For half a century Mother Jones took up the workingman's cause without question and fought his battles without compromise. Dale Fether­ling's biography for the first time gives her full story, with elo­quence and sympathetic understanding

Mobilizing Against Inequality -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Part I. Unions and the Mobilization of Immigrant Workers -- 1. Organizing Immigrant Workers -- 2. Union Campaigns as Countermovements: "Best Practice" Cases from the United Kingdom,...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Clinton Jencks, Mine-Mill, and Biography as History -- Part I. Years of Preparation: Roots of Radicalism -- 1. Growing Up Concerned: Childhood, Family, and the Formation of a Value System,...

This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets - immigrants and unions - to examine the role of worker power in shaping immigrant sorting across firms, and how that subsequently influences the performance of firms and the careers of incumbent workers. First, unions...

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Focusing on the Rank and File -- 1 The Upsurge: 1968 - 74 -- 2 'How Little It Asked' ( The Working Class): 1974 - 79 -- 3 Gone With the Wind: Thatcher, Reagan and the Early 1980s -- 4 Against the Stream: 1984 - 89 -- 5 The Workers' TINA: Class Warfare in the...

There are a number of places where sociologists of work and labour, together with labour movement activists, might search for alternatives to neo-liberal ideologies and practices. One obvious place to explore the scope and possibility for labour research might be where labour on an international...

"Go to the worker"-that was the central message of the Catholic social-action movement which flourished in the United States from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s. And, according to a book by that title recently published by Marquette University Press, the message is as fresh and powerful today as...

In May and June of 1968 a dramatic wave of strikes paralyzed France, making industrial relations reform a key item on the government agenda. French trade unions seemed due for a golden age of growth and importance. Today, however, trade unions are weaker in France than in any other advanced...

International Journal of Labour Research is a new journal launched in Fall 2009 by the Bureau of Workers' Activities of the ILO. Its aim is to provide an overview of recent research on labour and social policies from trade union researchers and academics around the world. The journal is...