Power on the Job: The Legal Rights of Working People [Paperback]

Michael Yates (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

A number of historical cases are profiled in this examination of the evolution of American labor laws. While this does outline the legal rights of workers, its value lies in creating a unified history of the process of obtaining reforms and rights. The result is a title which is particularly recommended for high school students studying labor relations. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 318 pages
• Publisher: South End Press (July 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896084973
• ISBN-13: 978-0896084971
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,548,138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Yates is a writer, editor, and labor educator. Among his books are Why Unions Matter (Monthly Review Press, 1998, second revised edition 2009), Longer Hours, Fewer Jobs (Monthly Review Press, 1994), Power on the Job (South End Press, 1994), Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy (Monthly Review Press, 2002),More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States (Monthly Review Press, 2007), Cheap Motels and a Hotplate: an Economist's Travelogue (Monthly Review Press, 2007), and In and Out of the Working Class (Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2009). He has also published more than 200 articles and reviews in a wide variety of journals, magazines, blogs, websites, and newspapers. He is currently Associate Editor of Monthly Review magazine and Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press. He taught economics and labor relations at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown from 1969 until his retirement in 2001. He won the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1984. Since 1980, he has been a labor educator, teaching trade union members in a wide variety of formats, from one-day seminars to six-week courses to semester-long classes. He has taught union members through Penn State's Union Leadership program, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's Labor Center, Indiana University, Cornell's Labor Centers in Manhattan and Albany, and through individual arrangements with unions, including SEIU (1199), UNITE, USWA, UFCW, and OCAW. Yates also worked in the research Office of the United Farm Workers Union and has served as a labor arbitrator with the Pennsylvania Bureau of Mediation. He and his wife Karen Korenoski have been traveling the United States for the past eight years. These travels are recounted in his latest book Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: an Economist's Travelogue.