Labour category: 1663 books
Independents Day
Awakening the American Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
From The New York Times bestselling author of War on the Middle Class, a powerful look at the critical issues facing America on the eve of the 2008 Presidential election
With up to a million viewers each day, Lou Dobbs Tonight has become one of the most popular news programs in the nation....
Dockworker Power
Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Dockworkers have power. Often missed in commentary on today's globalizing economy, workers in the world's ports can harness their role, at a strategic choke point, to promote their labor rights and social justice causes. Peter Cole brings such overlooked experiences to light in an eye-opening comparative...
by Amy DelPo,Lisa Guerin
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Take control of your problems and your workplace. Do you have an employee who isn't performing, isn't producing or doesn't show up at all? Or does your workplace seem to be a breeding ground for all kinds of employee problems, large and small? No matter what the problem is, this book can help. Dealing...
by D.C. Wales
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Jason Hunter’s dwindling bank account is a daily reminder that Jason never should have left his job at a prestigious law firm to start his own practice, a solo shop located in uncomfortable proximity to a strip club. Hope arrives in the form of Maggie Moxley, a legal assistant who tearfully claims...
Are Trade Unions Still Relevant?
Union Recognition 100 Years On
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
This edited collection examines the relevance of trade unions 100 years on from the 1913 Lockout in Dublin. The general argument underpinning the papers in this book is that trade unions are still relevant in the 21st century, since they provide an independent collective representation for workers...
Employment Rights Now
Reflections on the Australian Charter of Employment Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The world of work is rapidly changing. Now, more than ever, there is a need for a principles-based approach to providing fair and decent workplaces.Eight years after drawing up the Australian Charter of Employment Rights and advocating for a rights-based approach to creating fair workplaces,...
Common Sense and a Little Fire, Second Edition
Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Over twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck's Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women's history. Orleck traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American...
by Debra Forman
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Whether you practice with a small group of lawyers or manage a large law firm, Debra Forman's Maximizing Law Firm Profitability: Hiring, Training and Developing Productive Lawyers will help you become more effective, productive and successful. Completely rewritten by an acknowledged expert, this comprehensive...
Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State
The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 1998
Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State brings together new research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Aviva Chomsky and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago have gathered both well-known and emerging...
Virtual Migration
The Programming of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2006
Workers in India program software applications, transcribe medical dictation online, chase credit card debtors, and sell mobile phones, diet pills, and mortgages for companies based in other countries around the world. While their skills and labor migrate abroad, these workers remain Indian citizens,...
Talking about Machines
An Ethnography of a Modern Job
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This is a story of how work gets done. It is also a study of how field service technicians talk about their work and how that talk is instrumental in their success. In his innovative ethnography, Julian E. Orr studies the people who repair photocopiers and shares vignettes from their daily lives....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
When it was published twenty-five years ago, Catharine MacKinnon’s pathbreaking work Sexual Harassment of Working Women had a major impact on the development of sexual harassment law. The U.S. Supreme Court accepted her theory of sexual harassment in 1986. Here MacKinnon collaborates with eminent authorities...
Tomatoland, Third Edition
From Harvest of Shame to Harvest of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Four entirely new chapters take up where the current edition leaves off to tell the story behind what president Bill Clinton calls “the most astonishing thing politically in the world we’re living in today.” Estabrook reveals how a rag-tag group of migrant tomato pickers in Florida convinced...
Unprotected Labor
Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Through an analysis of women's reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor protections that formed the foundation of the welfare...