Intro -- Contents -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Miners, Women, and Community Coalitions in the UMWA Pittston Strike -- 3: Is This What Democracy Looks Like? -- 4: With God on Everyone's Side -- 5: Buying Out the Union -- 6: Approaching Industrial Democracy in Nonunion Mines -- 7: Small Places, Close...

One of Australia's most important activists for women's rights, Kath Williams was a trade unionist and a communist before taking on the mantle of feminist after World War II. With a trade unionist ex-husband who was elected to Federal Politics opposing her left wing campaigns, Kath emerged as a...

Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Looking to the Past to Understand the Present -- 2. Let's Talk about Social Power -- 3. Harnessing Power in Late Nineteenth-Century-Early-Twentieth-Century 'Gig Economy' -- 4. Understanding and Using Levers of Power...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Free Trade Unionism -- 2. "No More Pressing Task Than Organizing in Southeast Asia" -- 3. "It's a Vast Jungle and We're Working on the Periphery" -- 4. New Frontiers -- 5. Into the Quagmire -- 6. Free Fall, 1968-69 -- 7. Entangling...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- A knowledgments -- Confronting American Labor -- Introduction Consensus and Fragmentation -- Part I Seymour Martin Lipset -- One Labor and the Search for American Socialism -- Two The Exceptionalism of American Labor -- Part II C. Wright Mills -- Three The...

Colin Crouch presents a wide ranging survey of the relationship between trade unions, employers, and governments in western Europe. Employing rigorous economic and historical analysis, he presents powerful explanations of the diversity and significance of industrial relations in the twentieth...

This is the final volume in the Historical Directory of Trade Unions series. It proves a comprehensive list of all British unions that operated within the building, construction, chemical, dock, maritime, engineering, government, mining, quarry, and shipbuilding industries.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Insets -- List of Abbreviations, Acronyms and Organisational Names -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Labour Unionism in the Financial Services Sector: Struggling for Rights and Representation -- 2 Historical Genesis and Development of Labour...

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- ONE A Future for the American Labor Movement? -- WHERE ARE WE, HOW DID WE GET THERE, AND WHERE ARE WE GOING? -- Causes of Union Decline -- The Future -- The View that Unions are Dead -- The View...

Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined. Issues of agency, power and collective...