Industrial relations books

A foundational figure in modern labor history, David Montgomery both redefined and reoriented the field. This collection...  Read More >>

An exciting yet relatively unknown episode in American labor history took place in New York City between 1965 and...  Read More >>

Explores the day-to-day labor, economic, political, and social climate at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution...  Read More >>

An exciting yet relatively unknown episode in American labor history took place in New York City between 1965 and...  Read More >>

This book explores key issues affecting the post-NAFTA development and trajectory of North America's most important...  Read More >>

Examines the upheaval in the entertainment industry by studying the hundred-day writers’ strike that thwarted Hollywood...  Read More >>

This book examines how collective bargaining disputes are resolved among police and essential service employees....  Read More >>

What happened to the loggers of America’s past when lumbermen moved west and south in the late 19th and early 20th...  Read More >>

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In 2003, Leon Fink published his oral history of Guatemalan and Mexican migrants in Morganton, North Carolina, and...  Read More >>

Drawing on data from France, Germany, and China, this book explores how the interaction between time and autonomy...  Read More >>

It is impossible to view the news at present without hearing talk of crisis: the economy, the climate, the pandemic....  Read More >>

An eloquent, inside account of trouble in the ersatz paradise of Silicon Valley...The expose of the 'clean rooms'...  Read More >>

A foundational figure in modern labor history, David Montgomery both redefined and reoriented the field. This collection...  Read More >>

Autoworkers in Oshawa unionized the General Motors plant in 1937 after a bitterly fought strike that pitted them...  Read More >>

For McDonald’s, the Chicken McNugget, the flagship product of further processed chicken, represented a once-in-a-generation...  Read More >>

For McDonald’s, the Chicken McNugget, the flagship product of further processed chicken, represented a once-in-a-generation...  Read More >>

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How the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad  Read More >>

The 1921 founding congress of the Red International of Labour Unions brought together diverse forces, seeking to...  Read More >>

First Published in 1943, American Labour presents a comprehensive story of the American trade union movement. With...  Read More >>

Call center employees once blended skill and emotional intelligence to solve customer problems while the workplace...  Read More >>

The Metaphysics of Cooperation presents the intellectual achievements of the Polish associative socialist and pioneer...  Read More >>

Raising the Red Flag is a stirring exploration of the origins of the British Marxist movement, from the creation...  Read More >>

Shifting Gears tells the story of how Canada’s largest private-sector union shifted its political strategy from...  Read More >>