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“david alan corbin”

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  • Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals

    A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars

    Edited by David Alan Corbin ...
    Strikes and union battles occurred throughout American industry during the early part of the twentieth century, but none of these stories compare to the West Virginia Mine Wars of 1912 and 1921. These two workers’ rebellions quickly drew national attention to an area known principally for its “black gold,” the coal that was vital for U.S. factories, power plants, and warships of that age.In 1912, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    An American Story

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    $17.99 CAD

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  • Labor and Monopoly Capital

    The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century

    by Harry Braverman ...
    This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital overturned the reigning ideologies of academic sociology.This new edition features an introduction by John Bellamy Foster that sets the work in ... Read more

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  • Workforce Planning and Scheduling. Automated Staff Shifts Management and Rostering

    by Isabella Longobardi ...
    Scheduling staff shifts is a difficult task. In organizations that work on Sundays, and/or on public holidays, and/or during night hours, scheduling shifts accurately and efficiently is a time consuming job, and it also exposes employers to the risk of excessive overtime costs and poor distribution of workload among employees.In order to be efficient, anyone who has the task of planning the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Designing Reality

    How to Survive and Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution

    by Neil Gershenfeld, Alan Gershenfeld, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld ...
    That's the promise, and peril, of the third digital revolution, where anyone will be able to make (almost) anythingTwo digital revolutions -- computing and communication -- have radically transformed our economy and lives. A third digital revolution is here: fabrication. Today's 3D printers are only the start of a trend, accelerating exponentially, to turn data into objects: Neil Gershenfeld and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Mining Towns

    Making a Living, Making a Life

    by Erik Eklund ...
    A history of iconic Australian towns that have emerged as a result of mining booms—including Broken Hill, Mount Isa, Queenstown, Mount Morgan, Port Pirie, and Kambalda—this book is a unique attempt to introduce urban readers to those communities, past and present. Unlike many mining books, this is not limited to a single material such as coal or gold, but traces the fortunes of a range of towns. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big

    The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down

    by Dana Frank ...
    "Frank does an excellent job of creating articulate arguments out of a complex blend of history, economics, and current events."—Library JournalWoolworth's was the Walmart of the 1930s. The women were exploited and sexually harassed. This is the exciting story of how they fought back against corporate exploitation and oppression. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Indignez-Vous! Part Ii, Time for Outrage

    by Dalek Iga Ghandi ...
    A first in a series of books, from an author who wishes to remain anonymous, this book is like the first piece of a larger puzzle. Let the reader be aware, that the other pieces will follow to give a picture of the puzzle. Inspiration for it comes from a higher authority. If after going through a few chapters, the reader is not inspired, that they can make a difference as an individual or as a ... Read more

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  • Contested Communities

    Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile’s El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1951

    by Thomas Miller Klubock ...
    Series series Comparative and international working-class history
    In Contested Communities Thomas Miller Klubock analyzes the experiences of the El Teniente copper miners during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Describing the everyday life and culture of the mining community, its impact on Chilean politics and national events, and the sense of self and identity working-class men and women developed in the foreign-owned enclave, Klubock provides ... Read more

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  • Strikebreaking and Intimidation

    Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America

    by Stephen H. Norwood ...
    This is the first systematic study of strikebreaking, intimidation, and anti-unionism in the United States, subjects essential to a full understanding of labor’s fortunes in the twentieth century. Paradoxically, the country that pioneered the expansion of civil liberties allowed corporations to assemble private armies to disrupt union organizing, spy on workers, and break strikes. Using a social ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Oil and Nation

    A History of Bolivia's Petroleum Sector

    by Stephen C. Cote ...
    Series series Energy and Society
    Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia’s contentious twentieth-century history. Bolivia’s oil, Cote argues, instigated the largest war in Latin America in the 1900s, provoked the first nationalization of a major foreign company by a Latin American state, and shaped both the course and the consequences of Bolivia’s transformative National Revolution of 1952. Oil and natural gas ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Story of an African Working Class

    Ghanaian Miners' Struggles 1870-1980

    by Jeff Crisp ...
    Series series African History Archive
    This seminal work tells the story of Ghana's gold miners, one of the oldest and most militant groups of workers in Africa. It is a story of struggle against exploitative mining companies, repressive governments and authoritarian trade union leaders.Drawing on a wide range of original sources, including previously secret government and company records, Jeff Crisp explores the changing nature of ... Read more

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