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Free Download Swings and Misses: Moribund Labor Relations in Professional Baseball By Kenneth M. Jennings
1997 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0275957977 | PDF | 3 MB
In this follow-up to Balls and Strikes: The Money Game in Professional Baseball (Praeger, 1990), Jennings examines the state of professional baseball’s labor relations during a nearly 25 year period, focusing on the background and the outcome of the 1994 baseball strike. Jennings concludes by suggesting ways to improve future labor relations in the sport.While the entire professional sports industry generates less revenue than sales of Fruit of the Loom underwear, a lengthy strike in professional baseball assures a national notoriety far beyond its economic impact. When the 1994 strike was underway, scores of members of Congress were involved in related investigations and legislation, while President Clinton invoked the public interest in his efforts to resolve the dispute.

Free Download Christopher H. Johnson, "Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950 "
English | ISBN: 0814344836 | 2018 | 336 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
It was Maurice Sugar, labor activist and lawyer for the United Auto Workers, who played a key role in guiding the newly-formed union through the treacherous legal terrain obstructing its development in the 1930s. He orchestrated the injunction hearings on the Dodge Main strike and defended the legality of the sit-down tactic. As the UAW’s General Council, he wrote the union’s constitution in 1939, a model of democratic thinking. Sugar worked with George Addes, UAW Secretary-Treasurer, to nurture rank-and-file power. A founder of the National Lawyers’ Guild, Sugar also served as a member of Detroit’s Common Council at the head of a UAW "labor" ticket.

Free Download Joseph G. Rayback, "History of American Labor"
English | 1966 | ISBN: 0029258502 | EPUB | pages: 504 | 2.1 mb
Joseph Rayback’s updated and comprehensive history of the American labor movement.

Free Download Labor in America: A History By Melvyn Dubofsky; Joseph A. McCartin
2017 | 496 Pages | ISBN: 1118976843 | EPUB | 16 MB
This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns of today’s teachers and students. As issues of growing inequality, stagnating incomes, declining unionization, and exacerbated job insecurity have increasingly come to define working life over the last 20 years, a new generation of students and teachers is beginning to seek to understand labor and its place and ponder seriously its future in American life. Like its predecessors, this ninth edition of our classic survey of American labor is designed to introduce readers to the subject in an engaging, accessible way.

Free Download Michael D. Yates, "Wisconsin Uprising: labor fights back"
English | 2012 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 158367280X, 1583672818 | PDF | 1,2 mb
In early 2011, the nation was stunned to watch Wisconsin’s state capitol in Madison come under sudden and unexpected occupation by union members and their allies. The protests to defend collective bargaining rights were militant and practically unheard of in this era of declining union power. Nearly forty years of neoliberalism and the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression have battered the labor movement, and workers have been largely complacent in the face of stagnant wages, slashed benefits and services, widening unemployment, and growing inequality.

Free Download The Labor Wars: From the Molly Maguires to the Sit Downs (Jon Kelley Wright Workers’ Memorial Books) By Sidney Lens
2009 | 372 Pages | ISBN: 1931859701 | PDF | 19 MB
The rise of the American labor movement was characterized by bloody and revolutionary battles. From the first famous martyrs, the Molly Maguires in the Pennsylvania coal fields in the nineteenth century, to the crucial workers’ victory of the 1930s in the sit-down strikes against General Motors, it has a history of pitched battles that frequently erupted into open warfare.This is also the story of the factional wars within the American labor movement itself and of the great leaders it generated: Eugene Debs, Samuel Gompers, William Z. Foster, Bill Haywood, John L. Lewis, Walter Reuther, and many more-some of them Sidney Lens’ personal friends.There have been no revolutions in the United States since the first one in 1776. The closest America has come to revolution has been the Labor Wars, each one of which has been, in a sense, a revolution-in-microcosm. The strikers in these industrial fl are-ups confronted not only the power of their employers but, ultimately, that of the State . . . and in the process there was always the possibility of a widening and escalating conflict bordering on insurrection.Sidney Lens (1912-1986) was the author of many books about labor and radical movements in the United States, including The Forging of the American Empire (republished in 2003 by Haymarket Books and Pluto Press). He was a candidate for the Senate for the Citizens Party and an editor at The Progressive.

Free Download Jaesok Kim, "Chinese Labor in a Korean Factory: Class, Ethnicity, and Productivity on the Shop Floor in Globalizing China"
English | 2013 | pages: 305 | ISBN: 080478454X | PDF | 12,4 mb
Chinese Labor in a Korean Factorydraws on fieldwork in a multinational corporation (MNC) in Qingdao, China, and delves deep into the power dynamics at play between Korean management, Chinese migrant workers, local-level Chinese government officials, and Chinese local gangs. Anthropologist Jaesok Kim examines how governments, to attract MNCs, relinquish parts of their legal rights over these entities, while MNCs also give up portions of their rights as proxies of global capitalism by complying with local government guidelines to ensure infrastructure and cheap labor. This ethnography demonstrates how a particular MNC struggled with the pressure to be increasingly profitable while negotiating the clash of Korean and Chinese cultures, traditions, and classes on the factory floor of a garment corporation. Chinese Labor in a Korean Factory pays particular attention to common features of post-socialist countries. By analyzing the contentious collaboration between foreign management, factory workers, government officials, and gangs, this study contributes not only to the research on the politics of resistance but also to how global and local forces interact in concrete and surprising ways.

Free Download American Labor Struggles: 1877-1934 By Samuel Yellen
1998 | 377 Pages | ISBN: 0873488741 | PDF | 9 MB
Engravings from news periodicals, notes, references, index.

Free Download Richard Greenwald, Daniel Katz, "Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America"
English | 2012 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1595585184 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
When Wisconsin governor Scott Walker threatened the collective bargaining rights of the state’s public sector employees in early 2011, the massive protests that erupted inresponse put the labor movement back on the nation’s front pages. It was a fleeting reminder of a not-so-distant past when the "labor question"―and the power of organized labor―was part and parcel of a century-long struggle for justice and equality in America.

Free Download Jonathan Preminger, "Labor in Israel: Beyond Nationalism and Neoliberalism"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 150171712X | PDF | pages: 253 | 2.1 mb
Using a comprehensive analysis of the wave of organizing that swept the country starting in 2007, Labor in Israel investigates the changing political status of organized labor in the context of changes to Israel’s political economy, including liberalization, the rise of non-union labor organizations, the influx of migrant labor, and Israel’s complex relations with the Palestinians. Through his discussion of organized labor’s relationship to the political community and its nationalist political role, Preminger demonstrates that organized labor has lost the powerful status it enjoyed for much of Israel’s history. Despite the weakening of trade unions and the Histadrut, however, he shows the ways in which the fragmentation of labor representation has created opportunities for those previously excluded from the labor movement regime.