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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Examining the experiences of leadership among trade unionists in a range of unions and labor movements around the world, this volume addresses perspectives of women and men from a range of identities such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, and age. It analyses existing models of leadership in various political...
The Maya of Morganton
Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization. When laborers' concerns about safety and fairness spark a strike and, ultimately, a unionizing campaign at Case...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Over the past two decades the use of flexible employment relations has increased in most developed countries. The growth of temporary agency work constitutes a significant component of this development. Organizations are now facing the challenges of managing a ‘blended workforce’, i.e. a workforce...
A World Without Work
Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
From an Oxford economist, A World Without Work is a visionary look at how advances in artificial intelligence will erode employment across all types of occupations
For all the general anxiety about computers taking people’s jobs, economists have long been optimistic about technology’s impact...
Privatization of Public Services
Impacts for Employment, Working Conditions, and Service Quality in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic restructuring processes in recent years in connection with liberalization and privatization. While evaluations of the successes of public services have focused on prices and efficiency, much less attention has been paid to the impacts of liberalization...
Unions and Class Transformation
The Case of the Broadway Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
How can unions move from a defensive strategy to one of class transformation? Mulder demonstrates how the current union strategies of class blindness lead to weak and often unintended results. Unions, she argues, do not use their collective power for class transformation and union commentators/critics...
Worker Leadership
America's Secret Weapon in the Battle for Industrial Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
How to increase both job satisfaction and enterprise productivity—and make American manufacturing competitive again.
How can American manufacturing recapture its former dominance in the globalized industrial economy? In Worker Leadership, Fred Stahl proposes a strategy to boost enterprise...
Labor Markets and Social Security
Issues and Policy Options in the U.S. and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
John T. Addison and Paul J. J. Welfens Because inflation seems moribund in OECD countries, stubborn unemployment became the top policy priority of the 1990s. Unemployment has increased in many countries, reaching critical levels for unskilled and young workers in most continental EU countries. Europe's...
The Politics of Industrial Relations
Labor Unions in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
As unions in most other industrialized democracies continue to decline, unions in Spain have been able to regain and maintain strength despite unfavorable institutional, political, and economic conditions. The Politics of Industrial Relations provides a comprehensive analysis of Spanish unions from...
International Trade and Unemployment
On the Redistribution of Trade Gains When Firms Matter
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Economic theory and empirical research confirm that the rising international integration caused an increase in aggregate income at least for the industrialized countries, although trade liberalization is no Pareto improvement. In the empirical literature, there is a consensus that the international...
by Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Solomon W. Polachek
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
This volume contains eight new and innovative research articles relevant to researchers and policy makers. Each chapter deals with an aspect of human welfare and is authored by an expert in the field. One deals with how technological change affects the distribution of earnings, two deal with how workers...
The Disposable Work Force
Worker Displacement and Employment Instability in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The twenty-first century has witnessed a transformation of the organization, opportunities, and terms of work. Downsizing, restructuring, and outsourcing are the forces altering employment relationships throughout the work force. Those who tend to see the future in a positive light view the evolving...
Degraded Work
The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Critics on the left and the right typically agree that globalization, the loss of manufacturing jobs, and the expansion of the service sector have led to income inequality and rising numbers of low-paying jobs with poor working conditions. In Degraded Work, Marc Doussard demonstrates that this decline...
Slaves to Fashion
Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
"A brilliant and beautiful book, the mature work of a lifetime, must reading for students of the globalization debate."
---Tom Hayden
"Slaves to Fashion is a remarkable achievement, several books in one: a gripping history of sweatshops, explaining their decline, fall, and return;...