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Labor'S Story In The United States

de Philip Nicholson

93,28€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Giving an overview of labor in the United States, this work examines the questions, villains, heroes, and issues of work in America. It considers American labor history from the perspective of institutions and people: the rise of unions, the struggles over slavery, wages, and child labor, and public and private responses to union organizing.
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Acres Of Diamonds

de Russell Conwell

28,38€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 An edition of the classic inspirational speech.
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Ordinary Poverty - A Little Food And Cold Storage

de William Difazio

41,01€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 At St John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, over a thousand people line up for food five days a week. This title takes the reader through the years before and after welfare reform to show how poverty has become "ordinary," a fact of life to millions of Americans and to the thousands of social workers.
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Labor'S Time - Shorter Hours, The Uaw, And The

de Jonathan Cutler

41,01€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Examines the changes that occurred within organized labor and traces their influence on the decline of the shorter hour's movement. This work examines the political context in which the shorter hour's movement emerged within Local 600 in the 1940s, then chronicles the attempts by Walter Reuther, the head of the UAW, to suppress it.
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Labor Of Fire - The Ontology Of Labor Between Economy And Culture

de Bruno Gulli

43,66€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Offers a re-examination of the concept of labour. This title examines, through the work of other social and philosophical critics of labour, how productive labour has been institutionalised and how the nature of labour can be liberated from a purely productive definition.
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Triangle Fire, Protocols Of Peace - And Industrial Democracy In Progressive

de Richard Greenwald

44,98€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Challenges our notion of the connections between labour, business, and the state.
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Financialization Of Daily Life

de Randy Martin

39,68€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Takes us through the various aspects of our 'financialization'. This title examines how the shift in economic life arose not only from changes in culture, but also from new policy priorities that emphasize controlling inflation over promoting growth.
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Labor'S War At Home - The Cio In World War Ii

de Nelson Lichtenstein

41,01€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Examines a critical period in American politics and labor history, beginning with the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 through the wave of major industrial strikes that followed the war and accompanied the reconversion to a peacetime economy.
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Labor'S Story In The United States - An Introduction To The History Of Labor In The U.S.A.

de Philip Nicholson

47,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Offering a historical overview of labor in the United States, this book examines the questions, the villains, the heroes, and the issues of work. It focuses on the integral relationship between the strength of labor and the growth of democracy, painting a picture of the strength of labor movements and how they helped make the United States.
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Labor'S Time - Shorter Hours, The Uaw, And The

de Jonathan Cutler

32,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Examines the changes that occurred within organized labor and traces their influence on the decline of the shorter hour's movement. This work examines the political context in which the shorter hour's movement emerged within Local 600 in the 1940s, then chronicles the attempts by Walter Reuther, the head of the UAW, to suppress it.
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Labor'S War At Home - The Cio In World War Ii

de Nelson Lichtenstein

32,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Examines a critical period in American politics and labor history, beginning with the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 through the wave of major industrial strikes that followed the war and accompanied the reconversion to a peacetime economy.
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Borscht Belt Bungalows - Memoirs Of Catskill Summers

de Irwin Richman

44,61€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Every year between 1920 and 1970, almost one million of New York City's Jewish population summered in the Catskills. Hundreds of thousands still do. This title brings to life the attitudes of the renters and the owners, the differences between the social activities and swimming pools advertised and what people actually received.
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The Triangle Fire, Protocols Of Peace - And Industrial Democracy In Progressive

de Richard Greenwald

35,14€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Challenges our notion of the connections between labour, business, and the state.
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Out Of The Jungle - Jimmy Hoffa And The Remaking Of

de Thaddeus Russell

28,38€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Presents an account of the rise of Jimmy Hoffa. This book argues that Hoffa was compelled by a variety of social forces to place the economic interests of his union members over broad ideological concerns. It is aimed at students of labor history and American studies.
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Financialization Of Daily Life

de Randy Martin

31,08€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Takes us through the various aspects of our 'financialization'. This title examines how the shift in economic life arose not only from changes in culture, but also from new policy priorities that emphasize controlling inflation over promoting growth.
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Vegetarianism: Movement Or Moment - Promoting A Lifestyle For Cult Change

de Donna Maurer

29,73€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Examines the organizational aspects of vegetarianism and tries to explain why the predominant movement strategies have not successfully attracted more people to adopt a vegetarian identity. This book also takes into account the history of North American vegetarianism and the various reasons why people adopt vegetarian diets.
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The Sign Of The Burger - Mcdonald'S And The Culture Of Power

de Joe Kincheloe

29,73€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Examines how McDonald's captures our imagination: as a shorthand for explaining the power of American culture; as a symbol of the strength of consumerism; as a bellwether for the condition of labor in a globalized economy; and often, for better or worse, a powerful educational tool that often defines the nature of culture for hundreds of millions.
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Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism - Slovaks And Other New Immigrants In The Interwar Era

de June Granatir Alexander

60,51€

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ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Presents the history of inter-war America from the perspective of fresh Slovak and Eastern European immigrant communities. This book adds complexity and nuance to entrenched notions of conflicts between tradition-bound immigrants and their American-born children.
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Las Hermanas - Chicana/Latina Religious-Political Activism In The U.S. Catholic Church

de Lara Medina

46,35€

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ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Examines the early development and continuing influence of Las Hermanas, a feminist organization established in 1971 to counter the patriarchy and Eurocentrism of the US Catholic Church. This title showcases the role played by Las Hermanas in the articulation of a spiritually and politically grounded Latina/Chicana identity.
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Consumed In The City - Observing Tuberculosis At Century'S End

de Paul Draus

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Shows how tuberculosis epidemic and urban life collide. This book offers a persuasive case for thinking about and treating tuberculosis as an inseparable component of the scourges of poverty, homelessness, AIDS, and drug abuse.
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Labor'S Time - Shorter Hours, The Uaw, And The

de Jonathan Cutler

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 The movement for a shorter work week that once defined the labor movement in the United States was largely displaced by the new corporatist structure of organized labor in the post-New Deal era. This work examines the changes that occurred within organized labor and traces their influence on the decline of the shorter hours movement.
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Labor'S War At Home - The Cio In World War Ii

de Nelson Lichtenstein

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Examines a critical period in American politics and labor history, beginning with the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 through the wave of major industrial strikes that followed the war and accompanied the reconversion to a peacetime economy. This book is about how World War II changed the face of labor in the US.
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The Triangle Fire, Protocols Of Peace - And Industrial Democracy In Progressive

de Richard Greenwald

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Challenges our notion of the connections between labour, business, and the state.
INGLÊS

Labor Of Fire - The Ontology Of Labor Between Economy And Culture

de Bruno Gulli

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Offers a re-examination of the concept of labour. This title examines, through the work of other social and philosophical critics of labour, how productive labour has been institutionalised and how the nature of labour can be liberated from a purely productive definition.
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