The American Fund for Public Service

Gloria G Samson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies
• This study examines one organization from the radical left of the 1920s and 1930s: the American Fund for Public Service. Little known today, but infam... Lees meer

A Workforce Divided

Leslie a Schuster

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies
• In this study of the life and work of Saint-Nazaire's shipbuilding workers in the 30 years before World War I, Schuster shows that the consequences of... Lees meer

Fragile Alliances

Samuel White

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies | nr. 60
• How did the alliance between labor and the Democratic Party develop after the First World War? What role does Evansville play in an examination of thi... Lees meer

A Broad and Ennobling Spirit

Ronald Mendel

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies
• With the introduction of new production methods and technological innovation, tradesmen and workers encountered new challenges. This study examines th... Lees meer

Matriarchs of England's Cooperative Movement

Barbara J Blaszak

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies | nr. 56
• Current thinking considers the Women's Cooperative Guild within the English Cooperative Movement to have been an independent and democratically run or... Lees meer

Conflict and Accommodation

Michael Nash

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies
• Conflict and Accommodation focuses on the political behavior of the 600,000 men in the coal and steel industries, to reveal a fascinating correlation ... Lees meer

Arab Employment in Israel

Benjamin W Wolkinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies | nr. 53
• Although in the 1960s and mid-1970s scholars began to question the ability of Israeli Arabs to find equal employment opportunities, there has been no ... Lees meer

Parish-Fed Bastards

Richard Flanagan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies
• This volume breaks tradition with previous studies of the unemployed in Britain. It offers a history highlighting the active political nature of the u... Lees meer

The Fictitious Commodity

Ton Korver, Anthonie Korver

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies
• Covering the development of the U.S. labor market from 1880-1940, The Fictitious Commodity stresses relations of authority (versus power) in employmen... Lees meer

Irish Voice and Organized Labor in America

L A O'Donnell

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies
• This biographical study analyzes the careers and thinking of a dozen union leaders of Irish descent who contributed significantly to the union movemen... Lees meer

The Unsettled Relationship

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies
• More than twenty million migrant workers send $40 billion to their countries of origin each year, making labor second only to oil as the most importan... Lees meer

The Politics of Right to Work

Gilbert J Gall

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies
• Gall has compiled what is almost certainly the definitive study of right-to-work campaigns at the national and state levels since the early 1940's. . ... Lees meer

Comparable Worth, Pay Equity, and Public Policy

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies
• This collection of papers on comparable worth written by political scientists contains the best annotated bibliography on comparable worth that this r... Lees meer

Labor Migration in the Atlantic Economies

Dirk Hoerder

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies
• This collection of essays revises and broadens scholarly assumptions about the history of migration in search of work. The book begins with a critique... Lees meer

The American Labor Movement, 1955-1995

Walter Galenson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies | nr. 47
• With the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955, the American labor movement entered a new er... Lees meer

Capitalist Development and Class Capacities

Jerry Lembcke

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies
• This thought-provoking study argues for a restoration of the classical Marxist position linking the development process, class formation, and class ca... Lees meer

American Labor in the Era of World War II

Sally M Miller, Daniela Cornford

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies | nr. 45
• The 1940s were a pivotal decade in the history of the American labor movement. Large migrations significantly changed the composition of the industria... Lees meer

A State Within a State

Ran Chermesh

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies
• According to Chermesh, the Israeli industrial relations system has developed as a state within a state, having, by the mid-1980s, gained a high level ... Lees meer

Infighting in the UAW

Bill Goode

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies | nr. 44
• Usually the defeat of one union official by another would not occasion great interest by historians. The highly charged atmosphere after World War II ... Lees meer

Proletarians and Protest

Michael Hanagan, Charles Stephenson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies
• In this collection of essays a number of distinguished scholars examine the proletarianization process and its relation to social protest and class fo... Lees meer

The Re-Education of the American Working Class

Steven London, Elvira Tarr, Joseph Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies
• This work brings together articles and papers by union leaders, activists, social scientists, and educators to provide an overview of the field of wor... Lees meer

Eastern's Armageddon

Martha Saunders

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies
• This book examines the escalation of an organizational conflict to one of the most talked about industrial crises of the past decade: the demise of Ea... Lees meer

Social Workers and Labor Unions

Howard Jacob Karger

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies
• Although the relationship between social work and organized labor dates from the turn of the century, labor union membership has only been open to soc... Lees meer

Grand Master Workman

Craig Phelan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Labor Studies | nr. 55
• The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor was the most ambitious and significant labor organization of the Gilded Age. As the charismatic leader of this... Lees meer