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Experiences Organizing Informal Workers
Chris Tilly
August 14, 2014
Experiences Organizing Informal Workers brings together scholars from a varied set of countries to draw comparative lessons about which strategies work and which do not, where, why, and how.
Sunshine Was Never Enough: Los Angeles Workers, 1880-2010
John H.M. Laslett
January 1, 2014
Sunshine Was Never Enough shows how labor in all its guises_blue and white collar, industrial, agricultural, and high tech_shaped the neighborhoods, economic policies, racial attitudes, and class perceptions of the City of Angels.
2014 Hollywood Diversity Report: Making Sense of the Disconnect
January 1, 2014
This report considers 172 theatrical film releases in 2011 and 1,061 broadcast, cable and digital platform television shows from the 2011-12 season in order to document the degree to which women and minorities are present in front of and behind the camera.
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Rethinking Workplace Regulation: Beyond the Standard Contract of Employment
Katherine V.W. Stone (IRLE Faculty Advisory Committee) and Harry Arthurs
February 14, 2013
In Rethinking Workplace Regulation, nineteen leading scholars from ten countries and half a dozen disciplines present a sweeping tour of the latest policy experiments across the world that attempt to balance worker security and the new flexible employment paradigm.
Are Bad Jobs Inevitable? Trends, Determininants and Responses to Job Quality in the Twenty-First Century
Chris Warhurst, Francoise Carre, Patricia Findlay and Chris Tilly
February 21, 2012
Bringing together an internationally renowned group of academics, the book defines and measures bad jobs, explains variation and change in job quality, and identifies workplace practices and broader non-workplace strategies for making bad jobs better.
Beyond Green Jobs: Building Lasting Opportunities in Energy Efficiency
Daniel Villao, Uyen Le, Stefanie Ritoper
January 1, 2012
Beyond Green Jobs is a new book that describes how comprehensive, deep green energy efficiency can bring the best benefits to the environment and create good, long-term careers.
Just Neighbors? Research on African American and Latino Relations in the United States
Edward Telles, Mark Sawyer and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado
September 21, 2011
Just Neighbors? challenges the traditional black/white paradigm of American race relations by examining African Americans and Latinos as they relate to each other in the labor market, the public sphere, neighborhoods, and schools.
Organizing on Separate Shores: Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Union Organizers
Kent Wong and An Le
August 1, 2009
Stories from five union organizers from Vietnam and five Vietnamese American union organizers capture their hope, determination, and perseverance against the formidable obstacles they face in organizing workers to improve their jobs and their lives.
Women’s Work: Los Angeles Homecare Workers Revitalize the Labor Movement
Lola Smallwood Cuevas, Kent Wong, Linda Delp
January 1, 2009
This collection of personal stories, campaign analysis, and an abbreviated timeline tells one of America’s greatest stories of women of color standing together to demand fair wages, benefits, and the right to be "invisible no more."
