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  • The Miners of Windber

    The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s-1930s

    by Mildred Beik ...
    In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, join the United Mine ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • The Precariat

    The New Dangerous Class

    by Prof. Guy Standing ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.This book presents the Precariat – an emerging class, comprising the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives.Guy Standing argues that this class is producing instabilities in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Greater Gotham

    A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919

    by Mike Wallace ...
    Series series The History of NYC Series
    In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving from national to global prominence -- an urban dynamo driven by restless ambition, boundless energy, immigrant ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • New Labor in New York

    Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement

    Edited by Ruth Milkman, Edward Ott ...
    New York City boasts a higher rate of unionization than any other major U.S. city—roughly double the national average—but the city's unions have suffered steady and relentless decline, especially in the private sector. With higher levels of income inequality than any other large city in the nation, New York today is home to a large and growing precariat—workers with little or no employment ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Magnetic City

    A Walking Companion to New York

    by Justin Davidson ...
    From New York magazine’s architecture critic, a walking and reading guide to New York City—a historical, cultural, architectural, and personal approach to seven neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, including six essays that help us understand the evolution of the cityFor nearly a decade, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Justin Davidson has explained the ever-changing city of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Handbook of Labor Economics

    Edited by Orley Ashenfelter, David Card ...
    Series Book 4 - Handbooks in Economics
    What new tools and models are enriching labor economics?Developments in Research Methods and their Application, Volume 4A summarizes recent advances in the ways economists study wages, employment, and labor markets. Mixing conceptual models and empirical work, contributors cover subjects as diverse as field and laboratory experiments, program evaluation, and behavioral models. The combinations of ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

  • The Restless City

    A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present

    by Joanne Reitano ...
    The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a brief, insightful and lively history of the peoples, events and interactions that have formed New York City. Weaving together the shifting currents of economic, political, social, and cultural life, Joanne Reitano shows how New York has acted both as an indicator and a driver of the American experience in its ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • History of American Foreign Policy, Volume 2

    From 1895

    by Jerald A Combs ...
    First Published in 2017. Now thoroughly updated, this respected text provides a clear, concise, and affordable narrative and analytical history of American foreign policy from the revolutionary period to the present. This is Volume II and is from 1895. The historiographical essays at the end of each chapter have been revised to reflect the most recent scholarship. The History of American Foreign ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Franklin, Hamburg, Ogdensburg, and Hardyston

    by William R. Truran ...
    Series series Images of America
    In rare photographs, the book reveals the history of the people and places in the communities of Franklin, Hamburg, Ogdensburg, and Hardyston. Franklin, Hamburg, Ogdensburg, and Hardyston chronicles the settlement and life of the Wallkill Valley area of northern New Jersey. Beginning entirely as Hardyston Township, the area developed into four communities, each with distinctive qualities. Franklin ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sexual Orientation and Transgender Issues in Organizations

    Global Perspectives on LGBT Workforce Diversity

    Edited by Thomas Köllen ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Over the last decade workforce diversity has attracted much scientific attention. Given the shortage of literature on issues related to homosexual, bisexual and transgender employees, compared to other facets of workforce diversity, this book opens up new perspectives on this issue. Emphasis is placed on the equal consideration of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues. Thus the ... Read more

    $260.99 USD

  • Franklin

    by Sarah Ann Benton ...
    Series series Images of America
    On December 4, 1753, Gen. George Washington traveled to the junction of the Allegheny River and French Creek during one of his military excursions. There, the settlement was called Venango but soon became known as Franklin. Established in the heart of the original oil country in the 1740s, Franklin is the seat of Venango County. Once referred to as "the Nursery of Great Men," it boasts a rich ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hegemonic Transformation

    The State, Laws, and Labour Relations in Post-Socialist China

    by Elaine Sio-ieng Hui ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book contends that the Chinese economic reform inaugurated since 1978 has been a top-down passive revolution, in Gramsci’s term, and that after three decades of reform the role of the Chinese state has been changing from steering the passive revolution through coercive tactics to establishing capitalist hegemony. It illustrates that the labour law system is a crucial vehicle through which the ... Read more

    $98.09 USD