Labour category: 1663 books
by Alena Garrido Ramón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 22, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 22, 2018
Esta edición incluye los cambios de la reforma laboral de 2012.Toma en cuenta los cambios a la legislación y añade un capítulo sobre derecho habitacional del trabajo. Analiza el contrato laboral, estabilidad en el trabajo, salario, jornadas de trabajo, riesgos de trabajo, rescisión y terminación...
by Néstor de Buen Lozano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Breve revisión del texto anterior porque nunca faltan errores de dedo que hay que corregir. Además, confieso que me agrada leer de nuevo lo que he escrito hace muchos años y revisado, en cada edición sin que tenga el menor motivo para aburrirme. Esa lectura constante me sirve para mi clase en...
by José Dávalos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Derecho individual del trabajo cubre el primer curso de Derecho del Trabajo dentro del plan de estudios de la Facultad de Derecho de la UNAM, en donde la disciplina está distribuida en tres asignaturas: Derecho individual del trabajo, Derecho colectivo del trabajo y Derecho procesal del trabajo.
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by Jeff Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Quicklets: Your Reading Sidekick!ABOUT THE BOOKA Framework for Understanding Poverty provides important insight into the nations ongoing difficulty educating poor children. Students from impoverished backgrounds at all levels of Americas education system achieve success at lower rates...
Household Workers Unite
The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Telling the stories of African American domestic workers, this book resurrects a little-known history of domestic worker activism in the 1960s and 1970s, offering new perspectives on race, labor, feminism, and organizing.
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In this groundbreaking history of African American domestic-worker organizing,...
Standing Up to Goliath
Battling State and National Teachers' Unions for the Heart and Soul of Our Kids and Country
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
In a book that’s both accessible and enlightening, Rebecca Friedrichs recounts her thirty-year odyssey as an elementary school teacher who comes face-to-face with the forces dividing and corrupting our schools and culture—state and national teachers’ unions. An exciting true story that features...
Once Upon a Car
The Fall and Resurrection of America's Big Three Automakers--GM, Ford, and Chrysler
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Once Upon a Car is the fascinating epic story of the rise, fall, and rebirth of the Big Three U.S. automakers, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. Written by Bill Vlasic, the Detroit bureau chief for the New York Times and acclaimed author of Taken for a Ride, this eye-opening, richly anecdotal work...
Hired
Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
A compelling and ground-breaking piece of narrative journalism that gets right to the heart of divided Britain and its dysfunctional jobs climate.We all define ourselves by our profession - at least to some extent. But what if our job was demeaning, poorly paid, and tedious? Cracking open Britain's...
Fast Boat to China
Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade; Lessons from Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Most Americans today are aware that jobs are being outsourced to China, India, and other nations at an alarming rate. From factory jobs to white-collar, high-tech positions, the exporting of labor is one of the most controversial issues in America.Yet few people know much about the other end — about...
China on Strike
Narratives of Workers' Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary, and most underreported labor struggles of our time. China on Strike, the first English-language book of its kind, provides an intimate and revealing window into...
Death in the Haymarket
A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would...
The War on Normal People
The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
From 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asian kid from upstate" became a successful entrepreneur, only to find a new mission: calling attention to the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy...
The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor
Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old?
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
The bureau of labor statistics reports that in 2008 there were 16.1 million union members in the United States; 2.2 million are represented by the Service Employees' Industrial Union (SEIU)
Written by a long time labor leader with first hand insights into the topic
The economic crisis...
Under the Bus
How Working Women Are Being Run Over
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
“Did you think you knew the facts about women and work? Think again . . . a terrific book . . . utterly gripping.” —Peter Edelman, author of So Rich, So Poor
For women in professional and corporate jobs, much of the discrimination and inequity faced in the past has been confronted—and...