Author : Jacob Benjamin Salutsky Hardman
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN :
These studies were guided by the provisional officers and Advisory board of the American labor problem associates. cf. Editor's foreword.
Author : American Labor Problem Associates
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 1928
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Rodney Muth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 1990-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780792300182
Author : Andrew P. Haley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 2011-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0807877921
In the nineteenth century, restaurants served French food to upper-class Americans with aristocratic pretensions, but by the turn of the century, even the best restaurants cooked ethnic and American foods for middle-class urbanites. In Turning the Tables, Andrew P. Haley examines how the transformation of public dining that established the middle class as the arbiter of American culture was forged through battles over French-language menus, scientific eating, cosmopolitan cuisines, unescorted women, un-American tips, and servantless restaurants.
Author : Leo Wolman
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2013-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781258781262
An Inquiry By Thirty-Two Labor Men, Teachers, Editors, And Technicians. Additional Contributors Include James Rorty, Walter N. Polakov, Corwin D. Edwards And Others.
Author : Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 29,32 MB
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 063122498X
Using an innovative framework, this reader examines the most important and influential writings on modern class relations. Uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines scholarship from political economy, social history, and cultural studies Brings together more than 50 selections rich in theory and empirical detail that span the working, middle, and capitalist classes Analyzes class within the larger context of labor, particularly as it relates to conflicts over and about work Provides insight into the current crisis in the global capitalist system, including the Occupy Wall Street Movement, the explosion of Arab Spring, and the emergence of class conflict in China
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 1984-11
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN :
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Author : David Wellman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521629683
American labour history is typically interpreted by scholars as a history of defeat. Hidden by this conventional wisdom are a handful of militant unions that did not follow the putative Congress of Industrial Organizations trajectory. Based on three years of ethnographic research, this book examines a union that organised itself to systematically challenge management's rule on the shopfloor: San Francisco's longshore union. American unionism looks quite different than conventional wisdom suggests when everyday union practices are observed. American labour's trajectory, this book argues, is neither inevitable nor determined; militant, democratic forms of unionism are possible in the United States; and collective bargaining does not automatically eliminate contests for workplace control. The contract is a bargain that reflects and reproduces fundamental disagreement; it states how production and conflict will proceed.
Author : Thaddeus Russell
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781592130276
"[T]he Teamsters, the largest A.F.L. affiliate... has been understudied... Russell's motives in seeking to redress this imbalance are certainly commendable." ?Maurice Isserman, The New York Times Book Review"[A] well-researched study of the longtime Teamsters leader...[that] could put Hoffa back on the historical map for a new generation of students of labor history." ?Publishers Weekly "An unexpectedly enthralling account of Jimmy Hoffa's tactics and aspirations... Russell's history of the Teamsters under Hoffa illustrates the vibrancy of the labor movement?for better or worse?during the middle 50 years of the 20th century." ?Kirkus Reviews "In this gripping biography of Jimmy Hoffa... Thaddeus Russell launches a vigorous attack on the reigning orthodoxy in labor history." ?David L. Chappell, Newsday "Russell bravely challenges the received wisdom of the left, the right, and the morally earnest center. If you want to get serious about the real meaning of class in the last century, read this gracefully yet powerfully argued book." ?Nelson Lichtenstein "Out of the Jungle delivers a much-needed and more nuanced understanding of a tumultuous period in the history of...the nation." ?John Gallagher, Detroit News/Free Press "...strongly recommended reading." ?The Midwest Book Review's Bookwatch
Author : Sanford M. Jacoby
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 2021-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691217203
From award-winning economic historian Sanford M. Jacoby, a fascinating and important study of the labor movement and shareholder capitalism Since the 1970s, American unions have shrunk dramatically, as has their economic clout. Labor in the Age of Finance traces the search for new sources of power, showing how unions turned financialization to their advantage. Sanford Jacoby catalogs the array of allies and finance-based tactics labor deployed to stanch membership losses in the private sector. By leveraging pension capital, unions restructured corporate governance around issues like executive pay and accountability. In Congress, they drew on their political influence to press for corporate reforms in the wake of business scandals and the financial crisis. The effort restrained imperial CEOs but could not bridge the divide between workers and owners. Wages lagged behind investor returns, feeding the inequality identified by Occupy Wall Street. And labor’s slide continued. A compelling blend of history, economics, and politics, Labor in the Age of Finance explores the paradox of capital bestowing power to labor in the tumultuous era of Enron, Lehman Brothers, and Dodd-Frank.
