Political Strikes

Download Political Strikes full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Political Strikes ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History

Author : Aaron Brenner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317457072
Total Pages : 791 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History by : Aaron Brenner

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History written by Aaron Brenner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strikes have been part of American labor relations from colonial days to the present, reflecting the widespread class conflict that has run throughout the nation's history. Against employers and their goons, against the police, the National Guard, local, state, and national officials, against racist vigilantes, against their union leaders, and against each other, American workers have walked off the job for higher wages, better benefits, bargaining rights, legislation, job control, and just plain dignity. At times, their actions have motivated groundbreaking legislation, defining new rights for all citizens; at other times they have led to loss of workers' lives. This comprehensive encyclopedia is the first detailed collection of historical research on strikes in America. To provide the analytical tools for understanding strikes, the volume includes two types of essays - those focused on an industry or economic sector, and those focused on a theme. Each industry essay introduces a group of workers and their employers and places them in their economic, political, and community contexts. The essay then describes the industry's various strikes, including the main issues involved and outcomes achieved, and assesses the impact of the strikes on the industry over time. Thematic essays address questions that can only be answered by looking at a variety of strikes across industries, groups of workers, and time, such as, why the number of strikes has declined since the 1970s, or why there was a strike wave in 1946. The contributors include historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers, as well as current and past activists from unions and other social movement organizations. Photos, a Topic Finder, a bibliography, and name and subject indexes add to the works appeal.

"If the Workers Took a Notion"

Author : Josiah Bartlett Lambert
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501727524
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis "If the Workers Took a Notion" by : Josiah Bartlett Lambert

Download or read book "If the Workers Took a Notion" written by Josiah Bartlett Lambert and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a fundamental civic right, strikes are now constrained and contested. In an unusual and thought-provoking history, Josiah Bartlett Lambert shows how the ability to strike was transformed from a fundamental right that made the citizenship of working people possible into a conditional and commercialized function. Arguing that the executive branch, rather than the judicial branch, was initially responsible for the shift in attitudes about the necessity for strikes and that the rise of liberalism has contributed to the erosion of strikers' rights, Lambert analyzes this transformation in relation to American political thought. His narrative begins before the Civil War and takes the reader through the permanent striker replacement issue and the alienation of workplace-based collective action from community-based collective action during the 1960s. "If the Workers Took a Notion" maps the connections among American political development, labor politics, and citizenship to support the claim that the right to strike ought to be a citizenship right and once was regarded as such. Lambert argues throughout that the right to strike must be protected. He challenges the current "law turn" in labor scholarship and takes into account the role of party alliances, administrative agencies, the military, and the rise of modern presidential powers.

Red State Revolt

Author : Eric Blanc
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788735765
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Red State Revolt by : Eric Blanc

Download or read book Red State Revolt written by Eric Blanc and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable window into the changing shape of the American working class and American politics Thirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of “the white working class,” a strike wave—the first in over four decades—rocked the United States. Inspired by the wildcat victory in West Virginia, teachers in Oklahoma, Arizona, and across the country walked off their jobs and shut down their schools to demand better pay for educators, more funding for students, and an end to years of austerity. Confounding all expectations, these working-class rebellions erupted in regions with Republican electorates, weak unions, and bans on public sector strikes. By mobilizing to take their destinies into their own hands, red state school workers posed a clear alternative to politics as usual. And with similar actions now gaining steam in Los Angeles, Oakland, Denver, and Virginia, there is no sign that this upsurge will be short-lived. Red State Revolt is a compelling analysis of the emergence and development of this historic strike wave, with an eye to extracting its main strategic lessons for educators, labor organizer, and radicals across the country. A former high school teacher and longtime activist, Eric Blanc embedded himself into the rank-and-file leaderships of the walkouts, where he was given access to internal organizing meetings and secret Facebook groups inaccessible to most journalists. The result is one of the richest portraits of the labor movement to date, a story populated with the voices of school workers who are winning the fight for the soul of public education—and redrawing the political map of the country at large.

Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India

Author : Jörg Nowak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303005375X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India by : Jörg Nowak

Download or read book Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India written by Jörg Nowak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores new forms of popular organisation that emerged from strikes in India and Brazil between 2011 and 2014. Based on four case studies, the author traces the alliances and relations that strikers developed during their mobilisations with other popular actors such as students, indigenous peoples, and people displaced by dam projects. The study locates the mass strikes in Brazil’s construction industry and India’s automobile industry in a global conjuncture of protest movements, and develops a new theory of strikes that can take account of the manifold ways in which labour unrest is embedded in local communities and regional networks. “Jörg Nowak has written an ambitious, wide-ranging and very important book. Based on extensive empirical research in Brazil and India and a thorough analysis of the secondary literature, Nowak reveals that numerous labour conflicts develop in the absence of trade unions, but with the support of kinship networks, local communities, social movements and other types of associations. This impressive work may well become a major building block for a new interpretation of global workers’ struggles.” —Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands “Nowak’s book meticulously details the trajectory of strikes and its resultant new forms of organisations in India and Brazil. The central focus of this analytically rich and thought provoking book is to search for a new political alternative model of organising workers. A very good deed indeed!” —Nandita Mondal, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India “Jörg Nowak analyses with critical sense forms of popular organization that often remain invisible. It is an indispensable book for all those who are looking for more effective analytical resources to better understand the present situation and the future promises of the workers’ movements.” —Roberto Véras de Oliveira, Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil “In this timely and important study, Nowak convincingly challenges the dominant Eurocentric approach to labour conflict and calls for a new theory of strikes. He stresses the need to engage in a wider perspective that includes social reproduction, neighbourhood mobilisations, and the specific traditions of struggles in the Global South.” —Edward Webster, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Shanghai on Strike

Author : Elizabeth J. Perry
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804724913
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (249 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Shanghai on Strike by : Elizabeth J. Perry

Download or read book Shanghai on Strike written by Elizabeth J. Perry and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an important addition to the rather limited literature on the social history of China during the first half of the twentieth century. It draws on abundant sources and studies which have appeared in the People's Republic of China since the early 1980s and which have not been systematically used in Western historiography. China has undergone a series of fundamental political transformations: from the 1911 Revolution that toppled the imperial system to the victory of the communists, all of which were greatly affected by labor unrest. This work places the politics of Chinese workers in comparative perspective and a remarkably comprehensive and nuanced picture of Chinese labor emerges from it, based on a wealth of primary materials. It joins the concerns of 'new labor history' for workers' culture and shopfloor conditions with a more conventional focus on strikes, unions, and political parties. As a result, the author is able to explore the linkage between social protest and state formation.

The Great Strikes of 1877

Author : David O. Stowell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056353
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Great Strikes of 1877 by : David O. Stowell

Download or read book The Great Strikes of 1877 written by David O. Stowell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spectacular example of collective protest, the Great Strike of 1877--actually a sequence of related actions--was America's first national strike and the first major strike against the railroad industry. In some places, non-railroad workers also abandoned city businesses, creating one of the nation's first general strikes. Mobilizing hundreds of thousands of workers, the Great Strikes of 1877 transformed the nation's political landscape, shifting the primary political focus from Reconstruction to labor, capital, and the changing role of the state. Probing essays by distinguished historians explore the social, political, regional, and ethnic landscape of the Great Strikes of 1877: long-term effects on state militias and national guard units; ethnic and class characterization of strikers; pictorial representations of poor laborers in the press; organizational strategies employed by railroad workers; participation by blacks; violence against Chinese immigrants; and the developing tension between capitalism and racial equality in the United States. Contributors: Joshua Brown, Steven J. Hoffman, Michael Kazin, David Miller, Richard Schneirov, David O. Stowell, and Shelton Stromquist.

Strike!

Author : Jeremy Brecher
Publisher : South End Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896085695
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (856 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Strike! by : Jeremy Brecher

Download or read book Strike! written by Jeremy Brecher and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exciting history of American labor". -- The New York Times Book Review "New and Recommended" List

The Social General Strike

Author : Stephen Naft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Social General Strike by : Stephen Naft

Download or read book The Social General Strike written by Stephen Naft and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cruel Justice

Author : Joe Domanick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520246683
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Cruel Justice by : Joe Domanick

Download or read book Cruel Justice written by Joe Domanick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award-winning journalist comes an investigative look, through the stories of people on both sides of the law, at the development and impact of the three strikes legislation in California.

Teacher Strike!

Author : Jon Shelton
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252099370
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Teacher Strike! by : Jon Shelton

Download or read book Teacher Strike! written by Jon Shelton and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wave of teacher strikes in the 1960s and 1970s roiled urban communities. Jon Shelton illuminates how this tumultuous era helped shatter the liberal-labor coalition and opened the door to the neoliberal challenge at the heart of urban education today. As Shelton shows, many working- and middle-class whites sided with corporate interests in seeing themselves as society's only legitimate, productive members. This alliance increasingly argued that public employees and the urban poor took but did not give. Drawing on a wealth of research ranging from school board meetings to TV news reports, Shelton puts readers in the middle of fraught, intense strikes in Newark, St. Louis, and three other cities where these debates and shifting attitudes played out. He also demonstrates how the labor actions contributed to the growing public perception of unions as irrelevant or even detrimental to American prosperity. Foes of the labor movement, meanwhile, tapped into cultural and economic fears to undermine not just teacher unionism but the whole of liberalism.

Riot. Strike. Riot

Author : Joshua Clover
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784780626
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Riot. Strike. Riot by : Joshua Clover

Download or read book Riot. Strike. Riot written by Joshua Clover and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award winning poet Joshua Clover theorises the riot as the form of the coming insurrection Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an “age of riots” as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar Joshua Clover offers a new understanding of this present moment and its history. Rioting was the central form of protest in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was supplanted by the strike in the early nineteenth century. It returned to prominence in the 1970s, profoundly changed along with the coordinates of race and class. From early wage demands to recent social justice campaigns pursued through occupations and blockades, Clover connects these protests to the upheavals of a sclerotic economy in a state of moral collapse. Historical events such as the global economic crisis of 1973 and the decline of organized labor, viewed from the perspective of vast social transformations, are the proper context for understanding these eruptions of discontent. As social unrest against an unsustainable order continues to grow, this valuable history will help guide future antagonists in their struggles toward a revolutionary horizon.

Strikes in Politicisation

Author : Jacqueline E. Briggs
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Strikes in Politicisation by : Jacqueline E. Briggs

Download or read book Strikes in Politicisation written by Jacqueline E. Briggs and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many to whom the label employee could be applied, have had to consider the possibility of engaging in strike activity. The strike is perhaps the ultimate weapon that an employee is able to wield in an attempt to exert any influence or bargaining power, and is therefore a powerful political tool. Whatever the catalyst for strike activity, an interesting area of political enquiry is the impact which the strike has on its participants, mainly the effect it has on the politicization process.

Workers' Movements and Strikes in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Jörg Nowak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786604051
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Workers' Movements and Strikes in the Twenty-First Century by : Jörg Nowak

Download or read book Workers' Movements and Strikes in the Twenty-First Century written by Jörg Nowak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While workers movements have been largely phased out and considered out-dated in most parts of the world during the 1990s, the 21st century has seen a surge in new and unprecedented forms of strikes and workers organisations. The collection of essays in this book, spanning countries across global South and North, provides an account of strikes and working class resistance in the 21st century. Through original case studies, the book looks at the various shades of workers’ movements, analysing different forms of popular organisation as responses to new social and economic conditions, such as restructuring of work and new areas of investment.

The Social General Strike

Author : Arnold Roller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Social General Strike by : Arnold Roller

Download or read book The Social General Strike written by Arnold Roller and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The State Strikes Back

Author : Nicholas R. Lardy
Publisher : Peterson Institute for International Economics
ISBN 13 : 0881327387
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (813 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The State Strikes Back by : Nicholas R. Lardy

Download or read book The State Strikes Back written by Nicholas R. Lardy and published by Peterson Institute for International Economics. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's extraordinarily rapid economic growth since 1978, driven by market-oriented reforms, has set world records and continued unabated, despite predictions of an inevitable slowdown. In The State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reform in China?, renowned China scholar Nicholas R. Lardy argues that China's future growth prospects could be equally bright but are shadowed by the specter of resurgent state dominance, which has begun to diminish the vital role of the market and private firms in China's economy. Lardy's book arrives in timely fashion as a sequel to his pathbreaking Markets over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China, published by PIIE in 2014. This book mobilizes new data to trace how President Xi Jinping has consistently championed state-owned or controlled enterprises, encouraging local political leaders and financial institutions to prop up ailing, underperforming companies that are a drag on China's potential. As with his previous book, Lardy's perspective departs from conventional wisdom, especially in its contention that China could achieve a high growth rate for the next two decades—if it reverses course and returns to the path of market-oriented reforms.

What Means this Strike?

Author : Daniel De Leon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis What Means this Strike? by : Daniel De Leon

Download or read book What Means this Strike? written by Daniel De Leon and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mass Strike

Author : Rosa Luxemburg
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Mass Strike by : Rosa Luxemburg

Download or read book The Mass Strike written by Rosa Luxemburg and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical source book comprising two pamphlets on the communist political party, the trade unions, and the use of mass strike tactics to achieve social change in Germany and Russia.