Inicio > Sociedad y ciencias sociales > Política y gobierno > American Labor and American Democracy
American Labor and American Democracy

American Labor and American Democracy

William Walling

87,08 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2005
Materia
Política y gobierno
ISBN:
9781412804721
87,08 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Sobre IBD

In this book William English Walling drew on his close association with Samuel Gompers and other leaders of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to write the authoritative history of the labor movement in the first quarter of the twentieth century.

Artículos relacionados

  • How Great a Crime - to tell the truth
    Neil Kay / Steven Kay
    Joseph Gales was one of the all-time great Sheffielders – forget Joe Cocker, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Sean Bean or Michael Palin. These are all minnows compared to Joseph Gales – and their stories are boring besides that of the Galeses. The Galeses story has been forgotten and has not been brought together in one place before – it is not just something dredged up from history – an i...
    Disponible

    10,33 €

  • Fearful Majesty
    Benson Bobrick
    Ivan the Terrible - the name evokes the legend of a cruel and dangerously insane tyrant. Fearful Majesty explores that legend and exposes the man, his nature, and his time.This acclaimed biography of one of Russia’s most important and tyrannical rulers is not only a rich, readable biography, it is also surprisingly timely, revealing how many of the issues Russia faces today hav...
    Disponible

    19,27 €

  • Economic Optimization of Innovation & Risk
    Robert Shuler
    A Theory of Crash Rate for Private & Public Projects with Critical or non-Critical systems.Analyzing & managing risk has been a quest for 5000 years, and is essential to everything from water supplies, finance, and agriculture to computers and space travel. At last there is a quantitative theory and a simple equation that allows you to: - choose your failure rate - get there...
    Disponible

    13,02 €

  • The System
    Lincoln Steffens
    The 'muckraker' Lincoln Steffens dug deep into business criminality and political corruption in a powerful series of articles written for McClure's magazine. Establishment newspapers and 'System' politicians dismissed his work as just another example of the decrepit modern journalism that could never pass for genuine writing. But Steffens' dogged quest for truth and justice set...
    Disponible

    23,66 €

  • Digital Activism in Asia Reader
    The digital turn might as well be marked as an Asian turn. From flash-mobs in Taiwan to feminist mobilisations in India, from hybrid media strategies of Syrian activists to cultural protests in Thailand, we see the emergence of political acts that transform the citizen from being a beneficiary of change to becoming an agent of change. In co-shaping these changes, what the digit...
    Disponible

    22,19 €

  • The New Freedom
    Woodrow Wilson
    In 1912, Woodrow Wilson was the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. He campaigned against the Republican incumbent, William Howard Taft, and Taft’s predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt, who had split off from the Republican Party to form his own Progressive, or Bull Moose, Party. Much of the campaign focused on the US economy, particularly the candidates’ views of...
    Disponible

    8,67 €

Otros libros del autor

  • The Stockholder
    William Walling
    A more immediate threat than climate change, the mid-21st-century energy dilemma inspires reclusive trillionaire Lyman Dysart ⎯ called 'The Stockholder' by his privately owned company employees ⎯ to finance research and development of the ultimate energy solution: controlled nuclear fusion power generation.Plasma constituents of the patented 'Omega Pinch' process are deuterium,...
    Disponible

    17,30 €

  • Olympus Mons
    William Walling
    An obscure medical researcher develops the “miracle enzyme” Bevvinase, thus enabling the direct conversion of carbon dioxide to oxygen within mammalian organisms, a major aid in the opening of Mars’ hostile environment to permanent human residence.Decades later, a pair of deported, convicted felons, ex-intelligence officer and alpinist Jesperson, and his assigned work-partner, ...
  • Memo to the Leader
    William Walling
    Could the course and outcome of World War II be changed redundantly? Possibly, since all you need is a professional, experienced time-traveling historical researcher. The task may not be quite that simple, however, so he had better be very, very careful …The Lebe Technique, a secret “weapon” developed by a theoretical physicist among ODESSA SS exiles fleeing war crimes prosecut...