SW - Labour & Industrial Relations 1

Nations don't rise or fall by chanceーthey're built on systems of inclusion or exclusion. The Architecture of Prosperity How Nations Rise Through Power, Policy, and Inclusion delivers a deep, analyt……続きを見る

Between 1966 and 2015, the city of Atlanta was transformed. In the late 1960s, Black politicians ascended to the top of the power structure for the first time thanks to newly enfranchised Black work……続きを見る

Philadelphia exploded in violence in 1910. The general strike that year was a notable point, but not a unique one, in a generations-long history of conflict between the workers and management at one……続きを見る

Roughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass migration of peasants moving into the cities, and construction workers account for almost half of them. In Building China, Sarah Swid……続きを見る

How the European Union handles posted workers is a growing issue for a region with borders that really are just lines on a map. A 2008 story, dissected in Ines Wagner's Workers without Borders, abou……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage se penche sur le regain d’importance qu’ont pris les organisations régionales dans les relations internationales de l’après-guerre froide marquées, notamment, par l’accélération de la gl……続きを見る

In Our Unions, Our Selves**, Anne Zacharias-Walsh provides an in-depth look at the rise of women-only unions in Japan, an organizational analysis of the challenges these new unions face in practice,……続きを見る

Cleophas Williams tells the reader of his significant and historic journey in his own words: His story includes his early years in rural Camden, Arkansas; his arrival in the San Francisco Bay Area; ……続きを見る

In recent decades an increasing share of Canada’s agricultural workforce has been made up of temporary foreign workers from the Global South. These labourers work difficult and dangerous jobs with l……続きを見る

Bisbee, Arizona...July 12, 1917...6:30 a.m.... Just after dawn, two thousand armed vigilantes took to the streets of this remote Arizona mining town to round up members and sympathizers of the radic……続きを見る

Unsere Wirtschaftsordnung, aber auch unsere politische Landschaft sind völlig aus dem Lot geraten. Immer mehr Menschen haben das Gefühl, nur noch für den Staat zu schuften und fühlen sich benachteil……続きを見る

Do you appreciate your forty-hour, five-day workweek? Appreciate having a safe working environment? Unions made this all possible in one way or another. Unions bring value to all sectors of a societ……続きを見る

For the past few decades, the U.S. anti-sweatshop movement was bolstered by actions from American college students. United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) effectively advanced the cause of worker……続きを見る

Fox, Margaret Sweatman’s debut novel, is a phenomenal work of historical and postmodern fiction. When Fox burst onto the literary scene in 1991, it was clear a singular talent was at work. Decades l……続きを見る

In January 2020, China alerted major international scientific bodies about the eruption of a dangerous new virus and heavily promoted basic precautions. U.S. politicians and corporate media ridicule……続きを見る

Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellín was famous as a success story of industrialization, a place where protectionist tariffs had created a “……続きを見る

The Polish crisis in the early 1980s provoked a great deal of reaction in the West. Not only governments, but social movements were also touched by the establishment of the Independent Trade Union S……続きを見る

Conventional wisdom argues that welfare state builders in the US and Sweden in the 1930s took their cues from labor and labor movements. Swenson makes the startling argument that pragmatic social re……続きを見る