Labour category: 1663 books
Brain Gain
Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Many of America's greatest artists, scientists, investors, educators, and entrepreneurs have come from abroad. Rather than suffering from the "brain drain" of talented and educated individuals emigrating, the United States has benefited greatly over the years from the "brain gain"...
The Red Riviera
Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
This compelling ethnography of women working in Bulgaria’s popular sea and ski resorts challenges the idea that women have consistently fared worse than men in Eastern Europe’s transition from socialism to a market economy. For decades western European tourists have flocked to Bulgaria’s beautiful...
After Prison
Navigating Employment and Reintegration
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
prisoners returning to community, homelessness, mental illness, gang-involved youth all perpetual hot topics
controversially promotes criminal record pardons and encourages employment of those with criminal records
presents recent work from Canada, typically underrepresented, compares with US and other countries
contains real-life stories and local program models
Rights on Trial
How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Gerry Handley faced years of blatant race-based harassment before he filed a complaint against his employer: racist jokes, signs reading “KKK” in his work area, and even questions from coworkers as to whether he had sex with his daughter as slaves supposedly did. He had an unusually strong case,...
Civilizing Capitalism
The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Offering fresh insights into the history of labor policy, the New Deal, feminism, and southern politics, Landon Storrs examines the New Deal era of the National Consumers' League, one of the most influential reform organizations of the early twentieth century.
Founded in 1899 by affluent women...
International Management and International Relations
A Critical Perspective from Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Over the last few decades, the field of management enlarged its boundaries, especially in international terms, in a very rapid fashion—mainly because of the arrival of the so-called era of globalization. Many renowned scholars have criticized the universal approach given to ‘management’ in the...
Workers and Thieves
Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Since the 1990s, the Middle East has experienced an upsurge of wildcat strikes, sit-ins, and workers' demonstrations. Well before people gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, workers had formed one of the largest oppositional movements to authoritarian rule in Egypt. In...
Partners in Conflict
The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2002
Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile’s latifundia system of traditional landed estates and throughout the governments of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende. Heidi Tinsman analyzes differences between...
Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism
Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state policies and is reflected...
Making and Faking Kinship
Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
In the years leading up to and directly following rapprochement with China in 1992, the South Korean government looked to ethnic Korean (Chosǒnjok) brides and laborers from northeastern China to restore productivity to its industries and countryside. South Korean officials and the media celebrated...
Too Small to Make an Impact?
The Czech Republics Influence on the European Unions Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Do small EU member states exert influence over the EU’s foreign policy-making process? Ten years after the Czech Republic joined the European Union, Marek Neuman attempts to answer this question by looking into whether Prague succeeded in translating its foreign policy preferences vis-à-vis Russia...
Made in Mexico
Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s–1940s
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
The experiment with neoliberal market-oriented economic policy in Latin America, popularly known as the Washington Consensus, has run its course. With left-wing and populist regimes now in power in many countries, there is much debate about what direction economic policy should be taking, and there...
Work, Wealth, and Postmodernism
The Intellectual Conflict at the Heart of Business Endeavour
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
This work examines the rise of postmodernism in management scholarship and argues that the prevalence of postmodernist thought reflects a lack of understanding by management researchers of the core principles upon which Western business endeavour is based. The author highlights postmodernism’s methodological...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Indirect discrimination (or disparate impact) concerns the application of the same rule to everyone, even though that rule significantly disadvantages one particular group in society. Ever since its recognition by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1971, liberal democracies around the world...