Ruth Milkman's groundbreaking research in women's labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States. On Gender, Labor, and Inequality presents four decades of Milkman's essential writings, tracing the parallel evolutions of her ideas and the field she helped define. Milkman's introduction frames a ......
Ruth Milkman's groundbreaking research in women's labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States. On Gender, Labor, and Inequality presents four decades of Milkman's essential writings, tracing the parallel evolutions of her ideas and the field she helped define. Milkman's introduction frames a ......
Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland
In the early twentieth century, industrialization upended long-entrenched notions of gender and work identity in working-class men. They responded by creating new identities that blended a rough masculinity of carousing and hard drinking with a respectable masculinity that aspired to join the nascent blue-collar middle class. Stephen Meyer charts ......
Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland
In the early twentieth century, industrialization upended long-entrenched notions of gender and work identity in working-class men. They responded by creating new identities that blended a rough masculinity of carousing and hard drinking with a respectable masculinity that aspired to join the nascent blue-collar middle class. ......
The origin of a modern cornerstone of labor relations
Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker's history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary?
The origin of a modern cornerstone of labor relations
Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker's history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary?
What metropolitan workforces need to betoday and tomorrow
The new volume in the Urban Agenda series addresses the challenges shaping the development of human capital in metropolitan regions. The articles, products of the 2016 Urban Forum at the University of Illinois at Chicago, engage with the overarching idea ......
What metropolitan workforces need to betoday and tomorrow
The new volume in the Urban Agenda series addresses the challenges shaping the development of human capital in metropolitan regions. The articles, products of the 2016 Urban Forum at the University of Illinois at Chicago, engage with the overarching idea ......
Presents a series of urgently needed reforms of both labour and anti-trust laws to improve outcomes for American workers. These include higher wages, safer workplaces, increased ability to report labour violations, greater mobility, more opportunities for workers to build power, and overall better labour protections.
