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De staking van de arbeidsters van FN Herstal in 1966 was een kantelpunt in de Belgische strijd voor 'gelijk loon voor gelijk werk'. Voor Eliane Vogel-Polsky betekende de staking het beginpunt van haar feministisch engagement. Gedurende een halve eeuw levert zij strijd op verschillende fronten: voor gelijke beloning, voor gelijkekansenbeleid, voor pariteit en paritaire democratie. Het boek belicht haar uiteenlopende engagementen en verwezenlijkingen.

Human rights. --- Social law. Labour law. --- Vogel-Polsky, Eliane --- Women labor union organizers --- Women workers' rights --- Wages --- Feminists --- Belgium --- 20th century --- Biography

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For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies, not only under slavery, but also afterwards in form of indentured labor in the Indian Ocean and obligatory labor in Africa. Stanziani shows that unfree labor and forms of economic coercion were perf

Forced labor --- Slave labor --- Labor --- Travail forcé --- Esclaves --- Travail --- History --- Histoire --- Forced labor. --- Labor. --- Slave labor. --- History. --- Eurasia. --- Travail forcé --- Labor and laboring classes --- Manpower --- Work --- Working class --- Compulsory labor --- Conscript labor --- Labor, Compulsory --- Labor, Forced --- Employees --- global labor history --- indentured servitude --- slavery --- abolition --- workers' rights --- Eurasia --- Peasant --- Russia --- Serfdom

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Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire is the first in-depth look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in continental U.S. agriculture in the twentieth century. The Farm Labor Program, established by the government of Puerto Rico in 1947, placed hundreds of thousands of migrant workers on U.S. farms and fostered the emergence of many stateside Puerto Rican communities. Ismael García-Colón investigates the origins and development of this program and uncovers the unique challenges faced by its participants.A labor history and an ethnography, Colonial Migrants evokes the violence, fieldwork, food, lodging, surveillance, and coercion that these workers experienced on farms and conveys their hopes and struggles to overcome poverty. Island farmworkers encountered a unique form of prejudice and racism arising from their dual status as both U.S. citizens and as “foreign others,” and their experiences were further shaped by evolving immigration policies. Despite these challenges, many Puerto Rican farmworkers ultimately chose to settle in rural U.S. communities, contributing to the production of food and the Latinization of the U.S. farm labor force.

Puerto Ricans --- agriculture. --- american colonialism. --- civil rights. --- coercion. --- colonialism. --- commodification. --- debt slavery. --- ethnic studies. --- ethnography. --- farm labor program. --- farming. --- farms. --- fields. --- foreign others. --- hispanic american studies. --- hispanic. --- history. --- human rights. --- human trafficking. --- immigration. --- labor camps. --- labor industrial relations. --- labor. --- latino. --- latinx. --- migrant workers. --- political science. --- prejudice. --- puerto rico. --- race. --- racism. --- rural communities. --- slave labor. --- surveillance. --- us territory. --- workers rights.

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The food system is broken, but there is a revolution underway to fix it. Bite Back presents an urgent call to action and a vision for disrupting corporate power in the food system, a vision shared with countless organizers and advocates worldwide. In this provocative and inspiring new book, editors Saru Jayaraman and Kathryn De Master bring together leading experts and activists who are challenging corporate power by addressing injustices in our food system, from wage inequality to environmental destruction to corporate bullying.In paired chapters, authors present a problem arising from corporate control of the food system and then recount how an organizing campaign successfully tackled it. This unique solutions-oriented book allows readers to explore the core contemporary challenges embedded in our food system and learn how we can push back against corporate greed to benefit workers and consumers everywhere.

Food security --- agriculture. --- agrofood system. --- alternative food. --- anti hunger activists. --- big agriculture. --- collective action. --- consumption. --- corporations. --- crops. --- drought. --- environment. --- environmentalism. --- ethical consumption. --- ethical eating. --- famine. --- farming. --- food deserts. --- food movements. --- food sovereignty. --- food system. --- globalization. --- good food movement. --- inequality. --- injustice. --- labor industrial relations. --- labor organizing. --- local food. --- nonfiction. --- pesticides. --- planting. --- politics. --- poverty. --- seeds. --- social justice. --- sustainability. --- wage inequality. --- workers rights.

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When Theodore Dreiser first published Sister Carrie in 1900 it was suppressed for its seamy plot, colloquial language, and immorality-for, as one reviewer put it, its depiction of "the godless side of American life." It was a side of life experienced firsthand by Dreiser, whose own circumstances often paralleled those of his characters in the turbulent, turn-of-the-century era of immigrants, black lynchings, ruthless industrialists, violent labor movements, and the New Woman. This masterful critical biography, the first on Dreiser in more than half a century, is the only study to fully weave Dreiser's literary achievement into the context of his life. Jerome Loving gives us a Dreiser for a new generation in a brilliant evocation of a writer who boldly swept away Victorian timidity to open the twentieth century in American literature. Dreiser was a controversial figure in his time, not only because of his literary efforts, which included publication of the brutal and heartbreaking An American Tragedy in 1925, but also because of his personal life, which featured numerous sexual liaisons, included membership in the communist party, merited a 180-page FBI file, and ended in Hollywood. The Last Titan paints a full portrait of the mature Dreiser between the two world wars-through the roaring twenties, the stock market crash, and the Depression-and describes his contact with important figures from Emma Goldman and H.L. Mencken to two presidents Roosevelt. Tracing Dreiser's literary roots in Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, and especially Whitman, Loving has written what will surely become the standard biography of one of America's best novelists.

Novelists, American --- Journalists --- Dreiser, Theodore, --- Dreiser, Theodore --- Novelists [American ] --- 20th century --- Biography --- United States --- american authors. --- american literature. --- american novels. --- biography. --- class. --- classics. --- communism. --- dreiser. --- emerson. --- emma goldman. --- factory workers. --- famous authors. --- fbi. --- fdr. --- gender. --- hawthorne. --- hollywood. --- immigration. --- industrialists. --- journalist. --- labor movement. --- literary celebrity. --- literature. --- lynchings. --- mencken. --- naturalism. --- new woman. --- nonfiction. --- politics. --- progressive era. --- realism. --- roaring 20s. --- robber barons. --- roosevelt. --- sexual morality. --- sexuality. --- social change. --- social commentary. --- thoreau. --- urban life. --- western canon. --- whitman. --- workers rights.