Focusing on Michigan during the Great Depression, this book highlights the efforts of community organizers and activists in the United Automobile Workers (UAW)

Examines the organization of the unemployed during the Great Depression and demonstrates the linkage between their mobilization and automobile-industry organiza

A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists to

Designing a good unemployment insurance scheme is a delicate matter. In a system with no or little insurance, households may be subject to a high income risk, w

As national policy is debated, a locally based grassroots movement is taking the initiative to assist millions of immigrants in the American workforce facing po