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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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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

An Introduction to Labor Law

By: Michael Evan Gold

Price: $8.00

Publisher: ILR Press: Mar-14

Seller ID: 459333

ISBN: 801479223

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

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Non Your Father's Union Movement: Inside the AFL-CIO

By: Mort, Jo-Ann

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Apr-10

Seller ID: 484342

ISBN: 1859842860

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

After a long period of quiescence, the US union movement is once more making waves. Under a new leadership the AFL-CIO has won dramatic victories for a minimum wage and against fast-track, mounted high-profile interventions in Congressional elections, extended its international links and, above all, directed greater resources to grassroots recruitment. And, as this book reveals, that's only the beginning ...

These pages bring together a group of writers, many directly involved in the AFL-CIO, who describe in detail the work now underway to rebuild the movement. Together they provide an ind...
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Building More Effective Unions (ILR Press Books)

By: Paul F. Clark

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Cornell University Press: Dec-00

Seller ID: 484523

ISBN: 801487056

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Securing Prosperity: The American Labor Market: How It Has Changed and What to Do about It (Century Foundation Book)

By: Paul Osterman

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press: Dec-00

Seller ID: 488178

ISBN: 691086885

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Women and the American Labor Movement: From the First Trade Unions to the Present

By: Philip Sheldon Foner

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Free Press: Sep-82

Seller ID: 484344

ISBN: 002910470x

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Case of Joe Hill

By: Philip Sheldon Foner

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Intl Pub: Jun-65

Seller ID: 489958

ISBN: 717800229

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

America Works: Critical Thoughts on the Exceptional U.S. Labor Market

By: Richard B. Freeman

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation: Apr-07

Seller ID: 484174

ISBN: 871542838

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement

By: Rick Fantasia,Kim Voss

Price: $4.00

Publisher: University of California Press: Jun-04

Seller ID: 485175

ISBN: 520240901

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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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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Root & Branch, the Rise of the Workers' Movement

By: Root & Branch (editors)

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Fawcett Crest: Jan-75

Seller ID: 483403

ISBN: B000BBDYHO

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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

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 Detroit: The Making of a Union Town

By: Steve Babson

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Adama Books: Sep-84

Seller ID: 493008

ISBN: 915361019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home

By: Steve Early

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Monthly Review Press: Jul-09

Seller ID: 471097

ISBN: 1583671889

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Collected for the first time, the essays that comprise Embedded With Organized Labor present a unique and informed perspective on the class war at home from a longtime organizer and "participatory labor journalist." Steve Early tackles the most pressing issues facing unions today and describes how workers have organized successfully, on the job and in the community, in the face of employer opposition now and in the past.

This wide-ranging collection deals with the dilemmas of union radicalism, the obstacles to institutional change within organized labor, and strategies for securing wo...
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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.

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