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  • Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman

    A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century

    by Matilda Rabinowitz, Ileen A. DeVault ...
    Matilda Rabinowitz's illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman, Rabinowitz describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual and social restrictions imposed on women as they sought political and economic equality in the first half of the twentieth century. Rabinowitz devoted her labor ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Invisible in America

    by David K. Shipler ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfolds of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty."This is clearly one of those seminal books that every American should read and read now." —The New York Times Book Review**As David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

    The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

    by Richard Sennett ...
    A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."—Studs Terkel, author of WorkingIn The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument" (Business Week) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers, a bartender turned advertising ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Progress Without People

    New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance

    by David F. Noble ...
    A provocative discussion of the role of technology and its accompanying rhetoric of limitless progress in the concomitant rise of joblessness and unemployment. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Right to Stay Home

    How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration

    by David Bacon ...
    The story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities to the poverty that forces people to migrate to the United StatesPeople across Mexico are being forced into migration, and while 11 percent of that country’s population lives north of the US border, the decision to migrate is rarely voluntary. Free trade agreements and economic policies that exacerbate and reinforce extreme wealth ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Union Power

    Solidarity and Struggle in Niagara

    by Carmela Patrias, Larry Savage ...
    Series series Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
    From factory workers in Welland to retail workers in St. Catharines, from hospitality workers in Niagara Falls to migrant farm workers in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Union Power showcases the role of working people in the Niagara region. Charting the development of the region’s labour movement from the early nineteenth century to the present, Patrias and Savage illustrate how workers from this highly ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Life on the Line

    One Woman's Tale of Work, Sweat, and Survival

    by Solange De Santis ...
    "Engaging--. Terrific--. Takes us over the collar line with grace and authority."--The New York TimesAs a veteran reporter throughout the "downsizing" years of the auto industry in the United States and Canada, Queens-born Solange De Santis covered her fair share of auto plant closings, but almost always from the management's point of view. That is, until this mid-career, mid-thirties, Ivy League ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Rebel Voices

    An IWW Anthology

    by Daniel Gross, Franklin Rosemont ...
    Series series The Charles H. Kerr Library
    Welcoming women, Blacks, and immigrants long before most other unions, the Wobblies from the start were labor’s outstanding pioneers and innovators, unionizing hundreds of thousands of workers previously regarded as “unorganizable.” Wobblies organized the first sit-down strike (at General Electric, Schenectady, 1906), the first major auto strike (6,000 Studebaker workers, Detroit, 1911), the first ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Method of Freedom

    An Errico Malatesta Reader

    by Errico Malatesta ...
    Translated by Paul Sharkey ...
    For sixty years, Errico Malatesta's involvement with international anarchism helped fuel the movement's radical approach to class and labor, and directly impacted the workers' movement in Italy. A talented newspaper journalist, Malatesta's biting critiques were frequently short and to the point-and written directly to and for the workers. Though his few long-form essays, including "Anarchy" and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trade Unions and the State

    The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions in Britain, 1890-2000

    by Chris Howell ...
    The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political history. How were the governments of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the unions?In analyzing how an entirely new industrial relations system was constructed after 1979, Howell offers a revisionist history of British trade ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Cornucopia

    Understanding Health through Understanding Agriculture

    by D. Patrick Johnson ...
    Cornucopia explores the health and economic implications of U.S. farm policy. Using a corn farm in rural South Dakota as his starting point, Johnson reviews the history of agricultural policies in America to understand how large-scale, industrial agriculture came to play such a large role in U.S. and world food production. He also discusses the role of agricultural policies in the on-going "food ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Labour in Contemporary India

    by Praveen Jha ...
    Generation of decent livelihood opportunities ought to be among the most important objectives on any meaningful agenda of economic development. On this front, however, the Indian experience has remained seriously inadequate. During the first four decades after Independence, India’s achievements with respect to the problems of poverty, unemployment and occupational structural transformation were ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD