To Advance Their Opportunities
To Advance Their Opportunities

Author: Judson MacLaury

Publisher: Newfound Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780979729232

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This narrative synthesizes the fifty-year story of the struggle to make the federal government more responsive to the plight of African American workers and the efforts to make the nation's workplaces significantly more fair and just towards this long-oppressed population. Useful to scholars but accessible to all, To Advance Their Opportunities is an engaging portrait of the role of government in seeking to realize the goal of a color-blind society of equals. Book jacket.

Revolutionary Teamsters
Revolutionary Teamsters

Author: Bryan D. Palmer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-08-22

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9004254862

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Minneapolis in the early 1930s was anything but a union stronghold. An employers' association known as the Citizens' Alliance kept labour organisations in check, at the same time as it cultivated opposition to radicalism in all forms. This all changed in 1934. The year saw three strikes, violent picket-line confrontations, and tens of thousands of workers protesting in the streets. Bryan D. Palmer tells the riveting story of how a handful of revolutionary Trotskyists, working in the largely non-union trucking sector, led the drive to organise the unorganised, to build one large industrial union. What emerges is a compelling narrative of class struggle, a reminder of what can be accomplished, even in the worst of circumstances, with a principled and far-seeing leadership.

Farm Workers, Agribusiness, and the State
Farm Workers, Agribusiness, and the State

Author: Linda C. Majka

Publisher:

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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Historical account of the social conflict between agricultural workers and agribusiness, and the role of state intervention in California, USA - analyses agricultural trade unionism since 1870, immigration of Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans and Filipinos, and its regulation; examines the economic recession of the 1930s, rise of rural worker organizations, internal migration, and state-enrolled contract labour; reports on the formation of the United Farm Workers and its struggle for trade union recognition, opposition, and state mediation. Bibliography.

Mobsters, Unions, and Feds
Mobsters, Unions, and Feds

Author: James B. Jacobs

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2007-05

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0814742947

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The first book to document organized labor and the massive federal clean-up effort.

Against Global Apartheid
Against Global Apartheid

Author: Patrick Bond

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781842773932

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In 'Against Global Apartheid', Patrick Bond reveals the extent of the economic and human damage caused by policies implemented by World Bank and the IMF in developing countries, particularly South Africa, and argues that there is another way to more socially just economic development.