Category: Labor

Faculty and teacher bargaining: The impact of unions on education

By: Angell, George W. [Editor]

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Lexington Books : 1981-08-01

Seller ID: SKU12132584

ISBN-13: 9780669043600

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Academic library markings. Hardcover with no dust jacket, good condition, light wear to corners and edges, clean text, satisfaction guaranteed. Earthlight Books is a family owned and operated, independent bookstore serving Walla Walla, Washington since 1973.
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For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America

By: Curl, John

Price: $29.95

Publisher: PM Press : 2012-07-01

Seller ID: SKU1008396

ISBN-13: 9781604865820

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by most historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social change?farmer, union, consumer, and communalist?that have been all but erased from collective memory. Focusing far beyond one particular era, organization, leader, or form of cooperation, For All the People documents the multigenerational struggle of the American working people for social justice. While the economic system was in its formative years, generation after generation of American working people ...
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Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s (The Charles H. Kerr Library)

By: Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley; Smith, Walker C.; Trautmann, William E.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: PM Press : 2014-03-01

Seller ID: SKU12130590

ISBN-13: 9781604864823

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Brand New; satisfaction guaranteed. Trade paperback binding. The pamphlets reprinted here were first published in the 1910s amid great controversy. Even then, the tactics of direct action and sabotage were often associated with the cartoonists? image of the disheveled, wild-eyed anarchist armed with stiletto, handgun, or bomb?the clandestine activity of a militant minority or the desperate acts of the unorganized.The activist authors of the texts in this collection challenged the prevailing stereotypes. As they point out, the practices of direct action and sabotage are as old as class society ...
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Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology

By: Kornbluh, Joyce L. [Editor]; Gross, Daniel [Preface]; Thompson, Fred [Introduction]; Rosemont, Franklin [Contributor];

Price: $27.95

Publisher: PM Press : 2011-09-01

Seller ID: SKU1004862

ISBN-13: 9781604864830

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Welcoming women, Blacks, and immigrants long before most other unions, the Wobblies from the start were labor's outstanding pioneers and innovators, unionizing hundreds of thousands of workers previously regarded as "unorganizable." Wobblies organized the first sit-down strike (at General Electric, Schenectady, 1906), the first major auto strike (6,000 Studebaker workers, Detroit, 1911), the first strike to shut down all three coalfields in Colorado (1927), and the first "no-fare" transit-workers' job-action (Cleveland, 1944). With their imaginative, colorful, and world-famous strikes and free...
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Solidarity Unionism: Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below

By: Lynd, Staughton

Price: $14.95

Publisher: PM Press : 2015-04-15

Seller ID: SKU1031069

ISBN-13: 9781629630960

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Brand New; satisfaction guaranteed. Trade paperback binding. Solidarity Unionism is critical reading for all who care about the future of labor. Drawing deeply on Staughton Lynd's experiences as a labor lawyer and activist in Youngstown, OH, and on his profound understanding of the history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Solidarity Unionism helps us begin to put not only movement but also vision back into the labor movement.While many lament the decline of traditional unions, Lynd takes succor in the blossoming of rank-and-file worker organizations throughout the world that ...
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Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law

By: Lynd, Staughton; Gross, Daniel

Price: $10.91

Publisher: PM Press : 2011-06-01

Seller ID: SKU1002953

ISBN-13: 9781604864199

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Brand New trade paperback. Support independent bookstores and radical publishers, now more than ever!!! Have you ever felt your blood boil at work but lacked the tools to fight back and win? Or have you acted together with your co-workers, made progress, but wondered what to do next? If you are in a union, do you find that the union operates top-down just like the boss and ignores the will of its members? Labor Law for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law is a guerrilla legal handbook for workers in a precarious global economy. Blending cutting-edge legal stra...
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Socialist and Labor Songs: An International Revolutionary Songbook

By: Morgan, Elizabeth [Editor]; Phillips, U. Utah [Preface];

Price: $14.95

Publisher: PM Press : 2014-02-15

Seller ID: SKU12130577

ISBN-13: 9781604863925

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Brand New; satisfaction guaranteed.
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The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual (Common Notions)

By: Strike Debt

Price: $16.95

Publisher: PM Press : 2014-05-01

Seller ID: SKU12130583

ISBN-13: 9781604866797

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Brand New; satisfaction guaranteed. Trade paperback binding. Over the last thirty years, as wages have stagnated across the country, average household debt has more than doubled. Increasingly, we are forced to take on debt to meet our needs?from housing, to education, to medical care. The results?wrecked lives, devastated communities, and an increasing reliance on credit to maintain our basic living standards?reveal an economic system that enriches the few at the expense of the many.The Debt Resisters? Operations Manual is a handbook for debtors everywhere to understand how this system really ...
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Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds: Local Solidarity in a Global Economy (Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectureship and Conference Series)

By: Turner, Lowell [Editor]; Cornfield, Daniel B. [Editor]; Evans, Peter B. [Foreword];

Price: $14.95

Publisher: ILR Press : 2007-02-05

Seller ID: SKU1020421

ISBN-13: 9780801473609

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Very Good

Very Good. Light shelf wear to covers/corners; satisfaction guaranteed. Trade paperback binding.
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Category: Labor