Labor & Industrial Relations
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Valley So Low: One Lawyer’s Fight for Justice in the Wake of America’s Great Coal Catastrophe
$30.00 Add to cartA riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history–and the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that, in America, just… [more below]
- Author: Sullivan, Jared
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0593321111
- Language: English
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Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice
$30.00 Read moreHow essential workers’ fight for better jobs during the pandemic revolutionized US labor politics
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and- Author: McCallum, Jamie K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541619919
- Language: English
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Building More Effective Unions
$24.95 Add to cartEmployers have long turned to behavioral science for guidance on making their organizations more effective. Labor scholar Paul F. Clark believes union leaders should also take advantage of the valuabl
- Author: Clark, Paul F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: March 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0801475198
- Language: English
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After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back
$31.18 Add to cartManagement & Workplace Culture Book of the Year, 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards
A Publishers Weekly Fall 2020 Big Indie Book The dark side of the gig economy (Uber, Airbnb, etc.) and how to make- Author: Schor, Juliet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 520325052
- Language: English
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A Trucker’s Tale: Wit, Wisdom, and True Stories from 60 Years on the Road
$16.99 Add to cartWit, wisdom, adventure, and revelations from sixty years on the road.
They say that only truck drivers experience the true grandeur and landscape of America: the winding mountainsides at sunrise, the f
- Author: Miller, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1954641818
- Language: English
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Teamster Rebellion
$16.00 Read moreThe 1934 strikes that built the industrial union movement in Minneapolis and helped pave the way for the CIO, recounted by a central leader of that battle. The first in a four-volume series on the cla
- Series: Teamster
- Author: Dobbs, Farrell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 01, 2018
- ISBN10: 087348973X
- Language: English
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Holding the Line
$20.95 Add to cartHolding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver’s first non-fiction book, is the story of women’s lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and par
- Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: December 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0801483891
- Language: English
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Labor Power and Strategy
$16.95 Add to cartWhat would it take to topple Amazon? To change how health care works in America? To break up the media monopolies that have taken hold of our information and imaginations? How is it possible to organi
- Author: Womack Jr, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639745
- Language: English
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On the Line: Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build a Union
$16.99 Read more“Lyrical . . . candid, clear-eyed and utterly engrossing, Pitkin’s writing couldn’t come at a better–or more necessary–time.” –Jessica Bruder, New York Times bestselling author of Nomadland
“A riv- Author: Pitkin, Daisy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1643753398
- Language: English
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A History of America in Ten Strikes
$25.48 Add to cartRecommended by The Nation, the New Republic, Current Affairs, Bustle, In These Times
An “entertaining, tough-minded, and strenuously argued” (The Nation) account of ten moments when workers fought to- Author: Loomis, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1620976277
- Language: English
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A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
$22.00 Add to cartFrom longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracy
For decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system
- Author: McAlevey, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 27, 2021
- ISBN10: 006290860X
- Language: English
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Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions
$21.99 Add to cart“Elected leaders come and go, but public unions just say no.” Hiding in plain sight is a fatal defect of modern democracy. Public employee unions have a death grip on the operating machinery of govern
- Author: Howard, Philip K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1957588128
- Language: English
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Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics
A renowned economic historian traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between co- Author: Goldin, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691228663
- Language: English
