To Move a Mountain - Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia

Informationen zum Autor Eve S. Weinbaum is an associate professor at the Labor Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A former organizer with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!) and the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (HERE), she worked in nine states in the Southeast, educating and mobilizing members around a wide range of issues and union campaigns, including the campaign against sweatshop labor. She received a PhD in political science in 1997 from Yale University. Klappentext To Move a Mountain: Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia is an inspiring account of how a group of laid-off plant workers sparked a social justice movement in the mountains of Tennessee.

Product details

• Authors: Eve S Weinbaum, Eve S. Weinbaum
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9781565847842
• ISBN: 978-1-56584-784-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches