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  • Wal-Mart

    The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism

    Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    A collection of essays that "do an incredible job of balancing the wonders and horrors of the force that is Wal-Mart " ( Booklist , starred review).Edited by one of the nation's preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissect the full extent of Wal-Mart's business operations, its social effects, and its role in the United States and world economy. Wal-Mart is based on a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Labor’s Partisans

    Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today

    Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein, Samir Sonti ...
    The top writers on labor provide vital historical context for the current upsurge in union organizingIn 1954, the American labor movement reached its historic height, with one-third of all nonagricultural workers belonging to a union—and much higher percentages in the nation’s key industries. That same year, a group of writers and activists, many with close ties to organized labor, founded Dissent ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Fabulous Failure

    The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism

    by Nelson Lichtenstein, Judith Stein ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    How the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the rightWhen Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he ended twelve years of Republican rule and seemed poised to enact a progressive transformation of the US economy, touching everything from health care to trade to labor relations. Yet by the time he left office, the nation’s economic and social policies ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • State of the Union

    A Century of American Labor - Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Capitalism Contested

    The New Deal and Its Legacies

    Edited by Romain Huret, Nelson Lichtenstein, Jean-Christian Vinel ...
    In the historical narrative that prevails today, the New Deal years are positioned between two equally despised Gilded Ages—the first in the late nineteenth century and the second characterized by the world of Walmart, globalization, and right-wing populism in which we currently live. What defines these two ages is an increasing level of inequality legitimized by powerful ideologies, namely, ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Beyond the New Deal Order

    U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession

    Edited by Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, Alice O'Connor ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    Ever since introducing the concept in the late 1980s, historians have been debating the origins, nature, scope, and limitations of the New Deal order—the combination of ideas, electoral and governing strategies, redistributive social policies, and full employment economics that became the standard-bearer for political liberalism in the wake of the Great Depression and commanded Democratic ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Right and Labor in America

    Politics, Ideology, and Imagination

    Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    The legislative attack on public sector unionism that gave rise to the uproar in Wisconsin and other union strongholds in 2011 was not just a reaction to the contemporary economic difficulties faced by the government. Rather, it was the result of a longstanding political and ideological hostility to the very idea of trade unionism put forward by a conservative movement whose roots go as far back ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy

    Edited by Richard P. Appelbaum, Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    The world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to happen, and not merely because of the corruption and exploitation of workers so common in the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • State of the Union

    A Century of American Labor

    by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America
    In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, ... Read more

    $23.39 USD

  • Working-Class America

    Essays on Labor, Community, and American Society

    by Jonathan Prude, Sean Wilentz, Christine Stansell, Leon Fink, Francis G. Couvares, Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf, Kenneth Fones-Wolf, Susan Porter Benson, Steve Fraser, Joshua B Freeman, Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    At the time of its original publication, Working-Class America represented the new labor history par excellence. A roster of noteworthy scholars in the field contribute original essays written during a pivotal time in the nation's history and within the discipline. Moving beyond historical-sociological analyses, the authors take readers inside the lives of the real men and women behind the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Capitalism Contested

    The New Deal and Its Legacies

    Edited by Romain Huret, Nelson Lichtenstein, Jean-Christian Vinel ...
    In the historical narrative that prevails today, the New Deal years are positioned between two equally despised Gilded Ages—the first in the late nineteenth century and the second characterized by the world of Walmart, globalization, and right-wing populism in which we currently live. What defines these two ages is an increasing level of inequality legitimized by powerful ideologies, namely, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Retail Revolution

    How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business

    by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    The definitive account of how a small Ozarks company upended the world of business and what that change meansWal-Mart, the world's largest company, roared out of the rural South to change the way business is done. Deploying computer-age technology, Reagan-era politics, and Protestant evangelism, Sam Walton's firm became a byword for cheap goods and low-paid workers, famed for the ruthless ... Read more

    $12.99 USD