Labor, Paperback

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...

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

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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...

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...

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

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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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...

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

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

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...

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...

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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...

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

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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 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: ...

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

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

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...

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. ``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...

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

Reducere. In 1921, some 10, 000 West Virginia coal miners-- outraged over years of brutality and exploitation-- picked up their Winchesters and marched again...

Reducere. In the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, far from the hustle and noise of urban centers, lies a village made of mud and rock, barely discernible fro...

Reducere. Employing the rich testimony of almost three hundred survivors of the slave-labor camps of Starachowice, Poland, Christopher R. Browning draws the ...

Publisher: Monthly Review Press, U.S.Author(s): James W RussellNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 210 x 20Cover type: Pape...

Reducere. Why aren't more women at the top of the ivory tower?The academy claims to be a meritocracy, in which the best and brightest graduate students gain ...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

Reducere. More than any other city in America, New York in the years after the Second World War carved out an idealistic and equitable path to the future. La...

Reducere. Written by two birth doulas and intuitive healers, this book tells the metaphorical story of a fictional goddess who must walk through 7 Gates of T...

Reducere. Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves explores the untold story of cannery workers in Southeast Alaska from 1878, when the first cannery was erected on the Al...

Reducere. Like you, Sherri McConnell loves to quilt and fill her home with special creations. Online influencer, fabric designer, and quilt designer Sherri r...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): K JarrettNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 209 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackRede...

Reducere. Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent T...

Reducere. IDA: HER LABOR OF LOVE is the true expanded biography of a woman living in Colorado during the late 1800s. Rich in the details of pioneer life, thi...

The modern chasm between "secular" work and "sacred" worship has had a devastating impact on Western Christianity.Drawing on years of research, min...

Reducere. In this second edition of his in-depth and gripping account of the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983, Jonathan D. Rosenblum describes in a new epilogu...

Reducere. Childbirth is more than an event that makes a woman a mother. This journey was designed to be a spiritual milestone that draws every woman's heart ...

"Why immigrants aren't to blame for the erosion of the US labor market"--

A vivid biography of an African Edwardian chronicler of London, in a time of social upheaval.Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Danel...

DescriptionOver the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in the struggles over government, the ...

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. In 2004, the U.S. State Department declared Filipina hostesses in Japan the largest group of sex trafficked persons in the world. Since receiving t...

Reducere. New Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major America...

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Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionEmployee Rights under the National Labor Relations Act (US National Labor Relations Board Regulation) (NLRB) (2018 Edition) The Law Libr...

Reducere. Labor-management professionals, such as union representatives and human resource specialists in unionized industries, who seek to understand the nu...

The book discusses the following topics: Is the Internet a net creator of jobs?How are job profiles changed by the digital economy?What are the imp...

Reducere. On November 23, 1887, white vigilantes gunned down unarmed black laborers and their families during a spree lasting more than two hours. The violen...

Reducere. A revelatory look at the life of the great American author--and how it shaped his most beloved worksJack London was born a working class, fatherles...

Reducere. Between 1849 and 1859, Virginia raced to pierce the Blue Ridge Mountains by rail and reach the Ohio River. At least 300 enslaved people labored inv...

Reducere. On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded during a labor demonstration near Haymarket Square. The ensuing gunfire and chaos brought a grisly end to what bega...

For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It's a situation that we in...

True crime meets political thriller in an explosive expose of US meddling in MexicoPublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Rob McKenzieIllustration(s): 11...

Reducere. This is... A book about work, at a time when there are too few jobs; A book about labor at a time when hardly anyone belongs to a union; A book abo...

Reducere. Revised for the first time in over thirty years, this edition of Emile Durkheim's masterful work on the nature and scope of sociology is updated wi...