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Working for justice, which includes eleven case studies of recent low wage worker organizing campaigns in Los Angeles, makes the case for a distinctive ‘L.A. Model’ of union and worker centre organising. The organised labour movement in Los…

Worker's participation: Current Research and Future Trends, volume 16 of research in the sociology of work, offers cutting-edge research on the character and implications of workplace participation. Written by some of the leading scholars in the…

Work and Workers offers a map of how telecommunications technology has changed both the nature of the workplace and the nature of work over recent decades.

Work and Workers offers a map of how telecommunications technology has changed both the nature of the workplace and the nature of work over recent decades.

Work and Workers offers a map of how telecommunications technology has changed the workplace and work over recent decades.

Recent years have seen the emergence of what is variously referred to as ‘the new working class’ or even ‘the new middle class’. This new class is largely centered on the ever-increasing number of technical, supervisory and lower managerial…

Thomas’ work proposes reforms and an envisioned future of a labour-governed Britain. Addressing critical issues from the workers’ rights, nationalism, to social welfare. The book displays Thomas’ own vision of a progressively equitable society.…

Should money be automatically levied for the labour party from a union member unless he formally contracts out of it?

Should our exports be jeopardized because a couple of trade unions are pursuing a vendetta over demarcation or poaching? …

United We Stand is a highly original and fundamentally important history of how working people in Britain, from the eighteenth century to the present, have sought to improve their position in an often-harsh world.

Throughout the modern era trade…

A post-war US collection of essays and discussions organised around topics related to labour and management relations. The material is from both classic and contemporary US and European sources.

A post-war US collection of essays and discussions organized around topics related to labour and management relations. The material is from both classic and contemporary US and European sources.

The decline of the American labor movement has become a subject of some significance. This collection documents and analyzes labor's deterioration, particularly such issues as why union density is relatively low in the U.S., why unions lose…

This timely book takes as its starting point 11 monographs from trade union confederations in eight countries (Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States), as well as other sources. From a…

Unions affect us all, no matter where we live and work. This book tells us all about them, their past and present About how they began, Their Turbulent years when joining one could cost you your life, their legendary leader like Jim Larkin and the…

More than a Century before the welfare state and comprehensive social services took shape, the early trade societies and unions had worked out an elaborate method of coping with unemployment that the industrial revolution made a constant feature of…