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  • American Workers, American Unions

    The Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries

    by Robert H. Zieger, Timothy J. Minchin, Gilbert J. Gall ...
    Series series The American Moment
    An update to the classic history of labor and unions for a post-9/11 world.Highly acclaimed and widely read since its first publication in 1986, American Workers, American Unions provides a concise and compelling history of American workers and their unions in the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first.Taking into account recent important work on the 1970s and the Reagan ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

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  • Free Agent Nation

    How Americans New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live

    by Daniel H. Pink ...
    Widely acclaimed for its engaging style and provocative perspective, this book has helped thousands transform their working lives -- Now including a 30-page resource guide that explains the basics of working for oneself.It's about fulfillment. A revolution is sweeping America. On its front lines are people fed up with unfulfilling jobs, dysfunctional workplaces, and dead-end careers. Meet today's ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • There is Power in a Union

    by Philip Dray ...
    From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience.In this stirring new history, Philip Dray shows us the vital accomplishments of organized labor and illuminates its central role in our social, ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Shadowbosses

    Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind

    by Mallory Factor, Elizabeth Factor ...
    SHADOWBOSSES reads like an organized crime novel, but it's actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political process. This compelling and insightful book exposes how unions have organized federal, state, and local government employees without their consent, and how government employee unions are now a threat to our workers' freedoms, our free ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • The Thought of Work

    by John W. Budd ...
    John W. Budd's The Thought of Work provides a much needed and highly eloquent statement of the meanings and orientations to work across time and nations. It is essential reading for students of work from senior scholars to beginning undergraduates.— Randy Hodson, Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences The Ohio State University and past editor ― American Sociological ReviewBy ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Beyond $15

    Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement

    by Jonathan Rosenblum ...
    The inside story of the first successful $15 minimum wage campaign that renewed a national labor movementWith captivating narrative and insightful commentary, labor organizer Jonathan Rosenblum reveals the inside story of the first successful fight for a $15 minimum wage, which renewed a national labor movement through bold strategy and broad inclusiveness. Just outside Seattle, an unlikely ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • State of the Union

    A Century of American Labor - Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Union Power

    Solidarity and Struggle in Niagara

    by Carmela Patrias, Larry Savage ...
    Series series Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
    From factory workers in Welland to retail workers in St. Catharines, from hospitality workers in Niagara Falls to migrant farm workers in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Union Power showcases the role of working people in the Niagara region. Charting the development of the region’s labour movement from the early nineteenth century to the present, Patrias and Savage illustrate how workers from this highly ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Global Unions, Local Power

    The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing

    by Jamie K. McCallum ...
    News about labor unions is usually pessimistic, focusing on declining membership and failed campaigns. But there are encouraging signs that the labor movement is evolving its strategies to benefit workers in rapidly changing global economic conditions. Global Unions, Local Power tells the story of the most successful and aggressive campaign ever waged by workers across national borders. It begins ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor

    Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old?

    by Steve Early ...
    "Should be required reading for all workers' rights advocates." —Bernie SandersBetween 2008 and 2010, the progressive wing of the US labor movement tore itself apart in a series of internecine struggles. More than $140 million was expended, by all sides, on organizing conflicts that tarnished union reputations and undermined the campaign for real health care and labor law reform. Campus and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strike Back

    Using the Militant Tactics of Labor's Past to Reignite Public Sector Unionism Today

    by Joe Burns ...
    During the 1960s and 1970s, teachers, sanitation workers and many other public employees rose up to demand collective bargaining rights in one of the greatest upsurges in labor history. These workers were able to transform the nature of public employment, winning union recognition for millions and ultimately forcing reluctant politicians to pass laws allowing for collective bargaining and even the ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

  • Chasing the Harvest

    Migrant Workers in California Agriculture

    Edited by Gabriel Thompson ...
    Series series Voice of Witness
    Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United StatesThe Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of California’s migrant farmworkers in the 1930s. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycotts captured the imagination of the United States in the 1960s and ’70s. Yet today, the stories of the more than 800,000 men, women, and ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD