Labor category: 1449 books
Blue Collar Frayed
Working Men in Tomorrow’s Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
‘I remember with incredible clarity the question that rang through his words and hung in the air between us, the query that hurt my head and heart as his baggy eyes held mine: where does someone like me fit, now?’
Jennifer Rayner knows a thing or two about blue-collar blokes: her brother,...
by Oscar W. Nestor
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This study, first published in 1986, examines and evaluates the personnel techniques and activities that were characteristic of one period in American industrial life. In later years these techniques and activities came to be known as personnel management or personnel administration. By these terms...
Trendthema Personalleasing: Leiharbeitnehmer erfolgreich in Industriebetrieben einsetzen
Die Chancen- und Nutzenbetrachtung von Leihpersonal in Unternehmen mit Best Practice Erfahrungen
Language: German
Release Date: June 3, 2016
In aller Munde, aber nicht in allen Betrieben. Ja, das ist das Thema Leiharbeit und Personalleasing. Dieser komprimierte Best Practice Ratgeber ist für kaufmännische Entscheider gedacht, die bis dato noch keine bis wenige Berührung mit dem Thema Leihpersonal gemacht haben, jedoch in Ansätzen prüfen...
Gestisci meglio il tempo
con i consigli di Steve Pavlina
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 17, 2016
Questo manuale di Gestione del Tempo, o Time Management come spesso si usa dire soprattutto in ambito aziendale, passa in rassegna le più utilizzate - ma anche quelle meno conosciute - tecniche di programmazione e organizzazione del tempo: dal Triage al Timeboxing, dal Carver (un modello impiegato...
by Dion Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
This research paper examines benefits and drawbacks that impact employee and employer working from remote locations. Some issues examined include current workforce stresses, management views, worker discipline, and time management. Ultimately, the question of benefit vs. drawback is examined.
Sleeping Giant
The Untapped Economic and Political Power of America's New Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
There was a time when America’s working class was seen as the backbone of the American economy, having considerable political, economic, and moral authority. But the working class we have now—far more female and racially diverse and employed by the fast food, retail, health care, and other service...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
The Gambino family is one of five that control organized crime in New York City, Most people think of John Gotti when they think of the Gambinos. My book looks at an earlier era, beginning with the family's move to take over the garbage industry in Mount Vernon, New York. This began in 1964 when...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
My book looks at the dominance of the Squillante Brothers and Teamsters Local 813 in controlling the New York City garbage industry during the 1950s. Vincent J. Squillante was the godson of Albert Anastasia. In fact Squillante was in a barber's chair beside Anastasia's when the Mafia enforcer...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Vincent the Chin Gigante rose to the top of the Genovese crime syndicate, becoming its Boss in 1986. Early in his life he was a heavyweight boxer who fought in various venues around New York City. In 1957 he and Vito Genovese were arrested by narcotics agents of the Treasury Department on drug related...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Frank Matula was convicted of perjury in 1959. A Los Angeles Teamsters official, he was secretary-treasurer of LA Local 396. In 1957 Local 396 members disposed of $20 million of Los Angeles garbage annually. During his judicial ordeal Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa appointed Matula to an important...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Charlie Yanowsky aka Charlie the Jew was boss of the Hoboken docks and an organizer of the International Longshoremen's Union (AFL). My ebook looks at Yanowsky's background from his youth in New Jersey. A New Jersey governor maintained close ties with Charlie before the gangster was ice...
On the Line
A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
The BC tradition of fighting back against unfair pay and unsafe working conditions has been around since before the colony joined Confederation. In 1849 Scottish labourers at BC’s first coal mine at Fort Rupert went on strike to protest wretched working conditions, and it’s been a wild ride...
Restructuring in the Service Industries
Management Reform and Workplace Relations in the UK Service Sector
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Restructuring in the Service Industries: Management Reform and Workplace Relations in the UK Service Sector. An examination of the complex process of transformation in work organization, technology and labour and product markets that has occurred. The analysis moves between a broad appreciation of...
by Stephen Bach
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Employment relations within the health sector have undergone radical reform over recent years. This book is an important new study that examines the responses of managers and workers to these different reforms, at both national and local level.
Bringing together analyses of both employment...