Pubbl/distr/stampa	New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2006]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (218 p.)
Disciplina	333.72/09729 333.7209729
Altri autori (Persone)	BaverSherrie L BuracMaurice Garcia-MartinezNeftali Garcia-RamosTania JacomeFrancine LynchBarbara Deutsch McCaffreyKatherine T MillerMarin MinniteLorraine NessImmanuel PizziniManuel Valdes Rivera-RiveraAna Soto-LopezRicardo
Soggetto topico	Environmental policy - Caribbean Area Environmentalism - Caribbean Area
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-31657-1 9786611316570 0-8135-3752-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. The Political Ecology of Paradise -- 2. Environmental Movements in the Caribbean -- 3. Paradise Sold, Paradise Lost: Jamaica’s Environment and Culture in the Tourism Marketplace -- 4. Historical Contentions and Future Trends in the Coastal Zones: The Environmental Movement in Puerto Rico -- 5. The Struggle for Sustainable Tourism in Martinique -- 6. Puerto Rico: Economic and Environmental Overview -- 7. Seeking Agricultural Sustainability: Cuban and Dominican Strategies -- 8. “Ni Una Bomba Mas”: Reframing the Vieques Struggle -- 9. Environmental Justice for Puerto Ricans in the Northeast: A Participant-Observer’s Assessment -- 10. Environmental Risk and Childhood Disease in an Urban Working-Class Caribbean Neighborhood -- Conclusion: Toward a Creole Environmentalism -- REFERENCES -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910451773803321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (246 p.)
Disciplina	331.88/0973
Altri autori (Persone)	EimerStuart <1967-> NessImmanuel
Soggetto topico	Central labor councils - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-315-70588-5 1-317-47518-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	pt. 1. The task at hand -- pt. 2. Case studies -- pt. 3. Voices from the field.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910460388803321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London. England : , : Pluto Press, , 2018
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	658.7
Collana	Wildcat
Soggetto topico	Business logistics Competition, International International business enterprises
ISBN	1-78680-234-1 1-78680-190-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Forging Workers' Resistance Across the Global Supply Chain -- Part I Building Labor Power and Solidarity Across the World's Choke Points -- 1 Labor and Social Movements' Strategic Usage of the Global Commodity Chain Structure -- 2 Across the Chain: Labor and Conflicts in the European Maritime Logistics Sector -- 3 Durban Dockers, Labor Internationalism, and Pan-Africanism -- Part II Disruptions: Logistics Workers Resisting Exploitation -- 4 Worker Militancy and Strikes in China's Docks -- 5 "Work Hard, Make History": Oppression and Resistance in Inland Southern California's Warehouse and Distribution Industry -- 6 Stop Treating Us Like Dogs! Workers Organizing Resistance at Amazon in Poland -- 7 Decolonizing Logistics: Palestinian Truckers on the Occupied Supply Chain -- Part III Neoliberalism and the Global Transformation of Ports -- 8 Decoding the Transition in the Ports of Mumbai -- 9 Back to Piraeus: Precarity for All! -- 10 Contested Logistics? Neoliberal Modernization and Resistance in the Port City of Valparaíso -- 11 Logistics Workers' Struggles in Turkey: Neoliberalism and Counterstrategies -- Part IV New Organizing Strategies for the Global Supply Chain -- 12 "The Drivers Who Move This Country Can Also Stop It": The Struggle of Tanker Drivers in Indonesia -- 13 Lessons Learned from Eight Years of Experimental Organizing in Southern California's Logistics Sector -- 14 Struggles and Grassroots Organizing in an Extended European Choke Point -- 15 Beyond the Waterfront: Maintaining and Expanding Worker Power in the Maritime Supply Chain -- Contributor Biographies -- Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910796852803321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (1625 p.)
Disciplina	303.48/4/097303
Altri autori (Persone)	NessImmanuel
Soggetto topico	Social movements - United States - History Social change - United States - History Social justice - United States - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-315-70478-1 1-317-47189-X 1-317-47188-1 1-78402-818-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Antislavery Movement; Introduction; Antislavery Movement, 1700s-1830s; Antislavery Movement, 1830s-1840s; Antislavery Movement, 1840s-1850s; Antislavery Movement, 1860-1865; Abolition: Humanitarian and Revolutionary Ideas; Moderate, Radical, and Militant Abolition; Frederick Douglass and Antislavery; Free Blacks: Foundations of Polities; Antislavery Resistance: An Overview; North-South Reactions to Antislavery; 2. Civil Rights Movement; Introduction Civil Rights Movement, 1865-1910Movement to Abolish Convict Labor; Anti-Lynching Movement; Civil Rights Movement, 1910-1930; Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association Movement; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Civil Rights Movement, 1930-1953; Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1970; Nonviolent Direct Action; Congress of Racial Equality; Civil Rights Movement, 1970-1990; Racial Violence and the Civil Rights Movement; Black Nationalism and the Civil Rights Movement; Anti-Apartheid Movement; Civil Rights Movement, 1990-2000; Civil Rights Movement, Twenty-First Century; 3. Women's Movement IntroductionWomen's Social Movement, 1800-1869; Moral and Dress Reform Movement, 1800-1869; Matilda Joslyn Gage and Woman Suffrage History; Popular Health Movement; Women's Cooperative Housekeeping Movement; Woman Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920; Women's Movement and Social Activism, 1865-1920; African-American Women's Movement, 1865-1920s; Women and the Progressive Movement; Women and the Anti-Imperialist Movement; Working Women's Movement, Early Twentieth Century; Birth Control Movement; Women's Movement, 1920-1960; Equal Rights Amendment; Abortion Rights Movement African-American Women's Movement, 1930s-1940sAfrican-American Women's Movement, 1950-Present; Women's Movement, 1960-1990; Women's Studies Movement; Women's Liberation Movement, 1965-1975; Women's Movement, 1990-Present; Feminist/Lesbian Separatism Movement; Anti-Rape Movement; 4. Labor Movement; Introduction; Labor Movement, 1600-1790; Labor Movement, 1790-1860; Labor Movement, 1861-1877; Knights of Labor; Miners' Movement in the West; Anarchism and the Labor Movement; Labor Movement. 1877-1919; Eight-Hour Day Movement; Syndicalism and the Industrial Workers of the World Railroad Workers MovementSteelworkers Movement; Garment Workers Movement; Labor Movement, 1920-1934; Communist Movement; Sacco and Vanzetti; Unemployment Movement; Unemployed Councils; Strikes of 1934; Brookwood Labor College; Labor Movement, 1935-1947; Labor Law; Cannery Workers Movement; Labor Movement, 1948-1981; Public Workers Movement; Labor Movement and the Vietnam War; Black Lung Movement; Labor Movement. 1981-Present; PATCO and Replacement Workers; United Parcel Service Strike; Hotel and Restaurant Workers Movement; Wildcat Strikes; Organized Labor, Consumption, and Boycotts Labor Culture
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910464050103321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Armonk, N.Y. : , : M.E. Sharpe, , 2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xxxix, 750 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	331.892/97303
Collana	Gale eBooks
Soggetto topico	Strikes and lockouts - United States
ISBN	1-317-45706-4 1-315-69984-2 1-317-45707-2 1-282-55472-7 9786612554728 1-84972-712-0 0-7656-2645-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Editors and contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Topic finder -- Introduction to the Encyclopedia of strikes in American history / Aaron Brenner -- Types of strikes / Aaron Brenner -- Part I. Strikes: theory and practice -- Introduction / by Aaron Brenner -- Strikes in American history / Aaron Brenner -- Theories of strikes / Gerald Friedman -- Socialist theories of strikes / Christopher Phelps -- The news media and strikes / Christopher R. Martin -- The business community's mercenaries: strikebreakers and union busters / Robert Smith -- Corporate strike strategy / Kim Phillips-Fein -- The decline of strikes / Jeremy Brecher -- Strike lessons from the last twenty-five years: what it takes to walk out and win / Steve Early -- Part II. Strikes and working class culture -- Introduction / by Benjamin Day -- Dressed for defiance: the clothing of female strikers, 1910-1935 / Deirdre Clemente -- Better than a hundred speeches: the strike song / Timothy P. Lynch -- Civil rights strikes / Todd Michney -- World War II hate strikes / James Wolfinger -- Polish workers and strikes, 1900-1937 / James S. Pula -- North Carolina women on strike / Roxanne Newton -- The Catholic Church and strikes / Dan La Botz -- Strikes led by the Trade Union Unity League, 1929-1934 / Victor G. Devinatz -- Part III. Strike waves -- Introduction / by Aaron Brenner -- The strike wave of 1877 / John P. Lloyd -- World War I era strikes / Cecelia Bucki -- The rise and fall of the sit-down strike / Rachel Meyer -- The 1945-1946 strike wave / Jack Metzgar -- Strikes in the United States since World War II / Nicola Pizzolato -- Part IV. Public sector strikes -- Introduction / by Immanuel Ness -- Labor and the Boston police strike of 1919 / Joseph Slater -- Teachers' strikes / John P. Lloyd -- Postal workers' strikes / Aaron Brenner -- Three strikes against the New York City transit system / Michael Hirsch -- Social workers and strikes / Howard Karger -- Part V. Strikes in the private sector -- Introduction / by Immanuel Ness -- Section 1. Manufacturing, mining, and agricultural strikes -- Introduction / by Immanuel Ness -- Strikes and apprenticeship in the United States / Daniel Jacoby -- Strikes in the nineteenth-century cotton textile industry in the Northeast United States / Mary H. Blewett -- Twentieth-century textile strikes / David J. Goldberg -- Garment worker strikes / Paul Le Blanc -- Steel strikes before 1935 / John Hinshaw -- Steel on strike: from 1936 to the present / Robert Bruno -- Unionizing the "jungle": a century of meatpacking strikes / Jackie S. Gabriel -- Automobile workers' strikes / Ian Collin Greer -- Rubber workers' strikes / John L. Woods -- Plumbing strikes / Kim Phillips-Fein -- Agricultural strikes / Dan La Botz -- Labor and the transformation of the Hawaiian sugar industry / Edward D. Beechert -- The Redwoods Lumber and Sawmill Workers' strike / Calvin Winslow -- The Watsonville Cannery strike, 1985-1987 / Myrna Cherkoss Donahoe -- Coal miners on strike and the formation of a national union / Jon Amsden and Stephen Brier -- Mesabi Iron Miners' strikes / Gerald Ronning -- The rise and fall of rank-and-file miner militancy, 1964-2007 / Paul J. Nyden -- Section 2. Infrastructure industry strikes -- Introduction / by Benjamin Day -- Labor upheaval on the nation's railroads, 1877-1922 / Theresa Ann Case -- Strikes by telegraph workers / Anthony J. Silva -- Telegraph messenger strikes and their impact on telegraph unionization / Greg Downey -- Trolley wars / Scott Molloy -- Seafarers' strikes in American history / Nathan Lillie -- Longshoremen's strikes, 1900-1920 / Calvin Winslow -- Strikes on the port of New York 1945-1960 / William Mello -- Strikes in the U.S. airline industry, 1919-2004 / David J. Walsh -- Aerospace engineer strikes / Stan Sorscher -- Teamster strikes and organizing, 1934-1964 -- Section 3. Service industry strikes -- Introduction / by Benjamin Day -- Newsboy strikes / Jon Bekken -- Retail workers' strikes / Daniel J. Opler -- Waitress strikes / Dorothy Sue Cobble -- Office workers' strikes / Vernon Mogensen -- Strikes in the motion picture industry / Andrew Dawson -- Attorney strikes at the Legal Aid Society of New York City / Michael Z. Letwin -- Musician strikes / Damone Richardson -- Striking the ivory tower: student employee strikes at private universities / Mandi Isaacs Jackson -- The Boston University strike of 1979 / Gary Zabel -- Strikes by professional athletes / Michael Schiavone -- Nurses on strike / Lisa Hayes -- Organizing home health care workers in New York City / Immanuel Ness -- Additional bibliography.
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