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Platform Labour and Global Logistics
Over the past 50 years the global labour market is transforming from reliable employment to low-wage and unstable informal and precarious jobs. This ineluctable shift is a …
The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises
The objective of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises is to deconstruct, question, and redefine through a critical lens what is commonly understood as "migration crises." The …
Encyclopedia of Global Population and Demographics
This up-to-date and comprehensive encyclopedia focuses on the population in each of the 194 countries of the world. Emphasis is on the world's population at the end of the …
The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism
Imperialism has resurfaced as an area of scholarly study in recent years, particularly among those concerned with political economy and international relations. Do countries engage …
Trade Unions and the Betrayal of the Unemployed
This book examines the problematic relationship between unions and the unemployed in New York City during the 1990's. Historically, trade unions in the U.S. have had an interest in …
Encyclopedia of World Cities
This encyclopedia, in A-Z format, has as its subject those cities that are the most important to the world in terms of their cultural, historic, economic, demographic or political …
Central Labor Councils and the Revival of American Unionism:
Central Labor Councils are the local arm of the labor movement responsible for coordinating collective activities among different unions in a region. Once quite powerful …
The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy
Research on the growth of the precarious economy is of signifi cant interest as the economy increasingly becomes dependent on gig work. However, as platform and automated service …
Immigrants Unions & The New Us Labor Mkt
In recent years, New Yorkers have been surprised to see workers they had taken for granted-Mexicans in greengroceries, West African supermarket deliverymen and South Asian …
Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America
Presents the history of third political parties and independent candidacies from the early American republic to the 1990s, with details on over one hundred fifty parties and brief …
The New Urban Immigrant Workforce
This ground-breaking look at contemporary immigrant labor organizing and mobilization draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, historical documents, and new case …
Teamsters and Turtles?
After decades of single issue movements and identity politics on the U.S. left, the series of large demonstrations beginning in 1999 in Seattle has led many to wonder if activist …