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Women, Work and the Family in Europe
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Eileen Drew |
22 May 2013 |
$30.95 |
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Rethinking Industrial Relations
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John Kelly |
21 May 2013 |
$36.95 |
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The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
A "vivid, well-documented account of the farmworkers movement"(Philadelphia Inquirer) and its prime mover, Cesar Chavez. Edited by Diana Hembree with a foreword by Gary Soto and essays by Carey McWilliams, Victor Villaseñor, Alfredo Véa, Jr., Peter Matthiessen, ...more |
Susan Ferriss &
Ricardo Sandoval |
21 May 2013 |
$18.99 |
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Women at the Gates
In the annals of Industrialization, the Soviet experience is unique in its whirlwind rapidity. Even more striking was the critical role of women: in no country of the world did women come to constitute such a significant part of the working class in so ...more |
Wendy Z. Goldman |
20 May 2013 |
$27.00 |
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Teleworking
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Paul J. Jackson |
20 May 2013 |
$77.95 |
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Part-Time Prospects
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Jacqueline O'Reilly |
19 May 2013 |
$36.95 |
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Weavers of Dreams, Unite! Actors' Unionism in Early Twentieth-Century America
The unique history of unionization in the American theater ...more |
Sean P. Holmes |
19 May 2013 |
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Feminism, Femininity and the Politics of Working Women: The Women's Co-Operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War
This text discusses the development of the Women's Co-operative Guild from the 1880s to World War II. Charting the rise and fall of a feminist organization, the author assesses its political significance and examines the causes of its demise. ...more |
Gillian Scott |
19 May 2013 |
$120.00 |
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Policy Simulations in the European Union
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Amedeo Fossati |
19 May 2013 |
$130.00 |
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Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union
"Gender in Translation" is the first full-length study of the feminist issues surrounding translation studies. In this unprecedented and thought-provoking work, Sherry Simon argues that feminist theory challenges the traditional view of authority in translation, ...more |
Teresa Rees |
18 May 2013 |
$69.95 |
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The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace
State workers in China have until recently enjoyed the 'iron rice bowl' of comprehensive cradle-to-grave benefits and lifetime employment. This central institution in Chinese politics emerged over the course of various crises that swept through China's ...more |
Mark W. Frazier |
18 May 2013 |
$38.00 |
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Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America
Why do labor unions resist economic restructuring and adjustment policies in some countries and in some economic sectors while they submit in other cases? And why do some labor leaders fashion more creative and effective roles for labor unions? This book ...more |
Maria Victoria Murillo |
13 May 2013 |
$27.00 |
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Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico, 1897-1921
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Kirwin R. Shaffer |
13 May 2013 |
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Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland: Changing Social Landscapes in Middle America
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Linda Allegro |
13 May 2013 |
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European Union - European Industrial Relations?
This book explores the prospects for the emergence of a distinctly European pattern in industrial relations, in which European-level organisations representing employers and trade unions gain in importance. ...more |
Wolfgang Lecher |
12 May 2013 |
$95.00 |
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Internal Labour Markets in Japan
Japanese labour market practices have attracted considerable attention in the West for two reasons. Firstly, innovative human resource management (HRM) is responsible for the development of competitive industrial sectors. Secondly, inner flexibility of ...more |
Kenn Ariga &
Giorgio Brunello &
Yasushi Ohkusa |
3 May 2013 |
$29.00 |
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Changing Forms of Employment: Organizations, Skills and Gender
Changing Forms of Employment examines the widespread evidence of change in specific aspects of employing organizations, employment and employment related institutions. ...more |
Rosemary Crompton |
3 May 2013 |
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Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise
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Ugo Pagano |
3 May 2013 |
$110.00 |
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At the End of the Shift: Mines and Single-Industry Towns in Northern Ontario
This book explores the relationship between mining and the communities it creates. ...more |
Matt Bray |
1 May 2013 |
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Women and Industrialization in Asia
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Susan Horton |
30 Apr 2013 |
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The Coal Question: Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
The coal industry has always occupied a symbolic place in British economic and political life, inspiring debates and arousing passions throughout the last two centuries. This account of the economics of coal, first published in 1990, is unique in its |
Ben Fine |
29 Apr 2013 |
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Work and Pay in Japan
This book provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese labour market institutions and practices with respect to employment issues and labour payments. It contains extensive discussion of the effects of industrial relations, small business activity, business ...more |
Robert A. Hart &
Seiichi Kawasaki |
29 Apr 2013 |
$37.00 |
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Japanese Women Working
Japanese Women Working provides a wide range of perspectives on the study of working women in Japan in the twentieth century. The contributors--including historians, economists, anthropologists and management specialists from both Japan and the |
Janet Hunter |
28 Apr 2013 |
$64.95 |
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Pure and Simple Politics
Scholarship on American labor politics has been dominated by the view that the American Federation of Labor, the dominant labor organization, rejected political action in favor of economic strategies. Based upon extensive research into labor and political ...more |
Julie Greene |
27 Apr 2013 |
$50.00 |
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Migration and the International Labor Market 1850-1939
Although much has been written on the historical role of immigration, it has largely focused on social rather than economic history. "Migration and the International Labour Market 1850-1939" concentrates on the two central aspects of international migration--the ...more |
Tim Hatton |
26 Apr 2013 |
$70.00 |
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Women, Work And Sexual Politics In Eighteenth-Century England
A reassessment of women's experience of work in 18th-century England, and the effects it had on industrialization and other economic, social and technological changes. It also examines how this influenced marriage and relations between the sexes. ...more |
Bridget Hill |
25 Apr 2013 |
$43.95 |
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Postindustrial Possibilities: A Critique of Economic Discourse
While it is often acknowledged that we live in a "postindustrial" age, our economic concepts have lagged far behind our postmodern sensibility. In this incisive new work, the well-known sociologist, Fred Block, sheds obsolete and shopworn economic analysis ...more |
Fred Block |
17 Apr 2013 |
$27.95 |
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Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers
A commonplace assumption about American workers is that they lack class consciousness. This perception has baffled social scientists, demoralized activists, and generated a significant literature on American exceptionalism. In this provocative book, a ...more |
Rick Fantasia |
16 Apr 2013 |
$31.95 |
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Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry
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 ...more |
Andrew G. Walder |
15 Apr 2013 |
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Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career and Motherhood
How do women choose between work and family commitments? And what are the causes, limits, and consequences of the "subtle revolution" in women's choices over the 1960s and 1970s? To answer these questions, Kathleen Gerson analyzes the experiences of a ...more |
Kathleen Gerson |
13 Apr 2013 |
$29.95 |
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Palomino: Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest
The lifework of a trailblazer in American civil liberties history ...more |
James J. Lorence |
11 Apr 2013 |
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The Labour Revolution (Routledge Revivals)
First published in English in 1924 this ambitious work, by the famous Marxist theoretician Karl Kautsky, aims to provide nothing less than an "exposition of the methods to introduce socialism" amongst the capitalist economies of Europe in the post-World ...more |
Karl Kautsky |
7 Apr 2013 |
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Collapse of Dignity: The Story of a Mining Tragedy and the Fight Against Greed and Corruption in Mexico
In the early morning hours of February 19, 2006, a sudden blast shook a coal mine in northern Mexico, trapping sixty-five workers in a subterranean tunnel. Napoleón Gómez, head of the fiercely independent union that represented the workers, was appalled ...more |
Napoleon Gomez |
31 Mar 2013 |
$26.95 |
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California NORML Guide to Drug Testing
California NORML Guide to Drug Testing is an authorative guide to dealing with drug testing for marijuana. ...more |
Dale Gieringer PhD |
31 Mar 2013 |
$9.99 |
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The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market: The Role of Employment Discrimination Policies
The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market provides historical background on employment discrimination and wage discrepancies in the United States and on government efforts to address employment discrimination ...more |
June E. O'Neill &
Dave M. O'Neill |
18 Mar 2013 |
$69.99 |
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Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation
One of the most remarkable aspects of South Korea's transition from impoverished post-colonial nation to fully-fledged industrialized democracy has been the growth of its independent and dynamic labour movement. Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation |
Kevin Gray |
11 Mar 2013 |
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Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), commonly known as the Wobblies, were among the most well-respected and largest unions in the United States in the early 20th century. Having organized the first major automobile industry strike as well as major |
Joyce L. Kornbluh |
8 Mar 2013 |
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Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860
Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices, indentured servants, slaves, and hired workers. This book examines ...more |
Max Grivno |
28 Feb 2013 |
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Unions For Beginners
It is a time when unions have returned to the front pages of newspapers and blogs and demonstrators are in the streets of America every day. It is a time when the right wing has tried to strike the final blow against what remains of the right to collective ...more |
David Cogswell |
9 Feb 2013 |
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Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction
In this sweeping interpretive history of mid-nineteenth-century Chicago, historians John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov boldly trace the evolution of a modern social order. Combining a mastery of historical and political detail with a sophisticated theoretical ...more |
John B. Jentz &
Richard Schneirov |
26 Jan 2013 |
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The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age
Rosanne Currarino traces the struggle to define the nature of democratic life in an era of industrial strife. As Americans confronted the glaring disparity between democracy's promises of independence and prosperity and the grim realities of economic want ...more |
Rosanne Currarino |
25 Jan 2013 |
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Work, Female Empowerment and Economic Development
This book discusses how to alleviate poverty in Africa, identifying the constraints under which women operate and policies that will aid growth and empower women, recognizing the importance of bargaining parameters and the role of assets. ...more |
Sara Horrell |
29 Dec 2012 |
$160.00 |
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The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24: Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite
This book examines the relationship between the Russian Communist Party and working class in the years after the revolution and civil war. It shows that the working class was politically expropriated by the Bolshevik party, as democratic bodies such as ...more |
Simon Pirani |
29 Dec 2012 |
$39.95 |
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Detroit's Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism
Detroit's Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism locates the roots of American conservatism in a city that was a nexus of labor and industry in postwar America. Drawing on meticulous archival research focusing on Detroit, Colleen Doody shows how ...more |
Colleen Doody |
15 Dec 2012 |
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Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation
After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global economy. Its immense labour force accounts for some twenty-nine per cent of the world's total labour pool but all too |
Ching Kwan Lee |
12 Dec 2012 |
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Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics
In this innovative grassroots to global study, Kathleen Mapes explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest through the introduction of large factories, contract farming, and foreign migrant labor. Sweet Tyranny calls into question ...more |
Kathleen Mapes |
10 Dec 2012 |
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NAFTA and Labor in North America
As companies increasingly look to the global market for capital, cheaper commodities and labor, and lower production costs, the impact on Mexican and American workers and labor unions is significant. National boundaries and the laws of governments that ...more |
Norman Caulfield |
9 Dec 2012 |
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A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights
A. Philip Randolph's career as a trade unionist and civil rights activist fundamentally shaped the course of black protest in the mid-twentieth century. Standing alongside W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and others at the center of the cultural renaissance ...more |
Cornelius L. Bynum |
9 Dec 2012 |
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Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the Brass Valley
Providing incisive commentary on the historical and contemporary American working class experience, Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the Brass Valley documents a community's efforts to rebuild and revitalize itself in the aftermath of deindustrialization. ...more |
Jeremy Brecher |
9 Dec 2012 |
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The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor's Southern Prophets in New Deal America
In this exceptional dual biography and cultural history, Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll trace the influence of two southern activist preachers, one black and one white, who used their ministry to organize the working class in the 1930s and 1940s across ...more |
Erik S. Gellman &
Jarod Roll |
9 Dec 2012 |
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