Labor Studies and Work

AFSCME's Philadelphia Story

Municipal Workers and Urban Power in the Twentieth Century

Francis Ryan

320 pages

2 figs., 30 halftones


PB: 978-1-4399-0279-0 $30.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0278-3 $66.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0280-6 $30.95

AFSCME's Philadelphia Story

Municipal Workers and Urban Power in the Twentieth Century

Francis Ryan

320 pages
6 x 9
2 figs., 30 halftones


PB: 978-1-4399-0279-0 $30.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0278-3 $66.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0280-6 $30.95

Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century

A Reader of Radical Undercurrents

Edited by John Asimakopoulos and Richard Gilman-Opalsky

358 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-4399-1358-1 $34.95
HC: 978-1-4399-1357-4 $104.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1359-8 $34.95

Against the Deportation Terror

Organizing for Immigrant Rights in the Twentieth Century

Rachel Ida Buff

298 pages
6 x 9
3 figs., 18 halftones, 1 maps


PB: 978-1-4399-1534-9 $29.95
HC: 978-1-4399-1533-2 $104.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1535-6 $29.95

Black Corporate Executives

The Making and Breaking of a Black Middle Class

216 pages
5.5 x 8.25
5 tables 3 figures


PB: 978-1-56639-474-1 $37.95

Broken Promise

The Subversion of U.S. Labor Relations Policy, 1947-1994

James A. Gross

422 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-59213-225-6 $37.95
HC: 978-1-56639-325-6 $57.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0370-4 $37.95

The Business of Practicing Law

The Work Lives of Solo and Small-Firm Attorneys

Carroll Seron

240 pages
6 x 9
3 tables 1 figure


PB: 978-1-56639-407-9 $36.95

Challenging the Chip

Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry

Edited by David Naguib Pellow, David Sonnenfeld, and Ted Smith

376 pages
6 x 9
22 tables, 6 figs., 37 halftones, 3 maps


PB: 978-1-59213-330-7 $32.95
HC: 978-1-59213-329-1 $90.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-331-4 $32.95

Cheap Amusements

Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York

Kathy Peiss

288 pages
5.5 x 8.25



PB: 978-0-87722-500-3 $29.95
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0553-1 $29.95

Cheaper by the Hour

Temporary Lawyers and the Deprofessionalization of the Law

Robert A Brooks

234 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-4399-0286-8 $30.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0285-1 $66.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0287-5 $30.95

Cheaper by the Hour

Temporary Lawyers and the Deprofessionalization of the Law

Robert A Brooks

234 pages
6 x 9
1 table


PB: 978-1-4399-0286-8 $30.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0285-1 $66.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0287-5 $30.95

Closing the Book on Homework

Enhancing Public Education and Freeing Family Time

John Buell

176 pages
5.5 x 8.25



PB: 978-1-59213-218-8 $25.95
HC: 978-1-59213-217-1 $60.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-768-8 $25.95

Cold War in a Hot Zone

The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies

Gerald C. Horne

272 pages
6 x 9
7 halftones


PB: 978-1-59213-628-5 $31.95
HC: 978-1-59213-627-8 $85.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-629-2 $31.95

The Company We Keep

Occupational Community in the High-Tech Network Society

Daniel Marschall

204 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-4399-0756-6 $28.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0755-9 $71.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0757-3 $28.95

The Company We Keep

Occupational Community in the High-Tech Network Society

Daniel Marschall

204 pages
6 x 9
7 figs.


PB: 978-1-4399-0756-6 $28.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0755-9 $71.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0757-3 $28.95

Consuming Work

Youth Labor in America

Yasemin Besen-Cassino

202 pages
6 x 9
13 tables, 12 figs.


PB: 978-1-4399-0949-2 $26.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0948-5 $85.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0950-8 $26.95

The Cost of Being a Girl

Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap

Yasemin Besen-Cassino

208 pages
6 x 9
11 tables, 8 line drawings


PB: 978-1-4399-1349-9 $27.95
HC: 978-1-4399-1348-2 $94.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1350-5 $27.95

Creating a New World Economy

Forces of Change and Plans for Action

Edited by Gerald Epstein, Julie Graham and Jessica Nembhardt

496 pages
6 x 9
33 tables, 35 figs.


Ebook: 978-1-4399-0094-9 $29.95

Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy

Edited by Frank Fischer, Carmen Siriani, and Mike Geppert

704 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-56639-122-1 $48.95

The Critical Study of Work

Labor, Technology, and Global Production

Edited by Rick Baldoz, Charles Koeber and Philip Kraft

296 pages
7 x 10
4 tables, 1 figure


PB: 978-1-56639-798-8 $40.95
HC: 978-1-56639-797-1 $86.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-809-8 $40.95

Dangerous Trade

Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World

Edited by Christopher Sellers and Joseph Melling

228 pages
6 x 9
9 tables, 4 figs., 2 maps


PB: 978-1-4399-0469-5 $32.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0468-8 $91.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0470-1 $32.95

Deregulating Desire

Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice

Ryan Patrick Murphy

252 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-4399-0989-8 $34.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0988-1 $94.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0990-4 $34.95

Earthly Plenitudes

A Study on Sovereignty and Labor

Bruno Gullì

200 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-59213-980-4 $30.95
HC: 978-1-59213-979-8 $74.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-981-1 $30.95

Earthly Plenitudes

A Study on Sovereignty and Labor

Bruno Gullì

200 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-59213-980-4 $30.95
HC: 978-1-59213-979-8 $74.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-981-1 $30.95

Ending Poverty as We Know It

Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage

William P. Quigley

256 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-59213-033-7 $27.95
HC: 978-1-59213-032-0 $61.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-777-0 $27.95

Engineering Culture

Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation
Revised and Expanded Edition

Gideon Kunda

320 pages
6 x 9
2 tables 5 figures


PB: 978-1-59213-546-2 $33.95
HC: 978-1-59213-545-5 $86.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-547-9 $33.95

Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea

A Puerto Rican Journey through Labor and Refuge

David Griffith and Manuel Valdés Pizzini

280 pages
6 x 9
2 tables, 2 figs., 19 halftones, 1 maps


PB: 978-1-56639-911-1 $30.95
HC: 978-1-56639-910-4 $86.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0763-4 $30.95

The Fragile Bridge

Paterson Silk Strike, 1913

Golin: The Fragile Bridge

328 pages
6 x 9
16 halftones


PB: 978-1-56639-005-7 $36.95
HC: 978-0-87722-534-8 $34.95

Free Time

The Forgotten American Dream

Benjamin Hunnicutt

250 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-4399-0715-3 $36.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0714-6 $91.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0716-0 $36.95

Free Trade and Uneven Development

The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA

edited by Gary Gereffi, David Spener and Jennifer Bair

368 pages
7 x 10
47 tables, 17 figs., 1 maps


PB: 978-1-56639-968-5 $43.95
HC: 978-1-56639-967-8 $79.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0114-4 $43.95

From Redlining to Reinvestment

Gregory D. Squires

288 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-0-87722-985-8 $32.95
HC: 978-0-87722-984-1 $68.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0165-6 $32.95

Getting Paid While Taking Time

The Women's Movement and the Development of Paid Family Leave Policies in the United States

Megan A. Sholar

252 pages
5.5 x 8.25
3 tables


PB: 978-1-4399-1295-9 $29.95
HC: 978-1-4399-1294-2 $94.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1296-6 $29.95

Global Production

The Apparel Industry in the Pacific Rim

edited by Edna Bonacich, Lucie Cheng, Norma Chinchilla, Nora Hamilton and Paul Ong

400 pages
6 x 9
36 tables, 7 figs.


PB: 978-1-56639-169-6 $37.95
HC: 978-1-56639-168-9 $83.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0110-6 $37.95

Going Global

Culture, Gender, and Authority in the Japanese Subsidiary of an American Corporation

Ellen V. Fuller

232 pages
5.5 x 8.25
3 tables


PB: 978-1-59213-689-6 $29.95
HC: 978-1-59213-688-9 $76.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-690-2 $29.95

Half a Job

Bad and Good Part-Time Jobs in a Changing Labor Market

Chris Tilly

240 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-56639-382-9 $34.95
HC: 978-1-56639-381-2 $49.95
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0397-1 $34.95

Helping Out

Children's Labor in Ethnic Businesses

Miri Song

247 pages
5.5 x 8.25
3 tables


PB: 978-1-56639-709-4 $31.95
HC: 978-1-56639-708-7 $81.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0618-7 $31.95

Immigrants, Unions, and the New U.S. Labor Market

Immanuel Ness

240 pages
5.5 x 8.25
4 tables


PB: 978-1-59213-041-2 $29.95
HC: 978-1-59213-040-5 $71.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-802-9 $29.95

In Transit

The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966

Joshua B. Freeman

464 pages
6 x 9
1 figs., 16 halftones, 1 maps


PB: 978-1-56639-922-7 $35.95
Ebook: 978-1-59213-815-9 $34.95

Job Queues, Gender Queues

Explaining Women's Inroads into Male Occupations

Barbara F. Reskin and Patricia A. Roos

388 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-0-87722-744-1 $36.95
HC: 978-0-87722-743-4 $49.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0159-5 $36.95

Jobs Aren't Enough

Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families

Roberta Rehner Iversen and Annie Laurie Armstrong

296 pages
6 x 9
16 tables, 1 figs., 2 halftones, 1 maps


PB: 978-1-59213-356-7 $33.95
HC: 978-1-59213-355-0 $85.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-357-4 $33.95

Journeys in Sociology

From First Encounters to Fulfilling Retirements

Edited by Rosalyn Benjamin Darling and Peter J. Stein

250 pages
6 x 9
22 halftones


PB: 978-1-4399-1475-5 $29.95
HC: 978-1-4399-1474-8 $99.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1476-2 $29.95

Just a Temp

Kevin D. Henson

224 pages
5.5 x 8.25



PB: 978-1-56639-386-7 $27.95
HC: 978-1-56639-385-0 $79.50

Labor of Fire

The Ontology of Labor between Economy and Culture

Bruno Gullì

232 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-59213-113-6 $32.95
HC: 978-1-59213-112-9 $81.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-114-3 $32.95

Labor's Story in the United States

Philip Yale Nicholson

376 pages
7 x 10
7 figs., 8 halftones


PB: 978-1-59213-239-3 $44.95
HC: 978-1-59213-020-7 $86.50

Labor's Time

Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism

Jonathan Cutler

256 pages
5.5 x 8.25



PB: 978-1-59213-247-8 $30.95
HC: 978-1-59213-246-1 $81.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-785-5 $30.95

Labor's War at Home

The CIO in World War II

Nelson Lichtenstein

352 pages
6 x 9
4 tables, 1 figs.


PB: 978-1-59213-197-6 $30.95
HC: 978-1-59213-196-9 $76.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0423-7 $30.95

Live Wire

Women and Brotherhood in the Electrical Industry

Francine Moccio

pages




PB: 978-1-59213-738-1 $32.95
HC: 978-1-59213-737-4 $66.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-739-8 $32.95

Live Wire

Women and Brotherhood in the Electrical Industry

Francine Moccio

288 pages
6 x 9
9 tables, 8 figs.


PB: 978-1-59213-738-1 $32.95
HC: 978-1-59213-737-4 $66.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-739-8 $32.95

Livestock/Deadstock

Working with Farm Animals from Birth to Slaughter

Rhoda Wilkie

248 pages
6 x 9
2 tables


PB: 978-1-59213-649-0 $33.95
HC: 978-1-59213-648-3 $81.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-650-6 $33.95

Monitoring Sweatshops

Workers, Consumers, and the Global Apparel Industry

Jill Esbenshade

288 pages
6 x 9
8 tables, 6 figs., 6 halftones


PB: 978-1-59213-256-0 $30.95
HC: 978-1-59213-255-3 $81.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0064-2 $30.95

No-Collar

The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs

Andrew Ross

312 pages
6.125 x 9.25
28 halftones


PB: 978-1-59213-150-1 $27.95

One-Eyed Science

Occupational Health and Women Workers

Karen Messing

264 pages
5.5 x 8.2
18 tables, 1 figs.


PB: 978-1-56639-598-4 $36.95
HC: 978-1-56639-597-7 $75.50

Organizing In Hard Times

Labor and Neighborhoods In Hartford

Louise B. Simmons

200 pages
5.5 x 8.25



PB: 978-1-56639-156-6 $35.95
HC: 978-1-56639-155-9 $90.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0419-0 $35.95

The Origins of Southern Sharecropping

Edward Royce

288 pages
5.5 x 8.25



HC: 978-1-56639-069-9 $87.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0438-1 $89.50

Out in the Union

A Labor History of Queer America

Miriam Frank

240 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-4399-1140-2 $30.95
HC: 978-1-4399-1139-6 $55.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1141-9 $30.95

Out in the Union

A Labor History of Queer America

Miriam Frank

240 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-4399-1140-2 $30.95
HC: 978-1-4399-1139-6 $55.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1141-9 $30.95

Out of the Jungle

Jimmy Hoffa and the Remaking of the American Working Class

Thaddeus Russell

296 pages
6 x 9
15 halftones


PB: 978-1-59213-027-6 $27.95

Policing in Natural Disasters

Stress, Resilience, and the Challenges of Emergency Management

Terri M. Adams and Leigh R. Anderson

248 pages
5.25 x 8.5
1 figs., 4 halftones


PB: 978-1-4399-1837-1 $29.95
HC: 978-1-4399-1836-4 $94.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1838-8 $29.95

The Process of Occupational Sex-Typing

The Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain

Samuel Cohn

288 pages
6 x 9
34 tables, 1 figs.


HC: 978-0-87722-402-0 $37.95

The Production of Living Knowledge

The Crisis of the University and the Transformation of Labor in Europe and North America

Gigi Roggero

214 pages
5.5 x 8.25



HC: 978-1-4399-0573-9 $71.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0575-3 $71.50

Reducing Workweeks to Prevent Layoffs

The Economic and Social Impacts of Unemployment Insurance-Supported Work Sharing

Fred Best

228 pages
5.5 x 8.25



HC: 978-0-87722-506-5 $71.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0675-0 $71.50

Resisting Work

The Corporatization of Life and Its Discontents

Peter Fleming

218 pages
5.5 x 8.25



PB: 978-1-4399-1113-6 $30.95
HC: 978-1-4399-1112-9 $46.00
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1114-3 $30.95

Resisting Work

The Corporatization of Life and Its Discontents

Peter Fleming

218 pages
5.5 x 8.25



PB: 978-1-4399-1113-6 $30.95
HC: 978-1-4399-1112-9 $46.00
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1114-3 $30.95

Seeking Community in a Global City

Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles

Nora Hamilton and Norma Stoltz Chinchilla

304 pages
6 x 9
12 tables, 2 figs., 22 halftones, 5 maps


PB: 978-1-56639-868-8 $29.95
HC: 978-1-56639-867-1 $81.50

The Sign of the Burger

McDonald's and the Culture of Power

Joe L. Kincheloe

240 pages
5.5 x 8.25



PB: 978-1-56639-932-6 $28.95
HC: 978-1-56639-931-9 $69.50

The Story of Reo Joe

Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A.

Lisa M. Fine

256 pages
6 x 9
7 tables, 17 halftones


PB: 978-1-59213-258-4 $30.95
HC: 978-1-59213-257-7 $81.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-788-6 $30.95

Striking Steel

Solidarity Remembered

Jack Metzgar

320 pages
6 x 9
2 tables, 1 figs., 16 halftones


PB: 978-1-56639-739-1 $32.95
HC: 978-1-56639-738-4 $81.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0532-6 $32.95

Taking Time

Parental Leave Policy and Corporate Culture

Mindy Fried

256 pages
5.5 x 8.25



PB: 978-1-56639-647-9 $29.95
HC: 978-1-56639-646-2 $64.50

Technological Turf Wars

A Case Study of the Computer Antivirus Industry

Jessica Johnston

232 pages
5.5 x 8.25



PB: 978-1-59213-882-1 $28.95
HC: 978-1-59213-881-4 $70.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-883-8 $28.95

The Temp Economy

From Kelly Girls to Permatemps in Postwar America

Erin Hatton

232 pages
5.5 x 8.25
2 tables, 7 halftones


PB: 978-1-4399-0081-9 $30.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0080-2 $76.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0082-6 $30.95

The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York

Richard Alan Greenwald

344 pages
6 x 9
3 halftones


PB: 978-1-59213-175-4 $33.95
HC: 978-1-59213-174-7 $81.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0782-5 $33.95

Underground Woman

My Four Years as a New York City Subway Conductor

Marian Swerdlow

272 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-56639-610-3 $31.95
HC: 978-1-56639-609-7 $66.50

The University Against Itself

The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace

Edited by Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, and Michael Palm

280 pages
6 x 9
3 tables, 4 figs., 14 halftones


PB: 978-1-59213-741-1 $31.95
HC: 978-1-59213-740-4 $81.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-742-8 $31.95

Untidy Gender

Domestic Service in Turkey

Gul Ozyegin

272 pages
6 x 9
10 tables, 17 halftones


PB: 978-1-56639-808-4 $33.95
HC: 978-1-56639-807-7 $90.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0348-3 $33.95

We Can't Eat Prestige

The Women Who Organized Harvard

John Hoerr

280 pages
6 x 9
17 halftones


PB: 978-1-56639-925-8 $28.95
HC: 978-1-56639-535-9 $91.50

Work Without End

Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work

Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt

416 pages

140 tables, 14 figs.


PB: 978-0-87722-763-2 $28.95
HC: 978-0-87722-520-1 $69.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0699-6 $28.95

Workforce Development Politics

Civic Capacity and Performance

edited by Robert P. Giloth

296 pages
6 x 9
9 tables, 6 figs., 2 halftones, 1 maps


PB: 978-1-59213-229-4 $32.95
HC: 978-1-59213-228-7 $86.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0458-9 $32.95

Workforce Intermediaries for the Twenty-first Century

edited by Robert P. Giloth

432 pages
6 x 9
14 tables, 2 figs., 22 halftones


HC: 978-1-59213-204-1 $66.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0386-5 $66.50

Youth at Work

The Unionized Fast-food and Grocery Workplace

Stuart Tannock

264 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-56639-854-1 $33.95
HC: 978-1-56639-853-4 $74.50

“A Road to Peace and Freedom”

The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930-1954

Robert M. Zecker

384 pages
6 x 9
14 halftones


PB: 978-1-4399-1516-5 $34.95
HC: 978-1-4399-1515-8 $99.50