Political Science : Labor & Industrial Relations

Employers and government are pushing for every employee to have an individual contract. David Peetz peels away the claims and counterclaims to explain who benefits and who loses in the brave new world of work. more...

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Britain at Work presents a detailed analysis of the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey, the largest survey of its kind ever conducted. more...

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Located on the shore of Lake Superior near the Iron Range of Minnesota and, for much of its history, the site of vast steel, lumber, and shipping industries, Duluth has been home to people who worked tirelessly in the rail yards, grain elevators, and harbor. Here, for the first time, By the Ore Docks presents a compelling, full-length history of the people who built this port city and struggled for both the growth of the city and the rights of their fellow workers. In By the Ore Docks, Richard Hudelson and Carl Ross trace seventy years in the lives of DuluthÕs multi-ethnic working classÑScandinavians, Finns, Italians, Poles, Irish, Jews, and African AmericansÑand chronicle, along with the events of the times, the cityÕs vibrant neighborhoods, religious traditions, and communities. But they also tell the dramatic story of how a populist workerÕs coalition challenged the Òlegitimate AmericanÓ business interests of the city, including the major corporation U.S. Steel. From the Knights of Labor in the 1880s to the Industrial Workers of the World, the AFL and CIO, and the Democratic Farmer-Labor party, radical organizations and their immigrant visionaries put Duluth on the national map as a center in the fight for workerÕs rightsÑa struggle inflamed by major strikes in the copper and iron mines.By the Ore Docks is at once an important history of Duluth and a story of its working people, common laborers as well as union activists like Ernie Pearson, journalist Irene Paull, and Communist party gubernatorial candidate Sam Davis. Hudelson and Ross reveal tension between DuluthÕs ethnic groups, while also highlighting the ability of the people to overcome those differences and shape the legacy of the cityÕs unsettled and remarkable past. more...

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Societies have always struggled to determine what is right in providing for those at the low end of the economic spectrum; now that America has seen an enormous gulf open between those with the most and those with the least, the question becomes a campaig more...

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Cesar Chavez (1927Ð1993) comes to life in this vivid portrait of the charismatic fighter who boycotted supermarkets and took on corporations, the government, and the powerful Teamsters Union. Jacques E. Levy gained unprecedented access to Chavez and the United Farm Workers in writing this account of one of the most successful labor movements in historyÑwhich also serves as a guidebook for social and political change. more...

Price: $19.95