Labour category: 1663 books
by Edward S. Greenberg, Leon Grunberg, Sarah Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic organizational change. As Boeing transformed itself, workers and managers contended with repeated downsizing, shifting corporate culture, new roles for women,...
The Spirit of Marikana
The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
On 16th August 2012, thirty-four black mineworkers were gunned down by the police under the auspices of South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) in what has become known as the Marikana massacre. This attempt to drown independent working-class power in blood backfired and is now recognised...
Working through the Past
Labor and Authoritarian Legacies in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Democratization in the developing and postcommunist world has yielded limited gains for labor. Explanations for this phenomenon have focused on the effect of economic crisis and globalization on the capacities of unions to become influential political actors and to secure policies that benefit their...
Ghostworkers and Greens
The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, despite compelling evidence that some pesticides posed a threat to human and environmental health, growers and the USDA continued to favor agricultural chemicals over cultural and biological forms of pest control. In Ghostworkers and Greens, Adam Tompkins reveals...
Agrarian Dreams
The Paradox of Organic Farming in California
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
In this groundbreaking study of organic farming, Julie Guthman challenges accepted wisdom about organic food and agriculture in the Golden State. Many continue to believe that small-scale organic farming is the answer to our environmental and health problems, but Guthman refutes popular portrayals...
Create Your Own Employee Handbook
A Legal & Practical Guide for Employers
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2019
Every company needs an employee handbook and this is the best one on the market—with more than a hundred sample policies that employers can tailor to their own workplaces based on their state laws.
Your Rights in the Workplace
An Employee's Guide to Fair Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Everything you need to know about your workplace rights and how to protect yourself.
by Lisa Guerin, J.D., Sachi Barreiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Packed with all the information supervisors and managers need, The Manager’s Legal Handbook is the perfect resource for avoiding legal trouble when dealing with employees. It covers everything from hiring to firing, including wages and hours, workplace privacy, time off from work, protecting company...
Dulcinea in the Factory
Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia’s Industrial Experiment, 1905–1960
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2000
Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellín was famous as a success story of industrialization, a place where protectionist tariffs had created a “capitalist paradise.” By the 1960s, the city’s textile industrialists were presenting themselves...
Smeltertown
Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Company town. Blighted community. Beloved home. Nestled on the banks of the Rio Grande, at the heart of a railroad, mining, and smelting empire, Smeltertown--La Esmelda, as its residents called it--was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who labored at the American Smelting and Refining Company...
To Be a Worker
Identity and Politics in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
A contemporary classic in Peru, where it was first published in 1986, this book explores changes in the political identity and economic strategies of the Peruvian working class in the 1970s and 1980s. Jorge Parodi uses a case study of Metal Empresa, a large factory in Lima, to trace the surge and...
Building China
Informal Work and the New Precariat
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Roughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass migration of peasants moving into the cities, and construction workers account for almost half of them. In Building China, Sarah Swider draws on her research in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai between 2004 and 2012, including living...
Derechos fundamentales de la persona y relación de trabajo
Segunda edición aumentada
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Reflexión sobre la legislación laboral peruana, en la que se analiza los derechos del trabajador y su constitucionalidad. ¿Cuán eficaces son los derechos fundamentales del trabajador en su relación laboral? ¿Cuál es el límite en el que aquellos se ven interrumpidos ante las demandas del empleador...
Government against Itself
Public Union Power and Its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
As workers in the private sector struggle with stagnant wages, disappearing benefits, and rising retirement ages, unionized public employees retire in their fifties with over $100,000 a year in pension and healthcare benefits. The unions defend tooth and nail the generous compensation packages and...