Trade unions

In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes.

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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.

In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes.

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.

The curbing of trade union power is often seen as one of the major achievements of Margaret Thatcher's premiership.

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

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

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

This book argues that, collectively, unions can help shape how the rules governing the global economy are made.

This book argues that, collectively, unions can help shape how the rules governing the global economy are made.

A leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements shares stories from the front lines to help us organize our own workplaces and ';better understand the aims and goals for a resurgent trade union movement and how workers all over the country can join in solidarity with it' (Senator Bernie Sanders).

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

How a distinctive approach to social policy led democracy to flourish in the Federal Republic of Germany despite its past.

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

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

Labor law scholar William B.

Labor law scholar William B.

Unionism in the United States was quite successful during and after World War II, especially during the golden years of American capitalism (1947-73) as workers' wages increased quite dramatically in a number of industries.

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).

The emergence of a 'new' democratic South Africa under Nelson Mandela was regarded as a high watermark for international ideals of human rights and democracy.

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

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.

Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century.

The Confederation Paysanne, one of France's largest farmers' unions, has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers rather than consumers.

This classic study of the American working class, originally published in 1973, is now back in print with a new introduction and epilogue by the author.

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.

Tested, practical ideas to meet current and future skilling needs of both workers and employersThe labor market in the United States faces seemingly contradictory challenges: Many employers have trouble finding qualified applicants for current and future jobs, while millions of Americans are out of work or are underemployed-their paths to living-wage jobs blocked by systemic barriers or lack of adequate skills.

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.

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

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.

Organized labor is about the collective efforts of employees to improve their economic, social, and political position.

Focusing or Fragmenting Representation at Work?

As the European Community moves toward full integration of its members' economies, one of the most far-reaching changes will be in the European labor market.

How does one write a labour history of a people who have not been involved in the labour movement in significant numbers and, historically, have opposed union membership?

From the dock workers of Saint John in 1812 to teenage "e;crews"e; at McDonald's today, Canada's trade union movement has a long, exciting history.

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.

The Jonathan Presidency provides a comprehensive and unique analysis of Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan's first twelve months in office.

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

Cornucopia explores the health and economic implications of U.

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.