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Ten years ago this book taught you how to get a seat at the table. That was then, this is now. Now we use the table for kindling. Design has changed, and this book has changed with it. In this second edition, Mike Monteiro not only covers how to b...

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The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and has been edited as a set of actions for today. Publicat...

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Today's progressives have given up on organizing and now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington. Meanwhile, promising movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter cannot build enough pow...

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Margaret Thatcher branded the leaders of the 1984-85 miners' strike "the enemy within." In this classic account, Seumas Milne reveals the astonishing lengths to which her government and its intelligence machine were prepared to go t...

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Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO's global anticommunist crusade-and its devastating consequences for workers around the world. Unions have the power not only to secure pay raises and employee benefits but to bring ec...

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Det finns tre socialistiska grenar i Sverige. Förutom socialdemokrati och kommunism finns även syndikalism, som organiseras i fackföreningen Sveriges arbetares centralorganisation (SAC). Syndikalismen kom till Sverige från i första hand Frankrike ...

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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 Br...

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Vilken bild har LO av invandrare och invandrararbetare? Diana Mulinari och Anders Neergaard har forskat om nätverket FAI ¿ Fackligt Aktiva Invandrare ¿ och erfarenheter av kamp inom facket. Hur kan man jobba fackligt om man inte betraktas som ...

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This revelatory and inclusive book unearths the stories of the peoplefarm laborers, domestic workers, factory employeesbehind some of the labor movements biggest successes (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor colum...

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The labor movement sees coalitions as a key tool for union revitalization and social change, but there is little analysis of what makes them successful or the factors that make them fail. Amanda Tattersallan organizer and labor scholaraddresses th...

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Growing levels of income and wage inequality and the precaritization of many sections of the labour force have made labour unions as salient as ever. Although membership levels have decreased, they remain among the worlds largest representative or...

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This book remains the most competent treatment of the principles and organization, strategy, and tactics, of the trade union movement. Drawing upon his life-long experience as an outstanding labor leader, the author shows the role of a militant Le...

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*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017* *Winner of the 2016 Labor History Best Book prize* Over a million people in the UK work in call centres, and the phrase has become synonymous with low-paid and high stre...

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Originally published in 1993, An Agenda for Britain offers a radical vision for the future of Britain and the Labour Party.Unemployment, Frank Field argues, must be the major issue on the political agenda; welfare should be taken 'out of the ghett...

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The untold story of a British institution'Brilliant.' Alan Johnson'Compelling.' David Kynaston'The beer drinkers' Bill Bryson.' Times Literary SupplementFerment Magazine's Best Beer Book of the YearPete Brown is a convivial guide on this journey t...

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The untold story of a British institution Brilliant. Alan Johnson Compelling. David Kynaston The beer drinkers Bill Bryson. Times Literary Supplement Ferment Magazine s Best Beer Book of the Year Pete Brown is a convivial guide on this journey thr...

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The untold story of a British institution Brilliant. Alan Johnson Compelling. David Kynaston The beer drinkers Bill Bryson. Times Literary Supplement Ferment Magazines Best Beer Book of the Year Pete Brown is a convivial guide on this journey thro...

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Since the beginning of the 1980s, British trade unions have experienced a dramatic retreat, marked by rapidly falling membership and declining industrial power. The authors examine the regional dimensions of this retreat of organised labour, payin...

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Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s, yet in 1950, few progressive unions remained. Why? Rights Delayed argues that anti-communism and Congressional conservatism merely intensified the main reason for the decline of progressive unions: the N...

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Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s by working alongside federal agencies created during the New Deal. Yet in 1950, few progressive unions remained. Why? Most scholars point to domestic anti-communism and southern conservatives in Congress ...

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Ela Bhatt is widely recognized as one of the world's most remarkable pioneers and entrepreneurial forces in grassroots development. Known as the "e;gentle revolutionary,"e; she has dedicated her life to improving the lives of India's poore...

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Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s by working alongside federal agencies created during the New Deal. Yet in 1950, few progressive unions remained. Why? Most scholars point to domestic anti-communism and southern conservatives in Congress ...

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Today's progressives have given up on organizing and now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington. Meanwhile, promising movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter cannot build enough pow...

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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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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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In Heartland Blues, Marc Dixon sheds a new light on unions, their evolution, and eventual decline in the United States by revisiting the labor movement in the 1950s. Drawing on social movement theories and archival materials, he follows campaigns ...

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The Midwest experienced an upheaval over labor rights beginning in the winter of 2011. For most commentators, the fallout in the Midwest and unions' weak showing in the 2016 presidential election a few years later was just more evidence of labor's...

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The Midwest experienced an upheaval over labor rights beginning in the winter of 2011. For most commentators, the fallout in the Midwest and unions' weak showing in the 2016 presidential election a few years later was just more evidence of labor's...

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This first comparative-historical analysis of the regulations that restrict the managerial capacity to dismiss employees and use temporary forms of employment addresses four puzzles that have long troubled the comparative political economy literat...

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