Labour category: 1663 books
Resilience Engineering Perspectives, Volume 1
Remaining Sensitive to the Possibility of Failure
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In the resilience engineering approach to safety, failures and successes are seen as two different outcomes of the same underlying process, namely how people and organizations cope with complex, underspecified and therefore partly unpredictable work environments. Therefore safety can no longer be...
New Tools, Old Tasks
Safety Implications of New Technologies and Work Processes for Integrated Operations in the Petroleum Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
New Tools, Old Tasks explores how Integrated Operations (IO) will influence the safety of offshore drilling operations. The book is based on several years of practical experience combined with a research study on the safety of IO within the drilling domain. The overall objective of the book is to...
by Sarit Cohen-Goldner, Joseph F. Ferrie, Volker Grossmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Recent U.S. immigration reform proposals have focused almost exclusively on regulating the population of low-skilled foreign workers. High-Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market contends that policymakers should focus more on attracting immigrants with exclusive skill sets-professional, technical,...
by Richard A. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
With the Obama administration in the White House and an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) appears likely. But it can and should be stopped if at all possible, given the adverse impact that it will have on the workplace and the overall economy. In The...
East Asian Labor and Employment Law
International and Comparative Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
This book deals with international labor and employment law in the East Asia Region (EA), particularly dealing with China, South Korea and Japan. It explores and explains the effects of globalization and discusses the role played by international labor law as it affects lawyers, business, labor, labor...
Union Power
The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
If you're lucky enough to be employed today in the United States, there's about a one-in-ten chance that you're in a labor union. And even if you’re part of that unionized 10 percent, chances are your union doesn't carry much economic or political clout. But this was not always the case, as historian...
The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System
A Worker-based Model for Community Investment
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System: A Worker-based Model for Community Investment articulates a new model for economic security based upon steelworkers’ pension provisions and labor politics after World War II. Labor’s collective bargaining agreements created interdependent commitments...
by Byron Goines
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Byron Goines gives a thorough examination of the history of minimum wage increases since its beginning in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act. Senate salary increases since 1789 are examined in detail, and compared with the federal minimum wage increases since 1938. Get ready Americans; you may by surprised...
by Sándor Agócs
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In his book, Sándor Agócs explores the conflicts that accompanied the emergence of the Italian Catholic labor movement. He examines the ideologies that were at work and details the organizational forms they inspired. During the formative years of the Italian labor movement, Neo-Thomism became the...
Discrimination Laundering
The Rise of Organizational Innocence and the Crisis of Equal Opportunity Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
While discrimination in the workplace is often perceived to be undertaken at the hands of individual or 'rogue' employees acting against the better interest of their employers, the truth is often the opposite: organizations are inciting discrimination through the work environments that they create....
Hispanics in the US Labor Market
Selected Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Hispanic population has emerged at the largest ethnic/racial minority in the United States, and has also become a major political constituency. Consequently, it is important to gauge the extent to which they have been integrated into various societal institutions. One important institution is...
New York Management Law
The Practical Guide to Employment Law for Business Owners and Managers
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Do you have employees reporting to you? This is a tremendous responsibility, both to them and your company.
Especially in New York, there is a complex web of laws that regulate the workplace. If you don’t know or follow them, then litigation could, unfortunately, be right around the corner.
It’s...
Trade Union Education
Transforming the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Trade union education is in the doldrums. It generally lacks modern ways of teaching and is full of outdated content and avoids history, economics and politics. This book demonstrates clearly that what is delivered in trade union education, and how it is delivered, have to be reformed and modernised....
Out of Practice
Fighting for Primary Care Medicine in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Primary care medicine, as we know and remember it, is in crisis. While policymakers, government administrators, and the health insurance industry pay lip service to the personal relationship between physician and patient, dissatisfaction and disaffection run rampant among primary care doctors, and...