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  • Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine

    Rival Images of a New World in 1930s Vancouver

    by Todd McCallum ...
    Series series Fabriks: Studies in the Working Class
    In the early years of the Great Depression, thousands of unemployed homeless transients settled into Vancouver’s “hobo jungle.” The jungle operated as a distinct community, in which goods were exchanged and shared directly, without benefit of currency. The organization of life was immediate and consensual, conducted in the absence of capital accumulation. But as the transients moved from the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Free Agent Nation

    How Americans New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live

    by Daniel H. Pink ...
    Widely acclaimed for its engaging style and provocative perspective, this book has helped thousands transform their working lives -- Now including a 30-page resource guide that explains the basics of working for oneself.It's about fulfillment. A revolution is sweeping America. On its front lines are people fed up with unfulfilling jobs, dysfunctional workplaces, and dead-end careers. Meet today's ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Shadowbosses

    Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind

    by Mallory Factor, Elizabeth Factor ...
    SHADOWBOSSES reads like an organized crime novel, but it's actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political process. This compelling and insightful book exposes how unions have organized federal, state, and local government employees without their consent, and how government employee unions are now a threat to our workers' freedoms, our free ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Thought of Work

    by John W. Budd ...
    John W. Budd's The Thought of Work provides a much needed and highly eloquent statement of the meanings and orientations to work across time and nations. It is essential reading for students of work from senior scholars to beginning undergraduates.— Randy Hodson, Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences The Ohio State University and past editor ― American Sociological ReviewBy ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Intern Nation

    How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy

    by Ross Perlin ...
    Millions of young people—and increasingly some not-so-young people—now work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand magazine offices, legislative backrooms, and Hollywood studios, but they also deliver aid in Afghanistan, map the human genome, and pick up garbage. Intern Nation is the first exposé of the exploitative world of internships. In this witty, astonishing, and serious ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

  • Reworking the Relationship between Asylum and Employment

    by Penelope Mathew ...
    Touching on the laws and practices of a wide array of countries around the globe, this book examines the extent to which refugees and asylum-seekers’ right to work is protected by international human rights law. The book examines a number of key international treaties, national constitutions and some foundational cases from national courts in order to make the case that the practise of restricting ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor

    Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old?

    by Steve Early ...
    "Should be required reading for all workers' rights advocates." —Bernie SandersBetween 2008 and 2010, the progressive wing of the US labor movement tore itself apart in a series of internecine struggles. More than $140 million was expended, by all sides, on organizing conflicts that tarnished union reputations and undermined the campaign for real health care and labor law reform. Campus and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Story of an African Working Class

    Ghanaian Miners' Struggles 1870-1980

    by Jeff Crisp ...
    Series series African History Archive
    This seminal work tells the story of Ghana's gold miners, one of the oldest and most militant groups of workers in Africa. It is a story of struggle against exploitative mining companies, repressive governments and authoritarian trade union leaders.Drawing on a wide range of original sources, including previously secret government and company records, Jeff Crisp explores the changing nature of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Border Cities Powerhouse: 1901-1945

    by Patrick Brode ...
    This is the first comprehensive history of the Border Cities area during its formative period in the first half of the 20th Century. The story of Windsor’s emergence during this period is largely one of confrontation and conflict: a multicultural population, industrial expansion, radical politics, and military production all played their part in the city's early history. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Labor Relations in a Globalizing World

    by Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, Alexander J. S. Colvin ...
    Compelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor relations, Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, and Alexander J. S. Colvin give us the first textbook to focus on the workplace outcomes of the production of goods and services in emerging countries. In Labor Relations in a Globalizing World they draw lessons from the United States and other advanced industrial countries to ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Combining Paid Work and Family Care

    Policies and Experiences in International Perspective

    Edited by Teppo Kröger, Sue Yeandle ...
    As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability.International ... Read more

    $46.79 USD