Trade unions

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.

Award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks has explored the U.

In this gripping ethnography, Jeffrey J.

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.

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 "e;shadow mothers"e; they hire.

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

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.

This concise overview of the labor movement in the United States focuses on why American workers have failed to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries.

From the time of Booker T.

How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's economy seems to demand.

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

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In his 1999 book, Disposable People, Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished (legal slavery would have to wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Japan embarked on a mission to modernize its society and industry.

In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention.

"e;I got my first job working in a toy store when I was 41 years old.

This highly accessible, engagingly written book exposes the underbelly of California's Silicon Valley, the most successful high-technology region in the world, in a vivid ethnographic study of Mexican immigrants employed in Silicon Valley's low-wage jobs.

This eloquent, streetwise book is a paean to America's Rust Belt and a compelling exploration of four milieus caught up in a great transformation of city life.

In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles.

Although slavery is illegal throughout the world, we learned from Kevin Bales's highly praised expose, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, that more than twenty-seven million people-in countries from Pakistan to Thailand to the United States--are still trapped in bondage.

Most of us have sat across the tray from a waitress, but how many of us know what really is going on from her side?

The only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.

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

An ambitious new work by a well-respected sociologist, Information and Organizations provides a bold perspective of the dynamics of organizations.

Based on official Chinese sources as well as intensive interviews with Hong Kong residents formerly employed in mainland factories, Andrew Walder's neo-traditional image of communist society in China will be of interest not only to those concerned with China and other communist countries, but also to students of industrial relations and comparative social science.

How do women choose between work and family commitments?

While it is often acknowledged that we live in a "e;postindustrial"e; age, our economic concepts have lagged far behind our postmodern sensibility.

Delving beneath Southern California's popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles's large working class.

In this groundbreaking volume, one of Japan's most insightful contemporary labor analysts assesses the ?

This book analyzes the ways that workers are educated,"e; via a variety of institutions, to fit into the contemporary labour-unfriendly economic system.

In this groundbreaking volume, one of Japan's most insightful contemporary labor analysts assesses the ?

This book analyzes the ways that workers are educated,"e; via a variety of institutions, to fit into the contemporary labour-unfriendly economic system.

Originally published in 1995, this book explores a number of subjects of significance for labor and economic policy, especially the role of U.

Originally published in 1995, this book explores a number of subjects of significance for labor and economic policy, especially the role of U.

First published in 1999 , this book discusses trade unionism in Britain from 1964 to 1979.

First published in 1999 , this book discusses trade unionism in Britain from 1964 to 1979.

First published in 1999, this volume describes the political climate and state of trade unions after the second world war in Britain.

First published in 1999, this volume describes the political climate and state of trade unions after the second world war in Britain.

First published in 1984.

First published in 1984.

First published in 1987.

First published in 1987.

First published in 1987.

First published in 1987.

First published in 1960.

First published in 1960.

Investigating the wave of unionization that has seen over 60 digital and legacy media outlets unionize since 2015, this book explores how a flash of organizing by digital-first journalists has become a full-blown movement to unionize journalism, particularly in the United States.

Investigating the wave of unionization that has seen over 60 digital and legacy media outlets unionize since 2015, this book explores how a flash of organizing by digital-first journalists has become a full-blown movement to unionize journalism, particularly in the United States.

First published in 1938.

First published in 1938.