Labor, Paperback

Based on fieldwork in ten Asian countries, this book examines cross-national patterns and the impact of globalization, state policies, individual a...

Reducere. ``We seek to inform as well as to celebrate. The best posters about American workers and the jobs at which they labor make up a visually fascinatin...

In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio...

Publisher: Monash University PublishingAuthor(s): Chris BowenNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x 233 x 19Cover type: Paperb...

This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan-including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses...

Reducere. Why are unions weaker in the US than in Canada, two otherwise similar countries? This difference has shaped politics, policy, and levels of inequal...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Brooke Erin DuffyNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 209 x 140 x 30Cover type: Paperba...

Reducere. The Worker Center Handbook compiles best practices from around the country on partnering with labor, enlisting the assistance of faith communities ...

Reducere. DescriptionSince its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribu...

In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labor movement.About the ...

Reducere. Labor efficiency tactics of the top-notch foreman Regardless of the business you're in, efficient labor management is the key to its success. On th...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Elizabeth A. Fones-WolfNumber of pages: 344Collection: History of CommunicationPublication date: ...

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Leigh Claire La Berge shows how socially engaged art responds to and critiques what she calls decommodified labor-the slow diminishment of wages al...

Reducere. Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network, Tenth Anniversary Edition, is an ethnography of undocumented immigrants who work...

Reducere. This 2003 book analyzes the global dynamics of labor movements, introducing a major new database on labor unrest events worldwide from 1870 to 1996...

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This collection of essays by leading American historians explains how and why the fight against unionism has long been central to the meaning of co...

Reducere. Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes t...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Kasturi RayIllustration(s): 3 black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2...

Reducere. This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition. These "labor republ...

Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and...

Kenya supplies more than 35 percent of the fresh-cut roses and other flowers sold annually in the European Union. This industry--which employs at l...

Reducere. From Strike to ShowThe newsies' strike of 1899 was the last successful child labor riot of the 19th century, but by the time the history books were...

A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even fe...

Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is ...

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Exploring the complex interweaving of race, national identity, and the practice of sculpture, Amy Lyford takes us through a close examination of th...

Reducere. During World War II, Elaine Black Yoneda, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, spent eight months in a concentration camp--not in Europe, but...

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Surrogacy is India's new form of outsourcing, as couples from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cos...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Elisabeth AndersonIllustration(s): 22 b/w illus. 14 tables.Number of pages: 384Collection: Princeto...

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

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Moritz AltenriedNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 17Cover type...

Eli Friedman reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity...

In this timely book, labor and discrimination law scholar William B. Gould IV takes stock of the history and enduring legacies of unions in the Uni...

Reducere. From spectacular deaths in a drag musical to competing futures in a call center, Filipino Time examines how contracted service labor performed by F...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Erik DietrichIt's been said that software is eating the planet. The modern economy-the world itself-relies on technology. D...

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Bonacich and Wilson follow the flow of imports from Asian factories, exploring the roles of importers, container shipping companies, the ports, rai...

Reducere. Illuminating the entangled histories of the people and commodities that circulated across the Atlantic, Sharika D. Crawford assesses the Caribbean ...

Reducere. DescriptionFor the first time in a generation chain gangs have reappeared on the roads of the American South. Associated in the past with racial te...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Talitha L. LeflouriaIn 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for h...

Virginia Doellgast contends that high pay and good working conditions are possible even for marginal service jobs. This outcome, however, depends o...

Two decades after Indonesia's transition to democracy, its labor movement has emerged as a vibrant and influential political actor. Labor and Polit...

This ambitious volume delves into the fraught nexus of mobility and work, drawing timely and far-reaching conclusions.Publisher: Haymarket BooksNum...

Can private standards bring about more sustainable production practices? Grabs answers this question by combining large-N hypothesis testing with a...

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Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two...

Reducere. DescriptionAdelle Blackett tells the story behind the International Labour Organization's (ILO) Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention No. 189...

Reducere. In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously r...

In The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, ...

Race on the Line is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green-a former Bell ...

Title 29 presents regulations addressing labor management standards; wages and hours; equal employment; occupational safety; and pension and welfar...

This anthology pays tribute to Allan Berube (1946-2007), a self-taught historian and MacArthur Fellow who was a pioneer in the study of lesbian and...

Reducere. Despite the fact that 99 percent of us work for a living and although work shapes us to the core, class and labor are topics that are underrepresen...

This work examines variations of the social stratification paradigm in the humanities and social sciences. Extending the boundaries of thematic sem...

Reducere. Just looking at the Pacific Northwest s many verdant forests and fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to transform the region...

Reducere. Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institu...

Reducere. Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that cl...

Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralist...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tanya Maria Golash-BozaWinner, American Sociological Association Latino/a Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Bo...

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressAuthor(s): Christopher KrupaIllustration(s): 12 illus.Number of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these worker...

Reducere. Whether you are new to the FLSA or have years of experience with it, A Comprehensive Guide to the Fair Labor Standards Act for Public Employers is ...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Onn WincklerIllustration(s): tables. charts & illusNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2009Dimensions:...

Publisher: Berghahn BooksNumber of pages: 384Collection: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and EconomyPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 228 ...

Traces how various industrialists, thrown together by the effects of the southern gold rush, shaped the development of the southeastern US. This bo...

Reducere. From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes. Examining...

A History of Political Thought analyses market society by surveying the ideas of its most perceptive, thought-provoking observers - critics and def...