Category: Labor Studies

"Sure to become the definitive account of the fire. . . . Triangle is social history at its best, a magnificent portrayal not only of the catastrophe but also of the time and the turbulent city in which it took place." --The New York Times Book Review

Triangle is a poignantly detailed account of the 1911 disaster that horrified the country and changed the course of twentieth-century politics and labor relations. On March 25, 1911, as workers were getting ready to leave for the day, a fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Within minutes it sp...
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The Division of Labor in Society

By: Emile Durkheim,Lewis A. Coser

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Free Press: Sep-97

Seller ID: 113280

ISBN: 684836386

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Labor Pains: Inside America's New Union Movement

By: Erem, Suzan

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 395171

ISBN: 1583670580

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Labor Pains is an insider's account of the struggle to rebuild a vibrant and powerful trade union movement in the United States. It takes as its starting point the daily experience of a union organizer, and brings that experience to life. It enables us to grasp how the conflicting demands of race, class, and gender are lived in the new union movement.

The role of the unions is defined mainly by larger economic and political agendas. While keeping these agendas clearly in sight, Erem focuses primarily on aspects of the life of the union which often remain hidden. The personal crises o...
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German Worker: Working-Class Autobriographies from the Age of Industrialization

By: Europe/Kelly, Alfred

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 397657

ISBN: 520061241

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

My Job My Self

By: Gini, Al

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oct-10

Seller ID: 111750

ISBN: 041592636X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In My Job My Self, Gini plumbs a wide range of statistics, interviews with workers, surveys from employers and employees, and his own experiences and memories, to explore why we work, how our work affects us, and what we will become as a nation of workers. My Job, My Self speaks to every employed person who has yet to understand the costs and challenges of a lifetime of labor.
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An Introduction to Labor Law

By: Gold, Michael Evan

Price: $8.00

Publisher: ILR Press: March 2014

Seller ID: 459333

ISBN: 0801479223

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An Introduction to Labor Law is a useful and course-tested primer that explains the basic principles of the federal law regulating the relationship of employers to labor unions. In this updated third edition, which features a new introduction, Michael Evan Gold discusses the law that applies to union organizing and representation elections, the duty to bargain in good faith, economic weapons such as strikes and lockouts, and the enforcement of collective bargaining agreements. Gold describes the structure and functions of the National Labor Relations Board and of the federal courts i...
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New directions in labor economics and industrial relations

By: Gordon, David/Thurow, Lester

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 402744

ISBN: 268014590

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Workers and Utopia

By: Grob, Gerald

Price: $3.50

Seller ID: 411231

ISBN: QP61

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America

By: Gutman, Herbert

Price: $5.50

Seller ID: 397455

ISBN: 394722515

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the Project that launched Mass Observation

By: Hall, DAvid

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 382281

ISBN: 297871684

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World

By: Hall, Jacquelyn

Price: $8.50

Seller ID: 395879

ISBN: 807848794

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Out of the Jungle: jimmy Hoffa and the Remaking of the American Working Class

By: Hoffa, Jimmy/Russel, Thaddeus

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Feb-13

Seller ID: 226062

ISBN: 375411577

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right

By: Kahlenberg, Richard D.

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 396604

ISBN: 870785230

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Levi's Children: Coming to Terms With Human Rights in the Global Marketplace

By: Karl Schoenberger

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr: May-00

Seller ID: 430088

ISBN: 871138093

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Enemy Within The Mcclellan Committee's Crisade Against Jimmy Hoffa and Corrupt Labor Unions

By: Kennedy, Robert F

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Aug-15

Seller ID: 300322

ISBN: 306805901

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Enemy Within The Mcclellan Committee's Crisade Against Jimmy Hoffa and Corrupt Labor Unions

By: Kennedy, Robert F

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Aug-15

Seller ID: 366132

ISBN: 11113471

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Good

Episiotomy and the Second Stage of Labor

By: Kitzinger, Sheila

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 410092

ISBN: 937604070

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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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Category: Labor Studies