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The Chinese Economy Under Maoism

The Early Years, 1949-1969

By: Nai-Ruenn Chen,Walter Galenson

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The Chinese Economy Under Maoism

The Early Years, 1949-1969

By: Nai-Ruenn Chen,Walter Galenson

Originally published: The Chinese economy under Communism. Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co., [1969]

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Transaction Publishers

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1412842743

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9781412842747

Trade Union Democracy in Western Europe

By: Walter Galenson

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Trade Union Democracy in Western Europe

By: Walter Galenson

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1961.

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112

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Univ of California Press

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0520339401

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9780520339408

The United Brotherhood of Carpenters

The First Hundred Years

By: Walter Galenson

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The United Brotherhood of Carpenters

The First Hundred Years

By: Walter Galenson

Historical account of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters (trade union) in the USA, 1881 to 1981 - covers trade unionization, trade union structure and collective bargaining, demarcation disputes and other labour disputes, political ideology and management attitudes; notes successes in wage increases, reduced hours of work and the abolition of racial segregation.

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466

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Harvard University Press

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0674921968

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9780674921962

Soul by Soul

By: Walter JOHNSON

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Soul by Soul

By: Walter JOHNSON

Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each. What emerges is not only the brutal economics of trading but the vast and surprising interdependencies among the actors involved.

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Harvard University Press

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0674039157

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9780674039155

The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism

Work, Unions and Politics in Sweden

By: Walter Korpi

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The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism

Work, Unions and Politics in Sweden

By: Walter Korpi

First published in 1978, The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism looks at the position of the working class in the Swedish pattern of welfare capitalism and compares it with other capitalist industrial countries. Beginning with an analysis of class, class conflict, power and social change in classical and modern social theory, Professor Korpi discusses the development of the Swedish labour movement and its strategies of class conflict. He focuses on the situation of the worker at the workplace and in the community, on the functioning of the labour union, on industrial conflict, and on the political views and standpoints of the workers. He also examines political developments in Sweden and discusses the prospects for a development towards economic democracy. A challenging and comprehensive study of Swedish social democracy in action, carried out by a Swede within a comparative frame of reference, the book presents an analysis which is of central relevance to all capitalist societies, especially when mass communist parties in Europe appear to be moving towards reformistic socialism. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, social class, economy and history.

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442

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Taylor & Francis

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100072638X

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9781000726381

Forgotten Radicals

Communists in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1919-1950

By: Walter T. Howard

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Forgotten Radicals

Communists in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1919-1950

By: Walter T. Howard

This detailed investigation of Communists and their Party in the hard coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania, known as the Anthracite, draws on sources such as the central archives of the Communist Party of the United States to examine the origins, growth, and decline of the relatively small but active Marxist-Leninist organization that operated there during the first half of the 20th century. Anthracite. Just mentioning the name of the hard coal region of Pennsylvania conjures up classic images of labor violence and class conflict: Molly Maguires, Lattimer and the 1902 national coal strike. Yet this legendary tradition of labor and class discord has prompted no historian to chronicle the complete story of the region's largest and most active radical group in the 20th century: American Communists. They are forgotten radicals. Chronicling the story of these forgotten radicals allows us to examine American Communism in an important area of the highly industrialized state of Pennsylvania where a major capitalist enterprise, the hard coal industry, employed a large contingent of immigrant workers for about half of the 20th century. To be sure, studying these radicals permits us to explore the overall historical pattern of American Communism_the founding of the Party in 1919, the challenges of the 1920s, the heyday of the thirties, the turns of World War II, and the decline during the McCarthy period_in a regional context. Thus, Forgotten Radicals fills a niche in local studies of rank and file Communist activity.

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University Press of America

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0761830901

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9780761830900

Adam Smith Goes to Moscow

A Dialogue on Radical Reform

By: Walter Adams,James W. Brock

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Adam Smith Goes to Moscow

A Dialogue on Radical Reform

By: Walter Adams,James W. Brock

Adam Smith Goes to Moscow is a captivating dialogue between the head of a hypothetical, formerly socialist East European country and a fervently market-minded American adviser. Their spirited give-and-take highlights the monumental political as well as economic complexities currently faced by the former Soviet bloc countries as they struggle to transform themselves into free market economies.

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181

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Princeton University Press

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0691186162

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9780691186160

Gold Coast Diasporas

Identity, Culture, and Power

By: Walter C. Rucker

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Gold Coast Diasporas

Identity, Culture, and Power

By: Walter C. Rucker

“Provocative and well written . . . a must-read for any scholar interested in African identity, the transatlantic slave trade, and resistance.” —American Historical Review Although they came from distinct polities and peoples who spoke different languages, slaves from the African Gold Coast were collectively identified by Europeans as “Coromantee” or “Mina.” Why these ethnic labels were embraced and how they were utilized by enslaved Africans to develop new group identities is the subject of Walter C. Rucker’s absorbing study. Rucker examines the social and political factors that contributed to the creation of New World ethnic identities and assesses the ways displaced Gold Coast Africans used familiar ideas about power as a means of understanding, defining, and resisting oppression. He explains how performing Coromantee and Mina identity involved a common set of concerns and the creation of the ideological weapons necessary to resist the slavocracy. These weapons included obeah powders, charms, and potions; the evolution of “peasant” consciousness and the ennoblement of common people; increasingly aggressive displays of masculinity; and the empowerment of women as leaders, spiritualists, and warriors, all of which marked sharp breaks or reformulations of patterns in their Gold Coast past. “One of the book’s greatest strengths is the ways in which Rucker painstakingly traces how ethnic labels were appropriated, recast, and ultimately employed as a means to establish community bonds and resist oppression . . . Chapters that focus on the creation of the Gold Coast diaspora, religion, and women make for a captivating text that will be of interest to graduate students and specialist readers. Recommended.” —Choice

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Indiana University Press

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0253017017

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9780253017017

Managing Global Legal Systems

International Employment Regulation and Competitive Advantage

By: Gary Walter Florkowski

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Managing Global Legal Systems

International Employment Regulation and Competitive Advantage

By: Gary Walter Florkowski

Presenting a framework for understanding corporate strategy public policy as it relates to human resource management activities in international business, this unique text incorporates legal issues beyond those traditionally associated with HRM.

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Psychology Press

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0415369444

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9780415369442

The Face of Decline

The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century

By: Thomas L. Dublin,Walter Licht

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The Face of Decline

The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century

By: Thomas L. Dublin,Walter Licht

The anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania once prospered. Today, very little mining or industry remains, although residents have made valiant efforts to restore the fabric of their communities. In The Face of Decline, the noted historians Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht offer a sweeping history of this area over the course of the twentieth century. Combining business, labor, social, political, and environmental history, Dublin and Licht delve into coal communities to explore grassroots ethnic life and labor activism, economic revitalization, and the varied impact of economic decline across generations of mining families. The Face of Decline also features the responses to economic crisis of organized capital and labor, local business elites, redevelopment agencies, and state and federal governments. Dublin and Licht draw on a remarkable range of sources: oral histories and survey questionnaires; documentary photographs; the records of coal companies, local governments, and industrial development corporations; federal censuses; and community newspapers. The authors examine the impact of enduring economic decline across a wide region but focus especially on a small group of mining communities in the region's Panther Valley, from Jim Thorpe through Lansford to Tamaqua. The authors also place the anthracite region within a broader conceptual framework, comparing anthracite's decline to parallel developments in European coal basins and Appalachia and to deindustrialization in the United States more generally.

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Cornell University Press

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1501707299

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9781501707292

The World's Strongest Trade Unions

The Scandinavian Labor Movement

By: Walter Galenson

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The World's Strongest Trade Unions

The Scandinavian Labor Movement

By: Walter Galenson

Despite the general decline of trade unions throughout the Western world, unions in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden have prospered. Why? Galenson cites their ability to organize white collar workers, the special attention they give to recruitment of women, and their ability to undergo structural change under employer pressure. He analyzes these factors in the belief that if unions in other parts of the world understand why and how unionism is succeeding in Scandinavia, its deterioration may be slowed and even reversed. In doing so, Galenson offers specific advice on how industrial relations professionals should manage to avoid breakdown of existing systems elsewhere. Labor unions, officials, and organization executives, as well as executives throughout the public sectors, will find Galenson's views informative and enlightening. Although there has been a good deal written about the Scandinavian labor movements in Dano-Norwegian and Swedish, there has been nothing comprehensive in English that deals with the labor movements in the three countries. Nor has there been a systematic analysis of their policies and practices. Galenson provides readers, now, with an account of how unions in the Scandinavian countries have managed to secure the world's highest rates of organization: up to 90% of all who are employed in Sweden, and somewhat less in Denmark and Norway, are trade union members, compared with 15% in the United States. The countries in which they operate are welfare states and are among the wealthiest countries in the world, yet remarkably little is known about the systems of industrial relations that have contributed to these results. Galenson's book will fill that gap and in doing so, make a unique contribution to the determination of policy in other countries.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1567507689

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9781567507683

The World's Strongest Trade Unions

The Scandinavian Labor Movement

By: Walter Galenson

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The World's Strongest Trade Unions

The Scandinavian Labor Movement

By: Walter Galenson

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Book's by Walter Galenson

The Chinese Economy Under Maoism

The Chinese Economy Under Maoism

Trade Union Democracy in Western Europe

Trade Union Democracy in Western Europe

The United Brotherhood of Carpenters

The United Brotherhood of Carpenters

Soul by Soul

Soul by Soul

The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism

The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism

Forgotten Radicals

Forgotten Radicals

Adam Smith Goes to Moscow

Adam Smith Goes to Moscow

Gold Coast Diasporas

Gold Coast Diasporas

Managing Global Legal Systems

Managing Global Legal Systems

The Face of Decline

The Face of Decline

The World's Strongest Trade Unions

The World's Strongest Trade Unions

The World's Strongest Trade Unions

The World's Strongest Trade Unions

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