Introduction: an arc of triumph and despair -- Tired of the abuse: gender and the rise of the Sindicato de la Industria Pesquera 1970-1979 -- The cost of solidarity: the Salvadoran labor movement in Puerto el Triunfo and greater San Salvador, 1979-1980 -- The last chance: the Junta...

Norway experienced a high immigration flow after the EEA directive in 2004 stating workers right to free movement within the European Union and EEA-countries. There is no clear consensus in the literature on how immigration affects native wages, but some studies using Norwegian micro data have...

Norway experienced a high immigration flow after the EEA directive in 2004 stating workers right to free movement within the European Union and EEA-countries. There is no clear consensus in the literature on how immigration affects native wages, but some studies using Norwegian micro data have...

This book analyses the conflicts that emerged from the Brazilian labour movement's active participation in a rapidly changing political environment, particularly in the context of the coming to power of a party with strong roots in the labour movement. While the close relations with the Workers'...

When a government considers a subsidy for an underdeveloped region, it has several options: the subsidies can be for land, wages, employment, or production. While land subsidy is a lump-sum transfer, the others are meant to promote local production or worker immigration. Under full employment,...

Successive authoritarian regimes have maintained tight control over organized labor in Egypt since the 1950s. And yet in 2009, a group of civil servants decided to exit the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF), thereby setting a precedent for other groups and threatening the...

Putting racial formation theory to work : a women-centered, transdisciplinary, and intersectional approach -- The lost files of Irish immigration history : the Irish woman question and racialized manual labors -- Southern mammy and African American "immigrant" women : reconstituting white...

Preface: The continuing relevance of progressive student activism in an age of right-wing populism -- Theorizing social movement strategy -- Globalization, the apparel industry and the roots of sweatshops -- Higher education as a political opportunity structure -- The origins of United Students...

"In Workers' Self-Management in Argentina, Marcelo Vieta homes in on the emergence and consolidation of Argentina's empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (ERTs, worker-recuperated enterprises), a workers' occupy movement that surged at the turn-of-the-millennium in the thick of the country's...

"This book argues that larger flaws in the global supply chain must first be addressed to change the way business is conducted to prevent factory owners from taking deadly risks to meet clients' demands in the garment industry in Bangladesh. Using the 2013 Rana-Plaza disaster as a departure...

"Shaun Richman explains how important it is to bring labor unions back from the edge of institutional annihilation. Based on historical research and legal analysis, as well as his own experience as a union organizing director, Richman lays out an action plan for U.S. workers in the twenty-first...

Klappentext: "The Global Perspective of Urban Labor in Mexico City, 1910-1929" examines the global entanglement of the Mexican labor movement during the Mexican Revolution. It describes how global influences made their entry into labor culture through the cinema, the theater, and labor festivals...

Postal workers and the rise of collective bargaining -- Rising expectations and brewing conflict -- The strike begins -- The strike ends -- Aftershocks and postal reorganization -- The U.S. Postal Service and the postal unions in the 1970s -- Almost striking again, arbitration, and automation,...

From Coordinated to Disorganized Capitalism in Japan -- Organized Labor and Social Conflict in Japan -- From Precarity to Contestation -- Precarious Labor Power and Japan's Neoliberalizing Firms -- Precarious Labor and the Contestation of Policymaking in Japan -- Japan's Absent Mode of...

"Red Silk is a history of China's Yangzi Delta silk industry during the wars, crises, and revolutions of the mid-twentieth century. Based on extensive research in Chinese archives and focused on the 1950s, the book compares two very different groups of silk workers and their experiences in the...

"Communists and Community chronicles labor activism and community organizing sponsored by the Communist Party in Detroit from 1942 to 1956, to investigate the changing nature of community-based activism in the twentieth century."

"A profound change is taking place in employment relations in China. The opening up of the economy to both national and international competition is transforming the way in which employers and workers interact. It is also changing the institutions through which they interact and the ways in...

Understanding and framing the questions of trade union responses to immigration and social inclusion -- Uncovering the nature of and tensions within inclusion and labour relations : research context and methods -- Trade unions and immigration in the Netherlands : between race and social rights...

Analyzing the 2010 elections -- Summary history of the Wisconsin uprising -- The source of collective effervescence: conceptual foundations -- Totally alive: effervescence in the Wisconsin uprising -- Internal order and youth authority in the Wisconsin uprising -- The information station --...

"Explores the effects of deportability--a social condition characterized by the possibility of removal--on the exercise of labor rights amongst temporary migrant workers--primarily Mexican nationals engaged in Canada's model Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP)--struggling to organize,...

Introduction / Jack Barnes -- Tribunes of the people / V.I. Lenin -- Trade unions in the epoch of imperialist decay / Leon Trotsky -- "In Minneapolis we can begin to show the entire country" / Farrell Dobbs, Jack Barnes -- Trade unions : their past, present, and future / Karl Marx.

"The labor movement has been under attack for decades; by understanding the nature of the right-wing attack, activists and scholars can analyze ways to build a working-class movement in the United States."

Introduction: Methodology and the problem of race in American labor history -- "A deep, dark plot": race in the chicago labor movement, 1894-1905 -- "Every Negro can make a fight": race and the CFL campaign, 1916-1921 -- "Demoralized by its own weaknesses": the structural limits of federated...

Prosser argues that labour movements respond to European integration in a manner which instigates competition between national labour markets. In an engaging style which will be accessible to scholars, students and policymakers, the book bases its hypothesis on analysis of four countries,...