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Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present
ISBN: 9781469613697 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world's first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders. In Sweatshops at Sea, historian Leon Fink examines the evolution of laws and labor relations governing ordinary seamen over the past two centuries.
The merchant marine offers an ideal setting for examining the changing regulatory regimes applied to workers by the United States, Great Britain, and, ultimately, an... As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world's first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touc...
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177,58 zł |
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Deliverance Revisited
ISBN: 9783110634280 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2019 / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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192,35 zł |
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The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
ISBN: 9780807854471 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization. When laborers' concerns about safety and fairness spark a strike and, ultimately, a unionizing campaign at Case Farms, the resulting decade-long standoff pits a recalcitrant New South employer against an unlikely coalition of antagonists. Mayan refugees from war-torn Guatemala, Mexican workers, and a diverse group of local allies join forces with the Laborers union. The ensuing clash becomes a testing ground...
The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human s...
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232,22 zł |
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Undoing the Liberal World Order: Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II
ISBN: 9780231202244 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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704,48 zł |
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Labor Justice Across the Americas: Volume 1
ISBN: 9780252041501 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary? Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio present essays that address these essential questions. Ranging from Canada and the United States to Chile and Argentina, the authors search for common factors in the appearance of labor courts while recognizing the specific character of the creative process in each nation. Their transnational and comparative approach advances a global...
Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did these ...
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534,26 zł |
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Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: 1199SEIU and the Politics of Healthcare Unionism
ISBN: 9780252076053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A classic labor history, newly updated and expanded
A classic labor history, newly updated and expanded
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134,81 zł |
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Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics
ISBN: 9780252012563 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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93,31 zł |
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The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
ISBN: 9781469682112 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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163,64 zł |
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The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order
ISBN: 9780812224139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Presenting a new twist on classic themes of American economic and working-class history, The Long Gilded Age considers the interlocking roles of politics, labor, and internationalism in the ideologies and institutions that emerged at the turn of the twentieth century.
Presenting a new twist on classic themes of American economic and working-class history, The Long Gilded Age considers the interlocking roles of polit...
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124,44 zł |
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Workers Across the Americas: The Transnational Turn in Labor History
ISBN: 9780199731633 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The first major volume to place U.S.-centered labor history in a transnational focus, Workers Across the Americas collects the newest scholarship of Canadianist, Caribbeanist, and Latin American specialists as well as U.S. historians. These essays highlight both the supra- and sub-national aspect of selected topics without neglecting nation-states themselves as historical forces. Indeed, the transnational focus opens new avenues for understanding changes in the concepts, policies, and practice of states, their interactions with each other and their populations, and the ways in which...
The first major volume to place U.S.-centered labor history in a transnational focus, Workers Across the Americas collects the newest scholar...
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244,58 zł |
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Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment
ISBN: 9780674713901 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. How to lead the people and be one of them? What's a democratic intellectual to do? This longstanding dilemma for the progressive intellectual, how to bridge the world of educated opinion and that of the working masses, is the focus of Leon Fink's penetrating book, the first social history of the progressive thinker caught in the middle of American political culture. In a series of vivid portraits, Fink investigates the means and methods of intellectual activists in the first part of the twentieth century--how they served, observed, and made their own history. In the stories of, among... How to lead the people and be one of them? What's a democratic intellectual to do? This longstanding dilemma for the progressive intellectual, how ... |
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190,83 zł |
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Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises Volume 1
ISBN: 9780252085123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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124,44 zł |
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Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises Volume 1
ISBN: 9780252038174 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Seeking to historicize today's "Great Recession," this volume of essays uses examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to situate the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace. Contributors argue that 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. Further, the direction of influence between politics and economic upheaval, as well as between workers and... Seeking to historicize today's "Great Recession," this volume of essays uses examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Austral... |
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534,26 zł |
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Premier Issue, 1: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas
ISBN: 9780822365938 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Drawing on the fieldwork in a southern California domestic service placement agency, this book documents the commodification of gender and ethnic stereotypes in the international maid trade. This book talks about the history of US labor and international solidarity. It also explores the desecration of the memorial to victims of Ludlow Massacre.
Drawing on the fieldwork in a southern California domestic service placement agency, this book documents the commodification of gender and ethnic ster...
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57,00 zł |
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Undoing the Liberal World Order: Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II
ISBN: 9780231202251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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120,12 zł |
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Labor Justice Across the Americas: Volume 1
ISBN: 9780252083068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary? Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio present essays that address these essential questions. Ranging from Canada and the United States to Chile and Argentina, the authors search for common factors in the appearance of labor courts while recognizing the specific character of the creative process in each nation. Their transnational and comparative approach advances a global...
Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did these ...
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145,18 zł |
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Workers Across the Americas: The Transnational Turn in Labor History
ISBN: 9780199778553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The first major volume to place U.S.-centered labor history in a transnational focus, Workers Across the Americas collects the newest scholarship of Canadianist, Caribbeanist, and Latin American specialists as well as U.S. historians. These essays highlight both the supra- and sub-national aspect of selected topics without neglecting nation-states themselves as historical forces. Indeed, the transnational focus opens new avenues for understanding changes in the concepts, policies, and practice of states, their interactions with each other and their populations, and the ways in which...
The first major volume to place U.S.-centered labor history in a transnational focus, Workers Across the Americas collects the newest scholar...
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281,48 zł |
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In Search of Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture
ISBN: 9780252063688 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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93,31 zł |
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