Labor category: 1449 books
An Injury to All
The Decline of American Unionism
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes. In this first comprehensive history of the labor movement from Truman to Reagan, Kim Moody shows how the AFL-CIO’s conservative ideology of “business unionism” effectively disarmed unions...
East Asia Pacific at Work
Employment, Enterprise, and Well-being
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
The unprecedented progress of East Asia Pacific is a triumph of working people. Countries that were low-income a generation ago successfully integrated into the global value chain, exploiting their labor-cost advantage. In 1990, the region held about a third of the world’s labor force. Leveraging this...
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Life and Labor in Precarious Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Is job insecurity the new norm? With fewer and fewer people working in steady, long-term positions for one employer, has the dream of a secure job with full benefits and a decent salary become just that—a dream?
In Nice Work If You Can Get It, Andrew Ross surveys...
by Jake Rosenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
From workers' wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post-World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fraction now is close to one in five, and just one in ten in the private sector. The only thing big about...
Healing Together
The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country. It also happens to have the largest and most complex labor-management partnership ever created in the United States. This book tells the story of that partnership-how it started, how it grew, who made it happen, and the lessons...
Of Forests and Fields
Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
2016 Choice Oustanding Academic Title
Just looking at the Pacific Northwest’s many verdant forests and fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to transform the region into the agricultural powerhouse it is today. Much of this labor was provided by Mexican guest workers,...
Contagious Capitalism
Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "reform and openness" will lead to political liberalization. This book challenges that assumption and the general relationship between economic liberalization and democratization. Moreover,...
Gender Equality and the Labor Market
Women, Work, and Migration in the People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The People's Republic of China (PRC) has made advances in narrowing gender gaps in its labor market. It has one of the highest female labor force participation rates in Asia and the Pacific at around 64% in 2013, and one of the narrowest earnings gender gaps. This study investigates how women are...
The Rebirth of the Greek Labor Market
Building Toward 2020 After the Global Financial Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
The Rebirth of the Greek Labor Market provides evidence of the macroeconomic evolution of the Greek economy, as well as current conditions in the labor market, to suggest potential areas of growth following the crisis. The contributors of this collection focus on three main issues that make the overall...
Productivity, Separability and Deprivation
A Study on Female Workers in the Indian Informal Service Sector
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
In production and service sectors we often come across situations where females remain largely overshadowed by males both in terms of wages and productivity. Men are generally assigned jobs that require more physical work while the ‘less’ strenuous job is allocated to the females. However, the...
Call Centers and the Global Division of Labor
A Political Economy of Post-Industrial Employment and Union Organizing
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Call centers have come, in the last three decades, to define the interaction between corporations, governments, and other institutions and their respective customers, citizens, and members. The offshoring and outsourcing of call center employment, part of the larger information technology and information-technology-enabled...
by Itzhak Harpaz
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Since the State of Israel was established, its labor force has grown rapidly and has become increasingly diverse in terms of its demographic, cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic characteristics. Israeli work values have shifted towards greater individualism, materialism, careerism, and preference...
by Vicki Smith, Esther B. Neuwirth
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Temporary agencies place approximately two and a half million people in jobs each day in the United States. Every year, about twelve million people use these placement agencies to find temporary work. Many Americans, even those who desire permanent jobs, decide to enter the labor market through the...
by David Lewin, Paul J. Gollan
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Volume 20 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains seven papers that deal with important aspects of employment relationships in a variety of industries, countries and research contexts. The first three papers, each of which analyzes the effects of an exogenous variable (e.g.,...