In this history of the grape and wine industry in eastern North America, Hudson Cattell draws on extensive archival research and his more than thirty-five years as a wine journalist.

This volume highlights the recent state of collective bargaining in eight different industries across both the private and public sectors.

Stephen J. Silvia examines the oscillations of the German economy across the entire postwar period through one of its most important components: the industrial relations system.

Asweeping account of enterprise and ingenuity, economic development and urban planning, and the rise and fall of Philadelphia as an industrial metropolis, focusing on the influential Sellers family.

This book offers that closer look at the evolution of public finance in Belgium over the decade 2000–2010.

Although economic explanations for the Great Recession have proliferated, the political causes and consequences of the crisis have received less systematic attention. This is the first book to focus on it as a political rather than an economic crisis.

The Chicken Trail examines the impact of globalization—and of NAFTA in particular—on the North American poultry industry, focusing on the displacement of African American workers in the southeast United States and workers in Mexico.

"The State of Working America remains unrivaled as the most-trusted source for a comprehensive understanding of how working Americans and their families are faring in today's economy."—Robert B. Reich

Portrays the struggles that Louisiana shrimp fishers endure to remain afloat in an industry beset by globalization.