Labour category: 1663 books
by George Siedel, John Siedel
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The law touches almost every aspect of the relationship between employers and their employees. Hundreds of articles are written every year about legal developments that impact this relationship. This book is a compilation of the best of these articles that were written between March 1, 2013, and February...
Gigged
The End of the Job and the Future of Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
"With deep reporting and graceful storytelling, Sarah Kessler reveals the ground truth of a key part of the American workforce. Her analysis is both astute and nuanced, making GIGGED essential reading for anyone interested in the future of work." —Daniel H. Pink, author of WHEN and DRIVE
The...
The Refusal of Work
The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today’s work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned...
Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy
Beyond the Weapons of the Weak
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Women as a group have often been divided by a number of intersecting inequalities: class, race, ethnicity, caste. As individuals - often isolated in reproductive or other home-based work - their weapons of resistance have tended to be restricted to the traditional weapons of the weak: hidden subversions...
Strikebreaking and Intimidation
Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
This is the first systematic study of strikebreaking, intimidation, and anti-unionism in the United States, subjects essential to a full understanding of labor's fortunes in the twentieth century. Paradoxically, the country that pioneered the expansion of civil liberties allowed corporations to assemble...
The New Normal of Working Lives
Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This critical, international and interdisciplinary edited collection investigates the new normal of work and employment, presenting research on the experience of the workers themselves. The collection explores the formation of contemporary worker subjects, and the privilege or disadvantage in play...
American Workers, American Unions
The Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Highly acclaimed and widely read since its first publication in 1986, American Workers, American Unions provides a concise and compelling history of American workers and their unions in the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first.
Taking into account recent important work...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire happened on a Saturday inside the Asch Building in what is now Greenwich Village. Multiple tenants occupied the twelve floors of the building adjacent to Washington Place and Green Street. It was about 4:30 p.m. when a blaze shot up from beneath one of the cutting...
Human Resource Management Study Games
Certification Prep and Refresher
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Human Resource Management Study Games offers a variety of short games to help human resource practitioners and students study for human resource-related certifications and learn new aspects of human resource management. The games focus on learning terms and laws, brainstorming human resource concepts,...
by Mark A. Friend, James P. Kohn
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
The seventh edition of this popular handbook provides a thorough and up-to-date overview of the occupational safety and health field and the issues safety professionals face today, and does so in an accessible and engaging manner. An excellent introductory reference for both students and professionals,...
The Precariat
The New Dangerous Class
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
First published in 2011 The Precariat is the hugely influential first account of an emerging class of people facing insecurity, moving in and out of precarious work that gives little meaning to their lives. Standing warns that the growth of the precariat is producing instabilities in society. Its...
Workers Unite!
The International 150 Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Major political and economic shifts have succeeded one another over the past twenty-five years. The rise to prominence of ecological issues, social changes generated by neoliberal globalization, and - most recently - one of the worst world economic crises ever, compels us to reflect urgently on the...
Insurgency Trap
Labor Politics in Postsocialist China
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, worker resistance in China increased rapidly despite the fact that certain segments of the state began moving in a pro-labor direction. In explaining this, Eli Friedman argues that the Chinese state has become hemmed in by an "insurgency trap" of...
Casino Women
Courage in Unexpected Places
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Casino Women is a pioneering look at the female face of corporate gaming. Based on extended interviews with maids, cocktail waitresses, cooks, laundry workers, dealers, pit bosses, managers, and vice presidents, the book describes in compelling detail a world whose enormous profitability is dependent...