Trade unions

The creation of European Works Councils is arguably the most important measure taken in global industrial relations in recent years.

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.

China's economic success has been founded partly on relatively cheap labour, especially in the export industries.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as unproductive citizens.

Harold Gibbons (1910-1982), leader of St.

In 1922, a coal miner strike spread across the United States, swallowing the heavily-unionized mining town of Herrin, Illinois.

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.

White-Collar Proletariat (1980) explores the major changes in the industrial and political behaviour of British civil servants in the 1970s.

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

This collection draws on international comparisons from the main industrialized countries in a key field - the construction industry.

The story of the last generation of British miners: fathers and sons, brothers and comrades, big hitters and broken men, strikers and scabs.

La educación es un arma, un pueblo educado es un pueblo capaz de elegir su propio rumbo.

On August 3, 1981, over 12,000 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association (PATCO) walked off their jobs, striking for higher pay, shorter hours, and increased benefits.

The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political history.

The reasons behind Detroit's persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "e;arsenal of democracy,"e; Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis.

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.

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

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.

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.

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