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State Corporatism and Proto-Industry
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 76.00This book illustrates how social institutions affected the economic development of rural communities. more...
Men at Work
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 42.00A study of the impact of the building trade on the northern economy before the industrial revolution. more...
Au fil des ans
Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa 2000; US$ 10.99L?Union catholiques des fermières de la province d?Ontario, connue aujourd?hui sous le nom de l?Union culturelle des Franco-Ontariennes, est, depuis soixante ans, très active dans les milieux francophones ontariens. Dans cet ouvrage, Estelle Huneault a étudié un domaine peu exploré concernant les circonstances qui ont amené les femmes rurales franco-ontariennes... more...
Sweatshops at Sea
The University of North Carolina Press 2011; US$ 34.95As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world's first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders. In Sweatshops at Sea , historian Leon Fink examines the evolution of laws and labor relations... more...
Women of the Coal Rushes
University of New South Wales Press 2010; US$ 34.95A touching and inspiring narrative, this history chronicles the vital role played by women in the coal mining industry in central and southeastern Queensland, Australia. From the early days when wives supported their coal mining husbands through the women's auxiliaries to the fight for better working conditions and the recent move out of the home... more...
Fishers At Work, Workers At Sea
Temple University Press 2011; US$ 27.95Small-scale fishing, a house-hold based enterprise in Puerto Rico, rarely provides sufficient income for a family, but it anchors their culture and sense of themselves within that culture. Even when family members must engage in wage work to supplement house-hold income, they think of themselves as fishers. Liche typifies these wage workers: "When... more...
Striking a Light
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 130.00This is the story of one of the most important strikes in labour history revealing the significance and truth of what actually happened. In July 1888, fourteen hundred women and girls employed by the matchmakers Bryant and May walked out of their East End factory and into the history books. Louise Raw gives us a challenging new interpretation of events... more...
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2010; US$ 11.65Strap yourself in for an exhilarating, crazed, sometimes terrifying, frequently bloody funny ride through one man's adventures in the oil trade. A take no prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far) to tell... more...
Hack
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 18.00Cabdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. And, undoubtedly, taxi drivers have stories to tell—of farcical local politics, of colorful passengers, of changing neighborhoods and... more...
Tobacco Capitalism
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 27.95Tobacco Capitalism tells the story of the people who live and work on U.S. tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco industry is undergoing profound changes. Against the backdrop of the antitobacco movement, the globalization and industrialization of agriculture, and intense debates over immigration, Peter Benson draws on years of field research... more...









