A Worker in a Worker's State
Author : Miklós Haraszti
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Miklós Haraszti
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Celeste Monforton
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 24,45 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1620976633
The inspiring story of worker centers that are cropping up across the country and leading the fight for today's workers For over 60 million people, work in America has been a story of declining wages, insecurity, and unsafe conditions, especially amid the coronavirus epidemic. This new and troubling reality has galvanized media and policymakers, but all the while a different and little-known story of rebirth and struggle has percolated just below the surface. On the Job is the first account of a new kind of labor movement, one that is happening locally, quietly, and among our country's most vulnerable—but essential—workers. Noted public health expert Celeste Monforton and award-winning journalist Jane M. Von Bergen crisscrossed the country, speaking with workers of all backgrounds and uncovering the stories of hundreds of new, worker-led organizations (often simply called worker centers) that have successfully achieved higher wages, safer working conditions and on-the-job dignity for their members. On the Job describes ordinary people finding their voice and challenging power: from housekeepers in Chicago and Houston; to poultry workers in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and Springdale, Arkansas; and construction workers across the state of Texas. An inspiring book for dark times, On the Job reveals that labor activism is actually alive and growing—and holds the key to a different future for all working people.
Author : Arthur Davis Dean
Publisher : London : T.W. Laurie
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Industrial policy
ISBN :
Author : Arthur Davis Dean
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Employees
ISBN :
Author : Janice Ruth Fine
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801472572
As national policy is debated, a locally based grassroots movement is taking the initiative to assist millions of immigrants in the American workforce facing poor pay, bad working conditions, and few prospects to advance to better jobs. Fine takes a comprehensive look at the rising phenomenon of worker centers, fast-growing institutions that improve the lives of immigrant workers through service advocacy and organizing.—from publisher information.
Author : Chris Wright
Publisher : Booklocker
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1632634325
Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the global popular protests of 2011, more people have begun to wonder and speculate: what’s next for civilization? The economic, social, and political status quo seems unsustainable, but what can emerge to take its place? In this book, a historian examines the past and present to argue that the seeds of a more humane society are already being planted, on local and international scales. Whether they will bear fruit depends, ultimately, on grassroots initiative. Focusing on the new worker cooperative movement in the West, this study not only contains the first systematic discussion of the solidarity economy in the light of Marxist theory; it also introduces a major revision of Marxism that both updates it for the twenty-first century and illuminates our historical moment. It includes an analysis of the history of cooperatives in the U.S., showing where they went wrong and how we can correct their past mistakes. It has a case-study of the successful new worker-owned business New Era Windows in Chicago, which has been celebrated internationally for its defiance of conventional paradigms. And it shows a way out of the age-old conflict between Marxism and anarchism, arguing that both are more relevant now than they have ever been. Which is to say: a gradualist “revolution” is, for the first time, within the realm of possibility.
Author : Arthur D. Dean
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 1910
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Arthur Davis Dean
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781289453497
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Elizabeth Sanders
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 1999-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0226734773
Offering a revision of the understanding of the rise of the American regulatory state in the late 19th century, this book argues that politically mobilised farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control.
Author : Melvyn Dubofsky
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0807861154
In this important new book, Melvyn Dubofsky traces the relationship between the American labor movement and the federal government from the 1870s until the present. His is the only book to focus specifically on the 'labor question' as a lens through which to view more clearly the basic political, economic, and social forces that have divided citizens throughout the industrial era. Many scholars contend that the state has acted to suppress trade union autonomy and democracy, as well as rank-and-file militancy, in the interest of social stability and conclude that the law has rendered unions the servants of capital and the state. In contrast, Dubofsky argues that the relationship between the state and labor is far more complex and that workers and their unions have gained from positive state intervention at particular junctures in American history. He focuses on six such periods when, in varying combinations, popular politics, administrative policy formation, and union influence on the legislative and executive branches operated to promote stability by furthering the interests of workers and their organizations.