The Gig Economy in India explores the topic of gig work in India’s digital political economy, and the relationship betwe......more

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This book considers the role of both wages and unions in economic theory, asking whether wages are merely a mechanical o......more

This new book provides an appraisal of gender pay equality, assessing advances and barriers to further progress through ......more

This book develops "organizing eating" as an organizational-communication centered framework for understanding how commu......more

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Reshma Saujani...offers a daring new approach: it’s not our job to do more, it’s time for o......more

The top American writers on labor provide vital historical context for the current upsurge in union organizing In 1954, ......more

When acclaimed labor historian Julie Greene researched her book The Canal Builders, which went on to be nominated for a ......more

When acclaimed labor historian Julie Greene researched her book The Canal Builders, which went on to be nominated for a ......more

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As weavers, garment workers, and peddlers, Syrian immigrants in the Americas fed the early twentieth-century transnation......more

As weavers, garment workers, and peddlers, Syrian immigrants in the Americas fed the early twentieth-century transnation......more

There are around 340,000 Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, but the ways in which they experience migration is large......more

In 2003, Leon Fink published his oral history of Guatemalan and Mexican migrants in Morganton, North Carolina, and their......more

This book takes personal stories of activity in the animal rights, environmental, trade union, community and social just......more

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In the mid-twentieth century, the Arabian Peninsula emerged as a key site of oil production. International companies rec......more

A riveting courtroom drama as the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history pursue justice i......more

The compelling history of a struggling Canadian mining region. The Canadian postwar economic boom did not include one we......more

A contemporary guide to human resource management. This introductory human resource management (HRM) textbook provides s......more

"To subvert overseas unions, Washington found an enthusiastic partner in the AFL-CIO’s anticommunist officials, who for ......more

Founded in 1883, the Chicago Manual Training School (CMTS) was a short-lived but influential institution dedicated to te......more

Originally published in 1964, at a time of much public unease regarding redundancy, this book contains the results of a ......more

Originally published in 1980, this book examines a range of Government attitudes to their workers arguing that these pro......more

Originally published in 1936 during the Great Depression this book analyses the efforts of the British Government to rel......more

Originally published in 1976, the 14 papers in this collection discuss the history and significance of the concept of ’i......more

Originally published in 1981, this book, unlike conventional textbooks concerning the Industrial Revolution, stresses th......more

Rich industrialised countries entered the 1980s with unemployment higher than before the Second World War. Britain exper......more

Stanley Aronowitz was a towering figure on the American Left for over sixty years. Both a tireless organizer and a milit......more

The Kisan Andolan or the Indian farmers’ protest is one of the longest, biggest (and victorious) The Kisan Andolan or th......more

Follows the evolution of the Canadian Auto Workers union. In the decades after the Second World War, autoworkers were at......more

In a world increasingly run by algorithms and artificial intelligence, Hatim Rahman traces how organizations are using a......more

Originally published in 1989, and now reissued with a new preface by the editor, this interdisciplinary study brings tog......more

Originally published in 1982 and now reissued with a new Preface by Stephen Wood the contributors of this book discuss t......more

How technologies of organization are redrawing the lines of class struggle Across the world, algorithms are changing the......more

From contributors to TheConversation.com, illuminating essays on how and why working in the twenty-first century is rapi......more

The lives of the men depicted in Perilous Wagers take place in the squalor of Tokyo’s old day-laborer district, San’ya, ......more

Originally published in 1981, this study is concerned with the extent to which the goal of sexual equality in employment......more

Why did working-class women become the central labour force on assembly lines in the new consumer goods’ industries of t......more

In this important book, Gallas asks what strikes in non-industrial sectors mean for class formation, a critical question......more

In this important book, Gallas asks what strikes in non-industrial sectors mean for class formation, a critical question......more

How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization. From the eighteent......more

For readers of Naomi Klein and Nicole Perlroth, a myth-dissolving exposé of what "artificial intelligence" really means,......more

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On August 3, 1981, over 12,000 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association (PATCO) walked off their ......more

On August 3, 1981, over 12,000 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association (PATCO) walked off their ......more

"From the 1870s to the 1960s, circuses crisscrossed the nation providing entertainment. A unique workforce of human and ......more

"A foundational figure in modern labor history, David Montgomery both redefined and reoriented the field. This collectio......more

"A foundational figure in modern labor history, David Montgomery both redefined and reoriented the field. This collectio......more

During the formation of the Turkish national movement, while Istanbul was under British, French, and Italian occupation,......more

The labour movement in Lebanon: Power on hold narrates the history of the Lebanese labour movement from the early twenti......more

What Work Means goes beyond the stereotypes and captures the diverse ways Americans view work as a part of a good life. ......more

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Chinese workers helped build the modern world. They labored on New World plantations, worked in South African mines, and......more

This book scrutinizes polarization in Sweden, identifying patterns and variations in labour market transformation and ex......more

Since the 1960s, a major mental health crisis has emerged among Western working populations. By analysing the developmen......more

The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Labor offers a cross-cultural examination of labor around the world and pr......more

The volume introduces a new analysis of interconnected labour and economic history of colonial India and Scandinavia. Fr......more

This book examines the factors driving youth unemployment in South Africa, exploring potential future outcomes of its ma......more

The Gulag remains one of the key symbols of twentieth-century mass political violence. Thanks to recent archive-based in......more

"This book examines the relationship between labor reform and abolitionism in the decades before the Civil War. Tracing ......more

"Beautifully written, The Eighth Moon uses a very light touch to probe the most essential, unresolvable questions of bel......more

This is an account of five significant episodes in the history of the working-class movements in Britain and Ireland whi......more

Drawing on empirical work and secondary analysis from the UK and Finnish construction industries, this book contributes ......more

Theatre Work: Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production investigates both the history and current realities of life......more

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On March 6th 1984 miners at Cortonwood Colliery in Yorkshire went on strike. Six days later, on March 12th, NUM Presiden......more

Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants, based on numerous original sources, and presents new views on ......more

This book ​makes a major contribution to the continuing legal and historical struggle for equal pay in Australia, with i......more

Probes the enduring impact, and devastating fall, of one of the greatest union organizers of the 20th century In this ri......more

Probes the enduring impact, and devastating fall, of one of the greatest union organizers of the 20th century In this ri......more

This book is about women in World Wars I & II - women working in factories and on farms, or toiling perilously in field ......more