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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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, technological innovation made possible dramatic increases in indus......more

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

In 2019, Regina’s Co-op Refinery Complex (CRC), a subsidiary of Federated Co-operative, locked out Unifor Local 594 afte......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

This book brings together the vast research literature about gender and technology to help designers understand what a g......more

This book brings together the vast research literature about gender and technology to help designers understand what a g......more

The Atlantic Ocean not only connected North and South America with Europe through trade but also provided the means for ......more

Despite countless diversity initiatives, gender inequality in career pathways for women in the modern workplace continue......more

Empowering Labor uses a comparative study of Chile, Portugal, and Uruguay to analyze the underlying political dynamics t......more

This systematic analysis of everyday life inside a tech startup dissects the logic of venture capital and its consequenc......more

"This book is a must read for students of contemporary capitalism." --Kathi Weeks, Duke University "Why do people fight ......more

A compelling analysis of social inequality through the perspective of pregnant, low-wage service workers The low-wage se......more

A biography of Bruce Crawford, a southwest Virginia journalist-writer of the radical tradition and one of the first to i......more

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

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

In Subterranean Matters, Andrea Marston examines the ongoing history of Bolivian mining cooperatives, an economic format......more

In Subterranean Matters, Andrea Marston examines the ongoing history of Bolivian mining cooperatives, an economic format......more

In the state-run prison that was early New South Wales, pockets of capitalism sprang up like sturdy weeds. with them cam......more

The turnover of labour and its significance for workers and employers has usually been considered at the organizational ......more

In-depth account of the Marikana massacre, based on the voices of the miners and their families themselves, from the bui......more

First published in 1984, Industrial Relations in the Future highlights probable developments in Britain’s system of indu......more

Work Flows investigates the emergence of "flow" as a crucial metaphor within Russian labor culture since 1870. Maya Vino......more

The history of leisure time, from the earliest societies to the work-from-home era Free time, one of life’s most preciou......more

2022 International Labor History Association Book of the Year A dramatic, deeply researched account of how legal repress......more

This book examines class relations through numerous empirical case studies, reports, and other sets of data before and d......more

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Leading scholar Alex Dupuy investigates themes of class, power, and gender in Haiti in the capitalist world-economy--fro......more

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

Over the last half century, two major developments have transformed the nature of workers’ rights and altered the pathwa......more

The political identities of the Turkish working class began a transformative journey that started during a period of ind......more