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"¡nos quitan nuestros trabajos!"
This timely and accessible guide debunks the twenty-one biggest myths and stereotypes in today's immigration debate.
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(de)automating the future
(De)Automating the Future presents a wide-ranging investigation into automation’s ambivalences from an interdisciplinary Marxist perspective. Much has been written about the prospects of automation in recent years. While many have raised concerns over the threat of technological mass unemploymen...
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A class by herself
A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights. Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall of women-only state protective laws—...
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A new working class
An examination of the efforts by Black public-sector workers and their unions to fight for racial and economic justice in BaltimoreFor decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-making. As their influ...
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A piece of the action
Eithne Quinn reveals how Hollywood catalyzed racial politics in the decade after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, through representation on screen as well as in battles over jobs and resources behind the scenes. Based on extensive archival research and detailed discussions of films, this book...
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A short history of the u.s. working class
Le Blanc presents a colorful, fact-filled history that concentrates on the struggles and achievements of the often neglected laboring majority.
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Advances in industrial and labor relations
Volume 25 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains eight new peer-reviewed papers highlighting key aspects of employment relations from a global perspective. Topics discussed include union organizing in an informal economy, workforce training for older workers, and right-to-w...
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Agents of reform
A groundbreaking account of how the welfare state began with early nineteenth-century child labor laws, and how middle-class and elite reformers made it happenThe beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement and to policymakers’ efforts to ...
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Art and labour
Deutscher Prize winning artist and writer Dave Beech turns his attention to what it means to view Art as work.
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Autoworkers under the gun
In an industry under constant attack, a veteran autoworker offers his take on the collapse of the American Dream.
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Bananeras
Women banana workersbananerasare waging a powerful revolution by making gender equity central in Latin American labor organizing.
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Ben fletcher
In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people of color, in keeping with their emphasis on class solidarity and their bold motto: “An Injury to One Is an Injury to All!” Ben Fletc...
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Beyond liberal egalitarianism
An original and convincing political and philosophical argument that capitalism—even when highly regulated—will always breed massive inequality
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Beyond marx
A wide ranging and deeply engaged examination of the role slaves and unfree workers play in the global capitalist economy.
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Big red songbook
In 1905, representatives from dozens of radical labor groups came together in Chicago to form One Big Union—the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), known as the Wobblies. The union was a big presence in the labor movement, leading strikes, walkouts, and rallies across the nation. And everywher...
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Birth strike
When House Speaker Paul Ryan urged U.S. women to have more children, and Ross Douthat requested “More babies, please,” in a New York Times column, they openly expressed what policymakers have been discussing for decades with greater discretion. Using technical language like “age structure,” “depe...
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Black and blue
In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred U.S. labor union members were African American. By 1980, the figure was more than one in five. Black and Blue explores the politics and history that led to this dramatic integration of organized labor. In the process, the book tells a broader story abou...
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Black coal and red bandanas
In the early-20th century, strikes and union battles were common in industrial centers throughout the US. But nothing compared to the class warfare of the West Virginia Mine Wars. The origins of this protracted rebellion were in the dictatorial rule of the coal companies over the proud, multi-rac...
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Bondage
Provides the first global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe and the Indian Ocean between the 17th and the 20th century. Provides a new iconoclastic view of Russian serfdom and European labor during the industrial revolution. Provides a new link between the evolution...
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Breakdown
An examination of Canada’s struggle to rationalize hydrocarbon development that culminated in the 2018 impasse over the Trans Mountain Pipeline extension.
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Breaking the impasse
A timely and persuasive discussion of the circumstances, challenges, and possibilities facing the new socialist movement in the US.
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Building a better world, 4th edition
A key introduction to the history, role, strategies and contributions of unions and the labour movement in Canada, now with a discussion of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the collective power of workers.
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Building global labor solidarity in a time of accelerating globalization
Uniting the global North and South in the struggle for a more just world for all workers.
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Child labour in the global human rights regime
Child Labour in the Global Human Rights Regime is about children’s rights, labour and slavery in modern and modernizing societies in the context of what has been summarized as a well-established and increasingly sophisticated framework of treaties, institutions, networks and ambitious standards w...
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China on strike
Through first person accounts, this book details the growing unrest, destabilization and strikes in factories that are gripping China.
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City of workers, city of struggle
City of Workers, City of Struggle brings together essays by leading historians of New York and a wealth of illustrations, offering rich descriptions of work, life, and political struggle. It recounts how workers have built formal and informal groups not only to advance their own interests but als...
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Clara zetkin
Essays and speeches from 1889–1933, long unavailable in the US, on women's equality, labor, peace, and socialism.
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Class struggle unionism
An essential primer for rebuilding a militant labor movement centered on solidarity with all workers.
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Class war, usa
An engaging collection of little known stories of working people in United States history fighting back in the darkest times.
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Collective bargaining and gender equality
Collective bargaining has been a major force in delivering social justice and decent work in the workplace. However, the role of collective bargaining in achieving gender equality in the workplace is relatively under-researched.In this book, Jane Pillinger and Nora Wintour investigate the complex...
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Comedy against work
Work is a joke. Laughing at it is political.Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is “reason gone mad.” For Walter Benjamin, laughter was “the most revolutionary emotion.” In a moment when great numbers of people are reevaluating their commitment to the hellscape we call “work,” what does it mean to take...
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Consequences of capitalism
In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society by making connections between common sense and power.
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Considering class
Considering Class shows why the process of reconstructing class consciousness must take place on the terrain of cultural and subjective formation where everyday values, habits and media practices are in play.
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Continental crucible
The crucible of North American neoliberal transformation is heating up, but its outcome is far from clear. Continental Crucible examines the clash between the corporate offensive and the forces of resistance from both a pan-continental and a class struggle perspective. This book also illustrates ...
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Contracting freedom
Contracting Freedom is the first relational study of the origins of twentieth-century U.S. guestworker programs from Mexico and the Caribbean, focusing on their shared origins. It investigates these government-sponsored programs as the unexplored consequence of the history of enslaved labor, Japa...
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Cooperativism and democracy
Cooperativism and Democracy contains a selection of texts in socio-political thought focusing on Polish cooperativism which make an important contribution to the debate over the relationship of contemporary economics and politics.
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Cracking labour’s glass ceiling
Although the health of the trade union movement may rest on its ability to include women in membership and leadership, little attention has been paid to women-only labour education.This original collection contains vibrant example of labour education events and the women involved who develop, imp...
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Democracy, social justice and the role of trade unions
Trade unions worldwide face a powerful paradox at this critical juncture: collective organisations for workers are urgently needed and yet there are serious pressures undercutting the legitimate role of trade unions. The aim of this book is to examine how trade unions can effectively navigate thi...
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Digging our own graves
This fully updated edition of a classic work from one of the leading scholars of Appalachia documents a community’s struggle against the deadly black lung disease.
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Direct action & sabotage
The pamphlets reprinted here were first published in the 1910s amid great controversy. Even then, the tactics of direct action and sabotage were often associated with the cartoonists’ image of the disheveled, wild-eyed anarchist armed with stiletto, handgun, or bomb—the clandestine activity of a ...
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Disposable domestics
This classic work sheds light on the lives and struggles of immigrant women domestic workers.
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Divided unions
A comparative history of public and private sector unions from the Wagner Act of 1935 until todayThe 2011 battle in Wisconsin over public sector employees' collective bargaining rights occasioned the largest protests in the state since the Vietnam War. Protestors occupied the state capitol buildi...
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Does skill make us human?
An in-depth look at Qatar's migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control and powerSkill—specifically the distinction between the “skilled” and “unskilled”—is generally defined as a measure of ability and training, but Does Skill Make Us Human? shows instead that skill distinc...
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Doing history from the bottom up
Staughton Lynd challenges academics to see American history through eyes of the poor and working class participants in history.
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Dying for an iphone
A harrowing look at the lives and struggles of a new generation of Chinese workers confronting the Apple-Foxconn empire and the Chinese state.
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Dynamite
An explosive history of American labor.
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Eight men speak
The first scholarly edition of the only play banned in Canada for political reasons.
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