Labour category: 1663 books
by Paul F. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Paul F. Clark believes union leaders should take advantage of the valuable discoveries made in behavioral science to make their organizations more effective and, in Building More Effective Unions, he offers an accessible and straightforward account of how they can do so. The second edition provides...
by Erik Loomis
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Platform: Loomis blogs at the hugely popular site Lawyers, Guns, and Money, with 550,000 unique visitors for over one million pageviews a month, where his ongoing series “This Day in Labor History” (the basis for this book) won the 2011 Cliopatria Award from the History News Network
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Scattered Sand
The Story of China's Rural Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce—”scattered sand,” in Chinese...
by John Gennard, Graham Judge, Tony Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
***Managing Employment Relations***is an indispensable guide for anyone studying the CIPD Level 7 Advanced module Managing Employment Relations as well as anyone looking for a thorough understanding of the theory and practice of the relationship between employers and employees. Fully updated, this...
Freedom's Children
The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer argues that, a hundred years after the abolition of slavery, Jamaica's disgruntled workers challenged the oppressive status quo and forced a morally ossified British colonial...
Eight Men Speak
A Play by Oscar Ryan et al.
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The play was banned by the Toronto police after its first performance, banned by the Winnipeg police shortly thereafter and subsequently banned by the Canadian Post Office. The play can be...
The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership
To Lead Our Organizations in a Conscientious and Authentic Manner
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Performance at all costs, productivity without regard to consequences, and a competitive work environment: these are the ethical factors discussed in The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership, which highlights issues in workplace culture while looking into a brighter future for labour ethics. Langlois maintains...
Working Together
How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2003
The typical workplace is a hotbed of human relationships--of friendships, conflicts, feuds, alliances, partnerships, coexistence and cooperation. Here, problems are solved, progress is made, and rifts are mended because they need to be - because the work has to get done. And it has to get done among...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Slim, accessible, inexpensive, irreverent introduction to socialism by the writers of Jacobin magazine
The remarkable run of self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders for president of the United States has prompted—for the first time in decades and to the shock of many—a...
Mobilizing against Inequality
Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Among the many challenges that global liberalization has posed for trade unions, the growth of precarious immigrant workforces lacking any collective representation stands out as both a major threat to solidarity and an organizing opportunity. Believing that collective action is critical in the struggle...
Informal Workers and Collective Action
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Informal Workers and Collective Action features nine cases of collective action to improve the status and working conditions of informal workers. Adrienne E. Eaton, Susan J. Schurman, and Martha A. Chen set the stage by defining informal work and describing the types of organizations that represent...
Colin Palmer’s Trilogy on Imperialism in the Caribbean, Omnibus E-Book
Includes Freedom's Children, Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power, and Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This Omnibus E-Book brings together all three of Colin A. Palmer's books on the making of the modern Caribbean. Included are:
Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
This is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion...
by Isabella Longobardi
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Scheduling staff shifts is a difficult task. In organizations that work on Sundays, and/or on public holidays, and/or during night hours, scheduling shifts accurately and efficiently is a time consuming job, and it also exposes employers to the risk of excessive overtime costs and poor distribution...
by Bruce S. Feldacker, Michael J. Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Labor Guide to Labor Law is a comprehensive survey of labor law in the private sector, written from the labor perspective for labor relations students and for unions and their members. This thoroughly revised and updated fifth edition covers new statutes, current issues, and the latest developments...