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“victor narro”

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  • Working for Justice

    The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy

    Edited by Ruth Milkman, Joshua Bloom, Victor Narro ...
    Working for Justice, which includes eleven case studies of recent low-wage worker organizing campaigns in Los Angeles, makes the case for a distinctive "L.A. Model" of union and worker center organizing. Networks linking advocates in worker centers and labor unions facilitate mutual learning and synergy and have generated a shared repertoire of economic justice strategies. The organized labor ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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    Bike Messengers and the City

    by Jeffrey L. Kidder ...
    Bike messengers are familiar figures in the downtown cores of major cities. Tasked with delivering time-sensitive materials within, at most, a few hours—and sometimes in as little as fifteen minutes—these couriers ride in all types of weather, weave in and out of dense traffic, dodging (or sometimes failing to dodge) taxis and pedestrians alike in order to meet their clients' tight deadlines. ... Read more

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  • City of Quartz

    Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker).No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this ... Read more

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  • Workforce Planning and Scheduling. Automated Staff Shifts Management and Rostering

    by Isabella Longobardi ...
    Scheduling staff shifts is a difficult task. In organizations that work on Sundays, and/or on public holidays, and/or during night hours, scheduling shifts accurately and efficiently is a time consuming job, and it also exposes employers to the risk of excessive overtime costs and poor distribution of workload among employees.In order to be efficient, anyone who has the task of planning the ... Read more

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  • Coast of Dreams

    by Kevin Starr ...
    In this extraordinary book, Kevin Starr–widely acknowledged as the premier historian of California, the scope of whose scholarship the Atlantic Monthly has called “breathtaking”–probes the possible collapse of the California dream in the years 1990—2003. In a series of compelling chapters, Coast of Dreams moves through a variety of topics that show the California of the last decade, when the state ... Read more

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  • Labor Law for the Rank & Filer

    Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law

    by Staughton Lynd, Daniel Gross ...
    Have you ever felt your blood boil at work but lacked the tools to fight back and win? Or have you acted together with your co-workers, made progress, but wondered what to do next? If you are in a union, do you find that it operates top-down just like the boss and ignores the will of its members?Labor Law for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law is a guerrilla ... Read more

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  • Mobilizing against Inequality

    Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism

    Edited by Lee H. Adler, Maite Tapia, Lowell Turner ...
    Series series Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectureship and Conference Series
    Among the many challenges that global liberalization has posed for trade unions, the growth of precarious immigrant workforces lacking any collective representation stands out as both a major threat to solidarity and an organizing opportunity. Believing that collective action is critical in the struggle to lift the low wages and working conditions of immigrant workers, the contributors to ... Read more

    $20.89 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

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  • Trade Unions and the State

    The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions in Britain, 1890-2000

    by Chris Howell ...
    The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political history. How were the governments of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the unions?In analyzing how an entirely new industrial relations system was constructed after 1979, Howell offers a revisionist history of British trade ... Read more

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  • Black and Blue

    African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party

    by Paul Frymer ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred U.S. labor union members were African American. By 1980, the figure was more than one in five. Black and Blue explores the politics and history that led to this dramatic integration of organized labor. In the process, the book tells a broader story about how the Democratic Party unintentionally sowed the seeds of labor's decline.The labor and civil ... Read more

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  • A Class by Herself

    Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s–1990s

    by Nancy Woloch ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights. Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall of women-only state protective laws—such as maximum hour laws, minimum wage laws, and night work laws—from their roots in progressive ... Read more

    $24.49 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

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