[PDF] Labor And The Money Power eBook

Author : Mark A. Lause
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0252097386

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Monumental and revelatory, Free Labor explores labor activism throughout the country during a period of incredible diversity and fluidity: the American Civil War. Mark A. Lause describes how the working class radicalized during the war as a response to economic crisis, the political opportunity created by the election of Abraham Lincoln, and the ideology of free labor and abolition. His account moves from battlefield and picket line to the negotiating table, as he discusses how leaders and the rank-and-file alike adapted tactics and modes of operation to specific circumstances. His close attention to women and African Americans, meanwhile, dismantles notions of the working class as synonymous with whiteness and maleness. In addition, Lause offers a nuanced consideration of race's role in the politics of national labor organizations, in segregated industries in the border North and South, and in black resistance in the secessionist South, creatively reading self-emancipation as the largest general strike in U.S. history.

Author : Karl Marx
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1434469263

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This volume contains an English translation of Karl Marx's influential essay.

Author : Philip Dray
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307389766

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From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience. In this stirring new history, Philip Dray shows us the vital accomplishments of organized labor and illuminates its central role in our social, political, economic, and cultural evolution. His epic, character-driven narrative not only restores to our collective memory the indelible story of American labor, it also demonstrates the importance of the fight for fairness and economic democracy, and why that effort remains so urgent today.

Author : Ann Pettifor
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1786631377

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What is money, where does it come from, and who controls it? In this accessible, brilliantly argued book, leading political economist Ann Pettifor explains in straightforward terms history’s most misunderstood invention: the money system. Pettifor argues that democracies can, and indeed must, reclaim control over money production and restrain the out-of-control finance sector so that it serves the interests of society, as well as the needs of the ecosystem. The Production of Money examines and assesses popular alternative debates on, and innovations in, money, such as “green QE” and “helicopter money.” She sets out the possibility of linking the money in our pockets (or on our smartphones) to the improvements we want to see in the world around us.