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Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants, based on numerous original sources, and presents new views on ......more
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This book brings together the vast research literature about gender and technology to help designers understand what a g......more
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In a series of illuminating essays, the renowned Harry Glasbeek unpacks how law has been used to ensure that workers’ as......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 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
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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 most studies of British decolonisation, the world of labour is neglected, the key roles being allocated to metropolit......more
In Subterranean Matters, Andrea Marston examines the ongoing history of Bolivian mining cooperatives, an economic format......more
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In the state-run prison that was early New South Wales, pockets of capitalism sprang up like sturdy weeds. with them cam......more
Few books document a living history in real-time. This book is one of them. With gripping, on-the-ground reporting it sh......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
Providing a Nordic historical perspective, this collection aims to further our understanding of trade union activism and......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
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This book examines class relations through numerous empirical case studies, reports, and other sets of data before and d......more
Leading scholar Alex Dupuy investigates themes of class, power, and gender in Haiti in the capitalist world-economy--fro......more
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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
Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields. This collection brings tog......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
Fatality quotas implemented in China’s industrial sector are being used to promote work safety and therefore, reducing t......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
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Won Honorable Mention for 2023 ILHA Book of the Year (International Labor History Association) The iconic leader of one ......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
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The employer-driven push to systematically replace Black workers with unauthorized immigrants In The Manufacturing of Jo......more
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This book is a collection of essays and reviews on the first century of the communist party in Britain. Tracing the Comm......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
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
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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
The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook on Aging and Work is a comprehensive resource for students, scholars, and practitioner......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 work......more
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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
A local story with profound national implications, now available as a paperback with a new preface by the author. Absent......more
For well over one hundred years society had considered ways of helping prisoners on their release from prison, but there......more
A behind-the-scenes look at the lives of Disney’s character performers and their struggles for union democracy Behind ......more
There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization of labour regimes in various disciplines. This has ta......more
In 2023, the world witnessed the rise of numerous global labour uprisings. Whether it was the unionisation wave of Starb......more
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As the columns of French infantry marched up the slopes of the Mont St Jean at Waterloo, the British heavy cavalry, the ......more
At 12.08pm on Friday 31 January 1919, Margaret Buchanan drives her tram into George Square in Glasgow’s city center. She......more
First published in 1985, Comparative Industrial Relations is a comprehensive introductory text exploring the subject of ......more
First published in 1981, Theories of Trade Unionism traces the development of trade union theory from its nineteenth-cen......more
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Why the United States lags behind other industrialized countries in sharing the benefits of innovation with workers and ......more
Twenty Irish immigrants, suspected of belonging to a secret terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires, were execu......more
Originally published in 1975, this volume reassesses the historical, political and social role of African workers and ex......more
An accessible, lavishly illustrated overview of British labor history. This book presents a lavishly illustrated history......more