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Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor

Pub Date:

07/1991

ISBN:

9780801495434

Format:

Pb+ 400 pages

In tobacco fields, auto and radio factories, cigarmakers’ tenements, textile mills, print shops, insurance companies, restaurants,...

Government Regulation of the Employment Relationship

Pub Date:

01/1998

ISBN:

9780913447703

Format:

Pbk 550 pages

Ever since the emergence of industrial relations as a field in the late 1920s, three different approaches to labor problems have...

Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor

Pub Date:

05/2004

ISBN:

9780801489297

Format:

Pb+ 224 pages

The transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part of a larger shift in world capitalism: the...

European Unions: Labor's Quest for Transnational Democracy

Pub Date:

08/2010

ISBN:

9780801476662

Format:

Pb+ 280 pages

Roland Erne's view of transnational trade union networks challenges the assertion that no realistic prospect exists for remedying...

Fair Shares: Unions, Pay, and Politics in Sweden and West Germany

Pub Date:

01/1989

ISBN:

9780801421358

Format:

Hbk 272 pages

Union of Parts: Labor Politics in Postwar Germany

Pub Date:

02/1992

ISBN:

9780801425868

Format:

Hbk 264 pages

Union of Parts examines one of the central puzzles in the economic and political successes of West Germany (FRG). In the decades...

Organizing the Shipyards: Union Strategy in Three Northeast Ports, 1933–1945

Pub Date:

10/1998

ISBN:

9780801427343

Format:

Hbk 288 pages

In Organizing the Shipyards, David Palmer documents the history of union organizing at three of America’s largest private shipyards...

United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism

Pub Date:

06/2004

ISBN:

9780801427688

Format:

Hb+ 240 pages

In the late nineteenth century, most jobs were strictly segregated by sex. And yet, despite their separation at work, male and...

Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850–1914

Pub Date:

10/1996

ISBN:

9780801431234

Format:

Hbk 352 pages

Essential to current discussions of gender and the working class in Germany

Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation

Pub Date:

11/2001

ISBN:

9780801438356

Format:

Hb+ 272 pages

Forty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daughters into urban...

Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism

Pub Date:

04/2002

ISBN:

9780801434617

Format:

Hb+ 272 pages

Eva McDonald Valesh was one of the Progressive Era’s foremost labor publicists. Challenging the narrow confines placed on women,...

Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century

Pub Date:

11/2005

ISBN:

9780801434693

Format:

Hb+ 312 pages

The anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania once prospered. Today, very little mining or industry remains, although residents have...

Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor

Pub Date:

05/2004

ISBN:

9780801442254

Format:

Hb+ 224 pages

The transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part of a larger shift in world capitalism: the...

Republic of Labor: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918–1930

Pub Date:

06/2005

ISBN:

9780801443084

Format:

Hbk 344 pages

The long decade from the October Revolution to 1930 was the beginning of a great experiment to create a socialist society. Throughout...

Gender and Class in Modern Europe

Pub Date:

07/1996

ISBN:

9780801481468

Format:

Pb+ 368 pages