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  • Informal Workers and Collective Action

    A Global Perspective

    Informal Workers and Collective Action features nine cases of collective action to improve the status and working conditions of informal workers. Adrienne E. Eaton, Susan J. Schurman, and Martha A. Chen set the stage by defining informal work and describing the types of organizations that represent the interests of informal workers and the lessons that may be learned from the examples presented in ... Leer más

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  • The Rise of the Outsiders

    How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way

    Something strange has been happening. All over the world, people are angry and rejecting the establishment like never before. Britain votes Brexit. Trump promises walls in America. Corbyn promises a new socialism in the UK. Tsipras in Greece. Podemos in Spain. Marine Le Pen in France. Norbert Hofer in Austria. The list goes on. Why has the mainstream lost support? Why are the outsiders flourishing ... Leer más

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  • Intern Nation

    How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy

    de Ross Perlin ...
    Millions of young people—and increasingly some not-so-young people—now work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand magazine offices, legislative backrooms, and Hollywood studios, but they also deliver aid in Afghanistan, map the human genome, and pick up garbage. Intern Nation is the first exposé of the exploitative world of internships. In this witty, astonishing, and serious ... Leer más

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  • The Right to Stay Home

    How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration

    de David Bacon ...
    The story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities to the poverty that forces people to migrate to the United StatesPeople across Mexico are being forced into migration, and while 11 percent of that country’s population lives north of the US border, the decision to migrate is rarely voluntary. Free trade agreements and economic policies that exacerbate and reinforce extreme wealth ... Leer más

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  • Global Unions, Local Power

    The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing

    News about labor unions is usually pessimistic, focusing on declining membership and failed campaigns. But there are encouraging signs that the labor movement is evolving its strategies to benefit workers in rapidly changing global economic conditions. Global Unions, Local Power tells the story of the most successful and aggressive campaign ever waged by workers across national borders. It begins ... Leer más

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  • New Labor in New York

    Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement

    Edición de Ruth Milkman, Edward Ott ...
    New York City boasts a higher rate of unionization than any other major U.S. city—roughly double the national average—but the city's unions have suffered steady and relentless decline, especially in the private sector. With higher levels of income inequality than any other large city in the nation, New York today is home to a large and growing precariat—workers with little or no employment ... Leer más

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  • Fast Boat to China

    Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade; Lessons from Shanghai

    de Andrew Ross ...
    Most Americans today are aware that jobs are being outsourced to China, India, and other nations at an alarming rate. From factory jobs to white-collar, high-tech positions, the exporting of labor is one of the most controversial issues in America.Yet few people know much about the other end — about the people who are actually working these jobs and how their own lives have been throw into tumult ... Leer más

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  • China on Strike

    Narratives of Workers' Resistance

    Edición de Zhongjin Li, Eli Friedman, Hao Ren ...
    China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary, and most underreported labor struggles of our time. China on Strike, the first English-language book of its kind, provides an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers organizing in some of China’s most profitable factories, which supply Apple, ... Leer más

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  • Workers Unite!

    The International 150 Years Later

    Edición de Marcello Musto ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Major political and economic shifts have succeeded one another over the past twenty-five years. The rise to prominence of ecological issues, social changes generated by neoliberal globalization, and - most recently - one of the worst world economic crises ever, ... Leer más

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  • Chasing the Harvest

    Migrant Workers in California Agriculture

    Edición de Gabriel Thompson ...
    Series series Voice of Witness
    Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United StatesThe Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of California’s migrant farmworkers in the 1930s. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycotts captured the imagination of the United States in the 1960s and ’70s. Yet today, the stories of the more than 800,000 men, women, and ... Leer más

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  • When Good Jobs Go Bad

    Globalization, De-unionization, and Declining Job Quality in the North American Auto Industry

    From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewn—studies on the impact of globalization on workers have tended to focus on the worst jobs and the worst conditions. But in When Good Jobs Go Bad, Jeffrey Rothstein looks at the impact of globalization on a major industry—the North American auto industry—to reveal that globalization ... Leer más

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  • Labor in Culture, Or, Worker of the World(s)

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other. The cultural representation of labor is a challenge in how globalization is understood. Workers may be everywhere in the world but cultural correlatives are problematic. By elaborating cultural theory and practice this book examines why this might be so. If globalization unites workers ... Leer más

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