Random House New Releases - Business & Economics - Labor

Unions For Beginners by David Cogswell

2012-10-30T00:30:00-05:00

Unions For Beginners
Written by David Cogswell

eBook, 176 pages | For Beginners | Political Science - Labor & Industrial Relations; Business & Economics - Labor; Law - Labor & Employment | $16.99 | 978-1-934389-78-2 (1-934389-78-1)

It is a time when unions have returned to the front pages of newspapers and blogs and demonstrators are in the streets of America every day. It is a time when the right wing has tried to strike the final blow against what remains of the right to collective bargaining. It is a time when millions of members of the middle class are falling through the cracks in a downward economic trend that parallels the decline of unions. It is this time when people are turning again to the history of unions. Unions For Beginners provides an introduction to that essential history.

Written and profusely illustrated in the user-friendly, accessible style of the For Beginners series, Unions For Beginners lays down a simple presentation of the colorful epic story of the struggle of working people to rise from lives dominated by toil and underpaid work to becoming full-fledged participants in the American dream they helped to build. Unions For Beginners presents the history of unions and the labor movement, the principles underlying union organizing, the decline of unions in the shadow of the rising corporate state, and the resurgence in the 21st century of union activism.

Unions For Beginners by David Cogswell

2012-10-16T00:30:00-05:00

Unions For Beginners
Written by David Cogswell

Trade Paperback, 176 pages | For Beginners | Political Science - Labor & Industrial Relations; Business & Economics - Labor; Law - Labor & Employment | $16.99 | 978-1-934389-77-5 (1-934389-77-3)

There Is Power in a Union by Philip Dray

2011-09-20T00:30:00-05:00

There Is Power in a Union The Epic Story of Labor in America
Written by Philip Dray

Trade Paperback, 816 pages | Anchor | History - United States; Law - Labor & Employment; Business & Economics - Labor | $19.95 | 978-0-307-38976-3 (0-307-38976-6)

From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience.

In this stirring new history, Philip Dray shows us the vital accomplishments of organized labor and illuminates its central role in our social, political, economic, and cultural evolution. His epic, character-driven narrative not only restores to our collective memory the indelible story of American labor, it also demonstrates the importance of the fight for fairness and economic democracy, and why that effort remains so urgent today.

The Big Squeeze by Steven Greenhouse

2009-02-10T00:30:00-05:00

The Big Squeeze Tough Times for the American Worker
Written by Steven Greenhouse

Trade Paperback, 384 pages | Anchor | Business & Economics - Labor; Law - Labor & Employment | $16.00 | 978-1-4000-9652-7 (1-4000-9652-9)

Why, in the world's most affluent nation, are so many corporations squeezing their employees dry? In this fresh, carefully researched book, New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse explores the economic, political, and social trends that are transforming America's workplaces, including the decline of the social contract that created the world's largest middle class and guaranteed job security and good pensions. We meet all kinds of workers—white-collar and blue-collar, high-tech and low-tech, middle-class and low-income—as we see shocking examples of injustice, including employees who are locked in during a hurricane or fired after suffering debilitating, on-the-job injuries.

With pragmatic recommendations on what government, business and labor should do to alleviate the economic crunch, The Big Squeeze is a balanced, consistently revealing look at a major American crisis.

Supercapitalism by Robert B. Reich

2008-09-09T00:30:00-05:00

Supercapitalism The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
Written by Robert B. Reich

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | Vintage | Business & Economics - Labor; Political Science - Democracy; Business & Economics - Government & Business | $15.95 | 978-0-307-27799-2 (0-307-27799-2)

From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened job insecurity, and corporate corruption are merely the logical results of a system in which politicians are more beholden to the influence of business lobbyists than to the voters who elected them. Powerful and thought-provoking, Supercapitalism argues that a clear separation of politics and capitalism will foster an enviroment in which both business and government thrive, by putting capitalism in the service of democracy, and not the other way around.

The Big Squeeze by Steven Greenhouse

2008-04-15T00:30:00-05:00

The Big Squeeze
Written by Steven Greenhouse

eBook, 320 pages | Anchor | Business & Economics - Labor; Law - Labor & Employment | $13.99 | 978-0-307-26863-1 (0-307-26863-2)

Supercapitalism by Robert B. Reich

2007-09-04T00:30:00-05:00

Supercapitalism
Written by Robert B. Reich

eBook | Vintage | Business & Economics - Labor; Political Science - Democracy; Business & Economics - Government & Business | $13.99 | 978-0-307-26785-6 (0-307-26785-7)

Fast Boat to China by Andrew Ross, Ph.D.

2007-06-12T00:30:00-05:00

Fast Boat to China High-Tech Outsourcing and the Consequences of Free Trade: Lessons from Shanghai
Written by Andrew Ross

Trade Paperback, 320 pages | Vintage | Political Science - Globalization; Business & Economics - Labor | $15.95 | 978-1-4000-9554-4 (1-4000-9554-9)

Most Americans today are aware that jobs are being outsourced to China, India, and other nations at an alarming rate. From factory jobs to white-collar, high-tech positions, the exporting of labor is one of the most controversial issues in America.Yet few people know much about the other end — about the people who are actually working these jobs and how their own lives have been throw into tumult by these new economic forces. Andrew Ross spent a year in China, interviewing local employees and their managers in Taiwan, Shanghai, and the far western provinces. In this engaging and informative book, he shows how the Chinese workforce has inherited many of the same worries as American workers, such as job instability, long hours, and awareness of their own expendability. He reports on the daily reality of corporate free trade and explores the growing competition between China and India. This is an eye-opening exploration of an unseen side of our globalized world.

The Unaffordable Nation by Jeffrey Jones

2007-05-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Unaffordable Nation Searching for a Decent Life in America
Written by Jeffrey Jones

Trade Paperback, 170 pages | Prometheus Books | Business & Economics - Labor; Social Science - Social Work; Political Science - Social Policy | $19.99 | 978-1-59102-515-3 (1-59102-515-X)

The American dream used to mean that if you worked hard, saved money, and didn’t spend extravagantly, you’d be guaranteed a decent life. That article of faith is no more; it has been replaced by a growing fear that even two incomes will prove insufficient to afford a home in a good neighborhood, a reliable vehicle, quality schools, healthcare, the means to care for aging relatives, and the leisure to properly raise children. The middle class is waking up to the sobering realization that the United States is fast becoming an unaffordable nation.
Transcending ordinary politics, Jeffrey Jones addresses every member of the American community, not as liberal or conservative or as Democrat or Republican, but in the most basic and equal of terms: in their capacities as working persons dependent upon their occupations, their employers, and the government regulation of both to earn a decent living. He uncovers the profound moral consensus among Americans from every walk of life regarding the entitlements that should follow from individual hard work.
Jones argues that regardless of political leanings, economic class, gender, and ethnic and racial differences, Americans remain united in the conviction that individuals who work hard should receive decent wages and other resources in return. He goes on to propose a "covenant on affordability," outlining the respective obligations of government, corporations, and individuals in ensuring a life that is affordable for every person who is willing to work hard.
The Unaffordable Nation is a must-read for every American concerned about the decreasing value of his or her labor, alongside the rising costs of nearly everything.

Fast Boat to China by Andrew Ross, Ph.D.

2006-04-04T00:30:00-05:00

Fast Boat to China Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade; Lessons from Shanghai
Written by Andrew Ross

eBook | Vintage | Business & Economics - Labor; Political Science - Labor & Industrial Relations | $13.99 | 978-0-375-42440-3 (0-375-42440-7)

Three Strikes by Dana Frank

2002-09-16T00:30:00-05:00

Three Strikes Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
Written by Howard Zinn, Robin D.G. Kelley and Dana Frank

Trade Paperback, 184 pages | Beacon Press | History - United States - 20th Century; Business & Economics - Labor; History | $18.00 | 978-0-8070-5013-2 (0-8070-5013-X)

Three renowned historians present stirring tales of labor: Howard Zinn tells the grim tale of the Ludlow Massacre, a drama of beleaguered immigrant workers, Mother Jones, and the politics of corporate power in the age of the robber barons. Dana Frank brings to light the little-known story of a successful sit-in conducted by the 'counter girls' at the Detroit Woolworth's during the Great Depression. Robin D. G. Kelley's story of a movie theater musicians' strike in New York asks what defines work in times of changing technology.

Three Strikes by Dana Frank

2002-09-16T00:30:00-05:00

Three Strikes Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
Written by Howard Zinn, Robin D.G. Kelley and Dana Frank

eBook | Beacon Press | History - United States - 20th Century; Business & Economics - Labor; History | $23.00 | 978-0-8070-5014-9 (0-8070-5014-8)

The Future of Success by Robert B. Reich

2002-01-08T00:30:00-05:00

The Future of Success Working and Living in the New Economy
Written by Robert B. Reich

Trade Paperback, 304 pages | Vintage | Social Science - Sociology; Business & Economics - Labor | $14.95 | 978-0-375-72512-8 (0-375-72512-1)

If you think it’s getting harder to both make a living and make a life, economist and former secretary of labor Robert Reich agrees with you. Americans may be earning more than ever before, but we’re paying a steep price: we’re working longer, seeing our families less, and our communities are fragmenting.

With the clarity and insight that are his hallmarks, Reich delineates what success has come to mean in our time. He demonstrates that although we have more choices as consumers, and investors, the choices themselves are undermining the rest of our lives. It is getting harder for people to be confident of what they will be earning next year, or even next month. At the same time, our society is splitting into socially stratified enclaves--the wealthier walled off and gated, the poorer isolated and ignored. Although the trends he discusses are powerful, they are not irreversible, and Reich makes provocative suggestions for how we might create a more balanced society and more satisfying lives. Some of his ideas may surprise you; all should spark a healthy–and essential–national debate.

The Future of Success by Robert B. Reich

2001-04-17T00:30:00-05:00

The Future of Success
Written by Robert B. Reich

eBook | Vintage | Business & Economics - Labor | $13.99 | 978-0-375-41343-8 (0-375-41343-X)

The Working-Class Movement in America by Eleanor Marx Aveling

1998-11-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Working-Class Movement in America
Written by Eleanor Marx Aveling

Hardcover, 231 pages | Humanity Books | Business & Economics - Labor | $56.99 | 978-1-57392-626-3 (1-57392-626-4)

Editor Paul Le Blanc presents a new edition of this classic study of American labor in the 1880s. Written by Eleanor Marx (perhaps Karl Marx's most talented daughter) and her common-law husband Edward Aveling (who helped translate Marx's Capital into English), the original text is lively, lucid, and insightful. It provides a snapshot of the U.S. labor movement and working class at a time when the United States was becoming the world's leading manufacturing nation.

Blending together firsthand observations and interviews with a wealth of appropriate statistics and reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics in various states, Marx and Aveling vividly depict a representative cross-section of working-class people. They describe conditions in numerous workplaces and sectors of the labor force; the nature of such labor organizations as the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor; a variety of trade unionists, socialists, anarchists, and reformers; even a Marxist analysis of the American cowboy!

Three recent essays enhance the original text. The first, by editor Paul Le Blanc, situates this work within the general sweep of U.S. labor history in the nineteenth century, with special emphasis on key realities that the authors missed. The second essay, by feminist cultural critic Lisa Frank, discusses Eleanor Marx's meaningful though tragic life in connection with her political writings, her work, and the time in which she lived. Internationally respected labor analyst Kim Moody concludes this volume with an article exploring the developments in the U.S. economy and working class in the century following the appearance of the Marx-Aveling text.

Random House New Releases - Business & Economics - Labor

Unions For Beginners by David Cogswell

Unions For Beginners Written by David Cogswell

Unions For Beginners by David Cogswell

Unions For Beginners Written by David Cogswell

There Is Power in a Union by Philip Dray

There Is Power in a Union The Epic Story of Labor in AmericaWritten by Philip Dray

The Big Squeeze by Steven Greenhouse

The Big Squeeze Tough Times for the American WorkerWritten by Steven Greenhouse

Supercapitalism by Robert B. Reich

Supercapitalism The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday LifeWritten by Robert B. Reich

The Big Squeeze by Steven Greenhouse

The Big Squeeze Written by Steven Greenhouse

Supercapitalism by Robert B. Reich

Supercapitalism Written by Robert B. Reich

Fast Boat to China by Andrew Ross, Ph.D.

Fast Boat to China High-Tech Outsourcing and the Consequences of Free Trade: Lessons from ShanghaiWritten by Andrew Ross

The Unaffordable Nation by Jeffrey Jones

The Unaffordable Nation Searching for a Decent Life in AmericaWritten by Jeffrey Jones

Fast Boat to China by Andrew Ross, Ph.D.

Fast Boat to China Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade; Lessons from ShanghaiWritten by Andrew Ross

Three Strikes by Dana Frank

Three Strikes Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last CenturyWritten by Howard Zinn, Robin D.G. Kelley and Dana Frank

Three Strikes by Dana Frank

Three Strikes Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last CenturyWritten by Howard Zinn, Robin D.G. Kelley and Dana Frank

The Future of Success by Robert B. Reich

The Future of Success Working and Living in the New EconomyWritten by Robert B. Reich

The Future of Success by Robert B. Reich

The Future of Success Written by Robert B. Reich

The Working-Class Movement in America by Eleanor Marx Aveling

The Working-Class Movement in America Written by Eleanor Marx Aveling

Unions For Beginners
Written by David Cogswell

Unions For Beginners
Written by David Cogswell

There Is Power in a Union The Epic Story of Labor in America
Written by Philip Dray

The Big Squeeze Tough Times for the American Worker
Written by Steven Greenhouse

Supercapitalism The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
Written by Robert B. Reich

The Big Squeeze
Written by Steven Greenhouse

Supercapitalism
Written by Robert B. Reich

Fast Boat to China High-Tech Outsourcing and the Consequences of Free Trade: Lessons from Shanghai
Written by Andrew Ross

The Unaffordable Nation Searching for a Decent Life in America
Written by Jeffrey Jones

Fast Boat to China Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade; Lessons from Shanghai
Written by Andrew Ross

Three Strikes Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
Written by Howard Zinn, Robin D.G. Kelley and Dana Frank

Three Strikes Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
Written by Howard Zinn, Robin D.G. Kelley and Dana Frank

The Future of Success Working and Living in the New Economy
Written by Robert B. Reich

The Future of Success
Written by Robert B. Reich

The Working-Class Movement in America
Written by Eleanor Marx Aveling