Labor category: 1449 books
Root-Cause Regulation
Protecting Work and Workers in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Work is now more deadly than war, killing approximately 2.3 million people a year worldwide. The United States, with its complex regulatory system, has one of the highest rates of occupational fatality in the developed world, and deteriorating working conditions more generally. Why, after a century...
The Failure of Global Capitalism
From Cape Breton to Colombia andBeyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
What do Cape Breton and Colombia have in common? Coal, for one thing. Coal mining was the backbone of Cape Breton’s industrial economy for more than one hundred years, but the last mine was closed in 2001 when the province’s utility company took advantage of neoliberal globalization by importing...
by Aldivan Teixeira Tôrres
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
”The secret of being happy” brings the main lines concerning fifty-four professions. In them, the reader will come across the pros and cons of each professional axis facilitating understanding through examples. More than a manual, he is a very useful professional identification guide especially...
Routledge Revivals: New Views of Co-operation (1988)
Working-Class Politics in Britain and Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
First published in 1988, this book sets out to reinterpret the changing place of working-class association in capitalist Britain. It argues that in combination, co-operation and association constitutes labour’s power — what is has to work with and who to work for — yet social historians have...
Above the Clouds
A Guide to Trends Changing the Way we Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Some of us work to live. Some of us live to work. Some of us, by design or default, don't work at all. Whatever your position, as a stakeholder in today's society, there is no avoiding the complex web that is the world of work. Everyone is affected to some degree by issues such as stress and work-life...
by Anthony Stanford
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, federal employees—unlike any other segment of the American worker—have dealt with the reality that their workplaces are potential targets. Additionally, this workforce deals with public scrutiny and a prevailing...
Transition to an Industrial South
Athens, Georgia, 1830–1870
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Renowned New South booster Henry Grady proposed industrialization as a basis of economic recovery for the former Confederacy. Born in 1850 in Athens, Georgia, to a family involved in the city's thriving manufacturing industries, Grady saw firsthand the potential of industrialization for the region....
Participative Management
An Analysis of its Effect on Productivity
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This study, first published in 1997, examines the relationship between the style of management used and the level of productivity, measured in terms of the organization’s financial stability. Other variables examined include the age of the top level managers, their educational level, the size and...
International Trade, Wage Inequality and the Developing Economy
A General Equilibrium Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book deals with the impact that international trade is likely to have on the skilled-unskilled wage gap in a typical developing economy. This is the first theoretical monograph on this particular issue which has already generated substantial debate and voluminous work for the developed countries....
The Job
Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Critically acclaimed journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell uncovers the true cost--political, economic, social, and personal--of America's mounting anxiety over jobs, and what we can do to regain control over our working lives.
Since 1973, our productivity has grown almost six times faster than our...
by James Gilbert Ryan, Leonard C Schlup
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
The only available historical dictionary devoted exclusively to the 1940s, this book offers readers a ready-reference portrait of one of the twentieth century's most tumultuous decades. In nearly 600 concise entries, the volume quickly defines a historical figure, institution, or event, and then points...
by Fabrizio V. Catullo
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
A simple and brief explanation of the Keynesian Theory and what's behind and before it: politics. That's all.
There is no such thing as a “good” or a “bad” economic policy. It is only about where politics wants to lead you.
And where You want to lead politics.
Social Theory and Social Movements
Mutual Inspirations
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Social movements are not only a potential challenge to societies, they also challenge social theory. This volume looks at social movements and social movement research through the lens of different social theories. What can social movement studies learn from these theories? And: What can these theories...
Workplace Equality in Europe
The Role of Trade Unions
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Drawing on data from a Europe wide project, together with existing data on equality and diversity initiatives, this book explores the work of trade unions in supporting equality and anti-discrimination policies across Europe and, in particular, the processes and collaborations involved in incorporating...