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  • - The Ontology of Labor between Economy and Culture
    af Bruno Gulli
    264,95 - 837,95 kr.

    Offers a re-examination of the concept of labour. This title examines, through the work of other social and philosophical critics of labour, how productive labour has been institutionalised and how the nature of labour can be liberated from a purely productive definition.

  • - Class, Identity, Governance
    af Steve Martinot
    306,95 - 857,95 kr.

    Presents the history of the way class formed in the US. This work offers a look at the invention of whiteness and how the inextricable links between race and class were formed in the seventeenth century and consolidated by custom, social relations, and eventually naturalized by the structures that organize our lives and our work.

  • - Transport Workers Union In Nyc 1933-66
    af Joshua Freeman
    328,95 kr.

    Tracing the history of New York transit workers from the Depression to the 1966 transit strike, this work shows how, through collective action, the men and women who operated the world's largest transit system brought about a revolution in their daily lives. It is for those interested in New York City's subways, politics, history, and labor.

  • af Randy Martin
    272,95 - 712,95 kr.

    Takes us through the various aspects of our 'financialization'. This title examines how the shift in economic life arose not only from changes in culture, but also from new policy priorities that emphasize controlling inflation over promoting growth.

  • - Jimmy Hoffa And The Remaking Of
    af Thaddeus Russell
    253,95 kr.

    Presents an account of the rise of Jimmy Hoffa. This book argues that Hoffa was compelled by a variety of social forces to place the economic interests of his union members over broad ideological concerns. It is aimed at students of labor history and American studies.

  • - The Cio In World War Ii
    af Nelson Lichtenstein
    287,95 - 767,95 kr.

    Examines a critical period in American politics and labor history, beginning with the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 through the wave of major industrial strikes that followed the war and accompanied the reconversion to a peacetime economy.

  • - A Little Food and Cold Storage
    af William DiFazio
    242,95 - 790,95 kr.

    At St John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, over a thousand people line up for food five days a week. This title takes the reader through the years before and after welfare reform to show how poverty has become "ordinary," a fact of life to millions of Americans and to the thousands of social workers.

  • af Philip Nicholson
    424,95 - 879,95 kr.

    Offering a historical overview of labor in the United States, this book examines the questions, the villains, the heroes, and the issues of work. It focuses on the integral relationship between the strength of labor and the growth of democracy, painting a picture of the strength of labor movements and how they helped make the United States.

  • - Mcdonald'S And The Culture Of Power
    af Joe Kincheloe
    264,95 kr.

    Examines how McDonald's captures our imagination: as a shorthand for explaining the power of American culture; as a symbol of the strength of consumerism; as a bellwether for the condition of labor in a globalized economy; and often, for better or worse, a powerful educational tool that often defines the nature of culture for hundreds of millions.

  • - And Industrial Democracy In Progressive
    af Richard Greenwald
    306,95 - 767,95 kr.

    Challenges our notion of the connections between labour, business, and the state.

  • - Shorter Hours, The Uaw, And The
    af Jonathan Cutler
    285,95 - 767,95 kr.

    Examines the changes that occurred within organized labor and traces their influence on the decline of the shorter hour's movement. This work examines the political context in which the shorter hour's movement emerged within Local 600 in the 1940s, then chronicles the attempts by Walter Reuther, the head of the UAW, to suppress it.

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