Labor Materials

Books | Reference Books | DVDs | Ebooks

Books with an asterisk are on display in the Reference Room Sept 2009

• The Blair effect
  JN231 .B58 2001
• Changing structure of Mexico : political, social, and economic prospects
  HC135 .C44 2006
• Child labor : a global view
  HD6231 .C453 2004
• Child labour in South Asia
  HD6250.S682 C45 2007
• Crossing the border : research from the Mexican Migration Project
  E184.M5 C78 2004
• Does outsourcing harm America?
  HD2365 .D64 2006
• The end of child labour : within reach : global report under the follow- up to the ILO declaration on fundamental principles and rights at work
  HD6229 .E63 2006
• Gender and occupational outcomes : longitudinal assessments of individual, social, and cultural influences
  HD6060.6 .G448 2008
• The glass ceiling in the 21st century : understanding barriers to gender equality*
  HD6060 .G63 2009
• Global woman : nannies, maids, and sex workers in the new economy
  HD6072 .G55 2003
• The global workplace : international and comparative employment law : cases and materials
  K1705 .G583 2007
• Images of labor*
  HD8066 .I37
• The rise and rise of meritocracy
  HM1263 .R57 2006
• U.S. labor in the twentieth century : studies in working-class struggles and insurgency*
  HD8072.5 .U185 2000
• Wal-Mart : the face of twenty-first-century capitalism
  HF5429.215.U6 W35 2006
• Welfare, the working poor, and labor
  HD8072.5 .W45 2004
• What do unions do? : a twenty-year perspective
  HD6508 .W44 2007
• Who built America? : working people and the nation's economy, politics, culture, and society*
  HD8066 .W47 1989
• Women, family, and work : writings on the economics of gender
  HD4904.25 .W654 2003
• Worker safety under siege : labor, capital, and the politics of workplace safety in a deregulated world*
  HD7261 .W67 2006
• Working and poor : how economic and policy changes are affecting low- wage workers*
  HD 5724 .W67 2006
• Gulag : a history
  Applebaum, Anne,
  HV8964.S65 A67 2003
• Why is there no labor party in the United States?
  Archer, Robin.
  HD6510 .A73 2007
• Globalization and cross-border labor solidarity in the Americas : the anti-sweatshop movement and the struggle for social justice
  Armbruster-Sandoval, Ralph,
  HD6539.O33 A76 2005
• The working class movement in America *
  Aveling, Eleanor Marx, 1855-1898.
  HD8066 .A95 2000
• Skilled immigrant and native workers in the United States : the economic competition debate and beyond*
  Batalova, Jeanne,
  HD8081.A5 B38 2006
• The revival of labor liberalism
  Battista, Andrew.
  HD6510 .B38 2008
• Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black people in America from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon
  Blackmon, Douglas A.
  E185.2 .B545 2008
• At home and abroad : U.S. labor-market performance in international perspective
  Blau, Francine D.
  HD5724 .B546 2002
• Nobodies : modern American slave labor and the dark side of the new global economy
  Bowe, John.
  HD4865.U6 B68 2007
• No seat at the table : how corporate governance and law keep women out of the boardroom*
  Branson, Douglas M.
  HD6054.4.U6 B73 2007
• Cesar Chavez : a biography
  Bruns, Roger.
  HD6509.C48 B78 2005
• Mexican and Central American L.A. garment workers : globalized industries and their economic constraints
  Budde, Rebecca.
  HD8039.C62 U635 2005
• The Blair years : extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries
  Campbell, Alastair,
  JN1129 .L32 C275 2007
• Unions in America
  Chaison, Gary N.
  HD6508 .C384 2006
• Factory girls : from village to city in a changing China
  Chang, Leslie T.
  HD9734.C55 C53 2008
• The economics of child labour
  Cigno, Alessandro.
  HD6231 .C47 2005
• The process of historical inquiry : everyday lives of working Americans*
  Clubb, Jerome M.,
  HD8072 .C55 1989
• State of the unions : how labor can strengthen the middle class, improve out economy, and regain political influence
  Dine, Philip M.
  HD6508 .D56 2008
• Exporting America : why corporate greed is shipping American jobs overseas*
  Dobbs, Lou.
  HD5724 .D578 2006
• Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America
  Ehrenreich, Barbara.
  HD4918 .E375 2002
• Labor pains : inside America's new union movement
  Erem, Suzan.
  HD6508 .E74 2001
• Making America work*
  Forman, Jonathan Barry,
  HD5724 .F67 2006
• Slavery in White and Black : class and race in the Southern slaveholders' new world order
  Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth,
  E449 .F77 2008
• The future of organized labor in American politics
  Francia, Peter L.
  HD6510 .F73 2006
• All the livelong day : the meaning and demeaning of routine work*
  Garson, Barbara.
  HD8072.5 .G37 1994
• The 2010 meltdown : solving the impending jobs crisis*
  Gordon, Edward E.
  HD5724 .G637 2005
• The big squeeze : tough times for the American worker*
  Greenhouse, Steven.
  HD8072.5 .G74 2008
• Amoskeag : life and work in an American factory-city*
  Hareven, Tamara K.
  HD8039.T42 U648 1978
• The new ruthless economy : work & power in the digital age
  Head, Simon.
  HC106.83 .H4 2003
• Flight capital : the alarming exodus of America's best and brightest*
  Heenan, David A.
  HD8038.A1 H44 2005
• The mobility of workers under advanced capitalism : Dominican migration to the United States
  Hernandez, Ramona.
  HD8081.D65 H47 2002
• Outsourcing America : what's behind our national crisis and how we can reclaim American jobs*
  Hira, Ron.
  HD5724 .H54 2005
• Domestica : immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence
  Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette.
  HD6072.2.U52 L674 2001
• The time divide : work, family, and gender inequality
  Jacobs, Jerry A.,
  HD4904.25 .J32 2004
• Ravenswood : the steelworkers' victory and the revival of American labor*
  Juravich, Tom.
  HD5325 .A492 1990 .J87 1999
• Hasag-Leipzig slave labour camp for women : the struggle for survival, told by women and their poetry
  Karay, Felicja.
  D805.5.H38 K3713 2002
• The 21st century at work : forces shaping the future workforce and workplace in the United States*
  Karoly, Lynn A.,
  HD8072.5 .K37 2004
• Gendering labor history
  Kessler-Harris, Alice.
  HD6095 .K4487 2006
• Reclaiming Marx's Capital : a refutation of the myth of inconsistency
  Kliman, Andrew,
  HB206 .K55 2007
• Competitiveness, technology and skills
  Lall, Sanjaya.
  HD3616.D443 L35 2001
• A short history of the U.S. working class : from colonial times to the Twenty-First Century*
  Le Blanc, Paul,
  HD8066 .L384 1999
• The new division of labor : how computers are creating the next job market
  Levy, Frank,
  HD6331 .L48 2004
• State of the Union : a century of American labor
  Lichtenstein, Nelson.
  HD8066 .L53 2002
• Hidden knowledge : organized labor in the information age
  Livingstone, D. W.
  HD5715 .L58 2004
• Sweatshop warriors : immigrant women workers take on the global factory
  Louie, Miriam Ching Yoon.
  HD6057.5.U5 L68 2001
• Juki girls, good girls : gender and cultural politics in Sri Lanka's global garment industry
  Lynch, Caitrin.
  HD6073.C62 S755 2007
• Framed! : labor and the corporate media
  Martin, Christopher R.
  P96.T72 U66 2004
• The new rural poverty : agriculture & immigration in California
  Martin, Philip L.,
  HD1525 .M235 2006
• Are worker rights human rights?
  McIntyre, Richard P.,
  HD6971.8 .M38 2008
• Globalizing women : transnational feminist networks
  Moghadam, Valentine M.,
  HQ1101 .M64 2005
• (Not) keeping up with our parents : the decline of the professional middle class*
  Mooney, Nan,
  HD8038.U5 M66 2008
• Getting even : why women don't get paid like men-- and what to do about it*
  Murphy, Evelyn F.
  HD6060.5.U5 M87 2005
• Chutes and ladders : navigating the low-wage labor market*
  Newman, Katherine S.
  HD8081.A5 N49 2006
• The missing class : portraits of the near poor in America*
  Newman, Katherine S.,
  HD8072.5 .N487 2007
• The economic implications of aging societies : the costs of living happily ever after
  Nyce, Steven A.,
  HB2583 .N93 2005
• The new American workplace
  O'Toole, James.
  HD6957.U6 O86 2006
• Skilled hands, strong spirits : a century of building trades history
  Palladino, Grace.
  HD6515.B9 P35 2005
• Servants of globalization : women, migration and domestic work
  Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar.
  HD6072 .P27 2001
• A power among them : Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
  Pastorello, Karen,
  HD6515.C62 A427 2008
• Debating God's economy : social justice in America on the eve of Vatican II
  Prentiss, Craig R.
  BX1795.D59 P74 2008
• Reluctant pioneers : China's expansion northward, 1644-1937
  Reardon-Anderson, James.
  HD5856.C5 R43 2005
• Union-free America : workers and antiunion culture
  Richards, Lawrence,
  HD6508 .R488 2008
• On the edge of the law : culture, labor, and deviance on the south Texas border
  Richardson, Chad,
  HN79.T4 R53 2006
• Others : third party politics from the nation's founding to the rise and fall of the Greenback-Labor Party
  Richardson, Darcy G.
  JK2261 .R53 2004
• Citizen teacher : the life and leadership of Margaret Haley
  Rousmaniere, Kate,
  LA2317.H26 R68 2005
• The Jewish women of Ravensbruck Concentration Camp
  Saidel, Rochelle G.
  D804.47 .S35 2004
• The war on labor and the left : understanding America's unique conservatism*
  Sexton, Patricia Cayo.
  HD8066 .S44 1991
• Rising elephant : the growing clash with India over white-collar jobs and its meaning for America and the world
  Sheshabalaya, Ashutosh.
  HD5710.7 .S54 2005
• Schools of democracy : a political history of the American labor movement
  Sinyai, Clayton.
  HD8066 .S53 2006
• A country that works : getting America back on track*
  Stern, Andy,
  HD8066 .S74 2006
• Why immigrants come to America : braceros, indocumentados, and the migra *
  Stout, Robert Joe.
  HD 8081 .M6 S76 2008
• American-made : the enduring legacy of the WPA, when FDR put the nation to work*
  Taylor, Nick,
  HD5724 .T34 2008
• Labor regulation in a global economy
  Tsogas, George.
  K1705 .T77 2001
• The disposable American : layoffs and their consequences*
  Uchitelle, Louis.
  HD5708.55.U6 U34 2006
• Bread and roses : mills, migrants, and the struggle for the American dream*
  Watson, Bruce,
  HD5325.T4 1912 B73 2005
• Unbending gender : why family and work conflict and what to do about it
  Williams, Joan,
  HD4904.25 .W55 2001
• Corruption and reform in the Teamsters Union
  Witwer, David Scott.
  HD6515.T22 I589 2003

Reference Books

• Historical encyclopedia of American labor
  [REF]HD8066 .H57 2004
• Occupational Outlook Handbook 2008-2009
  [REF] HD5724 .O26 2008
• The worlds of children, 1620-1920
  [REF]F1 .D85
• Labor relations
  Beik, Mildred A.
  [REF] HD5324 .B39 2005

DVDs

• Bread and chocolate
  [World Language] PN1997 .B74 2002 [DVD Merrimack Only]
• A day without a Mexican
  PN 1997 .D32 2004 [DVD Merrimack Only]
• Il ferroviere
  [World Language] PN1997 .F474 2005 [DVD Merrimack Only]
• Inch'Allah dimanche
  [World Language] PN1997.2 .I53 2002 [DVD Merrimack Only]
• Maid in America
  HD6072.2.U52 L676 2004 [DVD Merrimack Only]
• La misma luna Under the same moon
  DVD
• On the waterfront
  DVD PN 1997 .O53 2001
• Sex slaves
  HQ281 .S49 2006 [DVD Merrimack Only]

E-books

• The ROI of human capital measuring the economic value of employee performance
  Fitz-enz, Jac.
  Contact the library for help
• Skill wars winning the battle for productivity and profit
  Gordon, Edward E.
  Contact the library for help
• Bread and roses, too
  Paterson, Katherine.
• Sweated work, weak bodies anti-sweatshop campaigns and languages of labor
  Bender, Daniel E.
  Contact the library for help
• Advocating the man masculinity, organized labor, and the household in New York, 1800-1840
  Greenberg, Joshua R.
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• Globalizing women transnational feminist networks
  Moghadam, Valentine M., 1952-
  Contact the library for help

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