Labour category: 1663 books
A Fabric of Defeat
The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this book, Bryant Simon brings to life the politics of white South Carolina millhands during the first half of the twentieth century. His revealing and moving account explores how this group of southern laborers thought about and participated in politics and public power.
Taking a broad...
Ambassadors of the Working Class
Argentina's International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
In 1946 Juan Perón launched a populist challenge to the United States, recruiting an army of labor activists to serve as worker attachés at every Argentine embassy. By 1955, over five hundred would serve, representing the largest presence of blue-collar workers in the foreign service of any country...
by Kevin Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1995
A Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Book for 1996"
"Kevin Boyle has done a masterful job of identifying the unique contribution of the UAW, not only to American Liberalism, but also to the nation and to all people. As contemporary labor and society at large search for new directions, this...
Farm Workers in Western Canada
Injustices and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Bill 6, the government of Alberta’s contentious farm workers’ safety legislation, sparked public debate as no other legislation has done in recent years. The Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act provides a right to work safely and a compensation system for those killed or injured...
Street Democracy
Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
No visitor to Mexico can fail to recognize the omnipresence of street vendors, selling products ranging from fruits and vegetables to prepared food and clothes. The vendors compose a large part of the informal economy, which altogether represents at least 30 percent of Mexico’s economically active...
A Global History of Runaways
Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600–1850
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of Runaways, edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas...
Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook
A James Boggs Reader
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Born in the rural American south, James Boggs lived nearly his entire adult life in Detroit and worked as a factory worker for twenty-eight years while immersing himself in the political struggles of the industrial urban north. During and after the years he spent in the auto industry, Boggs wrote two...
Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations, The
A Step-By-Step Guide to Handling Employee Complaints & Problems
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
AUDIENCE FOR BOOK: • Employers • Human Resources • Supervisors and managers • Small business owners ----------------------------------------- • Employers can help defend against discrimination and harassment lawsuits by showing that they conducted a full and fair investigation and took appropriate...
by Louise Merrett
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
With employment contracts increasingly involving international elements, cases involving any international aspect require the application of rules of private international law to determine which court or tribunal can hear the case, and what law will be applied to determine the dispute. This book offers...
by Peter Philips
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Prevailing wage laws affecting the construction industry in the United States exist at the Federal and State levels. These laws require that construction workers employed by contractors on government works be paid at least the wage rates and fringe benefits 'prevailing' for similar work where government...
The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market
The Role of Employment Discrimination Policies
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market provides historical background on employment discrimination and wage discrepancies in the United States and on government efforts to address employment discrimination. It examines the two federal institutions tasked with enforcing Title...
by Jeffrey D. Mamorsky
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2019
Making sense of the nonstop parade of federal and state legislation, regulation and decisional law governing health care benefits is not an easy task. For professionals in the field, however, it is an essential one. Fortunately, there is a comprehensive and practical guide to this complex, evolving...
Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman
A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Matilda Rabinowitz’s illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman, Rabinowitz describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual and social restrictions imposed on women as they sought political...
The Supreme Court's New Workplace
Procedural Rulings and Substantive Worker Rights in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The US Supreme Court has systematically eroded the rights of minority workers through subtle changes in procedural law. This accessible book identifies and describes how the Supreme Court's new procedural requirements create legal obstacles for civil-rights litigants, thereby undermining their substantive...