Labour

Unpacking the fashion industry

author: Annie Phizackleashelved under: Workers/ Labour/ Communist History
date: 1990publisher: London [England] ; Routledge
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The British part of a comparative study of fashion clothing production that also includes France and West Germany. Phizacklea (sociology, University of Warwick) uses a variety of sources, including interviews and factory visits, to examine power relations within the industry in terms of the criss-crossing lines of class, gender, ethnicity, and racism.

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Men, women and household work

author: Jacqueline J. Goodnow & Jennifer M. Bowesshelved under: Feminism/Patriarchy/Gender
date: 1994publisher: Melbourne : Oxford University Press
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Pig Earth

author: John Bergershelved under: Fiction
date: 1975publisher: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative
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The sky never changes

author: Thomas F. Reed and Karen Brandowshelved under: Workers/ Labour/ Communist History
date: N.Y. : ILR Press, 1996publisher: Ithaca
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Workers and the New Depression

author: Robert Taylorshelved under: Workers/ Labour/ Communist History
date: 1982publisher: Macmillan
content type: book
description: An exploration of British labour Market including the Unemployment crisis, wages, productivity, training, inequalities in the workplace, Strikes and myths of trade union power

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Workers' Control

author: Ken Coates and Tony Topham (eds)shelved under: Workers/ Labour/ Communist History
date: 1970publisher: Panther Modern Society
content type: book
description: AN exploration of the trade labour movement in Britain spanning 1900 to 1970 exploring ideas of syndicalism, industrial unionism, guild socialism and more

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The Trade Unions and The State

author: Walter Johnsonshelved under: Workers/ Labour/ Communist History
date: 1978publisher: Black Rose Books
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description: An exploration of so-called "Wildcat Strikes" a across Canada including at United Aircraft, Domtar, General Motors, Quebec Iron and Titanium and Toronto Post Office

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The militant worker

author: Scott Lashshelved under: Workers/ Labour/ Communist History
date: 1984publisher: London : Heinemann Educational
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Union Power: Jack Mundy vs George Polites

author: Ann Turner edshelved under: Workers/ Labour/ Communist History
date: 1975publisher: Heinemann Educational Australia
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description: A written account of a debate between Trade Union activist and Green Ban advocate JAck Mundy (as Teasurer of the NSA Builders' Labourers' Federation) and George Polites: a conservative and Director of the Central Industrial Secretariat critiquing trade unions and accusing them of being a minority issue.

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Blue Collar Goodbyes

author: Sue Doroshelved under: Workers/ Labour/ Communist History
date: 1992publisher: Papier-Mache Press
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description: Poetry and essays as well as photographs depicting workers and their experiences in factories in Wisconsin, USA

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