A New American Labor Movement: The Decline of Collective Bargaining and the Rise of Direct Action, Hardcover - William E. Scheuerman

Reducere. The American labor movement isn't dead. It's just moving from the bargaining table to the streets. In A New American Labor Movement, William Scheue...

DescriptionIn 1941 the magazine publishing titan Henry R. Luce urged the nation's leaders to create an American Century. But in the post-World-War-...

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Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, Paperback

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard FlanaganNon-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness - Soviet tractors, East Ge...

Reducere. This comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to collective bargaining and labor relations with a focus on developments in the United States...

Reducere. The thrilling and true account of racketeering and union corruption in mid-century New York, when unions and the mob were locked in a power struggl...

Reducere. Founded by Mexican American men in 1929, the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) has usually been judged according to Chicano national...

A longtime movement insider's powerful account of the origins of today's protest movements and what they can achieve now As Americans take to the s...

Reducere. In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-ninet...

The inspiring true story of the tragic loss and triumphant resurrection of a basketball team and its coach at the heart of a small Indiana town.By ...

Reducere. Writing during the Great Depression, William Z. Foster describes burning injustices in the economic orthodoxy, and predicts the gradual emergence o...

Reducere. Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe and a founder of the American Indian Movement, is one of the most influential Indian leaders o...

Reducere. In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town bec...

A new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizenship entailed voting, volunt...

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From the 1860s through to the early 20th century the rise of Japonisme and the Art Nouveau movement meant that few could ignore or resist the obses...

Reducere. The theory and practice of civil disobedience has once again taken on import, given recent events. Considering widespread dissatisfaction with norm...

A new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what this teaches us about the futureHistorical acc...

Investigates how electronic devices we use affect our consciousness, both as individuals and classes.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Adam D. ShprintzenVegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early years o...

This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empi...

Reducere. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1...

Reducere. Yoga. Humanistic Psychology. Meditation. Holistic Healing. These practices are commonplace today. Yet before the early 1960s they were atypical opt...

Reducere. A classic history of banking and trade in the medieval period, combining superb research and analysis with graceful writing.The Medici Bank was the...

Reducere. In this essential exploration of the American heartland, Kayleigh McEnany presents an eye-opening collection of interviews and stories about the po...

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers an...

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Manufacturing Decline argues that antigovernment conservatives capitalized on-and perpetuated-Rust Belt cities' misfortunes by stoking racial resen...

An Eater Best Cookbook of Fall 2020 - This groundbreaking new cookbook from chef, bestselling author, and TV star Marcus Samuelsson celebrates cont...

The first book taking stock of a new left generationPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Raina LipsitzNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action - Elinor Ostrom

Bringing to the fore a wealth of original research, A Detroit Story examines how the informal reclamation of abandoned property has been shaping De...

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Reducere. There is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and th...

Reducere. "The fundamental problem... is that of family structure. The evidence--not final but powerfully persuasive--is that the Negro family in the urban g...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Cambodia, then keep reading...Did you know that Cambodia is home to Angkor Wat, the world's larg...

Reducere. Something is essential if it is of the utmost importance: basic, indispensable, necessary. This book is just that, essential.Negotiation, in simple...

Reducere. A timely and groundbreaking argument that all Americans must grapple with Latinos' dynamic racial identity--because it impacts everything we think ...

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Every May, a sea of 250, 000 people decked out in red and white head to Chicago's Loop to celebrate the Polish Constitution Day Parade. In the city...

DescriptionA major new work of feminism on the history and persistence of patriarchal hierarchies from the MacArthur Award-winning economist In thi...

Vexing social issues such as the opioid epidemic, criminal violence, and chronic unemployment are the target of social programs Americans fund with...

Few social historians had examined the popular religious beliefs of the 1500s at the time Thomas published Religion and the Decline of Magic in 197...

Reducere. DescriptionTrade unionist and Marxist politician William Z. Foster explains the organization and failure of the steel strike in 1919, an action whi...

Finance expert, law professor, and fellow overwhelmed consumer Kathryn Judge investigates the surprising ways that middlemen have taken control of ...

Reducere. This book relates the part played by Royal Navy Top Guns in defence of UK's global National Interests since World War II. It is an intimate account...

DescriptionThere's a problem with school lunch in America. Big Food companies have largely replaced the nation's school cooks by supplying cafeteri...