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'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.

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.

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

In the field of 'climate change', no terrain goes uncontested.

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

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

There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization of labour regimes in various disciplines.

This report examines the fundamental link between Mexico's economic performance and migration to the United States, with a particular focus on the post-NAFTA time period.

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.

The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System: A Worker-based Model for Community Investment articulates a new model for economic security based upon steelworkers' pension provisions and labor politics after World War II.

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

Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s by working alongside federal agencies created during the New Deal.

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

Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s by working alongside federal agencies created during the New Deal.

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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.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This book examines the changing fortunes of Australian trade unionism in the past 40 years.

Capitalism is a dynamic system, continually adapting itself to exploit workers in new ways.

Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded the slave trade, and spurred Spains northern European competitors to become Atlantic powers.

Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes.

Labor leader, social justice advocate, Chicano leader, and humanitarian are only some of the multifaceted renderings of Cesar Chavez.

The first major study of how the pandemic affected gig workersa sociological exploration that reads like a novel.

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

Riots and Militant Occupations provides students with theoretical reflections and qualitative case studies on militant contentious political action across a range from across Europe to Nigeria, China and Turkey.

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

This study exposes the human side of the decline of the U.

Focusing or Fragmenting Representation at Work?

Working Hard for the American Dream examines the various economic, social, and political developments that shaped labor history in the United States from World War I until the present day.

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

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.

Decades of neoliberal authoritarianism have propelled Turkey into crisis.

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

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

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.

In No Justice, No Peace David Rapaport uses detail, insights, and anecdotes from over 150 interviews - with picket line captains, local executives, union leadership, journalists, mediators, and union and management negotiators among others - to provide an insider's view of the strike and its political and economic contexts, often told in the strikers' own voices.

From South Africa in the nineteenth century to Hong Kong today, nations around the world, including the United States, have turned to guestworker programs to manage migration.

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 1995, promising a more active political presence for unions, John Sweeney was elected president of the AFL-CIO.

The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living.

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

Wild Socialism examines the rise, development, and decline of revolutionary councils of industrial workers in Berlin at the end of the First World War.

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

This book provides new evidence on teachers unions and their political activities across nations, and offers a foundation for a comparative politics of education.

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.

South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent.

Len McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era.

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

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.