Labour category: 1663 books
by Lisa Guerin, J.D., Deborah C. England
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
AUDIENCE:
Managers, HR professionals, supervisors, human resource professionals, small business owners, and anyone else who needs to understand and apply family and medical leave laws (particularly the FMLA).
REASONS TO BUY THIS NEW EDITION:
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is...
Reworking Race
The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai'i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to arguably the most progressive part of the United States. Spearheading the shift, tens of thousands of sugar, pineapple, and longshore workers eagerly...
Humans as a Service
The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
WHAT IF YOUR BOSS WAS AN ALGORITHM? The gig economy promises to revolutionise work as we know it, offering flexibility and independence instead of 9-to-5 drudgery. The potential benefits are enormous: consumers enjoy the convenience and affordability of on-demand work while micro-entrepreneurs turn...
Leverage of the Weak
Labor and Environmental Movements in Taiwan and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Comparing Taiwan and South Korea strategically, Hwa-Jen Liu seeks an answer to a deceptively simple question: Why do social movements appear at different times in a nation’s development?
Despite their apparent resemblance—a colonial heritage, authoritarian rule, rapid industrialization,...
New Order and Progress
Development and Democracy in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Ben Ross Schneider's volume, New Order and Progress takes a thorough look at the political economy of Brazil. The distinctive perspective of the 11 chapters is historical, comparative, and theoretical. Collectively, the chapters offer sobering insight into why Brazil has not been the rising economic...
Prying Open Fortress Europe
The Turn to Sectoral Labor Migration
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
Prying Open Fortress: The Turn to Sectoral Labor Migration is unique in the field of migration studies since it traces the microeconomic motivations of the relevant economic actors who influence labor migration policy. The book updates the study of the political economy of immigration through a focus...
Contracting International Employee Participation
Global Framework Agreements
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
In the last two decades, multinational companies (MNCs) and global union federations (GUFs) have started to negotiate so-called global framework agreements (GFAs) which define minimum standards for labor conditions across their locations. This book focuses on the question why companies conclude GFAs,...
A Life in Error
From Little Slips to Big Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This succinct but absorbing book covers the main way stations on James Reason’s 40-year journey in pursuit of the nature and varieties of human error. In it he presents an engrossing and very personal perspective, offering the reader exceptional insights, wisdom and wit as only James Reason can....
The Beauty Bias
The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
"It hurts to be beautiful" has been a cliche for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. Beauty may be only skin deep,...
Indian Diaspora in the United States
Brain Drain or Gain?
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
Indian Diaspora in the United States takes a new perspective on the topic of brain drain, departing from the traditional literature to include discussions on brain gain and brain circulation using Indian migration to the United States as a case study. Sahay acknowledges that host country policies...
El modelo sindical argentino
Régimen jurídico
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 27, 2015
El Dr. Mariano Recalde recorre a lo largo de 400 páginas, el camino transitado por el movimiento obrero desde sus orígenes, haciendo especial hincapié en sus modalidades de agrupamiento, los modos de relacionarse con el Estado, así como las fuentes que nutrieron la normativa nacional vigente....
Holding the Shop Together
German Industrial Relations in the Postwar Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Since the onset of the Great Recession, Germany’s economy has been praised for its superior performance, which has been reminiscent of the "economic miracle" of the 1950s and 1960s. Such acclaim is surprising because Germany’s economic institutions were widely dismissed as faulty just a decade...
Making Mondragón
The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since its founding in 1956 in Spain's Basque region, the Mondragón Corporation has been a touchstone for the international cooperative movement. Its nearly three hundred companies and organizations span areas from finance to education. In its industrial sector Mondragón has had a rich experience...
by Tiziana M.
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Interview Do’s and Don’ts
If you'd like to raise your odds of obtaining the job for which you are applying, you need to understand what is acceptable and what exactly is not when you go for an interview. However, they might seem like small what to a job applicant, doing the proper things will...