Industrial relations, occupational health Books
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Brewing a Boycott How a Grassroots Coalition
Book SynopsisIn this first narrative history of one of the longest boycott campaigns in US history, Allyson Brantley draws from a broad archive as well as oral history interviews with long-time boycotters to offer a compelling, grassroots view of anti-corporate organising and unlikely coalitions.
£70.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Black Firefighters and the FDNY The Struggle for Jobs Justice and Equity in New York City
Book SynopsisFor over a century, generations of Black New Yorkers have fought to gain access to and equal opportunity within the FDNY. Tracing this struggle for jobs and justice from 1898 to the present, David Goldberg details the ways each generation of firefighters confronted overt and institutionalized racism.Trade Review“Traces the shifting arguments made by the workers and the politicians who sought to transform an agency that was fiercely opposed to transformation.”- Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker“It is this history of segregation, and of resistance to it, that Goldberg chronicles masterfully, from firehouse fistfights to fraternal organizations to federal litigation.”- Gotham Center for New York History“Works hard to remind us, powerfully at times, about black firefighters' courage, persistent struggle against discrimination, and efforts to work the system for greater racial equity.”- Journal of American History“A welcome contribution to literature on race and labor in American cities. . . . Goldberg reminds us how central public employment has been to the economic and political struggles of African Americans over the past century.”- Journal of African American History“Provides a relentless display of facts, figures, and insights in narrating this black labor resistance to intransigent white supremacy. He does so with an able collection of archival evidence, oral histories, and a survey of secondary literature, all told as a gripping story that includes some memorable individuals and concludes with a qualified upbeat ending--at least for now.”- American Historical Review
£28.76
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Meatpacking America How Migration Work and Faith
Book SynopsisThe Midwest is not simply the place where animals are fed corn and then butchered. Native midwesterner Kristy Nabhan-Warren spent years interviewing Iowans who work in the meatpacking industry to reveal the grit and grace of a heartland that is a major global hub of migration and food production - and also, it turns out, of religion.
£19.51
The University of North Carolina Press Seattle in Coalition
Book SynopsisNarrating the rise of multiracial coalition building in the Pacific Northwest from the 1970s to the 1990s, Diana Johnson shows how activists from Seattle's Black, Indigenous, Chicano, and Asian American communities traversed racial, regional, and national boundaries to counter racism, economic inequality, and perceptions of invisibility.
£23.70
The University of North Carolina Press Beyond Norma Rae
Book SynopsisIn the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a southern textile worker, and transformed it into the 1979 film, Norma Rae, featuring Sally Field. This fascinating book reveals how the film and the popular icon it created each worked to efface the labour history that formed the foundation of the film's story.Trade ReviewA deft analysis of the ways in which race, gender, and immigration status determine how media has portrayed the labor movement. Recommended for readers interested in labor history and popular media."—Library Journal
£73.50
The University of North Carolina Press Beyond Norma Rae
Book SynopsisIn the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a southern textile worker, and transformed it into the 1979 film, Norma Rae, featuring Sally Field. This fascinating book reveals how the film and the popular icon it created each worked to efface the labour history that formed the foundation of the film's story.Trade ReviewA deft analysis of the ways in which race, gender, and immigration status determine how media has portrayed the labor movement. Recommended for readers interested in labor history and popular media."—Library Journal
£22.46
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Bundok A Hinterland History of Filipino America
Book SynopsisCombining the breadth of global history with the intimacy of biography, Adrian De Leon follows the people of Northern Luzon across space and time, advancing a new vision of the United States’s Pacific empire that begins with the natives and migrants who were at the heart of colonialism and its everyday undoing.
£73.50
Duke University Press The Birth of Solidarity
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
£98.60
University of Toronto Press Closing Sysco
Book SynopsisPersonal accounts are at the heart of Closing Sysco, where each story reveals the cultural, political, and historical ramifications of industrial closure in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the former steel city of Atlantic Canada.Trade Review"Closing Sysco provides something more for those interested in our present environmental moment. Its analysis of deindustrialization raises important questions about what we mean when we talk about a "just transition" away from our current dependence on fossil fuels.3 It invites us to listen carefully to the voices of fossil fuel workers and communities in that discussion, to ensure that the shape of this industrial transition is less devastating and more just and equitable than what unfolded on Cape Breton in the second half of the twentieth century." -- Ken Cruikshank, McMaster University * Network in Canadian History and Environment *"The book's major strength is unpacking the impact of cultures of resistance and representation on local experiences of industrial decline. Ultimately, Closing Sysco represents a significant contribution to the growing literature on deindustrialisation." -- Matt Beebee, University of Exeter * Scottish Labour History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Diversify or Die: Planned Obsolescence in the Dosco Years 2. Radical Reds and Responsible Unionism: Building a “Working-Class Town” 3. It Brought Us Joy, It Brought Us Tears: Black Friday and the Parade of Concern 4. Decades in Transition: Modernization and Mechanization on the Shop Floor 5. Labour Environmentalism: Fighting for Compensation at the Sydney Coke Ovens 6. Bury It, Burn It, Truck It Away: Remediating a Toxic Legacy? 7. From Dependence to Enterprise: Economic Restructuring at the End of the Steel City 8. Making History from Sydney Steel, 2012–2016 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£51.85
University of Toronto Press Closing Sysco
Book SynopsisClosing Sysco presents a history of deindustrialization and working-class resistance in the Cape Breton steel industry between 1945 and 2001. The Sydney Steel Works is at the heart of this story, having existed in tandem with Cape Breton’s larger coal operations since the early twentieth century. The book explores the multifaceted nature of deindustrialization; the internal politics of the steelworkers’ union; the successful efforts to nationalize the mill in 1967; the years in transition under public ownership; and the confrontations over health, safety, and environmental degradation in the 1990s and 2000s. Closing Sysco moves beyond the moment of closure to trace the cultural, historical, and political ramifications of deindustrialization that continue to play out in post-industrial Cape Breton Island. A significant intervention into the international literature on deindustrialization, this study pushes scholarship beyond the bounds of political econoTrade Review"Closing Sysco provides something more for those interested in our present environmental moment. Its analysis of deindustrialization raises important questions about what we mean when we talk about a "just transition" away from our current dependence on fossil fuels.3 It invites us to listen carefully to the voices of fossil fuel workers and communities in that discussion, to ensure that the shape of this industrial transition is less devastating and more just and equitable than what unfolded on Cape Breton in the second half of the twentieth century." -- Ken Cruikshank, McMaster University * Network in Canadian History and Environment *"The book's major strength is unpacking the impact of cultures of resistance and representation on local experiences of industrial decline. Ultimately, Closing Sysco represents a significant contribution to the growing literature on deindustrialisation." -- Matt Beebee, University of Exeter * Scottish Labour History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Diversify or Die: Planned Obsolescence in the Dosco Years 2. Radical Reds and Responsible Unionism: Building a “Working-Class Town” 3. It Brought Us Joy, It Brought Us Tears: Black Friday and the Parade of Concern 4. Decades in Transition: Modernization and Mechanization on the Shop Floor 5. Labour Environmentalism: Fighting for Compensation at the Sydney Coke Ovens 6. Bury It, Burn It, Truck It Away: Remediating a Toxic Legacy? 7. From Dependence to Enterprise: Economic Restructuring at the End of the Steel City 8. Making History from Sydney Steel, 2012–2016 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£24.29
University of Toronto Press The Master Spirit of the Age
Book SynopsisCreators of the modern industrial state, engineers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were part of a rising force or urban, middle-class experts. The vanguard of this élite, engineers embraced a vision of a new social order and believed that as society's natural leaders their special destiny was to solve social problems with engineering methods. Unfortunately, this perception of engineers was not adopted by others, and engineers felt unrecognized and unrewarded. While they possessed expertise essential to industry, as salaried employees living on fixed incomes they could neither control their professional lives nor protect themselves from competition. Unlike the practice of law and medicine, engineering had no legal standing; anyone could practise. In this study of the profession as it evolved in Canada, J. Rodney Millard explores the issues that shaped engineers' perceptions of their work and its place in society. He explains how engineers, determined to rais
£21.59
University of Toronto Press Promoters and Politicians
Book SynopsisThe history of the north-shore railways provides a case study in the complexities of industrial development in nineteenth-century Quebec. Constructed in the fifteen years following Confederation, the North Shore and the Montreal Colonization Railways reinforced Quebec's integration into a transcontinental unit. Yet bankruptcy of both companies in 1875 forced the provincial government to assume ownership of the railways and to shoulder a financial burden that kept the province preoccupied, weak, and subservient to Ottawa. Diverse political, clerical, and business interests united to construct the railways and to manoeuvre them from private companies into a public venture and ultimately into the Canadian Pacific system.The two railways brought new concentrations of capital and power that cut across French and English ethnic lines and sharpened regional rivalries. Along the south short of the St. Lawrence both French- and English-speaking inhabitants protested against the province
£19.79
University of Nebraska Press Redeeming the Revolution
Book Synopsis A tale of sin and redemption, Joseph U. Lenti’s Redeeming the Revolution demonstrates how the killing of hundreds of student protestors in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco district on October 2–3, 1968, sparked a crisis of legitimacy that moved Mexican political leaders to reestablish their revolutionary credentials with the working class, a sector only tangentially connected to the bloodbath. State-allied labor groups hence became darlings of public policy in the post-Tlatelolco period, and with the implementation of the New Federal Labor Law of 1970, the historical symbiotic relationship of the government and organized labor was restored. Renewing old bonds with trusted allies such as the Confederation of Mexican Workers bore fruit for the regime, yet the road to redemption was fraught with peril during this era of Cold War and class contestation. While Luis Echeverría, Fidel Velázquez, and other officials appeased union brass Trade Review"Lenti's account illustrates the selectivity of labor-friendly legislation by showing how patriarchal ideas structure who is seen as a unionized worker or as a breadwinner. Redeeming the Revolution therefore makes visible the gendered divisions among unionized workers."—Alejandra Gonzalez-Jimenez, Latin American Research Review"Lenti's study makes important contributions to labor studies and post-1940 Mexican history in anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the Tlatelolco massacre."—Alexander Aviña, Journal of Interdisciplinary History“An important new book that every Mexican historian should read. Joseph Lenti has delved deeply into the archives to document the vitality of the Mexican labor movement for much of the twentieth century [as well as] its weaknesses.”—John Mason Hart, John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Houston and author of Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War“Pathbreaking. Joseph Lenti challenges previous interpretations of Mexican authoritarianism and suggests a multiplicity of ways that workers negotiated their relationship with the state and shaped the course of modern Mexican history. Redeeming the Revolution will help students of Mexican politics and labor history rethink prior assumptions.”—Gregory S. Crider, professor and chair of the Department of History at Winthrop UniversityTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: A Revolution to Redeem the Nation 1. Tlatelolco!: The Need for Revolutionary Redemption 2. On the Redeemer’s Trail: Luis Echeverría and the Campaign of the Revolution 3. “The Government of the Republic Thus Pays Its Debt”: “Mexicanizing” the National Patrimony 4. Restoring the Revolutionary Corpus: Unity, Class, and Paternalism in Tripartite Relations 5. “Años de Huelga”: Business and State-Organized Labor Conflict in Monterrey, 1973–74 6. “The False Redemption of May 1”: Testing the State’s Alleged Preference for Organized Labor 7. “Beautiful Little Compañeras” and “Shameful Spectacles”: Gender Complementarity in the Workers’ Movement 8. “Yes This Fist Is Felt!”: The Independentista Challenge and Repression 9. “The Mexican [Redeemer] Never Asks for Forgiveness!”: Sectoral Friction in the Late Echeverría Presidency Conclusion: The Revolution Redeemed (But for Whom?) Epilogue: Death and Resurrection Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Smoker beyond the Sea The Story of Puerto Rican
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking volume, Juan Jose Baldrich traces the deep changes affecting Puerto Rican tobacco growers and manufacturers and their export markets from the Spanish colonization of the island to the present.
£73.80
Cornell University Press Running the Rails
Book SynopsisPhiladelphia exploded in violence in 1910. The general strike that year was a notable point, but not a unique one, in a generations-long history of conflict between the workers and management at one of the nation's largest privately owned transit systems. In Running the Rails, James Wolfinger uses the history of Philadelphia's sprawling public transportation system to explore how labor relations shifted from the 1880s to the 1960s. As transit workers adapted to fast-paced technological innovation to keep the city's people and commerce on the move, management sought to limit its employees' rights. Raw violence, welfare capitalism, race-baiting, and smear campaigns against unions were among the strategies managers used to control the company's labor force and enhance corporate profits, often at the expense of the workers' and the city's well-being.Public service workers and their unions come under frequent attack for being a special interest or a hindrance to the smooth Trade ReviewFor those interested in Philadelphia, transportation, and labor, this book is a must. -- Peter Cole, Western Illinois University * The Journal of American History *Running the Rails blends labor history, political history, and urban history with impressive skill. It also deepens our understanding of Philadelphia and introduces Michael J. Quill—who is known best for his work in New York City—in a new context. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsCapital and the Shifting Nature of Social Control 1. Beginnings 2. Working on the Line 3. Time of Troubles 4. The Age of Thomas Mitten 5. Hard Times and a Hate Strike 6. Labor Relations and Public Relations 7. National City Lines and the Imperatives of Postwar Capitalism Advances Hard Won and Well Deserved
£40.50
Cornell University Press Hard Sell
Book SynopsisAlong with fast-food workers, retail workers are capturing the attention of the public and the media with the Fight for $15. Like fast-food workers, retail workers are underpaid, and fewer than five percent of them belong to unions. In Hard Sell, Peter Ikeler traces the low-wage, largely nonunion character of U.S. retail through the history and ultimate failure of twentieth-century retail unionism. He asks pivotal questions about twenty-first-century capitalism: Does the nature of retail work make collective action unlikely? Can working conditions improve in the absence of a union? Is worker consciousness changing in ways that might encourage or further inhibit organizing? Ikeler conducted interviews at New York City locations of two iconic department storesMacy's and Target. Much of the book's narrative unfolds from the perspectives of these workers in America's most unequal city. When he speaks to workers, Ikeler finds that the Macy's organization displays an adversaTrade ReviewThough hardly Marx’s "Satanic mills," their cheery veneer hides more than a few dirty secrets. It is behind this veil that Peter Ikeler’s new book, Hard Sell, takes us, focusing specifically on the subjective positions and experiences of workers themselves. In so doing, he joins a handful of notable scholars who have sought to, once again, bring the study of work back into labor sociology. -- Jamie McCallum, Middlebury College * American Journal of Sociology *Ikeler's ethnography invites antrhopologists to critically engage anew with areas of work and labor not simply as places in which workers struggle to make a living, but places in which other political battles are underway and where the very identity of workers is being shaped. * Polar: Political & Legal Anthropology Review *Table of Contents1. All Quiet on the Service Front? 2.The Making of Big-Box Retail 3. The Not-So-Hidden Abode: Work Organization at Macy's and Target 4. Carrots, Sticks, and Workers: The Relations of Employment 5. A Regime of Contingent Control 6. Class Consciousness on the Sales Floor 7. Service Worker Organizing A Note on Class Consciousness
£21.84
Cornell University Press Anthropologies of Unemployment
Book SynopsisAnthropologies of Unemployment offers accessible, theoretically innovative, and ethnographically rich examinations of unemployment in rural and urban regions across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The diversity of case studies demonstrates that unemployment is a pressing global phenomenon that sheds light on the uneven consequences of free-market ideologies and policies. Economic, social, and cultural marginalization is common in the lives of the unemployed, but their experience and interpretation are shaped by local and national cultural particularities. In exploring those differences, the contributors to this volume employ recent theoretical innovations and engage with some of the more salient topics in contemporary anthropology, such as globalization, migration, youth cultures, bureaucracy, class, gender, and race.Taken together, the chapters reveal that there is something new about unemployment today. It is not a temporary occurrence, but a chronic condTrade Review"Anthropologies of Unemployment is a timely, coherent, and powerful collection; it is both a strong contribution to the anthropology of unemployment and the anthropology of work and globalization." -- Jane Collins, University of Wisconsin–Madisonco, author of Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market"What do you know about work when you begin by thinking about unemployment? This fascinating collection shows that, around the world, we labor all the time, but only some labor is widely understood to be work. Classifying some tasks as work and not others profoundly structures much of social life. This book is a bouquet of anthropological insights about what counts as work and why—a valuable set of interventions that overturns many taken-for-granted ideas about what it means to have a job or look for one." -- Ilana Gershon, editor of A World of Work"Anthropologies of Unemployment is a major contribution to our understanding of the experiences of unemployment. This collection of fascinating ethnographic studies spanning seven national contexts makes vividly clear how the experience of unemployment is far from universal but is profoundly shaped by specific social, cultural, and economic institutions. More broadly, this volume should be of great interest to anyone wishing to understand the varied ways in which precarious employment conditions intersect with local contexts to shape the experiences of modern work or its absence." -- Ofer Sharone, author of Flawed System/Flawed Self
£97.20
Cornell University Press Informal Workers and Collective Action
Book SynopsisInformal Workers and Collective Action features nine cases of collective action to improve the status and working conditions of informal workers. Adrienne E. Eaton, Susan J. Schurman, and Martha A. Chen set the stage by defining informal work and describing the types of organizations that represent the interests of informal workers and the lessons that may be learned from the examples presented in the book. Cases from a diverse set of countriesBrazil, Cambodia, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Georgia, Liberia, South Africa, Tunisia, and Uruguayfocus on two broad types of informal workers: waged workers, including port workers, beer promoters, hospitality and retail workers, domestic workers, low-skilled public sector workers, and construction workers; and self-employed workers, including street vendors, waste recyclers, and minibus drivers.These cases demonstrate that workers and labor organizations around the world are rediscovering the lessons of early labor organizers onTrade ReviewInformal Workers and Collective Action: A Global Perspective is innovative in its scope and claims.... This volume shows that workers around the world are finding new and old ways to organize, and I join the editors in hoping that their stories will inspire others to do the same. * Work and Occupation *This book is extremely important and timely, as it demonstrates that it is possible to achieve measurable benefits for vulnerable workers through collective action even in dire circumstances. Authors convincingly argue that workers' organizations need to take advantage of structural resources as well as their associational power by collaborating with other domestic and international unions and/or social movements. * ILR Review *This book added greatly to my understanding of the various forms of informal work and the difficulties that informal workers face in securing recognition and rights.... By the end of the book, it is evident that collective bargaining can involve many categories of both formal and informal workers, government entities, and employer representatives. The way forward may be slow, but these case studies show that progress is possible. * Monthly Labor Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction, Adrienne E. Eaton, Martha A. Chen, and Susan J. SchurmanPart I. Formalizing or Reformalizing Distanced Employment Relationships1. Port Workers in Colombia: Reinstatement as Formal Workers, Daniel Hawkins2. Retail and Hospitality Workers in South Africa: Organized by Trade Union of Formal Workers to Demand Equal Pay and Benefits, Sahra Ryklief3. Haitian Migrant Workers in the Dominican Republic: Organizing at the Intersection of Informality and Illegality, Janice Fine and Allison J. Petrozziello4. Domestic Workers in Uruguay: Collective Bargaining Agreement and Legal Protection, Mary R. Goldsmith5. Beer Promoters in Cambodia: Formal Status and Coverage under the Labor Code, Mary Evans6. Informalized Government Workers in Tunisia: Reinstatement as Formal Workers with Collective Bargaining Rights, Stephen Juan KingPart II. Securing Recognition and Rights for the Self-Employed7. Minibus Drivers in Georgia: Secure Jobs and Worker Rights, Elza Jgerenaia and Gocha Aleksandria8. Waste Pickers in Brazil: Recognition and Annual Bonus, Sonia Maria Dias and Vera Alice Cardoso Silva9. Street Vendors in Liberia: A Written Agreement With Authorities and a Secure Workplace, Milton A. Weeks and Pewee ReedConclusion: Expanding the Boundaries of Labor Organizing and Collective Bargaining,Susan J. Schurman, Adrienne E. Eaton, and Martha A. Chen
£97.20
Cornell University Press Public Workers
Book SynopsisFrom the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had on public-sector unions, organized labor as a whole, and by extension all of American politics. Joseph E. Slater shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history. Slater examines the battles of public-sector unions in the workplace, courts, and political arena, from the infamous Boston police strike of 1919, to teachers in Seattle fighting a yellow-dog rule, to the BSEIU in the 1930s representing public-sector janitors, to the fate of the powerful Transit Workers UnioTrade ReviewSlater analyzes the legal and historical origins of government employee unions and compares them with the private sector experience.... Slater concludes with a comparison of the public and private models. He suggests that employer opposition to workers' organizing activities in the private sector explains much of the divergence in membership levels. Overall, the book is a well-researched contribution to the study of U.S. labor history. * Choice 42:3 *Slater produces a rich examination of five critical episodes in the history of mid-twentieth century public labor relations, and, in doing so, demonstrates the complex intersection of law, work, social movements, and the political process.... Slater successfully bridges the fields of legal and labor history to present a lucid and compelling thesis about the importance of law for union effectiveness, while also paying careful attention to the vital importance of the social movement organizing process itself. -- Jeffrey T. Coster * Maryland Historian *
£23.74
Cornell University Press Dying to Work
Book SynopsisIn Dying to Work, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job. Based on heart-wrenching interviews Karmel conducted with injured workers and surviving family members across the country, the stories in this book are introduced in a way that helps place them in a historical and political context and represent a wide survey of the American workplace, including, among others, warehouse workers, grocery store clerks, hotel housekeepers, and river dredgers.Karmel's examples are portraits of the lives and dreams cut short and reports of the workplace incidents that tragically changed the lives of everyone around them. Dying to Work includes incidents from industries and jobs that we do not commonly associate with injuries and fatalities and highlights the risks faced by workers who are hidden in plain view all around us. While exposing the failure of safety laws that leave mTrade ReviewThe book to read if you want to know what’s happening with worker health and safety in these difficult times. * Labor Notes *Most interestingly... the book features a collection of stories about workers who were killed or injured on the job. As one might expect, there are subsections devoted to risks of being an electrician, logger, oil & gas worker and coal miner, with corresponding horror stories for each occupation. But it’s the personal experiences of grocery clerks and hotel housekeepers—two other surprisingly high-risk occupations—that are the real page-turners. * Failure Magazine *[Karmel] directs our attention toward an awareness of a hidden-in-plain-sight problem, where instead of provoking outrage and indignation, death and injury on the job are considered to be a condition of doing business and a necessary evil in the production process.... Karmel argues effectively for changing that narrative.... [Dying to Work] is a call to action. * New Solutions *[Dying to Work] highlights how corporations have simply not placed a premium on protecting their workers from harm. * Emory Corporate Governance and Accountability Review *Karmel has written a gripping and disturbing book on the state of safety and health in the workplace. He has compiled a revealing series of personal accounts of workplace accidents. The cumulative impact is painful. * Choice *A compelling call for action on a national health crisis that's hiding in plain sight. * Unionist *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. America Goes to Work 2. The Torch That Lighted Up the Industrial Scene 3. Keeping Americans Safe at Work 4. Just the Facts 5. Stories 6. What Can We Do? 7. Are There Really Any Accidents? Epilogue Notes Index
£38.70
Cornell University Press Rights Not Interests
Book SynopsisThis provocative book by the leading historian of the National Labor Relations Board offers a reexamination of the NLRB and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by applying internationally accepted human rights principles as standards for judgment. These new standards challenge every orthodoxy in U.S. labor law and labor relations. James A. Gross argues that the NLRA was and remains at its core a workers' rights statute. Gross shows how value clashes and choices between those who interpret the NLRA as a workers' rights statute and those who contend that the NLRA seeks only a balance between the economic interests of labor and management have been major influences in the evolution of the board and the law. Gross contends, contrary to many who would write its obituary, that the NLRA is not dead. Instead he concludes with a call for visionary thinking, which would include, for example, considering the U.S. Constitution as a source of workers' rights. Rights, Not Interests<Trade ReviewGross's clearly structured account provides a good overview and persuasive interpretation for experts and undergraduates alike. * Choice *This is an obviously solid scholarly work.... Because it is so well organized and written, his book should be widely adopted in graduate and undergraduate courses on the evolving labour law and rights in the American workplace. It should also be studied carefully by the international cadre of labour law designers. * British Journal of Industrial Relations *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. From Wagner to Taft-Hartley 2. Conflicting Statutory Purposes 3. The Gould Board 4. Gould Board Decisions and Workers’ Rights 5. The Battista Board 6. The Liebman Board Concluding Comments Notes Index
£38.70
Cornell University Press Undoing Work Rethinking Community
Book SynopsisThis revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A. Chamberlain argues that paid work and the civic duty to perform it substantially undermines freedom and justice. Chamberlain believes that to seize back our time and transform our society, we must abandon the deep-seated view that community is constructed by work, whether paid or not. Chamberlain focuses on the regimes of flexibility and the unconditional basic income, arguing that while both offer prospects for greater freedom and justice, they also incur the risk of shoring up the work society rather than challenging it. To transform the work society, he shows that we must also reconfigure the place of paid work in our lives and rethink the meaning of community at a deeper level. Throughout, he speaks to a broad readership, and his focus on freedom and social justice will interest scholars and activists alike. ChamberlainTrade ReviewThe book is well worth reading for its clear synthesis of a number of issues and thinkers on topics such as UBI, work, immaterial labour, welfare and flexibility.... In my view, it deserves to be read just for its extended treatment of André Gorz's work, which is undeservedly neglected within our discipline. Scholars of alternative organization, in particular, could usefully harness the utopian variant of UBI and the reduction of work without income to consider how organization could develop in the context of voluntary co-operation and in the service of social justice and human flourishing. * Organization Studies *In his comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the social function of work under capitalism, Chamberlain demonstrates repeatedly that even prominent postwork scholars do not escape the remnants of work. Moreover, he provides a reassessment of neoliberalism's regimes of flexibility. * Perspectives in Politics *Chamberlain has given us something rare: not an easy or a comfortable book, but a genuinely radical one. * Autonomy *Chamberlain places a set of inquiries that will largely enhance the boundaries on debates about work in a post-work era: is it even possible to think about societies in a wider sense that could overcome work as the main knot of relationships, and thus, recognition? * British Journal of Industrial Relations *Table of Contents1. The Ends of Work 2. The Work Society 3. Flexibility 4. Unconditional Basic Income 5. Community beyond Work 6. The Postwork Community
£33.25
Cornell University Press Workers without Borders
Book SynopsisHow the European Union handles posted workers is a growing issue for a region with borders that really are just lines on a map. A 2008 story, dissected in Ines Wagner's Workers without Borders, about the troubling working conditions of migrant meat and construction workers, exposed a distressing dichotomy: how could a country with such strong employers' associations and trade unions allow for the establishment and maintenance of such a precarious labor market segment?Wagner introduces an overlooked piece of the puzzle: re-regulatory politics at the workplace level. She interrogates the position of the posted worker in contemporary European labour markets and the implications of and regulations for this position in industrial relations, social policy and justice in Europe. Workers without Borders concentrates on how local actors implement European rules and opportunities to analyze the balance of power induced by the EU around policy issues.Wagner examinesTrade ReviewA good read for those who want to understand the difficulties in defining a regulatory floor for new types of work in fragmented arenas of crossborder industrial relations. Similarly, those looking for inspiration about options to engage with the obstacles in practice are well-served here. In addition, the pages are filled with many important observations regarding the more fine-grained realities that posted workers face: from their temporary status and lack of embeddedness in foreign host countries to the organizing difficulties they confront. Also, the explanations of regulatory details of posted work are informative, especially those about the political and legal rationales for defining posting within the framework of the European treaties as an economic freedom of service providers. This relevant observation points to the ideological cleavages around decent work more generally. * ILR Review *Ines Wagner's Workers without Borders provides a good example of the kind of scholarship which the precarization trend requires, focusing in particular on the dark underside of labor market integration among European Union economies. It is a message which policy elites and the public writ large badly need to hear. * Social Forces *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Methods and Data Collection 2. Posted Work and Transnational Workspaces in Germany 3. Management Strategies in Transnational Workspaces 4. Posted Worker Voice and Transnational Action 5. Borders in a European Labor Market 6. Broadening the Scope Appendix I: Article 3 of the Posting of Workers Directive Appendix II: Overview of Interviews Notes References Index
£40.50
Cornell University Press Strong Governments Precarious Workers
Book SynopsisWhy do some European welfare states protect unemployed and inadequately employed workers (outsiders) from economic uncertainty better than others? Philip Rathgeb's study of labor market policy change in three somewhat-similar small statesAustria, Denmark, and Swedenexplores this fundamental question. He does so by examining the distribution of power between trade unions and political parties, attempting to bridge these two lines of researchtrade unions and party politicsthat, with few exceptions, have advanced without a mutual exchange.Inclusive trade unions have high political stakes in the protection of outsiders, because they incorporate workers at risk of unemployment into their representational outlook. Yet, the impact of union preferences has declined over time, with a shift in the balance of class power from labor to capital across the Western world. National governments have accordingly prioritized flexibility for employers over the social protection of outsiders. As Trade ReviewConversely to existing theoretical arguments that consider trade unions as organisations that contribute to both labour market dualization and the emergence of precarious work, this book takes a much more brave and provocative approach, which without any doubt contributes to its merits. * British Journal of Industrial Relations *Strong Governments, Precarious Workers delivers a clear and intriguing argument that should stimulate debate and research in the years to come. -- Jens Arnholtz, University of Copenhagen * ILR Review *Rathgeb's book is timely in contributing to contemporary analyses and debates around addressing the precarity of work. Academics and practitioners have much to gain from Rathgeb's political analysis of how to advance social solidarity and protect precarious workers in the neoliberal era. * Work, Employment and Society *Strong Governments, Precarious Workers provides an innovative take on a much-debated issue, making it highly recommended reading for all scholars concerned with the transformations of labour relations in modern capitalism. * Journal of Social Policy *Rathgeb's excellent study engages with important and timely issues for both research and society and should be read widely by scholars and experts in the fields of welfare state politics, political economy, and employment relations. * Perspectives on Politics *
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Cornell University Press No Longer Newsworthy
Book SynopsisUntil the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of American society in favor of the moneyed upscale consumer for more than four decades. Christopher R. Martin now reveals why and how the media lost sight of the American working class and the effects of it doing so. The damning indictment of the mainstream media that flows through No Longer Newsworthy is a wakeup call about the critical role of the media in telling news stories about labor unions, workers, and working-class readers. As Martin charts the decline of labor reporting from the late 1960s onwards, he reveals the shift in news coverage as the mainstream media abandoned labor in favor of consumer and business interests. When newspapers, especially, wrote off working-class readers as useless for their business model, the American worker became invisible. In No Longer Newsworthy, Martin covers this shift in focus,Trade ReviewInsightful.... At once an important work of Trump-era criticism and an urgently needed condemnation of a media culture that persistently erases and misrepresents the lives and concerns of America's diverse working-class majority. * Jacobin *This book about journalism is also an example of what journalism should be. * Choice *Even though Martin has written a history of newspaper journalism from a union perspective, his honesty as a commentator, great skills as a researcher, and deep, careful argumentation make this book worthy of considerable attention. * H-Net *Well-researched and equally well-written...Martin registers a major scholarly insight...Based on two deep content analyses of national outlets, he deftly identifies the early inclusion of labor in the news and its subsequent exclusion to demonstratethe long, downward trend he wants the reader to see. -- Frank Durham, University of Iowa * Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly *"A detailed argument about how the demise of labor reporting speaks to something systemically troubling with U.S. journalism, a disconnect between the newsroom and the working classthis book should be read by beat reporters and editors around the country as a cautionary tale of past media failures and an inspiration to do better with the next story. * Journalism History *A major accomplishment...Martin's powerful prescriptive story is very much part of the policy agenda for the broad community of labor scholars and activists. * ILR Review *No Longer Newsworthy is an engaging read that makes a convincing case for how and why the working class was neglected by the news media. The use of historical sources and content analysis data clearly strengthen this argument. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Trump, Carrier, and the Invisible Worker 2. The Rise and Fall of Labor Reporting 3. The News Media's Shift to Upscale Audiences 4. The Changing News Narrative about Workers 5. Workers and Political Voice 6. "Job Killers" in the News 7. Rethinking News about US Workers Acknowledgments Notes Index
£20.89
Cornell University Press Dying to Work
Book SynopsisIn Dying to Work, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job. Based on heart-wrenching interviews Karmel conducted with injured workers and surviving family members across the country, the stories in this book are introduced in a way that helps place them in a historical and political context and represent a wide survey of the American workplace, including, among others, warehouse workers, grocery store clerks, hotel housekeepers, and river dredgers.Karmel's examples are portraits of the lives and dreams cut short and reports of the workplace incidents that tragically changed the lives of everyone around them. Dying to Work includes incidents from industries and jobs that we do not commonly associate with injuries and fatalities and highlights the risks faced by workers who are hidden in plain view all around us. While exposing the failure of safety laws that leave mTrade ReviewThe book to read if you want to know what’s happening with worker health and safety in these difficult times. * Labor Notes *Most interestingly... the book features a collection of stories about workers who were killed or injured on the job. As one might expect, there are subsections devoted to risks of being an electrician, logger, oil & gas worker and coal miner, with corresponding horror stories for each occupation. But it’s the personal experiences of grocery clerks and hotel housekeepers—two other surprisingly high-risk occupations—that are the real page-turners. * Failure Magazine *[Karmel] directs our attention toward an awareness of a hidden-in-plain-sight problem, where instead of provoking outrage and indignation, death and injury on the job are considered to be a condition of doing business and a necessary evil in the production process.... Karmel argues effectively for changing that narrative.... [Dying to Work] is a call to action. * New Solutions *[Dying to Work] highlights how corporations have simply not placed a premium on protecting their workers from harm. * Emory Corporate Governance and Accountability Review *Karmel has written a gripping and disturbing book on the state of safety and health in the workplace. He has compiled a revealing series of personal accounts of workplace accidents. The cumulative impact is painful. * Choice *A compelling call for action on a national health crisis that's hiding in plain sight. * Unionist *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. America Goes to Work 2. The Torch That Lighted Up the Industrial Scene 3. Keeping Americans Safe at Work 4. Just the Facts 5. Stories 6. What Can We Do? 7. Are There Really Any Accidents? Epilogue Notes Index
£23.74
Cornell University Press A Field in Flux
Book SynopsisA Field in Flux chronicles the extraordinary journey of industrial and labor relations expert Robert McKersie. One of the most important industrial relations scholars and leaders of our time, McKersie pioneered the study of labor negotiations, helping to formulate the concepts of distributive and integrative bargaining that have served as analytical tools for understanding the bargaining process more generally.The book provides a window into McKersie''s life and work and its impact on the evolution of labor and industrial relations. Spanning six decades, the reader learns about the intersection of labor and the Civil Rights movement, the watershed moment of the Air Traffic Controller''s Strike, his relationship with George Schultz, the shift from labor relations to human resource management, and McKersie''s role in the seminal cases (Motorola, GM, Toyota) of the labor movement. A Field in Flux serves two important functions: it demonstrates how people havTrade ReviewThis superb book is by one of the most outstanding industrial relations scholars of his generation, whose work has extended over more than half a century. * ILR Review *
£35.15
Cornell University Press Labor in the Time of Trump
Book SynopsisLabor in the Time of Trump critically analyzes the right-wing attack on workers and unions and offers strategies to build a workingclass movement.While President Trump''s election in 2016 may have been a wakeup call for labor and the Left, the underlying processes behind this shift to the right have been building for at least forty years. The contributors show that only by analyzing the vulnerabilities in the right-wing strategy can the labor movement develop an effective response.Essays in the volume examine the conservative upsurge, explore key challenges the labor movement faces today, and draw lessons from recent activist successes.Contributors: Donald Cohen, founder and executive director of In the Public Interest; Bill Fletcher, Jr., author of Solidarity Divided; Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations; Sarah Jaffe, co-host of Dissent Magazine''s Belabored podcast; Cedric Johnson, University of IlliTrade Review"This volume offers a timely, needed, and original set of interpretations of the political moment in which we live. The emphasis here is not on theoretical debates but rather on practical political analysis and the construction of alternatives." -- Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at ChicagoTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Koch Network's Long Game and Its Implications for Progressive Organizing, by Nancy MacLean 2. Right-Wing Populism, the Corporate Attack on Working Americans, and the Labor Movement's Response, by Gordon Lafer 3. Trump, Right-Wing Populism, and the Future of Organized Labor, by Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Jose Alejandro La Luz 4. Walker's Wisconsin and the Future of the United States, by Jon Shelton 5. Whose Class Is It Anyway? The "White Working Class" and the Myth of Trump, by Sarah Jaffe 6. Privatization: Chipping Away at Government, by Donald Cohen 7. Building a Pro-Worker, Pro-Union Climate Movement, by Lara Skinner 8. From Co-optation to Radical Resistance: An Examination of Organized Labor's Response(s) to Immigrant Rights in the Era of Trump, by Shannon Gleeson 9. Trumpism, Policing, and the Problem of Surplus Population, by Cedric Johnson 10. Going South: How Southern Organizing Will Determine the Future of the Labor Movement, by MaryBe McMillan 11. Between Home and State: Care Workers and Labor Strategy for the New Open-Shop Era of Trumplandia, by Jennifer Klein 12. Fighting and Defeating the Charter School Agenda, by Kyla Walters
£97.20
Cornell University Press Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewZeidel presents a detailed account of a great swath of American society whose dynamics remain pertinent today. Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Capitalists and Immigrants in Historical Perspective, 1865–1924 1. Harmonic Dissidence: Immigrants and the Onset of Industrial Strife 2. No Danger among Them: Asian Immigrants as Industrial Workers 3. Alien Anarchism: Immigrants and Industrial Unrest in the 1880s 4. Confronting the Barons: Immigrant Workers and Individual Moguls 5. Into the New Century: Economic Expansion and Continued Discord 6. Turmoil Amid Reform: Immigrant Worker Protest and Progressivism 7. Effects of War: Immigrant Labor Dynamics during the Great War 8. Addressing the Reds: Immigrants and the Postwar Great Scare of 1919–1921 9. Restricting the Hordes: Implementation of Immigrant Quotas Epilogue
£39.60
Cornell University Press Contesting Precarity in Japan
Book SynopsisContesting Precarity in Japan details the new forms of workers'' protest and opposition that have developed as Japan''s economy has transformed over the past three decades and highlights their impact upon the country''s policymaking process.Drawing on a new dataset charting protest events from the 1980s to the present, Saori Shibata produces the first systematic study of Japan''s new precarious labour movement. It details the movement''s rise during Japan''s post-bubble economic transformation and highlights the different and innovative forms of dissent that mark the end of the country''s famously non-confrontational industrial relations. In doing so, moreover, she shows how this new pattern of industrial and social tension is reflected within the country''s macroeconomic policymaking, resulting in a new policy dissensus that has consistently failed to offer policy reforms that would produce a return to economic growth. As a result, Shibata argues that the Japanese modTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. From Coordinated to Disorganized Capitalism in Japan 2. Organized Labor and Social Conflict in Japan 3. From Precarity to Contestation 4. Precarious Labor Power and Japan's Neoliberalizing Firms 5. Precarious Labor and the Contestation of Policymaking in Japan 6. Japan's Absent Mode of Regulation: Impeded Neoliberalization Conclusion
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Cornell University Press Crafting the Movement
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJansson provides quite informative details and a convincing narrative arc to render the strategies and activities that reformist, rather than revolutionary, labor organizations in Sweden pursued to attain their aims. * Choice *Crafting the Movement is a focused, interesting study of the role of workers' education in the Swedish labor movement. Jansson's study has presented new evidence both on the reformist road of the Social Democratic party in Sweden, and on the road to union-employer collaboration in the Swedish labor market. * EH.net *Table of Contents1. The Reformist Choice 2. Problems Identified by the LO Leadership 3. A Plan for Identity Management 4. Constructing Identity 5. Implementing the Education Strategy 6. Crafting the Labor Movement
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Cornell University Press Taking Care of Our Own
Book SynopsisMixing personal history, interviewee voices, and academic theory from the fields of care work, the sociology of work, medical sociology, and nursing, Taking Care of Our Own introduces us to the hidden world of family caregivers. Using a multidimensional approach, Sherry N. Mong seeks to understand and analyze the types of skilled work that family caregivers do, the processes through which they learn and negotiate new skills, and the meanings that both caregivers and nurses attach to their care work.Taking Care of Our Own is based on sixty-two in-depth interviews with family caregivers, home and community health care nurses, and other expert observers to provide a lens through which in-home care processes are analyzed, while also exploring how caregivers learn necessary procedures. Further, Mong examines the emotional labor of caregiving, as well as the identities of caregivers and nurses who are key players in the labor process, and gives attention to the ways iTrade ReviewMong's goal is to enlighten and provide an in-depth understanding of the skilled work of family care givers to help us recognize our interdependency. Recommended. All levels. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Work of Skilled Family Caregiving 1. The Work Caregivers Do 2. On-the-Job Training 3. Who Pays? Part II: Relationships, Identities, and Emotions in Skilled Family Care Work 4. ntegrating Care Work with Life 5. "You Do What You Gotta Do" 6. Work Shifts Conclusion
£97.20
Cornell University Press Taking Care of Our Own
Book SynopsisMixing personal history, interviewee voices, and academic theory from the fields of care work, the sociology of work, medical sociology, and nursing, Taking Care of Our Own introduces us to the hidden world of family caregivers. Using a multidimensional approach, Sherry N. Mong seeks to understand and analyze the types of skilled work that family caregivers do, the processes through which they learn and negotiate new skills, and the meanings that both caregivers and nurses attach to their care work.Taking Care of Our Own is based on sixty-two in-depth interviews with family caregivers, home and community health care nurses, and other expert observers to provide a lens through which in-home care processes are analyzed, while also exploring how caregivers learn necessary procedures. Further, Mong examines the emotional labor of caregiving, as well as the identities of caregivers and nurses who are key players in the labor process, and gives attention to the ways iTrade ReviewMong's goal is to enlighten and provide an in-depth understanding of the skilled work of family care givers to help us recognize our interdependency. Recommended. All levels. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Work of Skilled Family Caregiving 1. The Work Caregivers Do 2. On-the-Job Training 3. Who Pays? Part II: Relationships, Identities, and Emotions in Skilled Family Care Work 4. ntegrating Care Work with Life 5. "You Do What You Gotta Do" 6. Work Shifts Conclusion
£18.99
Cornell University Press The Laziness Myth
Book SynopsisWhen people cannot find good work, can they still find good lives? By investigating this question in the context of South Africa, where only 43 percent of adults are employed, Christine Jeske invites readers to examine their own assumptions about how work and the good life do or do not coincide. The Laziness Myth challenges the widespread premise that hard work determines success by tracing the titular laziness myth, a persistent narrative that disguises the systems and structures that produce inequalities while blaming unemployment and other social ills on the so-called laziness of particular class, racial, and ethnic groups. Jeske offers evidence of the laziness myth''s harsh consequences, as well as insights into how to challenge it with other South African narratives of a good life. In contexts as diverse as rapping in a library, manufacturing leather shoes, weed-whacking neighbors'' yards, negotiating marriage plans, and sharing water taps, the people described inTrade ReviewBased on years of extensive field work in a small town, the narrative is lively, personal, and engaging, and provides intimate portraits of everyday people and their struggles. * Choice *Drawing on multiple interviews with employers, business owners and workers, The Laziness Myth offers a complex picture of the post-apartheid workplace where racial inequality is still closely felt. * Anthropology Southern Africa *Table of ContentsIntroduction: "We want to live a good life" 1. "They don't want to work": The Laziness Myth 2. "You can't understand it": Employers' Perspectives of the Unemployed 3. "I need to respect that person and that person needs to respect me": The Respect Narrative 4. "Hustling is when you try to make a good life": The Hustling Narrative 5. "I'm just a laborer": The Laborer Narrative 6. "I have a good story": Possibilities Closing Thoughts: "Despite the contradictions"
£97.20
Cornell University Press Indonesians and Their Arab World
Book SynopsisIndonesians and Their Arab World explores the ways contemporary Indonesians understand their relationship to the Arab world. Despite being home to the largest Muslim population in the world, Indonesia exists on the periphery of an Islamic world centered around the Arabian Peninsula. Mirjam Lücking approaches the problem of interpreting the current conservative turn in Indonesian Islam by considering the ways personal relationships, public discourse, and matters of religious self-understanding guide two groups of Indonesians who actually travel to the Arabian Peninsulalabor migrants and Mecca pilgrimsin becoming physically mobile and making their mobility meaningful. This concept, which Lücking calls guided mobility, reveals that changes in Indonesian Islamic traditions are grounded in domestic social constellations and calls claims of outward Arab influence in Indonesia into question. With three levels of comparison (urban and rural areas, Madura and Central Java, and migrantTrade Review[T]he book certainly presents an important topic in contemporary Indonesian Islam and society and is greatly useful for those concerned with the issues of transnational migration, pilgrimage, and human mobility. * International Journal of Asian Studies *Mirjam Lücking's book is a worthwhile contribution to the relationship between Indonesia and the greater Islamic world, or countries in the Middle East. This book is recommended for anyone interested in the influence of the Arab world in shaping Indonesian Muslims' everyday interactions with Islam. * Asian Studies Review *The findings of the ethnographic fieldwork provide[s] a rich collection of the views of Indonesians toward those of Arab descent. [T]his is a must-read book for Indonesianists or Indonesians studying Islam in Java and Madura. * International Quarterly for Asian Studies *This is a well written and well researched ethnographic study, and a stimulating contribution to the discussion on the Arabization of Indonesian Muslim culture. * Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde *Lücking's well-researched book offers an important contribution to migration and mobility studies, as well as the understanding of Indonesian's contemporary views and connection to the Arab world. Indonesians and Their Arab World is well worth reading. * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Whose Arab World Is It? 1. Indonesia and the Arab World, Then and Now 2. The Beaten Tracks and Embedded Returns of Migrants and Pilgrims 3. Arab Others Abroad and at Home 4. Alternative Routes in Madura and Translational Moments in Java Conclusion: Continuity through Guided Mobility
£97.20
Cornell University Press Indonesians and Their Arab World
Book SynopsisIndonesians and Their Arab World explores the ways contemporary Indonesians understand their relationship to the Arab world. Despite being home to the largest Muslim population in the world, Indonesia exists on the periphery of an Islamic world centered around the Arabian Peninsula. Mirjam Lücking approaches the problem of interpreting the current conservative turn in Indonesian Islam by considering the ways personal relationships, public discourse, and matters of religious self-understanding guide two groups of Indonesians who actually travel to the Arabian Peninsulalabor migrants and Mecca pilgrimsin becoming physically mobile and making their mobility meaningful. This concept, which Lücking calls guided mobility, reveals that changes in Indonesian Islamic traditions are grounded in domestic social constellations and calls claims of outward Arab influence in Indonesia into question. With three levels of comparison (urban and rural areas, Madura and Central Java, and migrantTrade Review[T]he book certainly presents an important topic in contemporary Indonesian Islam and society and is greatly useful for those concerned with the issues of transnational migration, pilgrimage, and human mobility. * International Journal of Asian Studies *Mirjam Lücking's book is a worthwhile contribution to the relationship between Indonesia and the greater Islamic world, or countries in the Middle East. This book is recommended for anyone interested in the influence of the Arab world in shaping Indonesian Muslims' everyday interactions with Islam. * Asian Studies Review *The findings of the ethnographic fieldwork provide[s] a rich collection of the views of Indonesians toward those of Arab descent. [T]his is a must-read book for Indonesianists or Indonesians studying Islam in Java and Madura. * International Quarterly for Asian Studies *This is a well written and well researched ethnographic study, and a stimulating contribution to the discussion on the Arabization of Indonesian Muslim culture. * Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde *Lücking's well-researched book offers an important contribution to migration and mobility studies, as well as the understanding of Indonesian's contemporary views and connection to the Arab world. Indonesians and Their Arab World is well worth reading. * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Whose Arab World Is It? 1. Indonesia and the Arab World, Then and Now 2. The Beaten Tracks and Embedded Returns of Migrants and Pilgrims 3. Arab Others Abroad and at Home 4. Alternative Routes in Madura and Translational Moments in Java Conclusion: Continuity through Guided Mobility
£22.49
Cornell University Press Shredding Paper
Book SynopsisFrom the early twentieth century until the 1960s, Maine led the nation in paper production. The state could have earned a reputation as the Detroit of paper production, however, the industry eventually slid toward failure. What happened? Shredding Paper unwraps the changing US political economy since 1960, uncovers how the paper industry defined and interacted with labor relations, and peels away the layers of history that encompassed the rise and fall of Maine''s mighty paper industry. Michael G. Hillard deconstructs the paper industry''s unusual technological and economic histories. For a century, the story of the nation''s most widely read glossy magazines and card stock was one of capitalism, work, accommodation, and struggle. Local paper companies in Maine dominated the political landscape, controlling economic, workplace, land use, and water use policies. Hillard examines the many contributing factors surrounding how Maine became a paper powerhouse and then showsTrade ReviewFar from a dry study of the industry, Hillard's highly readable and engaging book features 150 interviews with the workers and mill managers themselves about what happened. Shredding Paper is highly recommended for anyone seeking an understanding of how Wall Street greed ravaged an industry that once made Maine the "Detroit of paper" and how workers organized and fought back. * Maine AF-CIO *The idea of good and bad capitalisms, and Hillard's riveting writing on the labor process and labor conflicts, simplifies historiographic and economic debates and makes them entertaining. For these reasons, the book is a useful review of core issues in modern labor history. * ILR Review *Michael G. Hillard, a Professor of Economics at the University of Southern Maine, has not only furnished a linear chronicle of neglected labour history. He has also brilliantly demonstrated how the plight of the paper mills of Maine served as a microcosm of rapidly changing markets and values across both the American and international economic landscape. [The book] offers a page-turning, scholarly analysis of a commodity at the centre of supply, demand and the ever-shifting quest to balance prosperity and dignified work. * The London School of Economics and Political Science *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Detroit of Paper Part 1: THE RISE OF MAINE'S MIGHTY PAPER INDUSTRY 1. A Rags to Riches Story 2. The Paradoxes of Paper Mill Employment Part 2: TOP-DOWN AND BOTTOM-UP CHANGE IN THE PAPER PLANTATION AND THE RISE OF A NEW MILITANCY, 1960–80 3. The Fall of Mother Warren 4. Madawaska Rebellion 5. Cutting Off the Canadians Part 3: FINANCIALIZATION, RESISTANCE, AND FOLK POLITICAL ECONOMY 6. Fear and Loathing on the Low and High Roads 7. The High Road Cometh 8. Memory, Enterprise Consciousness, and Historical Perspective among Maine's Paper Workers Epilogue: Paper Workers' Folk Political Economy versus Neoliberalism
£23.39
Cornell University Press What We Mean by the American Dream
Book SynopsisDoron Taussig invites us to question the American Dream. Did you earn what you have? Did everyone else?The American Dream is built on the idea that Americans end up roughly where we deserve to be in our working lives based on our efforts and abilities; in other words, the United States is supposed to be a meritocracy. When Americans think and talk about our lives, we grapple with this idea, asking how a person got to where he or she is and whether he or she earned it. In What We Mean by the American Dream, Taussig tries to find out how we answer those questions.Weaving together interviews with Americans from many walks of lifeas well as stories told in the US media about prominent figures from politics, sports, and businessWhat We Mean by the American Dream investigates how we think about whether an individual deserves an opportunity, job, termination, paycheck, or fortune. Taussig looks into the fabric of American life to explore how various people, inclTrade ReviewIn this exceptionally well-written study, these stories demonstrate that "we already know we don't live in a meritocracy, and we don't especially care." * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. American Idols 2. Head Starts and Handicaps 3. Me, Myself, and I 4. Merit without the -ocracy 5. What's Deserve Got to Do with It?
£19.94
Cornell University Press War and Democracy
Book SynopsisChallenging the conventional wisdom that mass mobilization warfare fosters democratic reform and expands economic, social, and political rights, War and Democracy reexamines the effects of war on domestic politics by focusing on how wartime states either negotiate with or coerce organized labor, policies that profoundly affect labor''s beliefs and aspirations. Because labor unions frequently play a central role in advancing democracy and narrowing inequalities, their wartime interactions with the state can have significant consequences for postwar politics.Comparing Britain and Italy during and after World War I, Elizabeth Kier examines the different strategies each government used to mobilize labor for war and finds that total war did little to promote political, civil, or social rights in either country. Italian unions anticipated greater worker management and a land to the peasants program as a result of their wartime service; British labTable of Contents1. Mobilizing Labor for War and Its Implications for Democracy 2. Disciplining Italian Labor 3. Managing British Labor 4. Choosing a Mobilization Strategy: A Counterfactual Analysis 5. Italian Labor's Revolutionary Socialism 6. British Labor's Moderate Socialism 7. Compliance, Revenge, and the Rise of Italian Fascism 8. Revisiting Competing Accounts, and the Failure of British Reform Conclusion: Bringing the Politics of War into the Politics of Peace
£36.10
Cornell University Press Between Conflict and Collegiality
Book SynopsisBetween Conflict and Collegiality explores how ethnonational-religious struggle between Jews and Palestinians affects relations in ethnically mixed work teams in Israel. Asaf Darr documents the tensions that permeate the workplace and reveals when such tensions threaten the cohesion of the work environment. Darr chronicles the grassroots coping strategies employed by both Jewish and Palestinian through field studies conducted with workers in various sectors in Israel, adopting a comparative method that identifies the differences in how ethnonational-religious tensions play out. Between Conflict and Collegiality asks how workers deal with external ethnonational and religious pressures and whether the broader ethnonational conflict is reflected in the career expectations and trajectories of minority group members. Darr examines whether minority group members'' use of their own language at work become a point of contestation; how religion is manifesteTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Introducing Tension into the Workplace 2. The Grassroots Coping Strategy of Split Ascription 3. Ethnonational Background and Career Trajectories 4. Language Use as a Symbolic Arena for Ethnonational Display 5. Religion at Work 6. Building Bridges across the Ethnonational Divide Discussion and Conclusions
£97.20
Cornell University Press Between Conflict and Collegiality
Book SynopsisBetween Conflict and Collegiality explores how ethnonational-religious struggle between Jews and Palestinians affects relations in ethnically mixed work teams in Israel. Asaf Darr documents the tensions that permeate the workplace and reveals when such tensions threaten the cohesion of the work environment. Darr chronicles the grassroots coping strategies employed by both Jewish and Palestinian through field studies conducted with workers in various sectors in Israel, adopting a comparative method that identifies the differences in how ethnonational-religious tensions play out. Between Conflict and Collegiality asks how workers deal with external ethnonational and religious pressures and whether the broader ethnonational conflict is reflected in the career expectations and trajectories of minority group members. Darr examines whether minority group members'' use of their own language at work become a point of contestation; how religion is manifesteTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Introducing Tension into the Workplace 2. The Grassroots Coping Strategy of Split Ascription 3. Ethnonational Background and Career Trajectories 4. Language Use as a Symbolic Arena for Ethnonational Display 5. Religion at Work 6. Building Bridges across the Ethnonational Divide Discussion and Conclusions
£21.59
Cornell University Press Work Flows
Book SynopsisWork Flows investigates the emergence of flow as a crucial metaphor within Russian labor culture since 1870. Maya Vinokour frames concern with fluid channeling as immanent to vertical power structureswhether that verticality derives from the state, as in Stalin''s Soviet Union and present-day Russia, or from the proliferation of corporate monopolies, as in the contemporary Anglo-American West. Originating in pre-revolutionary bio-utopianism, the Russian rhetoric of liquids and flow reached an apotheosis during Stalin''s First Five-Year Plan and re-emerged in post-Soviet managed democracy and Western neoliberalism.The literary, philosophical, and official texts that Work Flows examines give voice to the Stalinist ambition of reforging not merely individual bodies, but space and time themselves. By mobilizing the understudied thematic of fluidity, Vinokour offers insight into the nexus of philosophy, literature, and science that underpinned Stalinism
£42.30
Stanford University Press Twilight of the Self: The Decline of the
Book SynopsisIn this new work, political theorist Michael J. Thompson argues that modern societies are witnessing a decline in one of the core building blocks of modernity: the autonomous self. Far from being an illusion of the Enlightenment, Thompson contends that the individual is a defining feature of the project to build a modern democratic culture and polity. One of the central reasons for its demise in recent decades has been the emergence of what he calls the "cybernetic society," a cohesive totalization of the social logics of the institutional spheres of economy, culture and polity. These logics have been progressively defined by the imperatives of economic growth and technical-administrative management of labor and consumption, routinizing patterns of life, practices, and consciousness throughout the culture. Evolving out of the neoliberal transformation of economy and society since the 1980s, the cybernetic society has transformed how that the individual is articulated in contemporary society. Thompson examines the various pathologies of the self and consciousness that result from this form of socialization—such as hyper-reification, alienated moral cognition, false consciousness, and the withered ego—in new ways to demonstrate the extent of deformation of modern selfhood. Only with a more robust, more socially embedded concept of autonomy as critical agency can we begin to reconstruct the principles of democratic individuality and community. Trade Review"Thompson ranges confidently over philosophy, psychoanalysis, and economics in this thoughtful and original study of the individual in a mass society."—Russell Jacoby, University of California, Los Angeles"Thompson is a preeminent scholar who has produced a controversial, interdisciplinary work that speaks to the future of the critical tradition. This is an innovative and important work that deserves to be read."—Stephen Eric Bronner, Rutgers University"In the tradition of the great diagnostic philosophers—from Marx and Nietzsche, Lukács and Foucault, to Wendy Brown, Nancy Fraser, and Rahel Jaeggi—Michael J. Thompson's Twilight of the Self probes the central problems of contemporary social and political life. Like a 'doctor' for 'sick cultures,' this ambitious book seeks to identify the source of our ailment, theorize its origins, and prescribe a treatment."—Jeremy Kingston Cynamon, The Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Rise of Cybernetic Society: The Patterned World and the Fate of the Individual 2. Social Domination, Social Systems, and the Constitution of the Self 3. The Reification Problem and the Normative Entanglement Hypothesis 4. Alienation: From Autonomy to Moral Atrophy 5. Reconsidering False Consciousness: An Etiology of Defective Social Cognition 6. Cultivating Consent: Reification and the Web of Norms 7. The Withering of the Self and the Regression of the Ego 8. Autonomy as Critical Agency: Reconstructing the Democratic Self
£64.80
Stanford University Press Twilight of the Self: The Decline of the
Book SynopsisIn this new work, political theorist Michael J. Thompson argues that modern societies are witnessing a decline in one of the core building blocks of modernity: the autonomous self. Far from being an illusion of the Enlightenment, Thompson contends that the individual is a defining feature of the project to build a modern democratic culture and polity. One of the central reasons for its demise in recent decades has been the emergence of what he calls the "cybernetic society," a cohesive totalization of the social logics of the institutional spheres of economy, culture and polity. These logics have been progressively defined by the imperatives of economic growth and technical-administrative management of labor and consumption, routinizing patterns of life, practices, and consciousness throughout the culture. Evolving out of the neoliberal transformation of economy and society since the 1980s, the cybernetic society has transformed how that the individual is articulated in contemporary society. Thompson examines the various pathologies of the self and consciousness that result from this form of socialization—such as hyper-reification, alienated moral cognition, false consciousness, and the withered ego—in new ways to demonstrate the extent of deformation of modern selfhood. Only with a more robust, more socially embedded concept of autonomy as critical agency can we begin to reconstruct the principles of democratic individuality and community. Trade Review"Thompson ranges confidently over philosophy, psychoanalysis, and economics in this thoughtful and original study of the individual in a mass society."—Russell Jacoby, University of California, Los Angeles"Thompson is a preeminent scholar who has produced a controversial, interdisciplinary work that speaks to the future of the critical tradition. This is an innovative and important work that deserves to be read."—Stephen Eric Bronner, Rutgers University"In the tradition of the great diagnostic philosophers—from Marx and Nietzsche, Lukács and Foucault, to Wendy Brown, Nancy Fraser, and Rahel Jaeggi—Michael J. Thompson's Twilight of the Self probes the central problems of contemporary social and political life. Like a 'doctor' for 'sick cultures,' this ambitious book seeks to identify the source of our ailment, theorize its origins, and prescribe a treatment."—Jeremy Kingston Cynamon, The Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Rise of Cybernetic Society: The Patterned World and the Fate of the Individual 2. Social Domination, Social Systems, and the Constitution of the Self 3. The Reification Problem and the Normative Entanglement Hypothesis 4. Alienation: From Autonomy to Moral Atrophy 5. Reconsidering False Consciousness: An Etiology of Defective Social Cognition 6. Cultivating Consent: Reification and the Web of Norms 7. The Withering of the Self and the Regression of the Ego 8. Autonomy as Critical Agency: Reconstructing the Democratic Self
£21.59
University of Minnesota Press The Solidarity Economy
Book SynopsisQuestioning the boundaries between politics and economics Jean-Louis Laville’s large body of work has focused on an intellectual history of the concept of solidarity since the Industrial Revolution. In The Solidarity Economy, his most famous distillation of this work, Laville establishes how the formations of economic solidarities (unions, activism, and other forms of associationalism) reveal that the boundaries between politics and economics are porous and structured such that politics, ideally a pure expression of ethics and values, is instead integrated with economic concerns. Exploring the possibilities and long histories of association, The Solidarity Economy identifies the power of contemporary social and solidarity movements and examines the history of postcapitalist practices in which democratic demands invade the heart of the economy. The Solidarity Economy ranges in focus from workers associations in France dating back to the nineteenth century, to associations of African Americans and feminists in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to a Brazilian landless-worker coalition in the twentieth century. Studying solidarity associations over time allows us to examine how we can recombine the economic and political spheres to address dependencies and inequalities. Ultimately, The Solidarity Economy has global scope and inspiring examples of associations that deepen democracy. Trade Review "The practices that can carry us toward a plural economy and a plural democracy already exist; the question is what kind of social change they can bring about." —from the Conclusion
£86.40
Bristol University Press The Harms of Work: An Ultra-Realist Account of
Book SynopsisAs the percentage of people working in the service economy continues to rise, there is a need to examine workplace harm within low-paid, insecure, flexible and short-term forms of ‘affective labour’. This is the first book to discuss harm through an ultra-realist lens and examines the connection between individuals, their working conditions and management culture. Using data from a long-term ethnographic study of the service economy, it investigates the reorganisation of labour markets and the shift from security to flexibility, a central function of consumer capitalism. It highlights working conditions and organisational practices which employees experience as normal and routine but within which multiple harms occur. Challenging current thinking within sociology and policy analysis, it reconnects ideology and political economy with workplace studies and uses examples of legal and illegal activity to demonstrate the multiple harms within the service economy.Trade Review“…an exciting progression for social harm studies that offers tangible insight into how harm occurs in all facets of the workplace. I would recommend it to those influencing policy as providing concrete analytical tools for the design of labour market policies that can reduce harm... [and] academics who are already involved in the study of social harm as well as those wishing to gain a good overall insight into the field.” People, Place and PolicyTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 – Reinterpreting social harm; Chapter 2 – Restructuring labour markets; Chapter 3 – Organisational culture and management practice; Chapter 4 – The absence of stability; Chapter 5 – The absence of protection; Chapter 6 – The positive motivation to harm; Chapter 7 – The violence of ideology; Conclusion.
£77.39
Bristol University Press The Harms of Work: An Ultra-Realist Account of
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to discuss workplace harm through an ultra-realist lens and examines the connection between individuals, their working conditions and management culture. It investigates the reorganisation of labour markets and the shift from security to flexibility, a central function of consumer capitalism and highlights working conditions and organisational practices which employees experience as normal and routine but within which multiple harms occur. Reconnecting ideology and political economy with workplace studies, it uses examples of legal and illegal activity to demonstrate the multiple harms within the service economy.Trade Review"Drawing on original and insightful ethnographic research, this book is indispensable for academics, practicioners and policy makers interested in the harms associated with contemporary service work. A compelling and thought-provoking read." Sam Scott, University of GloucestershireTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 – Reinterpreting social harm; Chapter 2 – Restructuring labour markets; Chapter 3 – Organisational culture and management practice; Chapter 4 – The absence of stability; Chapter 5 – The absence of protection; Chapter 6 – The positive motivation to harm; Chapter 7 – The violence of ideology; Conclusion.
£27.54
Bristol University Press Global Domestic Workers: Intersectional
Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing from the EU-funded DomEQUAL research project across 9 countries in Europe, South America and Asia, this comparative study explores the conditions of domestic workers around the world and the campaigns they are conducting to improve their labour rights. The book showcases how domestic workers’ movements put ‘intersectionality in action’ in representing the interest of various marginalized social groups from migrants and low-income groups to racialized and rural girls and women. Casting light on issues such as subjectification, and collective organizing on the part of a category of workers conventionally regarded as unorganizable, this ambitious volume will be invaluable for scholars, policy makers and activists alike.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Scenarios of Domestic Work Chapter 3. Global Rights and Local Struggles Chapter 4. Domestic Workers Making Intersectionality Chapter 5. DFeminism and Domestic Workers: Different Positionalities, Discursive Convergences Chapter 6. Conclusion: Intersectionality in Action
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