This volume comprises thirteen fine-grained case studies of recent campaigns by worker centers and unions to organize the new "precariat" class of workers and to address the crisis facing the labor movement, each of which is based on original research and participant observation.

Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Citing Newspapers -- Introduction: The Pertinent Details -- 1. Samuel Loudon and the Building of the Empire State in Print -- 2. William Gordon, Print Culture, and the...

Many Latino and Chinese women who immigrated to New York City over the past two decades found work in the garment industry-an industry well known for both hiring immigrants and its harsh working conditions. Today the garment industry is one of the largest immigrant employers in New York City and...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1 Emigration and the Street Music Trade -- 2 "Les Petits Italiens" in Paris -- 3 "The Organ Boys" in London -- 4 "The Little Slaves" in New York -- 5 Italian Legislation, 1868-1873 -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Notes --...

The physical nature of electricity generation and delivery creates special problems for the design of efficient markets, notably the need to manage delivery in real time and the volatile congestion and associated costs that result. Proposals for the operation of the deregulated electricity...

This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through...