Ilr Press imprint: 133 books
Shopping for Change
Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Consuming with a conscience is one of the fastest growing forms of political participation worldwide. Every day we make decisions about how to spend our money and, for the socially conscious, these decisions matter. Political consumers "buy green" for the environment or they "buy pink" to combat breast...
by Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, Alexander J. S. Colvin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to collective bargaining and labor relations with a focus on developments in the United States. It is appropriate for students, policy analysts, and labor relations professionals including unionists, managers, and neutrals. A three-tiered strategic...
Nursing against the Odds
How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the United States and throughout the industrialized world, just as the population of older and sicker patients is about to explode, we have a major shortage of nurses. Why are so many RNs dropping out of health care's largest profession? How will the lack of skilled, experienced caregivers affect...
by Saru Jayaraman
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
"Sustainability is about contributing to a society that everybody benefits from, not just going organic because you don't want to die from cancer or have a difficult pregnancy. What is a sustainable restaurant? It's one in which as the restaurant grows, the people grow with it."-from Behind...
Class Lives
Stories from across Our Economic Divide
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Class Lives is an anthology of narratives dramatizing the lived experience of class in America. It includes forty original essays from authors who represent a range of classes, genders, races, ethnicities, ages, and occupations across the United States. Born into poverty, working class, the middle...
Retirement on the Line
Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
In an era when people live longer and want (or need) to work past the traditional retirement age, the Vita Needle Company of Needham, Massachusetts, provides inspiration and important lessons about the value of older workers. Vita Needle is a family-owned factory that was founded in 1932 and makes...
The Next Crash
How Short-Term Profit Seeking Trumps Airline Safety
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
If you are one of over 700 million passengers who will fly in America this year, you need to read this book. The Next Crash offers a shocking perspective on the aviation industry by a former United Airlines pilot. Weaving insider knowledge with hundreds of employee interviews, Amy L. Fraher uncovers...
Up in the Air
How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging Their Employees
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"And you thought the passengers were mad. Airline employees are fed up, too-with pay cuts, increased workloads and management's miserly ways, which leave workers to explain to often-enraged passengers why flying has become such a miserable experience."—New York Times, December 22, 2007When both...
From Silence to Voice
What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Praise for previous editions—
"The book is written by two journalists who have taken on the nursing profession more or less the way we take on patients with a life-threatening condition that is curable but requires both intensive and long-term care. The diagnosis, according to Buresh and...
I Am Not a Tractor!
How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
I Am Not a Tractor! celebrates the courage, vision, and creativity of the farmworkers and community leaders who have transformed one of the worst agricultural situations in the United States into one of the best. Susan L. Marquis highlights past abuses workers suffered in Florida’s tomato fields:...
Songs of the Factory
Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
In Songs of the Factory, Marek Korczynski examines the role that popular music plays in workers' culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory that manufactures window blinds, Korczynski shows how workers make often-grueling assembly-line work tolerable...
Buttoned Up
Clothing, Conformity, and White-Collar Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Who is today’s white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and other mid-twentieth-century investigations of corporate life and identity. Contemporary jobs are more precarious, casual Friday has become an institution, and telecommuting blurs the...
If We Can Win Here
The New Front Lines of the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement? Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs from backbreaking, low-wage work into careers that allowed workers to buy homes and send their kids to college. Some union activists insist that there is no...
Fields of Combat
Understanding PTSD among Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
"If you consider Iraq—like I do, probably twenty-nine out of thirty days—to be the pinnacle of your life, then where do you go from there? And I'm sure that a lot of veterans feel that way. To them, that was it. That was everything. So now what? They have to find something meaningful and purposeful."
"When...