Labour History – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 4

Sanford M Jacoby
Labor in the Age of Finance

From award-winning economic historian Sanford M. Jacoby, a fascinating and important study of the labor movement and shareholder capitalismSince the 1970s, American unions have shrunk dramatically, as has…

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Jaz Brisack
Get on the Job and Organize

A leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements shares stories from the front lines to help us organize our own workplaces and "better understand the aims and goals for a resurgent trade union mo…

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Julia Flint
We Were Promised

"Karen "Momma K" Gorrell did not consider herself to be an activist. But when those she cared about were wronged, she refused to remain silent. With the economy still reeling from the Great…

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David Tabachnick
The Leisure Ethic

After a century of warnings, the 500-year reign of the work ethic is over. The work ethic has shaped our character, given purpose to our lives, and driven civilization forward. Now, as technology replaces…

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Gordon Simmons
Mutiny in the Mountains

Mutiny in the Mountains uses labor history to show the way forward for millions of workers struggling in an age of uncertainty.In 1969, thousands of West Virginia state highway workers went on strike in f…

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Adia Harvey Wingfield
Gray Areas

NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB's November 2023 Must Read Books • LIBRARY JOURNALEDITOR PICK •"A groundbreaking book, both bold in its premise and precise in its exploration of systemic racism in the workplace. T…

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Fred S Naiden
Railroaded

The New York City subway system stretches over 800 miles and carries billions of riders every day. While many have written about this legendary public transit system, a century of published books says …

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Leigh Campbell-Hale
Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine

Mining the American WestRemembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine examines the causes, context, and legacies of the 1927 Columbine Massacre in relation to the history of labor organizing and coal mi…

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Jody Baxter Noll,
The 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike

"In early 1968, more than 27,000 teachers across Florida mailed in their letters of resignation, creating the country's first statewide teacher strike. By going on strike, Florida's teachers fought f…

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Amy O'Connor
The Mine Next Door

The Mine Next Door peels back the veneer of corporate public relations to expose the jagged edges that define the boundaries of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Minnesota's Iron Range. With five y…

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Joshua B Freeman
Working-Class New York

A "lucid, detailed, and imaginative analysis" (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War II--and its tragic demiseMore than any other city in America, …

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Mary Anne Trasciatti
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is one of the most important figures in the history of American labor. This stirring biography traces her personal and political life, foregrounding her commitment to civil libertie…

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Miranda Banks, Kate Fortmueller
Boom to Bust

A timely investigation into the rise of Peak TV and the perfect storm that caused a rapid decline in Hollywood workWhen Hollywood writers and actors went on strike in 2023, they drew attention to the rapi…

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Ludmila Ulitskaya,
Just the Plague

Rudolf Maier, a young microbiologist working on a plague vaccine, is summoned to Moscow to deliver a progress report to his superiors. Inadvertently, he carries the virus with him from the lab. When his i…

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Charles Edward Thomas
Scrip

In 1910, the L&N pushed its railroad into remote Harlan County, Kentucky, opening access to billions of tons of coal, the fuel that ran everything during the Industrial Revolution. Coal did it all. St…

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Selected Works of Debs,

Volume 4: Red Union, Red Paper, Red Train, 1905--1910 gathers for the first time approximately 180 articles, speeches, letters, and interviews from the prime years of American socialist and labor leader E…

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Selected Works of Debs,

Volume 4: Red Union, Red Paper, Red Train, 1905-1910 gathers for the first time approximately 180 articles, speeches, letters, and interviews from the prime years of American socialist and labor leader Eu…

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Christine A Ogren
Summers Off?

"Since the nine-month school year became common in the United States during the 1880s, schoolteachers have never really had summers off. Administrators instructed them to rest, as well as to study an…

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Mark Sanders
A Will for the Machine

This study takes up the relations among computerization, labor, and the arts in South Africa.There are many books about the history and discourses of computerization in the United States but relatively li…

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Christine A Ogren
Summers Off?

"Since the nine-month school year became common in the United States during the 1880s, schoolteachers have never really had summers off. Administrators instructed them to rest, as well as to study an…

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