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1	Labor & Employment Law, Text & Cases more books like this by David P Twomey add to wishlist Written by a nationally renowned White House labour mediator, this edition continues its comprehensive treatment of labour and employment law. In-depth chapters explore pay equity and age discrimination, disability discrimination laws and workers' compensation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.17! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The enemy within. more books like this by Robert F. Kennedy add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $53.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Labor Law in a Nutshell more books like this by Douglas L Leslie add to wishlist Early Regulation by Law and a Statutory Overview; NLRB Structure and Procedure; Selecting a Bargaining Representative; Organizational Picketing; Employer Economic Responses to Concerted Employee Activity; Secondary Boycotts, Hot Cargo Agreements, Union Jurisdictional Disputes and Featherbedding; Duty to Bargain; Labor and the Antitrust Laws; ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Why Unions Matter more books like this by Michael Yates add to wishlist In this new edition of Why Unions Matter, Michael D. Yates shows why unions still matter. Unions mean better pay, benefits, and working conditions for their members; they force employers to treat employees with dignity and respect; and at their best, they provide a way for workers to make society both more democratic and egalitarian. Yates uses ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.05! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics more books like this by Seymour Martin Lipset add to wishlist "The most important single volume on the sociology of voting yet to appear in the United States or anywhere else."--Political Science Quarterly."Lipset has once again demonstrated his preeminence in the fields of both sociology and political science."--Commentary. see all copies from $2.12! SVS
6	Mobbed Up: Jackie Presser's High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the F.B.I. more books like this by James Neff add to wishlist Here is a vivid portrait of Jackie Presser's high-wire life in the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the FBI. "60 Minutes" to air 1-hour broadcast this month. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Confessions of a Union Buster more books like this by Martin Jay Levitt, Marty Levitt, Terry C Toczynski add to wishlist A former union buster exposes the dirty tricks that elevated him to the top of his profession and that have transformed the war on organized labor into a billion-dollar-per-year industry. This is the story of a man coming in from the cold to share hard lessons. see all copies from $29.86! new only from $99.00!
8	Hoffa more books like this by Arthur A Sloane add to wishlist Arthur Sloane, as a Harvard graduate student, first met Jimmy Hoffa in 1962 and he has been fascinated by this powerful and contradictory figure ever since. Nearly three decades after that first encounter, Sloane has written a biography of the late Teamster leader, having been given full access to Hoffa's family, friends, and professional ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.50! \| SVS
9	Lonely crusade more books like this by Chester Himes add to wishlist A young black man becomes a labor organizer during World War II while wrestling with the challenges of being black in America. see all copies from $2.98! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 more books like this by David Montgomery add to wishlist This book studies the changing ways in which American industrial workers mobilised concerted action in their own interests between the abolition of slavery and the end of open immigration from Europe and Asia. Sustained class conflict between 1916 and 1922 reshaped governmental and business policies, but left labour largely unorganised and in ... see all copies from $3.46! new only from $21.79! \| first editions \| SVS
11	From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America's Future more books like this by Professor Stanley Aronowitz add to wishlist A former trade-union organizer and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York traces the decline and reemergence of American labor over the last quarter-century.. Noted labor expert Stanley Aronowitz provides a definitive assessment of the last twenty-five years of labor history. He argues that unions have historically ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Labor Relations: Development, Structure, Process more books like this by John A Fossum add to wishlist In response to market demand, this book was developed to provide coverage of advanced tax topics. It is ideal for students who studied principles of taxation for business and investment planning in their introductory course. The tax consequences of many sophisticated business, financial, and personal wealth-planning transactions are explored. Each ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle more books like this by Michael K Honey add to wishlist The labour of black workers has been crucial to economic development in the United States. Yet because of racism and segregation, their contribution remains largely unknown. Spanning the 1930s to the present, "Black Workers Remember" tells the hidden history of African American workers in their own words. It provides firsthand accounts of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14	A Whole Different Ball Game: The Sport and Business of Baseball more books like this by Marvin Miller add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town more books like this by Steven Babson add to wishlist see all copies from $7.60! new only from $29.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Labor Wars: From the Molly Maguires to the Sitdowns more books like this by Sidney Lens add to wishlist The rise of the American labor movement was characterized by bloody and revolutionary battles. From the first famous martyrs, the Molly Maguires in the Pennsylvania coal fields in the nineteenth century, to the crucial workers' victory of the 1930s in the sit-down strikes against General Motors, it has a history of pitched battles that frequently ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.78! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers more books like this by Michael K Honey add to wishlist This book chronicles the rarely studied southern industrial union movement from the Great Depression to the cold war, using the strategically located river city of Memphis as a case study. Honey analyzes the economic basis of segregation and the denial of fundamental human rights and civil liberties it entailed. see all copies from $10.71! new only from $24.00! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back more books like this by Thomas Geoghegan add to wishlist Tom Geoghegan was at Harvard Law School when he had his first brush with organized labor, as dissident coal miners sought to wrest their union from the grip of a corrupt leadership. He emerged with a firm commitment to the worker--and a keen eye for the ironies of his chosen career. Now he creates a portrait of labor under siege in the 1980s. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies more books like this by Kate Bronfenbrenner (Editor), Ronald L Seeber (Editor), Rudolph A Oswald (Editor) add to wishlist At a time when the American labor movement is mobilizing for a major resurgence through new organizing, here, at last, is a book about research on union organizing strategies. Previous studies have focused on factors contributing to union decline, devoting little attention to the organizing process itself. The twenty chapters in this volume ... see all copies from $14.07! new only from $18.96! \| SVS
20 view cover	Indispensable Enemy: Labor & the Anti-Chinese Movement in CA more books like this by Alexander Saxton add to wishlist Winner of the California Silver Medal, Commonwealth Club of California, this is a study of Californian history. It makes special reference to Chinese immigration as a crucial issue in the development of organized labour in California during the last third of the 19th century. see all copies from $4.73! new only from $21.95! \| SVS
21 view cover	Injury to All: The Decline of American Unionism more books like this by Kim Moody add to wishlist Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes. In this first comprehensive history of the labor movement from Truman to Reagan, Kim Moody shows how the AFL-CIO's conservative ideology of 'business unionism' effectively disarmed unions in face of a domestic right turn and an epochal shift ... see all copies from $4.48! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| SVS
22 view cover	Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy more books like this by Kim Moody add to wishlist This is a comprehensive study of current labour relations worldwide. It surveys both sides of the picket lines, and provides an assessment of multinational managements' strategies to downsize, introduce flexible production and compel workers to accept less pay for more work. The book emphasizes the need, in the face of these changes, for ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $25.95! \| SVS
23	What Do Unions Do? more books like this by Richard B. Freeman, James L. Medoff add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24 view cover	Autobiography of Mother Jones. more books like this by Mother Jones add to wishlist In this classic work of American nonfiction the greatest labor organizer in US history details her three quarter century fight for labor's liberation, and her unswerving belief in industrial unionism as the key to that struggle. I n steel, railroading, metal mining, textiles, and above all, the coal industry, Mother Jones fought alongside strikers ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.05! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975 more books like this by Brigid O'Farrell (Editor), Joyce L Kornbluh (Editor) add to wishlist Rocking the Boat recognizes the strong, committed women who helped to build the American labor movement. Through the stories of eleven women from a wide range of backgrounds, we experience the turmoil, hardships, and accomplishments of thousands of other union women activists through the period spanning the Great Depression, the New Deal, World ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $24.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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