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

"Peirce tells the intriguing story of the battle for shorter hours ... and why now is finally the moment for a breakthro......more

This book analyses the practice of local-level participatory planning and budgeting and its impact on Gender Responsive ......more

This book offers an analysis of the key issues faced by women in the labor market in the 21st century. It identifies the......more

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

"In the United States today, almost three-quarters of the people teaching in two- and four-year colleges and universitie......more

"In the United States today, almost three-quarters of the people teaching in two- and four-year colleges and universitie......more

A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Environmentalism fro......more

Important and broadening study of the way Africans engaged with missions, not as beneficiaries of humanitarian philanthr......more

A distinctive exploration of how workers see work For more than twenty years, Robert Bruno has taught labor history and ......more

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

The employer-driven push to systematically replace Black workers with unauthorized immigrants In The Manufacturing of Jo......more

The employer-driven push to systematically replace Black workers with unauthorized immigrants In The Manufacturing of Jo......more

This book argues first, that the forces of industrialization that transformed ship technology simultaneously transformed......more

The book presents a long-term ethnographic study of arguably the largest environmental protest action in Australian hist......more

From the late eighteenth century, the hinterlands of Northern Luzon and its Indigenous people were in the crosshairs of ......more

When global headlines declared that the world had surpassed 8 billion people, concerns around overpopulation and its imp......more

Hegemony and the Politics of Labour takes up a question that goes to the heart of the debate about politics, capitalism,......more

The first in-depth study of the Indian creative industries, this book provides a comprehensive mapping of the Indian cre......more

Originally published in 1987 and now reissued with a substantial introduction by Robin Cohen, this wide-ranging work of ......more

The book argues that trade unionism must break into the new worlds of work by radically transforming contemporary trade ......more

This volume addresses the ways the ’native labour’ question in the Portuguese late colonial empire in Africa became a re......more

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

Exploring two large economies which were heavily affected by deindustrialisation in the late twentieth century, this boo......more

This book investigates how work ethics in Europe were conceptualised from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Thr......more

"In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile wor......more

​This book explores the role of caravan transport and human porterage in the colony of German East Africa (present-day m......more

This book traces the social backgrounds, educational experiences and subsequent lives of women who attended the universi......more