Labor category: 1449 books
Comparative Union Democracy
Organization and Opposition in British and American Unions
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
A major empirical study of thirty-one British and fifty-one American national trade unions, this volume provides the background to a new, organizationally oriented theory of union democracy. Supported by in-depth studies of the political process in the British Mineworkers' Union and the Engineers'...
Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics
Foundations and Developments
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
At a time when both scholars and the public demand explanations and answers to key economic problems that conventional approaches have failed to resolve, this groundbreaking handbook of original works by leading behavioral economists offers the first comprehensive articulation of behavioral economics...
Work and Leisure in the Middle East
The Common Ground of Two Separate Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Community involvement and leisure are rarely mentioned in mass media coverage of the Middle East and North Africa.Yet leisure and community involvement form a part of life in the region, and are becoming increasingly significant as modernization becomes pervasive. This work seeks to examine how the...
The Marketization of Employment Services
The Dilemmas of Europe's Work-first Welfare States
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Across Europe, market mechanisms are spreading into areas where they did not exist before. In public administration, market governance is displacing other ways of coordinating public services. In social policy, the welfare state is retreating from its historic task of protecting citizens from the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Within the labor relations paradigm, employee voice is broadly defined as the ways and means through which employees ‘have a say’ and influence organizational issues at work. Whilst we know much about employee voice in the Anglo-American (developed) world, we know much less about how employee...
Africana Social Stratification
An Interdisciplinary Study of Economics, Policy, and Labor
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This study seeks to critically examine the field and function of social stratification, with emphasis on Africana phenomena. Phrased another way, this edited volume attempts to study and focus on who gets what and why, with regard to resources and structural application of support. The John Henrik...
by Walter Slocum
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Professor Slocum uses the concept of career as the central integrating idea for a wide range of information about contemporary work and occupations from current social science research, from historical sources, and from his own considerable personal experience and that of his students.This second...
Rediscovering Social Economics
Beyond the Neoclassical Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This book argues that economists need to reengage with societal issues, such as justice and fairness in distribution, that inevitably arise when discussing the basic economic problem of unlimited human wants and finite resources. Approaching the problem through a history of economic thought, Johnson...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book uses the concepts of vulnerability and resilience to analyze the situation of individuals and institutions in the context of the employment relationship. It is based on the premise that both employer and employee are vulnerable to various social, economic, and political forces, although...
Taking Trade to the Streets
The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
In the wake of civil protest in Seattle during the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting, many issues raised by globalization and increasingly free trade have been in the forefront of the news. But these issues are not necessarily new. Taking Trade to the Streets describes how so many individuals...
Prison Management, Prison Workers, and Prison Theory
Alienation and Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Prison Management, Prison Workers, and Prison Theory develops a new conception of prison infrastructure, organization, and policy to explore how workers and administrators are essential in the development of culture and morality within the prison environment. Stephen C. McGuinn demonstrates that effective...
Marginal Workers, Marginal Jobs
The Underutilization of American Workers
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Unemployment levels have received a great deal of attention and discussion in recent years. However, another labor category—underemployment—has virtually been ignored. Underutilized or underemployed workers are those who are experiencing inadequate hours of work, insufficient levels of income, and...
Workplace Bullying and Harassment
New Developments in International Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Workplace Bullying and Harassment: New Developments in International Law provides a comprehensive tour around the globe, summarizing relevant legislation and key developments in workplace bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, violence, and stress in over 50 countries in Europe,...
Voice and Involvement at Work
Experience with Non-Union Representation
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
In the last decade, nonunion employee representation (NER) has become a much discussed topic in the fields of human resource management, employment relations, and employment/labor law. This book examines the purpose, structure, and performance of various types of employee representation bodies created...