"THE WORK OF RECOGNITION is the first comprehensive history of African-descended Colombians during the postemancipation period. Jason McGraw chronicles the history of Afro-Colombians--particularly along the Caribbean coast of Colombia, where the African-descended populations wer…
Maine : the Detroit of Paper -- Maine : A Rags to Riches Story -- The Paradoxes of Paper Mill Employment : Skill, Stress, and Paternalism at S.D. Warren Company -- The Fall of Mother Warren and the Turn in Maine Paper Industry Labor Relations -- Madawaska Rebellion : "French Pow…
Introduction: Honduran workers--new voices, old memories -- Intersecting projects: contested visions for the North Coast -- Revolutionary antecedents to the 1954 strike: liberals, rebels and radicals -- Life and labor in banana fincas -- The making of a campeño and campeña cultu…
This is a book about strategies of trade unions confronting employers in difficult conditions. The book's main idea is to study why and how successful forms of workers' interest representation could emerge in a hostile context. The post-communist context makes it difficult for w…
Since the renaissance of market politics on a global scale, precarious work has become pervasive. Divided into two parts, the first section of this cross-disciplinary book analyses the different forms of precarious work that have arisen over the past thirty years. These transfor…
""We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by LABOR in this country, a move which will lead--NO ONE KNOWS WHERE!" With these words echoing throughout the city, on February 6, 1919, 65,000 Seattle workers began one of the most important general strikes in US history.…
""We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by LABOR in this country, a move which will lead--NO ONE KNOWS WHERE!" With these words echoing throughout the city, on February 6, 1919, 65,000 Seattle workers began one of the most important general strikes in US history.…
"A collection of essays by various historians attempting to reassess and revive ideals that once powered revolutionary China and have since become mired in the authoritarian rule of the Chinese Communist Party."
Citizen resistance and struggle in Appalachia since 1960.
