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Taxation, Wage Bargaining, and Unemployment
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 30.00This book explains cross-national and temporal changes in employment outcomes. more...
The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor
Haymarket Books 2011; US$ 17.00Longtime trade union leader and journalist Steve Early examines labor's civil wars, offering strategies for turning back labor's thirty-year decline. more...
Anthropology of Labor Unions
University Press of Colorado 2011; US$ 17.95The Anthropology of Labor Unions presents ethnographic data and analysis in eight case studies from several very diverse industries. It covers a wide range of topics, from the role of women and community in strikes to the importance of place in organization, and addresses global concerns with studies from Mexico and Malawu. Union-organized workplaces... more...
Film Noir, American Workers, and Postwar Hollywood
UPF 2009; US$ 34.95Film noir, which flourished in 1940s and 50s, reflected the struggles and sentiments of postwar America. Dennis Broe contends that the genre, with its emphasis on dark subject matter, paralleled the class conflict in labor and union movements that dominated the period. more...
Wage Theft in America
New Press, The 2011; US$ 17.95In what has been described as ?the crime wave no one talks about,? billions of dollars worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the United States every year?a grand theft that exceeds every other larceny category. Even the Economic Policy Foundation, a business-funded think tank, has estimated that companies annually steal an incredible... more...
Boletín Internacional de Investigación Sindical
ILO Publications 2010; US$ 42.00En la actualidad, está ampliamente reconocido que el cambio climático es uno de los desafíos, cuando no el más importante, al que se enfrentará la humanidad en los próximos decenios. Debido a sus efectos en la temperatura promedio, en las precipitaciones y en los niveles del mar, pondrá en peligro los medios de subsistencia... more...
Man for All Seasons
Random House New Zealand 2012; US$ 26.19Ken Douglas was raised in a hardworking, tough-talking, union-focussed Wellington family and got into union politics as a very young working man. Hard-nosed, pragmatic and never scared of a scrap, he rose through the ranks, got deeper into left-wing ideology and activity with his membership of the Socialist Unity Party, and ultimately became head of... more...
Employment in the Lean Years
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 34.99Over the last fifteen years, the deregulation of Britain's labour market has led to economic growth, employment opportunities, and a more diverse workforce: the 'fat years'. However, now as Britain faces its lean years with job cuts, rising unemployment, income insecurity, and related social strains, how can and should the government and... more...
Hidden America
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 12.99Five hundred feet underground, Jeanne Marie Laskas asked a coal miner named Smitty, ?Do you think it?s weird that people know so little about you?? He replied, ?I don?t think people know too much about the way the whole damn country works.? Hidden America intends to fix that. Like John McPhee and Susan Orlean, Laskas dives deep into her subjects... more...
The Main Street Moment
Nation Books 2012; US$ 15.99In the wake of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and the Supreme Court?s landmark Citizens United decision, politicians are targeting working Americans as never before. As American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Gerald W. McEntee and Secretary-Treasurer Lee Saunders show, efforts to crush... more...









