Over the past seventeen years, trade union educator D'Arcy Martin has conducted hundreds of courses for Canadian workers. He has learned that there are people-"conscious romantics"-who dream of a more egalitarian world while confronting the obstacles that stand in the way of building it. This book provides a refreshing personal account of union culture and its dynamics.
This book showcases the inequalities experienced between the Global North and the Global South by exploring the production and distribution model of goods and services worldwide through an analysis of why the structure, framework, and interconnectedness of global supply chains increases the persistence of worker rights' violations. The narrative explains the power relationships between multinational corporations, their subcontractors, governments, non-governmental organizations, labor unions, an...
Uses original source material to portray the momentous changes that took place in American labor, industry, and trade-unionism following the Civil War. Focuses on the work environment in this early age of mass production and mechanization, and shows how abusive conditions often led to labor unrest.
This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century. Billy G. Smith demonstrates how the "lower sort" (as they were called by their contemporaries) struggled to carve out meaningful lives during an era of vast change stretching from the Seven Years' War, through the turbulent events surrounding the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, into the first decade of the new nation.
Industrial Relations and Human Resources Management (Business Administration Reading Lists and Course Outlines, #10)
by Richard Schwindt
Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs: 1961
by John Saywell
With These Hands documents the farm labor system through the presentation of a collection of voices--workers who labor in the fields, growers who manage the multi-billion dollar agricultural industry, contractors who link workers with growers, coyotes who smuggle people across the border, union organizers, lobbyists, physicians, workers' families in Mexico, farmworker children and others. The diversity of stories presents the world of migrant farmworkers as a complex social and economic system,...
Bread, or Bullets! is the first thoroughly documented history of organized labor in nineteenth-century Cuba. Based on research in libraries and archives in Cuba, Spain, the United States, and the Netherlands, it focuses on how urban laborers joined together in collective action during the transition from slave to free labor and in the last decades of Spanish colonial rule in Cuba.Nineteenth-century Cuban colonial society and the slavery system sharply divided Cuba's inhabitants by race and origi...
Fit Work for Women (Routledge Library Editions: Women's History)
This book presents a collection of papers which discuss the origins of the domestic ideal and its effects on activities usually undertaken by women: not only on women's wage work, but also on activities either not defined as work or accorded an ambiguous status. It discusses the formation of the ideology of domesticity, philanthropy and its effects on official policy and on women, landladies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, working-class radical suffragists, and Labour Party and trade...
Going far beyond the basic study of union history and structure, this accessible introductory text emphasizes how the values, objectives, and activities of unions are shaped in the face of modern challenges such as employer resistance and hostile governments. The fully updated study looks at why workers form unions, explores the power of collective bargaining and grievances, and chronicles the gains that unions have achieved both for their members and for all working people. It also examines the...
Protest and the Politics of Blame (Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Polit)
by Debra Lynn Javeline
Le Livre Du Compagnonnage. Tome 2 (Ed.1857) (Sciences Sociales)
by Agricol Perdiguier
Kompetenzfragen Der Umweltpolitik in Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, #209)
by Gerd Michelsen
Die Arbeit untersucht das Problem der umweltpolitischen Entscheidungs- ebene. Es wird die Frage gestellt, ob ein dezentraler oder zentraler Entscheidungsprozess eine optimale Ziel- und Mittelwahl im Bereich des Umweltschutzes gewahrleisten. Bezugnehmend auf die praktische Umweltpolitik in der Bundesrepublik wird die Frage untersucht, ob die Kompetenzverteilung zwischen Bund und Landern zu verandern ist."
Lessons for what a graduate strike has for the corporatization of higher education.