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  • Against the Law

    Series series Constitutional conflicts
    A fundamental critique of American law and legal thought, Against the Law consists of a series of essays written from three different perspectives that coalesce into a deep criticism of contemporary legal culture. Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, and Steven D. Smith challenge the conventional representations of the legal system that are articulated and defended by American legal scholars. Unorthodox ... Leer más

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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

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  • Death in the Haymarket

    A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America

    de James Green ...
    On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover. Historian James Green recounts the rise of the first great labor ... Leer más

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  • Labor and Monopoly Capital

    The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century

    This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital overturned the reigning ideologies of academic sociology.This new edition features an introduction by John Bellamy Foster that sets the work in ... Leer más

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  • The Influence Machine

    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate Capture of American Life

    de Alyssa Katz ...
    An illuminating history and groundbreaking investigation tracing how a single trade organization turned itself into the most dangerous political weapon in AmericaWhen Americans hear the words “Chamber of Commerce,” many still think of the local business associations that spruce up Main Streets and sponsor Little League teams around the country. But the United States Chamber of Commerce is a ... Leer más

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  • The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada:

    de Bob Barnetson ...
    Series series Fabriks: Studies in the Working Class
    Workplace injuries are common avoidable and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts intervening only when necessary to maintain the system's legitimacy. Dr. Bob Barnetson sheds light on this faulty system highlighting the way in which employers create dangerous work environments yet ... Leer más

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  • Raising the Workers' Flag

    The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936

    During the Great Depression, the conflicting interests of capital and labour became clearer than ever before. Radical Canadian workers, encouraged by the Red International of Labour Unions, responded by building the Workers' Unity League – an organization that greatly advanced the cause of unions in Canada, and boasted 40,000 members at its height. In Raising the Workers' Flag, the first full ... Leer más

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  • Colin Palmer’s Trilogy on Imperialism in the Caribbean, Omnibus E-Book

    Includes Freedom's Children, Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power, and Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean

    Colin A. Palmer was a leading historian of the Caribbean and the African diaspora. Freedom’s Children joins Palmer’s Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean and Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power in chronicling the history of British and U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean. ... Leer más

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  • Man for All Seasons

    The Life and Times of Ken Douglas

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  • New Order and Progress

    Development and Democracy in Brazil

    Ben Ross Schneider's volume, New Order and Progress takes a thorough look at the political economy of Brazil. The distinctive perspective of the 11 chapters is historical, comparative, and theoretical. Collectively, the chapters offer sobering insight into why Brazil has not been the rising economic star of the BRIC that many predicted it would be, but also documents the gains that Brazil has made ... Leer más

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  • Unfree Masters

    Popular Music and the Politics of Work

    de Matt Stahl ...
    Series series Refiguring American music
    The widespread perception of singers and musicians as free individuals doing enjoyable and fulfilling work obscures the realities of their occupation. In Unfree Masters Matt Stahl examines recording artists' labor in the music industry as a form of creative work. He begins by considering the television show American Idol and the 2004 rockumentary Dig!, tracing the ways that popular music making is ... Leer más

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  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Tourism

    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
    This guide demystifies the often invisible impacts of global tourism, one of the biggest industries in the world, from labor conditions to development by stealth, to the role of elites and the cultural impacts on both the visitor and the visited.It also takes in themes such as the gap year and the role of travel and vacations in Western cultures, and examines the “happy smiling faces” syndrome and ... Leer más

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