Labor Versus Empire

Labor Versus Empire
Title Labor Versus Empire PDF eBook
Author Gilbert G. Gonzalez
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 287
Release 2004
Genre History
ISBN 0415948142

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The essays in this collection address issues significant to labor within regional, national and international contexts. Themes of the chapters will focus on managed labor migration; organizing in multi-ethnic and multi-national contexts; global economics and labor; global economics and inequality; gender and labor; racism and globalization; regional trade agreements and labor.




Empire of Timber

Empire of Timber
Title Empire of Timber PDF eBook
Author Erik Loomis
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 263
Release 2016
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1107125499

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This is the first book to center labor unions as actors in American environmental policy.




Workers and Dissent in the Redwood Empire

Workers and Dissent in the Redwood Empire
Title Workers and Dissent in the Redwood Empire PDF eBook
Author Daniel A. Cornford
Publisher
Pages 296
Release 1987
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN

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This excellent community history of the lumber region around Eureka, California, deserves a wide readership. Cornford (San Francisco State) takes on a big question: How did the radical "republican" tradition of the American Revolution lead to the conservative corporate hierarchy of the 20th century? His case study looks at how timber and sawmill workers' attitudes toward work and politics changed from the Civil War to World War I. The author sees 19th-century America's stress on equality as double-edged: critical of the corporate enterprise, yet accommodating to paternalistic capitalism. Nineteen hundred divides US history between republic and empire; in Eureka, workers briefly developed a sense of class struggle before the mill owners permanently defeated them. Highly recommended. James W. Oberly, Univ. Of Wisconsin-Eau Claire




Labor Versus Empire

Labor Versus Empire
Title Labor Versus Empire PDF eBook
Author Gilbert G. Gonzalez
Publisher Routledge
Pages 286
Release 2004-08-02
Genre History
ISBN 1135935297

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The essays in this collection address issues significant to labor within regional, national and international contexts. Themes of the chapters will focus on managed labor migration; organizing in multi-ethnic and multi-national contexts; global economics and labor; global economics and inequality; gender and labor; racism and globalization; regional trade agreements and labor.




Empire of Cotton

Empire of Cotton
Title Empire of Cotton PDF eBook
Author Sven Beckert
Publisher Vintage
Pages 642
Release 2015-11-10
Genre History
ISBN 0375713964

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WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. “Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.




Empire's Tracks

Empire's Tracks
Title Empire's Tracks PDF eBook
Author Manu Karuka
Publisher University of California Press
Pages 318
Release 2019-01-29
Genre History
ISBN 0520296648

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Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial foundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisited interdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionary border policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism. This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how the transcontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire.




Guest Workers or Colonized Labor?

Guest Workers or Colonized Labor?
Title Guest Workers or Colonized Labor? PDF eBook
Author Gilbert G. Gonzalez
Publisher Routledge
Pages 268
Release 2015-11-17
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1317264800

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A decade of political infighting over comprehensive immigration reform appears at an end, after the 2012 election motivated the Republican Party to work with the Democratic Party's immigration reform agendas. However, a guest worker program within current reform proposals is generally overlooked by the public and by activist organizations. Also overlooked is significant corporate lobbying that affects legislation. This updated edition critically examines the new guest worker program included in the White House and Congressional bipartisan committee s immigration reform blueprints and puts the debate into historical and contemporary contexts. It describes how the influential U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO agreed on guidelines for a new guest worker program to be included in the plan. Gonzalez shows how guest worker programs stand within a history of utilizing controlled, cheap, disposable labor with lofty projections rarely upheld. For courses in a wide variety of disciplines, this timely text taps into trends toward teaching immigration politics and policy.Features of the New Edition"