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  • Shoes, Glues and Homework

    Dangerous Work in the Global Footwear Industry

    by Pia Markkanen, Charles Levenstein, Robert Forrant, John Wooding ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    This book describes working conditions in informal sector shoemaking in Indonesia and the Philippines, their national and international policy implications. It provides information on glues, an organic solvent, found in footwear chemicals and women garment homeworkers in Bulacan. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Ponderous Galapagos Turtle: New and Selected Poems

    by Charles Levenstein ...
    A lifelong academic and teacher, Charles Levenstein has written poetry since the age of fifteen but was rarely published until the year 2000. Toward the end of his career, he watched one of his peers find comfort in projects outside the university environment. His peer built a sailboat as a form of solace and escape. Levenstein—never good with tools—sought a similar peace from the pressures of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Labor-environmental Coalitions

    Lessons from a Louisiana Petrochemical Region

    by Thomas Estabrook, Charles Levenstein, John Wooding ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    In 1984, the oil, chemical and atomic workers began a 5-year campaign to win back the jobs of its members locked out by the BASF Corp. in Geismar, Louisiana. The multiscale campaign involved coalitions with local environmentalists as well as international solidarity from environmental and religious organizations. The local coalition which helped break the lockout was maintained and expanded in the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Metal Fatigue

    American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley

    by Robert Forrant, Charles Levenstein, John Wooding ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    On February 4, 1986, the lives of thousands of workers changed in ways they could only begin to imagine. On that day, United Technologies Corporation ordered the closure of the 76-year-old American Bosch manufacturing plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, capping a nearly 32-year history of job loss and work relocation from the sprawling factory. The author, a former Bosch worker and the business ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Northern Exposures

    A Canadian Perspective on Occupational Health and Environment

    by David Bennett, Charles Levenstein, Robert Forrant, John Wooding ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    'Northern Exposures' is an important and thought-provoking book that shows how the labor movement has embraced environmental protection and is beginning to create a new and more sustainable vision for the future. Dave Bennett's knowledge and commitment shine through. He is, by turns, the skeptical philosopher sifting the evidence and the passionate partisan arguing for the rights of the people. It ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Cotton Dust Papers

    Science, Politics, and Power in the "Discovery" of Byssinosis in the U.S

    by Charles Levenstein, Mary Lee Dunn, Gregory Delaurier ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    "The Cotton Dust Papers" is the story of the 50-year struggle for recognition in the U.S. of this pernicious occupational disease. The authors contend that byssinosis could have and should have been recognized much sooner, as a great deal was known about the disease as early as the 1930s. Using mostly primary sources, the authors explore three instances from the 1930s to the 1960s in which ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Business, Environment, and Society

    Themes and Cases

    by Charles Levenstein, John Wooding, John Forrant, Vesela Veleva ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    This book blends theory and practice to support courses in corporate social responsibility (CSR), business and society, and environmental management and sustainability. Based on her extensive work with companies, the author offers engaging readings and teaching cases that address key challenges for business today - measurement, supply chain management, public policy, and stakeholder pressures. ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912

    New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike

    by Robert Forrant, Charles Levenstein, John Wooding, Jurg Siegenthaler ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    "In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14 years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills and cotton mills". Thus begins the federal government's Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 . This book follows up, one hundred years later. The story's retelling offers readers an exciting reexamination of just how powerful a united ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • The Toxic Schoolhouse

    by Madeleine Kangsen Scammell, Charles Levenstein ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    The Toxic Schoolhouse is a collection of articles on chemical hazards endangering students, teachers, and staff in the education system of the United States and Canada. Some of the articles were originally published in a special issue of New Solutions: A Journal of Occupational and Environmental Policy, but all have been updated and several new articles have been added. The book is organized in ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Who is Nursing Them? It is Us

    Neoliberalism, HIV/AIDS, and the Occupational Health and Safety of South African Public Sector Nurses

    by Charles Levenstein, Robert Forrant, John Wooding, Jennifer Zelnick ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    This book explores the impacts of HIV/AIDS and neoliberal globalization on the occupational health of public sector hospital nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The story of South African public sector nurses provides multiple perspectives on the HIV/AIDS epidemic-for a workforce that played a role in the struggle against apartheid, women who deal with the burden of HIV/AIDS care at work and in ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • At the Point of Production

    The Social Analysis of Occupational and Environmental Health

    Edited by Charles Levenstein ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    "At the Point of Production", a compilation of contributions to "New Solutions Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Policy", locates workers' health and safety problems in the broad political economy. It argues that without a deep understanding of the social/political/economic context of particular industries or workplaces, we cannot fully grasp the process of recognition and control ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    Break Bad Habits, Eat with Intention, and Indulge Without Worry

    by Shira Lenchewski ...
    If you asked people to post a status update on their relationship with food, most would say "It's Complicated." We aspire to eat healthfully but find ourselves making hasty food choices driven by stress and convenience. Or we treat ourselves to a decadent dessert but feel so guilty we don't even enjoy it. The truth is we can't make good food decisions if we don't deeply examine our relationship ... Read more

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