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A consensus-shattering account of automation technologies and their effect on workplaces and the labor market In this co......more

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Fatality quotas implemented in China’s industrial section and local governments are being used to promote work safety an......more

"The story of two dedicated women, a labor organizer and an immigrant laundry worker, coming together to spearhead an au......more

Winner of the ASA Section on Asia and Asian America’s Book Award on Asian America Honorable Mention, 2024 Social Science......more

A collection of newspaper articles about Dust Bowl migrants in California’s Central Valley by the author of The Grapes o......more

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An essential primer for rebuilding a militant labor movement centered on solidarity with all workers....more

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This book investigates the hostile environment and politics of visceral and racial denigration which have characterised ......more

Women across the world experience gender-based violence and harassment in the workplace. In the context of globalization......more

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Tested, practical ideas to meet current and future skilling needs of both workers and employers Growing Fairly offers wo......more

Power on hold examines the course of the labour movement in Lebanon since independence in 1943, giving specific attentio......more

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"This book offers real life stories of women in business in Eastern countries, specifically focusing on how they overcam......more

In 1947, at the time of completing Volume I of the History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Foner reflected o......more

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’Early in my research, a friend with excellent knowledge of the United Auto Workers internal operations told me,"Don’t g......more

There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization of labour regimes in various disciplines. This has ta......more

The Perfect Fit shows us how globalization works through the many people and places involved in making women’s shoes. We......more

In August 2012 the South African police - at the encouragement of mining capital, and with the support of the political ......more

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Self-representation has a long, venerable history dating to biblical times and continuing through the common law, the co......more

Almost all economies have, or are at least starting to, understand the significance of examining and mainstreaming gende......more

This book is the first of its kind to investigate the ongoing significance of industrial craft in deindustrialising plac......more

The Digital Factory reveals the hidden human labor that supports today’s digital capitalism. The workers of today’s digi......more

Data-driven new digital technologies can partially or fully replace the human agency in policymaking and governance. So ......more

This book challenges dominant assumptions about the BRI by placing it in the context of the historical economic relation......more

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This book examines the commercialisation of domestic and care work through private agencies that organise transnational ......more

This handbook explores anti-communism as an overarching phenomenon of twentieth-century global history, showing how anti......more

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César E. Chávez came to Oxnard, California, in 1958, twenty years after he lived briefly in the city as a child with his......more

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Taking the growing South African mining town of Emalahleni as a case study, this book investigates whether a just transi......more

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This is one of the first compilations on collective bargaining in higher education reflecting the work of scholars, prac......more

An in-depth look at Qatar’s migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control and power Skill-specifical......more

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The book considers what makes an excellent face-to-face health and safety contact in the workplace, and why these contac......more

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This book addresses emancipatory narratives from two main sites in the colonial world, the Indian and southern African s......more

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"The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America’s leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, so......more

The important role missions played as places of work has been underexplored, yet missionaries were some of the earliest ......more

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing from the EU-funded DomEQUAL research project across ......more

This book analyzes the central vision of three student movements organized by different generations of Kosovo Albanian s......more

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Describes how new kinds of direct-action labor movements are emerging to reshape American labor activism in the twenty-f......more

There is growing interest in flexible working, not only as a means to manage labour more efficiently and for greater agi......more

This book is the first comprehensive study of international health worker-migration and -recruitment from the perspectiv......more

The definitive portrait of the powerful, corruption-ridden Teamsters union and its legendary president, Jimmy Hoffa--org......more

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