"An in-depth study of railroad labor activism in the context of Mexico's Cold War experience" "Despite the Mexican government's projected image of prosperity and modernity in the years following World War II, workers who felt that Mexico's progress had come at their expense bec…
"Investigates how public political criticism has evolved into a prominent feature of Vietnam's political landscape since the mid 1990s and how state authorities have dealt with it with a combination of responsiveness, toleration, and repression"--
Can workers win? Bryan D. Palmer presents a detailed account of the Minneapolis teamsters' strikes of 1934 to suggest that working-class victories are possible, however bad the circumstances.
"The city of Liverpool had frequently been prone to industrial unrest for most of its recent history, but it was the dawn of Thatcher and the sanctioning of neoliberal economic strategies which made Liverpool a nucleus of resistance against the encroaching tide of right-wing pol…
On 16 August 2012, thirty-four black mineworkers were gunned down by the police under the auspices of South Africa's African National Congress (ANG) in what has become known as the Marikana massacre. The Spirit of Marikana tells the story of the union leaders at the world's thre…
