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Culture, Gender, Race, and U.S. Labor History

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Report copyright infringementby Ronald C. Kent (Editor), Sara Markham (Editor), Herbert Shapiro (Editor)This contributor volume brings the best work of such established historians as Morris Schappes, Nathan Godfried, and Eric Foner together with the newer voices of Elizabeth Sharpe and Jennifer Bosch. Its eleven essays challenge the boundary between the older, institutional labor history and the more recent social histories of working people. By combining a focus on culture, women's history, ...

Rural Change in the Third World: Pakistan and the Aga Khan Rural Support Program

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Report copyright infringementby Mahmood Hasan Khan (Author), Shoaib Sultan Khan (Author), Mahmood Hasan Khan (Author)This study examines a particularly successful rural development program: the partnership of the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) and the small farmers of northern Pakistan. The Aga Khan Rural Support Program was established in 1982 to act as a catalyst for the development of rural people living in the high mountain valleys of the Himalayas, Karakorum, and Hindu Kush. The ...

A State Within a State: Industrial Relations in Israel, 1965-1987

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Report copyright infringementby Ran Chermesh (Author)According to Chermesh, the Israeli industrial relations system has developed as a state within a state, having, by the mid-1980s, gained a high level of autonomy and detachment from political and economic constraints. At the heart of the system is the Histadrut, the General Federation of Labor, which Chermesh asserts must be radically reshaped in order to bring about political and economic control of the system. By tracing the evolution of ...

American Labor in the Era of World War II

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Report copyright infringementby Sally M. Miller (Author), Daniela Cornford (Author), Sally M. Miller (Editor)The 1940s were a pivotal decade in the history of the American labor movement. Large migrations significantly changed the composition of the industrial work force while, simultaneously, the organized labor movement sought to consolidate its base. These essays examine topics including aspects of the institutional development of the labor movement at the national level, while west coast ...

America's Future Work Force: A Health and Education Policy Issues Handbook

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Report copyright infringementby Carl W. Stenberg (Author), William G. Colman (With)This expertly prepared policy issues handbook surveys the changing workplace and the failures of America's public health and education systems to prepare the future work force to compete at home and abroad. Carl Stenberg and William Colman analyze the key issues; review a mass of information, ideas, and insights about policy options that are available; and assess their pros and cons. Students, teachers, adminis...

The Economics of Intellectual Property in a World Without Frontiers: A Study of Computer Software

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Report copyright infringementby Meheroo Jussawalla (Author)This work explores the problems arising from dynamic information technology in its application to intellectual property rights. In a global marketplace of ideas, political boundaries and the sovereignty of the nation state seem to be disappearing because of the increasing difficulty of scrutinizing the infringement of intellectual property. That is particularly true of computer software, the focus of this book. The work analyzes the l...

Public Employees, Unions, and the Erosion of Civic Trust: A Study of San Francisco in the 1979s

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Report copyright infringementby Randolph Boehm (Author), Dan Heldman (Author)Author Biographyehm /f Randolph /i H. dman /f Dan /i C. Number of Pages: 286 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: June 30, 1982

Recruiting, Educating, and Training Cataloging Librarians: Solving the Problems

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Report copyright infringementby Sheila Intner (Editor), Janet Swan Hill (Editor), Sheila S. Intner (Other)Librarians entering the profession often shun the prospect of becoming catalogers because they perceive public service responsibilities as more rewarding than those of technical services. This is causing a shortage in the area of technical services in general and cataloging librarians in particular. A group of concerned professionals decided to investigate solutions to the problems, thus,...

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Report copyright infringementby Unknown (Author), Policy Studies Organization (Author)One of the oldest policy debates in U.S. history concerns the allocation, use, and management of public lands, which currently comprise one-quarter of the United States. In this volume, Phillip O. Foss has assembled a selection of original research papers and interpretative essays from recognized authorities with a variety of philosophical orientations in order to present a well-rounded picture of today's vi...

The Political Economy of Defense: Issues and Perspectives

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew L. Ross (Editor), Andrew L. Ross (Other)Beyond the traditional two-dimensional analyses of defense economics and defense politics lies a rapidly growing field of research: the political economy of defense. As the study of the interface between economics, politics, and defense proliferates, this collective volume sets out to identify the nature of political economy of defense inquiry, surpassing a narrower focus on the economic consequences of military sp...

Women Working: Comparative Perspectives in Developing Areas

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Report copyright infringementby Alma T. Junsay (Author), Tim B. Heaton (Author)Those promoting economic development in the Third World often disregard the disadvantaged position of women or lack adequate information to assess the role of women. This book seeks to remedy that situation by providing a detailed examination of patterns and determinants of female labor force participation in three developing countries: Thailand, Colombia, and Egypt. The analysis is based on detailed interviews wit...

Friedrich A. Sorge's Labor Movement in the United States: A History of the American Working Class from 1890 to 1896

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Report copyright infringementby Friedrich a. Sorge (Author), Laura Foner (Author), Elizabeth Vandepaer (Author)Author Biographyrge /f Friedrich /i A. KAI SCHOENHALS is Associate Professor of History at Kenyon College, Ohio. Number of Pages: 214 Dimensions: 0.84 x 9.62 x 6.42 IN Publication Date: March 12, 1987

Consumer Politics: Protecting Public Interests on Capitol Hill

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Report copyright infringementby Ardity Maney (Author), Loree Bykerk (With)This volume analyses the interaction of business lobbyists, consumer critics, and government officials for the first time in 20 years. It offers important new insights and revisionist views about the impact of consumer issue networks in the making of public policy in Congress during the 1980s and 1990s. It shows how consumer groups lobby Congressional committees and their leaders and staffers to reform legislation in ar...

Charitable Giving and Government Policy: An Economic Analysis

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Report copyright infringementby Jerald Alan Schiff (Author)Author Jerald Schiff presents a framework within which charitable behavior can be understood from an economist's viewpoint. He stresses the impact of various government fiscal policies on charitable giving, an issue of increasing importance in light of social welfare spending cuts and the Tax Reform Act of 1986. The book begins with an introduction of the issues involved and an explanation of how an economic analysis differs from that...

The French Socialists in Power, 1981-1986

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick McCarthy (Editor), Patrick McCarthy (Other)In 1981, in uneasy alliance with the Communists and amidst a storm of revolutionary rhetoric, the French Socialist party came to power for the first time since the founding of the Fifth Republic. The only full-length study of the subject yet written, this book looks at the realities beyond the rhetoric--how the Left came to power, what the Socialists achieved in the way of social change, where they failed to di...

Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day

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Report copyright infringementby Philip S. Foner (Author), David R. Roediger (Author)Our Own Time provides the first full account of the movement to shorten the working day in the United States. Combining the narrative and trade union emphasis of traditional labor history with the focus on culture and the labor process characteristic of contemporary labor history, the book offers an illuminating reinterpretation of the history of the U.S. labor movement from the colonial period onward. The aut...

Toward a Theory of Eurocommunism: The Relationship of Eurocommunism to Eurosocialism

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Report copyright infringementby Armen Antonian (Author)Author BiographyARMEN ANTONIAN, currently employed by General Telephone of California, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. Number of Pages: 199 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: April 03, 1987

Economic Policy and Planning in Third World Development

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Report copyright infringementby Pradip Ghosh (Author)Planning for economic and social progress has made considerable headway in the developing countries during the past two decades. Although the record shows a wide array of improvements by historical standards, many of the poorest countries and peoples remain untouched by progress. The seventeen articles collected in the first part of this resource book discuss fundamental issues and concerns such as the expansion and diversification of the p...

The Impact of Unionism on Wage-Income Ratios in the Manufacturing Sector of the Economy.

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Report copyright infringementby Norman James Simler (Author), Unknown (Author)This study examines the assertion that the growth of unionism since the 1930s has been associated with an increase in the relative income share of labor. More specifically, its main purpose is to test the hypothesis that there exists a positive correlation between the growth of unionism and changes in the ration of production workers' wages to value added by manufacture.Author Biographymler /f Norman /i J. ...

The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy - Paperback

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by Anand Giridharadas (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy--from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more--by the best-selling author of Winners Take All and award-winning former New York Times columnist "Anand Giridharadas shows the way we get real progressive change in America...

The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party - Paperback

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by Dana Milbank (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold on to political power by any means necessary, by a hugely popular Washington Post political columnist In 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and rabble-rouser Congressman Newt Gingrich stood outside the U.S. Capitol to sign the Contract with America and put bipartisanship on notice. Twenty-five years later, on January 6, 2021, a bloodthirs...

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism - Paperback

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by Rachel Maddow (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. "A ripping read--well rendered, fast-paced and delivered with the same punch and assurance that she brings to a broadcast. . . . The parallels to the present day are strong, even startling."--The ...

The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets - Paperback

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by Matthew Connelly (Author)SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE - Every day, thousands of new secrets are created by the United States government. What is all this secrecy really for? And whom does it benefit? "A brilliant, deeply unsettling look at the history and inner workings of 'the dark state'.... At a time when federal agencies are increasingly classifying or destroying documents with historical significance, this book could not be more important." --Eric Schlosser, New York Tim...

The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People - Paperback

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by Walter Russell Mead (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A groundbreaking work that overturns the conventional understanding of the Israeli-American relationship and, in doing so, explores how fundamental debates about American identity drive our country's foreign policy. "A sweeping and masterfully told history"--The New York Times In this bold examination of the Israeli-American relationship, Walter Russell Mead demolishes the myths that both pro-Zionists and anti-Zionists ha...

The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future - Paperback

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by Franklin Foer (Author)The instant New York Times bestseller! Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, with exclusive access to Biden's longtime team of advisers, and presents a gripping portrait of a president during this momentous time in our nation's history "We’ve read every Biden book, and Foer’s is by far the best study of Biden since Richard Ben Cramer’ What it Takes. You might love Biden or you might hate Biden, but eithe...

The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs Private Sector Myths - Paperback

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by Mariana Mazzucato (Author)Award-winning economist Mariana Mazzucato's famously incisive international bestseller debunking the pervasive myth of the inept state versus an innovative private sector--with a new preface by the author According to conventional wisdom, innovation is best left to the bold entrepreneurs of the private sector, and government should get out of the way. But what if that wasn't case? What if, from the inventions of Silicon Valley to medical breakthroughs, the public ...

Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World - Paperback

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by Rana Foroohar (Author)A sweeping case that a new age of economic localization will reunite place and prosperity, putting an end to the last half century of globalization--by one of the preeminent economic journalists writing today "This invaluable book is as bold in its ambitions as it is readable."--Ian Bremmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Crisis ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Kirkus Reviews At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Thomas Friedman, in The World I...

The Groundings with My Brothers - Paperback

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by Walter Rodney (Author)"I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together." - Walter Rodney In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deporta...

The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View - Paperback

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by Ellen Meiksins Wood (Author)An expanded new edition of the classic, pithy account of capitalism's origins--"a must read" for students of political theory and anyone interested in economic thought (Choice) How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe? In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the bi...

Economics and Policymaking: The Tragic Illusion

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Report copyright infringementby Eugene J. Meehan (Author)Author Biographyehan /f Eugene /i J. Number of Pages: 204 Dimensions: 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 28, 1982

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Report copyright infringementby Morton S. Baratz (Author)Author Biographyratz /f Morton /i S. Number of Pages: 170 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 08, 1983

Conflict and Accommodation: Coal Miners, Steel Workers, and Socialism, 1890-1920

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Nash (Author)Conflict and Accommodation focuses on the political behavior of the 600,000 men in the coal and steel industries, to reveal a fascinating correlation between labor-management conflict and the fortunes of American socialism. Nash presents data from election returns, newspapers, union journals, government reports, and taped interviews with retired coal miners to support the view that the alternation of conflict and accommodation, characterist...