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New Books - 1997

Newly Updated 9 January 1998

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1998 Titles - Order Now!

China's Trade Union and Management (Studies on the Chinese Economy) by Sek Hong Ng, Malcolm Warner. List: $69.95 -- Our Price: $69.95. Subjects: Trade-unions; China; Chung-hua chuan kuo tsung ku; Labor Unions. Publisher: St Martins Pr (Short). Binding: Hardcover. Expected publication date: January 1998.
Factory and Community in Stalin's Russia : The Making of an Industrial Working Class (Series in Russian and East European Studies) by Kenneth M. Straus. List: $55.00 -- Our Price: $55.00. Subjects: Working class; Soviet Union; History; Political activity; Social conditions; Labor Market; Social Stratification; HISTORY-GENERAL HISTORY; Russia (pre & post Soviet Union). Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press. Binding: Hardcover. Expected publication date: January 1, 1998.
The International Faith : Labour's Attitudes to European Socialism, 1918-39 by Christine Collette. List Price: currently unknown. Subjects: International labor activities; Socialism; Europe; History; 20th century; Labor Unions. Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co. Binding: Hardcover. Expected publication date: January 1998.

10 New titles for December '97

Post-Work : The Wages of Cybernation by Jonathan Cutler, Stanley Aronowitz. List: $18.95 -- Our Price: $15.16 -- You Save: $3.79 (20%). Subjects: Technological unemployment; United States; Displaced workers; Occupational retraining; Hours of labor; SOCIOLOGY; Future Studies. Publisher: Routledge. Binding: Paperback. Expected publication date: December 1997.
Stolen Dreams : Portraits of Working Children (Single Titles) by Lee Engfer, Robert Conrow, David L. Parker. List: $19.95 -- Our Price: $19.95. Subjects: Children; Employment; Juvenile literature; Case studies; Social conditions; CHILD BOOKS/AGES 9-12; Labor & Industrial Relations. Publisher: Lerner Pubns Co. Binding: Library Binding. Expected publication date: November 1, 1997.
A Yale Strike Dossier by Cary Nelson. List: $12.00 -- Our Price: $12.00. Subjects: SOCIOLOGY; Labor & Industrial Relations. Publisher: Duke University Press. Volume 14 Binding: Paperback. Expected publication date: December 1997
Expanding Class : Power and Everyday Politics in the Industrial Communities of North Brabant, 1850-1950 (Comparative and International Working-Class history) by Don Kalb. List: $64.95 -- Our Price: $64.95. Subjects: Working class; Netherlands; North Brabant; History; Industries; Labor Market; Industrial History. Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt). Binding: Hardcover. Expected publication date: December 1997
The Lowell Offering : Writings by New England Mill Women - 1840-1845 by Benita Eisler. List: $12.95 -- Our Price: $10.36 -- You Save: $2.59 (20%). Subjects: History: American/Military; History Of Labor; Women In The U.S.; HISTORY-GENERAL HISTORY; Women's Studies. Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company. Binding: Paperback. Expected publication date: December 1, 1997
Sexual Harassment : A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issue Series) by Lynne Eisaguirre. List: $35.55 -- Our Price: $35.55. Subjects: Sex discrimination; Law and legislation; United States; Labor And Employment Law; Employment Of Women. Publisher: Abc-Clio. 2nd Edition. Binding: Hardcover. Expected publication date: December 1997.

25 New titles for November '97

We're very pleased to offer a bumper crop of new labour titles this month -- a whopping 25 new books about working people and their unions. We begin with two US labour history titles with reductions of 30% off cover price. We continue with nine (9) more titles coming from around the world, focussing on labour in China, India, Egypt, Africa, Latin America and Europe. The remaining titles include a couple of highly unusual ones -- a book about workers' rights for children, and a guide to being a successful trade union official -- for policemen. Enjoy!

30% Off! Witnesses to the Struggle : Imaging the 1930s California Labor Movement by Anne Loftis. List: $29.95 -- Our Price: $20.97 -- You Save: $8.98 (30%). Subjects: Strikes and lockouts; Agricultural laborers; California; History; 20th century; Labor Disputes; Historiography; HISTORY-GENERAL HISTORY; United States - State & Local. Publisher: University of Nevada Press. Binding: Hardcover. Expected publication date: November 1, 1997.
30% Off! Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995 by Robert H. Zieger. List: $42.00 -- Our Price: $29.40 -- You Save: $12.60 (30%). Subjects: Labor; Southern States; History; 20th century; Trade-unions; Labor Force; Labor Unions; HISTORY-GENERAL HISTORY; United States - State & Local. Publisher: University of Tennessee Press. Binding: Hardcover. Expected publication date: November 1, 1997.
Worker's Control in Latin America, 1930-1979 by Jonathan C. Brown. List: $19.95 -- Our Price: $19.95. Subjects: Working class; Latin America; Political activity; Railroads; Employees; SOCIOLOGY; Labor & Industrial Relations. Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr. Binding: Paperback. Expected publication date: November 1, 1997.
European Union-- European Industrial Relations : Global Challenges, National Developments, and Transnational Dynamics by Wolfgang Lecher, Hans-Wolfgang Platzer. List Price: currently unknown. Subjects: Industrial relations; European Union countries; Social policy; Collective bargaining; Industrial management; Industrial And Labor Relations. Publisher: Routledge Binding: Hardcover. Expected publication date: November 1997.
The Lost Writings by James Connolly, Aindrias O Cathasaigh. List Price: currently unknown. Subjects: Ireland; Politics and government; 1910-1921; Labor movement; Socialism. Publisher: Pluto Pr. Binding: Hardcover. Expected publication date: November 1997.
Adjusting to Capitalism : Chinese Workers and Their State (Socialism and Social Movements) by Greg O'Leary. List: $62.95 -- Our Price: $62.95. Subject: Business/Economics. Publisher: M E Sharpe. Binding: Hardcover. Expected publication date: October 1997.
Employment and Unemployment in Kerala : Some Neglected Aspects by Elangikal Thomas Mathew. List Price: currently unknown. Subjects: Labor supply; India; Kerala; Unemployment; Kerala (India); Labor Market; Contemporary Economic Situations And Conditions. Publisher: Sage Pubns. Binding: Hardcover. Expected publication date: October 1997.
Labor and the State in Egypt, 1952-1994 : Workers, Unions, and Economic Restructuring, 1952-1996 by Marsha Pripstein Posusney. List: $17.50 -- Our Price: $17.50. Subjects: Working class; Egypt; History; 20th century; Industrial relations; HISTORY-GENERAL HISTORY; Labor & Industrial Relations. Publisher: Columbia University Press. Binding: Paperback. Expected publication date: October 1, 1997.
Work Under Capitalism by Chris Tilly, Charles Tilly. List: $24.00 -- Our Price: $24.00. Subjects: Labor; Labor market; Economics; Sociological aspects; SOCIOLOGY; Sociology - General. Publisher: Westview Pr (Short Disc). Binding: Paperback. Expected publication date: November 1, 1997.
Labor Economics and Labor Relations by Lloyd George Reynolds, Stanley H. Masters, Collette H. Moser. List: $66.67 -- Our Price: $66.67. Subjects: Labor economics; Industrial relations; Labor Economics (General); BUSINESS/ECONOMICS/FINANCE; Labor. Publisher: P T R Prentice Hall. 11th Edition. Binding: Hardcover. Expected publication date: November 1, 1997.
Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining : Cases, Practice, and Law by Michael R. Carrell, Christina Heavrin. List: $104.25 -- Our Price: $104.25. Subjects: Collective labor agreements; United States; Collective bargaining; Industrial relations; BUSINESS/ECONOMICS/FINANCE; Management. Publisher: P T R Prentice Hall. 5th Edition. Binding: Hardcover. Expected publication date: November 1, 1997.
Shifting Fortunes : The Rise and Decline of American Labor, from the 1820s to the Present (American Ways Series) by Daniel Nelson. List Price: currently unknown. Subjects: Labor; United States; History; Labor movement; United State. Publisher: Ivan R Dee. Binding: Paperback. Expected publication date: November 1997.
The Developing Labor Law : The Boards, the Courts, and the National Labor Relations Act : 1997 Supp Lement (Annual) by Raymond L. Wheeler. List: $55.00 -- Our Price: $55.00. Subjects: Reference; Labor And Employment Law. Publisher: Bna Books. Binding: Paperback. Expected publication date: November 1997.
From Company Doctors to Managed Care : The United Mine Workers Noble Experiment (Cornell Studies in Industrial and Labor Relations , No 31) by Ivana Krajcinovic. List: $37.50 -- Our Price: $37.50. Subjects: United Mine Workers of America; Welfare and Retirement Fund; Miners; Medical care; United States; Employee Health Programs; Labor Unions; MEDICAL/NURSING; Health Policy. Publisher: Cornell University Press. Binding: Hardcover. Expected publication date: November 1, 1997.
Making Sense of the Molly Maguires by Kevin Kenny. List Price: currently unknown. Subjects: Molly Maguires; Coal miners; Pennsylvania; History; Irish Americans; History Of Labor; Elements In The U.S. Population. Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr (Short Disc). Binding: Hardcover. Expected publication date: November 1997.
On Deadline : Labor Relations in Newspaper Publishing by Stephen R. Sleigh. List: $17.95 -- Our Price: $17.95. Subject: History. Publisher: Social Change Pr. Binding: Paperback. Expected publication date: November 1997.
The Challenge of Interracial Unionism : Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921 by Daniel Letwin. List: $19.95 -- Our Price: $19.95. Subjects: Trade-unions; Coal miners; Alabama; History; Afro-American coal miners; HISTORY-GENERAL HISTORY; Labor - Unions. Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr. Binding: Paperback. Expected publication date: November 1, 1997.
Worker's Rights (What Do We Mean by Human Rights) by Katherine Prior. List: $22.00 -- Our Price: $22.00. Subjects: Employee rights; Case studies; Juvenile literature; Employees; Civil rights; CHILD BOOKS/AGES 9-12; Labor. Publisher: Franklin Watts. Binding: School & Library Binding. Expected publication date: October 1, 1997.
Labor, Class and Consumption : Consumer Cooperation in Europe and North America, 1840-1950 by Eleen Furlough, Carl Strikwerda. List: $23.95 -- Our Price: $23.95. Subject: Politics/International Relations. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield. Binding: Paperback. Expected publication date: October 1997.
Shopfloor Matters : Labor-Management Relations in 20th Century American Manufacturing by David Fairris. List Price: currently unknown. Subjects: Industrial relations; United States; History; 20th century; Collective bargaining; Industrial And Labor Relations. Publisher: Routledge Binding: Hardcover. Expected publication date: October 1997.
Down on the Killing Floor : Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54 (The Working Class in American History) by Rick Halpern. List: $17.95 -- Our Price: $17.95. Subjects: Afro-American packing-house wo; Illinois; Chicago; History; Trade-unions; SOCIOLOGY; Labor - Unions. Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref). Binding: Paperback. Expected publication date: October 1, 1997.
Police Association Power, Politics, and Confrontation : A Guide for the Successful Police Labor Leader by John H. Burpo, Michael Shannon. List Price: currently unknown. Subjects: Trade-unions; Police; United States. Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd. Binding: Paperback. Expected publication date: October 1997.

7 New titles for September '97

20% Off! Labor in a Lean World : Unions in the International Economy by Kim Moody. List: $20.00 -- Our Price: $16.00. Subjects: Politics/International Relations; International. Publisher: Verso Books. Binding: Paperback. Expected publication date: September 1, 1997.
The First International in France, 1864-1872 : Its Origins, Theories, and Impact by Julian P. W. Archer. List Price: currently unknown. Subjects: International Workingmen's Ass; History; Trade-unions; France; 19th century. Binding: Hardcover. Expected publication date: September 1997.
Workers and the State in New Order Indonesia (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia) by Vedi R. Hadiz. List Price: currently unknown. Subjects: Trade-unions; Indonesia; Labor movement; Working class; Economic conditions; Industrial And Labor Relations; Labor And The State. Publisher: Routledge Binding: Hardcover Expected publication date: September 1997.
20% Off! Audacious Democracy : Labor, Intellectuals and the Social Reconstruction of America by Steve Fraser, Joshua B. Freeman. List: $12.00 -- Our Price: $9.60. Subjects: Labor movement; United States; Working class; Intellectuals; Industrial And Labor Relations; Social Stratification; Democracy. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co. Binding: Paperback. Expected publication date: September 1, 1997
The Force of Irony : Power in the Everyday Life of Tomato Workers in Western Mexico by Gabriel Torres. Our Price: $19.50. Subjects: Sociology; Labor. Publisher: New York University Press. Binding: Paperback. Expected publication date: September 1, 1997.

3 New titles for August '97

Artisans into Workers : Labor in Nineteenth-Century America (American Century Series.) by Bruce Laurie. $16.95. Subjects: Labor movement; United States; History; 19th century; Trade-unions; Industrial And Labor Relations; History Of Labor

Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref)
Reprint Edition
Binding: Paperback
Expected publication date: August 1997
Labor and Employment Law, Text and Cases by David P. Twomey. List Price: currently unknown Subjects: Trade-unions; Law and legislation; United States; Cases; Labor laws and legislation

Binding: Hardcover
Expected publication date: August 1997
'Negro and White, Unite and Fight : A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90 (The Working Class in American History) by Roger Horowitz. $44.95 Subjects: United Packinghouse Workers of; History; Trade-unions; Packing-house workers; United States; Labor Unions

Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Txt)
Binding: Hardcover
Expected publication date: August 1997

Previous months' selections

We Can't Eat Prestige : The Women Who Organized Harvard (Labor and Social Change) by John P. Hoerr. List: $29.95 -- Amazon.com Price: $26.96 -- You Save: $2.99 (10%) Subjects: Harvard University; Employees; Harvard Union of Clerical and; Women clerks; Massachusetts; Labor Unions; Women In Higher Education.

Publisher: Temple University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Expected publication date: June 1,1997
The Fight in the Fields : Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement by Susan Ferriss, Ricardo Sandoval, Diana Hembree, mic McKenzie. List: $25.00 -- Amazon.com Price: $22.50 -- You Save: $2.50 (10%) Subjects: Chavez, Cesar,; 1927-; United Farm Workers; History; Labor leaders; Migrant Workers; Hispanic American Sociology.

Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Binding: Hardcover
Expected publication date: April 1,1997
Lumbermen and Log Sawyers; Life, Labor, and Culture in the North Florida Timber Industry, 1830-1930 by Jeffrey Drobney. List: $39.95 -- Amazon.com Price: $35.96 -- You Save: $3.99 (10%).

Publisher: Mercer University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Expected publication date: June 1,1997
Three Masquerades : Essays on Politics, Work and Equality by Marilyn Waring. List: $21.95 -- Amazon.com Price: $17.56 -- You Save: $4.39 (20%). Subjects: Sociology; Women And Politics; Labor Economics (General).

Publisher: Auckland Univ Pr
Binding: Paperback
Expected publication date: June 1997
Revolt Among the Sharecroppers by Howard Kester. Under $15! List: $14.50 -- Amazon.com Price: $14.50. Subjects: Tenant farmers; United States; History; Sharecroppers; Arkansas; History Of Labor; Labor Unions.

Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
1 Edition
Binding: Paperback
Expected publication date: May 1,1997
Farewell to the Factory : Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century by Ruth Milkman. List: $45.00 -- Amazon.com Price: $45.00. Subjects: Automobile industry workers; New Jersey; Linden; Automobile industry and trade; General Motors Corporation; Automobile Industries (Economic Aspects); Labor Force.

Publisher: University of California
Binding: Hardcover
Expected publication date: May 1,1997
American Exceptionalism : Us Working Class Formation in an International Context by Rick Halpern, Jonathan Morris. List Price: currently unknown. Subjects: Working class; United States; History; Congresses; Labor Market; Social Stratification.

Publisher: St Martins Pr (Trade)
Binding: Hardcover
Expected publication date: June 1997
Class Struggle or Family Struggle : The Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea by Seung-Kyung Kim, Sueng-Kyung Kim. List: $49.95 -- Amazon.com Price: $49.95. Subjects: Women; Employment; Korea (South); Work and family; Employment Of Women; Social Conditions Of Labor

Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Short)
Binding: Hardcover
Expected publication date: June 1997
Marxist Intellectuals and the Chinese Labor Movement : A Study of Deng Zhongxia (1894-1933 (Jackson School Publication in International Studies) by Daniel Y. K. Kwan. List: $45.00 -- Amazon.com Price: $45.00. Subjects: Teng, Chung-hsia,; 1894-1933; Communists; China; Biography; China - History - 20th Century; Communism
Binding: Hardcover
Expected publication date: June 1997
Single Older Women in the Workforce : By Necessity, or Choice (Garland Studies in the History of America Labor) by Jennifer Kane Coplon. List: $50.00 -- Amazon.com Price: $50.00. Subjects: Middle aged women; Employment; United States; Single women; Age and employment; Employment Of Women.

Publisher: Garland Pub
Rev Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Expected publication date: June 1997
Peronism Without Peron : Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina by James W. McGuire. List: $49.50 -- Amazon.com Price: $49.50. Subjects: Argentina; Politics and government; 1943-; Peronism; Trade-unions; Political History; Labor Unions.

Publisher: Stanford University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Expected publication date: June 1,1997
Unionizing the Jungles : Labor and Community in the Twentieth-Century Meatpacking Industry by Shelton Stromquist, Marvin Bergman. List: $32.95 -- Amazon.com Price: $32.95. Subjects: United Packinghouse Workers of; History; Congresses; Trade-unions; Packing-house workers; Labor Unions; Food And Beverage Industries (Economic Aspects).

Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr
Binding: Hardcover
Expected publication date: June 1997
Windy City Wars : Labor, Leisure, and Sport in the Making of Chicago (American Sports History Series, No. 8)by Gerald R. Gems. List Price: currently unknown. Subjects: Sports; Illinois; Chicago; History; Leisure.

Publisher: Scarecrow Pr
Binding: Hardcover
Expected publication date: May 1997
Militant Labor in the Philippines by Lois A. West. List: $59.95. Subjects: Labor movement; Philippines; History; 20th century; Women in the labor movement; Labor Unions; Social Change In Underdeveloped Areas; SOCIOLOGY.

Publisher: Temple University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Expected publication date: June 1997
ISBN: 1566394910
The People's Party : Victorian Labor and the Radical Tradition 1875- 1914 by Frank Bongiorno. List: $24.95. Subjects: Politics/International Relations; Political Parties; History Of Labor.

Publisher: Melbourne Univ Pr
Binding: Paperback
Expected publication date: June 1997
ISBN: 0522847382
Technology, Workers, and Wages : An International Review by Hall, Doms, Kramarz, Bronwyn Hall. List: $39.95. Subjects: Nature/Ecology; Economic Conditions Of Labor; Technology And Industrial Growth; TECHNOLOGY & INDUSTRIAL ARTS.

Publisher: National Academy Press
Binding: Hardcover
Expected publication date: June 1997

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