800円 O reino da liberdade começa com a redução da jornada de trabalho. Esse pensamento de Karl Marx é o mote do presente livro. Neste volume, acompanhamos a história da luta operária pela jornada de oito horas, que teve como resultado uma progressiva redução do tempo de trabalho ao longo de todo o séc...

1,326円 Told with great intimacy and compassion, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania, who sunk their own mines on company grounds and fought police, bankers, coal companies and courts to form a union that would...

520円 Zunehmend geeint worden ist es über zwei Drittel eines Jahrhunderts hinweg und dabei kontinuierlich gewachsen. In letzter Zeit aber kommt es gehäuft zum Auftreten von Schwachstellen, die kaum noch aus der Weg zu räumen sind. Sobald ein Loch auch nur annähernd gestopft ist, reißt ein anderes auf. ...

520円 Lange ist es her, dass aus der EWG die EG wurde und aus dieser dann die Europäische Union. Wie setzt sie sich zusammen, wie funktioniert das Monstrum eigentlich? Demokratisch natürlich: Abgeordnete werden gewählt und stimmen ab, nachdem sie ausreichend diskutieren konnten. Worüber sie abstimmen, ...

2,519円 The Sinking Middle Class challenges the “save the middle class” rhetoric that dominates our political imagination. The slogan misleads us regarding class, nation, and race. Talk of middle class salvation reinforces myths holding that the US is a providentially middle class nation. Implicitly whit...

2,889円 “A powerful, game-changing book. Tom's approach is changing lives.” ー Seth Godin, Author of This is Marketing Discover how supporting employment for people with autism unlocked new ways of running a businessーand revealed transformative lessons for all of us. Rising Tide Car Wash in Parkland, Fl...

2,255円 **WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY A “sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive” portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from “a gifted practitioner of labor history and urban history” (Tiya Miles, National Book Award-winning author of All That She Carried)**...

3,584円 What have jobs really been like for the past 40 years and what do the workers themselves say about them? In What Workers Say, Roberta Iversen shows that for employees in labor market industriesーlike manufacturing, construction, printingーas well as those in service-producing jobs, like clerical ...

1,692円 A potent glimpse into the behind-the-scenes workplace control mechanisms which prevent workers from defending themselves from exploitation For most economists, labor is simply a commodity, bought and sold in markets like any other – and what happens after that is not their concern. Individual pro...

4,179円 This book is the first attempt to rethink and appraise the role of temporary commoning experiences that develop in contexts of crisis. Activist and urban planner, Angelos Varvarousis, argues that there is a certain type of commons – the liminal commons – which despite their often short lives play...

2,647円 The labor movement in the United States is a bulwark of democracy and a driving force for social and economic equality. Yet its stories remain largely unknown to Americans. Robert Forrant and Mary Anne Trasciatti edit a collection of essays focused on nationwide efforts to propel the history of l...

2,647円 In the early twentieth century, Miami cultivated an image of itself as a destination for leisure and sunshine free from labor strife. Thomas A. Castillo unpacks this idea of class harmony and the language that articulated its presence by delving into the conflicts, repression, and progressive gra...