Students, scholars, labor leaders, and activists should all read this magnificent book.”-Steve Striffler, author ofIn the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, ...
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 ...
This important book contains case studies with substantive analysis of Chinese workers in a variety of settings: state enterprises, urban collectives, township and village enterprises, domestic private enterprises, and foreign funded ...
'Based upon prodigious research, this book carefully assesses the diversity of workers' social experience, examining African-American and Mexican workers as well as eastern and southern Europeans.
This devastating critique by the authors of The Deindustrialization of America documents how the economic policies of the Reagan era have damaged the American standard of living and suggests how this trend may be reversed.