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Books from 2013
Beyond the Checklist: What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety, Suzanne Gordon, Patrick Mendenhall, and Bonnie Blair O'Connor
The Question of Competence: Reconsidering Medical Education in the Twenty-First Century, Brian D. Hodges and Lorelei Lingard
Behind the Kitchen Door, Saru Jayaraman
Where Night is Day: The World of the ICU, James Kelly
The Chicken Trail: Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations Across the Americas, Kathleen C. Schwartzman
Union Voices: Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing, Melanie Simms, Jane Holgate, and Edmund Heery
Books from 2012
Disintegrating Democracy at Work, Virginia Doellgast
Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston, Shannon Gleeson
Buoyancy on the Bayou: Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization, Jill Ann Harrison
Reading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America, Barbara Jensen
First, Do Less Harm: Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety, Ross Koppel (Ed.) and Suzanne Gordon (Ed.)
Retirement on the Line: Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory, Caitrin Lynch
Phone Clones: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy, Kiran Mirchandani
The State of Working America, Lawrence Mishel, Josh Bivens, Elise Gould, and Heidi Shierholz
Public Jobs and Public Agendas: The Public Sector in an Era of Economic Stress, Daniel J. B. Mitchell (Ed.)
With God on Our Side: The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital, Adam D. Reich
The Big Squeeze: A Social and Political History of the Controversial Mammogram, Handel Reynolds MD
Books from 2011
Employee Ownership and Shared Capitalism: New Directions in Research, Edward J. Carberry (Ed.)
Walmart in China, Anita Chan
The Broken Village: Coffee, Migration, and Globalization in Honduras, Daniel R. Reichman
Books from 2010
City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain, Andrew M. Gardner
Black Power At Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry, David Goldberg
Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico, Natasha Iskander
Hired Hands of Human Resources? Case Studies of HRM Programs and Practices in Early American Industry, Bruce E. Kaufman
Notes on Nightingale: The Influence and Legacy of a Nursing Icon, Sioban Nelson and Anne Marie Rafferty
She Was One Of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker, Brigid O'Farrell
Freelancing Expertise: Contract Professionals in the New Economy, Debra Osnowitz
Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change, Amanda Tattersall
Books from 2009
Up In The Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging Their Employees, Greg J. Bamber, Jody Hoffer Gittell, Thomas A. Kochan, and Andrew von Nordenflycht
Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States, Jennifer Jihye Chun
Changing the Course of AIDS: Peer Education in South Africa and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis, David Dickinson
Never Good Enough: Health Care Workers and the False Promise of Job Training, Ariel Ducey
Circles of Exclusion: The Politics of Health Care in Israel, Dani Filc
Human Rights in Labor and Employment Relations: International and Domestic Perspectives, James A. Gross (Ed.) and Lance Compa (Ed.)
Blue-Green Coalitions: Fighting for Safe Workplaces and Healthy Communities, Brian Mayer
The State of Working America 2008/2009, Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and Heidi Shierholz
Staged Action: Six Plays From the American Workers' Theatre, Lee Papa (Ed.)
The International Labour Organization and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919-2009, Gerry Rodgers, Eddy Lee, Lee Swepston, and Jasmien Van Daele
Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century, Daniel Sidorick
States' Gains, Labor's Losses: China, France, and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980-2000, Dorothy J. Solinger
From Predators to Icons: Exposing the Myth of the Business Hero, Michel Villette and Catherine Vuillermot
Books from 2008
The Gloves-off Economy: Workplace Standards at the Bottom of America's Labor Market, Annette Bernhardt; Heather Boushey; Laura Dresser; and Chris Tilly, Eds.
The Changing Face of Medicine: Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America, Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs
No Small Change: Pension Funds and Corporate Engagement, Tessa Hebb
Taxi: Cabs and Capitalism in New York City, Biju Mathew
Motherhood: The Elephant in the Laboratory, Emily Monosson, Ed.
Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States, Carolina Bank Munoz
Telling Stories Out of Court: Narratives About Women and Workplace Discrimination, Ruth O'Brien (Editor)
The Good Temp, Vicki Smith and Esther B. Neuwirth
Books from 2007
Assisted Living for Our Parents: A Son’s Journey, Daniel Jay Baum
Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital Through Cross-Border Campaigns, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Editor
The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor, Dorothy Sue Cobble (Editor)
Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France, Paul V. Dutton
Freedom in the Workplace?, Gertrude Ezorsky
What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace, Richard B. Freeman, Peter Boxall, and Peter Haynes
The State of Working America 2006/2007, Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and Sylvia Allegretto
Fading Corporatism: Israel's Labor Law and Industrial Relations in Transition, Guy Mundlak
Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds: Local Solidarity in a Global Economy, Lowell Turner (Editor) and Daniel B. Cornfield (Editor)
Books from 2006
From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public, Bernice Buresh and Suzanne Gordon
Taking Back the Workers’ Law: How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights, Ellen Dannin
Selling Technology: The Changing Shape of Sales in an Information Economy, Asaf Darr
Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream, Janice Fine
Moving Up in the New Economy: Career Ladders for U.S. Workers, Joan Fitzgerald
What Workers Want, Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers
Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines, Steven C. McKay
Schools Of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement, Clayton Sinyai
Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada, Dan Zuberi
Books from 2005
Unfair Advantage: Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States Under International Human Rights Standards, Lance Compa
Nobody's Home: Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide, Thomas Edward Gass
Nursing Against The Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care, Suzanne Gordon
Unwelcome And Unlawful: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace, Raymond F. Gregory
Bootstrap Dreams: U.S Microenterprise Development in an Era of Welfare Reform, Nancy C. Jurik
The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More Than Canadians do but Join Much Less, Seymour Martin Lipset, Noah M. Meltz, Rafael Gomez, and Ivan Katchanovski
The State of Working America, 2004/2005, Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and Sylvia Allegretto
Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of Building Trades History, Grace Palladino
New Working-Class Studies, John Russo (Editor) and Sherry Lee Linkon (Editor)
Books from 2004
Paradise Laborers: Hotel Work in the Global Economy, Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler
Employment with a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice, John W. Budd
The New Structure of Labor Relations: Tripartism and Decentralization, Harry C. Katz (Editor), Wonduck Lee (Editor), and Joohee Lee (Editor)
Theoretical Perspectives on Work and the Employment Relationship, Bruce Kaufman (Editor)
Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement, Ruth Milkman (Editor) and Kim Voss (Editor)
The Blue Eagle At Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace, Charles J. Morris
Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900–1962, Joseph E. Slater
What's Class Got To Do With It?: American Society in the Twenty-First Century, Michael Zweig (Editor)