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Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of million...

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I denna avhandling bidrar Gustav Nyberg med ny kunskap om statarnas förfackliga kamp och vardagliga motstånd i Stockholms län under tidsperioden 1890-1919. Genom att kombinera olika typer av källmaterial analyserar Nyberg skärpta klassmotsättninga...

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First published in 1930, Siegfried Kracauer's work was greeted with great acclaim and soon attained the status of a classic. The object of his inquiry was the new class of salaried employees who populated the cities of Weimar Germany. Spiritually ...

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Pappersindustriarbetarförbundet, Pappers, bildades under oen orolig period i svensk historia, präglad av svält, efterdyningarna av första världskriget och farsoten spanska sjukan Faktum är att Sverige aldrig i modern tid varit närmare en revolutio...

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In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument" (Business Week) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers,...

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'Burnham has real intellectual courage, and writes about real issues.' - George Orwell Burnham's claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was being replaced not by socialism, but a new economic system he called "managerialism"; rule by mana...

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Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the foundations of economic theory in general and 'classical' economics in particular, and this Penguin Classics edition is edited with an...

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An original and visually powerful exploration of unionism. In our current political climate, people are looking for answers - and alternatives. The promise of unions is that their 'members be unlimited': that they don't belong to the rich, the pow...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A suspenseful behind-the-scenes look at the dysfunction that contributed to one of the worst tragedies in modern aviation: the 2018 and 2019 crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX. A n "authoritative, gripping and finely detaile...

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Från Svenska Teaterförbundet till Fackförbundet Scen & Film Fackförbundet Scen & Film har verkat i 128 år, merparten under namnet Svenska Teaterförbundet. De sociala, ekonomiska och tekniska förutsättningarna för scen- och filmområdet har under de...

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Oktoberförlaget har valt att utge SKP:s fackliga grundcirkel "Gör facket till en kamporganisation" igen. Den utgavs redan 1973, vilket naturligtvis betyder att den efterföljande utvecklingen på arbetsmarknaden inte alls beskrivs. Detta påverkar do...

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A riveting account of labor's bottom-up resurgence, providing a roadmap for workers, unions, and social movements to win widely. ¿ After decades of union decline and rising inequality, an inspiring wave of workplace organizing-from Starbucks store...

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Göte Kildén (1946-2022) var under femtio år en av den svenska vänsterns mest framträdande representanter. Han var en av de centrala ledarna för den trotskistiska rörelse som byggdes upp i Sverige. Från slutet av 1970-talet var han också ledande fö...

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A fascinating look into the historic founding congress of the Red International of Labour Unions in Moscow in 1921. This gathering set out to create an international revolutionary trade-union organisation embracing millions of workers, and it brou...

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Workers Without Companies contributes to the debate on the future of work in a productive landscape that is now global, while ways of working diversify at an unprecedented pace. Faced with several decades of mass unemployment in Europe and the act...

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Vilka var hautboisterna? Vad gjorde en folkskolebaderska? Och varför tog ett inbrott knäcken på Körkunniga arbetares stödförening? Det är bara några av frågorna du aldrig ställt dig som får svar i denna bok. Genom elva udda berättelser ur vår hist...

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En bok för alla arbetare som vill organisera på jobbet för bättre livsvillkor och ett rättvist samhälle.

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A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners' own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes in B...

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I år fyller LO 125 år. Jubileet väcker frågor. Att LO försvagats och marginaliserats som samhällskraft står klart. Hur har LO hamnat där? Centralt är vad som hände under den nyliberala marknadsfundamentalismens genombrott i slutet av 1900-talet. S...

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A book for all workers interested in organizing on the job for better living conditions and a just society.

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Det har på senare år ofta framförts att de fackliga organisationerna har svåra problem som hänger samman med marknadskrafternas hegemoni, individualisering, globalisering och diverse andra kännetecken för vår tid. De fackliga organisationerna betr...

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The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washin...

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This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates...

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Contains the Bryant Spann Memorial Prize in Literature for 1997, an award-winning essay, "The Very Last Hurrah" by Eric Leif Davin This collection of articles delves into the little-known community-based unionism of the 1930s. Worlds apart from bu...

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Few historians have contributed more to our understanding of the history of women, and women's effect on history, than Alice Kessler-Harris. Author of the classic Out to Work, she is one of the country's leading scholars of gender, the economy, an...

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This revelatory and inclusive book "unearths the stories of the people-farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees-behind some of the labor movement's biggest successes" (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor ...

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This is the first comparative study of the background, development, laws, structure, and impact of teacher unionism in nations around the world. This ground-breaking analysis offers an international perspective on the world's most populous profess...

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