Product Description: No one today thinks of Brooklyn, New York, as an agricultural center. Yet Kings County enjoyed over two centuries of farming prosperity. Even as late as 1880 it was one of the nation's leading vegetable producers, second only to neighboring Queens County...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "I read this informative book with disbelief and mounting rage. Being denied the biologic right to urinate not only injures the kidneys but is probably a potent risk factor for heart problems. It has been amply demonstrated that work pressure, no-exit situations, and psychologic stressors predispose to progressions of coronary vascular disease...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The economic and sociopsychological foundations of the decentralized decisions involved in the production of new labor power, human reproduction, have never been adequately understood. The consequences for the labor markets of the laissez-faire policies of capitalist societies toward human reproduction are discussed from historical, economic, social, political, demographic, and legal perspectives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From the 1840's to the 20th century, large Western European and U.S. construction firms shaped the international economy by furnishing crucial physical infrastructure. The author attempts to destroy the myth that construction is a localized industry of many small firms in perfect competition, sheltered from world markets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Offers an integrated discussion of the economic, legal and philosophical principles underlying the exploitation of migrant labour in American culture. Historical case studies and accounts of current litigation provide a sense of the roots of the problem and ideas for an equitable resolution...read more

Product Description: This work offers a firm theoretical foundation for discussing the self-employed, their role over time, and the formulation of policy towards them. It calls into question the theoretical coherence of the traditional approaches and views the current debate over the recent alleged growth in self-employment in the context of the casualization and externalization of employment relationships--such as part-time, temporary, home, leased, and subcontracted labor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume represents a search for the socioeconomic and legal origins of the employment relationship as it currently exists in the United States. Although the study was sparked by legal disputes in which farmers and other employers denied the existence of an employment relationship with migrant farmworkers, the scope of the controversy and the unresolved legal issues are not confined simply to unskilled and low-wage agricultural workers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)