Life and Labor on the Border - 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 Life and Labor on the Border write by Josiah McConnell Heyman. This book was released on 1991. Life and Labor on the Border available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the development over the past hundred years of the urban working class in northern Sonora. Drawing on an extensive collection of life histories, Heyman describes what has happened to families over several generations as people left the countryside to work for American-owned companies in northern Sonora or to cross the border to find other employment.
Seventy Years of Life and Labor
Seventy Years of Life and Labor - 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 Seventy Years of Life and Labor write by Samuel Gompers. This book was released on 1948. Seventy Years of Life and Labor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Life and Labor in the Old South
Life and Labor in the Old South - 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 Life and Labor in the Old South write by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips. This book was released on 2007. Life and Labor in the Old South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Celebrated as a classic work of historical literature, Life and Labor in the Old South (1929) represents the culmination of three decades of research and reflection on the social and economic systems of the antebellum South by the leading historian of African American slavery of the first half of the twentieth century. Life and Labor in the Old South represents both the strengths and weaknesses of first-rate scholarship by whites on the topics of antebellum African and African American slavery during the Jim Crow era. Deeply researched in primary sources, carefully focused on social and economic facets of slavery, and gracefully written, Phillips's germinal account set the standard for his contemporaries. Simultaneously the work is rife with elitism, racism, and reliance on sources that privilege white perspectives. Such contradictions between its content and viewpoint have earned Life and Labor in the Old South its place at the forefront of texts in the historiography of the antebellum South and African American slavery. The book is both a work of high scholarship and an example of the power of unexamined prejudices to affect such a work.
The Habit of Labor
The Habit of Labor - 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 The Habit of Labor write by Stef Wertheimer. This book was released on 2015-10-20. The Habit of Labor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “There’s no better way to explain the miracle of Israel than to examine the life of Stef Wertheimer . . . A story to be read by everyone” (Warren Buffett). Forced to flee Nazi Germany with his family at age ten, Stef Wertheimer came to British Palestine in the late 1930s. He promptly dropped out of school, learned a trade through apprenticeship, and played a meaningful role in Israel’s War of Independence. He also started a company—ISCAR—that began in a shed and ultimately made him one of the world’s great self-made industrialists. In The Habit of Labor, Wertheimer shares the lessons he learned from a life of hardship and struggle in one of the world’s newest industrial powers. Both a pragmatist and a visionary, Wertheimer has devoted much of his life to promoting Jewish and Arab economic development through innovative educational and vocational programs, along with the establishment of a series of thriving industrial parks in Israel and in Turkey. The future of Israel, he believes, is not in military might or diplomatic alliances but in its growing economic clout.
The Death and Life of American Labor
The Death and Life of American Labor - 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 The Death and Life of American Labor write by Stanley Aronowitz. This book was released on 2015-09-15. The Death and Life of American Labor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The decline of the American union movement—and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of labor Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he explains how this death has been a long time coming—the organizing and political principles adopted by US unions at mid-century have taken a terrible toll. In the 1950s, Aronowitz was a factory metalworker. In the ’50s and ’60s, he directed organizing with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers. In 1963, he coordinated the labor participation for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Ten years later, the publication of his book False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness was a landmark in the study of the US working-class and workers’ movements. Aronowitz draws on this long personal history, reflecting on his continuing involvement in labor organizing, with groups such as the Professional Staff Congress of the City University. He brings a historian’s understanding of American workers’ struggles in taking the long view of the labor movement. Then, in a survey of current initiatives, strikes, organizations, and allies, Aronowitz analyzes the possibilities of labor’s rebirth, and sets out a program for a new, broad, radical workers’ movement.
