From The Folks Who Brought You The Weekend

Author : Priscilla Murolo,A.B. Chitty
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781620974490

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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend by Priscilla Murolo,A.B. Chitty Pdf

Newly updated: “An enjoyable introduction to American working-class history.” —The American Prospect Praised for its “impressive even-handedness”, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley, the book “[puts] a human face on the people, places, events, and social conditions that have shaped the evolution of organized labor”, enlivened by illustrations from the celebrated comics journalist Joe Sacco (Library Journal). Now, the authors have added a wealth of fresh analysis of labor’s role in American life, with new material on sex workers, disability issues, labor’s relation to the global justice movement and the immigrants’ rights movement, the 2005 split in the AFL-CIO and the movement civil wars that followed, and the crucial emergence of worker centers and their relationships to unions. With two entirely new chapters—one on global developments such as offshoring and a second on the 2016 election and unions’ relationships to Trump—this is an “extraordinarily fine addition to U.S. history [that] could become an evergreen . . . comparable to Howard Zinn’s award-winning A People’s History of the United States” (Publishers Weekly). “A marvelously informed, carefully crafted, far-ranging history of working people.” —Noam Chomsky

Author : PRISCILLA AND A. B. CHITTY. MUROLO
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1368216908

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FROM THE FOLKS WHO BROUGHT YOU THE WEEKEND. by PRISCILLA AND A. B. CHITTY. MUROLO Pdf

Author : Priscilla Murolo,A. B. Chitty
Publisher : Soft Skull Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1565847768

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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend by Priscilla Murolo,A. B. Chitty Pdf

A history of labor in the United States explores the efforts of working people to win the rights one takes for granted--basic health and safety standards, fair on-the-job treatment, minimum wage, and weekend leisure.

Author : Joel Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : CORNELL:31924078628918

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The Folks who Brought You the Weekend by Joel Rogers Pdf

Author : Priscilla Murolo,A. B. Chitty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0756798094

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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend by Priscilla Murolo,A. B. Chitty Pdf

A comprehensive history of American labor, capturing the full sweep of working people's struggles in the U.S., from indentured servants & slaves in the 17th-century Chesapeake Bay region to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley. Written with great narrative force by an American history professor & a librarian, this book surveys the historic efforts of working people to win the rights we take for granted today: basic health & safety standards in the workplace, fair on-the-job treatment for men & women, the minimum wage, & even the weekend itself. With dramatic cartoon narratives by acclaimed artist Joe Sacco, this marvelously informed, far-ranging book brings labor history to life.

Author : Justin Akers Chacón
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781608467761

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Radicals in the Barrio by Justin Akers Chacón Pdf

Radicals in the Barrio uncovers a long and rich history of political radicalism within the Mexican and Chicano working class in the United States. Chacón clearly and sympathetically documents the ways that migratory workers carried with them radical political ideologies, new organizational models, and shared class experience, as they crossed the border into southwestern barrios during the first three decades of the twentieth-century. Justin Akers Chacón previous work includes No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border (with Mike Davis).

Author : R. Scapp,B. Seitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137326799

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Living with Class by R. Scapp,B. Seitz Pdf

A philosophical-cultural exploration, this book expands the discussion of "class" from a novel perspective. Following the current debates about wealth and class, the contributors address the social and cultural phenomena of class from a uniquely innovative philosophical approach and reconsider philosophical "givens" within the context of culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Labor movement
ISBN : CORNELL:31924082777438

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New Labor Forum by Anonim Pdf

Author : William E. Forbath
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674037083

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Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement by William E. Forbath Pdf

Why did American workers, unlike their European counterparts, fail to forge a class-based movement to pursue broad social reform? Was it simply that they lacked class consciousness and were more interested in personal mobility? In a richly detailed survey of labor law and labor history, William Forbath challenges this notion of American “individualism.” In fact, he argues, the nineteenth-century American labor movement was much like Europe’s labor movements in its social and political outlook, but in the decades around the turn of the century, the prevailing attitude of American trade unionists changed. Forbath shows that, over time, struggles with the courts and the legal order were crucial to reshaping labor’s outlook, driving the labor movement to temper its radical goals.

Author : Toni Gilpin
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642590890

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The Long Deep Grudge by Toni Gilpin Pdf

“The definitive history of an important but largely forgotten labor organization and its heroic struggles with an icon of industrial capitalism.” —Ahmed A. White, author of The Last Great Strike This rich history details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between industrial behemoth International Harvester and the uniquely radical Farm Equipment Workers union. The Long Deep Grudge makes clear that class warfare has been, and remains, integral to the American experience, providing up-close-and-personal and long-view perspectives from both sides of the battle lines. International Harvester—and the McCormick family that largely controlled it—garnered a reputation for bare-knuckled union-busting in the 1880s, but in the twentieth century also pioneered sophisticated union-avoidance techniques that have since become standard corporate practice. On the other side the militant Farm Equipment Workers union, connected to the Communist Party, mounted a vociferous challenge to the cooperative ethos that came to define the American labor movement after World War II. This evocative account, stretching back to the nineteenth century and carried through to the present, reads like a novel. Biographical sketches of McCormick family members, union officials and rank-and-file workers are woven into the narrative, along with anarchists, jazz musicians, Wall Street financiers, civil rights crusaders, and mob lawyers. It touches on pivotal moments and movements as wide-ranging as the Haymarket “riot,” the Flint sit-down strikes, the Memorial Day Massacre, the McCarthy-era anti-communist purges, and America’s late twentieth-century industrial decline. “A capitalist family dynasty, a radical union, and a revolution in how and where work gets done—Toni Gilpin’s The Long Deep Grudge is a detailed chronicle of one of the most active battlefronts in our ever-evolving class war.” —John Sayles

Author : Mark Dean Johnson
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173016341515

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At Work by Mark Dean Johnson Pdf

A Powerful examination of labor history in California. Includes full-color and b&w images by Tina Modotti, Richard Correll, Henrietta Shore, Diego Rivera and others.

Author : Kim Bobo
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781595588074

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Wage Theft in America by Kim Bobo Pdf

“This book will give you an entirely new perspective on work in America.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed In what has been described as “the crime wave no one talks about,” billions of dollars’ worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the United States every year—a grand theft that exceeds every other larceny category. Even the Economic Policy Foundation, a business-funded think tank, has estimated that companies annually steal an incredible $19 billion in unpaid overtime. The scope of these abuses is staggering, but activists, unions, and policymakers—along with everyday Americans in congregations and towns across the country—have begun to take notice. While the first edition of Wage Theft In America documented the scope of the problem, this new edition adds the latest research on wage theft and tells what community, religious, and labor activists are now doing to address the crisis—from passing state and local wage-theft bills to establishing mayoral task forces and tapping agencies that help low-wage workers in spotting wage theft. Citing hard-hitting statistics and heartbreaking first-person accounts of exploitation at the hands of employers, this updated edition of Wage Theft In America offers concrete solutions and a roadmap for putting an end to this insidious practice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133485073

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The Nation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : CORNELL:31924082843206

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The Postal Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nicholas Coles,Janet Zandy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Working class
ISBN : UCSC:32106017805810

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American Working-class Literature by Nicholas Coles,Janet Zandy Pdf

American Working-Class Literature is an edited collection containing over 300 oieces of literature by, about, and in the interests of the working class in America. Organized in a broadly historical fashion, with texts are grouped around key historical and cultural developments in working-class life, this volume records the literature of the working classes from the early laborers of the 1600 up until the present.