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    “…"These specially commissioned essays by labor historians of international repute provide a complete survey of the global trajectory of labor history. …”
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    by Abelshauser, Werner
    Published 2005
    “…"Over the past decade, the "German Model" of industrial organization has been the subject of vigorous debate among social scientists and historians, especially in comparison to the American one. …”
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    by Charlesworth, Lorie
    Published 2010
    “…"That ‘poor law was law’ is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. …”
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    Published 2009
    “…Bringing together leading environmental historians and world historians, this book offers an overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable 500-year period. …”
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    by Post, Charles
    Published 2012
    “…"Unable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the antebellum U.S., most historians of the US Civil War have ignored its deep social roots. …”
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    by Huberman, Michael
    Published 2011
    “…But in this book the distinguished economic historian Michael Huberman demonstrates that globalization has in fact been very good for workers’ quality of life, and that improved labor conditions have promoted globalization."…”
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    Published 2012
    “…Strikes also being a clear expression of the ‘social question’, economists, historians and national statistical bureaus soon followed suit. …”
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    by Rhode, Paul W., Toniolo, Gianni
    Published 2006
    “…In this book, contributions by eminent economic historians examine key issues such as the causes and sustainability of productive growth in the U.S., the sluggish growth in Europe and stagnation in Japan. …”
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    by Meiksins Wood, Ellen
    Published 2016
    “…"Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of "postmodern" fragmentation, "difference", and contingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. …”
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    by Lichtenstein, Nelson
    Published 2010
    “…In this probing investigation, historian Nelson Lichtenstein shows how the company's success has spread evangelical Protestantism into the workplace, made South China an American workshop, and pushed American politics to the right. …”
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    by Green, James
    Published 2006
    “…A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover. Historian James Green recounts the rise of the first great labor movement in the wake of the Civil War and brings to life an epic twenty-year struggle for the eight-hour workday. …”
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    Published 2013
    “…This volume undertakes this challenge as well as questions some major assumptions of post-1945 protest and social mobilization both in Western and Eastern Europe. Historians, political scientists, sociologists and media studies scholars come together and offer insights into social movement research beyond conventional repertoires of protest and strictly defined periods, borders and paradigms, offering new perspectives on past and present processes of social change of the contemporary world."…”
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    by van der Linden, Marcel
    Published 2003
    “…"There is growing recognition amongst scholars that labour historians need to look beyond national borders in order to place the history of the working classes into a much broader context than has hitherto been the case. …”
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    by Bortz, Jeffrey
    Published 2008
    “…Because Mexico was at the time a rural and agrarian country, it is not surprising that historians have concentrated on the revolution in the countryside where the rural underclass fought for land. …”
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    by Gillingham, John
    Published 2016
    “…In this pithy, rigorously argued book, leading historian John Gillingham examines a once great notion that soured long ago. …”
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    by Lash, Scott, Urry, John
    Published 1987
    “…The lucid arguments and judicious comparisons in this book will be of great interest to political scientists, sociologists, geographers, economists, and historians."…”
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    Published 2014
    “…But as this collection shows, Thompson was much more than a historian: he was a dedicated educator of workers, a brilliant polemicist, a skilled political theorist, and a tireless agitator for peace, against nuclear weapons, and for a rebirth of the socialist project. …”
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    Published 2011
    “…There are chapters from labour historians, theoreticians, more mainstream industrial relations scholars, sociologists, organizational psychologists, geographers, policy advisors, economists and lawyers. …”
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    Published 2011
    “…It features contributions from leading and up-and-coming women labour historians, essays are in three sections: the labour market/work (typical and atypical); trade unions; and politics. …”
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    by Lens, Sidney
    Published 2009
    “…From the martyrdom of the famous Molly Maguires in the Pennsylvania coalfields in the nineteenth century to the great sitdown strikes of the 1930s, the history of the American labor movement is filled with pitched battles that frequently erupted into open warfare. Here, celebrated historian Sidney Lens chronicles these great labor battles, the contentious struggles to lead them, and the leaders generated by the working-class movement: Eugene Debs, Samuel Gompers, Mother Jones, Lucy and Albert Parsons, William Z. …”
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