Labor category: 1449 books
Where Bad Jobs Are Better
Retail Jobs Across Countries and Companies
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Retail is now the largest employer in the United States. For the most part, retail jobs are “bad jobs” characterized by low wages, unpredictable work schedules, and few opportunities for advancement. However, labor experts Françoise Carré and Chris Tilly show that these conditions are not inevitable....
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Johnny Dio rose to great heights in the Lucchese crime family of New York City. He was indicted on numerous occasions for bankruptcy fraud and other crimes. Dio had two brothers who were also involved in crime. One of them was a heroin trafficker in Miami Beach and the other had a prominent position...
Reviving the Strike
How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Joe Burns is an experienced labor negotiator who has worked in the airline industry among many others. This book presents his thesis that the return of the production-stopping strike, the kind which can inflict economic harm upon an employer, is the best hope for the future of the labor movement.
The...
Strike Back
Using the Militant Tactics of Labor's Past to Reignite Public Sector Unionism Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
During the 1960s and 1970s, teachers, sanitation workers and many other public employees rose up to demand collective bargaining rights in one of the greatest upsurges in labor history. These workers were able to transform the nature of public employment, winning union recognition for millions and...
by Robert B. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Locked in the Cabinet is a close-up view of the way things work, and often don't work, at the highest levels of government--and a uniquely personal account by the man whose ideas inspired and animated much of the Clinton campaign of 1992 and who became the cabinet officer in charge of helping ordinary...
Never Just a Game
Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige. In this book, the first installment of a highly readable, comprehensive labor history of baseball, Robert Burk describes the evolution of the ballplaying work...
Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, 2017
Shifts in Workplace Voice, Justice, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in Contemporary Workplaces
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Volume 24 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains eight papers highlighting important aspects of the employment relationship. The papers deal with such themes as shifts in workplace voice, justice, negotiation and conflict resolution in contemporary workplaces. Consistent with...
Jobs for Shared Prosperity
Time for Action in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, when thousands of young women and men fought for the opportunity to realize their aspirations and potential, the question of jobs continues to be crucial in the Middle East and North Africa region. This report uses jobs as a lens to weave together the complex dynamics...
Competition in the Promised Land
Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban space...
Inside China's Automobile Factories
The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
In Inside China's Automobile Factories, Lu Zhang explores the current conditions, subjectivity, and collective actions of autoworkers in the world's largest and fastest-growing automobile manufacturing nation. Based on years of fieldwork and extensive interviews conducted at seven large auto factories...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Extortion and Fake Labor Unions worked hand in hand in a scheme concocted by Solomon "Sol" Massarsky, two private detectives and a well known lawyer. The men banded together in a attempt to defraud Wheelan Studios of money in 1943. Picketing the Manhattan offices of the business the extortionists had succeeded in coercing a payment of $1,000 before they were arrested by police detectives.
Inequality
Causes and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Inequality has been rising in many countries over the last decades and the process seems to have accelerated with the Great Recession. Not only is income distribution more unequal today than 40 years ago, but also its transmission through generations has increased. In other words, many countries no...
Factors Affecting Worker Well-Being
The Impact of Change in the Labor Market
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
This volume contains new important research on worker well-being. Topics include employment contracts, compensation schemes, worker productivity, retirement decisions, the demographic transition, time allocation, and child labor. Among the questions answered are: How important is incentive pay in...
What Works for Workers?
Public Policies and Innovative Strategies for Low-Wage Workers
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
The majority of new jobs created in the United States today are low-wage jobs, and a fourth of the labor force earns no more than poverty-level wages. Policymakers and citizens alike agree that declining real wages and constrained spending among such a large segment of workers imperil economic prosperity...