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The Battle of Blair Mountain
Basic Books 2006; US$ 16.95This long-neglected slice of American history is a saga of the conflicting political, economic, and cultural forces that shaped the power structure of twentieth-century America. more...
Collision Course
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 21.99In August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiveness and hostility to organized labor. As Joseph A. McCartin writes, the strike was the culmination of two decades of escalating conflict between controllers... more...
Colours of Money, Shades of Pride
Hong Kong University Press 2003; US$ 48.00In June 1986, a Japanese watch factory in Hong Kong tried to fire 36 of its women workers. This provoked an unprecedented sit-in by 300 of the women employed at the plant. The sit-in lasted for 13 days and accounted for over half the days lost to labour unrest that year. more...
Contesting the New South Order
The University of North Carolina Press 2001; US$ 28.95In May 1914, workers walked off their jobs at Atlanta's Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, launching a lengthy strike that was at the heart of the American Federation of Labor's first major attempt to organize southern workers in over a decade. In its celebrity, the Fulton Mills strike was the regional contemporary of the well-known industrial conflicts... more...
De macht van de statistiek
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 28.75De macht van de statistiek (1892?1899) is een ?koppige? geschiedenis van de Centrale Commissie voor de Statistiek, de voorgangster van het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. Het is een collectief portret van de leden van de eerste commissie in 1892. Het waren wetenschappers, directeuren van onderwijs-, onderzoeks- en zorginstellingen, hoge ambtenaren,... more...
Differentielles Management
Springer 2012; US$ 69.99Differentielles Management/Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Dieter Wagner more...
The Great Industrial War
Rutgers University Press 2009; US$ 23.95The Great Industrial War , a comprehensive assessment of how class has been interpreted by the media in American history, documents the rise and fall of a frightening concept: industrial war. Troy Rondinone examines how the mainstream press along with the writings of a select group of influential reformers and politicians framed strike news,... more...
Implications of the Global Financial Crisis for Financial Reform and Regulation in Asia
Edward Elgar Publishing 2012; US$ 40.00In light of the experience of the global financial crisis, this book develops concrete recommendations for financial sector reform and regulation in Asian economies aimed at preventing the recurrence of systemic financial crises, improving the ability to manage and resolve crises, managing capital flows and promoting the development of Asian bond markets.... more...
Industrial Conflict in Britain
Taylor and Francis 1977; US$ 90.00Work stoppages - the British experience: strikes, H.A. Clegg; work stoppages in the United Kingdom 1951-1964 - a quantitative study, P. Galambos and E.W. Evans; strikes in the United Kingdom - recent statistics and trends, J.F.B. Goodman; strikes and the economy, T.G. Whittingham and B. Towers; recent British strike trends - a factual analysis, M.... more...









