Cross Border Blues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cross Border Blues write by National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice. This book was released on 1998. Cross Border Blues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Empires and Walls
Empires and Walls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empires and Walls write by Mohammed Chaichian. This book was released on 2013-11-15. Empires and Walls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do empires build walls and fences? Are they for defensive purposes only, to keep the ‘barbarians’ at the gate; or do they also function as complex offensive military structures to subjugate and control the colonized? Are the colonized subjects also capable of erecting barriers to shield themselves from colonial onslaughts? In Empires and Walls Mohammad A. Chaichian meticulously examines the rise and fall of the walls that are no longer around; as well as impending fate of ‘neo-liberal’ barriers that imperial and colonial powers have erected in the new Millennium. Based on four years of extensive historical and field-based research Chaichian provides compelling evidence that regardless of their rationale and functions, walls always signal the fading power of an empire.
Behind the Label
Behind the Label - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Behind the Label write by Edna Bonacich. This book was released on 2000-06-28. Behind the Label available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a study crucial to our understanding of American social inequality, Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum investigate the return of sweatshops to the apparel industry, especially in Los Angeles. The "new" sweatshops, they say, need to be understood in terms of the decline in the American welfare state and its strong unions and the rise in global and flexible production. Apparel manufacturers now have the incentive to move production to wherever low-wage labor can be found, while maintaining arm's-length contractual relations that protect them from responsibility. The flight of the industry has led to a huge rise in apparel imports to the United States and to a decline in employment. Los Angeles, however, remains a puzzling exception in that its industry employment has continued to grow, to the point where L.A. is the largest center of apparel production in the nation. Not only the availability of low-wage immigrant (often undocumented) workers but also the focus on moderately priced, fashion-sensitive women's wear makes this possible. Behind the Label examines the players in the L.A. apparel industry, including manufacturers, retailers, contractors, and workers, evaluating the maldistribution of wealth and power. The authors explore government and union efforts to eradicate sweatshops while limiting the flight to Mexico and elsewhere, and they conclude with a description of the growing antisweatshop movement. Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of 2000
Cross-Border Cosmopolitans
Cross-Border Cosmopolitans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cross-Border Cosmopolitans write by Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey. This book was released on 2022-12-06. Cross-Border Cosmopolitans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. African American history from 1900 to 2000 cannot be told without accounting for the significant influence of Pan-African thought, just as the story of twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy cannot be told without accounting for fears of an African World. In the early 1900s, Marcus Garvey and his followers perceived the North American mainland, particularly Canada following U.S. authorities' deportation of Garvey to Jamaica, as a forward-operating base from which to liberate the Black masses from colonialism. After World War II, Vietnam War resisters, Black Panthers, and Caribbean students joined the throngs of cross-border migrants to denounce militarism, imperialism, and capitalism. In time, as urban uprisings proliferated in northern U.S. cities, the prospect of coalitions among the Black Power, Red Power, and Quebecois Power movements inspired U.S. and Canadian intelligence services to collaborate, infiltrate, and sabotage Black organizations across North America. Assassinations of "Black messiahs" further radicalized revolutionaries, rekindling the dream for an African World from Washington, D.C., to Toronto to San Francisco to Antigua to Grenada and back to Africa. Alarmed, Washington's national security elites invoked the Cold War as the reason to counter the triangulation of Black Power in the Atlantic World, funneling arms clandestinely from the United States and Canada to the Caribbean and then to its proxies in southern Africa. By contending that twentieth-century global Black liberation movements began within the U.S.-Canadian borderlands as cross-border, continental struggles, Cross-Border Cosmopolitans reveals the revolutionary legacies of the Underground Railroad and America's Great Migration and the hemispheric and transatlantic dimensions of this history.
Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy
Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy write by . This book was released on 1999. Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
