Contributions in Labor Studies – serie
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American Work Ethic and the Changing Work Force
An Historical Perspective
E-bok, 1998
1204 kr
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A major force in American society, the work ethic has played a pivotal role in U.S. history, affecting cultural, social, and economic institutions. But what is the American work ethic? Not only has it changed from one era to another, but it varies with race, gender, and occupation. Considering such …
Construction Workers, U.S.A.
E-bok, 1999
1204 kr
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A lively, personalized account incorporating objective analysis and solid information accumulated over 42 years, this book presents a graphic picture of the construction industry from an insider's point of view. The volume focuses on the culture of construction workers, the management style of …
Broad and Ennobling Spirit
Workers and Their Unions in Late Gilded Age New York and Brooklyn, 1886-1898
E-bok, 2003
785 kr
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With the introduction of new production methods and technological innovation, tradesmen and workers encountered new challenges. This study examines the development of trade unions as a manifestation of working class experience in late Gilded Age America. It underscores both the distinctive and the …
Workforce Divided
Community, Labor, and the State in Saint-Nazaire's Shipbuilding Industry, 1880-1910
E-bok, 2002
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In this study of the life and work of Saint-Nazaire's shipbuilding workers in the 30 years before World War I, Schuster shows that the consequences of industrial production for workers differed sharply according to their resources and experiences. She details the competing identities and divergent …
Coal, Iron, and Slaves
Industrial Slavery in Maryland and Virginia, 1715$1865
Av Ronald Lewis
Inbunden, 1979
1098 kr
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We Offer Ourselves as Evidence
Toward Workers' Control of Occupational Health
Av B M Judkins
Inbunden, 1986
735 kr
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Quest for a Living Wage
The History of the Federal Minimum Wage Program
Inbunden, 1997
1067 kr
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The wages of workers are a primary determinant of a worker's standard of living. There has been a long history of governmental action attempting to construct a fair and equitable method of ensuring a living wage to the worker. This book traces the historical developmental process, examining the …
Parish-Fed Bastards
A History of the Politics of the Unemployed in Britain, 1884-1939
Inbunden, 1991
1098 kr
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This volume breaks tradition with previous studies of the unemployed in Britain. It offers a history highlighting the active political nature of the unemployed, rather than a depiction of them as passive victims of the system whose existence signals economic decline and social injustice. Beginning …
Emancipation of Labor
A History of the First International
Av Henryk Katz
Inbunden, 1992
1098 kr
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Beginning in 1859, the world was engulfed by a new process of revolutionary change that was more extensive geographically, more prolonged in time, more powerful, and more varied in its consequences than the great European revolution of 1848-1849. The same working classes participated in both …
Eastern's Armageddon
Labor Conflict and the Destruction of Eastern Airlines
Inbunden, 1992
1098 kr
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This book examines the escalation of an organizational conflict to one of the most talked about industrial crises of the past decade: the demise of Eastern Airlines. Through an analysis of the messages exchanged by some of its key participants--the representatives of the pilots and management of …
Economic Liberalization and Labor Markets
Av Parviz Dabir-Alai, Mehmet Odekon m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1067 kr
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Examining the premise that the process of economic liberalization has had a significant impact on the labor markets of many countries, this contributed volume studies that impact in different countries and regions from both theoretical and applied perspectives. While recognizing that liberalization …
Grand Master Workman
Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor
Av Craig Phelan
Inbunden, 2000
1098 kr
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The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor was the most ambitious and significant labor organization of the Gilded Age. As the charismatic leader of this group, Terence Powderly was America's first nationally known labor leader, the first to achieve a high degree of recognition from working people, …
Matriarchs of England's Cooperative Movement
A Study in Gender Politics and Female Leadership, 1883-1921
Inbunden, 1999
1098 kr
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Current thinking considers the Women's Cooperative Guild within the English Cooperative Movement to have been an independent and democratically run organization whose leaders built sisterhood across class lines and achieved many benefits for married working-class women. This study of the dynamics …
Marketing Masculinities
Gender and Management Politics in Marketing Work
Inbunden, 2001
1067 kr
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This book explores the ways in which gender informs the definition and organization of management work, with specific attention to marketing. Drawing on original case studies, Chalmers examines how marketing personnel in particular firms appeal to valued and emotionally charged masculine meanings …
Grand Master Workman
Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor
Av Craig Phelan
E-bok, 2000
1241 kr
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The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor was the most ambitious and significant labor organization of the Gilded Age. As the charismatic leader of this group, Terence Powderly was America's first nationally known labor leader, the first to achieve a high degree of recognition from working people, …
