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Newspaper columnists entertain and inform millions of readers each day, yet their lives and careers have received relatively little attention. Included are columnists who have written on politics, humor, and topics of general interest.

What newspaper columnists have won the Nobel Peace Prize

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This book consists of essays on the 45 economists who have served on teh CEA, covering their economic and political programs and ideas as well as their lives.

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In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred US labor union members were African American. By 1980, the figure was more than one in five. This book explores the politics and history that led to this integration of organized labor. It also tells the story about how the Democratic Party unintentionally sowed the seeds of labor's decline.

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Since the second decade of the nineteenth century, there have been black-owned book publishers in the United States, addressing the special concerns of black people in ways that other book publishers have not.

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How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation's largest port.

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In studying the impact of industry on class organization, social scientists have assumed that the effects of technological advance increase with time and that, as technology molds, dehumanizes, and alienates workers, the pressure mounts to change the system through political action. William H. Form tests these assumptions in his study. The author c

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Employers and the government are pushing for every employee to have an individual contract. David Peetz peels away the claims and counterclaims to explain who benefits and who loses in the brave new world of work.

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This study is a comparison of postwar productivity data for 34 British and American manufacturing industries. It examines statistical relationships between observed productivity differences and other variables, interpreting the relative influence of these factors on productivity.

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Volume two of British Literary Magazines begins its coverage at the dawn of the Romantic Age, when the publication of Blake's Songs of Innocence signalled the change of an era.

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At its height British toymaking was a significant industry, with famous names such as Britains and Meccano known throughout the world. Covering the years from 1700, this work assesses the rise and fall of British toy companies such as Lesney, Airfix, Mettoy and Dunbee Combex Marx.

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This book analyzes the profit-driven nature of the pharmaceutical industry to explore how healthcare has become commodified in the United States. It addresses how pharmaceutical companies are shaping drug interventions, such as the ways in which pharmaceutical advertisements frame issues of identity and representation for patients and healthcare.

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This book analyzes the profit-driven nature of the pharmaceutical industry to explore how healthcare has become commodified in the United States. It addresses how pharmaceutical companies are shaping drug interventions, such as the ways in which pharmaceutical advertisements frame issues of identity and representation for patients and healthcare.

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This book shines unprecedented light on the activity of talent representatives and production professionals in the American and French film and television industries. Empirically grounded contributions show the crucial impact of such entertainment professionals on the making of artistic careers and cultural products.

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Virtually every city in the nation's older industrial regions, no matter its size, grapples with the challenge of unused or abandoned manufacturing facilities and other industrial sites.

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This collection of essays by Kim Scipes explores efforts to build global labor solidarity from the bottom up through analyses of the KMU Labor Center of the Philippines, AFL-CIO foreign policy, and contemporary initiatives.

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This collection of essays by Kim Scipes explores efforts to build global labor solidarity from the bottom up through analyses of the KMU Labor Center of the Philippines, AFL-CIO foreign policy, and contemporary initiatives.

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What is the role of the public bureaucracy in social, economic, and political development What are the alternatives of development for newly emerging nation-states How does a bureaucracy satisfy or inhibit the requisites of democratic development Twelve outstanding scholars--Joseph LaPalombara, Fritz Morstein Marx, S. N. Eisenstadt, Fred W. Rigg