Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
vii, 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines how towns across the United States have grown thanks to the existence of one large business being run from the community, discusses how those single-business communities have influenced the American economy, and explores the benefits and consequences of these towns.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage. We Are All Fast Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages traces the evolution of a new global labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from Manila to Manhattan, from Baja California to Bangladesh, from Capetown to Cambodia. This is an up close and personal look at globalization and its costs, as seen through the eyes and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xx, 328 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The fight for a higher minimum wage has become the biggest national labor story in decades. Beginning in November 2012, strikes by fast food workers spread across the country, landing in Seattle in May 2013. Within a year, Seattle had adopted a $15 minimum wage-- the highest in the United States-- without a bloody political battle. Combining history, economics, and commonsense political wisdom, The Fight for Fifteen makes a deeply informed case for...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Katherine Newman, award-winning author of No Shame in My Game, and sociologist Hella Winston, a sharp and irrefutable call to reenergize this nation's long-neglected system of vocational training. After decades of off-shoring and downsizing that have left blue collar workers obsolete and stranded, the United States is now on the verge of an industrial renaissance. But we don't have a skilled enough labor pool to fill the positions that will...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For decades, intractable social and economic problems have been eating away at the social fabric of the United States. The crisis is now so deep it's threatening democracy. Income inequality has reached epic proportions, resulting in a lopsided political system that bestows tax breaks on the rich while the rest of the country has been economically abandoned. There's a single, obvious solution to these problems, one with a long, successful history,...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Longtime scholar of the American union movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the labor movement as we have known it for most of the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he asserts that this death has been a long time coming--the organizing principles chosen by the labor movement at midcentury have come back to haunt the movement today....
30) The edge of anarchy: the railroad barons, the Gilded Age, and the greatest labor uprising in America
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Edge of Anarchy by Jack Kelly offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country. Famine threatened, riots broke out along the rail lines. Soon the U.S. Army was on the march and gunfire rang from the streets of major cities. This epochal...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The United States now has three political parties, though only two of them are elected.The newest was founded a century ago, but just came to power in the last decade: It's the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the political party of the new American oligarchy. In this groundbreaking investigation of the big business takeover of the American political process, Alyssa Katz draws upon years of research to chronicle the rise to power of the organization and...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The coronavirus pandemic threw life into a tumult for American workers, igniting new class struggles and further stoking those already under way. Across the country, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and safety risks, both with labor union backing and without it. Nurses, teachers, grocery clerks, farmers, food processing workers, and many more fought for higher wages, paid sick leave, better healthcare, and, above all else,...
In WISCAT Wisconsin Resource Sharing
Can't find what you're looking for? Search WISCAT Wisconsin Resource Sharing to search libraries outside our area. Contact your local library to place a request.