Ilr Press imprint: 133 books
Out of Practice
Fighting for Primary Care Medicine in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Primary care medicine, as we know and remember it, is in crisis. While policymakers, government administrators, and the health insurance industry pay lip service to the personal relationship between physician and patient, dissatisfaction and disaffection run rampant among primary care doctors, and...
Labor in Israel
Beyond Nationalism and Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Using a comprehensive analysis of the wave of organizing that swept the country starting in 2007, Labor in Israel investigates the changing political status of organized labor in the context of changes to Israel’s political economy, including liberalization, the rise of non-union labor organizations,...
Prescription for the People
An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In Prescription for the People, Fran Quigley diagnoses our inability to get medicines to the people who need them and then prescribes the cure. He delivers a clear and convincing argument for a complete shift in the global and U.S. approach to developing and providing essential medicines—and a primer...
by Vicki Smith, Esther B. Neuwirth
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Temporary agencies place approximately two and a half million people in jobs each day in the United States. Every year, about twelve million people use these placement agencies to find temporary work. Many Americans, even those who desire permanent jobs, decide to enter the labor market through the...
Mobilizing Restraint
Democracy and Industrial Conflict in Post-Reform South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Mobilizing Restraint, Emmanuel Teitelbaum argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, democracies are better at managing industrial conflict than authoritarian regimes. This is because democracies have two unique tools at their disposal for managing worker protest: mutually beneficial union-party...
Too Few Women at the Top
The Persistence of Inequality in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The number of women in positions of power and authority in Japanese companies has remained small despite the increase in the number of educated women and the passage of legislation on gender equality. In Too Few Women at the Top, Kumiko Nemoto draws on theoretical insights regarding Japan's coordinated...
The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Welfare Machine
Immigration and Social Democracy in Twentieth-Century Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Sweden is well known for the success of its welfare state. Many believe that success was made possible in part by the country’s ethnic homogeneity and that the increased diversity of Sweden’s population is putting its welfare state at risk. Few, however, have suggested convincing mechanisms for...
Buoyancy on the Bayou
Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Over the past several decades, shrimp has transformed from a luxury food to a kitchen staple. While shrimp-loving consumers have benefited from the lower cost of shrimp, domestic shrimp fishers have suffered, particularly in Louisiana. Most of the shrimp that we eat today is imported from shrimp farms...
City of Strangers
Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
In City of Strangers, Andrew M. Gardner explores the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Like all the petroleum-rich states of the Persian Gulf, Bahrain hosts an extraordinarily large population of transmigrant laborers. Guest workers, who make up...
India and the Patent Wars
Pharmaceuticals in the New Intellectual Property Regime
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
India and the Patent Wars contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on access under stringent patent laws showing how activists and drug companies in low-income countries seize agency and exert influence over these processes. Murphy Halliburton contributes...
Anthropologies of Unemployment
New Perspectives on Work and Its Absence
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Anthropologies of Unemployment offers accessible, theoretically innovative, and ethnographically rich examinations of unemployment in rural and urban regions across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The diversity of case studies demonstrates that unemployment is a pressing global...
Breaking the Mold
Redesigning Work for Productive and Satisfying Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
In Breaking the Mold, Lotte Bailyn argues that society's separation of work and family is no longer a tenable model for employees or the organizations that employ them. Unless American business is willing to radically rethink some of its basic assumptions about work, career paths, and time, both employee...
Undoing Work, Rethinking Community
A Critique of the Social Function of Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A. Chamberlain argues that paid work and the civic duty to perform it substantially undermines freedom and justice. Chamberlain believes that to seize back...
Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory
Women Scientists Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
About half of the undergraduate and roughly 40 percent of graduate degree recipients in science and engineering are women. As increasing numbers of these women pursue research careers in science, many who choose to have children discover the unique difficulties of balancing a professional life in...