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  • Labor-environmental Coalitions

    Lessons from a Louisiana Petrochemical Region

    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    In 1984, the oil, chemical and atomic workers began a 5-year campaign to win back the jobs of its members locked out by the BASF Corp. in Geismar, Louisiana. The multiscale campaign involved coalitions with local environmentalists as well as international solidarity from environmental and religious organizations. The local coalition which helped break the lockout was maintained and expanded in the ... Read more

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  • Metal Fatigue

    American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley

    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    On February 4, 1986, the lives of thousands of workers changed in ways they could only begin to imagine. On that day, United Technologies Corporation ordered the closure of the 76-year-old American Bosch manufacturing plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, capping a nearly 32-year history of job loss and work relocation from the sprawling factory. The author, a former Bosch worker and the business ... Read more

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  • Business, Environment, and Society

    Themes and Cases

    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    This book blends theory and practice to support courses in corporate social responsibility (CSR), business and society, and environmental management and sustainability. Based on her extensive work with companies, the author offers engaging readings and teaching cases that address key challenges for business today - measurement, supply chain management, public policy, and stakeholder pressures. ... Read more

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  • Northern Exposures

    A Canadian Perspective on Occupational Health and Environment

    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    'Northern Exposures' is an important and thought-provoking book that shows how the labor movement has embraced environmental protection and is beginning to create a new and more sustainable vision for the future. Dave Bennett's knowledge and commitment shine through. He is, by turns, the skeptical philosopher sifting the evidence and the passionate partisan arguing for the rights of the people. It ... Read more

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  • Shoes, Glues and Homework

    Dangerous Work in the Global Footwear Industry

    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    This book describes working conditions in informal sector shoemaking in Indonesia and the Philippines, their national and international policy implications. It provides information on glues, an organic solvent, found in footwear chemicals and women garment homeworkers in Bulacan. ... Read more

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  • Who is Nursing Them? It is Us

    Neoliberalism, HIV/AIDS, and the Occupational Health and Safety of South African Public Sector Nurses

    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    This book explores the impacts of HIV/AIDS and neoliberal globalization on the occupational health of public sector hospital nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The story of South African public sector nurses provides multiple perspectives on the HIV/AIDS epidemic-for a workforce that played a role in the struggle against apartheid, women who deal with the burden of HIV/AIDS care at work and in ... Read more

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  • The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912

    New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike

    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    "In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14 years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills and cotton mills". Thus begins the federal government's Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 . This book follows up, one hundred years later. The story's retelling offers readers an exciting reexamination of just how powerful a united ... Read more

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