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Book SynopsisGetting Healthy in Toxic Times is the first book to connect the health of our planet with our own well-being, and asks the question that very few doctors do how can we protect ourselves from the pollution, chemicals and toxins that pervade our environment?We're all too aware of the traffic pollution in the air, the chemicals in our water, the toxins in the soil (and therefore our food) and the electromagnetic energy emanating from our gadgets. But if we can also understand how they affect our health, not least in the worrying rises in asthma and allergies, infertility, obesity, heart disease, behavioural and neurological disorders as well as cancer, then we can take positive steps to avoid them.We can safeguard ourselves with protective measures, minimise our interactions with those pollutants we can't get away from, ensure our bodies have the right anti-toxin nutrients and take collective action to fight for our health and that of the environment, both local

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Book SynopsisA sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even fewer possess the intellectual scope needed to address science and economics at a macro as well as a micro level. But Paul Cockshott, using the dual lenses of Marxist economics and technological advance, has managed to pull off a stunningly acute critical perspective of human history, from pre-agricultural societies to the present. In How the World Works, Cockshott connects scientific, economic, and societal strands to produce a sweeping and detailed work of historical analysis. This book will astound readers of all backgrounds and ages; it will also will engage scholars of history, science, and economics for years to come.

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of a new division of labor between machines and humans, in which people provide value to the economy with little or no compensation.The computerization of the economy—and everyday life—has transformed the division of labor between humans and machines, shifting many people into work that is hidden, poorly compensated, or accepted as part of being a “user” of digital technology. Through our clicks and swipes, logins and profiles, emails and posts, we are, more or less willingly, participating in digital activities that yield economic value to others but little or no return to us. Hamid Ekbia and Bonnie Nardi call this kind of participation—the extraction of economic value from low-cost or free labor in computer-mediated networks—“heteromation.” In this book, they explore the social and technological processes through which economic value is extracted from digitally mediated work, the nature of the value created

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Zimmer has produced a powerful text that brings to life numerous forgotten rebels and significantly expands our understanding of anti-statist social movements in the first half of the twentieth century… This immaculately researched and carefully composed monograph thus sets a new bar for the study of anarchism."--Anarchist Studies"Most students of US radicalism have long assumed that anarchism was brought to the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by immigrants from eastern and southern Europe. Zimmer demonstrates that the real story is more complicated. Recommended."--Choice"Zimmer's archival research is impressive… a fascinating examination of the interplay of individuals of various ethnicities… involved with anarchism and its sympathizers in San Francisco."--International Review of Social History"Well researched and eloquent."--Jewish Book Council"This is likely to be an essential work on immigrant anarchism for years to come."--H-Net Reviews"Drawing on an impressive and unprecedented array of Yiddish- and Italian-language sources, Zimmer details both the ideological connections and ethnocultural obstacles that supported and separated anarchist communities. . . . Zimmer's research and scope is encyclopedic. . . . Zimmer's fine book is indispensable."--The Journal of American History"Immigrants against the State breaks new ground in anarchist history and offers a timely contribution to the knowledge of immigrant radicalism, past and present. It is essential reading for students and scholars of radical and immigration history, and for anyone interested in exploring immigrant lives marked by a transnational collective identity that embraced diversity regardless of the national, ethnic and racial divides.--Labour History"A vitally important transnational work that makes significant interventions into the historiography of immigration, anarchism, labor and the working class, and late-nineteenth to early twentieth-century politics."--American Historical Review "An extraordinarily well-documented and stimulating read."--Italian American Review "A beautiful, exceptionally well-researched work of transnational history."--Canadian Journal of History "Admirably, the author uses Italian- and Yiddish-language sources to produce one of the most extensive accounts of anarchism in twentieth-century America. One of the best histories of anarchism in the United States."--Tony Michels, author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York "I have been waiting for a book like this for a long time, one that tells of the multiethnic and transnational world of early twentieth-century anarchism, not just from the perspective of the notorious figures, but from the grass roots. Zimmer is both a highly gifted storyteller and a meticulous, careful researcher whose account follows this history through a truly astonishing range of sources in Yiddish, Italian, Spanish, German, and English, from archives across the globe. This is the new generation of transnational working-class history at its very best."--Jennifer Guglielmo, author of Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880–1945 "A century ago, anarchists were everywhere, a movement in constant movement. Having mastered the languages of the two largest groups of immigrant anarchists in the United States, Kenyon Zimmer paints intimate portraits of their Yiddish- and Italian-speaking worlds. The book will be required reading for all scholars of immigrant radicalism. More broadly, anyone interested in the complex intersections of class, mobility, and culture in our own times will find much to ponder in the cosmopolitanism and internationalism immigrants created as they responded to the violent nationalist politics of their own times."--Donna R. Gabaccia, author of Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of Resolving Conflicts at Work will identify core strategies for use by workplace leaders, managers, union representatives, human resource experts, consultants, and employees to resolve and prevent both intermittent and chronic conflicts in the workplace.Table of ContentsForeword Conflict: An Opportunity for Leadership By Warren Bennis vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction Ten Strategies for Everyone on the Job xv Strategy 1 Understand the Culture and Dynamics of Conflict 1 Strategy 2 Listen Empathetically and Responsively 29 Strategy 3 Search Beneath the Surface for Hidden Meanings 63 Strategy 4 Acknowledge and Reframe Emotions 93 Strategy 5 Separate What Matters from What Gets in the Way 131 Strategy 6 Solve Problems Paradoxically and Creatively 169 Strategy 7 Learn from Difficult Behaviors 203 Strategy 8 Lead and Coach for Transformation 241 Strategy 9 Explore Resistance and Negotiate Collaboratively 273 Strategy 10 Mediate and Design Systems for Prevention 301 The Authors 333 Index 335

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Book SynopsisA detailed history of how sick building syndrome came into being: how indoor exposures to chemicals wafting from synthetic carpet, solvents, and so on became something that office workers felt and protested againstTrade Review“Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty is all at once about the women’s health movement, ventilation, cybernetics, virology, and chemical toxicity. It is labor history and medical history wrapped into a fiercely disputed knot. Unraveling that tangle, and using the Syndrome to tell us about who we were at the turn of the millennium, Michelle Murphy has written a remarkable, insightful book.”—Peter Galison, author of Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time“How does an illness come into being? In this provocative study, Michelle Murphy takes us on a journey into the making of an environmental illness, into the spaces of the modern office building, gendered labor practices, and workers’ bodies to reveal what is perceived and what is invisible in the built environment where many Americans spend their working days. How sick buildings and indoor air pollution became visible problems in environmental health is a story that takes us far beyond the architectural history of office buildings. It takes us deep into the architecture of reality: into how we know and what we know about environmental exposures and the uncertainties they pose both to knowledge and human health.”—Gregg Mitman, author of The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900–1950Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Man in a Box: Building-Machines and the Science of Comfort 19 2. Building Ladies into the Office Machine 35 3. Feminism, Surveys, and Toxic Details 57 4. Indoor Pollution at the Encounter of Toxicology and Popular Epidemiology 81 5. Uncertainty, Race, and Activism at the EPA 111 6. Building Ecologies, Tobacco, and the Politics of Multiplicity 131 7. How to Build Yourself a Body in a Safe Space 151 Epilogue 179 Bibliography 181 Notes 213 Index 241

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHerbert G. Gutman Prize, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA), 2011 "Remes is among the vanguard of the new disaster historians, motivated by the twenty-first century wave of disasters to search out antecedents that help us understand the formation of a modern state that 'manages' (or does not manage) disasters like Hurricane Katrina. . . . A tour de force of method for the new disaster history, and hopefully a portent of things to come in this emerging field."--American Historical Review"Remes' impressive research demonstrates throughout that even though the actions of working-class people drew on tight social bonds and a deep reservoir of local knowledge, their behavior was often illegible to the ascendant class of relief managers and government experts."--Journal of American History"Disaster Citizenship is an impressive accomplishment that offers a great deal to those interested in social history, the history of the working class, the history of progressivism, urban history, state building in the Progressive Era, the US-Canada borderlands, and comparative approaches to the study of history."--H-Net Review"Jacob A. C. Remes has shed new light over a broad terrain of Progressive Era historiography through this richly researched, sensitive, transnational comparison of the 1914 Salem, Massachusetts fire and the 1917 Halifax, Nova Scotia explosion."--New England Quarterly"An excellent historical study rooted in high quality research. Remes' management of the two case studies successfully supports his central arguments relating to the state, the people, and ways of forming citizenship at times of crisis and relief, and his methodologies encourage us to look at disasters, both past and present, in new ways."--Labour/Le Travail"Remes's excellent and engaging book contributes to long-running debates about the nature of working-class life, to more recent discussions of transnational progressive reform and state-society relations and to current conversations--both popular and scholarly--about events such as Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy."--Labor: Studies in Working Class History"This is a thoughtful, robust work of history, exactly the kind of study that we need to revitalize the history of working people."--Canadian Historical Review"A striking juxtaposition of the hierarchical order of experts and vernacular order created by victims themselves, Remes's finely grained comparison of two major turn-of-the-century disasters in Halifax and Salem represents a major contribution to our understanding of the dynamics and effects of spontaneous order in a crisis. Meticulously researched, gripping, and important."--James C. Scott, author of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed "In his meticulously researched and intelligently argued book, Disaster Citizenship, Jacob Remes has advanced and perfected the kind of deep social history pioneered by Herbert Gutman and Linda Gordon in their studies of working people’s lives. More than any other historian writing in this tradition, Remes has revealed the power of the informal networks and solidarities that existed in poorer communities, particularly during disasters, and he has highlighted the ways agents of state intervention failed to understand these strengths and their democratic significance. Scholars will find in this excellent study a model of transnational history and other readers, especially officials in charge of disaster relief, will discover a new way of thinking about the people they are attempting to 'rescue.'"--James Green, author of The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom "Disaster Citizenship provides a rich, original, and sensitive account of responses to two urban catastrophes, the Great Salem Fire (1914) and the 1917 Halifax explosion. Remes sets a new standard for transnational continental history as the everyday solidarity of working people is contrasted with the progressive state, civic institutions, and emergent welfare professionals."--Suzanne Morton, author of Wisdom, Justice, and Charity: Canadian Social Welfare through the Life of Jane B Wisdom, 1884–1975

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Book SynopsisConsidering Class: Theory, Culture and Media in the 21st Century offers the reader international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the importance of class analysis in the 21st century. Political economists, sociologists, educationalists, ethnographers, cultural and media analysts have contributed to this volume to provide a multi-dimensional account of current class dynamics.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors i1 Introduction Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne Part 1: Class Theory 2 Class and the Classical Marxist Tradition Joseph Choonara3 Social Class and Education Dave Hill4 Marxist Class Theory: Competition, Contingency and Intermediate Class Positions Jonathan Pratschke5 Class Segregation  Danny Dorling6 The ‘Secret’ of the Restoration: Increased Class Exploitation Maurizio Donato and Roberto Taddeo Part 2: Class and Culture 7 Exploitation, Oppression, and Epistemology Holly Lewis8 Peasants, Migrants and Self-Employed Workers: The Masks that Veil Class Affiliation in Latin America: The Argentine Case Marina Kabat and Eduardo Sartelli9 Capitalism, Class and Collective Identity: Social Movements and Public Services in South Africa Adrian Murray10 On Intellectuals Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne11 The British Working Class Post-blair Consensus: We Do Not Exist Lisa Mckenzie12 From Class Solidarity to Cultural Solidarity: Immigration, Crises, and the Populist Right Ferruh Yilmaz13 Recovering the Australian Working Class Tony Moore, Mark Gibson and Catharine Lumby Part 3: Class and the Media 14 ‘Everything Changes. Everything Stays the Same’: Documenting Continuity and Change in Working Class Lives Anita Biressi15 Ghettos and Gated Communities in the Social Landscape of Television: Representations of Class in 1982 and 2015 Fredrik Stiernstedt and Peter Jakobsson16 Class, Culture and Exploitation: The Case of Reality tv  Milly Williamson17 Class Warfare, the Neoliberal Man and the Political Economy of Methamphetamine in Breaking Bad  Michael Seltzer18 ‘The Thing Is I’m Actually from Bromley’: Queer/Class Intersectionality in Pride (2014) Craig HaslopIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis volume is valuable just for its windows—through a series of 40 photographs, a comprehensive table of honors and awards Hamilton received, and an extensive bibliography of other source material—into the formative years of our field and the life of a pathbreaking woman in academia. But the authors have brought Hamilton into the present moment through their careful synthesis of how she came to occupational epidemiology and remained absolutely faithful to science and to evidence-based advocacy at its best. -- Adam M. Finkel, ScD, CIH * AJPH Book & Media *Table of ContentsList of TablesPrefaceBrief Educational Biography1. Prologue: Alice Hamilton Arrives at Harvard2. Early Informal Education3. Learning in Transition to Adulthood4. Medical Schools5. Learning Self Confidence at Hull House6. Investigating the Dangerous Trades7. The Scientist as Social Scientist8. Epilogue: The Senior as a Public Intellectual9. A Photographic MemoirBibliography: Wilma R. Slaight Bibliography of the Writings of Alice Hamilton

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Book SynopsisFrançois Ewald’s The Birth of Solidarity—first published in French in 1986 and appearing here in English for the first time—is one of the most important historical and philosophical studies of the rise of the welfare state.Trade Review“Ingenious and trenchant, François Ewald's The Birth of Solidarity offers an arresting insight into the politicization of probability. Abounding in legal and historical detail, the book deftly demonstrates how industrial power integrated French society by assuming the risk of accidents. Ewald's critical theory of the rules of judicial decision-making is a tour de force. His critique of law brilliantly unveils the birth of the twentieth-century insurantial society that is now itself at risk.” -- Bernard E. Harcourt, author of * The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order *“François Ewald's seminal book is not only a major contribution to the history of the welfare state but a significant work of social and political theory in its own right, notably in the way Ewald applies a Foucauldian perspective to understanding the significance of concepts such as responsibility, insurance, and solidarity to modern forms of government. The Birth of Solidarity is a landmark in French political thought.” -- Michael C. Behrent, coeditor of * Foucault and Neoliberalism *"This very important text covers some familiar ground but is set in a rich context of political theory that sheds light on current challenges to the welfare state. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." -- J. D. Moon * Choice *“Ewald’s interweaving of complex social forces is captivating, as he systematically delineates the many individuals, groups, ideologies, political parties, and historical events that contributed to what became the French welfare state. Social scientists will be particularly intrigued by his exploration of the power of demographics as they clashed with the social structures that could no longer respond to them effectively." -- Gail Murphy-Geiss * Modern & Contemporary France *Table of ContentsTranslator's Preface / Timothy Scott Johnson ix Risk, Insurance, Security / Melinda Cooper xiii Part I. The History of Responsibility 1. Civil Law 5 2. Security and Liberty 30 3. Noblesse Oblige 47 Part II. Universal Insurance against Risk 4. Average and Perfection 77 5. An Art of Combinations 96 6. Universal Politics 115 Part III. The Recognition of Professional Risk 7. Charitable Profit 141 8. Security and Responsibility 165 9. First and Foremost, a Political Law 181 Notes 223 Bibliography 251 Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the development of workers’ rights in the United States from the country’s founding to present. Documents examinedinclude charters, constitutions, legislative debates, political speeches, historical accounts, court cases, disputes between unions andgovernments, and more.

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Book SynopsisIn the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 2008, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, timber corporations distributed hot cooked meals as a nutrition intervention to bolster falling productivity and profits. But life and sustenance are about much more than calories and machinic bodies. What is at stake is the nurturing of capacity across all domains of life—physical, relational, cosmological—in the form of amandla. An Nguni word meaning power, strength or capacity, amandla organizes ordinary concerns with one’s abilities to earn a wage, to strengthen one’s body, and to take care of others; it describes the potency of medicines and sexual vitality; and it captures a history of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggle for freedom. The ordinary actions coordinated by and directed at amandla do not obscure the wounding effects of plantation labor or the long history of racial oppression, but rather form the basis of what the Algerian artist Kader Attia calls repair. In this captivating ethnography, Cousins examines how amandla, as the primary material of the work of repair, anchors ordinary scenes of living and working in and around the plantations. As a space of exploitation that enables the global paper and packaging industry to extract labor power, the plantation depends on the availability of creative action in ordinary life to capitalize on bodily capacity. The Work of Repair is a fine-grained exploration of the relationships between laborers in the timber plantations of KwaZulu-Natal, and the historical decompositions and reinventions of the milieu of those livelihoods and lives. Offering a fresh approach to the existential, ethical and political stakes of ethnography from and of late liberal South Africa, the book attends to urgent questions of postapartheid life: the fate of employment; the role of the state in providing welfare and access to treatment; the regulation of popular curatives; the queering of kinship; and the future of custom and its territories. Through detailed descriptions, Cousins explicates the important and fragile techniques that constitute the work of repair: the effort to augment one’s capacity in a way that draws on, acknowledges, and reimagines the wounds of history, keeping open the possibility of a future through and with others.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Repair and the Question of Capacity | 1 1 Labor Power and Amandla | 37 2 The Plantation and the Making of a Labor Regime | 58 3 The Game of Marriage | 88 4 Repair and the Substance of Others | 115 5 In the Vicinity of the Social | 144 Conclusion: The Work of Repair | 181 Acknowledgments | 197 Notes | 201 Bibliography | 277 Index | 319

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A ‘how to’ guide for the next generation." * Christian Science Monitor *"This book is both easy to read and deeply inspiring. It is among the best introductions to the philosophy of the nonviolent movement. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"Rev. Lawson wants us to think big. . . .What he offers...is a huge helping of wisdom. Lawson also offers a method, derived from Gandhi, King, and his own experience in movements for freedom, peace and economic justice." * Fellowship Magazine *Table of ContentsForeword by Angela Davis Preface Introduction to James M. Lawson's Talks, Dialogues, and Interviews Michael K. Honey 1 The Power of Nonviolence in the Fight for Racial Justice 2 Understanding Violence and Nonviolence 3 Steps of a Nonviolent Protest or Movement 4 Examples of Social Change through Nonviolence 5 Where Do We Go from Here? 6 You Have to Do the Truth Part First: A Dialogue between Rev. James M. Lawson Jr. and Bryan Stevenson 7 A Brief Biography of James M. Lawson Jr. Kent Wong Notes Contributing Authors

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Book SynopsisThe bottom line is: you have to get a job, you have go to work, and someday, you'll probably have to change jobs. This guide takes readers from resume and cover letter tips to office etiquette and career trouble shooting to job hunting while you're working and leaving gracefully when you go.

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Introduction2. Crashes in Safety Analysis3. Traffic Conflicts as Crash Surrogates4. Techniques and Technologies of Observing Traffic Conflicts5. Studies on the Conflict-Crash Relationship6. Probabilistic Connection of Traffic Conflicts with Crashes7. Estimating Crash Frequency from Traffic Conflicts8. Challenges and Treatments in Estimating Crash Frequency9. Road Departures - Driving Simulator Study10. Right Angle Collisions - A Lesson Learned11. Rear-End Collisions - Naturalistic Driving Study12. Traffic Conflicts of Autonomous Vehicles13. Summary and Future Research Directions

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsBrief Contents Part I: Labor Relations Overview Chapter 1: Introduction to Labor Relations Chapter 2: History and Law of Labor Relations in the Private Sector Chapter 3: Public Sector Labor Relations: History & Laws Part II: The Collective Bargaining Process Chapter 4: Establishing a Bargaining Unit and the Organizing Campaign Chapter 5: Negotiation Models, Strategies, and Tactics Chapter 6: Negotiating a Collective Bargaining Agreement Part III: Cost of Labor Contracts Chapter 7: Wage and Salary Issues Chapter 8: Employee Benefits Chapter 9: Job Security and Seniority Part IV: The Labor Relations Process in Action Chapter 10: Unfair Labor Practices and Contract Enforcement Chapter 11: Grievance and Disciplinary Procedures Chapter 12: The Arbitration Process Chapter 13: Comparative Global Industrial Relations

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDavid Paul Kuhn tells the story in marvellous detail. * Timothy D. Lusch, Chronicles *Riveting. * Jill Lepore, The New Yorker *Engrossing, well-crafted, The Hardhat Riot… argues persuasively that the riot sparked a vast national political shift driven by a widening divide between the working class and the educated elite that has led to the era of the Trump presidency... Kuhn writes with empathy for both sides... Kuhn's accounts of the violence are vivid and raw... The author concludes with a sharp analysis of how the revolt of the White working class almost immediately reshaped American politics, beginning with Nixon's opportunistic claim of blue-collar Whites as "Silent Majority" supporters of his law-and-order presidency. Kuhn shows the reverberations over the decades, right up to the making of Donald Trump's political base... Kuhn argues that class divisions have driven people so far apart that it's as if Americans now live in 'entirely different places, even if they are still called by one name * America.'" The Washington Post Book Review *Perhaps the best book ever on how Democrats lost the white working class. The Hardhat Riot is a great read, but also a must-read to understand the voters that Democrats neglected at their own peril." * James Carville, former Chief Strategist for President Bill Clinton *Over the past 15 years few writers have covered this realignment with the consistency of David Paul Kuhn, whose warnings about the reasons white working people were moving away from the Democrats were largely dismissed by the news media and party elites... Mr. Kuhn remained an unacknowledged prophet... Now he has synthesized his message with a lesson from history: The Hardhat Riot, a riveting account of... [a] clash on the streets of New York [that] came to symbolize the irreconcilable division taking shape in the rest of the country... Mr. Kuhn avoids polemics and judgment, yet leads the reader to understand the deeper questions implicit in so many of today's political debates... The Hardhat Riot insightfully explains why and how this happened. Perhaps the Democratic Party's leaders will finally understand what David Paul Kuhn has been trying to tell them." * Jim Webb, The Wall Street Journal Book Review *The Hardhat Riot, by David Paul Kuhn, vividly evokes... a blue-collar rampage whose effects still ripple, not the least of them being Donald Trump's improbable ascension to the presidency... this is a compelling narrative." * The New York Times Book Review *[An] outstanding new book... through dogged research… combining eyewitness reports with his own gifted storytelling to craft a riveting narrative. In our current intellectual climate, which seems to prize tendentiousness, it is rare to find such a clear-eyed and non-polemical work of history." * National Review *This is red-meat history with a hot splash of tabasco. David Paul Kuhn brings to life a period that is not only fascinating in itself but also illuminates the age of Donald Trump. If you want to understand how blue-collar Americans came to feel so disparaged and deplored, The Hardhat Riot is a great place to start. A truly captivating read." * Robert Guest, Foreign Editor, The Economist *David Paul Kuhn's Hardhat Riot captures a seminal but long-neglected turning point in the steady erosion of Democratic support among the core of the New Deal Coalition. The May 8, 1970, confrontation * AKA, 'Bloody Friday'between anti-war protestors, mostly students, and tough, unionized construction workers determined to demonstrate their support of American troops in Vietnam, marked the start of the split between a well-educated elite and an increasingly discontented working class, a split that overtime produced the election of Donald Trump. This book is crucial for anyone seeking to understand the politics of 2020 and beyond." Thomas B. Edsall, Contributing Opinion Writer, The New York Times *David Paul Kuhn's revealing new book... does two things remarkably well. It reconstructs a detailed, compelling, and coherent narrative of the riot, assembled from what must have seemed a morass of contradictory sources. The book also provides critical context for the riot, documenting the mounting alienation of the white working class from the ascendant New Left, and arguing convincingly for the Hardhat Riot not so much as the day that turned the tide, but as an unmistakable harbinger of political shifts in the offing, a moment when unlikely symbols of Nixon's Silent Majority roared back, giving voice to grievances that persist to this day." * New York Journal of Books *Vivid. * Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic *I picked up David Paul Kuhn's The Hardhat Riot with the intention of skimming and found myself engrossed, reading every page. Well-written, painstakingly researched, this is an important book that gives life to history and explains the divorce between working-class whites and the Democratic Party, and yet rarer still, is also a real pleasure to read." * Charlie Cook, Editor and Publisher of The Cook Political Report *President Trump's reelection bid rests as much as anything on the political loyalty and fealty of his blue-collar base. That they're such a factor in 2020 reflects one of the biggest shifts in American politics over the last half-century-plus. David Paul Kuhn explains why in his important new book . . . As an author, Kuhn was in many ways prescient about the rise of Trump's coalition nearly a decade before it happened . . . Kuhn's latest work explains in elegant and expert fashion how he won so much support among blue-collar white voters in the first place." * Washington Examiner Book Review *Hardhat Riot is an arresting and often chilling narrative of the events that drove a wedge between white working-class voters and the Democratic Party, setting America on the road to today's right-wing populism. I couldn't stop reading it. If you want to understand why cultural issues became central to our politics, read this book." * William Galston, former policy advisor to President Clinton and Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution *Kuhn makes use of masterful, disturbing imagery to capture the clash... his narration is candid... the perspectives of both sides are shared without favoritism * only the facts. The text is fascinating as it traces the political breakdown that became the platform upon which Nixon built a new base... Hardhat Riot is a timely review of a historical event that contains a reminder that class divisions also create opportunities within politics." Foreword Reviews *Trenchant... A welcome resurrection of a forgotten riot with relevance for our current fragmented political landscape." * Kirkus *A gripping history of a moment when two visions of America clashed * with fists flyingthroughout the Wall Street district. The Hardhat Riot excavates conflicts over protest politics, American military power, and the party loyalties of the white working class that remain with us half a century later." Beverly Gage, Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University *Sometimes events that are long forgotten have reverberations that dominate our times. In Hardhat Riot, David Paul Kuhn skillfully shows how the split between traditionally Democratic constituencies * blue collar workers and militant studentseerily foreshadows the bitter political splits of our time." Michael Barone, author of The Almanac of American Politics and Emeritus Fellow, American Enterprise Institute *David Paul Kuhn has breathed new life into an uproarious seminal event in modern political history, skillfully tracing fault lines running from the late 1960s up to the present. A timely, smart, adrenalin-fueled account conveyed with you-are-there immediacy." * Laurence Bergreen, author of Over the Edge of the World *David Paul Kuhn details, with much new research, the changing political conditions before and after the spring of 1970, when Nixon saw the opportunity after the May 8 Hardhat Riot. No previous book has so convincingly documented how important this single event was in changing the class base of both the Republican and Democratic parties." * Joan Hoff, former president of the Center for the Study of the Presidency *It's about how elitist politicians left white, blue-collar workers feeling sold out. It's about how those lifelong Democrats * mostly Catholic, ethnic, unionbegan looking for a new home in the Republican Party. And it's about how that day changed American politics, perhaps forever. Kuhn has written a lot about the white working class, and he writes about the '60s here from its anguished perspective. Blue-collar workers saw liberal legislators as snobby, spoiled young radicals. The workers felt demeaned, even demonized. Finally, they demanded their own revolution." New York Daily News Book Review *Largely through the microcosm of New York City, David Paul Kuhn's The Hardhat Riot delves deeply into the estrangement of the Democratic Party from America's blue-collar workers. For all of its fascinating detail of the travails of America's metropolis, The Hardhat Riot also offers a broad and rich panorama of American politics of the past 50 years and the most persuasive explanation for the rise of Donald Trump that has yet appeared." * Ross K. Baker, Professor of American Government, Rutgers University *Table of ContentsPART ONE: Backdrop Chapter One: 'Out for Blood' Chapter Two: The Revolutionaries of Grand Central and Columbia Chapter Three: Chicago '68 Chapter Four: Two Moratorium Days Chapter Five: 'Law and Order' and the Decline of Cities Chapter Six: Consequences, 'Law and Order' and the Decline of Cities Chapter Seven: Blue-Collar Whites Are 'Rediscovered' (in Middle American Gotham) Chapter Eight: Those Who Did the Fighting and Dying Chapter Nine: The New Left and the 'Great Test for Liberals' Chapter Ten: Building the Twin Towers, Ethnic New York, and Race Chapter Eleven: Cambodia and Kent State Chapter Twelve: Kent State in New York PART TWO: 'Bloody Friday' Chapter Thirteen: 'U-S-A. All the way!' Chapter Fourteen: Melee Chapter Fifteen: 'About Time the Silent Majority Made Some Noise' Chapter Sixteen: Violence Becomes 'Contagious' Chapter Seventeen: 'We've Lost Control!' Chapter Eighteen: The Riot Spreads Chapter Nineteen: 'I'm Not Having City Hall Taken Over on My Watch' Chapter Twenty: Full Circle to Federal Hall PART THREE: AFTERWARD AND AFTERMATH Chapter Twenty-One: The Days After: Knicks Utopia, a Fraught City, and Nixon at the Brink Chapter Twenty-Two: The Riot Reverberates Chapter Twenty- Three: 'Workers' Woodstock' Chapter Twenty-Four: 'Our People Now,' Nixon Sees an Un-Silent Majority Chapter Twenty-Five: Honor America day Chapter Twenty-Six: 'Born with a Potmetal Spoon,' on Nixon's Blue-Collar Strategy Chapter Twenty-Seven: How America(s) Saw It Chapter Twenty-Eight: The End of the Beginning

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Book SynopsisFrom assembly line to call centre, this volume charts the immense transformation of work and pay across the 20th century and provides the first labour focused history of Britain. Written by leading British historians and economists, each chapter stands as a self-contained reading for those who need an overview of the topic, as well as an introduction to and analysis of the controversies among scholars for readers entering or refreshing deeper study. The 20th century was a period of unrivalled change in the British labour market. Technology, social movements, and political action all contributed to an increased standard of living, while also revolutionizing what workers do and how they do it. Covering a range of topics from lifetime work patterns and education to unemployment and the welfare state, this book provides a practical introduction to the evolution of work and pay in 20th century Britain.Trade ReviewThis is an important and interesting book. The chapters of this book, each written by appropriate experts, dig down and uncover the forces at work and the complex interactions between them. The rise and fall of trade unions, the rise of the service sector, the decline in fertility, the fall and rise of earnings dispersion are some of the dramatic changes which are analysed and explained. Overall, the book builds a picture of the workings of the 20th century British labour market which will fascinate anyone interested in how the world works. * Stephen Nickell, Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford University *The British labor market experienced a series of dramatic transformations in the course of the 20th century. Is the current regime of high employment and wage flexibility here to stay, or is it just another passing phase? Do Britain's arrangements reflect a distinctive historical experience, or might they be emulated by Continental Europe? This important book by Crafts, Gazeley and Newell provides the perspective needed to contemplate these questions. * Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley *This is an important and interesting book. The chapters of this book, each written by appropriate experts, dig down and uncover the forces at work and the complex interactions between them. The rise and fall of trade unions, the rise of the service sector, the decline in fertility, the fall and rise of earnings dispersion are some of the dramatic changes which are analysed and explained. Overall, the book builds a picture of the workings of the 20th century British labour market which will fascinate anyone interested in how the world works. * Stephen Nickell, Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford University *The British labor market experienced a series of dramatic transformations in the course of the 20th century. Is the current regime of high employment and wage flexibility here to stay, or is it just another passing phase? Do Britain's arrangements reflect a distinctive historical experience, or might they be emulated by Continental Europe? This important book by Crafts, Gazeley and Newell provides the perspective needed to contemplate these questions. * Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Living standards ; 2. Structural change ; 3. Manual Work and Pay, 1900-1970 ; 4. Wages and wage inequality 1970-2000 ; 5. Work over the life course ; 6. The household and the labour market ; 7. Women and work 1970-2000 ; 8. The 'Welfare State' and the labour market ; 9. Industrial relations ; 10. Unemployment ; 11. Education and the labour market ; 12. Britain's twentieth century productivity performance in international perspective ; 13. Immigration and the labour market

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Book SynopsisThe stagnation of the Japanese economy and the ageing of Japanese society has led to major changes in the labour market in Japan. This comprehensive study looks at how the Japanese employment system is adapting to its new economic environment. Using the latest statistical evidence, the book focusses on the growing use of part-time and other forms of atypical employment relationships and illustrates how this is expressed in several different parts of the labour market. Particular attention is given to the changing situation of women, the decline of the family enterprise, the problems faced by older workers and the poor prospects for recent high school graduates. The recent rise in unemployment, including hidden unemployment is analysed. Relations between management and employees in Japanese corporations are also becoming more individualistic with the introduction of performance-related pay and the declining importance of enterprise unions. As a result of these changes, the future may seTrade ReviewRebick does a masterful job of drawing on a wide range of published statistics and reports to cover major features of employment relations and their recent changes in Japan."The book is amazingly up-to-date and wide ranging in its coverage". * Journal of Japanese Studies *Rebick is to be saluted for his magnificent presentation of so many issuesa superb English-language guide on the Japanese labor market. I recommend it to all readers with an interest in Japanese employment issues. * Social Science Japan Journal *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. The Japanese employment system ; 3. Changes for regular employees ; 4. Non-standard employment ; 5. Industrial relations ; 6. Unemployment and inequality ; 7. Women ; 8. Older workers ; 9. Youth ; 10. The declining labour force ; 11. Conclusions and prospects

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Book SynopsisThe knowledge economy conjures a world of smart people, in smart jobs, doing smart things, in smart ways, for smart money, a world increasingly open to all rather than a few. Glossy corporate brochures present a future in challenging, exciting and financially rewarding jobs for the winners in the competition for fast track management appointments. They also convey an image of enlightened employers actively seeking to diversify their talent pool, reflected in their approach to identifying, hiring and retaining outstanding talent. We are told that the challenge confronting governments around the world is to enhance the employability of the workforce. Every effort must be made to expand access to higher education, dismantle barriers to talent regardless of social circumstances, gender, or skin colour, and to harness human creativity and enterprise to meet the demands of the new economy.The Mismanagement of Talent comes to a different conclusion. Those leaving the world of mass higher education find themselves in a scramble for jobs with rising stakes for the winners and losers. The Mismanagement of Talent examines what determines the outcome of this race when a degree loses its badge of distinction. It shows how some graduates are playing ''the game'' to win a competitive advantage and what really happens in the selection events of leading-edge employers. It also argues that talent is being mismanaged by employers that have yet to come to terms with the realities and possibilities of mass higher education. The Mismanagement of Talent will be thought-provoking and controversial reading for those involved in the recruitment of graduates, and those concerned with the way knowledge-based firms recruit and the impact of higher education policy: Professionals working in university careers services, HRM, training, or recruitment generally; Researchers, academics, or students of Business and Management, Human Resource Management, Public Policy, Education, or Sociology; and Job candidates themselves - the ''players'' and ''purists'' described in the book.Trade ReviewThe strength of the book is its empirical material in support of insightful critiques of our contemporary economy, job market and recruitment industry.Table of Contents1. The Promise ; 2. The New Competition ; 3. What Knowledge Economy? ; 4. War for Talent ; 5. The Science of Gut Feelings ; 6. Players and Purists ; 7. Picking Winners ; 8. The Mismanagement of Talent ; 9. The Great Training Robbery

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Book SynopsisIn 1881 The Factory Act was passed producing the first official definition of 'factories' in modern Indian history, as workplaces using steam power and regularly employing over 100 workers. In 1891, the Factory Act was amended: factories were redefined as workplaces employing over 50 workers and women mill-workers were brought within its ambit.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction PART I THE BIRTH OF FACTORY REGULATION 1. Imperial Entanglements 2. The Emergence of Factory Law: Bombay, 1874-81 PART II THE LIFE OF A LAW 3. The Work of Law: Factory Inspection in Bombay, 1881-7 4. Law, Age, and the Factory Child PART III FACTORY LAW AND INDUSTRIAL POLITICS 5. The Antinomies of Industrial Relations, 1884-95 6. Snapping the Tie: Chronicles of the Plague Years, 1896-8 Conclusion Select Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, international business disputes have increasingly been resolved through private arbitration. This book details how an elite group of transnational lawyers constructed an autonomous legal field that has given them a central and powerful role in the global marketplace.

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Book SynopsisMichael Goldfield challenges standard explanations for union decline, arguing that the major causes are to be found in the changing relations between classes. Goldfield combines innovative use of National Labor Relations Board certification election data, which serve as an accurate measure of new union growth in the private sector, with a sophisticated analysis of the standard explanations of union decline. By understanding the decline of U.S. labor unions, he maintains, it is possible to begin to understand the conditions necessary for their future rebirth and resurgence.

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Book SynopsisThe work contained in this volume helps create a clearer view of today's immigration and employment environment, and offers a fresh foundation for continued research.

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Book SynopsisWorkers at Risk is a powerful and moving documentary of workers routinely exposed to toxic chemicals. Products and services we all depend onglass bottles, computers, processed foods and fresh flowers, dry cleaning, medicines, even sculpture and silkscreened toysare produced by workers in constant contact with more than 63,000 commercial chemicals. For many of them, the risk of death is a way of life. More than seventy of them speak here of their jobs, their health, and the difficult choices they face in coming to grips with the responsibilities, risks, fears, and satisfactions of their work. Some struggle for information and acknowledgment of their health risks; others struggle to put out of their minds the dangers they know too well. Through extensive interviews, the authors have captured in these voices that double bind of the chemical worker: If I had known that it would be that lethal, that it could give me or one of my children cancer, I would have refused to work. But it's a matter of survival and we just don't consider all these things. Meanwhile, we've got to make money to survive.

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Book SynopsisThe near meltdown in 1979 at Three Mile Island, America, created a crisis of confidence over safety nuclear power industry. This work analyzes how the industry stabilized itself through a complete transformation in the safety standards, operation and management of nuclear facilities in America.

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Book SynopsisFor one week in late July of 1877, America shook with anger and fear as a variety of urban residents, mostly working class, attacked railroad property in dozens of towns and cities. The Great Strike of 1877 was one of the largest and most violent urban uprisings in American history. Whereas most historians treat the event solely as a massive labor strike that targeted the railroads, David O. Stowell examines America's predicament more broadly to uncover the roots of this rebellion. He studies the urban origins of the Strike in three upstate New York cities--Buffalo, Albany, and Syracuse. He finds that locomotives rumbled through crowded urban spaces, sending panicked horses and their wagons careening through streets. Hundreds of people were killed and injured with appalling regularity. The trains also disrupted street traffic and obstructed certain forms of commerce. For these reasons, Stowell argues, The Great Strike was not simply an uprising fueled by disgruntled workers. Rather, i

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Book SynopsisFor one week in late July of 1877, America shook with anger and fear as a variety of urban residents, mostly working class, attacked railroad property in dozens of towns and cities. The Great Strike of 1877 was one of the largest and most violent urban uprisings in American history. Whereas most historians treat the event solely as a massive labor strike that targeted the railroads, David O. Stowell examines America's predicament more broadly to uncover the roots of this rebellion. He studies the urban origins of the Strike in three upstate New York citiesBuffalo, Albany, and Syracuse. He finds that locomotives rumbled through crowded urban spaces, sending panicked horses and their wagons careening through streets. Hundreds of people were killed and injured with appalling regularity. The trains also disrupted street traffic and obstructed certain forms of commerce. For these reasons, Stowell argues, The Great Strike was not simply an uprising fueled by disgruntled workers. Rather, it

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Book SynopsisSurveys the relationships of workers and trade unions to the state in Egypt, bringing to light the often overlooked effect of workers' collective actions in shaping public policy.

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes organized labor's political activities, its coalitions with other interest groups, and its influence on voter turnout, election results, and votes in Congress. This book examines the effects of Sweeney's embrace of progressive causes and labor's increasing willingness to challenge Democrats who vote against labor's interests.Trade ReviewA must read. -- Marick F. Masters Journal of Labor Research Francia's book should be read by all. -- Gerald Friedman Labor HistoryTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction 2. A Different Direction for Organized Labor? 3. Strength in Numbers: Organizing and Mobilizing Union Members 4. Countering Business: Union Campaigning in Congressional Elections 5. The Air War: The AFL-CIO Advertising Campaign 6. Laboring for a "Working Family" Agenda 7. Conclusion: The Significance of Union Renewal 8. Postscript: The 2004 Election Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA narrative-driven political history of the most important economic statistic in the world.Trade ReviewIt is an amazing but little-remarked fact that governments all over the world take as their top economic objective the increase of one number: gross domestic product. Philipp Lepenies traces how this strange unanimity came to be, taking the reader on a colorful journey through England, Germany, and the United States and bringing things into the present with an account of current debates about replacing or supplementing GDP with other indicators of welfare. The Power of a Single Number is beautifully written and easily accessible to anyone who wants to know more about what lies behind the world's most powerful number. -- Robert H. Wade, London School of Economics. Leontief Prize winner, 2008. A great book on understanding why GDP was put at the center of the political and economic framework that has driven the world over the past sixty years and why this choice led to the underestimating of other issues, such as socioeconomic inequalities and environmental degradation. The Power of a Single Number also provides insights on how to build a 'post GDP' era, especially in the context of a possible future 'secular stagnation.' -- Enrico Giovannini, University of Rome By asking how GDP became the most influential economic statistic of our time, Lepenies provides a fascinating new perspective on the history of empirical economics. Economists play important roles in his account, but ultimately it was politics and the priorities of wartime that drove the demand for GDP measurement. While many economists today are well aware of its limitations, political inertia keeps GDP on its throne. -- Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University This little book about a big number will impress readers who might never have previously considered the statistics underlying our lives. Publishers Weekly Lepenies's absorbing account helps us understand the personalities and popular events that propelled GDP to dominance, clarifying current debates over the wisdom of the number's rule. 800-CEO-READ [An] informative book. -- Richard N. Cooper Foreign Affairs Recommended. CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction 1. What It's All About: A Short Primer on GDP 2. William Petty and Political Arithmetic: The Origins of GDP 3. The Frustrations of Colin Clark: England 4. Simon Kuznets and the Politics of Gross National Product: The United States 5. War, Kidnapping, and Data Theft: Germany 6. The Ultimate Triumph of Gross National Product Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAdam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how Walmart workers make sense of their jobs in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present for social and economic justice. Working for Respect makes important contributions to debates on labor and inequality.Trade ReviewI am obsessed with this book! The prose is riveting. The blend of disparate methods is spectacular. The sheer adventure of student organizers fanning out across the country in a manner reminiscent of Freedom Summer will keep you turning the pages. Taken together, the portrait wrought is simply devastating. Walmart not only demands your labor and your loyalty, it claims your pride and strips you of dignity. -- Kathryn Edin, coauthor of $2 a Day: The Art of Living on Virtually Nothing in AmericaWalmart—the largest U.S. employer—is a symbol for high inequality in America. Its many shop-floor employees are paid as little as possible and have never shared in the huge success and profits of the company. Why can’t Walmart workers get a bigger share of the pie they helped create? This book, based on extensive interviews with Walmart workers, helps us understand why a job at Walmart might be the least bad option for many, how workers make sense of their job, and the challenges of organizing work at Walmart. Working for Respect is essential reading for a rich sociological understanding of the struggles of low-paid workers pitted against all-powerful corporations in America today. -- Emmanuel Saez, University of California, BerkeleyHow do people find and flex their own power to improve their workplaces? What lessons can all of us learn from dogged and creative efforts to organize workers at Walmart, the biggest private employer in the world? What kinds of relationships between organizers and their communities are most likely to lead to organizing breakthroughs? Working for Respect is a gripping read—a thoughtful, perceptive, and accessible work that takes a multi-layered approach, from in-depth interviews with Walmart workers to brain scans to a crash course in front-line organizing and beyond. This is a book for students of organizing, for academics interested in helping to counter rampant economic inequality, and for anyone who cares about winning material gains and respect for all workers in the age of Trump. -- Anna Galland, Executive Director, MoveOn.orgWorking for Respect is an extraordinary book, both in its deft and original intertwining of multiple research methods and in the insights it generates. -- Erik Olin Wright, author of Envisioning Real UtopiasWorking for Respect is at once a brilliant analysis of the lives of Walmart workers and an original effort to bridge the tension between scholarly work and activism. Along the way, Reich and Bearman raise the bar for mixed-method research in the social sciences. -- Mitchell Duneier, Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton UniversityWorking for Respect is an engaging read that bristles with fresh insights into both the experience of low-wage service sector work and the dilemmas facing the labor movement. It offers an ethnography of what the authors dub 'Walmartism' as well as an argument about the ways in which social ties centered on trust have the potential to jumpstart social change. A must-read for any sociologist of labor. -- Ruth Milkman, CUNY Graduate CenterWith Working for Respect, Adam Reich and Peter Bearman issue a rare invitation. To go with them to Walmart, to listen with them to the workers and to the managers who roam the stores, to take in the culture of low-wage work in America, and also to listen to the students who participated in what became the Summer for Respect. This is a gripping book about the relationship between social ties and social change, remarkable for its intelligence and the subtlety of its distinctions. We learn that in the end it is trust rather than good feeling that inspires collective action for social change. -- Carol Gilligan, author of In a Different VoiceWhile Walmart plays enormous economic, symbolic, and employment roles nationwide, the interplay of these dynamics has not been fully explored. Working for Respect makes great progress in understanding Walmart as a social institution and therefore in understanding work at Walmart as a unique bellwether of contemporary work. -- Andrew Perrin, University of North CarolinaThe use of interview excerpts amplifies the voices of low-wage workers not often heard in public discourse. This is an insightful examination of the inner workings of the 'country's largest corporate employer.' * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *No one has analyzed the experiences and aspirations of Walmart workers as thoughtfully as Adam Reich and Peter Bearman do in their captivating new book. * American Prospect *What differentiates and recommends it for close reading are the anecdotes and perspectives of workers who face down enormous personal and social challenges and barriers, only to have their goals to contribute and thrive in American society tempered or more often dashed by what they (and the authors) see as corporate measures of compliance, coercion, and control. * Choice *The labor movement still has life, and Reich and Bearman provide a valuable reminder regarding where we need to look to find it. * Social Forces *A vital perspective. Analytically exhilarating. Fascinating. * Contemporary Sociology *A compelling case study of one of the most important labor organizing efforts in twenty‐first‐century America. . . . Working for Respect will pique the interest of scholars, students, and activists keyed into the economic contradictions of late neoliberalism and searching for both explanations and practical solutions. * British Journal of Sociology *Adam Reich and Peter Bearman provide insight for both the conditions and experiences of working at a place like Walmart, as well as the relationship between community engagement and feelings of social solidarity. * Sociological Forum *Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Real, Real Walmart1. Pathways2. The Shop Floor3. The Structure of Domination and Control4. Making Contact5. Social Ties and Social Change6. OUR Walmart on the Line7. Our WalmartAppendix: The Neural Signatures of Group LifeNotesBibliographyIndex

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