun, make history' proclaims the slogan on the walls of Amazon's warehouses.

Die Rolle der Gewerkschaften im Prozess der deutschen Einheit und der Transformationsphase ab 1990 ist von der zeithistorischen Forschung bislang stark vernachlässigt worden.

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

The booming coal industry of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the main reason behind the creation of modern south Wales and its miners were central to shaping the economics, politics and society of south Wales during the twentieth century.

The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other.

The first attempt since the 1980s to analyse the British state's capacity to block change and derail social movements.

Bob Crow was the most high-profile and militant union leader of his generation.

Bob Crow was the most high-profile and militant union leader of his generation.

Bob Crow was the most high-profile and militant union leader of his generation.

With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions?

The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital.

*Winner of the New York Times Book Covers of the Year, 2017* 'Workers of the world, Unite!

Recalling the JeffBoat incident of 2001, A Serf's Journal is Terry Tapp's formidable first-hand account of American workers as they fight a multinational company and their corrupt union to stage the longest wildcat strike in US history.

The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required.

The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required.

In 1995, in the first contested election in the history of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presidency of the nation's largest labor federation, promising renewal and resurgence.

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.

Aunque muchas veces estén expuestos a la hostilidad y la desconfianza públicas, y debilitados por las transformaciones económicas de las últimas décadas, los sindicatos argentinos siguen siendo llamativamente fuertes: mantienen su capacidad de movilización y presión política y, sobre todo, son un espacio genuino de militancia y contención para muchos trabajadores.

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

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

This book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "e;Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement,"e; held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union.

Con un lenguaje llano con pocos tecnicismos, esta obra trabaja sobre los diferentes institutos regulados por los convenios colectivos del rubro hotelero-gastronómico, que se comentan a lo largo de la obra.

Originally published in 1993, An Agenda for Britain offers a radical vision for the future of Britain and the Labour Party.

Un magnífico libro inscrito en los debates sobre el papel de los sindicatos en la democratización política que contribuye a una mejor comprensión del tema en América Latina.

In this short and accessible book, Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite the Union, presents the case for joining a trade union.

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.

A riveting account of labors bottom-up resurgence, providing a roadmap for workers, unions, and social movements to win widely.

A riveting account of labors bottom-up resurgence, providing a roadmap for workers, unions, and social movements to win widely.