La grande alienazione
2,400円 L'alienazione sembra scomparsa dalla scena. La tecnica come apparato e il neoliberalismo come ideologia politica offrono una affascinante illusione di individualità, libertà e creatività. Se tutti sono "imprenditori di se stessi" e ognuno è illuso di poter essere creativo e innovativo grazie alla...
Strumenti di cattura
1,900円 La logica culturale del nostro tempo si avvita intorno al perno dell'accumulazione economica, del dominio tecnocratico e dello spirito di appropriazione. Essa reca un senso crescente di separazione dagli altri e da sé stessi che scatena reazioni psicologiche difficili da gestire e aggrava la perc...
Meatpacking America
1,972円 Whether valorized as the heartland or derided as flyover country, the Midwest became instantly notorious when COVID-19 infections skyrocketed among workers in meatpacking plantsーand Americans feared for their meat supply. But the Midwest is not simply the place where animals are fed corn and the...
Eisenhower and Landrum-Griffin
4,934円 During the 1950s two Senate investigations, both highly publicized through the new medium of television, revealed the spread of racketeers and corruption among labor unions. Taking advantage of these sensational revelations, business interests, who for years had chafed against the federal governm...
Code White
3,315円 When health care workers call a Code White, it’s an emergency response for a violent incident: a call for help. But it’s one that goes unanswered in hospitals, clinics, and long-term care homes across the country. Code White exposes a shocking epidemic of violence that’s hidden in plain sight, on...
Abusive Supervision in Government
10,955円 In Abusive Supervision in Government Agencies, Caillier uses both quantitative and qualitative survey data, a mixed-method approach, to argue that certain organizational norms and subordinate factors either increase or decrease the presence of abusive supervision in agencies and that when employe...
Does Skill Make Us Human?
4,245円 An in-depth look at Qatar's migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control and power Skillーspecifically the distinction between the “skilled” and “unskilled”ーis generally defined as a measure of ability and training, but Does Skill Make Us Human? shows instead that skill dist...
The Living Wage
9,119円 As wealth inequality skyrockets and trade union power declines, the living wage movement has become ever more urgent for public policymakers, academics, and – most importantly – those workers whose wages hover close to the breadline. A real living wage in any part of the world is rarely its minim...
An American Dissenter
4,934円 In this biography of Algie Martin Simons, a major figure in the Socialist party of America, Kent and Gretchen Kreuter show the widely ranging social activities that brought Simons into touch with many of the movements and personalities of his time. As a propagandist and historian, Simons wrote th...
Organizing the Breathless
4,934円 In the 1970s, textile workers joined forces with a small band of grassroots activists and organizers and challenged the most powerful industrial interest in the heart of Dixie-the cotton textile manufacturers. They located disabled workers and organized them, employing the full range of interest-...
Sub-humanos
1,300円 Escravidão, servidão e outras formas de trabalho compulsório são parte da história de sociedades antigas e pré-modernas. Mas como explicar a permanência desse tipo de opressão e violência na contemporaneidade? Nesta obra, o procurador do trabalho Tiago Cavalcanti faz uma impactante reflexão sobre...
The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa
4,239円 In The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa E. Paul Durrenberger recounts the transformation of Iowa’s family farms into today’s agricultural industry through the lens of the lives and writings of Iowa novelist Paul Corey and poet Ruth Lechlitner. This anthropological biography analyzes Corey’s...
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