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Author : Jane Slaughter
Publisher : Labor Notes
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Concessions, and how to Beat Them written by Jane Slaughter and published by Labor Notes. This book was released on 1983 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kim Moody
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608468720
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book On New Terrain written by Kim Moody and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A detailed and provocative study of how capital has changed since the 1980s and its effects on the working class and political parties in the USA.” —Scottish Left Review On New Terrain challenges conventional wisdom about a disappearing working class and the inevitability of a two-party political structure as the only framework for struggle. Through in-depth study of the economic and political shifts at the top of society, Moody shows how recent developments in capitalist production impact the working class and its power to resist the status quo. He argues that this transformed industrial terrain offers new possibilities for organization in the workplace and opens doors for grassroots, independent political action strengthened by reemerging labor and social movements. From the logistics revolution to the unprecedented concentration of business and wealth in the hands of the one percent, On New Terrain examines the impact of the current economic terrain on the working class in the United States. Looking beyond the clichés of precarity and the gig economy, Moody shows that the working class and its own self-activity are essential in the global battle against austerity. “[A] masterful and much-needed book.” —Solidarity “Immediately shakes the reader by offering a hard hitting, concrete and sober analysis of the transformation of both the capitalist and working classes of the USA.” —Bill Fletcher, Jr., coauthor of Solidarity Divided “He explodes myths about the gig economy and the potential to transform the Democratic Party. Readers will put the book down convinced that there is a way for workers to win.” —LaborNotes
Author : Ruth Milkman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520206789
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Farewell to the Factory written by Ruth Milkman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A profound exploration into the decline of factory labor in the U.S. . . . Hers is one of those rare books that brilliantly illuminates current transformations in the organization of work and work lives."—Fred Block, author of Postindustrial Possibilities "Part ethnography and part contemporary labor history, Milkman's wonderful book will be required reading for anyone concerned with the transformation American industry has undergone in the past twenty years and what this transformation has meant for American workers."—David Brody, author of Workers in Industrial America "Behind all of the statistics on downsizing, the shrinking of our industrial base, and the folly of short-sighted management is the human drama of working women and men and their unions, struggling for dignity, fairness, and security. In Farewell to the Factory, Ruth Milkman tells us the stories of workers in a New Jersey auto plant. Milkman's scholarship makes a valuable contribution to the national conversation on restoring the American Dream for working families."—John J. Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO "A fascinating case study of deindustrialization and restructuring by one of the leading social historians of the auto industry. The book is a great read and should be widely adopted in the classroom."—Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley "Milkman's impressive study probes the contemporary meaning of work, freedom and dignity in a fashion both sociologically rigorous and culturally evocative. Avoiding liberal nostalgia over the demise of industial America, Milkman deploys a magnificantly textured set of interviews to demonstrate that auto workers hated the chronic stress and humiliation of factory work even as they clung to its high pay and good benefits."—Nelson Lichtenstein, author of The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor
Author : Dana L. Cloud
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252093410
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book We Are the Union written by Dana L. Cloud and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary tale of union democracy, Dana L. Cloud engages union reformers at Boeing in Wichita and Seattle to reveal how ordinary workers attempted to take command of their futures by chipping away at the cozy partnership between union leadership and corporate management. Taking readers into the central dilemma of having to fight an institution while simultaneously using it as a bastion of basic self-defense, We Are the Union offers a sophisticated exploration of the structural opportunities and balance of forces at play in modern unions told through a highly relevant case study. Focusing on the 1995 strike at Boeing, Cloud renders a multi-layered account of the battles between company and the union and within the union led by Unionists for Democratic Change and two other dissident groups. She gives voice to the company's claims of the hardships of competitiveness and the entrenched union leaders' calls for concessions in the name of job security, alongside the democratic union reformers' fight for a rank-and-file upsurge against both the company and the union leaders. We Are the Union is grounded in on-site research and interviews and focuses on the efforts by Unionists for Democratic Change to reform unions from within. Incorporating theory and methods from the fields of organizational communication as well as labor studies, Cloud methodically uncovers and analyzes the goals, strategies, and dilemmas of the dissidents who, while wanting to uphold the ideas and ideals of the union, took up the gauntlet to make it more responsive to workers and less conciliatory toward management, especially in times of economic stress or crisis. Cloud calls for a revival of militant unionism as a response to union leaders' embracing of management and training programs that put workers in the same camp as management, arguing that reform groups should look to the emergence of powerful industrial unions in the United States for guidance on revolutionizing existing institutions and building new ones that truly accommodate workers' needs. Drawing from communication studies, labor history, and oral history and including a chapter co-written with Boeing worker Keith Thomas, We Are the Union contextualizes what happened at Boeing as an exemplar of agency that speaks both to the past and the future.
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Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Labor Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Burns
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642596817
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Class Struggle Unionism written by Joe Burns and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who want to build a fighting labor movement, there are many questions to answer. How to relate to the union establishment which often does not want to fight? Whether to work in the rank and file of unions or staff jobs? How much to prioritize broader class demands versus shop floor struggle? How to relate to foundation-funded worker centers and alternative union efforts? And most critically, how can we revive militancy and union power in the face of corporate power and a legal system set up against us? Class struggle unionism is the belief that our union struggle exists within a larger struggle between an exploiting billionaire class and the working class which actually produces the goods and services in society. Class struggle unionism looks at the employment transaction as inherently exploitative. While workers create all wealth in society, the outcome of the wage employment transaction is to separate workers from that wealth and create the billionaire class. From that simple proposition flows a powerful and radical form of unionism. Historically, class struggle unionists placed their workplace fights squarely within this larger fight between workers and the owning class. Viewing unionism in this way produces a particular type of unionism which both fights for broader class issues but is also rooted in workplace-based militancy. Drawing on years of labor activism and study of labor tradition Joe Burns outlines the key set of ideas common to class struggle unionism and shows how these ideas can create a more militant, democtractic and fighting labor movement.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Labor Research Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kim Moody
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789603374
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book US Labor in Trouble and Transition written by Kim Moody and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: US Labor in Trouble and Transition tells the story of union decline in America and of the split in the labor movement it led to, following the dismal tale of union mergers and management partnerships that accompanied the retreat from militancy since the 1980s. Looking to the future, Moody shows how the rise of immigrant labor and its efforts at self-organization can re-energize the unions from below. US Labor in Trouble and Transition is a major intervention in the ongoing debate within the US labor movement.
Author : Kim Moody
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784787825
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)
Download or read book An Injury to All written by Kim Moody and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes. In this first comprehensive history of the labor movement from Truman to Reagan, Kim Moody shows how the AFL-CIO's conservative ideology of "business unionism" effectively disarmed unions in the face of a domestic right turn and an epochal shift to globalized production. Eschewing alliances with new social forces in favor of its old Cold War liaisons and illusory compacts with big business, the AFL-CIO under George Meany and Lane Kirkland has been forced to surrender many of its post-war gains. With extraordinary attention to the viewpoints of rank-and-file workers, Moody chronicles the major, but largely unreported, efforts of labor's grassroots to find its way out of the crisis. In case studies of auto, steel, meatpacking and trucking, he traces the rise of "anti-concession" movements and in other case studies describes the formidable obstacles to the "organization of the unorganized" in the service sector. A detailed analysis of the Rainbow Coalition's potential to unite labor with other progressive groups follows, together with a pathbreaking consideration of the possibilities of a new "labor internationalism."
Author : Eric Arnesen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135883629
Total Pages : 1734 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History written by Eric Arnesen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 1734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A RUSA 2007 Outstanding Reference Title The Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working-Class History provides sweeping coverage of US labor history. Containing over 650 entries, the Encyclopedia encompasses labor history from the colonial era to the present. Articles focus on states, regions, periods, economic sectors and occupations, race-relations, ethnicity, and religion, concepts and developments in labor economics, environmentalism, globalization, legal history, trade unions, strikes, organizations, individuals, management relations, and government agencies and commissions. Articles cover such issues as immigration and migratory labor, women and labor, labor in every war effort, slavery and the slave-trade, union-resistance by corporations such as Wal-Mart, and the history of cronyism and corruption, and the mafia within elements of labor history. Labor history is also considered in its representation in film, music, literature, and education. Important articles cover the perception of working-class culture, such as the surge in sympathy for the working class following September 11, 2001. Written as an objective social history, the Encyclopedia encapsulates the rise and decline, and continuous change of US labor history into the twenty-first century.
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Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book American Bee Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes summarized reports of many bee-keeper associations.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Workbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Choosing Sides written by Mike Parker and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gilda Haas
Publisher : South End Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896082120
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Plant Closures written by Gilda Haas and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the real causes of plant shutdowns: mergers, new technologies, and worldwide domination of production by multinational corporations.
Author : United States. Department of State
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miriam Golden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bargaining for Change written by Miriam Golden and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sam Rainsy
Publisher : Silkworm Books
ISBN 13 : 1627761624
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)
Download or read book We Didn't Start the Fire written by Sam Rainsy and published by Silkworm Books. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambodia’s long-time opposition leader and former finance minister Sam Rainsy is committed to establishing democracy in his homeland. He is in exile in France to avoid a twelve-year prison sentence on politically motivated charges, and is banned from contesting the July 2013 elections. In this autobiography, he recounts his early years in Cambodia, his family’s expulsion and his relationship with Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge regime, the Vietnamese occupation, and Hun Sen’s control of the country since the 1980s. With conviction and insight, Sam Rainsy addresses the issues of poverty and injustice in his country and discusses the challenges to initiating real political, social, and economic reform. His proposals provide a long-term roadmap for a new Cambodia. Highlights - How Sam Rainsy was twice subjected to politically motivated assassination attempts - Sam Rainsy’s relationship, through the years, with Sihanouk - How Sam Rainsy and his wife tried to save Western hostages held by the Khmer Rouge in 1994 - How the merger of the Sam Rainsy Party with the Human Rights Party creates a new political force that can end Hun Sen’s dominance - Sam Rainsy’s manifesto for a new Cambodia
