Analyzes the nineteenth century canal age in the Niagara-Great Lakes borderland region as a transnational phenomenon.

Uses two case studies to demonstrate how neoliberal reforms in India have de-democratized labor politics.

The story of the Erie Canal’s completion and its place in the larger narrative of American modernity and progress.

Veteran labor journalist Richard Steier explores the tensions between New York City's public employee unions, their critics, and city and state politicians.

Traces the emergence of creative texts focusing on the nineteenth-century slave trade to make sense of the radicalized effects of global capitalism.

Examines the metaphors of the “primitive” and the “industrial” in the rhetoric and imagery of anticapitalist American radical and revolutionary movements.

Explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women.

Examines the relationship of precarious employment to state policies on citizenship and social inclusion in the context of postapartheid South Africa.

New edition of Aihwa Ong’s classic ethnographic study of Malay women factory workers.

This diverse collection rethinks and reinvigorates the field of labor process.

This is an oral and local history of the coal mining town of Donetsk in the Ukraine. The workers describe their changing political and economic goals and their reaction to Western culture, the rising tides of nationalism and religion.

This book tells the story of the rise and decline of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) from 1933 to 1990. Once the third-largest industrial union in the United States, ...

Democratic Miners traces the history of work and labor relations in the anthracite coal industry, focusing on conditions that led up to, and followed, the famous strike of 1902. That strike, an epic five-and-a-half-month ...