Labour & Industrial Relations 70

This comprehensive Handbook provides an accessible overview of precarious employment, exploring how insecure, low-paid and unstable forms of work shape the lives, health and identities of workers ac……続きを見る

A comprehensive exploration of how labor unions, broadly conceived, shape party loyalties in the American mass public. How and why do labor unions matter for American mass party loyalties, specifica……続きを見る

From the 1968 Sanitation Workers' Strike to the Kellogg's battles of 2013 and 2021 ー this is the untold story of Memphis labor, written by someone who lived it. When 1,300 Black sanitation workers ……続きを見る

From the cotton boll to the Cotton Bowl in modern American culture There are few places on earth as thoroughly identified with a crop as the American South is with cotton. Burgundy is known for wine……続きを見る

This book examines the role of composers' unions in shaping cultural life under state socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. Against the backdrop of shifting political regimes, it traces how these……続きを見る

Vibes as value explores the relationship between subjectivity, labour and value in the hospitality industry, and thereby how youth, gender, sexuality, race and social class are embodied and made pro……続きを見る

Las huelgas no se convocan para perder: se preparan para ganar. Mucho más que simples paros, son un verdadero desafío al poder, una herramienta capaz de alterar el orden establecido. Para que funcio……続きを見る

During the 1970s and 80s mine closure and wind-down became increasingly common in a number of countries. As mining communities are often situated in remote areas, with most of the community dependen……続きを見る

The Institutions of the Autonomous Civilisation: Governance and Economics Beyond the Consumption World A Framework for Governance, Value, and Stewardship in the Post‑Scarcity Era Human civilisation ……続きを見る

Struggle, survival, and the harsh reality behind industrial progress. In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair delivers a powerful and unflinching portrait of immigrant life in early 20th-century America, expo……続きを見る

In Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri, Gregg Andrews examines the history of factory laborers in a celebrated Mississippi River town. In the late 1890s, shoe manufacturing transformed Mark Twain’s b……続きを見る

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the California Book Award A searching portrait of an iconic figure long shrouded in myth by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of an……続きを見る

For more than fifty years, working people in the United States have seen their wages stagnate, their jobs disappear, and their political influence collapse-while billionaires consolidate unprecedent……続きを見る

Os direitos de trabalhadores foram conquistados por árduas lutas e nunca deixaram de ser questionados. Parte do empresariado, poderoso, organizado e com acesso privilegiado a tomadores de decisão, t……続きを見る

An excavation of populist movements in the US and their associated religious tropes. In this work, author Colin Bossen argues that for over a century, American populist movementsーeven explicitly se……続きを見る

On May 2, 1905, Pennsylvania Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker signed the bill that created the Pennsylvania State Police, America's first modern state police agency. This action soon led to every othe……続きを見る

Indian and South African Labor Responses to the International Labor Organization’s Green Initiatives: Through the Eyes of the Colonized explores the differences in attitudes of developing states to ……続きを見る

In 1977, the Colombian journal Ideología y Sociedad devoted twenty-eight pages of its twenty-first issue to an attack on Ernest Mandel's The Leninist Theory of Organisation. The author was Nahuel Mo……続きを見る

The Triple Tax: How America Extracts from Workers and Protects the Wealthy is a fearless examination of how working people are taxed at every stage of lifeーon labor, spending, property, and even de……続きを見る

Wherever there are workers, there are unions: and we need them now, more than ever. Whether in formal organisations or grass-roots collectives, people have always found ways to work together for a b……続きを見る

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House. 続きを見る

À l’approche de ses 90 ans, le ministère de la Jeunesse et des Sports, né sous le Front populaire, demeure trop souvent sous-estimé – jusqu’à être jugé « inutile » en 1997 par un conseiller de Lione……続きを見る

John Milton's Areopagitica is a landmark work of political and literary thought, passionately defending freedom of expression and the liberty of the press. First published in 1644, this eloquent tre……続きを見る

A revealing look at the decline in formal employment in favor of hiring contractors, freelancers, temps, and marginal workers, who are excluded from traditional benefits and career ladders. Companie……続きを見る

For much of the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, as David Weil’s groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed t……続きを見る

In the early decades of the twentieth century, business leaders condemned civil liberties as masks for subversive activity, while labor sympathizers denounced the courts as shills for industrial int……続きを見る

Company towns are back. From Indian oil refineries to Kenyan canned food factories to Amazon warehouses, companies today rule over the daily lives of around a million people. In these enclaves of un……続きを見る

As tech bosses fall in line with the right, tech workers are fighting back. This is the rousing inside story of their movementーand the way it spawned an anti-worker backlash now reshaping the indus……続きを見る

In this oral history classic, Alice and Staughton Lynd chronicle the stories of more than two dozen working-class organizers who occupied factories, held sit-down strikes, walked out, picketed, and ……続きを見る

A welcome collection from a firebrand of the immigrant anarchist movement in the United States. To the Impatient presents the first English-language collection of Johann Most’s writing from 1882 to ……続きを見る