The Labor of Luck

The Labor of Luck
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 9780520259492
ISBN-13 : 0520259491
Rating : 4/5 (491 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Labor of Luck by : Jeff Sallaz

Download or read book The Labor of Luck written by Jeff Sallaz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rich and compelling comparative study of a rapidly growing and little-studied global industry. Sallaz offers an extremely clever and provocative account that is sure to stimulate a lot of debate among scholars."—Ruth Milkman, University of California, Los Angeles and author of L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement "A tremendous tour de force. It is astonishing in its scope, ranging effortlessly from the minutiae of shop floor life to the heights of comparative national political and economic history, from breezily personal (and often amusing) to a brilliant reconstruction of social theory."—Steven Henry Lopez, Ohio State University and author of Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement


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