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Are we doomed because of the new digital technologies used in workspaces? Can we avoid measuring in our work? Or are we ......more

Are we doomed because of the new digital technologies used in workspaces? Can we avoid measuring in our work? Or are we ......more

Union Booms and Busts takes a bird’s eye view of the shifting fortunes of U.S. workers and their unions on the one hand,......more

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"In this sense, the aim of the study is to comprehensively - both doctrinally and theoretically - analyze and study the ......more

A sweeping history of revolutionary struggle and unbreakable alliances, Revolutionary Affinities takes readers from the ......more

This agenda-setting book shows how freedom of movement has made the integration of Europe’s labour markets a contentious......more

This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the practice of slavery throughout history.......more

Labour in Transition (1992) examines the massive transformations undertaken by state socialist regimes at the end of the......more

Wit, wisdom, adventure, and revelations from sixty years on the road. They say that only truck drivers experience the tr......more

Originally published in 1987, this book presents a novel approach to the study of competition between immigrant groups a......more

The Path of the Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in orde......more

In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts,......more

In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts,......more

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This book draws upon thinking about the work of the dead in the context of deindustrialization--specifically, the declin......more

This book investigates to what extent and how the European Semester impacts on national employment policy in four EU mem......more

"Wage-Labour and Capital" and "Value, Price, and Profit" are two influential works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, pi......more

"Wage-Labour and Capital" and "Value, Price, and Profit" are two influential works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, pi......more

Mapped to CIPD learning outcomes, Employment Relations: Fairness and Trust in the Workplace (second edition) critically ......more

Deindustrialisation is the central feature of Scotland’s economic, social and political history since the 1950s, when em......more

Are hierarchical arrangements in the workplace, including the employer-employee relationship, consistent with the ideal ......more

The future of work is at the centre of debates related to the emerging digital society. Concerns range from the inclusio......more

The UAW’s Southern Gamble is the first in-depth assessment of the United Auto Workers’ efforts to organize foreign vehic......more

If you believed most of what’s said about the Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker program, you might naturally assume that......more

If you believed most of what’s said about the Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker program, you might naturally assume that......more

Exploring links between labourers across the world, the book argues that globalisation and modern labour management orig......more

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics A renowned economic historian traces women’s journey to close the gender wag......more

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The world has been facing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic for over two years now. Daily life changed dramatically, ......more

Struggles can change the world, but they also change people who go through them. Rather than using action as a last reso......more

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence This book assesses how the practice of contracting-out pub......more

The Populists of the 1890s transformed the nation’s political terrain, and this book tells the story of the hard-pressed......more

Providing fresh insights from the archival record, Who governs Britain? revisits the 1970-74 Conservative government to ......more

The labor-climate movement in the U.S. laid the groundwork for the Green New Deal by building a base within labor for su......more

Volume VI of The Annotated Works of Henry George presents the published text of A Perplexed Philosopher (1892). George’s......more

"Once seen as a harbinger of a new enlightened capitalism, Google has become a model of robber baron rapaciousness thank......more

"Once seen as a harbinger of a new enlightened capitalism, Google has become a model of robber baron rapaciousness thank......more

From fragile, corporate-controlled supply chains breaking down, to millions of already hyper-exploited farmworkers riski......more

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"Lyrical . . . candid, clear-eyed and utterly engrossing, Pitkin’s writing couldn’t come at a better--or more necessary-......more

Fiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive, Working It is an intimate portrait of the lives of sex workers. A pol......more

Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award Winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Winner of the C. L.......more

"Originally published as L’operaismo politico italiano. Genealogia, storia, metodo à 2019 Derive Approdi"--T.p. verso....more

Once hidden behind the veils of entrepreneurship, it is now clear that platforms are reshaping the world of work, and Am......more

"In the fall of 1999, the World Trade Organization (WTO) prepared to hold its biennial Ministerial Conference in Seattle......more

This book examines the psychological pressures faced by workers who migrate for short periods, exploring what it means t......more

This book examines the psychological pressures faced by workers who migrate for short periods, exploring what it means t......more

As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to ......more

Rules to Win By: Participation and Power in Union Negotiations is a book for anyone who wants to understand how to build......more

"In this singular firsthand account, a former migrant worker reveals a disturbing system of exploitation at the heart of......more

A vital work on labor movement strategy by experienced union activists The heart of any trade union is its reps and acti......more

In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour f......more

This book, first published in 1981, examines the issues inspiring working-class movements after 1848 in France, Germany ......more

Volume 27 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains five peer-reviewed papers highlighting key aspec......more

Staughton Lynd’s brilliant and masterful arguments against the Vietnam War and the best tactics and strategies to end it......more

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Numbering an estimated 164 million globally, migrant workers are an essential component of contemporary businesses. Desp......more

Providing a Nordic historical perspective, this collection aims to further our understanding of trade union activism and......more

"Across a range of industrial, domestic, and agricultural sites, Greer shows how repetitive discursive performances serv......more

This fourth edition of Building a Better World offers a comprehensive introductory overview of Canada’s labour movement.......more

Taking a multidisciplinary and global approach, this edited book examines the dynamic role of plantations as productive,......more

Labour and the Caucus provides a new, innovative pre-history of the Labour party. In the two decades following the Secon......more

UK workers are stuck in a low-pay, low-productivity rut, with far too many people working in poor quality, insecure jobs......more

"A dynamic historian revisits the workers’ internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked. In curr......more

"Elected leaders come and go, but public unions just say no." Hiding in plain sight is a fatal defect of modern democrac......more

This Handbook addresses the role of women in communism as a global, social and political movement for the first time, ex......more

"From the 1880s through the 1920s, American labor endured an ongoing assault on worker’s rights by open shop campaigns o......more

Chartered in 1921, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a worldwide organization that represents more tha......more

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A comparative, ethnographic approach to the question of labor struggles and workers’ political agency When it comes to l......more

In the countries of the global North, workplace democracy may be thought of as a thing of the past. Increasingly, workin......more

In the countries of the global North, workplace democracy may be thought of as a thing of the past. Increasingly, workin......more