LIBROS DEL AUTOR: timothy j minchin

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  • America’s Other Automakers
    Timothy J Minchin
    In 2018 almost half of all vehicles made in North America were produced at foreign-owned plants, and the sector was on track to monopolize the market. Despite this, the industry has been overlooked compared with its domestic counterpart, both in scholarship and popular memory. Redressing this neglect, America’s Other Automakers provides a new history of the foreignowned auto se...
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    39,15 €

  • Labor Under Fire
    Timothy J. Minchin / Timothy JMinchin
    From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate. As America’s largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO was forced to reckon with severe political and economic headwinds. Yet the AFL-CIO survived, consistently fighting for programs that benefited millions of Americans, including social security, unemployment insurance, the minimum wag...
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    47,29 €

  • The Color of Work
    Timothy J. Minchin / Timothy JMinchin
    Histories of the civil rights movement have generally overlooked the battle to integrate the South’s major industries. The paper industry, which has played an important role in the southern economy since the 1930s, has been particularly neglected. Using previously untapped legal records and oral history interviews, Timothy Minchin provides the first in-depth account of the stru...
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    60,91 €

  • Hiring the Black Worker
    Timothy J. Minchin / Timothy JMinchin
    In the 1960s and 1970s, the textile industry’s workforce underwent a dramatic transformation, as African Americans entered the South’s largest industry in growing numbers. Only 3.3 percent of textile workers were black in 1960; by 1978, this number had risen to 25 percent. Using previously untapped legal records and oral history interviews, Timothy Minchin crafts a compelling a...
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    60,66 €

  • What Do We Need a Union For?
    Timothy J. Minchin / Timothy JMinchin
    The rise in standards of living throughout the U. S. in the wake of World War II brought significant changes to the lives of southern textile workers. Mill workers’ wages rose, their purchasing power grew, and their economic expectations increased — with little help from the unions. Timothy Minchin argues that the reasons behind the failure of textile unions in the postwar Sout...
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    54,37 €