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"Nos Quitan Nuestros Trabajos!"
Haymarket Books 2012; US$ 18.00This timely and accessible guide debunks the twenty-one biggest myths and stereotypes in today's immigration debate. more...
"They're Bankrupting Us!"
Beacon Press 2012; US$ 15.00From Wisconsin to Washington, DC, the claims are made: unions are responsible for budget deficits, and their members are overpaid and enjoy cushy benefits. The only way to save the American economy, pundits claim, is to weaken the labor movement, strip workers of collective bargaining rights, and champion private industry. In "They're Bankrupting... more...
The 1926 Miners' Lockout
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 114.99The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Opening with the heady days of the general strike, it continued for seven months and affected one million miners. In County Durham, where almost three in every ten adult men worked in the coal industry, its impact was profound. Hester Barron explores the way... more...
The 21st Century at Work
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95This text looks at the likely evolution of the U.S. workforce and workplace over the next 10 to 15 years, focusing on demographics, technology, and globalization. more...
AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers
Lexington Books 2010; US$ 36.99This book examines the themes of imperialism and empire from the perspective of the foreign policy program of organized labor in the United States. It details efforts to make real popular democracy within Labor. The author calls for American workers to join the global movement for economic and social justice and to extend globalization from 'below'... more...
ASEAN Industries and the Challenge from China
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 95.00This book explores the impact of the rise of China on South East Asia, addressing the consequences for some of Asia's key economic sectors, including educational services, bio-technology, financial services, and the food industry, among others. more...
The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil
ABC-CLIO 2000; US$ 168.00The persistence of a raced-based division of labor has been a compelling reality in all former slave societies in the Americas. One can trace this to nineteenth-century abolition movements across the Americas which did not lead to (and were not intended to result in) a transition from race-based slave labor to race-neutral wage labor for former slaves.... more...
Absolute Honesty
AMACOM 2003; US$ 4.99Honesty isn't just the best policy- it's also best practice. more...
Adequacy of Retirement Income after Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe
World Bank Publications 2009; US$ 29.99The former transition countries of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe (CESE) inherited defined benefit public pension systems financed on a pay-as-you-go basis. Under central planning, these systems exhibited fiscal strains which worsened during the early years of the transition and became unsustainable under a market economy and projected population... more...
Adjudication in Construction Contracts
Wiley 2008; US$ 137.00Adjudication was introduced in construction contracts as a requirement of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act in 1998 to tackle the large number of disputes which dog most projects. Provisions for adjudication are now included in all standard construction forms and are implied into all construction contracts that do not expressly... more...









