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  • An Economic History of Ireland Since Independence

    by Andy Bielenberg, Raymond Ryan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    This book provides a cogent summary of the economic history of the Irish Free State/Republic of Ireland. It takes the Irish story from the 1920s right through to the present, providing an excellent case study of one of many European states which obtained independence during and after the First World War. The book covers the transition to protectionism and import substitution between the 1930s and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Lockout Dublin 1913

    The most famous labor dispute in Irish history

    by Padraig Yeates ...
    On 26 August 1913 the trams stopped running in Dublin. Striking conductors and drivers, members of the Irish Transport Workers' Union, abandoned their vehicles. They had refused a demand from their employer, William Martin Murphy of the Dublin United Transport Company, to forswear union membership or face dismissal. The company then locked them out. Within a month, the charismatic union leader, ... Read more

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  • Cyber-Proletariat

    Global Labour in the Digital Vortex

    by Nick Dyer-Witheford ...
    Series series Digital Barricades
    An unsparing analysis of class power and computerisation, Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution. From Coltan mines in the Congo; electronics factories in China and devastated neighbourhoods in Detroit, this book reveals how technology facilitates growing polarisation between wealthy elites and precarious workers.Nick Dyer-Witheford reveals the class domination ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inside South Africa’s Foreign Policy

    Diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki

    by John Siko ...
    South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the recent consensus has been that South Africa's diplomacy over the last decades has been a disappointing failure - from appearing to back the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives

    Bringing Workplace Law and Public Policy Into Focus

    by Stephen F. Befort, John W. Budd ...
    The global financial crisis and recession have placed great strains on the free market ideology that has emphasized economic objectives and unregulated markets. The balance of economic and noneconomic goals is under the microscope in every sector of the economy. It is time to re-think the objectives of the employment relationship and the underlying assumptions of how that relationship operates ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics

    The IZA World of Labor Guide 2017

    Edited by Daniel S. Hamermesh, Olga K. Nottmeyer ...
    Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics distills and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision makers make better informed policy decisions.Written by well-known labor economists worldwide, research findings on key policy issues are presented in a compact and readable format, as distillations of comprehensive evidence-based research with concise ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Triple Murder In The Blue Hour Saloon Al Capone and Union Racketeering

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Al Capone moved into union racketeering in 1920s, one of many Mafia bosses who did so. Three Capone surrogates were murdered in cold blood in the Blue Hour Saloon on April 20, 1930. A single assassin was responsible for all three deaths. The murders represented a rupture in the peace agreement in the Chicago underworld of 1930. It was also a bonafide challenge to Capone's hegemony as boss of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unequal

    How America's Courts Undermine Discrimination Law

    by Sandra F. Sperino, Suja A. Thomas ...
    Series series Law and Current Events Masters
    It is no secret that since the 1980s, American workers have lost power vis-à-vis employers through the well-chronicled steep decline in private sector unionization. American workers have also lost power in other ways. Those alleging employment discrimination have fared increasingly poorly in the courts. In recent years, judges have dismissed scores of cases in which workers presented evidence that ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Immigration and Work

    Edited by Jody Agius Vallejo ...
    Series Book 27 - Research in the Sociology of Work
    Immigrants and their descendants are growing populations that are rapidly changing the racial/ethnic diversity of the United States and many societies across the globe. People migrate for a multitude of reasons but work whether in the high-skilled, low-wage, or informal sectors of the economy or the drive to establish a businesses, is the primary impetus. The goal of this volume is to bring ... Read more

    $173.99 USD

  • The Stratifying Trade Union

    The Case of Ethnic and Gender Inequality in Palestine, 1920-1948

    by Shaul A. Duke ...
    This book examines a basic assumption behind most of the critical, progressive thinking of our times: that trade unions are necessarily tools for solidarity and are integral to a more equal and just society. Shaul A. Duke assesses the trade union's potential to promote equality in ethnically and racially diverse societies by offering an in-depth look into how unions operate; how power flows ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Theoretical and Empirical Studies on Cooperatives

    Lessons for Cooperatives in South Africa

    Edited by Andrew Emmanuel Okem ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book outlines how cooperatives can be used as a tool for development and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts. This book also examines the successes and challenges for emerging and existing cooperatives in Africa, while delivering both practical lessons and insights into the theory. It presents completely new materials on the cooperative movement, against a backdrop of increasing global ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Agrarian Capitalism in Theory and Practice

    by Susan Archer Mann ...
    Susan Mann focuses on a longstanding controversy in sociological theory: why has agriculture been traditionally resistant to wage labor? Capitalist develoment has been slower and more uneven in agriculture than in other spheres of production, and major parts of the rural economy remain almost preindustrial in their reliance on family labor, lack of separation between industry and household, and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD