Labour category: 1663 books
The Supreme Court on Unions
Why Labor Law Is Failing American Workers
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Labor unions and courts have rarely been allies. From their earliest efforts to organize, unions have been confronted with hostile judges and antiunion doctrines. In this book, Julius G. Getman argues that while the role of the Supreme Court has become more central in shaping labor law, its opinions...
Boycotts Past and Present
From the American Revolution to the Campaign to Boycott Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
In this book historians and social scientists examine boycotts from the eighteenth century to the present day. Employed in struggles against British rule in the American colonies, against racial discrimination in the United States during the Civil Rights movement, and Apartheid in South Africa,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
The term ‘social dumping’ regularly appears in public debates and in policymaking circles. However, due to its ambiguity it is used in a manner that is convenient for individual discourse participants, thus opening the door for misconceptions and ill-grounded accusations.
This book systematically...
Defying Expectations
The Case of UFCW Local 401
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
In October 2005, Jason Foster, then a staff member of the Alberta Federation of Labour, was holding a picket line outside Lakeside Packers in Brooks, Alberta with the members of local 401. It was a first contract strike. And although the employees of the meat-packing plant—many of whom were immigrants...
The Wages of Relief
Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929–39
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In the early part of the Dirty Thirties, the Canadian prairie city was a relatively safe haven. Having faced recession before the Great War and then again in the early 1920s, municipalities already had relief apparatuses in place to deal with poverty and unemployment. Until 1933, responsibilty for...
by Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, Alexander J. S. Colvin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to collective bargaining and labor relations with a focus on developments in the United States. It is appropriate for students, policy analysts, and labor relations professionals including unionists, managers, and neutrals. A three-tiered strategic...
by Cynthia Estlund
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
China’s leaders aspire to the prosperity, political legitimacy, and stability that flowed from America’s New Deal, but they are irrevocably opposed to the independent trade unions and mass mobilization that brought it about. Cynthia Estlund’s crisp comparative analysis makes China’s labor unrest and reform legible to Western readers.
Combining paid work and family care
Policies and experiences in international perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
The contract of employment is the central legal institution of modern English employment law. It provides the foundation upon which most statutory employment rights are constructed; it provides a conduit for the implementation of norms negotiated in collective bargaining; and it continues to provide...
In a Day’s Work
The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Over 17,000 women are sexually assaulted at work a year, according to the Justice Department
Almost two-thirds--60%--of those raped or sexually assaulted at work don’t report the incident to the police--the highest percentage of serious violent crimes in the workplace that go unreported.
Undocumented...
Making the Empire Work
Labor and United States Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men...
Dying to Work
Death and Injury in the American Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In Dying to Work, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job. Based on heart-wrenching interviews Karmel conducted with injured workers and surviving family members across the country, the stories in this...
by Sharon Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Workplace accidents and errors cost organizations hundreds of billions of dollars each year, and the injured workers and their families endure considerable financial and emotional suffering. It's obvious that increasing employee health and safety pays. The accumulating evidence shows that investing...
Rights, Not Interests
Resolving Value Clashes under the National Labor Relations Act
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This provocative book by the leading historian of the National Labor Relations Board offers a reexamination of the NLRB and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by applying internationally accepted human rights principles as standards for judgment. These new standards challenge every orthodoxy...