Labour category: 1663 books
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Winner of the California Book Award
A searching portrait of an iconic figure long shrouded in myth by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of an acclaimed history of Chavez's movement.
Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched...
Los Alamos
A Whistleblower's Diary
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“They kept telling me to keep my mouth shut.†The first atom bomb, detonated in 1945, marked the start of a new age . . . and the world’s introduction to Los Alamos. But at the renowned nuclear weapons facility nothing’s more dangerous than speaking the truth.Growing up...
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)
My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
In 1995, in the first contested election in the history ofthe AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presidency of the nation’s largest laborfederation, promising renewal and resurgence. Today, less than 7 percent ofAmerican private-sector workers belong to a union, the lowest percentage sincethe beginning...
Blue and Green
The Drive for Justice at America's Port
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation's largest port.
In Blue and Green, Scott Cummings examines a campaign by the labor and environmental movements to transform trucking at America's largest port in Los Angeles....
The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor
The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2007
A CIA-connected labor union, an assassination attempt, a mysterious car crash, listening devices, and stolen documents--everything you'd expect from the latest thriller. Yet, this was the reality of Tony Mazzocchi, the Rachel Carson of the U.S. workplace; a dynamic labor leader whose legacy lives...
The Retail Revolution
How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
The definitive account of how a small Ozarks company upended the world of business and what that change means
Wal-Mart, the world's largest company, roared out of the rural South to change the way business is done. Deploying computer-age technology, Reagan-era politics, and Protestant evangelism,...
The Utopia of Rules
On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And...
by Steven Greenhouse
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Why, in the world's most affluent nation, are so many corporations squeezing their employees dry? In this fresh, carefully researched book, New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse explores the economic, political, and social trends that are transforming America's workplaces, including the decline...
The Power of a Single Number
A Political History of GDP
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Widely used since the mid-twentieth century, GDP (gross domestic product) has become the world's most powerful statistical indicator of national development and progress. Practically all governments adhere to the idea that GDP growth is a primary economic target, and while criticism of this measure...
Beyond $15
Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The inside story of the first successful $15 minimum wage campaign that renewed a national labor movement
With captivating narrative and insightful commentary, labor organizer Jonathan Rosenblum reveals the inside story of the first successful fight for a $15 minimum wage, which renewed a national...
by Diego Morales, Victoria Basualdo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 29, 2016
¿En qué momento un problema se vuelve finalmente visible en la esfera pública, en la agenda de los políticos y los medios? ¿Debe mediar un acontecimiento desgraciado o trágico para que esto suceda? Entre las cuestiones preocupantes que han permanecido largo tiempo fuera de la discusión, la...
Shadowbosses
Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
SHADOWBOSSES reads like an organized crime novel, but it's actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political process. This compelling and insightful book exposes how unions have organized federal, state, and local government employees without their...
by Philip Dray
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience.
In this stirring new history, Philip Dray...
Do What You Love
And Other Lies About Success & Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The American claim that we should love and be passionate about our job may sound uplifting, or at least, harmless, but Do What You Love exposes the tangible damages such rhetoric has leveled upon contemporary society.
Virtue and capital have always been twins in the capitalist, industrialized...