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Workers in hard times : a long view of economic crises /

Seeking to historicize today's 'Great Recession, ' this volume of essays uses examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to situate the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fink, Leon, 1948- (Editor ), McCartin, Joseph Anthony (Editor ), Sangster, Joan, 1952- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Colección:Working class in American history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Marching under flags black and red : Toronto's dispossessed in the age of industry / Gaetan Heroux and Bryan D. Palmer
  • Working people's responses to past depressions / David Montgomery
  • Soviet workers and stalinist terror : the crisis of industrialization / Wendy Goldman
  • The labor of capitalism: industrial revolution and the transformation of the global cotton-growing countryside / Sven Beckert
  • The ordeal of Eugene Debs : the panic of 1893, the Pullman strike, and the origins of the progressive movement / Scott Reynolds Nelson
  • Workers' social-wage struggles during the great depression and the era of neoliberalism : international comparisons / Alvin Finkel
  • Politics and policies in the 1970s and early twenty-first century : the linked recessions / Judith Stein
  • Neoliberalism at work in the antipodean welfare state in the late twentieth century : collusion, collaboration, and resistance / Melanie Nolan
  • Want amidst plenty : the oil boom and the working class in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1992-2010 / Sean Cadigan
  • Whose hard times? : explaining autoworkers strike waves in recent-day China / Lu Zhang
  • Transformative power : lessons from the Greek crisis and beyond / Hilary Wainwright
  • How workers and the government have dealt with economic crisis and industrial decline : 1929 and 2007 / Edward Montgomery.