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Author : Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047442844
The studies offered in this volume integrate the history of wage labor, of slavery, and of indentured labor. They contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism.
Author : Peter Cole,David M. Struthers,Kenyon Zimmer
Publisher : Wildcat
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Industrial Workers Of The World
ISBN : 0745399592
Founded in 1905, Chicago's Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is a union unlike any other. With members affectionately called "Wobblies" and an evolutionary and internationalist philosophy and tactics, it rapidly grew across the world. Considering the history of the IWW from an international perspective for the first time, Wobblies of the World brings together a group of leading scholars to present a lively collection of accounts from thirteen diverse countries, revealing a fascinating story of anarchism, syndicalism, and socialism. Drawing on many important figures of the movement--Har Dayal, James Larkin, William D. "Big Bill" Haywood, Enrique Flores Mag n, and more--the contributors describe how the IWW and its ideals spread, exploring the crucial role the IWW played in industries such as shipping, mining, and agriculture. Ultimately, the book illuminates Wobblie methods of organizing, forms of expression, practices, and transnational issues, offering a fascinating alternative history of the group.
Author : Jennifer N. Fish
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479881437
From grassroots to global activism, the untold story of the world's first domestic workers' movement. Domestic workers exist on the margins of the world labor market. Maids, nannies, housekeepers, au pairs, and other care workers are most often ‘off the books,’ working for long hours and low pay. They are not afforded legal protections or benefits such as union membership, health care, vacation days, and retirement plans. Many women who perform these jobs are migrants, and are oftentimes dependent upon their employers for room and board as well as their immigration status, creating an extremely vulnerable category of workers in the growing informal global economy. Drawing on over a decade’s worth of research, plus interviews with a number of key movement leaders and domestic workers, Jennifer N. Fish presents the compelling stories of the pioneering women who, while struggling to fight for rights in their own countries, mobilized transnationally to enact change. The book takes us to Geneva, where domestic workers organized, negotiated, and successfully received the first-ever granting of international standards for care work protections by the United Nations’ International Labour Organization. This landmark victory not only legitimizes the importance of these household laborers’ demands for respect and recognition, but also signals the need to consider human rights as a central component of workers’ rights. Domestic Workers of the World Unite! chronicles how a group with so few resources could organize and act within the world’s most powerful international structures and give voice to the wider global plight of migrants, women, and informal workers. For anyone with a stake in international human and workers’ rights, this is a critical and inspiring model of civil society organizing.
Author : Paul Buhle,Nicole Schulman
Publisher : Verso
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1844675254
A vibrant history in graphic art of the Wobblies, published for the centenary of the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Author : Beth Sims
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0896084299
This book blows the lid off the AFL-CIO's international efforts to forestall the formation of independent worker's organizations in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe--an effort that harms workers both in this country and overseas.
Author : Magaly Rodriguez Garcia
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : 303430112X
The history of international free trade union organisations during the first two decades of the Cold War is an important but often neglected aspect of the development of post-war labour and liberalism. In this path-breaking book, Rodríguez García fills this void in the historical literature by offering a comparative analysis of two cases, the European Regional Organisation (ERO) and the Inter-American Regional Workers' Organisation (ORIT), which were created in the early 1950s as regional branches of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU). The author employs the term 'labour liberalism' to describe their wide variety of functions. She argues that social democratic and reformist trade unions, which made up the bulk of ICFTU members, were fundamentally shaped by liberal values, even while calling for the active participation of organised labour in the planning and implementation of projects promoting liberal democracy and socio-economic development at home and abroad. By placing international free trade unionism centre stage, this book adds significantly to our understanding of post-war labour and liberalism.
Author : Eleanor Spicer Rice
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781647000042
Nature’s most successful insects captured in remarkable macrophotography In Ants, photographer Eduard Florin Niga brings us incredibly close to the most numerous animals on Earth, whose ability to organize colonies, communicate among themselves, and solve complex problems has made them an object of endless fascination. Among the more than 30 species photographed by Niga are leafcutters that grow fungus for food, trap-jaw ants with fearsome mandibles, bullet ants with potent stingers, warriors, drivers, gliders, harvesters, and the pavement ants that are always underfoot. Among his most memorable images are portraits—including queens, workers, soldiers, and rarely seen males—that bring the reader face-to-face with these creatures whose societies are eerily like our own. Science writer Eleanor Spicer Rice frames the book with a lively text that describes the life cycle of ants and explains how each species is adapted to its way of life. Ants is a great introduction to some of the Earth’s most successful creatures that showcases the power of photography to reveal the unseen world all around us.
Author : Archie Green
Publisher : Charles Kerr
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000111569012
Author : Rohini Hensman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231519564
While it's easy to blame globalization for shrinking job opportunities, dangerous declines in labor standards, and a host of related discontents, the "flattening" of the world has also created unprecedented opportunities for worker organization. By expanding employment in developing countries, especially for women, globalization has formed a basis for stronger workers' rights, even in remote sites of production. Using India's labor movement as a model, Rohini Hensman charts the successes and failures, strengths and weaknesses, of the struggle for workers' rights and organization in a rich and varied nation. As Indian products gain wider acceptance in global markets, the disparities in employment conditions and union rights between such regions as the European Union and India's vast informal sector are exposed, raising the issue of globalization's implications for labor. Hensman's study examines the unique pattern of "employees' unionism," which emerged in Bombay in the 1950s, before considering union responses to recent developments, especially the drive to form a national federation of independent unions. A key issue is how far unions can resist protectionist impulses and press for stronger global standards, along with the mechanisms to enforce them. After thoroughly unpacking this example, Hensman zooms out to trace the parameters of a global labor agenda, calling for a revival of trade unionism, the elimination of informal labor, and reductions in military spending to favor funding for comprehensive welfare and social security systems.
Author : Industrial Workers of the World
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : OCLC:41216678
Author : Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher : International Pub
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0717803961
Traces the history of labor unions and the labor movement from America's colonial era, through the Industrial Revolution, to the present
Author : Nigel Anthony Sellars
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0806130059
The Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, a radical labor union, played an important role in Oklahoma between the founding of the union in 1905 and its demise in 1930. In Oil, Wheat, & Wobblies, Nigel Anthony Sellars describes IWW efforts to organize migratory harvest hands and oil-field workers in the state and relationships between the union and other radical and labor groups such as the Socialist Party and the American Federation of Labor. Focusing on the emergence of migratory labor and the nature of the work itself in industrializing the region, Sellars provides a social history of labor in the Oklahoma wheat belt and the midcontinent oil fields. Using court cases and legislation, he examines the role of state and federal government in suppressing the union during World War I. Oil, What, & Wobblies concludes with a description of the IWW revival and subsequent decline after the war, suggesting that the decline is attributable more to the union's failure to adapt to postwar technological change, its rigid attachment to outmoded tactics, and its internal policy disputes, than to political repression. In Sellars's view, the failure of the IWW in Oklahoma largely explains the failure of both the IWW and the labor movement in the United States during the twenties.
Author : Verity Burgmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521476984
A history of the International Workers of the World (IWW) in Australia, this book is both lively and scholarly.
Author : Melvyn Dubofsky
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252069056
Dubofsky's careful historical treatment does not support or deny the ideology of the "Wobblies", but rather he attempts to understand the leadership and motivation of the early twentieth-century labor movement.
Author : Robert Ovetz
Publisher : Wildcat
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Labor movement
ISBN : 0745340849
A major new study looking at the catalysing role of workers' inquiries in the rebirth of a global labour movement from below