Labour category: 1663 books
Encountering Religion in the Workplace
The Legal Rights and Responsibilities of Workers and Employers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a recent survey, 20 percent of the workers interviewed reported that they had either experienced religious prejudice while at work or knew of a coworker who had been subjected to some form of discriminatory conduct. Indeed, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the filing of...
Willing Slaves Of Capital
Spinoza And Marx On Desire
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Why do people work for other people? This seemingly naïve question is at the heart of Lordon's argument. To complement Marx's partial answers, especially in the face of the disconcerting spectacle of the engaged, enthusiastic employee, Lordon brings to bear a "Spinozist anthropology" that...
Business-State Relations in Brazil
Challenges of the Port Reform Lobby
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
In recent years, the spotlight of international attention on Brazil has often been in the area of logistics infrastructure—for example, on its capacity to deal with the high demand expected during the World Cup and the Olympics. However, neither competitiveness nor infrastructure concerns are new...
Intelligent and Honest Radicals
The Chicago Federation of Labor and the Politics of Progression
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Intelligent and Honest Radicals explores the Chicago labor movement’s relationship to Illinois legal and political system especially as seen through the eyes of the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL). Newton-Matza focuses on the significant era between the great strike in 1919 and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s...
The Well-Being of the Labor Force in Colonial Bombay
Discourses and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
This study draws on extensive archival research to explore the social history of industrial labor in colonial India through the lens of well-being. Focusing on the cotton millworkers in Bombay in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book moves beyond trade union politics and examines...
Sweatshops in Paradise
A True Story of Slavery in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
When nine Vietnamese women arrived at Virginia Lynn Sudburys small law office in Pago Pago, on the island of Tutuila in the territory of American Samoa, she wasnt certain she would take the case. The women, workers at the Daewoosa garment factory, were trying to get the company to pay them their promised...
Human Trafficking in Thailand
Current Issues, Trends, and the Role of the Thai Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Few subjects elicit greater moral outrage than human trafficking. Media reports of dehumanizing practices such as slavery, abduction, child prostitution, and torture, along with shocking statistics, form the basis of public knowledge. Those who work closely with victims acknowledge the complexity...
Militants or Partisans
Labor Unions and Democratic Politics in Korea and Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
The exceptional experiences of South Korea and Taiwan in combining high growth and liberal democracy in a relatively short and similar timetable have brought scholarly attention to their economic and political transformations. This new work looks specifically at the operation of workers and unions...
by Sandra Fredman FBA
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Equality is an ideal to which we all aspire. Yet the more closely we examine it, the more its meaning shifts. How do we explain how equal treatment can in effect lead to inequality, while unequal treatment might be necessary in order to achieve equality? The apparent paradox can be understood if we...
by Malcolm Sargeant
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Increased life expectancy and an ageing workforce have highlighted the problem of age discrimination in developed countries. Malcolm Sargeant's Age Discrimination in Employment is an encyclopedic guide for HR specialists and employment lawyers to the nature of age discrimination in the workplace in...
by Samantha Velluti
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
In recent years new or experimental approaches to governance in the EU, namely the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), have attracted great interest and controversy. This book examines the European Employment Strategy (EES) and its implementation through the OMC, exploring the promises and limitations...
by Christina G. Villegas
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Surveys the history of youth unemployment and identifies key issues underlying the current crisis.
• Explains the nature, scope, and consequences of the youth unemployment crisis in a way that is accessible for general readers
• Includes a perspectives chapter that allows for the...
Drowning in Laws
Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Since 1943, the lives of Brazilian working people and their employers have been governed by the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT). Seen as the end of an exclusively repressive approach, the CLT was long hailed as one of the world's most advanced bodies of social legislation. In Drowning in Laws, John...
The Anti-Slavery Project
From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
It is commonly assumed that slavery came to an end in the nineteenth century. While slavery in the Americas officially ended in 1888, millions of slaves remained in bondage across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East well into the first half of the twentieth century. Wherever laws against slavery were...