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Trouble! at coal creek
This gripping graphic novel tells the story of the 1891 Coal Creek War—one of the most significant yet overlooked labor and abolitionist uprisings in the history of the United States. Told through the eyes of a young Welsh immigrant, Trouble! at Coal Creek is the epic story of a cross-racial str...
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Trucking country
Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait of the rural highways of the American heartland, and in doing so explains why working-class popul...
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Unions of our own
An actionable, inviting, and confidence-boosting philosophy on how to tackle problems in your workplace and win. Our workplaces urgently need to get better, but change can feel murky, daunting, or even impossible. We imagine a different world, too, but billionaires are doing their best to make t...
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Unjust transition
The worker lockout at Regina’s Co-op Refinery Complex shows that, left unchecked, corporations will transfer the costs and burdens of the necessary transition to a fossil fuel–free future to workers.
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Walmart
In 2012, journalist Hugo Meunier went undercover as a Walmart employee for three months in St. Leonard, Quebec, just north of Montreal.In great detail, Meunier charts the daily life of an impoverished Walmart worker, referring to his shifts at the box store giant as “somewhere between the army an...
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Wasting libby
An investigation of the greatest environmental crime in US history.
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When companies rule
Maha Rafi Atal blends investigative journalism and historical research to tell the gripping four-hundred-year story of company rule over daily life.
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Why do people migrate?
By looking at case studies from around Europe, this book focuses on the impact of the expected labour market security on migration decision-making and will prove invaluable for researchers, leaders and policy makers in the field of politics and migration studies.
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Wilhelm liebknecht and german social democracy
Key writings and speeches by one of the major figures of the labor movement of the 19th century.
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Women and the american labor movement
A comprehensive account of the women who organized for labor rights and equality from the early factories to the 1970’s.
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Women strikers occupy chain stores, win big
The first successful all women sit-in conducted by 'the counter girls' at the Detroit Woolworth's during the Great Depression.
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Work and alienation in the platform economy
Once hidden behind the veils of entrepreneurship, it is now clear that platforms are reshaping the world of work, and Amazon has been a forerunner in setting the trend. This book examines two key and contrasting Amazon platforms that differ in how they organize workers: its e-commerce platform an...
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Work in the age of robots
Are robots finally replacing humans? Does the emerging age of artificial intelligence and automation mean we will soon see “peak jobs” and the need for a Universal Basic Income to support a widening swath of hapless citizens unsuited for employment in a primarily “knowledge” workforce? Improving ...
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Workaway
This agenda-setting book shows how freedom of movement has made the integration of Europe’s labour markets a contentious issue, for example in the aftermath of the eurocrisis, where workers had to make great sacrifices to enable the currency area to function. It argues that the process of market ...
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Workers play time (vol 1)
Seven plays bring to life workers' struggles through the ages, keeping the tradition of political theatre alive and kicking.
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Workers, unions, and global capitalism
While it's easy to blame globalization for shrinking job opportunities, dangerous declines in labor standards, and a host of related discontents, the "flattening" of the world has also created unprecedented opportunities for worker organization. By expanding employment in developing countries, es...
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Working for respect
Adam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how Walmart workers make sense of their jobs in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present for social and economic justice. Working for Respect makes important contributions to...
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Zombie capitalism
An incisive and devastating critique of capitalism, sounding the alarm that the system poses a threat to human well-being.
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