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| Author | : Jacqueline Jones |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 548 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780393318333 |
"[Jones's] painstakingly researched volume is an invaluable antidote to those who argue that our shameful past has no relevance to our perplexing present." --David Kusnet, Baltimore Sun
| Author | : Paul Bernstein |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 1997-01-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780791432150 |
Examines broad shifts in American work values from their Calvinist origins to present controversies involving work, welfare, and affirmative action.
| Author | : Jamie K McCallum |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2020-09-08 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 154161836X |
An award-winning sociologist reveals the unexpected link between overwork and inequality. Most Americans work too long and too hard, while others lack consistency in their hours and schedules. Work hours declined for a century through hard-fought labor-movement victories, but they've increased significantly since the seventies. Worked Over traces the varied reasons why our lives became tethered to a new rhythm of work, and describes how we might gain a greater say over our labor time -- and build a more just society in the process. Popular discussions typically focus on overworked professionals. But as Jamie K. McCallum demonstrates, from Amazon warehouses to Rust Belt factories to California's gig economy, it's the hours of low-wage workers that are the most volatile and precarious -- and the most subject to crises. What's needed is not individual solutions but collective struggle, and throughout Worked Over McCallum recounts the inspiring stories of those battling today's capitalism to win back control of their time.
| Author | : Philip F. Rubio |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 473 |
| Release | : 2010-05-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0807895733 |
This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor, and left movement histories that too often are written as if they happened separately. Centered on New York City and Washington, D.C., the book chronicles a struggle of national significance through its examination of the post office, a workplace with facilities and unions serving every city and town in the United States. Black postal workers--often college-educated military veterans--fought their way into postal positions and unions and became a critical force for social change. They combined black labor protest and civic traditions to construct a civil rights unionism at the post office. They were a major factor in the 1970 nationwide postal wildcat strike, which resulted in full collective bargaining rights for the major postal unions under the newly established U.S. Postal Service in 1971. In making the fight for equality primary, African American postal workers were influential in shaping today's post office and postal unions.
| Author | : Shawn Dorman |
| Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1612344674 |
Inside a U.S. Embassy is widely recognized as the essential guide to the Foreign Service. This all-new third edition takes readers to more than fifty U.S. missions around the world, introducing Foreign Service professionals and providing detailed descriptions of their jobs and firsthand accounts of diplomacy in action. In addition to profiles of diplomats and specialists around the world-from the ambassador to the consular officer, the public diplomacy officer to the security specialist-is a selection from more than twenty countries of day-in-the-life accounts, each describing an actual day on.
| Author | : Louis Hyman |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2019-08-20 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0735224080 |
Winner of the William G. Bowen Prize Named a "Triumph" of 2018 by New York Times Book Critics Shortlisted for the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award The untold history of the surprising origins of the "gig economy"--how deliberate decisions made by consultants and CEOs in the 50s and 60s upended the stability of the workplace and the lives of millions of working men and women in postwar America. Over the last fifty years, job security has cratered as the institutions that insulated us from volatility have been swept aside by a fervent belief in the market. Now every working person in America today asks the same question: how secure is my job? In Temp, Louis Hyman explains how we got to this precarious position and traces the real origins of the gig economy: it was created not by accident, but by choice through a series of deliberate decisions by consultants and CEOs--long before the digital revolution. Uber is not the cause of insecurity and inequality in our country, and neither is the rest of the gig economy. The answer to our growing problems goes deeper than apps, further back than outsourcing and downsizing, and contests the most essential assumptions we have about how our businesses should work. As we make choices about the future, we need to understand our past.
| Author | : Frank Zarnowski |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2013-09-28 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 0786491264 |
For more than a century the American farm, factory and frontier provided opportunities for physical workers to display their skill, win a bet, brag or perhaps just have some fun. Competitions that emphasized useful skills, like plowing, corn-husking, rock drilling, typesetting, and tree cutting, were common in the antebellum and post-Civil War periods, often drawing large crowds and the attention of sporting journals. For many years conventional American sports occurred in the workplace. This may help explain why the nicknames of so many prominent collegiate or professional sporting teams--Cornhuskers, Lumberjacks, Miners, Cowboys, Packers and Boilermakers--are also the occupations of 19th century worker-athletes. By examining the American experience with competitions among workers, this book provides a new understanding of the interrelated nature of occupation and leisure.
| Author | : Herbert Applebaum |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 1998-06-25 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0313030103 |
A major force in American society, the work ethic has played a pivotal role in U.S. history, affecting cultural, social, and economic institutions. But what is the American work ethic? Not only has it changed from one era to another, but it varies with race, gender, and occupation. Considering such diverse groups as Colonial craftsmen, slaves, 19th century women, and 20th century factory workers, this book provides a history of the American work ethic from Colonial times to the present. Tracing both continuities and differences, the book is divided into sections on the Colonial era, the 19th century and the 20th century and includes chapters on both major occupational groups, such as farmers, factory workers, laborers, and gender, racial, and ethnic minorities. This approach, which covers all major groups in U.S. history, enables the reader to discern how the work ethic applied to different occupational and ethnic groups over time. The book subjects the work ethic to an analysis based on historical, sociological, economic, and anthropological perspectives and provides an analysis of current thinking about how the work ethic applied to various groups and classes in different historical periods.
| Author | : DIANE Publishing Company |
| Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 1994-08 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780788112010 |
Presents employment projections for the year 2005. Charts and tables.
