Author : Paul E. Willis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231053570
Claims the rebellion of poor and working class children against school authority prepares them for working class jobs.
Author : Stef Wertheimer
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1468313223
“There’s no better way to explain the miracle of Israel than to examine the life of Stef Wertheimer . . . A story to be read by everyone” (Warren Buffett). Forced to flee Nazi Germany with his family at age ten, Stef Wertheimer came to British Palestine in the late 1930s. He promptly dropped out of school, learned a trade through apprenticeship, and played a meaningful role in Israel’s War of Independence. He also started a company—ISCAR—that began in a shed and ultimately made him one of the world’s great self-made industrialists. In The Habit of Labor, Wertheimer shares the lessons he learned from a life of hardship and struggle in one of the world’s newest industrial powers. Both a pragmatist and a visionary, Wertheimer has devoted much of his life to promoting Jewish and Arab economic development through innovative educational and vocational programs, along with the establishment of a series of thriving industrial parks in Israel and in Turkey. The future of Israel, he believes, is not in military might or diplomatic alliances but in its growing economic clout.
Author : Helena Worthen
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780991163953
This is... A book about work, at a time when there are too few jobs; A book about labor at a time when hardly anyone belongs to a union; A book about what you already know; A book about learning that explains how you did it; A book for working people, for teachers, and for the labor movement; A book for everyone who has ever asked, "Can they get away with that?"
Author : Kim Scipes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1793631514
Efforts to build bottom-up global labor solidarity began in the late 1970s and continue today, having greater social impact than ever before. In Building Global Labor Solidarity: Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States Kim Scipes—who worked as a union printer in 1984 and has remained an active participant in, researcher about, and writer chronicling the efforts to build global labor solidarity ever since—compiles several articles about these efforts. Grounded in his research on the KMU Labor Center of the Philippines, Scipes joins first-hand accounts from the field with analyses and theoretical propositions to suggest that much can be learned from past efforts which, though previously ignored, have increasing relevance today. Joined with earlier works on the KMU, AFL-CIO foreign policy, and efforts to develop global labor solidarity in a time of accelerating globalization, the essays in this volume further develop contemporary understandings of this emerging global phenomenon.
Author : Alistair Urquhart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1628731508
Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious “Death Railway” and building the Bridge on the River Kwai. Subsequently, he moved to work on a Japanese “hellship,” his ship was torpedoed, and nearly everyone on board the ship died. Not Urquhart. After five days adrift on a raft in the South China Sea, he was rescued by a Japanese whaling ship. His luck would only get worse as he was taken to Japan and forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later, he was just ten miles from ground zero when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. In late August 1945, he was freed by the American Navy—a living skeleton—and had his first wash in three and a half years. This is the extraordinary story of a young man, conscripted at nineteen, who survived not just one, but three encounters with death, any of which should have probably killed him. Silent for over fifty years, this is Urquhart’s inspirational tale in his own words. It is as moving as any memoir and as exciting as any great war movie.
Author : Alexandra Bradbury
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2016-04-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780914093077
Author : Julia Aziz
Publisher : Msi Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781933455921
What if instead of trying to avoid the pain and uncertainty of labor, we asked what we could learn from it? In telling the intimate birth stories of her three children and miscarriage, Julia shows us how giving birth can be one of motherhood's (and life's) greatest teachers. Rather than giving advice on how to labor or how to parent, this book consistently offers the message that a woman can grow through the challenges that life presents her and learn to trust herself. For women who share a tendency for "getting it right," this honest and unguarded memoir is a reminder that the pretense of control is no match for the freedom of letting go.
Author : Jasmine Kerrissey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,59 MB
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501746626
Labor in the Time of Trump critically analyzes the right-wing attack on workers and unions and offers strategies to build a working–class movement. While President Trump's election in 2016 may have been a wakeup call for labor and the Left, the underlying processes behind this shift to the right have been building for at least forty years. The contributors show that only by analyzing the vulnerabilities in the right-wing strategy can the labor movement develop an effective response. Essays in the volume examine the conservative upsurge, explore key challenges the labor movement faces today, and draw lessons from recent activist successes. Contributors: Donald Cohen, founder and executive director of In the Public Interest; Bill Fletcher, Jr., author of Solidarity Divided; Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations; Sarah Jaffe, co-host of Dissent Magazine's Belabored podcast; Cedric Johnson, University of Illinois at Chicago; Jennifer Klein, Yale University; Gordon Lafer, University of Oregon's Labor Education and Research Center; Jose La Luz, labor activist and public intellectual; Nancy MacLean, Duke University; MaryBe McMillan, President of the North Carolina state AFL-CIO; Jon Shelton, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay; Lara Skinner, The Worker Institute at Cornell University; Kyla Walters, Sonoma State University
Author : Leon Fink
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252054466
Focusing on the operation and influence of the Knights of Labor—the leading labor organization of the nineteenth century—Workingmen's Democracy explores the dreams, achievements, and failures of a movement that sought to renew the democratic potential of American institutions. Runner-up in both the John H. Dunning Prize and Albert J. Beveridge Award competitions
Author : FRANCIS J. MOOTZ. SAUCEDO III (LETICIA. MASLANKA, MICHAEL P.)
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2019-04-24
Category :
ISBN : 9780314278692
Learning Employment Law provides concise and clear text, examples, and case excerpts that empower students to engage in sophisticated problem-solving regarding the most pressing issues in contemporary workplace law. The book succinctly reviews the historical backdrop of each issue to ensure that students gain the wider understanding necessary to effectively address contemporary problems. The book is comprised of 44 independent Lessons that can be structured by the professor to highlight different themes. Students will be exposed to common law and regulatory regimes, with a focus on the new workplace challenges of the platform economy, outsourced labor, and immigrant labor. Students will gain a sophisticated understanding of the challenges facing lawyers in this rapidly developing area of the law.
