Labour category: 1663 books
California Workers' Comp
How to Take Charge When You're Injured on the Job
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2016
More than a million Californians a year suffer job-related injuries or illness. For many, receiving compensation can be a nightmare, since recent laws give employers and insurance companies far greater rights and employees fewer medical benefits.
California Workers' Comp shows how to handle...
The Sex of Class
Women Transforming American Labor
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Women now comprise the majority of the working class. Yet this fundamental transformation has gone largely unnoticed. This book is about how the sex of workers matters in understanding the jobs they do, the problems they face at work, and the new labor movements they are creating in the United States...
A New New Deal
How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In A New New Deal, the labor movement leaders Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds offer a bold new plan to revitalize American labor activism and build a sense of common purpose between labor and community organizations. Dean and Reynolds demonstrate how alliances organized at the regional level are...
Struck Out
Why Employment Tribunals Fail Workers and What Can be Done
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Every year, over a hundred thousand workers bring claims to an Employment Tribunal. The settling of disputes between employers and unions has been exchanged by many for individual litigation. In Struck Out, barrister David Renton gives a practical and critical guide to the system. In doing so he punctures...
Nation on Board
Becoming Nigerian at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In the 1940s, British shipping companies began the large-scale recruitment of African seamen in Lagos. On colonial ships, Nigerian sailors performed menial tasks for low wages and endured discrimination as cheap labor, while countering hardships by nurturing social connections across the black diaspora....
by Joseph Kaifala
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This book is a historical narrative covering various periods in Sierra Leone’s history from the fifteenth century to the end of its civil war in 2002. It entails the history of Sierra Leone from its days as a slave harbor through to its founding as a home for free slaves, and toward its political...
Safety Can't Be Measured
An Evidence-based Approach to Improving Risk Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The British Prime Minister has avowed to ’kill off the health and safety culture’ which he described as ’a monster’. Nonetheless, industries face ever increasing public expectation and legislative pressure to improve safety when, actually, rates of safety improvement have slowed to a standstill....
For Jobs and Freedom
Race and Labor in America since 1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Whether as slaves or freedmen, the political and social status of African Americans has always been tied to their ability to participate in the nation's economy. Freedom in the post--Civil War years did not guarantee equality, and African Americans from emancipation to the present have faced the seemingly...
Against Labor
How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and offer incisive portraits of people and organizations that aggressively opposed unions....
by Leslie Melville
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
"None can deny that in the context of the changing world environment conditioned by what is being acclaimed as the globalization of the Market Place, there is a tremendous need for a common understanding between capital and labor". Leslie Melville Women in the workforce, environmental challenges to...
by Susan Grabski, Robert Forrant
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Incorporated in 1847 on the banks of the Merrimack River, Lawrence, Massachusetts, was the final and most ambitious of New England�s planned textile-manufacturing cities developed by the Boston-area entrepreneurs who helped launch the American Industrial Revolution. With a dam and canal system to generate...
Striking Beauties
Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Apparel manufacturing in the American South, by virtue of its size, its reliance upon female labor, and its broad geographic scope, is an important but often overlooked industry that connects the disparate concerns of women’s history, southern cultural history, and labor history. In Striking Beauties,...
The Right and Labor in America
Politics, Ideology, and Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The legislative attack on public sector unionism that gave rise to the uproar in Wisconsin and other union strongholds in 2011 was not just a reaction to the contemporary economic difficulties faced by the government. Rather, it was the result of a longstanding political and ideological hostility...
by Frank Bongiorno, Nick Dyrenfurth
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Australian Labor Party (ALP)-one of the oldest labor parties in the world and the first to form a government-this short and lively book recounts ALP’s history from its origins during the late 19th century through present day. The book details the party’s...