Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises Volume 1

Book Overview

Seeking to historicize the 2007-2009 Great Recession, this volume of essays situates the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace. Contributors use examples from industrialized North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to demonstrate how workers and states have responded to those shifts and to their disempowering effects on labor. Since the Industrial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252085124
• ISBN13: 9780252085123
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"