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 October 2005
Reclaiming the Ivory
Tower: Organizing
Adjuncts to Change Higher Education by Joe Berry
Reclaiming the
Ivory Tower examines the situation of adjunct professors in U.S. higher
education today, describes the process of organizing them to improve their
conditions of work, and puts forward and agenda around which adjunct labor can
mobilize and transform the university system.
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 Insurgent Images:
The Agitprop Murals of
Mike Alewitz by Paul Buhle and Mike Alewitz
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“A vibrant,
full-color presentation of the vivid and powerfully themed mural artworks done
by Alewitz, an outspoken labor activist since the 1970s. Presenting a strong
political theme of worker's rights and solidarity, capturing the imagination
with its outspoken message, and offered alongside a sensible commentary that
places pieces in context to the labor and humanitarian issues they illustrated,
Insurgent Images is a stunning collection of art created to serve
showcase and advance the cause of worker and human rights.”—The
Midwest Book Review
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 Labor Pains:
Inside America’s New
Union Movement by Suzan Erem
“I love it! It's
about time somebody wrote about union organizing as the adventure it truly is!
I hope this is the beginning of a whole new era in labor writing, which has
historically been all too dry. Labor Pains is a great
read.”—Barbara Ehrenreich
“Labor
Pains captures the complex hard love that working within today’s labor
movement entails. Through Suzan Erem’s very readable stories we get a
sometimes troubling, sometimes heartening, and mostly very real sense of the
day to day struggles of a union trying to do right by its members and its
vision, in an ever more challenging environment for workers and
unions.…”—Kate Bronfenbrenner
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 Labor and Monopoly
Capital: The
Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (25th Anniversary Ed.) by Harry
Braverman
“The best analysis
of the division of labor between the design and the execution of industrial
production.”—New York Review of Books
This widely acclaimed
work, first published in 1974, overturned the reigning ideologies of academic
sociology and became the standard text for many basic areas of sociological
inquiry, including the science of managerial control, the relationship of
technological innovation to social class, and the eradication of skill from
work under capitalism.
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 Why Unions Matter
by Michael D.
Yates
“Written in a
personal, anecdotal style, yet well documented, this book is particularly
successful in the chapters that focus on the nuts and bolts of union activities
(collective bargaining, structures, organizing), an area largely ignored by
current business and political literature.”—Library
Journal
“Summarizes
current academic research in a refreshingly direct and readable style …
Yates has provided valuable insights into the nuts-and-bolts challenges that
face modern day unions and workers.”—Labor History
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 Meatpackers:
An Oral History of Black
Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality by
Rick Halpern and Roger Horowitz
“The stories are
dramatically and richly told, and they offer insights no scholarly study can
quite adequately provide.”—Journal of American History
“If ever there
was a book our young needed, it is Meatpackers—it reveals an epoch
in which trade unions fought and won whatever rights working people possess
today. With these rights constantly imperiled, this book is mandatory
reading.”—Studs Terkel
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 A New Labor Movement for a New
Century edited by
Gregory Mantsios
“An excellent source
capturing progressive sentiment in a critical moment in organized labor’s
history.”—Labor History
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 Not Automatic:
Women and the Left in the
Forging of the Auto Workers' Union by Sol Dollinger and Genora Johnson
Dollinger
“This valuable
work… makes an important contribution to our understanding of the
formative years of the United Automobile Workers…”—Labor/Le
Travail
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 Rising from the Ashes:
Labor in the Age of
“Global” Capitalism edited by Ellen Meiksins Wood Peter Meiksins, and
Michael D. Yates
Rising from the
Ashes? takes on the hottest issues being debated by scholars and labor
activists, including the changing composition of the international working
class, patterns of work under contemporary capitalism, the relationship of race
and gender to class, the promise and limitations of recent eruptions of labor
militancy, and the strategic options available to working people in an age
“global” capitalism.
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 Taking Care of Business:
Samuel Gompers, George
Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor by Paul Buhle
“Taking Care of
Business catapults the reader through a panorama of American and social and
labor history of the past 125 years … Buhle’s knowledge of the
American working class and the political forces it unleashed is encyclopedic.
His synthesis of the work of recent generations of labor and social historians
in documenting the lost opportunities for labor unions to address broad social
concerns and remake themselves into vibrant and inclusive class organizations
is impressive.”—New Labor Forum
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