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Engineering Culture

By: Kunda, Gideon

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mar-11

Seller ID: 133332

ISBN: 1592135463

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

'Engineering Culture' offers a critical analysis of an American company's well-known and widely emulated 'corporate culture'. It uses detailed descriptions of everyday interactions and rituals in which the culture is brought to life.
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Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work

By: Laskas, Jeanne MArie

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 368770

ISBN: 042526727X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An Oprah.com "Must-Read Book"

Award-winning journalist Jeanne Marie Laskas reveals "enlightening, entertaining, and often poignant"* profiles of America's working class--the forgotten men and women who make our country run.

Take the men of Hopedale Mining company in Cadiz, Ohio. Laskas spent several weeks with them, both below and above ground, and by the end, you will know not only about their work, but about Pap and his dying mom, Smitty and the mail-order bride who stood him up at the airport, and Scotty and his thwarted dreams of becoming a boxing champion.

That...
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Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory

By: Louie, Miriam Ching Yoon

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 364412

ISBN: 896086380

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s (Working Class in American History)

By: Lynd, Staughton

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 397510

ISBN: 252065476

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

London Labour and the London Poor

By: Mayhew, Henry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Feb-12

Seller ID: 180699

ISBN: 140432418

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers And the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement

By: Milkman, Ruth

Price: $9.50

Seller ID: 376575

ISBN: 871546353

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Strike: The Daily News War and the Future of American Labor

By: Richard Vigilante

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: Jul-94

Seller ID: 430127

ISBN: 671796313

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

McDonaldization of Society

By: Ritzer, George

Price: $14.50

Seller ID: 380059

ISBN: 1483358941

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The latest edition of George Ritzer's seminal book. One of the most popular sociology titles of all
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Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America

By: Rosenblum, Jonathan D.

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 411151

ISBN: 875463320

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920

By: Rosenzweig, Ron

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 357002

ISBN: 052131397X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the first comprehensive study of American working-class recreation, Professor Rosenzweig takes us to the saloons, the ethnic and church picnics, the parks and playgrounds, the amusement parks, and the movie houses where industrial workers spent their leisure hours. Focusing on the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, he describes the profound changes that popular leisure underwent. Explaining what these pastimes and amusements tell us about the nature of working-class culture and class relations in this era, he demonstrates that in order fully to understand the working class experience it is n...
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Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town

By: Rudacille, Deborah

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 401956

ISBN: 375423680

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Glassworkers of Carmaux

By: Scott, Joan Wallace

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Aug-17

Seller ID: 345641

ISBN: 674354419

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hidden Injuries of Class

By: Sennett, Richard/Cobb, Jonatha

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 402757

ISBN: 394719409

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Good

Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

By: Studs Terkel

Price: $7.00

Publisher: The New Press: Feb-97

Seller ID: 456856

ISBN: 1565843428

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Perhaps Studs Terkel's best-known book, Working is a compelling, fascinating look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews conducted with everyone from gravediggers to studio heads, this book provides a timeless snapshot of people's feelings about their working lives, as well as a relevant and lasting look at how work fits into American life.