Labour category: 1663 books
by Susan Bisom-Rapp, Malcolm Sargeant
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce fills a gap in the literature on discrimination and disadvantage suffered by women at work by focusing on the inadequacies of the current law and the need for a new holistic approach. Each stage of the working life cycle for women is...
Solidarity and Conflict
European Social Law in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
The ongoing austerity crisis is being felt in all sectors of EU law, but has had a particularly severe impact on labour law. Silvana Sciarra, a leading judge and scholar of EU employment law, considers how solidarity regimes have been shaken by the crisis. She brings together existing European policies...
Solidarités provinciales
Histoire de la Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick
Language: French
Release Date: May 1, 2013
La Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick, fondée en 1913, est la deuxième plus ancienne fédération provinciale du travail au Canada. Son histoire remonte aux premières campagnes en faveur de l’indemnisation des accidents du travail et de la reconnaissance syndicale,...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
With the rising economic importance of human resources and skills, employment and training agencies are often expected to play a more important role in local strategies to support new job creation, facilitate restructuring and increase productivity. The OECD Local Economic and Employment Development...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary? Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio present essays that address these essential...
Industrial Relations
Challenges and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
Industrial relations, which in the past have focused almost entirely on union-management relations, have recently been expanded to include such new areas of interest as manpower and poverty problems. At the University of Toronto a new Centre for Industrial Relations has been established, a research-oriented...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The EU has limited legislative competence in the field of social law. However, the Member States are increasingly modernizing social services and social (welfare) protection, attempting to make social services more efficient by increasingly looking to the market for the provision of such services....
The Vagrancy Problem
The Case for Measures of Restraint for Tramps, Loafers, and Unemployables
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
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There is growing evidence that English public opinion is not only moving but maturing on the question of vagrancy and loafing, and its rational treatment. Foreign critics have maintained that we are slow in this country to listen to new ideas, and still...
Asociativa, movilizada, violenta - Tomo I
La vida pública en Córdoba, 1850-1930
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Fruto de casi siete años de investigaciones, este trabajo del historiador Pablo Vagliente se centra en un caso, Córdoba, y un período, 1850-1930, decisivos para entender el zigzagueante curso de la historia argentina en el siglo XX. Lo hace desde un aspecto menos frecuentado, el de la sociedad...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
On 1 December 2009 the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force. Although often described as primarily technical, it significantly amended the Treaty on the European Union (TEU) and the old EC Treaty (now the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, TFEU). The authors' aim in this book is to explore...
by Carla Ponterio, Rita Sanlorenzo
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Il lavoro non c’è, e quando c’è, è sottopagato, precario, privo di diritti e di garanzie. Il numero dei disoccupati è in continua crescita e non bastano, a invertire la tendenza, il moltiplicarsi di tipologie contrattuali sempre meno garantite. La situazione è determinata, certo, da ragioni...
Wage Theft In America
Why Millions of Americans Are Not Getting Paid—And What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
“This book will give you an entirely new perspective on work in America.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed
In what has been described as “the crime wave no one talks about,” billions of dollars’ worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the United States...
Bullying and Behavioural Conflict at Work
The Duality of Individual Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In an empirical study of the interaction between law, adjudication, and conflicts about behaviour in the workplace, Lizzie Barmes analyses how labour and equality rights operate in practice in the UK. Arguing that individual employment rights have a Janus-faced quality, simultaneously challenging...
by Jeremias Prassl
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Employment law has increasingly struggled to adapt to complex modern work arrangements, from agency work to corporate groups. This book suggests that the reason for this failure can be found in our concept of the employer, which has become riddled with internal contradictions in its search for a unitary...