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  • Against Labor

    How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism

    by Rosemary Feurer, Chad Pearson, Michael Dennis, Elizabeth Esch, Dolores E Janiewski, Thomas A Klug, Peter Rachleff, David Roediger, Howard Stanger0, Robert Woodrum1 ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and offer incisive portraits of people and organizations that aggressively opposed unions. Other contributors examine the anti-labor movement against a backdrop of larger forces, such as ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Labor Histories

    Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience

    by Bruce Laurie, Reeve Huston, Shelton Stromquist, Cecelia Bucki, Tera W. Hunter, Gunther Peck, Kathryn J Oberdeck, Kimberley L. Phillips0, Ileen A DeVault1, James R. Barrett2, Peter Rachleff3 ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This collection emphatically answers, "No!" These thirteen essays delve into subjects like migrant labor, religion, ethnicity, agricultural history, and gender. Written by former students of preeminent labor figure and historian David Montgomery, the works advance the argument that class remains indispensable to the study of working ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Trade Competitiveness of the Middle East and North Africa

    Policies for Export Diversification

    Edited by José R. López-Cálix, Peter Walkenhorst, Ndiamé Diop ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Trade
    Over the past decade, four major developments in global economic integration have shaped trade policy and the economic performance of countries within the Middle East and North Africa region: the emergence of global supply chains, the growth of trade in services, the rise of China and India as major international trading powers, and regional integration. These developments, along with the labor ... Read more

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  • The Fastest Billion

    The Story Behind Africa's Economic Revolution

    by Charles Robertson ...
    From the vantage point of many in the West, Africa remains a continent of woe – a place stalked by ethnic conflict, corrupt dictatorships, religious strife, war and famine. But today, at last, the flawed mythology that treats Africa as a homogenous disaster area is being challenged by investors, economists, fund managers and academics. Age is not often associated with speed; but Africa, the cradle ... Read more

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  • Working Toward Whiteness

    How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

    by David R. Roediger ...
    How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues ... Read more

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  • Improving Municipal Management For Cities To Succeed: An Ieg Special Study

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    Cities now house half the world's population and produce 70 percent of its GDP. Managing them well helps development. Strengthening municipal management of planning, finance, and service provision has been at the core of World Bank support through municipal development projects (MDPs). This book reviews how, worldwide, nearly 3,000 municipalities have benefitted from 190 World Bank-supported MDPs ... Read more

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  • Better Day Coming

    Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000

    by Adam Fairclough ...
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  • Energy Security

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  • Profits and Power

    Navigating the Politics and Geopolitics of Oil

    by David A. Detomasi ...
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  • A Fierce Discontent

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