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Book Synopsis The Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus where religious history and working-class history converge. Focusing on Christianity and its unique purchase in America, the contributors use in-depth local histories to illustrate how Americans male and female, rural and urban, and from a range of ethnic backgrounds dwelt in a space between the church and the shop floor. Their vivid essays show Pentecostal miners preaching prosperity while seeking miracles in the depths of the earth, while aboveground black sharecroppers and white Protestants establish credit unions to pursue a joint vision of cooperative capitalism. Innovative and essential, The Pew and the Picket Line reframes venerable debates as it maps the dynamic contours of a landscape sculpted by the powerful forces of Christianity and capitalism. Contributors: Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter, Janine Giordano Drake, Ken Fones-Wolf, Erik Gellman, Alison Collis GreeneTrade Review"This is an important collection of essays that for all its many strengths certainly represents only the beginning of what in the coming years promises to be a flood of books on labor and religion."--Labor: Studies in Working-Class History"Taken as a whole, the articles provide a rich sense of possibilities inherent in the cross-fertilization of labor and religious histories. For the social and cultural historian as well, this is a collection well worth reading."--Journal of American History"The Pew and the Picket Line is an example of a collection done right. With an outstanding introductory essay on the historiography of religion and labor by Cantwell, Carter, and Drake, along with cutting-edge research throughout the rest of the book, this collection should be essential reading for historians of American religion and labor."--Annals of Iowa“With this diverse collection of essays, Cantwell, Carter, and Drake admirably succeed in merging the histories of religion and the working class. Without exception the work is sharply focused and impeccably researched.”—History News Network"Together, the excellent scholars highlight the exciting possibilities and future studies of the histories of religions and labor in the US. This book covers wide ground temporally, geographically, methodologically, and theoretically. For the study of both US Christianities and US Capitalisms, this is a must read... Highly recommended."--Choice"The Pew and the Picket Line is a useful addition to the recent literature that seeks to examine the historical interplay of religion and labor. What distinguishes this book from some others in the field is its focus on the working class itself--those in the pew--rather than leadership. The contributors' willingness to engage seriously with the religious beliefs of their subjects is to be commended, as well as their attention to race, gender, ethnicity, class, place, and denomination."--Labour/ Le Travail"Readers of all stripes will be pleased with the collection assembled by Cantwell, Carter, and Drake. Its essays are a valuable addition to the canon."--Fides et Historia"These essays are a welcome addition to a burgeoning field of research. They are a wonderful starting point for examining that what happens between the pew and the picket line often occurs more so in the hearts of believers than in the precepts of religious leaders." --Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society "This is a terrific collection. In treating the religious commitments of American working people seriously, it offers a more holistic perspective of these men and women that reflects their very humanity." --Nick Salvatore, author of Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist "Fully attentive to the historical scholarship and political theory upon which the volume’s scholarship builds, Cantwell, Carter, and Drake also take the necessary steps in their historiographical introduction to reopen all questions about how work, race, gender, ethnicity, region, and religion have intersected in the American past, and to suggest provocative new ones. The richly textured historical case studies that follow more than fulfill the agenda the editors set. This is a superb work of collective history by some of the most creative younger historians working on the subject today."--Robert Orsi, author of The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880–1950 "The coeditors have assembled a tremendous and diverse team for this volume. Each essay is by itself a significant contribution, and some provide brilliant and pioneering analysis and the introduction is definitely the best historiographical overview, survey, and analysis of scholarship in the field that I have ever read. It sets the standard for the next generation of scholarship."--Paul Harvey, coauthor of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America "Navigating a wide spectrum of time and workspaces, racial and ethnic expressions, and blue-collar gospels, this brilliantly conceived and superbly executed volume demands that historians shift their gaze from the much examined corporate to under-scrutinized labor side of modern American Christianity and capitalism. Fifty years after its delivery, Herbert Gutman's plea for historians to take seriously the authentic and empowering qualities of working-class belief has finally been addressed, head on, with critical empathy and care, in an accessible manner. This is a timely and significant scholarly intervention." --Darren Dochuk, author of From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fischer expands our perspective of anti-communism temporally, shifting it to these late nineteenth-century roots, and deepens our understanding of it to contain clearly, and from its earliest origins, a laissez faire, open shop agenda. . . . This book will be welcomed and appreciated by those interested not only in the history of communism but also in understanding the limits of American politics in the twentieth century."--American Communist History "Fischer's sweep is broad; his results are impressive. Recommended."--Choice"Refreshingly original."--New York Review of Books"Fischer has produced a very original, well-researched and well-written account of how a relatively small but highly influential group of interlocking elites, including political and military intelligence officials, wealthy businessmen, members of 'patriotic' societies, and other conservatives, worked successfully to keep alive highly exaggerated fears of communism that had caused a national panic during the 1919-20 'red scare.'"--Robert Justin Goldstein, author of Political Repression in Modern America"Spider Web turns out to be a well-researched and thoughtful interdisciplinary work that intertwiningly uses perspectives of history, political science, sociology, and media studies. . . . Fischer's research is extensive, and in many aspects pioneering. Not only does he sum up the previous findings on American anticommunism, but also adds new information and, more importantly, provides new analytical perspectives."--Americana"Nick Fischer makes a major contribution to the growing literature on American antisubversive organizations. Spider Web establishes, through rigorous and original research, that anticommunism was intimately connected with private and public networks that promoted antilabor laws, eugenics, and immigration restriction."--Phillip Deery, author of Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York

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Book SynopsisRuth Milkman''s groundbreaking research in women''s labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States. On Gender, Labor, and Inequality presents four decades of Milkman''s essential writings, tracing the parallel evolutions of her ideas and the field she helped define. Milkman''s introduction frames a career-spanning scholarly project: her interrogation of historical and contemporary intersections of class and gender inequalities in the workplace, and the efforts to challenge those inequalities. Early chapters focus on her pioneering work on women''s labor during the Great Depression and the World War II years. In the book''s second half, Milkman turns to the past fifty years, a period that saw a dramatic decline in gender inequality even as growing class imbalances created greater-than-ever class disparity among women. She concludes with a previously unpublished essay comparing the impact of the Great Depression and the Great ReceTrade Review"Milkman's book is a must read, not only to remind those of us influenced by her excellent work how significant her scholarship was and is, but also for new scholars who can trace the intellectual evolution of a labor studies author whose writing has always been grounded in painstaking empirical research, and simultaneously dedicated to analyzing the origins and operation of social inequality, even as specific topics, theories, and approaches have shifted over time."--Labour/ Le Travail"Milkman's collection will well serve scholars of the Great Plains with its comprehensive coverage, from a 1976 study of Great Depression female workers to an essay written for this volume that reprises the same questions for the 2008 Great Recession. The 11 essays constitute a history of women's relationships to both the workforce and unions across the twentieth century. . . . Milkman's decades of study provide a solid foundation for new work in Great Plains labor history."--Great Plains Quarterly "A fascinating and timely set of articles. . . What Milkman's four decades of illuminating scholarship reveals is both the uphill battle the movement will face precisely because many of these fast-growing occupations have been sex-typed as 'women's work.' But there is hope in these chapters too."--Dissent "This volume illuminates mechanisms of gendered inequality in the work force, illustrating how class inequality and gendered inequality are inextricably linked. Students and scholars of gendered dynamics of labor and society will appreciate the breadth and abundance of macrosociological research as well as Milkman's accessible and effective writing style."--Labor: Studies in Working-Class History"What a pleasure to have in a single volume these brilliant, eye-opening essays by Ruth Milkman. It's all here--her stunning 1970s rethinking of Marx and sex-segregated labor markets to her recent revelatory studies of the stark class divides separating women today. Each essay is a gem, rigorous analytically and elegant in formation. A remarkable, intellectual game-changer of a collection."--Dorothy Sue Cobble, co-author of Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements"Throughout her distinguished career as a scholar-activist, Ruth Milkman has focused attention on the struggles of wage-earning women. An antidote to Lean In, her collection of essays explains why the fight for gender equality in a capitalist society typically only benefits elite women. When feminism focuses on the needs of working-class women, everyone wins."--Christine Williams, author of Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality

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Book SynopsisReligion has played a protean role in the lives of America''s workers. In this innovative volume, Matthew Pehl focuses on Detroit to examine the religious consciousness constructed by the city''s working-class Catholics, African American Protestants, and southern-born white evangelicals and Pentecostals between 1910 and 1969. Pehl embarks on an integrative view of working-class faith that ranges across boundaries of class, race, denomination, and time. As he shows, workers in the 1910s and 1920s practiced beliefs characterized by emotional expressiveness, alliance with supernatural forces, and incorporation of mass culture''s secular diversions into the sacred. That gave way to the more pragmatic class-conscious religion cultures of the New Deal era and, from the late Thirties on, a quilt of secular working-class cultures that coexisted in competitive, though creative, tension. Finally, Pehl shows how the ideology of race eclipsed class in the 1950s and 1960s, and in so doing replacTrade Review"Pehl is to be commended for his multivalent work, and for the important contributions he makes to both The Working Class in American History series and to the study of America's religious history."--Anglican Theological Review"The value of Pehl's wonderful book is that it helps us reimagine the currents of faith that ebb and flow in American society and interact with changing political and economic circumstances. This is a book that belongs on the shelves of historians." --American Historical Review"Pehl's work makes a number of important contributions to our thinking about religion within labor history. . . . He expertly weaves together the thoughts of religious leaders and rank-and-file workers and shows the intersections of these processes among Protestants and Catholics, and African American and white workers."--Journal of American History"The Making of Working Class Religion is an important read for both scholars of labor and scholars of religion as a methodological model for advancing the study of religion, labor, and class. . . . Pehl's book teaches its readers--whether they be scholars, labor organizers, or graduate or undergraduate students--how to recover and interpret critically and empathetically, the religious worlds of working-class people."--Labour/Le Travail"This book is well-written, concise, and highly recommended to all audiences."--The Michigan Historical Review"Highly Recommended."--Choice"Matthew Pehl's subtle and stunning book describes the remarkable moments when working class identities and religion remarkably converged in America's quintessential manufacturing city--Detroit--first from the 1920s to the 1940s, then as they fractured amidst the racial, ethnic, gender, and political shifts after World War II. Pehl incisively describes the possibilities and tensions, and achievements and failures, that encouraged and undermined bonds between religion and the working classes in an uneasily complex American city. A terrific achievement and enthralling read."--Jon Butler, author of Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People"A signal contribution to the resurgence of historical interest in the religious worlds of working class men and women. Pehl shows how 'work' had religious significance in Detroit's working class neighborhoods and in doing so he helps restore the realities and exigencies of daily toil to American religious history. The Making of Working Class Religion is also an exciting religious history of modern Detroit. With its huge cast of historical actors--Detroit's white and black, Protestant and Catholic workers, Elijah Muhammad, Reinhold Niebuhr, Father Charles Coughlin, and many others--the book goes a long way towards establishing the city's importance as a place of religious innovation and public engagement. This is dynamic and powerful history."--Robert Orsi, author of The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950

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Book SynopsisLabor studies scholars and working-class historians have long worked at the crossroads of academia and activism. The essays in this collection examine the challenges and opportunities for engaged scholarship in the United States and abroad. A diverse roster of contributors discuss how participation in current labor and social struggles guides their campus and community organizing, public history initiatives, teaching, mentoring, and other activities. They also explore the role of research and scholarship in social change, while acknowledging that intellectual labor complements but never replaces collective action and movement building. Contributors: Kristen Anderson, Daniel E. Atkinson, James R. Barrett, Susan Roth Breitzer, Susan Chandler, Sam Davies, Dennis Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, Colin Gordon, Michael Innis-Jiménez, Stephanie Luce, Joseph A. McCartin, John W. McKerley, Matthew M. Mettler, Stephen Meyer, David Montgomery, Kim E. Nielsen, Peter Rachleff, Ralph ScharnauTrade Review"At once an introduction to the long tradition of engaged scholarship among labor historians and a guide to the richly varied ways many have found to make a difference today, Civic Labors is a perfectly timed treasure trove of inspiration."--Nancy MacLean, author of Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace"These essays provide illuminating insights into what it means to be an engaged academic and citizen of labor. Graced by Shelton Stromquist's sharp essay and David Montgomery's endearing comments, in this one volume we find a true community of scholars who seek to understand and change the world."--Michael Honey, author of Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign"This book makes an important contribution to the field of working-class studies by offering a 'sober-yet hopeful' outlook on the challenges and opportunities of scholar activism." --Capital & Class"Addresses the many ways scholars can be and are activists outside the ivory tower, as well as the risks that they may face when they engage in this activism. . . . Readers will be reminded why they became labor historians."--Journal of American History"This is a must-read for labour activists, scholarly or not."--Labour/Le Travail"This publication is a well-deserved tribute to Stromquist, who is held in the highest regard by labor historians for his keen intellect, generous spirit, and commitment to social justice." --Labor: Studies in Working-Class History

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Book Synopsis Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and offer incisive portraits of people and organizations that aggressively opposed unions. Other contributors examine the anti-labor movement against a backdrop of larger forces, such as the intersection of race and ethnicity with anti-labor activity, and anti-unionism in the context of neoliberalism. Timely and revealing, Against Labor deepens our understanding of management history and employer activism and their metamorphic effects on workplace and society. Contributors: Michael Dennis, Elizabeth Esch, Rosemary Feurer, Dolores E. Janiewski, Thomas A. Klug, Chad Pearson, Peter Rachleff, David Roediger, Howard Stanger, and Robert Woodrum.Trade Review"Boldly challenges the scholarship that considers employers as a malleable force that often compromises when social movements forge political environments that are inimical to their interests. Contributes enormously to our understanding of business tactics and strategy."--Immanuel Ness, author of Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism"At a time when public sector unions are under renewed attack and private-sector union membership hovers near levels not seen since the early twentieth century, Against Labor offers a potent, powerful reminder that, as Feurer and Pearson put it, 'People, not faceless markets, shaped this story.'" --The Journal of Southern History"An excellent volume. The standard of scholarship and writing is very high, and the editors have worked hard to produce a cohesive collection of essays that shed much light on a still-understudied phenomenon in US and labor history more broadly."--Australasian Journal of American Studies"These essays make one thing quite clear: the existential threat that US unions currently face has been building for decades"--Social History"Recommended."--Choice"The respective chapters make for interesting reading. They raise fundamental issues concerning the long arc of industrial relations or labour history in America; of the long, unrelenting class-based campaign of employers and the various strategies and methods they have used to keep unions at bay and counter their attempts to improve the wages and working conditions of American workers."--Labour History"The decline of organized labor in recent decades is often attributed to globalization, financialization, and right-wing politics. But the compelling essays in this important volume show that the limits to workers’ collective power stem more basically from the concerted anti-union efforts of their employers dating back to the nineteenth century. Chronicling how capitalists have effectively forged a class-conscious social movement 'against labor,' these critical case studies make a vital contribution to the history of capitalism while illuminating the challenges facing workers today."--Jeffrey Sklansky, author of The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820–1920

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Book SynopsisA wave of teacher strikes in the 1960s and 1970s roiled urban communities. Jon Shelton illuminates how this tumultuous era helped shatter the liberal-labor coalition and opened the door to the neoliberal challenge at the heart of urban education today. As Shelton shows, many working- and middle-class whites sided with corporate interests in seeing themselves as society''s only legitimate, productive members. This alliance increasingly argued that public employees and the urban poor took but did not give. Drawing on a wealth of research ranging from school board meetings to TV news reports, Shelton puts readers in the middle of fraught, intense strikes in Newark, St. Louis, and three other cities where these debates and shifting attitudes played out. He also demonstrates how the labor actions contributed to the growing public perception of unions as irrelevant or even detrimental to American prosperity. Foes of the labor movement, meanwhile, tapped into cultural and economic fears toTrade ReviewFirst Book Award, International Standing Conference for the History of Education, 2018 Herbert G. Gutman Award, Labor and Working-¬Class History Association (LAWCHA), 2014 "Through the vividly drawn case studies described in this smart volume, Jon Shelton shows how the labor conflicts that rocked America's public schools in the tumultuous years between 1968 and 1981 altered the nation's politics and education policy, accelerating the decline of 1960s labor-liberalism and propelling the ascendancy of neoliberalism. His is a brilliantly recounted, timely, and sobering tale that illuminates the tangled roots of educational inequality, teacher disempowerment, and urban underfunding that continue to plague public education. It will interest all those who seek to revive both our schools and our democracy."--Joseph A. McCartin, author of Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America"This book makes a significant contribution to the fields of educational history and labor history. . . . This provocative and well-written study will be a welcome addition to courses in educational history and labor history." --Journal of Social History"Teacher Strike! is a major contribution to the growing literature on teacher unionism." --Labor: Studies in Working-Class History"Teacher Strike traces the foundations of this aspect of current school trends with great clarity and insight, offering readers an original way of thinking about teachers, public opinion, and school reform."--History of Education Quarterly"This excellent study of the political debates that developed from the rise of teacher unions in the 1970s and 1980s is a valuable addition to the growing literature on the rightward turn in American politics."--Journal of American History"An important book both historiographically and in terms of its relevance to our own times. It deserves a wide readership and thoughtful discussion of its argument."--Missouri Historical Review"This is a fascinating study of the link between public perceptions of teachers' labor activism and the decline of political liberalism and public investment in education. Shelton makes a compelling case to place teachers' struggles for labor rights at the center of broader political changes of the last fifty years."--Kate Rousmaniere, author of Citizen Teacher: The Life and Leadership of Margaret Haley"Shelton captures America at a pivotal moment, as long-held assumptions about the role of the state and unions in promoting growth and prosperity came under attack. An essential book for understanding an essential era in modern American history."--Jerald Podair, author of The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and The Ocean-Hill Brownsville Crisis

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Book Synopsis Detroit''s Cold War locates the roots of American conservatism in a city that was a nexus of labor and industry in postwar America. Drawing on meticulous archival research focusing on Detroit, Colleen Doody shows how conflict over business values and opposition to labor, anticommunism, racial animosity, and religion led to the development of a conservative ethos in the aftermath of World War II. Using Detroit--with its large population of African-American and Catholic immigrant workers, strong union presence, and starkly segregated urban landscape--as a case study, Doody articulates a nuanced understanding of anticommunism during the Red Scare. Looking beyond national politics, she focuses on key debates occurring at the local level among a wide variety of common citizens. In examining this city''s social and political fabric, Doody illustrates that domestic anticommunism was a cohesive, multifaceted ideology that arose less from Soviet ideologTrade Review "Colleen Doody agrees with those scholars who see a contested New Deal liberalism and a powerful conservation before the latter's flowering in the 1970s. Her most important contribution is to show how 'the ideas that became central to this [conservative] movement developed at a grassroots level much earlier.'"--Labour/Le Travail "[A] well-written, and solidly researched book. Detroil's Cold War is highly recommended. It will be useful in undergraduate courses, and is an important contribution to the emerging scholarship on the rise of conservatism in twentieth century America."--American Catholic Studies "Detroit's Cold War is a concise, clearly written, and sensibly organized book. It highlights important trends in the United States that have yet to run their course."--The Michigan Historical Review"Colleen Doody's insightful study of Cold War Detroit introduces readers to a profoundly conservative political history that maps onto and intersects with the history of labor radicalism in the Motor City."--American Historical Review "Urban historians and historians of conservatism will. . . value the detailed research on the varied dimensions of anticommunist politics in the heart of a New Deal protégé."--The Journal of American History "An important and well-timed book. Doody's rich historical analysis helps to situate the contemporary mistrust and criticism toward unions, collective action, and the welfare state throughout the USA."--Labor Studies Journal "Colleen Doody makes the important argument that deep-seated social and political conflicts--which were not always linked to the actual communist movement--produced the extraordinary wave of anticommunism that gripped the country during the decade after World War II."--Joshua B. Freeman, author of Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II

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Book SynopsisAlike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics. Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two nations’ differences. The contributors examine five major areas: World War I’s impact on labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labor; patterns of ethnic and class identification; forms of working-class collective action; and the struggles related to trade union democracy and independent working-class politics. Throughout, many essays highlight how hard-won transnational ties allowed Australians and Americans to influence each other’s trade union and political cultures.Contributors: Robin Archer, Nikola Balnave, James R. Barrett, Bradley Bowden, Verity Burgmann, Robert Cherny, Peter Clayworth, Tom Goyens, Dianne Hall, Benjamin Huf, Jennie Jeppesen, MaTrade Review"Two of the leading comparative labour historians in Australia and the U.S., Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist, have joined forces to produce an outstanding edited collection comparing key aspects of Australian and American labour history. . . . Their volume is a fine example of the enormous benefits and promises that such a combined approach brings to labour history." --Moving the Social"The essays in this volume make a splendid contribution to the important fields of US and Australian labor history."--Neville Kirk, author of Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia 1900 to the Present"Historians cannot do experiments with history, but we can do the functional equivalent by way of comparative history. This excellent collection compares Australian and US workplace experiences. We expect the differences; these sophisticated labor historians also attend to the surprising extent of 'commonalities,' which seem to have grown over time." --Melanie Nolan, editor of Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand"This terrific collection, edited by two of the leading scholars of Australian and US labor history, respectively, contributes significantly to our understanding of labor and working-class conflicts in these two countries." --Labor"This collection is a must for comparative historians. Rather than having a collection of national case studies, this collection goes the extra mile and shows how useful and critical such transnational history is." --Pacific Historical Review"This collection of sixteen comparative essays, plus an introduction and a conclusion, marks a significant step in the advancement of labor history on both sides of the Pacific Ocean." --The Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisOn September 10, 1897, a group of 400 striking coal miners--workers of Polish, Slovak, and Lithuanian descent or origin--marched on Lattimer, Pennsylvania. There, law enforcement officers fired without warning into the protesters, killing nineteen miners and wounding thirty-eight others. The bloody day quickly faded into history. Paul A. Shackel confronts the legacies and lessons of the Lattimer event. Beginning with a dramatic retelling of the incident, Shackel traces how the violence, and the acquittal of the deputies who perpetrated it, spurred membership in the United Mine Workers. By blending archival and archaeological research with interviews, he weighs how the people living in the region remember--and forget--what happened. Now in positions of power, the descendants of the slain miners have themselves become rabidly anti-union and anti-immigrant as Dominicans and other Latinos change the community. Shackel shows how the social, economic, and political circumstances surrounding Trade Review"Shackel brings the tools of archaeology, ethnography, and history to bear on an important moment in U.S. labor history, to disclose how immigration, labor strife and racial-ethnic discrimination were and continue to be at play, a long-term perspective informative for addressing these timely issues today."--Robert Paynter, coeditor of Lines That Divide: Historical Archaeologies of Race, Class, and Gender "Shackel's contribution provides a deeply researched discussion about an often-neglected event in labor history." --International Journal of Heritage Studies "This important and timely book uncovers the forgotten history of the Lattimer Strike and massacre, its impact on the history and development of organized labor in the United States, and the enduring legacies of racial and class tensions these events have for the present. The story of the xenophobic exploitation of immigrants and their subsequent central role in the struggle for better working conditions and wages is used to offer a thoughtful and considered intervention into contemporary polarizing debates about immigration and migrant labor. Remembering Lattimer is a statement about the implications of the choices communities and nations alike make to collectively remember and forget, and the importance of breaking long held silences for the insight the past may offer for present and future aspirations for social justice."--Laurajane Smith, coauthor of Heritage, Communities, and ArchaeologyTable of ContentsCoverTitleCopyrightContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: Anthracite MiningChapter 2: The Lattimer Strike/Incident/MassacreChapter 3: A Great Miscarriage of Justice and the Growth of the UMWAChapter 4: Memory of LattimerChapter 5: The 1997 Centennial Commemoration and the Memory of LattimerChapter 6: Deindustrialization and the New Twenty-First-Century ImmigrantChapter 7: Turning the CornerReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Cole does a magnificent job in this book. . . . An excellent study of dockworkers in port cities in California and South Africa, and their respective struggles for social justice." --International Journal of Comparative Sociology"Dockworker Power is the first book that specifically compares South African and American ports as a site of workplace activism. . . . The inspiring story of Dockworker Power provides the optimism needed for contemporary activists to fight and win twenty-first-century battles." --Journal of African American History"Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area is a sparkling exercise in comparative labor history. Informative and informed, morally anchored, and successfully mastering two sets of literature, it is also a pleasure to read." --American Historical Review"Cole's book is a tremendous first step in understanding the parallel struggles of dockworkers in both locations and their ongoing importance in the face of global containerized trade." --African Studies Review"The combination of labour, comparative and global history, framed by the political economy of containerization and technological change, makes this book most timely and worthy of deep reflection. . . . Peter Cole's book will inform and motivate." --Review of African Political Economy"The first three words of this book read: 'Dockworkers have power' (p. 1). They capture the essence of this fascinating and closely researched work by Peter Cole, Professor of History at the Western Illinois University. With this brilliant work on dockworkers' power, Cole implicitly invites other labour, social and economic scholars to pick up from where he leaves off and maybe develop a new analysis of labour strategy for transnational solidarity. Hopefully, scholars will meet this challenge with the same degree of verse and insight as that displayed by Peter Cole." --International Review of Social History"Peter Cole's superb examination of dockworkers in San Francisco and Durban, South Africa, provides an excellent model of how to write comparative labor history, weaving together a compelling tale around issues of racial justice, intentional labor solidarity, and resistance to job-destroying technological change." --H-Net Reviews"A sweeping, panoramic narrative . . . This book with have wide appeal, for historians of South Africa and the US, for those interested in workers struggles in a global context and how technology transforms the lives of working people, and for those looking for evidence that workers maintain power, even in our increasingly connected globalized world." --Reviews in History "Cole's book is a valuable contribution to the relatively thin field of global union comparisons." --In These Times "Dockworker Power is worth the read. It's riveting and distinguishes itself from the mainstream labor and civil rights history we have come to know." --48 Hills "Dockworker Power is highly recommended . . . The book is ambitious in execution and delivers new perspectives through a comparative and transnational approach." --The Northern Mariner "Persuasive and compelling. . . . Dockworker Power makes an important contribution to the development of the interdisciplinary field of working-class studies." --Journal of Working Class Studies "Dockworker Power is a book of vital importance to labor scholars, educators, and activists." --Labor Studies "The fascinating stories [Cole] centers in Dockworker Power capture the dynamics of global social movements, the significance of black internationalism, and the power of grassroots organizing." —Keisha N. Blain, Black Perspectives "Dockworker Power is worth the read. It's riveting and distinguishes itself from the mainstream labor and civil rights history we have come to know." —48 Hills "Compelling." —Salon "Dockworker Power suggests that the rising global white supremacist menace cannot be defeated without a confrontation at today’s docks—the mechanized ports, trucking networks, and warehouses where racial capitalism does its work." —Dissent Magazine "Cole makes a strong case for the importance of studying ports and their workers in global history. His research is meticulous—not a minor feat when you compare two ports in very different contexts. " —Black Perspectives "Peter Cole has done us a great service in his comparative history. He has demonstrated that the social and political context of unions is important in determining their course of struggle, and he has highlighted the great impact that dockers have had on social justice struggles." —Jacobin "Cole’s book shows us the possibilities that anti-racist labor organizing had and has for attacking and analyzing how systems of racial and capital oppressions are intertwined. " —Africa is a Country "The importance of Cole's study and topic are undeniable. " —History: Reviews of New Books "Peter Cole has written a cutting-edge work that combines labor, maritime, comparative, and global history in brilliantly illuminating ways. The edge is the waterfront, whose workers make the world economy go 'round."--Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History "Peter Cole's study of port labor and capital accumulation is the most useful US-SA comparative analysis I've seen in years. By tracing containerization, the book also clarifies ways that new technology can tear asunder socio-ecological relations, and in turn occasionally be foiled by creative, solidaristic workers—offering vital lessons from courageous dockworkers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution era."--Patrick Bond, University of the Witwatersrand

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Impressively researched, this excellent study makes a major contribution to the history of the U.S. labor movement and to the history of Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy. McKillen's focus on Wilson's approach to labor, World War I, and peacemaking provides a welcome counter to the dominant historiography on Wilson's relations with leftist progressives and socialists."--Ross A. Kennedy, author of The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America's Strategy for Peace and Security"Elizabeth McKillen tells a big and far-flung story exceptionally well. This book succeeds in showing how U.S. and European trade unions and socialist groups' conflicted efforts to democratize diplomacy changed the larger story of successful American opposition to Wilsonian internationalist goals."--David R. Roediger, coauthor of The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History

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Book SynopsisThe history of unemployment and concepts surrounding it remain a mystery to many Americans. This introduction takes an aim at misinformation, willful deceptions, and popular myths to set the record straight, providing a roadmap to better jobs and economic security.Trade Review”Frank Stricker has done the nation an important service, wisely analyzing the history of unemployment, and our attempts to redress this problem. By exposing our failures as well as our successes, he provides a badly needed template for action.”—Robert Slayton, author of Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith”A truly accessible explanation of what ails the U.S. economy accompanied by clear explanations of progressive solutions to these problems. I can think of no other book that even tries to cover this ground as comprehensively, with such easy to navigate chapters, and such easy to understand prose. If you can read a newspaper, you can understand this book. A joy to read, even when you disagree with the author, and a great discussion starter.”—Philip L. Harvey, coauthor of America's Misunderstood Welfare State: Persistent Myths, Enduring Realities

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Book SynopsisSeeking to historicize the 2007-2009 Great Recession, this volume of essays situates the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace. Contributors use examples from industrialized North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to demonstrate how workers and states have responded to those shifts and to their disempowering effects on labor. Since the Industrial Revolution, contributors argue, factors such as race, sex, and state intervention have mediated both the effect of economic depressions on workers' lives and workers' responses to those depressions. Contributors also posit a varying dynamic between political upheaval and economic crises, and between workers and the welfare state. The volume ends with an examination of today's Great Recession: its historical distinctiveness, its connection to neoliberalism, and its attendant expressions of worker status and agency around the world. Trade ReviewILHA Book of the Year Award, International Labor History Association, 2014. "Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises examines the history of economic depressions, recessions, and crises in North America, New Zealand, Australia, parts of Europe and Asia, and worker responses to them. At its core lie the issues of agency and structure, culture and conditioning. The well-written essays will appeal to those interested in past and present responses to economic troubles and ways out of the current global recession." --Neville Kirk, author of Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia 1900 to the Present"The essays serve as important reminders of how interconnected world economic conditions have always been, and of how much more interconnected they are now."--Journal of American History"This book could have been another collection of essays in which academics principally talk to each other, but it is instead accessible to both academic and non-academic audiences. Hopefully, interested readers yearning for social and economic justice will peruse its pages and maybe even be inspired to unfurl a red flag."--Canadian Historical Review"The quality of writing is high. I recommend the book highly to all interested in the topic indicated in its title."--Labor Studies Journal"This is the rare edited collection that makes readers wish they were at the original conference at which the papers first appeared. . . . Present there and in this volume are some of the biggest names in labor and industrial history."--The Journal of American History"Recommended."--Choice

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Book SynopsisRooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of American life such as work, freedom, the market, and the state.Betsy Wood examines the evolution of ideas about child labor and the on-the-ground politics of the issue against the backdrop of broad developments related to slavery and emancipation, industrial capitalism, moral and social reform, and American politics and religion. Wood explains how the decades-long battle over child labor created enduring political and ideological divisions within capitalist society that divided the gatekeepers of modernity from the cultural warriors who opposed them. Tracing the ideological origins and the politics of the child labor battle over the course of eighty years, this book tells the story of how child labor debates bequeathed an enduriTrade Review"Wood's ambitious book recognizes and highlights the importance of child labor as a cultural symbol and should spark new investigations of this topic." --Journal of American History"This is a highly interesting and novel reading of the child labor reform movement as being deeply imprinted by the debate about slavery. . . . Very welcome and highly recommended study." --H-Sol-Kult "In this engaging book, Betsy Wood invites us to re-evaluate the history of sectionalist conflict through the lens of child labor reform. . . . Upon the Altar of Work demonstrates just how important debates over child labor were to understandings of capitalism, morality, and freedom, in both the North and South, in the years after slavery's legal demise." --American Nineteenth Century History "Upon the Altar of Work manages to make well-worn subject matter feel fresh, exciting, and original. . . . Betsy Wood's work reveals how far we have come in combating that evil, while reminding readers of the work yet to be done." --Labor/Le Travail "An innovative and persuasive narrative that traces the evolution of ideas championed by child labor reformers from their free labor roots to their faith in the modern bureaucratic state. . . .Upon the Altar of Work is a well-researched, crisply argued, and excellent addition to the scholarship on the politics of child labor reform." --Journal of Southern History ​"Wood's book demonstrates the long history of conceptualizing child labor as battles over region, progress, and childhood, one that hopefully other scholars will apply to the present. It's an excellent work well worth the attention of all labor and southern historians." --Register of the Kentucky Historical Society ​"Slim, engaging . . . Upon the Altar of Work offers a new interpretation by highlighting postbellum reformers' discursive invocations of free and unfree labor, concepts that heretofore have occupied the attention of scholars of slavery, abolition, Reconstruction, and postemancipation society and culture." --Journal of Civil War Era "Wood’s most useful contribution, is the connection made between the hyper-sectionalism caused by the issue of slavery to the post-emancipation campaigns against child labor that Wood convincingly argues became central to the new sectionalism that developed over the decades following the Civil War. . . . A very good book that should inspire additional research in other times and places." --Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth "Upon the Altar of Work is an exemplary work of intellectual and political history. Wood's skilled analysis closely tracks the arguments against child labor across decades with acute attention to both specific language and symbols and the wider context." --Labor "Betsy Wood manages to say highly original things about an old subject--the movement to abolish child labor. Was the labor of children a new form of slavery or an embodiment of the free labor ideal sanctified by the Civil War? Wood shows how, despite (white) sectional reconciliation, a deep divide between reform-minded northerners and rural southerners over child labor, and the power of the government to abolish it, persisted well into the twentieth century. At a time when millions of children are at work throughout the world, the book is extraordinarily timely."--Eric Foner, Columbia University "Recommended." --ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Fields of Free Labor: Child Rescue and Sectional Crisis 2 Testing Ground of Freedom: Child Labor in the Age of Emancipation 3 Seeds of a New Sectionalism: Southern Origins of Child Labor Reform 4 Child Labor Abolitionists: A Northern Progressive Vision 5 Cultural Warriors: A Southern Capitalist Vision Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth century, Midwestern miners often had to decide if joining a union was in their interest. Arguing that these workers were neither pro-union nor anti-union, Dana M. Caldemeyer shows that they acted according to what they believed would benefit them and their families. As corporations moved to control coal markets and unions sought to centralize their organizations to check corporate control, workers were often caught between these institutions and sided with whichever one offered the best advantage in the moment. Workers chased profits while paying union dues, rejected national unions while forming local orders, and broke strikes while claiming to be union members. This pragmatic form of unionism differed from what union leaders expected of rank-and-file members, but for many workers the choice to follow or reject union orders was a path to better pay, stability, and independence in an otherwise unstable age. Nuanced and eye-opening, Union Renegades challenges popuTrade Review"Skillfully arranged. . . Caldemeyer demonstrates that the world of the Gilded Age working class was not as cut and dried as some of its would-be leadership thought it was -- and that it was not as politically bespoke for as believed by many of the historians who have tried to interpret it." --Journal of American History"Overall, Union Renegades offers an engaging account of Midwestern history, which will appeal to lay readers and provide scholars with innovative interpretations of labor history." --Choice"Dana M. Caldemeyer's Union Renegades begins with a resonating bang for its reader. . . . A clear and thoughtful reexamination of labor struggles during the Gilded Age. Through six detailed and nuanced instances of dissatisfaction with the union, the book shows that miners navigated a complex world of capitalism and labor as individuals pursuing the best option for themselves as wage workers and miners." --Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"For anyone who assumes that joining a union in the late-nineteenth-century coalfields reflected a simple choice, Union Renegades is a stunning catalog of the various factors that shaped the complex calculation that workers had to make. Caldemeyer’s deeply researched study joins a growing list of scholarship exploring attitudes about unions, capitalism, and power in the rural-industrial heartland. Its lessons are important for our time."--Kenneth Fones-Wolf, coauthor of Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation DixieTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Deceived: Producers in a Dishonest World 2 Undermined: Winter Diggers, Union Strikebreakers 3 “Judases”: Union “Betrayal” and the Aborted 1891 Strike 4 Outsiders: Race and the Exclusive Politics of an Inclusive Union, 1892-1894 5 Unsettled: Non-Union Mobilization and the 1894 Strike 6 Wolves: Fractured Unions in the Gilded Age, 1894-1896 Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPositions Puerto Rico within the context of a regional anarchist network that stretched from the island to Cuba (a U.S. protectorate), Tampa, and New York, and struggled against religion, governments, and industrial capitalism.Trade Review“This is a splendid book, elegantly edited, which positions Kirwin Shaffer as an essential reference in the history of the Spanish-speaking anarchist movement of the Caribbean.”--International Review of Social History"Shaffer's elegant narrative eloquently brings to life a rigorous archival research not only from Puerto Rico but also from international archives in the Netherlands, Cuba, and the United States."--Caribbean Studies"An important contribution to the historiography of labor, radicalism, and political culture in Puerto Rico, with important implications for our understanding of the broader history of radicalism in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and within Cuban and Puerto Rican diasporas. . . . This was a clearly written and engaging book that could be assigned as course reading or suggested to advanced undergraduates and graduate students interested in radicalism in the early twentieth-century Caribbean and its diaspora."--Journal of American Ethnic History"An outstanding product of years of research in archives from Amsterdam to San Juan, and from Havana to New York. Black Flag offers a groundbreaking study of the brief but significant heyday of anarchism in Puerto Rico. . . . No other work in the English language to date brings back the legacy of the Puerto Rican anarchist experience as does Black Flag Boricuas.--Against the Current"Black Flag Boricuas sheds a great deal of light on the anarchist movement in Puerto Rico, a little-studied topic with implications in important debates on religion, education, colonialism, nationalism, and labor. This overall picture of an intellectually dynamic movement will be of interest to scholars interested in anarchism and Latin America."--Mark Leier, author of Bakunin: The Creative Passion: A BiographyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Abbreviations and Style Notes xiii Prologue xv Introduction: Cultural Politics and Transnational Anarchism in Puerto Rico 1 1. The Roots of Anarchism and Radical Labor Politics in Puerto Rico, 1870s-1899 23 2. Radicals and Reformers: Anarchists, Electoral Politics, and the Unions, 1900–1910 46 3. Anarchist Alliances, Government Repression: Education, Freethinkers, and CESs, 1909–1912 76 4. Anarchists, Freethinkers, and Spiritists: The Progressive Alliance against the Catholic Church, 1909–1912 92 5. Radicalism Imagined: Leftist Culture, Gender, and Revolutionary Violence, 1900–1920 106 6. Politics of the Bayamón Bloc and the Partido Socialista: Anarchism and Socialism in the 1910s 123 7. El Comunista: Radical Journalism and Transnational Anarchism, 1920–1921 141 Conclusion and Epilogue: Anarchist Antiauthoritarianism in a U.S. Colony, 1898–2011 167 Notes 181 Bibliography 199 Index 213

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Book SynopsisAgrarian radicalism''s challenge to capitalism played a central role in working-class ideology while making third parties and protest movements a potent force in politics. Thomas Alter II follows three generations of German immigrants in Texas to examine the evolution of agrarian radicalism and the American and transnational ideas that influenced it. Otto Meitzen left Prussia for Texas in the wake of the failed 1848 Revolution. His son and grandson took part in decades-long activism with organizations from the Greenback Labor Party and the Grange to the Populist movement and Texas Socialist Party. As Alter tells their stories, he analyzes the southern wing of the era''s farmer-labor bloc and the parallel history of African American political struggle in Texas. Alliances with Mexican revolutionaries, Irish militants, and others shaped an international legacy of working-class radicalism that moved U.S. politics to the left. That legacy, in turn, pushed forward economic reform during the Trade Review"A fountain of information. . . Alter does an excellent job of showing the persistence of the agrarian radical impulse." --Southwestern Historical Quarterly"Alter's Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth is a highly readable, extensively researched contribution to our understanding of Southwestern radicalism. Both seasoned scholars and beginning students will benefit." --Western Historical Quarterly"Masterful. . . . Alter’s clear writing and well-argued analysis provides students of the Texas Socialist movement a newly congruent foundation. To repeat, this is the book to read first." --Kyle Wilkinson, Labor Online"Alter's careful attention to Socialists in Texas provides an excellent case study of the numerous forces that affect political agendas. He convincingly demonstrates that revolutions beyond the borders of the United States directly shaped the course of radical platforms in Texas, and he shows how even these radicals could not fully escape the grasp of white supremacy." --Journal of Southern History"In this thoroughly researched and clearly written study of radical politics and ideas, historian Thomas Alter II argues that German transplants to rural Texas contributed to building a farmer-labor bloc that significantly shaped American politics from Reconstruction to the 1920s." --Pacific Historical Review"In Towards a Cooperative Commonwealth, Alter provides a powerful example of how history can converse with the present. . . . His work deftly and naturally provides historical perspective into contemporary issues, clearly demonstrating that a certain degree of presentism within the profession is not only possible but often necessary. . . . Alter's work is an exceptional example of both quality scholarship and the role historians can and should have in the world today." --Journal of Arizona History"The Meitzens -- and Alter's book -- are too important for scholars of labor and American political radicalism to ignore. Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth should further appeal to a broader audience of scholars of immigration and transnational history, while lay readers will find it a rich and rewarding experience." --Journal of the Gilded Age"This engaging study moves easily from family history to broad movements for justice. It shows farmer-labor alliances as a persistent, important presence from Silesia to Texas. Alter tells a fascinating story of how solidarity with Mexican revolutionaries challenged white supremacy across borders."--David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History "Alter narrates the rise and fall of an agrarian radical movement in Texas that brought unlikely partners together, albeit temporarily. German origin families such as the Meitzens collaborated with African Americans and Mexican Americans to create a commonwealth based on mutual benefits and centered on land, until reactionary forces in Texas and beyond quashed the movement. Alter's account shows the crucial role of land in the history of class struggle and class alliances."--Sonia Hernández, author of For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900–1938Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ixIntroduction 11 What Was Lost in Germany Might, in Texas, Be Won 132 Inheritors of the Revolution 453 Populist Revolt 754 The Battle for Socialism in Texas, 1900–1911 1075 Tierra y Libertad 1356 From the Cooperative Commonwealth to the Invisible Empire 171Conclusion: Descent into New Deal Liberalism 205Notes 219Bibliography 251Index 265Alter_

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Book SynopsisIn the early twentieth century, Miami cultivated an image of itself as a destination for leisure and sunshine free from labor strife. Thomas A. Castillo unpacks this idea of class harmony and the language that articulated its presence by delving into the conflicts, repression, and progressive grassroots politics of the time. Castillo pays particular attention to how class and race relations reflected and reinforced the nature of power in Miami. Class harmony argued against the existence of labor conflict, but in reality obscured how workers struggled within the city''s service-oriented seasonal economy. Castillo shows how and why such an ideal thrived in Miami's atmosphere of growth and boosterism and amidst the political economy of tourism. His analysis also presents class harmony as a theoretical framework that broadens our definitions of class conflict and class consciousness.Trade Review"The implications of Working in the Magic City reach far beyond Miami itself. . . . Castillo punctures the spaces between vagrancy and vacation, transient and resident, service and survival. The strength of Working in the Magic City is its analysis of a seemingly innocuous emphasis in localism." --H-Net"The superficial sheen of Miami as a purely seasonal 'winter playground' for the well-to-do obscures the city’s rich and long-standing quotidian working-class history dating back to the early twentieth century. Few scholars have done more than Castillo to pull back the curtain on the lives and aspirations of the multiracial class of chauffeurs, construction workers, transient laborers, and care and service workers who helped make Miami what it was--and what it is today. Based on an unprecedented mining of long-neglected archives and local newspapers from the first half of the last century, Working in the Magic City offers a major exposure of the deep layers--and fault lines--of labor and urban history of one of the most poorly understood and understudied transnational urban conglomerations in the contemporary world. What once seemed Miami’s anomaly--an urban economy based primarily on low-wage service work and seasonal precarity--now appears to define capitalist modernity."--Alex Lichtenstein, author of Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South"Thomas Castillo has rendered one of America's premier cities of leisure a city of labor. Contradicting more than a century of booster propaganda, Working in the Magic City reveals Miami's rich and complex history of class conflict. Even more impressively, it arms today's readers with a powerful parable about the frailty and preciousness of interracial, working-class organizing, dare one dream, class harmony."--N. D. B. Connolly, author of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida"Castillo has presented a fascinating analysis of how southern workers charted a path of labor activism independent of communism or socialism while also mapping out a vision of radical economic justice. It is an achievement worthy of wide attention." --Journal of Southern History

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Benton's work stands as a model history with a particular focus that expands in both breadth and chronology into a useful account for academics and contemporary policy makers. Highly recommended." --Choice"Benton brilliantly traces the politics and mistakes that marked the 1970s. . . A model of scholarship. Moreover, it is a work that must be read to understand the fall of the economic order by the 'new era of globalization' and the political consequences that accompanied it." --New York Labor History Association“James Benton engages with a complex topic that most labor historians have traditionally avoided: U.S. trade policy. An ambitious study taking us from the Roosevelt administration to the present, Fraying Fabric traces the evolution of that policy, its ultimately devastating impact on the textile and apparel sectors, and the response of business and organized labor to the challenge of global trade. Its provocative arguments should provoke overdue debate in the fields of labor history and public policy.”--Eric Arnesen, author of Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality"In Fraying Fabric: How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America, historian James C. Benton provides a richly detailed analysis of the impact of trade policy on textile and apparel manufacturing in the United States, and the ultimately unsuccessful efforts of unions in these closely related industries to limit the flow of imports." --H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction From Free Trade to Populism: How Did We Get Here? 1974-2016 Clashing Aims: The New Deal, Labor, and Tariff Reform, 1933-45 New Challenges: Labor’s Limits, International Recovery, and Industrial Decline, 1945-60 New Domestic and International Frontiers: John F. Kennedy, Labor, and Trade, 1961-63 Trade Deals, Import Challenges, and Shifting Political Alliances, 1964-69 Fighting to Win: Organized Labor Challenges Trade Policy, 1969-70 Labor Strikes Out: The Mills Bill, Burke-Hartke, and the Trade Act of 1974 Epilogue: Where Do We Go from Here? Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAround the world, hundreds of millions of labor migrants endure exploitation, lack of basic rights, and institutionalized discrimination and marginalization. What dynamics and drivers have created a world in which such a huge--and rapidly growing--group toils as marginalized men and women, existing as a lower caste institutionally and juridically? In what ways did labor migrants shape their living and working conditions in the past, and what opportunities exist for them today? Global Labor Migration presents new multidisciplinary, transregional perspectives on issues surrounding global labor migration. The essays go beyond disciplinary boundaries, with sociologists, ethnographers, legal scholars, and historians contributing research that extends comparison among and within world regions. Looking at migrant workers from the late nineteenth century to the present day, the contributors illustrate the need for broader perspectives that study labor migration over longer timeframes and from Trade Review“This volume does exactly what the title promises: it puts labor and labor relations worldwide in the center and reveals the way employers, state, empires and supranational institutions shape migration patterns, then and now. The editors succeed in putting together a highly interesting collection of essays that talk to each other and open new venues, approaches and perspectives, while finding striking similarities between the continents. But this book also shows how migrants--despite ongoing exploitation and exclusion--find their own loopholes and chase their dreams. A must read for those interested in how the past structures current day trends, discussions, and daily practices from Beijing to Detroit.”--Leo Lucassen, Director of the International Institute of Social HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Global Labor Migration Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, and Joo-Cheong Tham Part I. Colonial Authority and the Transimperial 1. “Politics of Protection and the Southeast-Asian ‘Coolie Trade’: Chinese Labor Migration and Trans-Imperial Connections in the British Straits Settlements and the Netherlands East Indies, 1870-1914” Bastiaan Nugteren 2. “Militarized Mobility: The U.S. Army and Chinese Exclusion in America’s Empire at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century” Justin F. Jackson 3. “Before the Windrush: Black British Colonial Labor in Cuba and the Dominican Republic” Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres 4. “Ethnicity, Migrant Labor and Anti-Colonialism: Historical Intersections in Mid-Twentieth century East Africa” Felipe Barradas Correia Castro Bastos Part II. Gender and Sexualities 5. “Sex Trafficking in the Motor City: The Construction of an International Deportation Infrastructure in Detroit, USA, 1924-1944" Jessica R. Pliley 6. “Securitizing Migration: Finance and Household Reproduction” Penelope Ciancanelli 7. “Saving Asian Marriages: Migration, Gender, and the Communal Politics of Welfare in 1970s Britain” Radhika Natarajan 8. “Buy with 1-Click: Independent Contracting and Migrant Workers in China’s Last-Mile Delivery” Jenny Chan Part III. National and Transnational Regulation 9. “The Wedge of the Refugee as Worker: Litigation over Asylum Seeker Work Authorization in the United States, 1974-2021” Yael Schacherp> 10. “Rethinking ‘Unfree’ Labor: The Immigration Industrial Complex” Katie Bales 11. “Transnational Corporations and the Making of Global Labour Markets: The Case of Foxconn in China and Europe” Rutvica Andrijasevic, Pun Ngai, and Devi Sacchetto 12. “‘Beyond Borders’: The Regulation of the Living and Working Conditions of International Seafarers” Helen Sampson Part IV. Global Governance 13. “Moving Workers: International Labour Organization Standards and the Regulation of Migration” Eileen Boris 14. “From the ILO to Intergovernmentalism: “Surplus Population,” Discrimination, and the Genealogy of Global Migration Management” Charlie Fanning 15. “Governing Global Labor Migration: Compacts and Contradictions” Judy Fudge 16. “Decent Wages for Decent Work in Asia: Addressing the Temporality-Precarity Nexus in South-South Migration” Matt Withers and Nicola Piper Afterword: “Labor, Race and Temporality” Bridget Anderson Index

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Book SynopsisOnce seen as a harbinger of a new enlightened capitalism, Google has become a model of robber baron rapaciousness thanks to its ruthless monetizing of private data, obsession with monopoly, and pervasive systems of labor discrimination and exploitation. Using the company as a jumping-off point, ShinJoung Yeo explores the political economy of the search engine industry against the backdrop of the relationship between information and capitalism’s developmental processes. Yeo’s critical analysis draws on in-depth discussions of essential issues like how the search engine evolved into a ubiquitous commercial service, it’s place in a global information business that is restructuring the information industry and our very social lives, who exactly designs and uses search technology, what kinds of workers labor behind the scenes, and the influence of geopolitics. An incisive look at a pervasive presence in our lives, Behind the Search Box places the search engine iTrade Review“The book reminds readers that despite all the various new labels of supposedly new forms of capitalism, we really are still talking about capitalism after all. An important book that promises to make a major contribution to the ever-accumulating research on the new digital monopolies. Yeo’s analysis is original and incisive.”--Victor Pickard, author of Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Searching for Profits Situating Search Laboring Behind the Search Digital Welfare Capitalism Market Dynamics and Geopolitics Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book makes a significant contribution to the field of labor history, industrial archeology, and place-based history. Shackel unpacks the nuances of working-class labor, culture, and society while also addressing larger issues of how environmental devastation and unchecked capitalism have left long-lasting, if not irrevocable, scars on the landscape and the generations of people who have lived here. This is an outstanding resource for labor historians, labor archeologists, and anyone interested in a deep dive into the past and present of an American working-class community.”--Rachel Clare Donaldson, author of “I Hear America Singing”: Folk Music and National IdentityTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1. Structural Violence in the Anthracite Chapter 2. Coal and People Chapter 3. Living in the Anthracite Chapter 4. The Duplan Silk Mill and the Garment Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania Chapter 5. Food Insecurities in the Anthracite Chapter 6. The Toxic Anthracite Environment Chapter 7. Traditions, Traditional Medicines, and Powwowers Chapter 8. Remembering the Anthracite Chapter 9. The Making of Contemporary Northeastern Pennsylvania and the City of Hazleton Chapter 10. Some Challenges Facing a Deindustrialized Community Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Public Workers in Service of America is a fascinating and consequential history of public sector-work that demonstrates how public employees from diverse backgrounds have fought to define their rights over time and in a wide variety of occupations. It contributes to an essential conversation about the need for a robust and inclusive public workforce in a nation that often uncritically embraces the private sector.”--Margaret C. Rung, author of Servants of the State: Managing Diversity and Democracy in the Federal Workforce, 1933–1953Table of ContentsForeword Joseph A. McCartin Acknowledgments A Note on Language Introduction Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin Part I: The Politics of Public Work at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century 1 Gender and Politics among Federal Indian Service Employees, 1880-1930 Cathleen D. Cahill 2 The Spoils as Reparations Eric S. Yellin Part II: Good Government Jobs for Whom? 3 Dead End Job? Black Public Workers Struggle to See Light of Day Frederick W. Gooding Jr. 4 “We’re the Backbone of this City”: Women and Gender in Public Work Katherine Turk Part III: Organizing Public Workers 5 Police Unions and Public-Sector Labor Law and Policy Joseph E. Slater 6 The Road to Memphis: Southern Sanitation Workers and the Transformation of Public Employee Unionism in the Postwar United States William P. Jones 7 “They Won’t Work for a Cop of Any Kind”: The 1970 Sanitation Slowdown and the Struggle for Black Independent Politics in Philadelphia Francis Ryan Part IV: Public Workers in the Neoliberal Age 8 Sick Ins, Feed Ins, Heal Ins, and Strikes: Labor Organizing at Chicago’s Public Hospital in the 1960s and Its Legacy for the 1970s Amy Zanoni 9 The Meaning of Teachers’ Labor in American Education: Change, Challenge, and Resistance Jon Shelton Afterword Eileen Boris Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an important book. Well-told, diligently researched and splendidly written, Khan maintains his Left and anarchist perspective throughout, yet never does the narrative falter into rhetoric and hyperbole. The history told in The Republic Shall be Kept Clean needs no hyperbole to emphasize the savagery of those who founded, expanded, and rule it." --CounterpunchTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Author’s Note on Terminology Introduction Class, Race, Gender, and Empire “Civilization” versus “Savagery” “The Republic Shall be Kept Clean” The Guns of 1877 Republicans and Anarchists The Respectable Mob Aliens and Mobs Conclusion: “The Problem of the Proletariat and the Colonial Problem” Notes Libraries and Archives Utilized Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Understanding what work means is critically important for understanding the lived experiences of millions of people and for research and policymaking. Bruno gives voice to workers who are critically important for society but overlooked by research focused on the managerial and professional class. The nuances revealed by the workers’ own words can’t be observed in statistical analyses, and the more we learn about their experiences through their own voices, the better.”--John W. Budd, author of The Thought of Work"Bruno’s humanistic analysis often approaches the poetic ('Work hurts. Work disables and abuses. It exhausts, stresses, and ultimately kills. Work dictates life spans. It also invigorates, inspires, satisfies, and brings joy'), and his shrewd recommendations for improving American labor include strong unions, reducing the 40-hour workweek, and stronger enforcement of overtime benefits. It’s a worthy update to Studs Terkel’s Working." --Publisher's WeeklyTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Time of Work Chapter 2. Work and Space Chapter 3. Work’s Impact Chapter 4. The Purpose of Work Chapter 5. The Subject of Work Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisAn educational crisis from its origins to present-day experiences In the United States today, almost three-quarters of the people teaching in two- and four-year colleges and universities work as contingent faculty. They share the hardships endemic in the gig economy: lack of job security and health care, professional disrespect, and poverty wages that require them to juggle multiple jobs. This collection draws on a wide range of perspectives to examine the realities of the contingent faculty system through the lens of labor history. Essayists investigate structural changes that have caused the use of contingent faculty to skyrocket and illuminate how precarity shapes day-to-day experiences in the academic workplace. Other essays delve into the ways contingent faculty engage in collective action and other means to resist austerity measures, improve their working conditions, and instigate reforms in higher education. By challenging contingency, this volume issues a cleaTrade Review“Fure-Slocum and Goldstene chronicle the contingent faculty labor movement in all its creativity and diversity. This collection moves past mere description of the neoliberal academy and the plight of contingent campus workers to weave together analyses, personal narrative, and tactical guidance on organizing in the gig economy while calling for a renewed commitment to cross-rank and cross-campus solidarity among academic workers.”--Julie Schmid, Executive Director, American Association of University Professors“A book that we have long awaited and needed. Nothing else offers such a broad sweep of perspectives and such a deep historical appreciation of the struggles of contingent academic labor. Anyone interested in the future of higher education, the future of work and workers, or the future of our democracy should read this important book.”--Joseph A. McCartin, coeditor of Purple Power: The History and Global Impact of SEIUTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Framing Contingency in Higher Education Introduction A Labor History of Contingent Faculty Eric Fure-Slocum 1 From the Margins to the Center: Negotiating a New Academy Gary Rhoades Part I: The Making of a Contingent Faculty Majority 2 Framing Part I: R-E-S-P-E-C-T Elizabeth Hohl 3 “Those Who Don’t Accept This Don’t Last Long”: Two Centuries of Cost Cutting and Laboring in the US Higher Education Industry Elizabeth Tandy Shermer 4 Why Faculty Casualization? Its Origins and the Present Challenges of the Contingent Faculty Movement Joe Berry and Helena Worthen 5 Women’s Work: A Feminist Rethinking of Contingent Labor in the Academy Gwendolyn Alker 6 Contingency across Higher Education Sue Doe and Steven Shulman Part II: Contingency at Work and in the Workplace 7 Framing Part II: Multiple Contingencies Aimee Loiselle 8 Social Dirt, Liminality, and the Adjunct Predicament Claire Raymond 9 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Being Contingent and Female in STEM Fields Diane Angell 10 Talking Back against Ableism, Ageism, and Contingency as a Latinx Instructor and First-Generation Scholar Miguel Juárez 11 Graduate Student Labor, Contingency, and Power Erin Hatton 12 Common Ground for the Common Good: What We Mean When We Say “Faculty Working Conditions Are Student Learning Conditions” Maria C. Maisto Part III: Challenging Precarity and Contingency in Higher Education 13 Framing Part III: “To Move Things Forward” Anne Wiegard 14 So Many Roads, So Much at Stake: The Composition of Faculty Bargaining Units William A. Herbert and Joseph van der Naald 15 Graduate Worker Organizing and the Challenges of Precarity in Higher Education Jeff Schuhrke 16 From Community of Interest to Imagined Communities: Organizing Academic Labor in the Washington, DC Area Anne McLeer 17 The “Army of Temps” in the House of Labor: How California’s Public Sector Labor Unions Struggle to Resist the De-Professionalization of College Teachers Trevor Griffey 18 Casualization in the United Kingdom: Causes, Scale, and Resistance Steven Parfitt Paths Forward for Academic Labor and Higher Education 19 Building Labor Solidarity across Tenure Lines Naomi R. Williams and Jiyoon Park 20 How the Isolation of Contingency Undermines the Public Good of Education Claire Goldstene Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPREFACEABBREVIATIONSI. GENDER AND INDUSTRIALIZATION1. Gender, Community, and Working-Class History2. Dependency and Domesticity: Women's Wage Labor, 1900-1925II. WOMEN IN THE NEW INDUSTRIAL UNIONS3. Patterns of Women's Labor, 1925-19404. Daughters of the Depression5. Commandos of Working Women6. A Lengthening ThreadIII. A NEW WORKING CLASS AND THE CHALLENGE OF DEVERSITY7. Nimble Fingers and Keen Eysight: Women in Wartime Production8. A New Working Class, 1940-19609.Solidarity Fragmented: Garment Workers in the Transvaal10. Food and Canning Workers at the Cape: The Structure of Gender and Race11. Standing United12. Never Far from Home: Family, Community, and Working WomenIV.DECENTRALIZATION AND THE RISE OF INDEPENDENT UNIONS13. City and Periphery, 1960-198014. Repression and ResistanceEpilogue: Common Threads, Past and PresentNotesDocumentary Sources and InterviewsIndexIllustrations precede Chapter 8

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Book SynopsisA poignant portrayal of the price of postsocialist transition for industrial workersTrade ReviewKideckel's extensive fieldwork among Romania's Jiu Valley and Fagaraş coal miners, coupled with the workers' narratives quoted throughout the book, lends authority to his detailed analysis of the denigrating conditions suffered by "once celebrated" people. The regions under study were prosperous coal-producing areas that attracted a multicultural workforce. In the postsocialist era, as a transformed Romania becomes a consumer society, the miners are the "canaries in the coal mine of postsocialism," Kideckel asserts. The workers strive to maintain "a tenuous hold on life, work, family, and community" in the face of economic restructuring, privatization, and buyouts. The security and status they felt in socialist society have disappeared. This book contains many firsthand accounts from workers, grounding Kideckel's generalizations in the gritty lives endured by the miners and their families. Kideckel's contribution is the eighth in the publisher's "New Anthropologies of Europe" series. It is emblematic of the series goal to publish ethnographic manuscripts that examine topics such as globalization, ethnicity, and market reform and, at the same time, contribute to theory building in social sciences. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- Choice L. De Danaan, emerita, Evergreen State College, April 2009"Kideckel's book gives a voice to the Romanian working class and lets them speak for themselves... [he] states in a pointed manner that the meaning of 'getting by' has shifted from 'manipulating the system in one's interest' to managing basic survival' in every sphere of life." —H-SAE, June, 2011"What makes the book a ‘must-read’ for those interested in post-socialist Eastern Europe, or labour issues, is the fact that David Kideckel listens. He transforms the detailed account of day-to-day lives into authentic carefully interpreted written testimonies. This corpus of reflections makes an important contribution to Eastern European studies and reading it cannot leave a heart unmoved by the simple but powerful experiences thatan entire social class was and is struggling with in post-socialist Romania." —Gabriela Walker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Europe - Asia Studies, Vol. 61.9 Nov. 2009"... the text is wholly evocative, compellingly written, and clearly organized. 'Getting By in Postsocialist Romania' should appeal to a wide range of audiences, including scholars of postsocialist studies, those interested in issues of economic policy and development, health, and gender studies, and to students at all levels." —Karen Kapusta-Pofahl, American Ethnologist"The book is a valuable contribution to the field of postsocialist studies offering a compassionate discussion of the day-to-day experience of the depressed former industrial worker. It is engagingly written... by the author who has over thirty years of ethnographic research experience in Romania. It makes an excellent text for both undergraduate and graduate courses that deal with working-class culture, postsocialism, Eastern Europe, as well as social transformation and political economy to show how consumption and production are intimately related in the development of working-class identity." —Canadian American Slavic Studies"David Kideckel challenges celebratory images of postsocialism by focusing on the often neglected working class and allowing the disenfranchised to speak for themselves. In so doing he provides a contribution to the ethnography of eastern Europe that speaks poignantly to broader discussions of work, class, and gender under neoliberalism." —Gerald Creed, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York"Overall, this is a very valuable book that sheds considerable light on a subject that is rarely covered in most literature on Romania." —Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 88.3, July 2010Table of ContentsContentsPreface 1. Getting By in Postsocialism: Labor, Bodies, Voices2. How Workers Became "Others": Talking Alienation3. Postsocialist Labor Pains: Fear, Distance, and Narrative in the Workplace4. The Postsocialist Body Politic5. Houses of Stone or of Straw? Postsocialist Worker Communities6. Strangers in Their Own Skin: Workers and Gender in Postsocialism7. The Embodied Enemy: Stress, Health, and Agency8. What Is to Be Done? NotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisCovers the history of the USA's role in the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the challenge by the President of the American Political Science Association in 2000, who urged scholars to discover how "well-structured institutions could enable the world to have a new birth of freedom".Trade Review“This is a thoroughly researched and extremely well written book on the complex development of global labor standards and the ILO. It should be read urgently by anyone concerned with problems of global justice, and particularly by those who take the view that ‘labor is not merely a commodity.’” —Randolph B. Persaud, Co-Director of the Sub-Field of Comparative and International Race Relations at American University, and Director of American University's Interdisciplinary Council on the Americas“Professor Lorenz has written an important book that provides an invaluable portrait of the International Labor Organization. Especially significant among his several achievements is his analysis of the contributions of one of this country’s unjustly neglected citizens, John G. Winant.” —James O. Freedman, President Emeritus, Dartmouth College"...one cannot help but be impressed by the drive and vigour of Lorenz's prose."—Journal of Contemporary History“This useful review of American attitudes toward international labor standards starts with World War I and the creation of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in 1919. It usefully discusses the movement toward national labor standards within the United States in the 1920s and 1930s, the U.S. failure to ratify many of the ILO conventions, and the divisions within American labor on the ILO.” —Foreign Affairs“Based on an impressive command of a wide variety of sources, this well-organized and clearly written account explains how the social gospel movement, Progressive Era reformers, academics and attorneys, feminists and consumers, and labor unions attempted to shape an international organization that could establish standards to protect workers around the world.” —Register of the Kentucky Historical Society“Defining Global Justice chronicles in an unusual and intriguing way the rise and eventual sequential transformations of the International Labor Organization....[A] novel and very interesting history of real-life battles regarding international labor standards and an important reminder that within the traditions of our profession there once thrived a strong concern about standards of human dignity.” —EH.NET“This volume is timely. Lorenz provides an insightful history of the US’s role in the development of global labor standards through the ILO. This well-written study persuasively demonstrates that ‘well-organized groups can force the policy process to consider values, other than economic efficiency, in setting economic policies.’” —Choice“As the first complete history of the ILO, this book by Edward C. Lorenz is important for its evidence, clear narrative and ... theoretical contribution.” —American Historical Review“...an intriguing story that offers insights into the evolution of international organizations and their ability to define norms of behavior. This is a valuable book in that it carefully and fully lays out the philosophical and legal arguments for labor standards and documents when they have been applied over a long period of history.”—The Journal of Economic History

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Book SynopsisDefining Global Justice offers the first comprehensive overview of the history of the United States role in the International Labor Organization (ILO). In this thought-provoking book, Edward Lorenz addresses the challenge laid down by the President of the American Political Science Association in 2000, who urged scholars to discover how well-structured institutions could enable the world to have a new birth of freedom'. Lorenz's study describes one model of a well-structured institution. His history of the U.S. interaction with the ILO shows how some popular organizations, from organized labor through women's, academic, legal, and religious institutions have been able to utilize the ILO structure to counter what the APSA president called self-serving elites and . . . their worst impulses. These organizations succeeded repeatedly in introducing popular visions of social justice into global economic planning and the world economy.Lorenz demonstrates the key role played bTrade Review“This is a thoroughly researched and extremely well written book on the complex development of global labor standards and the ILO. It should be read urgently by anyone concerned with problems of global justice, and particularly by those who take the view that ‘labor is not merely a commodity.’” —Randolph B. Persaud, Co-Director of the Sub-Field of Comparative and International Race Relations at American University, and Director of American University's Interdisciplinary Council on the Americas“Professor Lorenz has written an important book that provides an invaluable portrait of the International Labor Organization. Especially significant among his several achievements is his analysis of the contributions of one of this country’s unjustly neglected citizens, John G. Winant.” —James O. Freedman, President Emeritus, Dartmouth College"...one cannot help but be impressed by the drive and vigour of Lorenz's prose."—Journal of Contemporary History“This useful review of American attitudes toward international labor standards starts with World War I and the creation of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in 1919. It usefully discusses the movement toward national labor standards within the United States in the 1920s and 1930s, the U.S. failure to ratify many of the ILO conventions, and the divisions within American labor on the ILO.” —Foreign Affairs“Based on an impressive command of a wide variety of sources, this well-organized and clearly written account explains how the social gospel movement, Progressive Era reformers, academics and attorneys, feminists and consumers, and labor unions attempted to shape an international organization that could establish standards to protect workers around the world.” —Register of the Kentucky Historical Society“Defining Global Justice chronicles in an unusual and intriguing way the rise and eventual sequential transformations of the International Labor Organization....[A] novel and very interesting history of real-life battles regarding international labor standards and an important reminder that within the traditions of our profession there once thrived a strong concern about standards of human dignity.” —EH.NET“This volume is timely. Lorenz provides an insightful history of the US’s role in the development of global labor standards through the ILO. This well-written study persuasively demonstrates that ‘well-organized groups can force the policy process to consider values, other than economic efficiency, in setting economic policies.’” —Choice“As the first complete history of the ILO, this book by Edward C. Lorenz is important for its evidence, clear narrative and ... theoretical contribution.” —American Historical Review“...an intriguing story that offers insights into the evolution of international organizations and their ability to define norms of behavior. This is a valuable book in that it carefully and fully lays out the philosophical and legal arguments for labor standards and documents when they have been applied over a long period of history.”—The Journal of Economic History

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Book SynopsisTraces conflicts in Mexico over regional authority and labor-employer relations between the state and competing industrialist and labor groups in Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, and Puebla from the 1920s to the 1950s.Trade Review“Bucking the culturalist trend of much recent Mexican historiography, Gauss gives us an ambitious and cogent analysis of the postrevolutionary political economy, combining a perceptive national overview with illuminating regional case studies, the whole based on extensive original research, lucidly deployed. Among the best recent monographs on modern Mexico, the book sheds light on national politics, state-building, foreign relations, and the role of the PRI, business, and organized labor in forging the new Mexico of the postwar era.”—Alan Knight,University of Oxford“The strength of [Made in Mexico] is the author’s research in the state archives of Jalisco, Nuevo Léon, and Puebla. Gauss constructs the history of relations among the economic elites of the three main industrial areas outside the capital (Guadalajara, Monterrey, and Puebla), the state governments, and the central government in Mexico City. . . . The author is quite adept at sorting out the complex relations between the various levels of government and the three groups of regional industrialists, showing how they tied into the shifting politics and economic exigencies of the era.”—Mark Wasserman American Historical Review“Made in Mexico is a very important book that fills a number of gaps in the literature on postrevolutionary Mexico by tracing the national and regional development of the country's industrial sector. The book, which explores the conflicts among industrialists and labor leaders as well as state and federal policy makers over statist industrialism, is well written, thoroughly researched, and rests firmly on materials from Mexico City’s national depositories as well as the state archives of Jalisco, Nuevo León, and Puebla.”—John J. Dwyer Hispanic American Historical Review“The relationship between state, capital and labour has a seminal place within the scholarship of Latin America’s statist political economy. Made in Mexico adds the dynamic variable of regionalism to the literature, which provides an important revision to traditional understandings of the Mexican case. . . . Gauss’s important study . . . illustrates how divergent industrial sectors and their particular histories of capital formation, from textiles to glass-making, generated Mexico’s many paths toward statism.”—Glen David Kuecker Bulletin of Latin American ResearchTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgment Abbreviations Introduction1. The Politics of State Economic Intervention from the Revolution to the Great Depression2. “Jalisco, Open Your Arms to Industry”: Industrialism and Regional Authority in Guadalajara in the 1930s and 1940s3. The Passion and Rationalization of Mexican Industrialism: Rival Visions of State and Society in the Early 1940s4. Sowing Exclusion: Machinery, Labor, and Industrialist Authority in Puebla in the 1940s 5. The Politics of Nationalist Development in Postwar Mexico City6. Recentering the Nation: Industrial Liberty in Postrevolutionary MonterreyConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe process of emancipation and the development of wage labor in the Sudan under British colonial rule.Table of Contents List of Tables and Maps A Note on Transliteration Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Photo section Chapter 1. Slavery and Labor in Precolonial Sudan Chapter 2. Slavery and Labor in the Sudan, 1898–1919 Chapter 3. Slavery and Labor in Khartoum, 1898–1919 Chapter 4. Emancipation and the Legacy of Slavery, 1920–1956 Chapter 5. The Development of the Labor Force, 1920–1956 Chapter 6. Ex-Slaves and Workers in Khartoum, 1920–1956 Conclusion Appendices Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWe are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by LABOR in this country, a move which will leadNO ONE KNOWS WHERE! With these words echoing throughout the city, on February 6, 1919, 65,000 Seattle workers began one of the most important general strikes in US history. For six tense yet nonviolent days, the Central Labor Council negotiated with federal and local authorities on behalf of the shipyard workers whose grievances initiated the citywide walkout. Meanwhile, strikers organized to provide essential services such as delivering supplies to hospitals and markets, as well as feeding thousands at union-run dining facilities. Robert L. Friedheim's classic account of the dramatic events of 1919, first published in 1964 and now enhanced with a new introduction, afterword, and photo essay by James N. Gregory, vividly details what happened and why. Overturning conventional understandings of the American Federation of Labor as a conservative labor organization devoted to pure and si

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Book SynopsisA compelling biography of the Ghoul of Grays HarborIn the early twentieth century so many dead bodies surfaced in the rivers around Aberdeen, Washington, that they were nicknamed the floater fleet. When Billy Gohl (18731927), a powerful union official, was arrested for murder, local newspapers were quick to suggest that he was responsible for many of those deaths, perhaps even dozensthus launching the legend of the Ghoul of Grays Harbor. More than a true-crime tale, The Port of Missing Men sheds light on the lives of workers who died tragically, illuminating the dehumanizing treatment of sailors and lumber workers and the heated clashes between pro- and anti-union forces. Goings investigates the creation of the myth, exploring how so many people were willing to believe such extraordinary stories about Gohl. He shares the story of a charismatic labor leaderthe one man who could shut down the highly profitable Grays Harbor lumber tradeand provides an equally intriguing analysis of the Trade Review"Consider putting your preconceptions of Billy Gohl’s story back on the shelf and immerse yourself in this compelling new read." * The Daily World *"[P]art whodunit mystery, part biography, and part case study of Grays Harbor’s itinerant workers and their labor movement...The Port of Missing Men makes major contributions to both local history and the larger story of industrial capitalism." * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"In this thoroughly researched study of Gohl's career and trial, Aaron Goings persuasively argues that the union activist was framed by Grays Harbor elites.... The Port of Missing Men illustrates how untruths can be repeated often enough to be widely believed, and difficult to dislodge.... [Goings's] laser-like focus on this isolated deindustrialized area...reveals the interconnections between business and political leaders at the local and state level and how they marshaled repressive tactics to silence Gohl, the IWW, and others." -- Laurie Mercier * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"Goings smashes through the mythology to deliver a compelling and exciting story that is at once real crime and labor history." * H-Net *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A meticulous contribution to the oral history of an important sector of the US working class centered around the accounts of Big Bob and influential activists within the ILWU during a crucial period for organized labor." * New York Labor History Association *"In Labor Under Siege, historians Harvey Schwartz and his colleague, the late Ron Magden, have crafted an extraordinary volume of labor history and biography through skilled and meticulous use of oral history interviews...While [the book] is clearly about "Big Bob" McEllrath and why he matters in the constellation of the Union, it also serves as a useful guide to the contours of the history of the ILWU since the 1990's and how its legacy has endured." * The Dispatcher - ILWU *"The strength of Labor under Siege lies in what the author calls an oral history-based “view of how decisions were taken and policy carried out to ensure the ILWU’s sustainability during a challenging time for all of labor.”" * Beyond Chron *

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Book SynopsisFinalist in the category of Narrative Nonfiction for the 2023 IPNE Book Awards from the Independent Publishers of New EnglandWinner of the 2023 National Indie Excellence Award Biography/HistoricalWinner of the 2023 IPPY Gold West-Pacific Best Regional Nonfiction, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book AwardWinner of the 2023 Nautilus Award Silver Heroic Journeys Category, sponsored by the Nautilus Book AwardsCompelling stories and forceful voices capture a tenacious union in transitionBig Bobsix-feet-four Robert McEllrath's waterfront handlewas heralded for his powerful speaking style, charisma, unifying vision, and negotiating prowess. President of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) for twelve eventful years, McEllrath retired in 2018 after nearly forty years as a union officer. More than just a telling of a storied career, Labor under Siege explores how the influential union persisted in an era when the US labor movement was under attack and seemingly inTrade Review"A meticulous contribution to the oral history of an important sector of the US working class centered around the accounts of Big Bob and influential activists within the ILWU during a crucial period for organized labor." * New York Labor History Association *"In Labor Under Siege, historians Harvey Schwartz and his colleague, the late Ron Magden, have crafted an extraordinary volume of labor history and biography through skilled and meticulous use of oral history interviews...While [the book] is clearly about "Big Bob" McEllrath and why he matters in the constellation of the Union, it also serves as a useful guide to the contours of the history of the ILWU since the 1990's and how its legacy has endured." * The Dispatcher - ILWU *"The strength of Labor under Siege lies in what the author calls an oral history-based “view of how decisions were taken and policy carried out to ensure the ILWU’s sustainability during a challenging time for all of labor.”" * Beyond Chron *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Consider putting your preconceptions of Billy Gohl’s story back on the shelf and immerse yourself in this compelling new read." * The Daily World *"[P]art whodunit mystery, part biography, and part case study of Grays Harbor’s itinerant workers and their labor movement...The Port of Missing Men makes major contributions to both local history and the larger story of industrial capitalism." * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"In this thoroughly researched study of Gohl's career and trial, Aaron Goings persuasively argues that the union activist was framed by Grays Harbor elites.... The Port of Missing Men illustrates how untruths can be repeated often enough to be widely believed, and difficult to dislodge.... [Goings's] laser-like focus on this isolated deindustrialized area...reveals the interconnections between business and political leaders at the local and state level and how they marshaled repressive tactics to silence Gohl, the IWW, and others." -- Laurie Mercier * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"Goings smashes through the mythology to deliver a compelling and exciting story that is at once real crime and labor history." * H-Net *

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Book SynopsisThis is a rich and many-faceted personal and business biography of the main figure in the third generation of Weyerhaeusers, who led the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company through the difficult and decisive years from 1933 to 1956. Although Phil Weyerhaeuser preferred to pass over the importance of his role, he was an industry leader and as such could not escape a large public duty. The years in which he served, from the 1920s tin the Inland Empire, and from 1933 to 1956 with the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company west of the Cascades, were years of great demands and change. Within his tenure the country experience the Great Depression and World War II, the reluctant acceptance by business of New Deal and Fair Deal legislation and bureaucratic requirements, and the adjustments occasioned by the managerial revolution. In the case of the Timber Company, the period witnessed its transition from what had been primarily a dealer in timberlands to an integrated manufacturer of forest products, from a li

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Book SynopsisPresents the history of the political economy of Butte and Montana.Trade Review"Malone’s superbly crafted narrative treats the political economy of Butte and Montana from the gold boom of the 1870s through the absorption of the copper independents by the Standard Oil financed Amalgamated Copper Company in the first decade of the twentieth century. . . . The Battle for Butte is fine history: rich in detail, full of finely drawn people, masterfully clear where the subject matter is most complex, constructed to preserve something of the tone and atmosphere of the age." * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsContents Foreword to the 2006 Edition by William L. Lang Preface to the Original Edition 1. Gold Camp: The Rise and Fall of Butte City 2. Clark, Daly, and the Anaconda: 1872-84 3: The "Richest Hill on Earth" 4. Boom Town 5. Politics: The Clark-Daly Feud 6. Mr. Clark Goes to Washington 7. "Consolidation": The Amalgamated and the Independents 8. The Battle for Butte: 1901-6 9. Denouement: The Time of Transition Epilogue: The Legacy Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBefore commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, and environmentalists, had attempted to create an international regulatory framework that would allow for a sustainable whaling industry. This book provides a perspective on the challenges facing international conservation projects.Trade Review"Written with elegant prose and a wry wit, the book illuminates the many twists and turns of global whaling regulation. . . This title is an excellent resource for those desiring detailed insight." * Choice *"The geographic scale of the cooperation required to ‘save the whales’ can be hard to fathom. Kurkpatrick Dorsey understands it experientially through his exhaustive archival work; his book gives its reader the opportunity to experience it, too. . . . Whales and Nations lays the foundation of international whaling and whale conservation at its proper historical and geographic scale." -- Russell Fielding * AAG Review of Books *"This interesting and well researched [book] . . . sheds new light on how the International Whaling Commission developed, and on how it struggled." -- Bjorn Basberg * International Journal of Maritime History *"I am delighted that a book like Whales and Nations exists and that Kurkpatrick Dorsey has written it. He offers us a detailed history of the regulation of whaling from the pre–World War I era up to the present. . . . He is certainly one of the best writers of diplomatic history around." -- Karen Oslund * Environmental History *"Dorsey negotiates a daunting set of complex political, scientific, social, and cultural relationships with enough detail to sustain his points yet still have the narrative move along without too many distractions. . . . Sets a new standard for environmental historians by looking at the diplomatic interactions that tried—and failed—to conserve whale populations." -- Carmel Finley * Journal of American History *"Dorsey’s prose is careful and meticulous, and facilitates a nuanced understanding of whaling politics . . . effectively narrat[ing] the history and background of whale diplomacy in a way that should appeal to environmental historians, environmental policy researchers, diplomacy scholars, students, and even active diplomats and policymakers who are concerned with the health of the ocean and global environmental problems." -- Chie Sakakibara * Journal of Historical Geography *"Whales and Nations is a dazzling accomplishment." -- Miles A. Powell * Environment and History *Table of ContentsForeword by William Cronon Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. A Global Industry and Global Challenges 2. The Pelagic and the Political 3. World War and the World’s Whales 4. Cheaters Sometimes Prosper 5. Melting Down and Muddling Through 6. Save the Whales (for Later) 7. The End of Commercial Whaling Epilogue Appendix: Whaling Data, 1904–1965 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS) guideline provides a paradigm shift for industries that manufacture, consume, or handle chemicals focusing on new ways to design, correct, or improve process safety management practices. The book addresses the essential principles that outline safety, giving a broad overview of the subject.Trade Review"…a very comprehensive and thorough discussion of risk based process safety management systems…an invaluable reference source." (Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, January 2008) "This book is a very well-written, detailed analysis of industrial chemical plant safety. Following its guidelines, I am sure, will result in many fewer accidents in the future." (Journal of Hazardous Material, January 15, 2008)Table of ContentsList of Tables xxix List of Figures xxxi Acronyms and Abbreviations xxxiii Glossary xxxvii Acknowledgments xlvii Preface xlix Executive Summary li 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Purpose of These Guidelines 2 1.2 Background 6 1.3 Important Terminology 9 1.4 Management Systems Concepts 10 1.5 Risk Based Process Safety Elements 12 1.6 Relationship Between RBPS Elements and Work Activities 12 1.7 Application of these RBPS Guidelines 14 1.8 Organization of these Guidelines 16 1.9 References 17 2 OVERVIEW OF RISK BASED PROCESS SAFETY 19 2.1 Risk Based Process Safety System Design Strategies 22 2.2 Risk Based Process Safety Design and Improvement Criteria 24 2.3 Using Element Chapters to Design and Improve a Process Safety Management System 32 I COMMIT TO PROCESS SAFETY 37 3 PROCESS SAFETY CULTURE 39 3.1 Element Overview 40 3.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 45 3.3 Possible Work Activities 48 3.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 58 3.5 Element Metrics 62 3.6 Management Review 64 3.7 References 66 4 COMPLIANCE WITH STANDARDS 67 4 1 Element Overview 67 4.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 69 4.3 Possible Work Activities 74 4.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 81 4.5 Element Metrics 83 4.6 Management Review 84 4.7 References 86 5 PROCESS SAFETY COMPETENCY 89 5.1 Element Overview 90 5.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 93 5.3 Possible W ork Activities 100 5.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 111 5.5 Element Metrics 116 5.6 Management Review 119 5.7 References 121 6 WORKFORCE INVOLVEMENT 123 6.1 Element Overview 123 6.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 128 6.3 Possible Work Activities 131 6.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 136 6.5 Element Metrics 140 6.6 Management Review 142 6.7 References 143 7 STAKEHOLDER OUTREACH 145 7.1 Element Overview 146 7.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 148 7.3 Possible Work Activities 152 7.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 159 7.5 Element Metrics 161 7.6 Management Review 164 7.7 References 165 II UNDERSTAND HAZARDS AND RISK 167 8 PROCESS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 169 8.1 Element Overview 170 8.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 173 8.3 Possible Work Activities 186 8.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 196 8.5 Element Metrics 201 8.6 Management Review 204 8.7 References 206 9 HAZARD IDENTIFICATION AND RISK ANALYSIS 209 9.1 Element Overview 209 9.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 213 9.3 Possible Work Activities 221 9.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 229 9.5 Element Metrics 237 9.6 Management Review 240 9.7 References 242 III MANAGE RISK 10 OPERATING PROCEDURES 245 10.1 Element Overview 245 10.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 247 10.3 Possible Work Activities 260 10.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 273 10.5 Element Metrics 279 10.6 Management Review 282 10.7 References 283 11 SAFE WORK PRACTICES 285 11.1 Element Overview 285 11.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 288 11.3 Possible Work Activities 298 11.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 307 11.5 Element Metrics 312 11.6 Management Review 314 11.7 References 316 12 ASSET INTEGRITY AND RELIABILITY 317 12.1 Element Overview 318 12.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 320 12.3 Possible Work Activities 335 12.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 352 12.5 Element Metrics 359 12.6 Management Review 361 12.7 References 363 13 CONTRACTOR MANAGEMENT 365 13.1 Element Overview 365 13.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 368 13.3 Possible Work Activities 377 13.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 385 13.5 Element Metrics 390 13.6 Management Review 391 13.7 References 393 14 TRAINING AND PERFORMANCE ASSURANCE 395 14.1 Element Overview 395 14.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 398 14.3 Possible Work Activities 406 14.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 414 14.5 Element Metrics 417 14.6 Management Review 420 14.7 References 421 15 MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE 423 15.1 Element Overview 423 15.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 426 15.3 Possible Work Activities 431 15.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 440 15.5 Element Metrics 445 15.6 Management Review 447 15.7 References 448 16 OPERATIONAL READINESS 449 16.1 Element Overview 449 16.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 452 16.3 Possible Work Activities 456 16.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 462 16.5 Element Metrics 464 16.6 Management Review 465 16.7 References 467 17 CONDUCT OF OPERATIONS 469 17.1 Element Overview 469 17.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 471 17.3 Possible Work Activities 484 17.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 498 17.5 Element Metrics 502 17.6 Management Review 506 17.7.References 508 18 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 509 18.1 Element Overview 510 18.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 513 18.3 Possible Work Activities 526 18.4.Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 541 18.5 Element Metrics 543 18.6 Management Review 545 18.7 References 547 IV LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE 549 19 INCIDENT INVESTIGATION 551 19.1 Element Overview 552 19.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 556 19.3Possible Work Activities 563 19.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Efficiency and Effectiveness 575 19.5 Element Metrics 580 19.6 Management Review 582 19.7 References 584 20 MEASUREMENT AND METRICS 585 20.1 Element Overview 585 20.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 588 20.3 Possible Work Activities 590 20.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 594 20.5 Element Metrics 595 20.6 Management Review 597 20.7 References 598 21 AUDITING 599 21.1 Element Overview 599 21.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 602 21.3 Possible Work Activities 615 21.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 622 21.5 Element Metrics 626 21.6 Management Review 628 21.7 References 629 22 MANAGEMENT REVIEW AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT 631 22.1 Element Overview 631 22.2 Key Principles and Essential Features 634 22.4 Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness 644 22.5 Element Metrics and Indications 646 22.6 Management Review 647 22.7 References 647 23 IMPLEMENTATION 649 23.1 Reasons to Implement a Risk-based Process Safety Management System 650 20.2 First Steps Toward Implementation 651 20.3 Start with RBPS Elements that Provide the Greatest Risk Benefit to Your Facility 653 20.4 Implementation Examples 656 20.5 Other Applications 680 20.6 Conclusions 681 20.7 References 682 24 THE FUTURE 683 Index 689 LIST OF TABLES TABLE S.l. Risk Based Process Safety Elements liv TABLE 1.1. Possible Causes of Process Safety Management Performance Stagnation 2 TABLE 1.2. RBPS Management System Accident Prevention Pillars 3 TABLE 1 3. CCPS Guidelines and Tools for Chemical Process Safety Management 7 TABLE 1.4. North American Industry Process Safety Management Initiatives 7 TABLE 1.5. Partial List of Worldwide Governmental Accident Prevention and Process Safety Management Initiatives 8 TABLE 1.6. Some Factors that Motivated the CCPS RBPS Project 9 TABLE 1.7. Important Issues to Address in a Process Safety Management System 11 TABLE 1.8. Comparison of RBPS Elements to Original CCPS PSM Elements 13 TABLE 1.9. Generic Work Breakdown Structure for the RBPS System 14 TABLE 2.1. Process Safety Accident Prevention Principles and Associated RBPS Elements 24 TABLE 2.2. Examples of How Risk Affects Implementation of RBPS Work Activities 31 TABLE 2 3. Advice on Using these Guidelines to Meet Specific User Needs 33 TABLE 3.1. Culture as a Determinant of Process Risk Control Attitudes and Practices 41 TABLE 4.1. Examples and Sources of Process Safety Related Standards, Codes, Regulations, and Laws 71 TABLE 6.1. UK HSE Workforce Involvement Suggestions 127 TABLE 8.1. Typical Types of Process Knowledge 176 TABLE 9.1. Example Issues that Can Be Addressed at Various Life Cycle Stages 233 TABLE 10.1. Procedure Formats 253 TABLE 11.1. Activities Typically Included in the Scope of the Safe Work Element 290 TABLE 13.1. Safety Program and Performance Information Useful in Evaluating Potential Contractors 372 TABLE 22.1. Example Schedule for Management Reviews 636 TABLE 23.1. RBPS Implementation Options for Upgrading Operating Procedures 659 TABLE 23.2. RBPS Implementation Options for Implementing the Conduct of Operations Element 665 TABLE 23.3. RBPS Implementation Options for Fixing a Deficient MOC System 671 TABLE 23.4. Using RBPS to Develop and Implement a New Process Safety Management System 678 LIST OF FIGURES FIGURE 2.1. Evolution of Process Safety and Accident/Loss Prevention Strategies 19 FIGURE 9.1. Levels of Hazard Evaluation and Risk Assessment 211 FIGURE 9.2. Typical Qualitative Risk Analysis Documentation Form 213 FIGURE 9.3. Example Risk Matrix 216 FIGURE 14.1. Training System Tasks 399 FIGURE 19.1. Incident Investigation Flowchart 553 FIGURE 19.2. Incident Investigation Levels of Analysis 555 FIGURE 23.1. A Risk-based Approach to Identifying Which RBPS Elements to Implement 655

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Book SynopsisIt is crucial for process safety professionals to be aware of best practices for post merger integration at any level. A compilation of industry best practices from both technical and financial perspectives, this book provides a single reference that addresses acquisitions and merger integration issues related to process safety.Table of ContentsExecutive Summary 1 Why this Guideline? 1 Chapter 1 An Overview of Process Safety 3 Chapter 2 The Merger and Acquisition Process 5 Chapter 3 Screening Potential Candidates 7 Chapter 4 The Due Diligence Phase 9 Chapter 5 Developing the Integration Plan 13 Chapter 6 Implementing the Integration Plan 18 Chapter 7 M&A In The Future 22 The Appendices 24 1 An Overview of Process Safety 27 1.0 Courtney's story – continued 27 1.1 Why this Guideline? 28 1.2 Understanding the basics 31 1.3 Hazard versus Risk - Is there a Difference? 32 1.4 Good Injury Rate Does Not Equal Good Process Safety Performance 34 1.5 Understand the Hazards of Chemicals Handled on Site 36 1.6 Don’t forget about the Dust Explosion Hazard 40 1.7 Unique Considerations at Facilities that Handle HHCS 41 1.8 Resources for Process Safety 43 2 The Merger and Acquisition Process 47 2.0 Courtney’s story – continued 47 2.1 Changing World of Corporate Profiles 48 2.2 Overview of the M&A Process 49 2.3 Scalability (big/small; single site verse multiple site deals) 52 2.4 Key Terms and Concepts 53 2.5 Process Safety in the M&A process 57 2.6 Financial Strategists can have high impact on process safety systems 60 3 Screening Potential Candidates 63 3.0 Courtney’s story – continued 63 3.1 Using Public Domain Information for Screening 64 3.2 Using a Checklist to Identify Potential Process Safety Issues 74 4 The Due Diligence Phase 77 4.0 Courtney’s story – continued 77 4.1 Introduction 78 4.2 The Divestment Due Diligence 81 4.2.1 The Checklist 82 4.2.2 The Internet and Intranet Searches 82 4.2.3 Pre-site Visit Review 83 4.2.4 The Due Diligence Site Visit and Document Review 84 4.2.5 Vendor Due Diligence Report 87 4.2.6 Valuation 89 4.2.7 Data Room 91 4.2.8 Question and Answer Management 94 4.2.9 Reverse Due Diligence 96 4.2.10 Did the Deal Close? 114 4.3 The Acquisition 4.3.1 The Internet Search and Initial Data Gathering 99 4.3.2 Vendor Due Diligence Report 100 4.3.3 Data Room 100 4.3.4 Due Diligence Valuation for Bid 103 4.3.5 Pre-site Review 104 4.3.6 The Site Visit and Document Review 107 4.3.7 Due Diligence Report and Valuation 110 4.4 Did the Deal Close? 5 Developing the Integration Plan 117 5.0 Courtney’s story – continued 117 5.1 Developing the Integration Plan and Process 118 5.1.1 Step 1- Establishing the Boundaries for the Integration Process (i.e. Establishing the Integration Strategy) 120 5.1.2 Step 2 - Establishing the Expectations for the Process Safety Program 124 5.1.3 Step 3 - The Process Safety Integration Team 127 5.1.4 Step 4 - Assessing the Gap between the Current Approach and Expectations 131 5.1.5 Step 5 - Developing the Action Plan 136 6 Implementing the Integration Plan 6.0 Courtney’s story – continued 153 6.1 A Generic Change Model 154 6.2 The Integration Path Forward 160 6.2.1 Step 1 - Get the 'hearts’ of the newly acquired business leads to accept the Vision and Strategy for the integration process 160 6.2.2 Step 2 - Appointing and chartering Integration Implementation Teams 161 6.3 An Alternate Bottom-Up Approach to Integration 175 6.4 Differences Between Facilities, Business Units 178 6.5 Step 3 - Working Through the Implementation Itself 179 7 M&A in the Future 185 7.0 Courtney’s story – continued 185 The Appendices 193 Appendix A – M&A Process Safety Checklist 193 M&A P.S. Checklist – Commercial Evaluation Phase 194 M&A P.S. Checklist – The M&A Team 201 M&A P.S. Checklist – Data Room Information 203 M&A P.S. Checklist – Planning the Site Visits 217 M&A P.S. - Issues to Be Investigated During the Site Visits 219 M&A P.S. Checklist - Process Safety Issues to Be Considered 235 M&A P.S. Checklist - Assessing Major Hazard Risks 241 M&A P.S. Checklist - Process Safety Management & Culture 245 M&A P.S. Checklist - Process Safety Staffing Issues 253 M&A P.S. Checklist - Hazard Identification Issues to Evaluate 255 M&A P.S. Checklist – Management of Change Issues to Investigate 257 M&A P.S. Checklist - Mechanical Integrity Issues to Investigate 261 M&A PS Checklist – Process Safety Issues to Examine 265 M&A PS Checklist - Process Safety Procedures to Examine 267 M&A P.S. Checklist – P.S. Audit Issues to Consider 271 Appendix B – An Exemplar Integration Plan & Budget 273 Guidance for Using the Plan and Budget Spreadsheets 275 An Exemplar Integration Plan 279 Exemplar Integration Budget 301 References 309 Index 313

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Book SynopsisThis book helps advance process safety in a key area of interest. Currently, no literature exists which is solely dedicated to process safety for the bioprocessing industry. There are texts, guidelines, and standards on biosafety at the laboratory level and for industrial hygiene, but no guidelines for large-scale production facilities.Table of ContentsList of Tables xi List of Figures xiii Items on the Web Accompanying This Book xv Acknowledgements xvii Preface xix 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Bioprocess Engineering Information Transfer and Management Practices 3 1.2 The Need for Bioprocess Safety Management Systems 7 1.2.2 Bioprocessing Incidents and Releases 8 1.3 Our Target Audience 14 1.4 How to use this Guideline 15 2 AN OVERVIEW OF THE BIOPROCESSING INDUSTRY 17 2.1 Bioprocessing’s History 17 2.1.1 Bioprocessing’s Historical Advancement 18 2.1.1.1 Microbiological Advancements 18 2.1.1.2 Food Science and Food Process Technology Advancements 19 2.1.1.3 Genetic Advancements 19 2.1.1.4 Future Bioprocessing Developments 20 2.2 Industrial Applications 20 2.2.1 Processes 21 2.2.2 Products 21 2.3 The Bioprocess Lifecycle 22 2.3.1 Discovery 23 2.3.2 Development Phase: Laboratory and Pilot Plant 23 2.3.3 Scale-up Phase 24 2.3.4 Upstream Operations and Downstream Operations 26 2.3.4.1 Inoculation / Seed and Production Biosafety Containment and Production Risk 27 2.3.4.2 Fermentation / Cell Culture 31 2.3.4.3 Scale of Manufacturing 36 2.3.5 General Biosafety Recommendations for Large Scale Work 38 2.3.5.1 Facility Design 39 2.3.5.2 Equipment Design 39 2.3.5.3 Cleaning, Inactivation, and Sterilization 41 2.3.5.4 Maintenance 42 2.3.5.5 Air and Gas Emissions 42 2.3.5.6 Waste Handling 42 2.3.5.7 Accidental Release 43 2.3.6 Product Safety Information 43 2.3.6.1 Product Handling 44 2.3.6.2 Material Disposal 44 2.3.63 Disposable Process Technology 44 2.3.7 Outsourced Manufacturing Concerns 45 3 BIOPROCESSING SAFETY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES 47 3.1 Sample Approach 48 3.1.2 Develop and Document a System to Manage Bioprocess Safety Hazards 50 3.1.3 Appoint a Biological Safety Officer 50 3.1.4 Collect Bioprocess Hazard Information 51 3.1.5 Identify Bioprocess Safety Hazards 51 3.1.5.1 Point of Decision 51 3.1.6 Assess Bioprocess Safety Risks and Assign Bioprocess Safety Hazard Level 52 3.1.7 Identify Bioprocess Controls and Risk Management Options 52 3.1.8 Document Bioprocess Safety Hazard Risks and Management Decisions 53 3.1.9 Communicate and Train on Bioprocess Safety Hazards 53 3.1.10 Investigate & Learn from Bioprocess Incidents 53 3.1.11 Review, Audit, Manage Change, and Improve Hazard Management Practices and Program 54 3.2 Existing Management Systems 54 3.2.1 Product Stewardship for Byproducts 61 3.3 Establishing a Bioprocess Safety Management System 62 3.3.1 Select a Management System Model Based Upon Your Needs 63 3.3.2 Identifying the Elements that Apply to Your Operations 64 3.3.3 Establish a Review and Approval Cycle for the Documents 65 3.3.4 Rolling Out the Management System to the Users 66 3.4 Biosafety Training for the Workforce 67 3.5 Investigating Incidents 69 3.5.1 A Generic Procedure for Initial Biohazard Incident Response 71 3.6 Managing Change 75 3.7 Reviewing and Auditing for Continuous Improvement 76 3.8 Applying Behavior-Based Safety to Bioprocesses 76 4.IDENTIFYING BIOPROCESS HAZARDS 79 4.1 Key Considerations for Assessing Risk to Manage Bioprocess Safety 79 4.1.1 Testing for Bioactivity 79 4.1.2 Non-biological Hazards 80 4.2 Bioprocess Risk Assessment 80 4.2.1 Three Types of Assessment 80 4.2.2 Agent Considerations 80 4.2.3 Process Considerations 81 4.2.4 Environmental Considerations 82 4.2.5 Microorganisms 83 4.3 Recombinant Organisms 85 4.4 Cell Culture 86 5 BIOPROCESS DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS AND UNIT OPERATIONS 89 5.1 Physical Plant Design 89 5.1.1 Architectural Aspects 90 5.1.1.1 Finishes and Materials 90 5.1.1.2 Layout Strategies 91 5.1.1.3 People and Material Flow 94 5.1.1.4 Non-bio logical Hazards 94 5.1.1.5 Seismic and Building Loads 96 5.1.1.6 Hardened Construction 97 5.1.1.7 Equipment Mezzanines and Subfloors 97 5.1.1.8 Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Aspects 98 (a) Supply and Exhaust Systems 98 (b) Special Exhaust Stream Mitigation 100 (c) HVAC Issues from a Biosafety Perspective 101 (d) Microenvironments 103 (e) Cascading Pressure Differentials 105 (f) Containment versus Clean Room Environments 107 5.1.1.9 Waste and Waste Treatment 109 5.1.1.10 Process Support Systems: High Purity Water 112 5.1.1.11 Process Support Systems: Hand Washing Sinks and Personnel showers 112 5.1.2 Plant Siting Issues 113 5.1.2.1 Zoning & Permitting 113 5.1.2.2 Regional Environmental Agencies and Environmental Impact Reports 113 5.1.2.3 Building and Site Security 114 5.2 Bioprocess Unit Operations 116 5.2.1 General Equipment Design Considerations 117 5.2.2 Closed-System Design 118 5.2.2.2 Impact on Operations 123 5.2.3 Upstream Equipment and Facility Design 124 5.2.3.1 Additional Upstream Design Considerations 124 5.2.3.2 Equipment and Facility Integration 127 5.2.3.3 Production Segregation and Flows 127 5.2.3.4 Segregation from a Biosafety Perspective 129 5.2.3.5 Cleaning the Equipment 130 5.2.4.1 Harvest and Recovery 134 5.2.4.2 Centrifugation 134 5.2.4.3 Filtration 135 5.2.4.4 Chromatography 137 5.2.5 Facility Support Issues 139 5.2.6 Biosafety for Personnel: SOP, Protocols, and PPE 140 6 THE EFFECTS OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGY ON BIOPROCESSING RISK MANAGEMENT 143 6.1 Researching and Staying Informed 143 6.1.1 Biopharmaceutical 144 6.1 .1 .1 Drug Discovery and Development 144 6.1.1.2 Gene-based Pharmaceuticals 144 6.1.1.3 Drug Delivery Research 146 6.1.2 Renewable-resources 147 6.1.3 Environmental 148 6.1.3.1 Bioprocessing and Waste Management 148 6.2 Communicating the Impacts of New Technology 149 6.2.1 Industry (Communication at Your Site) 150 APPENDIX A - REFERENCES & SELECTED REGULATIONS 153 APPENDIX B - LARGE SCALE BIOSAFETY GUIDELINES 161 APPENDIX C - A GENERIC LABORATORY/LARGE SCALE BIOSAFETY CHECKLIST 177 APPENDIX D - BIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE & BIOPROCESS SAFETY CHECKLIST 179 APPENDIX E - BIOPROCESS FACILITY AUDIT CHECKLIST 189 APPENDIX F - DIRECTIVE 2000/54/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL 199 APPENDIX G - COMPARISON OF GOOD LARGE SCALE PRACTICE (GLSP) AND BIOSAFETY LEVEL (BL) - LARGE SCALE (LS) PRACTICE 203 GLOSSARY 209 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS 217 INDEX 221

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses the fundamental skills, techniques, and tools of auditing, and the characteristics of a good process safety management system. A variety of approaches are given so the reader can select the best methodology for a given audit. This book updates the original CCPS Auditing Guideline project since the implementation of OSHA PSM regulation, and is accompanied by an online download featuring checklists for both the audit program and the audit itself. This package offers a vital resource for process safety and process development personnel, as well as related professionals like insurers.Table of ContentsAcronyms. Glossary. Acknowledgements. Preface. User’s Guide to the Second Edition. Executive Summary. Introduction. Guidance for Chapter 3-24. Process Safety Management Audit Programs. 1.1 Process Safety Management (PSM) Audits and Programs. 1.2 PSM Audit Program Scope. 1.3 PSM Audit Program Guidance. 1. 4 PSM Audit Frequency and Scheduling. 1.5 PSM Audit Staffing. 1.6 Certification of Auditors. 1.7 PSM Audit Criteria and Protocols. 1.8 Audit Reporting. 1.9 Audit Follow-up. 1.10 Quality Assurance. 1.11 Summary. Conducting Process Safety Management Program Audits. 2.1 Audit Planning. 2.2 On-site Audit Activities. 2.3 Gathering, Recording, and Evaluating Audit Data and Information. 2.4 Post-Audit Activities. 2.5 Summary. PSM Applicability. 3.1 Overview. 3.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 3.3 Audit Protocol. Process Safety Culture. 4.1 Overview. 4.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 4.3 Posing Questions to Audit Process Safety Culture. 4.4 Audit Protocol. Compliance with Standards. 5.1 Overview. 5.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 5.3 Audit Protocol. Process Safety Competency. 6.1 Overview. 6.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 6.3 Audit Protocol. Workforce Involvement. 7.1 Overview. 7.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 7.3 Audit Protocol. Stakeholder Outreach. 8.1 Overview. 8.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 8.3 Audit Protocol. Process Knowledge Management. 9.1 Overview. 9.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 9.3 Audit Protocol. Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis. 10.1 Overview. 10.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 103. Audit Protocol. Operating Procedures. 11.1 Overview. 11.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 11.3 Audit Protocol. Safe Work Practices. 12.1 Overview. 12.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 12.3 Audit Protocol. Asset Integrity and Reliability. 13.1 Overview. 13.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 13.3 Audit Protocol. Contractor Management. 14.1 Overview. 14.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 14.3 Audit Protocol. Training and Performance Assurance. 15.1 Overview. 15.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 15.3 Audit Protocol. Management of Change. 16.1 Overview. 16.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 16.3 Audit Protocol. Operational Readiness. 17.1 Overview. 17.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 17.3 Audit Protocol. Conduct of Operations. 18.1 Overview. 18.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 18.3 Audit Protocol. Emergency Management. 19.1 Overview. 19.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 19.3 Audit Protocol. Incident Investigation. 20.1 Overview. 20.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 20.3 Audit Protocol. Measurement and Metrics. 21.1 Overview. 21.2 Related Criteria. 21.3 Voluntary Consensus PSM Programs. 21.4 Audit Protocol. Auditing. 22.1 Overview. 22.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 22.3 Audit Protocol. Management Review and Continuous Improvement. 23.1 Overview. 23.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 23.3 Voluntary Consensus PSM Programs. 23.4 Audit Protocol. Risk Management Programs. 24.1 Overview. 24.2 Audit Criteria and Guidance. 24.3 Audit Protocol. Appendices. Appendix A: PSM Audit Protocol. Appendix B: PSM Audit Report Templates. Appendix C: Sample PSM Audit Certifications. Appendix D: PSM Audit Plan Templates. Appendix E: Interview Questions for Nonmanagement Personnel. Appendix F: PSM Audit Planning Questionnaire. Appendix G: Integrated Contingency Plan (ICP) Audit Protocol. Appendix H: International PSM Audits. Appendix I: PSM Audit Dilemmas. Appendix J: PSM Audits During Mergers and Acquisitions. Index.

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Book SynopsisLiquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is the only viable way to extract and transport natural gas from areas not serviceable by a pipeline, but it also poses safety risks. This book examines the safety concerns regarding LNG, and examines the debate between its advocates and its opponents.Table of ContentsPreface. 1 LNG Properties and Overview of Hazards. 1.1 LNG Properties. 1.2 Hazards of LNG with Respect to Public Risk. 1.3 Risk Analysis Requires Adequate Modeling. 1.4 Flammability. 1.5 Regulations in Siting Onshore LNG Import Terminals. 1.6 Regulation for Siting Offshore LNG Import Terminals. 1.7 Controversial Claims of LNG Opponents. 2 LNG Incidents and Marine History. 2.1 LNG Ship Design History. 2.2 Designs and Issues—First Commercial LNG Ships. 2.3 LNG Trade History. 2.4 LNG Accident History. 2.5 Summary of LNG History and Relevant Technical Developments. 3 Current LNG Carriers. 3.1 Design Requirements. 3.2 Membrane Tanks. 3.3 Moss Spheres. 4 Risk Analysis and Risk Reduction. 4.1 Background. 4.2 Risk Analysis Process. 4.3 Frequency: Data Sources and Analysis. 4.4 Frequency: Predictive Methods. 4.5 Consequence Modeling. 4.6 Ignition Probability. 4.7 Risk Results. 4.8 Special Issues—Terrorism. 4.9 Risk Reduction and Mitigation Measures for LNG. 5 LNG Discharge on Water. 5.1 Type 1—Above Water Breaches at Sea. 5.2 Type 2—At Waterline Breaches at Sea. 5.3 Type 3—Below Waterline Breaches at Sea. 5.4 Discharges from Ship's Pipework. 5.5 Cascading Failures at Sea. 5.6 Initial Discharge Rate. 5.7 Time-Dependent Discharge (Blowdown). 5.8 Vacuum Breaking and Glug-Glug Effects. 6 Risk Analysis for Onshore Terminals and Transport. 6.1 Typical Basis for LNG Receiving Terminal. 6.2 Features of LNG Receiving Terminals. 6.3 Standards for Receiving Terminal Design. 6.4 U.S. Guidelines and Regulations for Receiving Terminals. 6.5 European Regulations for LNG Receiving Terminals. 6.6 Empirical Formula for Required Land Area of Terminal. 6.7 Leak in Loading Arm or in Storage Tank. 6.8 Rollover. 6.9 LNG Land Transport Risk. 6.10 Offshore LNG Terminals. 7 LNG Pool Modeling. 7.1 Flashing and Droplet Evaporation in Jet Flow. 7.2 Pool Spread and Evaporation Modeling. 7.3 Rapid Phase Transition Explosions. 7.4 Aerosol Drop Size. 7.5 Heat Balance Terms to LNG Pool. 7.6 Nomenclature. 8 Vapor Cloud Dispersion Modeling. 8.1 Atmospheric Transport Processes. 8.2 Model Types. 8.3 LNG Dispersion Test Series. 8.4 Factors Affecting Plume Length. 8.5 Effect of Wind, Currents, and Waves on LNG Plume. 8.6 Comparison of Dispersion Model Predictions. 8.7 Descriptions of Dispersion Test Series. 8.8 Vapor Intrusion Indoors. 8.9 Theoretical Basis for Suppression of Turbulence. 9 LNG Pool Fire Modeling. 9.1 Types of Fires from LNG Facilities. 9.2 The Challenge for Pool Fire Modeling. 9.3 Pool Fire Characteristics. 9.4 Summary of LNG Fire Experiments. 9.5 Burning Rate Data and Correlations From Fire Tests. 9.6 Point Source Fire Model. 9.7 Solid Flame Models: Flame Length Correlations. 9.8 Flame Tilt Correlations. 9.9 Flame Drag Near Pools. 9.10 Sep Correlations and Smoke Shielding. 9.11 Atmospheric Transmissivity. 9.12 Trench Fires. 9.13 View Factors. 9.14 CFD Modeling. 9.15 Comparison of Model Predictions. 9.16 Fire Engulfment of LNG Carrier. 10 Other LNG Hazards. 10.1 Fire and Explosion Scenarios. 10.2 Jet Fires. 10.3 Flash Fires. 10.4 BLEVEs, Fireballs. 10.5 LNG Vapor Cloud Explosions. 10.6 Asphyxiation and Cryogenic Hazard from LNG Spills. 11 Fire Effects. 11.1 Fire Radiation Effects on Individuals. 11.2 Effects of Thermal Radiation on Property. 12 Research Needs. 12.1 Uncertainties. 12.2 Recommendations of GAO Survey. 12.3 LNG Model Evaluation Protocols (MEPs). 12.4 Special Topics. 12.5 Conclusions. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first step-by-step guide on getting selected and approved for OSHA's Voluntary Protection Program (VPP). Approval into VPP is OSHA's official recognition of companies with exemplary occupational safety and health programs.Table of ContentsForeword ix Preface xi 1 What are the Voluntary Protection Programs? 1 2 The Business Case for VPP 29 3 Preparing an OSHA VPP Application 47 4 Management Leadership and Employee Involvement 201 5 Work-Site Analysis 225 6 Hazard Prevention and Control 249 7 Safety and Health Training 295 8 The OSHA Onsite VPP Evaluation 313 9 Postevaluation Activities 363 10 VPP Reapproval 381 11 VPP Resources 399 Index 407

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Book SynopsisAccording to the U.S. Department of Labor, nearly 6,000 workers were killed on the job in 2006.Table of ContentsFigures, Tables, and Exhibits xi Introduction xv Acknowledgments xix The Authors xxi The Contributors xxiii Part One Public Health Prevention Focus 1 1 History and Importance of Public Health 3 A Brief History of U.S. Public Health 4 Healthy People 2010 8 Responsibilities of Public Health 11 Public Health Accomplishments 11 Emphasis on Prevention Not Control 14 Public Health and Occupational Health 16 Summary 25 Key Terms 25 Questions for Discussion 25 2 Epidemiology of Occupational Safety and Health 27 Introduction to Epidemiology 28 Surveillance Systems 31 Epidemiology Studies 33 Health Hazard Evaluations 35 Public Health Systems in the Workplace 37 Chronic Disease Epidemiology in the Workplace 38 Summary 39 Key Terms 39 Questions for Discussion 39 Part Two Occupational Safety and Health 41 3 History and Importance of Occupational Safety and Health 43 Health, Disease, and Prevention 48 The Role for Public Health 51 Summary 54 Key Terms 55 Questions for Discussion 55 4 Occupational Injuries 57 Epidemiology of Injuries 58 The Case for an Epidemiological Approach 59 Epidemiology of Accidents 66 Epidemiology of Violence 68 Surveillance Systems for Occupational Injuries 69 Surveillance Results 70 Injury Prevention Programs 73 Future Challenges 77 Summary 78 Key Terms 80 Questions for Discussion 80 5 Compliance versus Prevention 81 OSHA Standards Development 84 The Inspection Process 88 Compliance or Prevention 90 Prevention of Cumulative Problems 93 Summary 93 Key Terms 93 Questions for Discussion 93 Part Three Public Health Issues in Occupational Safety and Health 95 6 Toxicology 97 Application to Occupational Epidemiology 98 Subdisciplines in Toxicology 99 Classification of Toxic Agents 100 Environmental Tobacco Smoke 103 Risk Assessment 104 Toxicology Case Studies 105 Toxin Regulation and Research 105 Summary 108 Key Terms 109 Questions for Discussion 109 7 Stress 111 Stress Basics 112 Workplace Characteristics and Stress 116 Organizational Response to Stress 117 When to Get Help 122 Summary 122 Key Terms 122 Questions for Discussion 123 8 The Impaired Employee 125 Drug Use Frequency and Demographics 127 Epidemiology of Addiction 129 Substances Often Abused 134 Drug-Free Workplaces and EAPs 136 Summary 140 Key Terms 140 Questions for Discussion 141 9 Wellness Programs 143 Chronic Diseases in the Workplace 145 The Value of Wellness Programs 146 Addressing Obesity and Nutrition 147 Addressing Physical Inactivity 151 Addressing Tobacco Use 153 Developing Comprehensive Health Programs 155 The Role for Public Health 157 Summary 159 Key Terms 160 Questions for Discussion 160 10 Emergency Response Planning 161 Definitions 162 Emergency Management Planning Steps 162 Terrorism and Bioterrorism 164 Workplace Preparedness for Terrorism 167 CDC’s Strategic Workplace Plan 168 Applying Epidemiology to Preparedness 168 Applying an Information Model to Preparedness 174 Involving OSHA and NIOSH in Planning 175 Summary 176 Key Terms 177 Questions for Discussion 177 11 Ergonomics 179 Two Approaches: Broad and Narrow 181 Ergonomists’ Roles and Experience 187 Few Absolute Limits 188 Cumulative Trauma Disorders 189 The Industrial Athlete 195 Summary 198 Key Terms 198 Questions for Discussion 198 12 Communicable Diseases 199 Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases 200 Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases 202 Tuberculosis 203 Hepatitis 204 HIV and AIDS 207 Influenza 208 Emerging Infections 209 Summary 213 Key Terms 213 Questions for Discussion 214 13 Vision and Hearing Issues 215 Protecting Vision in the Workplace 216 Protecting Hearing in the Workplace 223 Summary 231 Key Terms 232 Questions for Discussion 232 14 Occupational Health Disparities 233 Disparate Populations 234 How Do Health Disparities Persist? 251 Future Trends in Health Disparities 256 Summary 257 Key Terms 258 Questions for Discussion 258 Part Four Evaluation and Leadership Issues in Prevention 259 15 Economic Impacts of Prevention 261 Premature Mortality 262 Employer Health Insurance Costs 262 The Purposes of Economic Evaluation 264 The Burden of Injury and Illness 264 Types of Economic Analysis 266 Target Areas for Evaluation 268 Summary 276 Key Terms 277 Questions for Discussion 277 16 Impacts of Leadership and Culture 279 Using Vision and Management Skills 282 Using Power Effectively 284 Exercising Transformational Leadership 286 Changing the Process of Work 287 Motivating Employees 287 Building a Culture 288 Empowering Workers 290 Improving Team Effectiveness 291 Summary 292 Key Terms 292 Questions for Discussion 292 References 293 Index 313

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