662円 Inventions flourished during the US industrial revolution. In this book, you will learn about some of the inventions that helped transform America during the era of the machines. Read about how the telephone was invented as well as the other discoveries and inventions of Thomas Alva Edison. Buy a...

662円 The period of Industrial Revolution is a major defining moment in the history of the Western world. Analyze how the big business of heavy industry transformed the American society. Be equipped with the knowledge needed to create a comprehensive list of pros and cons of the industrial revolution. ...

662円 The use of machines was the number one change that happened during the US industrial revolution. But how did factory workers react to such change? What were the efforts exerted to improve lives in the 1880s? Also, why was there so much fighting between workers and employers? Know the answers by r...

1,983円 Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. As Jason Resnikoff shows, the term automation expressed the conviction that industrial progress meant the inevitable abolition of manual labor from ind...

2,917円 Anyone who has encountered costumed workers at a living history museum may well have wondered what their jobs are like, churning butter or firing muskets while dressed in period clothing. In The Wages of History, Amy Tyson enters the world of the public history interpreters at Minnesota's Histori...

519円 Neste País aparentemente condenado a se mover em círculos, o trabalho do pesquisador sobre a trajetória que cumprimos em anos recentes pode contribuir de forma relevante com os movimentos sociais contemporâneos, sobretudo com os de baixo, dos trabalhadores, para evitar que se repitam erros nessa ...

3,315円 The important role missions played as places of work has been underexplored, yet missionaries were some of the earliest Europeans who tried to control African labour. African mission workers' roles were not just religious and educational, as they were actively involved, not always voluntarily, in...

3,315円 In August 2012 the South African police - at the encouragement of mining capital, and with the support of the political state - intervened to end a week-long strike at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, in South Africa's NorthWest Province. On the afternoon of Thursday, 16 August, they police ...

6,139円 Workers, Collectivism and the Law offers a captivating historical account of worker democracy, from its beginnings in European guild systems to present-day labor unions, across the national legal systems of Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. Analysing these legal systems i...

6,139円 Dependent self-employment is widely perceived as a rapidly growing form of precarious work conducted by marginalised lower-skilled workers subcontracted by large corporations. Unpacking a comprehensive survey of 35 European countries, Colin C. Williams and Ioana Alexandra Horodnic map the lived r...

5,176円 Self-representation has a long, venerable history dating to biblical times and continuing through the common law, the colonial era, to the present. This book collects and analyzes the law, ethics opinions, and empirical studies about the wide range of issues surrounding Self-represented litigants...

2,254円 After years of being ignored by the media and public, labor finds itself squarely in the spotlight - under attack from all angles and fighting back fiercely. No longer can anyone claim that labor's falling membership has made it a mere relic, for its adversaries would not expend so much energy to...