Workers in Hard Times : A Long View of Economic Crises.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Depressions and Working-Class Lives -- 1. Marching under Flags Black and Red: Toronto's Dispossessed in the Age of Industry Gaetan Heroux a -- 2. Working People's Responses to Past Depressions David Montgomery -- 3. Soviet Workers and Stalinist Terror: The Crisis of Industrialization Wendy Goldman -- Part II. Economic Dislocation as Political Crisis -- 4. The Labor of Capitalism: Industrial Revolution and the Transformation of the Global Cotton-Growin -- 5. The Ordeal of Eugene Debs: The Panic of 1893, the Pullman Strike, and the Origins of the Progress -- Part III. Social-Welfare Struggles from the Liberal to the Neoliberal State -- 6. Workers' Social-Wage Struggles during the Great Depression and the Era of Neoliberalism: Internat -- 7. Politics and Policies in the 1970s and Early Twenty-first Century: The Linked Recessions Judith S -- 8. Neoliberalism at Work in the Antipodean Welfare State in the Late Twentieth Century: Collusion, C -- Part IV. Workers and the Shakeup of the New World Order -- 9. Want amidst Plenty: The Oil Boom and the Working Class in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1992-2010 Se -- 10. Whose Hard Times? Explaining Autoworkers Strike Waves in Recent-Day China Lu Zhang -- 11. Transformative Power: Lessons from the Greek Crisis and Beyond Hilary Wainwright -- 12. How Workers and the Government Have Dealt with Economic Crisis and Industrial Decline: 1929 and -- Contributors -- Index.

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