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Author | : Alan Derickson |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2019-05-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1501745697 |
The most dangerous work in North America at the turn of the century may have been extracting metal-bearing ore from mountains of hard rock. Beginning in the 1890s miners in the West worked through local unions both to prevent occupational hazards and to assure themselves of adequate health care. Among other projects, they planned, built, and governed more than twenty general hospitals throughout the Western United States and Canada. Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy is an engaging and richly documented account of this first attempt to create a democratically controlled health care system in North America. Focusing on the efforts of local unions, Derickson illuminates the broader history of the Western labor movement, the self-help traditions of rank-and-file workers, and the evolution of health care on the industrial frontier.
Author | : Asa Cristina Laurell |
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Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Ray H. Elling |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2020-10-07 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1000156540 |
To better understand how strong worker protection systems differ from weak ones, this volume reports and interprets a study carried out in six nations-Sweden, Finland, The German Democratic Republic, The Federal Republic of Germany, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America. The work involved interviews with reputational leaders of different interest groups as well as observations, extensive document study and correspondence with key informants.
Author | : Charles Levenstein |
Publisher | : Guilford Press |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 1997-07-19 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781572302341 |
This is an indispensable collection on the crisis of worker health and safety in the United States. This collection offers an all-important lesson for the labor movement: that problems of occupational health and safety are not merely technical problems but rather problems relating to workers' lack of control over the organization of capitalist production.
Author | : Michael Fine |
Publisher | : PM Press |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2018-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1629635871 |
The U.S. does not have a health system. Instead we have market for health-related goods and services, a market in which the few profit from the public’s ill-health. Health Care Revolt looks around the world for examples of health care systems that are effective and affordable, pictures such a system for the U.S., and creates a practical playbook for a political revolution in health care that will allow the nation to protect health while strengthening democracy. Dr. Fine writes with the wisdom of a clinician, the savvy of a state public health commissioner, the precision of a scholar, and the energy and commitment of a community organizer.
Author | : Eric Tucker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
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The central point of this article, written in 1995, was that health and safety struggles can be at the vanguard of challenges to a legal social order that tolerates poor labour standards and high levels of worker exploitation. Workers who fear their work is making them sick or subjecting them to high levels of injury and disablement know first-hand that the values of democracy, autonomy, equality and community are denied and not realized by current arrangements. By drawing on that experience and explicitly linking health and safety demands to an alternative vision of social justice, one in which workers enjoy greater levels of autonomy and democratic control at work, progressive social change has occurred in the past, and can occur in the future.
Author | : Frank Lindenfeld |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Case studies of the relationship between workers self management and workers control and social change, with particular reference to the USA - discusses psychological aspects (occupational psychology) of working in self-managed enterprises; investigates workers cooperatives, production cooperatives, insurance corporation, legal office and experimental school in Spain, the UK and the USA; considers the functioning (incl. Legal aspects) of American workers' cooperatives, and trade union attitudes. Diagrams, references, statistical tables.
Author | : Dan La Botz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Law |
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Based on field research carried out in 1990-1991 in urban areas, with particular reference to maquiladoras enterprises along the US- Mexican border. Comprises an introduction by former US Secretary of Labour Ray Marshall advocating trade-linked labour standards.
Author | : Ruth Dukes |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2022-10-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1509549005 |
In the countries of the global North, workplace democracy may be thought of as a thing of the past. Increasingly, working relations are regulated primarily by contract; workforces are fissured and fragmented. What are the consequences of this? How should we respond? Ruth Dukes and Wolfgang Streeck argue that the time is ripe to restate the principles of industrial democracy and citizenship for the post-industrial era. Considering developments within political economy, employment relations and labour law since the postwar decades, they trace the rise of globalization and the ‘dualization’ of labour markets – the emergence of a core and periphery of workers – and the progressive insulation of working relations from democratic governance. What these developments amount to, they argue, is an urgent need for political intervention to tame the new world of ‘gigging’ and other forms of highly precarious work. This, according to the authors, will require far-reaching institution-building designed to fill legal concepts such as ‘employment’ with political substance. This eloquent call for a reimagining and renewal of the institutional and material conditions of freedom of association and the reinvention of industrial democracy will be crucial reading for anyone interested in work in the twenty-first century.
Author | : Ronald M. Mason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Study on relationships between workers participation and political democracy, with particular reference to the USA - examines related political theories; finds that democratization of the workplace has a positive impact on workers' political participation and job satisfaction; includes a literature survey. References.