Product Description: Charles Levenstein's poems have become increasingly cranky and impatient as he ages. He would like you to spend some time improving the world. And he would like to be 20 years younger, in which case he would move to Brazil.

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Product Description: "The Cotton Dust Papers" is the story of the 50-year struggle for recognition in the U.S. of this pernicious occupational disease. The authors contend that byssinosis could have and should have been recognized much sooner, as a great deal was known about the disease as early as the 1930s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: How can cities and regions foster sustainable development? What role can a university play in this process? These are the central questions addressed in this innovative collection of essays, which brings together scholars in such diverse fields as history, political economy, community studies, industrial theory, economic geography, environmental studies, ergonomics and work design, race and gender studies, manufacturing engineering, and public health...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This is an indispensable collection on the crisis of worker health and safety in the United States. This collection offers an all-important lesson for the labor movement: that problems of occupational health and safety are not merely technical problems but rather problems relating to workers' lack of control over the organization of capitalist production...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)