Labour category: 1663 books
We’re Going to Run This City
Winnipeg's Political Left after the General Strike
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Stefan Epp-Koop’s "We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left After the General Strike" explores the dynamic political movement that came out of the largest labour protest in Canadian history and the ramifications for Winnipeg throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Few have studied...
Rocks in the Water, Rocks in the Sun
A Memoir from the Heart of Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
When Joegodson Déralciné was still a small child, his parents left rural Haiti to resettle in the rapidly growing zones of Port-au-Prince. As his family entered the city in 1986, Duvalier and his dictatorship exited. Haitians, once terrorized under Duvalier’s reign, were liberated and emboldened...
The Song of the Shirt
The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch - stitch - stitch, In poverty, hunger and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. -from "The Song of the Shirt" by Thomas Hood (1843)...
Union Voices
Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In Union Voices, the result of a thirteen-year research project, three industrial relations scholars evaluate how labor unions fared in the political and institutional context created by Great Britain’s New Labour government, which was in power from 1997 to 2010. Drawing on extensive empirical evidence,...
Living Wage
Regulatory Solutions to Informal and Precarious Work in Global Supply Chains
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
This book is driven by a quest to re-regulate work to reduce informality and inequality, and promote a living wage for more people across the world. It presents the findings of a multidisciplinary study in four countries of varying wealth and development, exploring why people become trapped in precarious...
Psychosocial Risks in Labour and Social Security Law
A Comparative Legal Overview from Europe, North America, Australia and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This book studies a range of legal systems and compares them on their ability to deal with psychosocial risks at work. The book looks at prevention of psychosocial risks from a labor law perspective and at compensation and reparation from a social security law perspective. It pays special attention...
Sri Lanka
Fostering Workforce Skills through Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Empowered Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka’s development policy document, envisions reorienting the country toward a modern and high-value-adding economy that is able to compete in the global market. Expanding the middle class and improving the living standards by creating one million jobs are at the core of...
International Labour Conventions and National Law
The Effectiveness of the Automatic Incorporation of Treaties in National Legal Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The Right to Work
Legal and Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The value of work cannot be underestimated in today's world. Work is valuable
because productive labour generates goods needed for survival, such as food and
housing; goods needed for self-development, such as education and culture; and
other material goods that people wish to have in order to live...
International Health Worker Migration and Recruitment
Global Governance, Politics and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
This book is the first comprehensive study of international health worker-migration and -recruitment from the perspective of global governance, policy and politics.
Covering 70 years of history of the development of this global policy field, this book presents new and previously unpublished...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
The accession by the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has opened up new possibilities in terms of the constitutional recognition of fundamental rights in the EU. In the field of employment law it heralds a new procedure for workers and trade unions to challenge EU law...
Labour And Social Rights. An Evolving Scenario
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference in Commemoration of Marco Biagi
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Il volume riunisce una selezione degli interventi presentati nella dodicesima edizione del Convegno internazionale in ricordo di Marco Biagi, tenutosi all’Auditorium Marco Biagi di Modena il 18 e 19 marzo 2014. Tra gli effetti della crisi economica globale si registra una crescente spinta a ridefinire...
Organise or Die?
Democracy and Leadership in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Organise or Die? Democracy and Leadership in South Africa?s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is the first in-depth study of one of the leading trade unions in the country. Founded in 1982, the trade union played a key role in the struggle against white minority rule, before turning into a central...
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Language: German
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: German
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Dieses zweisprachige Praxisbuch bewahrt internationale Investoren vor unangenehmen Überraschungen im deutschen Arbeits- und Sozialrecht. Es vermittelt einen fokussierten Überblick über die wesentlichen Regelungen sowie Einblicke in die kulturellen Rahmenbedingungen. Erfahrene Praktiker beleuchten...