Forbidden Workers

Forbidden Workers
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 156584355X
ISBN-13 : 9781565843554
Rating : 4/5 (5X Downloads)

Synopsis Forbidden Workers by : Peter Kwong

Tells the story of Chinese immigrants to the United States, discussing how these individuals illegally enter the country and the poor working conditions they face in their new home

American Worker Project

American Worker Project
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Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : PURD:32754069243149
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis American Worker Project by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

Void where Prohibited

Void where Prohibited
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015040036405
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Void where Prohibited by : Marc Linder

Although federal and state regulations require employers to provide toilets, government agencies, incredibly, do not require employers to permit workers to use them. Marc Linder, a labor lawyer and political economist, and Ingrid Nygaard, a physician specializing in urogynecology, place this regulatory breakdown in the wider context of the history of labor-management struggles over rest periods. They emphasize the physiological consequences that workers suffer when they are not allowed to interrupt work to rest or urinate. Linder and Nygaard explain how protective rest period legislation has shrunk over time. Ironically, because most statutes singled out women for rest breaks, they were invalidated by Title VII's ban on sex discrimination. The authors explain other countries' regulations and conclude with a recommendation for legislation to mandate rest and bathroom breaks for all workers.

Workers of the Donbass Speak

Workers of the Donbass Speak
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 0791424863
ISBN-13 : 9780791424865
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Workers of the Donbass Speak by : Lewis H. Siegelbaum

This is an oral and local history of the coal mining town of Donetsk in the Ukraine. The workers describe their changing political and economic goals and their reaction to Western culture, the rising tides of nationalism and religion.

Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse

Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse
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Publisher : Hachette Books
Total Pages : 267
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ISBN-10 : 9781401342708
ISBN-13 : 1401342701
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse by : Suraya Sadeed

Includes a Reading Group Guide and Author Q&A From her first humanitarian visit to Afghanistan in 1994, Suraya Sadeed has been personally delivering relief and hope to Afghan orphans and refugees, to women and girls in inhuman situations deemed too dangerous for other aid workers or for journalists. Her memoir of these missions, Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse, is as unconventional as the woman who has lived it. This is no humanitarian missive; it is an adventure story with heart. To help the Afghan people, Suraya has flown in a helicopter piloted by a man who was stoned beyond reason. She has traveled through mountain passes on horseback alongside mules, teenage militiamen, and Afghan leaders. She has stared defiantly into the eyes of members of the Taliban and of the Mujahideen who were determined to slow or stop her. She has hidden and carried $100,000 in aid, strapped to her stomach, into ruined villages. She has built clinics. She has created secret schools for Afghan girls. She has dedicated the second half of her life to the education and welfare of Afghan women and children, founding the organization Help the Afghan Children (HTAC) to fund her efforts. Suraya was born the daughter of the governor of Kabul amid grand walls, beautiful gardens, and peace. In the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, she fled to the United States with her husband, their young daughter, their I-94 papers, and little else. In America, she became the workaholic owner of a prosperous real estate company, enjoying all the worldly comforts anyone could want, but when a personal tragedy struck in the early 1990s, Suraya seriously questioned how she was living and soon sharply changed the direction of her life. Now, in Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse, she shares her story of passion, courage, and love, painting a complex portrait of Afghanistan, its people, and its foreign visitors that defies every stereotype and invites us all to contribute to the lives of others and to hope.

The American Federationist

The American Federationist
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 616
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ISBN-10 : OSU:32435066947094
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis The American Federationist by :

Includes separately paged "Junior union section."

Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism

Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9780252093371
ISBN-13 : 0252093372
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism by : Immanuel Ness

Political scientist Immanuel Ness thoroughly investigates the use of guest workers in the United States, the largest recipient of migrant labor in the world. Ness argues that the use of migrant labor is increasing in importance and represents despotic practices calculated by key U.S. business leaders in the global economy to lower labor costs and expand profits under the guise of filling a shortage of labor for substandard or scarce skilled jobs. Drawing on ethnographic field research, government data, and other sources, Ness shows how worker migration and guest worker programs weaken the power of labor in both sending and receiving countries. His in-depth case studies of the rapid expansion of technology and industrial workers from India and hospitality workers from Jamaica reveal how these programs expose guest workers to employers' abuses and class tensions in their home countries while decreasing jobs for American workers and undermining U.S. organized labor. Where other studies of labor migration focus on undocumented immigrant labor and contend immigrants fill jobs that others do not want, this is the first to truly advance understanding of the role of migrant labor in the transformation of the working class in the early twenty-first century. Questioning why global capitalists must rely on migrant workers for economic sustenance, Ness rejects the notion that temporary workers enthusiastically go to the United States for low-paying jobs. Instead, he asserts the motivations for improving living standards in the United States are greatly exaggerated by the media and details the ways organized labor ought to be protecting the interests of American and guest workers in the United States.

American Federationist

American Federationist
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1150
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ISBN-10 : CORNELL:31924065804670
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis American Federationist by :

Capital Moves

Capital Moves
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 9781501723568
ISBN-13 : 1501723561
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Capital Moves by : Jefferson Cowie

Find a pool of cheap, pliable workers and give them jobs—and soon they cease to be as cheap or as pliable. What is an employer to do then? Why, find another poor community desperate for work. This route—one taken time and again by major American manufacturers—is vividly chronicled in this fascinating account of RCA's half century-long search for desirable sources of labor. Capital Moves introduces us to the people most affected by the migration of industry and, most importantly, recounts how they came to fight against the idea that they were simply "cheap labor." Jefferson Cowie tells the dramatic story of four communities, each irrevocably transformed by the opening of an industrial plant. From the manufacturer's first factory in Camden, New Jersey, where it employed large numbers of southern and eastern European immigrants, RCA moved to rural Indiana in 1940, hiring Americans of Scotch-Irish descent for its plant in Bloomington. Then, in the volatile 1960s, the company relocated to Memphis where African Americans made up the core of the labor pool. Finally, the company landed in northern Mexico in the 1970s—a region rapidly becoming one of the most industrialized on the continent.

Broken Stick

Broken Stick
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Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : 9780828020695
ISBN-13 : 0828020698
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Broken Stick by : Eileen E. Lantry

Norman Ferris stood his ground as a group of 40 or 50 Bellonses warriors held their spears high and thundered across the sacred beach toward him. He had come to this remote island to tell the devil worshipers about the one true God . . . and he wasnt leaving until he did so.Norman wasnt afraid to die, and he wasnt afraid to live, either. In 1927, fully aware of the dangers awaiting them, he and his wife, Ruby, sailed to the Solomon Islands only a year and a half after their marriage. Daunting trials and challenges would follow, but so would profound spiritual victories and miraculous answers to prayer.Actually, this isnt just the story of two courageous missionaries from Australia. This book is full of stories about the incredible power of God in the lives of all those who choose to follow Him because somebody loved them enough to tell them. Head-hunting devil priests included.