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32 produkter
Workers Across the Americas
The Transnational Turn in Labor History
Inbunden, 2011
1035 kr
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The first major volume to place U.S.-centered labor history in a transnational or U.S.-in-the-world focus, Workers Across the Americas collects the newest work of leading Canadianist, Caribbeanist, and Latin American specialists, as well as U.S. historians. As distinct from comparative histories …
Workers Across the Americas
The Transnational Turn in Labor History
Av Leon Fink
Häftad, 2011
1056 kr
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The first major volume to place U.S.-centered labor history in a transnational or U.S.-in-the-world focus, Workers Across the Americas collects the newest work of leading Canadianist, Caribbeanist, and Latin American specialists, as well as U.S. historians. As distinct from comparative histories …
Workers Across the Americas
The Transnational Turn in Labor History
Av Leon Fink
E-bok, 2011
571 kr
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The first major volume to place U.S.-centered labor history in a transnational focus, Workers Across the Americas collects the newest scholarship of Canadianist, Caribbeanist, and Latin American specialists as well as U.S. historians. These essays highlight both the supra- and sub-national aspect …
Workers Across the Americas
The Transnational Turn in Labor History
Av Leon Fink
E-bok, 2011
571 kr
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The first major volume to place U.S.-centered labor history in a transnational focus, Workers Across the Americas collects the newest scholarship of Canadianist, Caribbeanist, and Latin American specialists as well as U.S. historians. These essays highlight both the supra- and sub-national aspect …
Undoing the Liberal World Order
Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II
Av Leon Fink
Inbunden, 2022
2227 kr
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In the decades following World War II, American liberals had a vision for the world. Their ambitions would not stop at the water’s edge: progressive internationalism, they believed, could help peoples everywhere achieve democracy, prosperity, and freedom. Chastened in part by the failures of these …
Undoing the Liberal World Order
Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II
Av Leon Fink
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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In the decades following World War II, American liberals had a vision for the world. Their ambitions would not stop at the water’s edge: progressive internationalism, they believed, could help peoples everywhere achieve democracy, prosperity, and freedom. Chastened in part by the failures of these …
Workingmen's Democracy
The Knights of Labor and American Politics
Av Leon Fink
Häftad, 1985
324 kr
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Focusing on the operation and influence of the Knights of Labor—the leading labor organization of the nineteenth century—Workingmen's Democracy explores the dreams, achievements, and failures of a movement that sought to renew the democratic potential of American institutions. Runner-up in both the …
Workers in Hard Times
A Long View of Economic Crises
Av Leon Fink, Joseph A. McCartin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1448 kr
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Seeking to historicize the 2007-2009 Great Recession, this volume of essays situates the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace. Contributors use examples from industrialized North America, South America, …
Labor Justice Across the Americas
Av Leon Fink, Juan Manuel Palacio
Inbunden, 2017
1448 kr
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Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary? Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio present essays that address these essential …
Labor Justice Across the Americas
Av Leon Fink, Juan Manuel Palacio
E-bok, 2017
585 kr
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Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker ''s history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary? Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio present essays that address these essential …
Workingmen's Democracy
The Knights of Labor and American Politics
Av Leon Fink
E-bok, 2022
560 kr
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Focusing on the operation and influence of the Knights of Labor—the leading labor organization of the nineteenth century— Workingmen''s Democracy explores the dreams, achievements, and failures of a movement that sought to renew the democratic potential of American institutions. Runner-up in both …
In SEARCH of WORKING CLASS
ESSAYS in AMERICAN LABOR HISTORY and POLITICAL CULTURE
Av Leon Fink
Häftad, 1994
339 kr
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These nine essays by a prominent scholar in American labor history self-consciously evoke the tensions between the worker as historical subject and the historian as outside observer. Encompassing studies of labor culture, strategy, and movement building from the late nineteenth century to the …
Upheaval in the Quiet Zone
1199/SEIU and the Politics of Healthcare Unionism
Häftad, 2009
425 kr
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This expanded second edition of Upheaval in the Quiet Zone updates the dramatic story of an insurgent labor union that by the end of the 1980s had established itself as a vital force in the modern labor movement. But even bigger changes were on the way. Overcoming internal divisions that originated …
Labor Justice Across the Americas
Av Leon Fink, Juan Manuel Palacio
Häftad, 2017
290 kr
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Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary? Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio present essays that address these essential …
Workers in Hard Times
A Long View of Economic Crises
Av Leon Fink, Joseph A. McCartin m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
396 kr
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Seeking to historicize the 2007-2009 Great Recession, this volume of essays situates the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace. Contributors use examples from industrialized North America, South America, …
Workers in Hard Times
A Long View of Economic Crises
Av Leon Fink, Joseph A. McCartin m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
585 kr
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Seeking to historicize the 2007-2009 Great Recession, this volume of essays situates the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace. Contributors use examples from industrialized North America, South America, …
Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment
Av Leon Fink
Häftad, 1999
406 kr
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How to lead the people and be one of them? What's a democratic intellectual to do? This longstanding dilemma for the progressive intellectual, how to bridge the world of educated opinion and that of the working masses, is the focus of Leon Fink's penetrating book, the first social history of the …
Maya of Morganton
Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
Av Leon Fink
E-bok, 2003
508 kr
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The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization. When laborers'' concerns about safety and fairness spark a strike and, ultimately, a unionizing campaign at Case …
Sweatshops at Sea
Merchant Seamen in the World''s First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present
Av Leon Fink
E-bok, 2011
239 kr
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As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world''s first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders. In Sweatshops at Sea , historian …
Long Gilded Age
American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order
Av Leon Fink
Häftad, 2018
342 kr
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From the end of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, the United States experienced unprecedented structural change. Advances in communication and manufacturing technology brought about a revolution for major industries such as railroads, coal, and steel. The …
Long Gilded Age
American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order
Av Leon Fink
E-bok, 2014
437 kr
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From the end of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, the United States experienced unprecedented structural change. Advances in communication and manufacturing technology brought about a revolution for major industries such as railroads, coal, and steel. The …
Sweatshops at Sea
Merchant Seamen in the World''s First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present
Av Leon Fink
E-bok, 2011
837 kr
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As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world''s first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders. In Sweatshops at Sea , historian …
Sweatshops at Sea
Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present
Av Leon Fink
Häftad, 2014
401 kr
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As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world's first globalised industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labour recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders. In Sweatshops at Sea, historian …
Maya of Morganton
Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
Av Leon Fink
Häftad, 2024
343 kr
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In 2003, Leon Fink published his oral history of Guatemalan and Mexican migrants in Morganton, North Carolina, and their fight for unionization in a poultry processing plant. In the years since, Fink remained in touch with many of the people he profiled in the book, and in 2022 he returned to …
Maya of Morganton
Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
Av Leon Fink
E-bok, 2024
2118 kr
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In 2003, Leon Fink published his oral history of Guatemalan and Mexican migrants in Morganton, North Carolina, and their fight for unionization in a poultry processing plant. In the following years, Fink remained in touch with many of the people he profiled in the book, and in 2022 he returned to …
Maya of Morganton
Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
Av Leon Fink
E-bok, 2024
2165 kr
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In 2003, Leon Fink published his oral history of Guatemalan and Mexican migrants in Morganton, North Carolina, and their fight for unionization in a poultry processing plant. In the following years, Fink remained in touch with many of the people he profiled in the book, and in 2022 he returned to …
Workers and the 'Golden Age' of Social Democracy?
Av Stefan Berger, Jan-Arend de Graaf m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
157 kr
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Topics highlight worker responses during the postwar boom era and include a comparative analysis of the social democracy of the United States and that of West Germany; inflation as the underside of liberal governance; the “Fordist” trap for Italian women; humanizing the workplace during the Sixties …
Deliverance Revisited
Der Triumph von Trump, die liberalen Eliten und die weiße Zombie-Arbeiterklasse
Av Leon Fink
E-bok, 2019
554 kr
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Die Ursachenforschung nach dem für viele Beobachter überraschenden Wahlsieg von Donald Trump 2016 nannte als einen der zentralen Gründe den „Aufstand" der sogenannten weißen Arbeiterklasse. In seinem Essay argumentiert Leon Fink, einer der anerkanntesten Arbeitshistoriker der Vereinigten Staaten, …
Deliverance Revisited
Der Triumph von Trump, die liberalen Eliten und die weiße Zombie-Arbeiterklasse
Av Leon Fink
E-bok, 2019
554 kr
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Die Ursachenforschung nach dem für viele Beobachter überraschenden Wahlsieg von Donald Trump 2016 nannte als einen der zentralen Gründe den „Aufstand" der sogenannten weißen Arbeiterklasse. In seinem Essay argumentiert Leon Fink, einer der anerkanntesten Arbeitshistoriker der Vereinigten Staaten, …
