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  • Working Bodies

    Chronic Illness in the Canadian Workplace

    While significant research has been produced in the field of disability studies, little attention has been paid to experiences of chronic illness. Working Bodies emphasizes the workplace as an important site for understanding such experiences, as employment status has an enormous impact on social and economic standing in Canadian society.The essays in this collection examine the perspectives of ... Leer más

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  • The Working Poor

    Invisible in America

    **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 ... Leer más

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  • Free Agent Nation

    How Americans New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live

    Widely acclaimed for its engaging style and provocative perspective, this book has helped thousands transform their working lives -- Now including a 30-page resource guide that explains the basics of working for oneself.It's about fulfillment. A revolution is sweeping America. On its front lines are people fed up with unfulfilling jobs, dysfunctional workplaces, and dead-end careers. Meet today's ... Leer más

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  • Playing the Whore

    The Work of Sex Work

    Series series Jacobin
    Recent years have seen a panic over “online red-light districts,” which supposedly seduce vulnerable young women into a life of degradation, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof’s live tweeting of a Cambodian brothel raid. But rarely do these fearful, salacious dispatches come from sex workers themselves, and rarely do they deviate from the position that sex workers must be rescued from ... Leer más

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  • There is Power in a Union

    de Philip Dray ...
    From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience.In this stirring new history, Philip Dray shows us the vital accomplishments of organized labor and illuminates its central role in our social, ... Leer más

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  • American Empire

    The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000

    Series series The Penguin History of the United States
    A compelling look at the movements and developments that propelled America to world dominanceIn this landmark work, acclaimed historian Joshua Freeman has created an epic portrait of a nation both galvanized by change and driven by conflict. Beginning in 1945, the economic juggernaut awakened by World War II transformed a country once defined by its regional character into a uniform and cohesive ... Leer más

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  • Eight Men Speak

    A Play by Oscar Ryan et al.

    Series series Canadian Literature Collection
    This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The play was banned by the Toronto police after its first performance, banned by the Winnipeg police shortly thereafter and subsequently banned by the Canadian Post Office. The play can be considered as one stage–the published text–of a meta-text that culminated in 1934 at Maple Leaf ... Leer más

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  • Diamonds in the Rough

    Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975

    Series Libro 32 - New African Histories
    Diamonds in the Rough explores the lives of African laborers on Angola’s diamond mines from the commencement of operations in 1917 to the colony’s independence from Portugal in 1975. The mines were owned and operated by the Diamond Company of Angola, or Diamang, which enjoyed exclusive mining and labor concessions granted by the colonial government. Through these monopolies, the company became the ... Leer más

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  • J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies

    The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War

    Between 1942 and 1958, J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a sweeping and sustained investigation of the motion picture industry to expose Hollywood's alleged subversion of "the American Way" through its depiction of social problems, class differences, and alternative political ideologies. FBI informants (their names still redacted today) reported to Hoover's G-men on ... Leer más

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  • When Miners March

    In the first half of the 20th century, strikes and Union battles, murders and frame-ups, were common in every industrial center in the U.S. But none of these episodes compared in scope to the West Virginia Mine Wars.The uprisings of coal miners that defined the Mine Wars of the 1920’s were a direct result of the Draconian rule of the coal companies. The climax was the Battle of Blair Mountain, the ... Leer más

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  • Value

    The Representation of Labour in Capitalism

    de Diane Elson ...
    Series series Radical Thinkers
    This republication of a long out-of-print collection of essays, first published in 1979, focuses on the elusive concept of “value.” The field of study surrounding the theory of value remains comparatively sparse in Anglophone circles, and the essays here aim to answer the question, “Why is Marx’s theory of value important?” ... Leer más

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  • Global Cinderellas

    Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan

    de Pei-Chia Lan ...
    Migrant women are the primary source of paid domestic labor around the world. Since the 1980s, the newly prosperous countries of East Asia have recruited foreign household workers at a rapidly increasing rate. Many come from the Philippines and Indonesia. Pei-Chia Lan interviewed and spent time with dozens of Filipina and Indonesian domestics working in and around Taipei as well as many of their ... Leer más

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