Garland Studies in the History of American Labor
Trade Unions and the Betrayal of the Unemployed: Labor Conflicts During the 1990's
1st Edition
By Immanuel Ness
April 17, 2019
This book examines the problematic relationship between unions and the unemployed in New York City during the 1990's. Historically, trade unions in the U.S. have had an interest in the political mobilization of the jobless to expand unemployment insurance and lessen the threat of lower wages, ...
The Necessity of Organization: Mary Kenney O'Sullivan and Trade Unionism for Women, 1892-1912
1st Edition
By Kathleen B. Nutter
March 20, 2019
The Necessity of Organization describes Mary Kenney O'Sullivan's struggle to improve labor conditions through trade unionism. Appointed the first woman organizer for the American Federation of Labor in 1892, she went on to be a co-founder of the Women's Trade Union League, formed in 1903 as a ...
The New Labor Radicalism and New York City's Garment Industry: Progressive Labor Insurgents During the 1960s
1st Edition
By Leigh David Benin
February 04, 2019
First published in 2000. This study examines how Progressive Labor, an antirevisionist offshoot of the Communist Party USA, attempted to revolutionize the labor front in New York City’s garment industry during the 1960s. An ideologically driven group, whose founders were loyal to Stalinism and ...
Race, Space and Youth Labor Markets
1st Edition
By Michael A. Stoll
January 23, 2019
The purpose of this book is to examine whether physical distance from jobs or racial discrimination in youth labor markets explains a greater part of minority youth’s employment problems. First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Underemployment Among Asians in the United States: Asian Indian, Filipino, and Vietnamese Workers
1st Edition
By Anna B. Madamba
January 16, 2019
Contrary to the stereotype which depicts them as economic successes, Asian workers have a high incidence of underemployment when compared to white workers. This book integrates immigration and labor market trends into an analysis of the economic assimilation of Asians in the U.S. It examines four ...
The Assimilation of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market: Employment and Labor Force Turnover
1st Edition
By Michael E. Hurst
August 08, 2016
This book analyzes the labor market adjustment processes of immigrants in the United States. Newly-arrived immigrants earn less, work fewer weeks, and have higher rates of unemployment than native-born workers. After a period of assimilation, these conditions later converge to, and often surpass,...
A Strategic Model of Temporary Staffing
1st Edition
By Kay Glasgow
July 29, 2016
This book examines the relationship between competitive strategies and the use of temporary employees....
Mexican Migration to the United States: The Role of Migration Networks and Human Capital Accumulation
1st Edition
By Steven S. Zahniser
June 30, 2016
Contrary to the thinking of some U.S. policymakers, changing macroeconomic conditions in the both the U.S. and Mexico have little effect on Mexican migration. This book evaluates the importance of family networks and human capital accumulation in the migration decisions of Mexican households. ...
Immigrant Women's Lives: Weaving Garment Work and Legislative Policy
1st Edition
By Ruth A. Charles
August 25, 2015
First published in 1999. Driven by the interest of the author this study looks at the lives of immigrant women in central New York who are working in the garment industry in hope that by raising awareness Congress will current review legislation when its highlighted how it affects these women and ...
Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market: Roots in the 1919 Steel Strike
1st Edition
By Cliff Brown
June 23, 2015
This book focuses on community-level race relations during the 1919 Steel Strike, when intense job competition contributed to racial conflict among the nation's steel workers. As the Great Migration brought thousands of black workers to northern cities, their lower labor costs generated racially ...
Development and Main Outlines of Rawls's Theory of Justice: Philosophy of Rawls
1st Edition
Edited
By Henry Richardson, Paul Weithman
November 01, 1999
John Rawls is the pre-eminent political philosopher of our time. His 1971 masterpiece, A Theory of Justice, permanently changed the landscape of moral and political theory, revitalizing the normative study of social issues and taking stands about justice, ethics, rationality, and philosophical ...
The Ideology of the Socialist Party of America, 1901T1917
1st Edition
By Anthony V. Esposito
February 01, 1997
Examining the propaganda literature issued by the Socialist Party before World War I, this study investigates how the party shaped its appeal to an American audience. With the rise of an anti-monopoly reform movement after 1908 that rejected all notions of class, and socialist success in some city ...