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| 1. |  | Title: Battling for American labor: wobblies, craft workers, and the making of the union movement Author: Kimeldorf, Howard Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | Sociology | History | United States History | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In this incisive reinterpretation of the history of the American labor movement, Howard Kimeldorf challenges received thinking about rank-and-file workers and the character of their unions. Battling for American Labor answers the baffling question of how, while mounting some of the most aggressive c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Reorganizing the Rust Belt: an inside study of the American labor movement Author: Lopez, Steven Henry 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Sociology | Economics and Business | Labor Studies | Public Policy | Anthropology | Urban Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: This gripping insider's look at the contemporary American trade union movement shows that reports of organized labor's death are premature. In this eloquent and erudite narrative, Steven Henry Lopez demonstrates how, despite a hostile legal environment and the punitive anti-unionism of U.S. employer . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Peasants and protest: agricultural workers, politics, and unions in the Aude, 1850-1914  Author: Frader, Laura Levine 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Gender Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: In the first decade of the twentieth century, the sleepy vineyard towns of the Aude department of southern France exploded with strikes and protests. Agricultural workers joined labor unions, the Socialist party established a base among peasant vinegrowers, and the largest peasant uprising of twenti . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Manufacturing militance: workers' movements in Brazil and South Africa, 1970-1985 Author: Seidman, G Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Politics | Latin American Studies | African Studies | Labor Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Challenging prevailing theories of development and labor, Gay Seidman's controversial study explores how highly politicized labor movements could arise simultaneously in Brazil and South Africa, two starkly different societies. Beginning with the 1960s, Seidman shows how both authoritarian states pr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: When the Soviet Union entered world politics Author: Jacobson, Jon 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Politics | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The dissolution of the Soviet Union has aroused much interest in the USSR's role in world politics during its 74-year history and in how the international relations of the twentieth century were shaped by the Soviet Union. Jon Jacobson examines Soviet foreign relations during the period from the end . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: The fabrication of labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914 Author: Biernacki, Richard 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Sociology | Labor Studies | European History Publisher's Description: This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor. Drawing on massive archival evidence from Britain and Germany, as well as historical evidence from France and Italy, The Fabrication of Labor shows how the very nature of labor as a commodity differed fundamental . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Black workers remember: an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle Author: Honey, Michael K Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | United States History | Labor Studies | African American Studies Publisher's Description: The labor of black workers has been crucial to economic development in the United States. Yet because of racism and segregation, their contribution remains largely unknown. Spanning the 1930s to the present, Black Workers Remember tells the hidden history of African American workers in their own wor . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Working people of California Author: Cornford, Daniel A 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Ethnic Studies | California and the West | Labor Studies | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: From the California Indians who labored in the Spanish missions to the immigrant workers on Silicon Valley's high-tech assembly lines, California's work force has had a complex and turbulent past, marked by some of the sharpest and most significant battles fought by America's working people. This an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: The children of NAFTA: labor wars on the U.S./Mexico border Author: Bacon, David 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Labor Studies | Ethnic Studies | Latin American Studies | Immigration | Politics | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Food, televisions, computer equipment, plumbing supplies, clothing. Much of the material foundation of our everyday lives is produced along the U.S./Mexico border in a world largely hidden from our view. Based on gripping firsthand accounts, this book investigates the impact of the North American Fr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Aboriginal slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America Author: Donald, Leland 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Pacific Rim Studies Publisher's Description: With his investigation of slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America, Leland Donald makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area. He shows that Northwest Coast servitude, relatively neglected by researchers in the past, fits an appropriate cross- . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Labor and imperial democracy in prewar Japan Author: Gordon, Andrew 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Politics | Asian History | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan's prewar political history. Gordon argues that such phenomena as riots, labor disputes, and union organizing can bes . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Japanese workers in protest: an ethnography of consciousness and experience Author: Turner, Christena L 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Japan | Sociology Publisher's Description: This first ethnographic study of factory workers engaged in radical labor protest gives a voice to a segment of the Japanese population that has been previously marginalized. These blue-collar workers, involved in prolonged labor disputes, tell their own story as they struggle to make sense of their . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Surviving freedom: after the Gulag Author: Bardach, Janusz Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | European Studies | Sociology | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Autobiography Publisher's Description: In 1941, as a Red Army soldier fighting the Nazis on the Belarussian front, Janusz Bardach was arrested, court-martialed, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Twenty-two years old, he had committed no crime. He was one of millions swept up in the reign of terror that Stalin perpetrated on his o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: The enigma of 1989: the USSR and the liberation of Eastern Europe Author: Lévesque, Jacques Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The Soviet external empire fell in 1989 virtually without bloodshed. The domino-like collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe was not anticipated by political experts in either the East or the West. Most surprising of all was the Soviet Union's permissive reactions to the secession. For t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Land, labor and the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 1882-1914 Author: Shafir, Gershon Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, but t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Urban revolt: ethnic politics in the nineteenth-century Chicago labor movement Author: Hirsch, Eric L 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | United States History | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Urban Revolt is a careful, incisive reexamination of the most highly mobilized urban revolutionary force in American history - the late nineteenth-century Chicago labor movement. By documenting the importance of ethnic origins in accounting for political choice, Eric L. Hirsch completely reconceptua . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: The state and labor in modern Japan Author: Garon, Sheldon Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Asian Studies | History | Asian History | Politics | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In this meticulously researched study, Sheldon Garon examines the evolution of Japan's governmental policies toward labor from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and he substantially revises prevailing views which depict relations between the Japanese state and labor simply in terms of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: A buccaneer's atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea waggoner: a sea atlas and sailing directions of the Pacific coast of the Americas, 1682 Author: Ringrose, Basil d. 1686 Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Renaissance History | European History | Geography Publisher's Description: On July 29, 1681, a band of English buccaneers that had been terrorizing Spanish possessions on the west coast of the Americas captured a Spanish ship, from which they obtained a derrotero , or book of charts and sailing directions. When they arrived back in England, the Spanish ambassador demanded . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Workers against work: labor in Paris and Barcelona during the popular fronts Author: Seidman, Michael (Michael M.) Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Social Science | French Studies | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Why did a revolution occur in Spain and not in France in 1936? This is the key question Michael Seidman explores in his important new study of the relations between industrial capitalists and working-class movements in the early part of this century. In a comparative analysis of Paris during the Pop . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Bread and authority in Russia, 1914-1921 Author: Lih, Lars T Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Between 1914 and 1921, Russia experienced a national crisis that destroyed the tsarist state and led to the establishment of the new Bolshevik order. During this period of war, revolution, and civil war, there was a food-supply crisis. Although Russia was one of the world's major grain exporters, th . . . [more] Similar Items |