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Garland Studies in the History of American Labor

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Go Ye and Study the Beehive

The Making of a Western Working Class

By Jeannette Rodda

As corporate capital appropriated the rich mines of the American West and proletarianized independent miners, workers resisted by forging a genuine, indigenous, and radical working-class…

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2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2653-3 (Routledge)

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Development and Main Outlines of Rawls's Theory of Justice

Philosophy of Rawls

Edited by Henry Richardson, Paul Weithman

1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2925-1 (Routledge)

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The Necessity of Organization

Mary Kenney OOSullivan and Trade Unionism for Women, 1892-1912

By Kathleen B. Nutter

The Necessity of Organization describes Mary Kenney O'Sullivan's struggle to improve labor conditions through trade unionism. Appointed the first woman organizer for the…

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1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3505-4 (Routledge)

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The New Labor Radicalism and New York City's Garment Industry

Progressive Labor Insurgents During the 1960s

By Leigh David Benin

1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3385-2 (Routledge)

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Grounded

Reagan and the PATCO Crash

By Michael Round

This book analyses the rhetorical background and strategies of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) and those of Ronald Reagan in reference to the…

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1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3506-1 (Routledge)

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Labor Supply and Occupational Structure of Asian Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market

Labor Supply & Occupational Structure

By Jongsung Kim

This book examines the marked increase in the number of Asians emigrating to the United States in the early 1990s to identify 1) the role…

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1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3439-2 (Routledge)

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Divided Loyalties

American Unions and the Vietnam War

By Frank Koscielski

This book explores the international leadership of the AFL-CIO, the UAW and UAW Local 600, the world's largest union local, and reveals that overall, working-class…

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1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3510-8 (Routledge)

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Immigrant Women's Lives

Weaving Garment Work and Legislative Policy

By Ruth A. Charles

1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3388-3 (Routledge)

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Mexican Migration to the United States

The Role of Migration Networks and Human Capital Accumulation

By Steven S. Zahniser

Contrary to the thinking of some U.S. policymakers, changing macroeconomic conditions in the both the U.S. and Mexico have little effect on Mexican migration.…

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1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3199-5 (Routledge)

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