The Tragedy Of The Worker

Author : Jamie Allinson,China Miéville,Richard Seymour,Rosie Warren
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839762956

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The Tragedy of the Worker by Jamie Allinson,China Miéville,Richard Seymour,Rosie Warren Pdf

To understand the scale of what faces us and how it ramifies through every corner of our lives is to marvel at our inaction. Why aren't we holding emergency meetings in every city, town and village every week? What is to be done to create a planet where a communist horizon offers a new dawn to replace our planetary twilight? What does it mean to be a communist after we have hit a climate tipping point? The Tragedy of the Worker is a brilliant, stringently argued pamphlet reflecting on capitalism's death drive, the left's complicated entanglements with fossil fuels, and the rising tide of fascism. In response, the authors propose Salvage Communism, a programme of restoration and reparation that must precede any luxury communism. They set out a new way to think about the Anthropocene. The Tragedy of the Worker demands an alternative future - the Proletarocene - one capable of repairing the ravages of capitalism and restoring the world.

Author : Jamie Allinson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839762963

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The Tragedy of the Worker by Jamie Allinson Pdf

Facing irreversible climate change, the planet is en route to apocalypse To understand the scale of what faces us and how it ramifies through every corner of our lives is to marvel at our inaction. Why aren’t we holding emergency meetings in every city, town and village every week? What is to be done to create a planet where a communist horizon offers a new dawn to replace our planetary twilight? What does it mean to be a communist after we have hit a climate tipping point? The Tragedy of the Worker is a brilliant, stringently argued pamphlet reflecting on capitalism’s death drive, the left’s complicated entanglements with fossil fuels, and the rising tide of fascism. In response, the authors propose Salvage Communism, a programme of restoration and reparation that must precede any luxury communism. They set out a new way to think about the Anthropocene. The Tragedy of the Worker demands an alternative future—the Proletarocene—one capable of repairing the ravages of capitalism and restoring the world.

Author : Matthew Garcia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520283855

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From the Jaws of Victory by Matthew Garcia Pdf

From the Jaws of Victory:The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement is the most comprehensive history ever written on the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history. Based on little-known sources and one-of-a-kind oral histories with many veterans of the farm worker movement, this book revises much of what we know about the UFW. Matt Garcia’s gripping account of the expansion of the union’s grape boycott reveals how the boycott, which UFW leader Cesar Chavez initially resisted, became the defining feature of the movement and drove the growers to sign labor contracts in 1970. Garcia vividly relates how, as the union expanded and the boycott spread across the United States, Canada, and Europe, Chavez found it more difficult to organize workers and fend off rival unions. Ultimately, the union was a victim of its own success and Chavez’s growing instability. From the Jaws of Victory delves deeply into Chavez’s attitudes and beliefs, and how they changed over time. Garcia also presents in-depth studies of other leaders in the UFW, including Gilbert Padilla, Marshall Ganz, Dolores Huerta, and Jerry Cohen. He introduces figures such as the co-coordinator of the boycott, Jerry Brown; the undisputed leader of the international boycott, Elaine Elinson; and Harry Kubo, the Japanese American farmer who led a successful campaign against the UFW in the mid-1970s.

Author : Ross Mullner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015049546578

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Deadly Glow by Ross Mullner Pdf

Author : Oren Cass
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781641770156

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The Once and Future Worker by Oren Cass Pdf

“[Cass’s] core principle—a culture of respect for work of all kinds—can help close the gap dividing the two Americas....” – William A. Galston, The Brookings Institution The American worker is in crisis. Wages have stagnated for more than a generation. Reliance on welfare programs has surged. Life expectancy is falling as substance abuse and obesity rates climb. These woes are not the inevitable result of irresistible global and technological forces. They are the direct consequence of a decades-long economic consensus that prioritized increasing consumption—regardless of the costs to American workers, their families, and their communities. Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency focused attention on the depth of the nation’s challenges, yet while everyone agrees something must change, the Left’s insistence on still more government spending and the Right’s faith in still more economic growth are recipes for repeating the mistakes of the past. In this groundbreaking re-evaluation of American society, economics, and public policy, Oren Cass challenges our basic assumptions about what prosperity means and where it comes from to reveal how we lost our way. The good news is that we can still turn things around—if the nation’s proverbial elites are willing to put the American worker’s interests first. Which is more important, pristine air quality, or well-paying jobs that support families? Unfettered access to the cheapest labor in the world, or renewed investment in the employment of Americans? Smoothing the path through college for the best students, or ensuring that every student acquires the skills to succeed in the modern economy? Cutting taxes, expanding the safety net, or adding money to low-wage paychecks? The renewal of work in America demands new answers to these questions. If we reinforce their vital role, workers supporting strong families and communities can provide the foundation for a thriving, self-sufficient society that offers opportunity to all.

Author : James R. Barrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028602600

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William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism by James R. Barrett Pdf

Traces the political journey of a worker radical whose life and experiences encapsulate radicalism's rise and fall in the United States.

Author : Stuart Chase
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Industries
ISBN : OCLC:7470230

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The Tragedy of Waste by Stuart Chase Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Foreign trade and employment
ISBN : PSU:000013392734

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Workers' Rights and Trade Adjustment Assistance Programs by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance Pdf

Author : Leon Stein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801462504

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The Triangle Fire by Leon Stein Pdf

March 25, 2011, marks the centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 garment workers lost their lives. A work of history relevant for all those who continue the fight for workers' rights and safety, this edition of Leon Stein's classic account of the fire features a substantial new foreword by the labor journalist Michael Hirsch, as well as a new appendix listing all of the victims' names, for the first time, along with addresses at the time of their death and locations of their final resting places.

Author : Daniel Bender
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527549616

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A New History of Tudor England by Daniel Bender Pdf

People concerned with the history of education and the history of labor rights bring two premises to the table. First, that the history of education unfolds separately from the history of working class movements, and, second, that an historical period 400 years old is securely confined by the past. Surely the time known as Tudor England, most readers would say, rests in peace as a bygone era? Surely an educational system devised by scholars differs from an economic system operated by large landholders and manorial lords? This book challenges both premises. The Tudor educational system regarded their select class of boys as human capital to be endowed with royalist values, germane to the ruling elite. The notion of students as co-partners in curriculum-making was unthinkable. Mirroring this educational system was a labor system that regarded commoners as dependent economic actors, virtual pawns in capitalist strategy. Tudor laborers were granted the right to work, but had no say in formulating economic policies that affected the core of their working lives. Describing the mirroring relation of two marginalized and voiceless groups, this book confronts the regrettable historical conditions of students, teachers, and workers in a celebrated cultural past: Tudor England. This marginalization of working class and student labor is not a relic from the Tudor past. The political and socioeconomic structures that kept students, teachers and workers from negotiating their own destiny are still active in the 21st century. This text explores the struggle of students, teachers and workers with the Tudor legacies of education and labor. After tracing these transhistorical connections, each essay calls for activism, resistance or reform. Democracy—as Benjamin Franklin explained in the allegory of two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for lunch—has always called for organized resistance from below. Pursuing that hopeful goal, this book outlines new forms of education and labor strategies. If these are put into practice, the needs, voices, and beliefs of students, teachers, and workers may be recognized and honored by elite leadership.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Supplemental unemployment benefits
ISBN : PURD:32754077528275

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Unemployment Compensation Issues by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Apprentices
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045244253

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Oversight Hearings on the National Apprenticeship Training Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities Pdf

Author : Joshua M. Karlip
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674074941

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The Tragedy of a Generation by Joshua M. Karlip Pdf

The Tragedy of a Generation is the story of a failed ideal: an autonomous Jewish nation in Europe. It traces the origins of two influential strains of Jewish thought—Yiddishism and Diaspora Nationalism—and documents the waning hopes and painful reassessments of their leading representatives against the rising tide of Nazism and the Holocaust.

Author : Harold Robert Isaacs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015012407923

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The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution by Harold Robert Isaacs Pdf

Author : Marvin Olasky
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 089526725X

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The Tragedy of American Compassion by Marvin Olasky Pdf

This is a book of hope at a time when just about everyone but Marvin Olasky has lost hope. The topic is poverty and the underclass. The profound truth that Marvin Olasky forces us to confront is that the problems of the underclass are not caused by poverty. Some of them are exacerbated by poverty, but we know that they need not be caused by poverty, for poverty has been the condition of the vast majority of human communities since the dawn of history, and they have for the most part been communities of stable families, nurtured children, and low crime. It is wrong to think that writing checks will end the problems of the underclass, or even reduce them. - Preface.