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  • Solidarity with Solidarity

    Western European Trade Unions and the Polish Crisis, 1980–1982

    by Nino De Amicis, Stefan Berger, Bent Boel, Friedhelm Boll, Sandra Cavallucci, Kim Christiaens, Andrzej Chwalba, José M. Faraldo, Frank Georgi, Norman LaPorte, Klaus Misgeld, Oliver Rathkolb, Malgorzata Swider ...
    Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    The Polish crisis in the early 1980s provoked a great deal of reaction in the West. Not only governments, but social movements were also touched by the establishment of the Independent Trade Union Solidarnosc in the summer of 1980, the proclamation of martial law in December 1981, and Solidarnosc's underground activity in the subsequent years. In many countries, campaigns were set up in order to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Antifa

    The Antifascist Handbook

    by Mark Bray ...
    Series series Activist Citizens Library
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Focused and persuasive . . . Bray’s book is many things: the first English-language transnational history of antifa . . . and a record of advice from anti-Fascist organizers past and present.”—THE NEW YORKER**As long as there has been fascism, there has been anti-fascism — also known as “antifa.” Born out of resistance to Mussolini and Hitler, the antifa movement has ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Galileo's Daughter

    A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

    by Dava Sobel ...
    Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo's Daughter also presents a stunning portrait of a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Influence Machine

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership

    To Lead Our Organizations in a Conscientious and Authentic Manner

    by Lyse Langlois ...
    Performance at all costs, productivity without regard to consequences, and a competitive work environment: these are the ethical factors discussed in The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership, which highlights issues in workplace culture while looking into a brighter future for labour ethics. Langlois maintains that an enhanced awareness of the process of ethical decision making in difficult situations ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Gregory of Tours

    The Merovingians

    Edited by Alexander Callander Murray ...
    Series Book 10 - Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures
    Georgius Florentius Gregorius, better known to posterity as Gregory, Bishop of Tours, was born about 538 to a highly distinguished Gallo-Roman family in Clermont in the region of Auvergne. Best known for his 10-book Histories (often called the History of the Franks), Gregory left us detailed accounts of his own times as well as those of the early Merovingian kings, known as the "long-haired kings, ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • China on Strike

    Narratives of Workers' Resistance

    Edited by Zhongjin Li, Eli Friedman, Hao Ren ...
    China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary, and most underreported labor struggles of our time. China on Strike, the first English-language book of its kind, provides an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers organizing in some of China’s most profitable factories, which supply Apple, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A Reading Book in Irish History

    by P. W. Joyce ...
    The book, as will be seen, contains a mixture of Irish History, Biography, and Romance; and most of the pieces appear in their present form now for the first time. A knowledge of the History of the country is conveyed. ... Read more

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  • Betrayal

    How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics

    by Linda Chavez, Daniel Gray ...
    “Simply put, the leftist labor unions have the Democrats in their pockets. And we’re all paying the price.”Linda Chavez, President George W. Bush’s original choice for Secretary of Labor and a former union official, is one of the foremost authorities on America’s labor unions. Now, in the explosive new book Betrayal, she and fellow union expert Daniel Gray expose the corrupt bargain between the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Leap into Modernity – Political Economy of Growth on the Periphery, 1943–1980

    by Anna Wolff-Poweska, Adam Leszczyński ...
    Series Book 16 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which dominated the world just before the war and in the next 40 years. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the «invisible hand of ... Read more

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  • Disability and Employer Practices

    Research across the Disciplines

    Edited by Susanne M. Bruyère ...
    This book is about the employment of people with disabilities in the United States and the important role of employer practices. Nearly one in five people report some form of disability, and they are only half as likely to be employed as those without disabilities. With the aging workforce and returning military veterans both contributing to increasing number of disabilities in the workplace, ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Solidarity Transformed

    Labor Responses to Globalization and Crisis in Latin America

    by Mark S. Anner ...
    Mark S. Anner spent ten years working with labor unions in Latin America and returned to conduct eighteen months of field research: he found himself in the middle of violent raids, was detained and interrogated in a Salvadoran basement prison cell, and survived a bombing in a union cafeteria. This experience as a participant observer informs and enlivens Solidarity Transformed, an illustrative, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD