Trade unions

In the blizzard of attention around the virtues of local food production, food writers and activists place environmental protection, animal welfare, and saving small farms at the forefront of their attention.

Henry George (1839-1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth century.

This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor.

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

Drawing on extensive interviews, Hartshorn explains how labor became a revolutionary topic prior to the Arab Uprisings of 2010–2011.

Ask people whether teachers unions are good or bad for education and you are likely to receive a wide variety of opinions.

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.

Geoffrey Bell's Hesitant Comrades is the first published history of the policies, actions and attitudes of the British working class towards the Irish national revolution of 1916-21.

Cultural warfare and trust: fighting the Mafia in Palermo concentrates on a central issue in research on democratic processes: the development of generalised trust.

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

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 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.

Many of the rules that govern labor markets in Latin America (and elsewhere) raise labor costs, create barriers to entry, and introduce rigidities in the employment structure.

Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning.

Here is an extensive and highly original inquiry into the origins, dynamics, and internal order of the modern metropolis.

This is a broad assessment of the institutional health of the 28 major national unions in the United States.

Cultural warfare and trust: fighting the Mafia in Palermo concentrates on a central issue in research on democratic processes: the development of generalised trust.

Critical and iconoclastic, Comrade or Brother?

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

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

From the time of Booker T.

The neoliberal transformation of welfare state institutions has intensified social inequalities, raising questions of social justice across European varieties of capitalism.

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

In large corporations in Japan, much of the clerical work is carried out by young women known as "e;office ladies"e; (OLs) or "e;flowers of the workplace.

Robert J.

This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the 'global justice movement'.

Cesar Chavez, the labor organizer and founder of the United Farm Workers of America, was, perhaps, an unlikely hero.

The site of industrial struggle is shifting.

A life touched by tragedy and deprivation--childhood in her native Ireland ending with the potato famine, immigration to Canada and then to the United States, marriage followed by the deaths of her husband and four children from yellow fever, and the destruction of her dressmaking business in the great Chicago fire of 1871--forged the stalwart labor organizer Mary Harris "e;Mother"e; Jones into a force to be reckoned with.

The New Deal Collective Bargaining Policy offers a meticulously detailed exploration of the transformative labor policies that emerged during the early years of Franklin D.

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.

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.

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

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

Since China's announcement of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, commentary on China's activity across Eurasia and beyond has proliferated.

Organise or Die?

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.

In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D.

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.

Exploring a new agenda to improve outcomes for American workersAs the United States continues to struggle with the impact of the devastating COVID-19 recession, policymakers have an opportunity to redress the competition problems in our labor markets.

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.

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?

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.

This book looks at the success of attempts to expand the boundaries of the postwar welfare state in The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

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

With growing international competition, American firms have been gaced with increasing pressures to produce better products, cut costs, and improve efficiency.

In a world increasingly run by algorithms and artificial intelligence, Hatim Rahman traces how organizations are using algorithms to control workersin an ';invisible cage.

The Midwest experienced an upheaval over labor rights beginning in the winter of 2011.

Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO's global anticommunist crusade-and its devastating consequences for workers around the world.