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  • The Strike That Changed New York

    Blacks, Whites and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis

    de Jerald E. Podair ...
    "[This] admirably balanced book will most likely stand as the definitive account of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis for some time . . . engrossing." — New York HistoryWinner of the Allan Nevins Prize awarded by the Society of American HistoriansOn May 9, 1968, junior high school teacher Fred Nauman received a letter that would change the history of New York City. It informed him that he had ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History

    Third Edition

    de Craig Heron ...
    In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron tells the story of Canada's workers from the mid-nineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early twenty-first century.This new edition has been completely updated, including a substantial new ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Refusal of Work

    The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work

    de David Frayne ...
    Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today's work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned to intermittent work and unemployment, is progressively more difficult to tolerate.In this thought ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Triangle Fire

    de Leon Stein ...
    "Leon Stein's gripping narrative of the Triangle tragedy is one of the classics of American history. As the grandson of a onetime Triangle seamstress, I salute the reissue of a book that anyone who cares about labor, past or present, should read."—Michael Kazin, Georgetown University, author of The Populist Persuasion: An American History and other booksPraise for the 1962 edition—"Stein recreates ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Limits of Expertise

    Rethinking Pilot Error and the Causes of Airline Accidents

    de R. Key Dismukes, Benjamin A. Berman, Loukia Loukopoulos ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Human Factors for Flight Operations
    Why would highly skilled, well-trained pilots make errors that lead to accidents when they had safely completed many thousands of previous flights? The majority of all aviation accidents are attributed primarily to human error, but this is often misinterpreted as evidence of lack of skill, vigilance, or conscientiousness of the pilots. The Limits of Expertise is a fresh look at the causes of pilot ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Drawing the Line

    The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson

    de Tom Sito ...
    Some of the most beloved characters in film and television inhabit two-dimensional worlds that spring from the fertile imaginations of talented animators. The movements, characterizations, and settings in the best animated films are as vivid as any live action film, and sometimes seem more alive than life itself. In this case, Hollywood's marketing slogans are fitting; animated stories are ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Workplace Democracy

    An Inquiry into Employee Participation in Canadian Work Organizations

    de Donald Nightingale ...
    Series series Heritage
    This book begins with a historical review of how authority in the Canadian workplace has changed over the past century. It proceeds to outline a theory of organization which provides a broad conceptual framework for the empirical analysis which follows. This theory is based on five concepts: the values of organizational members; the administrative structure of the organization; the interpersonal ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty

    Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers

    de M. Murphy ...
    Before 1980, sick building syndrome did not exist. By the 1990s, it was among the most commonly investigated occupational health problems in the United States. Afflicted by headaches, rashes, and immune system disorders, office workers—mostly women—protested that their workplaces were filled with toxic hazards; yet federal investigators could detect no chemical cause. This richly detailed history ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Labor Law for the Rank & Filer

    Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law

    de Staughton Lynd, Daniel Gross ...
    Have you ever felt your blood boil at work but lacked the tools to fight back and win? Or have you acted together with your co-workers, made progress, but wondered what to do next? If you are in a union, do you find that it operates top-down just like the boss and ignores the will of its members?Labor Law for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law is a guerrilla ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sweatshops at Sea

    Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present

    de Leon Fink ...
    As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world’s first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders. In Sweatshops at Sea, historian Leon Fink examines the evolution of laws and labor relations governing ordinary seamen over the past two ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Union Voices

    Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing

    de Melanie Simms, Jane Holgate, Edmund Heery ...
    In Union Voices, the result of a thirteen-year research project, three industrial relations scholars evaluate how labor unions fared in the political and institutional context created by Great Britain's New Labour government, which was in power from 1997 to 2010. Drawing on extensive empirical evidence, Melanie Simms, Jane Holgate, and Edmund Heery present a multilevel analysis of what organizing ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Hard Work

    Remaking the American Labor Movement

    de Rick Fantasia, Kim Voss ...
    This concise overview of the labor movement in the United States focuses on why American workers have failed to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries. Packed with valuable analysis and information, Hard Work explores historical perspectives, examines social and political policies, and brings us inside today's unions, providing an excellent introduction to labor ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD