Leon Fink: 3 books
Sweatshops at Sea
Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world's first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders. In Sweatshops at Sea, historian Leon...
The Maya of Morganton
Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization. When laborers' concerns about safety and fairness spark a strike and, ultimately, a unionizing campaign at Case...
The Long Gilded Age
American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
From the end of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, the United States experienced unprecedented structural change. Advances in communication and manufacturing technology brought about a revolution for major industries such as railroads, coal, and steel. The still-growing...