books by ILR Press

books by ILR Press

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ILR Press

The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements (ILR Press Book)

Dan Clawson

ILR Press, 2003

Best book on reviving the American labor movement
This book takes a long-range look at the problem of how to revive the American labor movement. It rejects quick-fix solutions and argues that: (1) Labor movements grow mainly in relatively brief periods of upsurge, as at the beginning of the 20th century and during the ...

Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, And Medical Hubris Undermine ...

Suzanne Gordon

ILR Press, 2006

Wish I would have known
I read the book and am going to graduate from a nursing program in June of '08. I was so disenchanted as to what went on in the book as I see it going on when I am in clinicals. I probably wouldn't have picked nursing as my number one profession after being in the ...

From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change
Carol Chetkovich, Frances Kunreuther

ILR Press, 2007

"Grassroots social-change organizations are a critical resource for progressive movement- building in the United States. They provide political education and sites for constituent engagement, and they are beginning to create networks across issues and/or communities; they promote home-grown leadership among groups that have been disadvantaged; ...

Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and ...

Paul V. Dutton

ILR Press, 2007

French Health Care: An Alternative Model to Single-Payer?
Once again with an upcoming election health care shows itself a major concern of the American people. Health care costs are soaring, the ranks of the uninsured and underinsured are increasing, over 50% of bankruptcies are due to medical expenses and employers are ...

The State of Working America, 2006/2007 (State of Working America)

Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, ...

ILR Press, 2006

Change Is Needed Now and Here's Why
If you can wade your way through the statistics, this book is enlightening and edifying, often sad. The commentary and interpretation help clarify the wealth of information. It graphically illustrates that nothing has changed after all these years of hope and promises ...

Headhunters: Matchmaking in the Labor Market

William Finlay, James E. Coverdill

ILR Press, 2007

headhunting in the labore market
It is amazing book. what is there writen it sounds like bible for recruiters!!!))) All info will be given into the heads to all my consultants asap)) Lubos

Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

Suzanne Gordon

ILR Press, 2007

Summarizes nursing's role in the current health care arena.
A must read for all those working IN or WITH the profession of nursing. Gordon discusses how the changes in our health care system have affected both the nurses role and quality patient care issues. The essential need for collaboration of all health care personnel ...

From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know And Must Communicate to the Public, Second Edition

Bernice Buresh, Suzanne Gordon

ILR Press, 2006

A "must" read for Nurses!!!
This book is like a bible to me. I have read the book several times, picking it up, reading parts...and always being empowered by it. I would highly recommend this book for nurses of all walks. Authors, Buresh & Gordon help nurses understand the deliberate dimantling ...

Making Mondragon: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex (Cornell International Industrial ...

William Whyte

ILR Press, 1991

A valuable contribution to an under-studied area
The Mondragon experiment in cooperative enterprise is relatively little known outside Spain it seems. The fact that such an enterprise was able to emerge within Franco's Spain and flourish as a worker-owned cooperative, despite the many challenges it has faced, is an ...

The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

ILR Press, 2006

A must read for the modern nurse
I purchased this book and "Nursing Against the Odds" by Gordan at the same time. While this book provided inspiring articulation of my own thoughts at this point in my career, the other one was just depressing. I coasted through this book of essays by different ...

Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement

ILR Press, 2004

Excellent book for Union Organizers!
This book is a good reference tool for the novice Union Organizer. I recommend it highly. It goes over alot of stuff you already know, but it is good to be reminded of such!

Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds: Local Solidarity in a Global Economy (Frank W. Pierce Memorial ...

ILR Press, 2007

Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds examines a diverse array of innovative strategies for revitalizing the labor movement by forming alliances outside the workplace with a variety of community groups, social movements, and faith-based organizations, particularly those that address civil rights, immigrant rights, and consumer concerns. ...

Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization
Steven High, David W. Lewis

ILR Press, 2007

Deindustrialization is not simply an economic process, but a social and cultural one as well. The rusting detritus of our industrial past--the wrecked hulks of factories, abandoned machinery too large to remove, and now-useless infrastructures--has for decades been a part of the North American landscape. In recent years, however, these ...

A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States
Robert Pollin, Mark Brenner, ...

ILR Press, 2008

In early 2007, there were approximately 140 living wage ordinances in place throughout the United States. Communities around the country frequently debate new proposals of this sort. Additionally, as a result of ballot initiatives, twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia, representing nearly 70 percent of the total U.S. population, ...

The Triangle Fire

Leon Stein

ILR Press, 2001

Great historical account of a true American disaster
As a Professor of Fire Science I am constantly seeking out books having to do with great historical fires in American. These books are to be used as course research papers by my students and typically are not available via the library network. I trust many of my ...