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  • Purple Power

    The History and Global Impact of SEIU

    by Luís LM Aguiar, Joseph A. McCartin, Adrienne E Eaton, Janice Fine, Euan Gibb, Laurence Hamel-Roy, Tashlin Lakhani, Yanick Noiseux, Benjamin L Peterson0, Allison Porter1, Alyssa May Kuchinski2, Maite Tapia3, Veronica Terriquez4, Kyoung-Hee Yu5 ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    Chartered in 1921, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a worldwide organization that represents more than two million workers in occupations from healthcare and government service to custodians and taxi drivers. Women form more than half the membership while people in minority groups make up approximately forty percent.Luís LM Aguiar and Joseph A. McCartin edit essays on one of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Mobilizing against Inequality

    Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism

    Edited by Lee H. Adler, Maite Tapia, Lowell Turner ...
    Series series Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectureship and Conference Series
    Among the many challenges that global liberalization has posed for trade unions, the growth of precarious immigrant workforces lacking any collective representation stands out as both a major threat to solidarity and an organizing opportunity. Believing that collective action is critical in the struggle to lift the low wages and working conditions of immigrant workers, the contributors to ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • New Labor in New York

    Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement

    Edited by Ruth Milkman, Edward Ott ...
    New York City boasts a higher rate of unionization than any other major U.S. city—roughly double the national average—but the city's unions have suffered steady and relentless decline, especially in the private sector. With higher levels of income inequality than any other large city in the nation, New York today is home to a large and growing precariat—workers with little or no employment ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • No Shortcuts

    Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

    by Jane F. McAlevey ...
    The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC (and capitols throughout the West), where they are outmatched and outspent by corporate interests. Labor unions now focus on the narrowest ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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  • Our Media, Not Theirs

    The Democratic Struggle against Corporate Media

    by Robert W. McChesney, John Nichols ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Our Media, Not Theirs! The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media examines how the current media system in the United States undermines democracy, and what we can do to change it. McChesney and Nichols begin by detailing how the media system has come to be dominated by a handful of transnational conglomerates that use their immense political and economic power to saturate the population with ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • State of Resistance

    What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America’s Future

    by Manuel Pastor ...
    **“Concise, clear and convincing. . . a vision for the country as a whole.”—James Fallows, The New York Times Book ReviewA leading sociologist's brilliant and revelatory argument that the future of politics, work, immigration, and more may be found in California**Once upon a time, any mention of California triggered unpleasant reminders of Ronald Reagan and right-wing tax revolts, ballot ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Metropolitan Revolution

    How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

    by Bruce Katz, Jennifer Bradley ...
    Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists are stepping up and powering the nation forward. These state and local leaders are doing the hard work to grow more jobs and make their ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Gradual

    The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age

    by Greg Berman, Aubrey Fox ...
    A call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change. Many experts believe that we are at a fulcrum moment in history, a time that demands radical shifts in thinking and policymaking. Calls for bold change are everywhere these days, particularly on social media, but is this actually the best way to make the world a better place? In Gradual, Greg Berman and ... Read more

    $25.19 CAD

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  • Class Struggle Unionism

    by Joe Burns ...
    For those who want to build a fighting labor movement, there are many questions to answer. How to relate to the union establishment which often does not want to fight? Whether to work in the rank and file of unions or staff jobs? How much to prioritize broader class demands versus shop floor struggle? How to relate to foundation-funded worker centers and alternative union efforts? And most ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Threads

    Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry

    by Jane L. Collins ...
    Americans have been shocked by media reports of the dismal working conditions in factories that make clothing for U.S. companies. But while well intentioned, many of these reports about child labor and sweatshop practices rely on stereotypes of how Third World factories operate, ignoring the complex economic dynamics driving the global apparel industry.To dispel these misunderstandings, Jane L. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Why We Lie About Aid

    Development and the Messy Politics of Change

    by Pablo Yanguas ...
    Foreign aid is about charity. International development is about technical fixes. At least that is what we, as donor publics, are constantly told. The result is a highly dysfunctional aid system which mistakes short-term results for long-term transformation and gets attacked across the political spectrum, with the right claiming we spend too much, and the left that we don't spend enough.The ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Working Class Majority

    America's Best Kept Secret

    by Michael Zweig ...
    In the second edition of his essential book—which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gender, and the social crisis following 2008—Michael Zweig warns that by allowing the working class to disappear into categories of "middle class" or "consumers," we also allow those with the dominant power, capitalists, to vanish among the rich. Economic relations then ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD