This work tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale. Since the 1900s, large scale agricultural enterprises relied on migrant labor, a cheap, unorganized, and powerless workforce. In 1965…
This is the first comprehensive account of Israel's central labour organization, the Histadrut, and the Israeli Labour Party, which dominated politics for more than four decades. The author develops a political economy approach which draws on contemporary theories of labour move…
"A Living Wage," the rallying cry of union activists, is a concept with a revealing history, here documented by Lawrence B. Glickman. The labor movement's response to wages shows how American workers negotiated the transition from artisan to consumer, opening up new political po…
Examines the possibilities for a new-style solidarity suited to a complex capitalist modernity. Explores the past internationalism of labour and socialism and the present one of radical-democratic social movements, discussing how the Left might build on this experience to recove…
Argues that a century of union growth ended in the 1980s. Since then, declining union membership has undermined the labour movement's achievements throughout the advanced capitalist world. Uses information from 16 countries including the UK, US, Germany and France to chart the f…
Reviews the evolution of the Iranian trade unions from 1906 to 1963 in the political development context. Criticises the removal of trade union leaders from political life by the government autocracy. Affirms the relationship between political development and social and economic…
"In a world dominated by capitalist work (labour), working for a wage is the central unavoidable reality of modern social life, and yet, the category of labour remains underdeveloped in social sciences. While waged labour in all its forms, including unemployment and mass poverty…
Essays on the economic policy of work in the international capitalist economy - includes theoretical approaches to the politics of production and labour exploitation; covers colonialism in India, economic development in Guatemala, black migration in South Africa R, working class…
History, working class, proletarianization, labour market segmentation, USA, since 1820 - industrial growth, capital formation, capital worker ratio, production relations, working conditions, labour movement, strikes, discrimination, trade unionism, labour policy. Bibliography, …
Reviews the various struggles for workers' control, especially in Third World settings, by examining the relevant literature. Considers the effect of social, economic and political conditions on those struggles. Ranges from the historical (Russia 1917) to Africa in the 1980s.
There has been a growing recognition amongst scholars that labour historians need to look beyond national borders in order to place the history of the working classes into a much broader context than has hitherto been the case. Whilst studies focused on individual countries are …