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Workers in Hard Times
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CoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsIntroductionPart I. Depressions and Working-Class Lives1. Marching under Flags Black and Red: Toronto's Dispossessed in the Age of Industry Gaetan Heroux a2. Working People's Responses to Past Depressions David Montgomery3. Soviet Workers and Stalinist Terror: The Crisis of Industrialization Wendy GoldmanPart II. Economic Dislocation as Political Crisis4. The Labor of Capitalism: Industrial Revolution and the Transformation of the Global Cotton-Growin5. The Ordeal of Eugene Debs: The Panic of 1893, the Pullman Strike, and the Origins of the ProgressPart III. Social-Welfare Struggles from the Liberal to the Neoliberal State6. Workers' Social-Wage Struggles during the Great Depression and the Era of Neoliberalism: Internat7. Politics and Policies in the 1970s and Early Twenty-first Century: The Linked Recessions Judith S8. Neoliberalism at Work in the Antipodean Welfare State in the Late Twentieth Century: Collusion, CPart IV. Workers and the Shakeup of the New World Order9. Want amidst Plenty: The Oil Boom and the Working Class in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1992-2010 Se10. Whose Hard Times? Explaining Autoworkers Strike Waves in Recent-Day China Lu Zhang11. Transformative Power: Lessons from the Greek Crisis and Beyond Hilary Wainwright12. How Workers and the Government Have Dealt with Economic Crisis and Industrial Decline: 1929 andContributorsIndex

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Leon Fink is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to 2000. Joseph McCartin is a professor of history at Georgetown University and the author of Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America. Joan Sangster is a professor of gender and women's studies at Trent University and the author of Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada.

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ILHA Book of the Year Award, International Labor History Association, 2014.— International Labor History Association

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