Workers in Hard Times - A Long View of Economic Crises

Klappentext Leon Fink is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry! from 1812 to 2000. Joseph McCartin is a professor of history at Georgetown University and the author of Collision Course: Ronald Reagan! the Air Traffic Controllers! and the Strike that Changed America. Joan Sangster is a professor of gender and women's studies at Trent University and the author of Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada. Zusammenfassung Seeking to historicize today's "Great Recession," this volume includes essays that uses examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to situate the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace. Contributors Sven Beckert, Sean Cadigan, Leon Fink, Alvin Finkel, Wendy Goldman, Gaetan Heroux, Joseph A. McCartin, David Montgomery, Edward Montgomery, Melanie Nolan, Bryan D. Palmer, Scott Reynolds Nelson, Joan Sangster, Judith Stein, Hilary Wainright, and Lu Zhang.

Product details

• Authors: Leon Mccartin Fink
• Assisted by: Leon Fink (Editor), Joseph A. McCartin (Editor), Joan Sangster (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2014
• EAN: 9780252038174
• ISBN: 978-0-252-03817-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Working Class in American History
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries