US Workers, Labor Unions, and the Low-Carbon Energy Transition
Negotiating the Future focuses on US labor and the just transition. Fossil fuel workers are currently at risk for losing their jobs should the US curtail coal, natural gas and oil use. A just transition would support these workers and avoid imposing disproportionate shares of the costs of decarbonization on the poor, the working class, or people ......
US Workers, Labor Unions, and the Low-Carbon Energy Transition
Negotiating the Future focuses on US labor and the just transition. Fossil fuel workers are currently at risk for losing their jobs should the US curtail coal, natural gas and oil use. A just transition would support these workers and avoid imposing disproportionate shares of the costs of decarbonization on the poor, the working class, or people ......
How a cohort of young Jewish radicals from the borderlands of Eastern Europe was critical in reshaping multiracial left-wing activism in southern California Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine offers a novel account of Eastern European Jewish immigration and Yiddish public culture in Southern California. It traces the journeys of a cohort of young ......
How Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans Made the Modern Midwest
The fields and orchards of the Midwest have offered seasonal agricultural work for countless Latinx migrant laborers. For more than a century, Mexican, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican migrants converged in the heartland's agricultural industry to perform some of the most grueling labor needed to sustain the vital agribusiness of the region. In ......
How Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans Made the Modern Midwest
The fields and orchards of the Midwest have offered seasonal agricultural work for countless Latinx migrant laborers. For more than a century, Mexican, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican migrants converged in the heartland's agricultural industry to perform some of the most grueling labor needed to sustain the vital agribusiness of the region. In ......
In Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy, Kim Scipes dives deep into the historical intricacies of labor organizing, focusing on the struggles against white supremacy and racism in the workplace, union, and respective communities in and around Chicago including Northwest Indiana. Comparing unions in the steel and meatpacking industries during the ......
In Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy, Kim Scipes dives deep into the historical intricacies of labor organizing, focusing on the struggles against white supremacy and racism in the workplace, union, and respective communities in and around Chicago including Northwest Indiana. Comparing unions in the steel and meatpacking industries during the ......
Japan's Foreign Labor Politics in Regional Comparison
States of Admission presents the first comprehensive account of how Japan opened to foreign labor-and why this process took such a convoluted path. Japan's labor migration policy resists easy explanation. Although Japan pioneered foreign labor admission in East Asia in the early 1990s, it relied on side-door channels for select migrants. It was ......
Japan's Foreign Labor Politics in Regional Comparison
States of Admission presents the first comprehensive account of how Japan opened to foreign labor-and why this process took such a convoluted path. Japan's labor migration policy resists easy explanation. Although Japan pioneered foreign labor admission in East Asia in the early 1990s, it relied on side-door channels for select migrants. It was ......
