Bøger af Sheila Cohen

Why do we crave time off, then waste it? How To Have A Great Day Off is for anyone who has ever found themselves wasting a precious day off work. It's easy to do. Whether you have them every week or just here and there, a day off can be a blank diary page that remains blank, or it can be eight long hours of procrastination. Or it can be the restorative, productive and inspirational day that powers the rest of your week. Sheila Cohen, a former teacher and careers adviser, says it's time to take charge of your day off. In a witty whip through the delusions, blue-sky discoveries and panic-stricken dust-busting of the time she suddenly had after downsizing her working week, she offers a new solution. Name your day. Outlining 12 day-types, this book encourages you to think differently about your Day Off - how to make it happen.

Sheila Cohen's stories are funny and observant. In a concise, spare prose, she illuminates the struggles, disappointments and hopes of a range of characters who all seem to be on the verge of turning their lives around. A warm-hearted and wise collection.

In 1946, after a series of stormy strikes and a mass occupation at Ford Motor Company's plant in Dagenham, Essex, thousands of workers came together in a new branch of the Transport and General Workers Union. Later, in the early 1980s, a band of dedicated workplace activists brought branch 1/1107 to explosive life with support for a number working-class causes, from equal opportunities to the stunningly effective boycott of parts for South Africa. "Notoriously Militant," which takes as its title a tabloid journalist's verdict on the branch, covers the history of Ford's Dagenham plant--and its roots in Henry Ford's early U.S. activities--from 20th-century shop-floor struggles to the 21st-century fight against plant closure. Based on original research and oral history, this study offers a primer for activists and analysts on the confrontation between worker militancy and the rigors of "Fordism." This book is a lively look at working-class history as made daily by so-called "ordinary" workers, the links between basic workplace struggles and revolutionary conflict, the pressures toward "cooperation" between union and management, and the interweaving of gender and ethnicity issues with the class-based structures of a major industrial workplace.

Ramparts of Resistance examines the experience of British and US workers during the last three decades to show the urgency of the need for a new independent politics of trade unionism. *BR**BR*The twentieth century saw great changes in the trade union movement, from waves of strikes in the 1970s to a battery of employer and state onslaughts, culminating in the anti-union legislation of the 1980s and 1990s. Looking at grassroots labour struggles, Cohen explores issues of reformism, trade union democracy and the political meaning of ordinary workplace resistance, and puts forward ideas for change. *BR**BR*Ramparts of Resistance examines the failure of the union movement to rise to the neo-liberal challenge and calls for a new politics of independent unionism and an explicitly class-based renewal of workers' power. Coming at a time when union activity and membership involvement continues despite the odds, this book is an inspiring guide to the direction that unionism should take.