In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. Using this event as a springboard, Zaragosa Vargas embarks on the first full-scale history of the Mexican-American labor movement in...

What role should racial difference play in the American workplace? As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this question, and the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964 seemingly answered it: race must not be a factor in workplace decisions. In After Civil Rights, John Skrentny contends...

"This important book outlines how, despite varying levels of global socio-economic development, governments around the world can guarantee their citizens' fundamental right to basic healthcare. Ground in the philosophical position that healthcare is an essential element to human dignity, the...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Reading Gosselin -- 1 Reality Checks: Presuming Innocence and Proving Guilt in Charter Welfare Cases -- 2 But It's for Your Own Good -- 3 Social Rights and "Common Sense": Gosselin through a Media Lens -- Part 2: Social Citizenship and the...

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Editorial Advisory Board -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Bio -- Acknowledgements -- Endorsements -- Introduction. Prospects of a Liberal Cosmopolitan Order -- Chapter 1. Problematizing Liberal Cosmopolitanisms: Foucault and Neoliberal Cosmopolitan...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. "Look Deep in Your Hearts": Making a Global Domestic Workers' Movement -- 2. "Dignity Overdue": Tracing a Movement -- 3. Getting "on the Map": Global Policy as an Activist Stage --...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms and Initialisms -- Introduction -- 1 "The Best 'Affirmative Action Program' Is Creating Jobs for Everyone": Organized Labor Responds to Affirmative Action, 1960-1974 -- 2 "This Strange Madness": The Origins of Opposition to Higher...