Labour category: 1663 books
Social Citizenship and Workfare in the United States and Western Europe
The Paradox of Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2004
This book compares workfare policies in the United States and 'active labor policies' in Western Europe that are aimed primarily at the long-term unemployed, unemployed youth, lone parents, immigrants and other vulnerable groups often referred to collectively as the 'socially excluded'. The Europeans...
Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity
Race and Philanthropy in Post–Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
“Diversity” has become a mantra in corporate boardrooms, higher education, and government hiring and contracting. In Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity, Jiannbin Lee Shiao explains the leading role that large philanthropies have played in establishing diversity as a goal throughout...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Citizenship is a central concept in political philosophy, bridging theory and practice and marking out those who belong and who share a common civic status. The injustices suffered by immigrants, disabled people, the economically inactive and others have been extensively catalogued, but their disadvantages...
Human Rights and Labor Solidarity
Trade Unions in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Faced with the economic pressures of globalization, many countries have sought to curb the fundamental right of workers to join trade unions and engage in collective action. In response, trade unions in developed countries have strategically used their own governments' commitments to human rights...
Covering for the Bosses
Labor and the Southern Press
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press probes the difficult relationship between the press and organized labor in the South from the past to the present day. Written by a veteran journalist and first-hand observer of the labor movement and its treatment in the region's newspapers and...
Gastonia 1929
The Story of the Loray Mill Strike
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Of the wave of labor strikes that swept through the South in 1929, the one at the Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, is perhaps the best remembered. In Gastonia 1929 John Salmond provides the first detailed account of the complex events surrounding the strike at the largest textile mill in the...
Striking to Survive
Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Workers in the export-processing zones of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) could be regarded as representatives of tChina's new working class. The author has conducted continuous observation, documentation and analysis of this population’s conditions and struggles for many years. Due to the unevenness...
Utopian Discourses Across Cultures
Scenarios in Effective Communication to Citizens and Corporations
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The term Utopia, coined by Thomas More in 1516, contains an inherent semantic ambiguity: it could be read as eu topos (good place) or ou topos (no place). The authors of this volume analyze this polysemous notion and its fascination for scholars across the centuries, who have developed a variety of...
Getting a Cut
A Contextual Understanding of Commission Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
The perspective of those who receive commissions has been largely ignored, and much of the literature on commissions and bonuses focuses on the concerns of management without regard for the employees or much recognition that understanding the employee perspective contributes significantly to fostering...
Origins of the German Welfare State
Social Policy in Germany to 1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
This book traces the origins of the German welfare state. The author, formerly director at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, provides a perceptive overview of the history of social security and social welfare in Germany from early modern times to the end of World War...
Work Doesn't Work
From The Working Poor
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
At the bottom of America’s working world, millions live in the shadow of prosperity, in the twilight of poverty and prosperity. Many are trapped for life in a perilous zone of low-wage work that keeps middle-class comforts and necessities forever beyond their reach despite the often long and hard...
Step by Step into EPF
A Guide to Employees’ Provident Fund
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Unlike other books on any enactment, this book has been designed and written in a text book format on Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. The book is divided into five divisions and nineteen chapters, each division dealing with a subject and each chapter with a topic...
Continental Crucible
Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The crucible of North American neoliberal transformation is heating up, but its outcome is far from clear. Continental Crucible examines the clash between the corporate offensive and the forces of resistance from both a pancontinental and a class struggle perspective. This book also illustrates the...
The Main Street Moment
Fighting Back to Save the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
In the wake of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and the Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United decision, politicians are targeting working Americans as never before. As American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Gerald W. McEntee and Secretary-Treasurer...