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“harry braverman”

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  • Labor and Monopoly Capital

    The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century

    by Harry Braverman ...
    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 ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Labor and Monopoly Capital

    The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century

    by Harry Braverman ...
    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 ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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

    by Joshua Freeman, Eric Foner ...
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  • Shadowbosses

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    by Mallory Factor, Elizabeth Factor ...
    SHADOWBOSSES reads like an organized crime novel, but it's actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political process. This compelling and insightful book exposes how unions have organized federal, state, and local government employees without their consent, and how government employee unions are now a threat to our workers' freedoms, our free ... Read more

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  • James Larkin: Lion of the Fold

    The Life and Works of the Irish Labour Leader

    by Donal Nevin ...
    This book is a detailed compilation of writings and lectures about the life of James Larkin. It reviews his influence in history and on various movements across the country and abroad. James Larkin: Lion of the Fold includes writing by James Larkin and is a timely reminder of the long road that the Irish people have travelled together. The book considers much of the history of the early Irish ... Read more

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  • Mining Towns

    Making a Living, Making a Life

    by Erik Eklund ...
    A history of iconic Australian towns that have emerged as a result of mining booms—including Broken Hill, Mount Isa, Queenstown, Mount Morgan, Port Pirie, and Kambalda—this book is a unique attempt to introduce urban readers to those communities, past and present. Unlike many mining books, this is not limited to a single material such as coal or gold, but traces the fortunes of a range of towns. ... Read more

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  • An Organizer's Tale

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    by Cesar Chavez ...
    The first major collection of writings by civil rights leader Cesar ChavezOne of the most important civil rights leaders in American history, Cesar Chavez was a firm believer in the principles of nonviolence, and he effectively employed peaceful tactics to further his cause. Through his efforts, he helped achieve dignity, fair wages, benefits, and humane working conditions for hundreds of ... Read more

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  • Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty

    Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Bloody Williamson

    by Paul M. Angle ...
    This is a horror story of native American violence. It carries a grim lesson for the whole country. Political doctrines have played no part in the violence and murder that have brought much ill fame to one corner of Illinois. On the map, Williamson is just another county. But in history it is a place in which a strange disease has raged for more than eighty years—a disease marked by a pathological ... Read more

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  • Braceros

    Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico

    by Deborah Cohen ...
    At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In Braceros, Deborah Cohen asks why these migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety in the United States and what the Mexican government expected to gain in participating in the program. Cohen ... Read more

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  • The Death and Life of American Labor

    Toward a New Worker's Movement

    by Stanley Aronowitz ...
    The decline of the American union movement—and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of laborUnion membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he explains how this death ... Read more

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  • Freedom's Children

    The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica

    by Colin A. Palmer ...
    Freedom’s Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica’s watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer argues that, a hundred years after the abolition of slavery, Jamaica’s disgruntled workers challenged the oppressive status quo and forced a morally ossified British colonial society to recognize their grievances. The rebellion produced two rival leaders who dominated ... Read more

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