Labor category: 1449 books
The Science and Technology Labor Force
The Value of Doctorate Holders and Development of Professional Careers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the demand for PhDs on the labor markets of twelve countries. The authors analyze the role of PhDs in the creation of innovation in a knowledge-based economy and examine economic issues such as the return on investment for the education and training of doctoral...
Blood and Fire
Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.S. address the dwindling importance of labor throughout the world. The contributors to this volume highlight the growing disconnect between labor struggles and the advancement...
Labor in the Global Digital Economy
The Cybertariat Comes of Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It’s a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it is indicative of the novelty of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is also the key to understanding...
The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest
Social Change and Adaptation among Migrant Farmworkers
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) was founded by Baldemar Velásquez in 1967 to challenge the poverty and powerlessness that confronted migrant farmworkers in the Midwest. This study documents FLOC's development through its first quarter century and analyzes its effectiveness as a social reform...
Reigniting the Labor Movement
Restoring means to ends in a democratic Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
A century of union growth ended in the 1980s. Since then, declining union membership has undermined the Labor Movement‘s achievements throughout the advanced capitalist world. As unions have lost membership, declining economic clout and political leverage has left them as weak props upholding wages and programs for social justice. Since the earlies
Baseball's Power Shift
How the Players Union, the Fans, and the Media Changed American Sports Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
From Major League Baseball’s inception in the 1880s through World War II, team owners enjoyed monopolistic control of the industry. Despite the players’ desire to form a viable union, every attempt to do so failed. The labor consciousness of baseball players lagged behind that of workers in other...
by Antti Kauhanen
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Alternative types of ownership and participatory managerial practices have recently been intensively debated. The Great Recession has revived interest in cooperative and labor-managed organizations. In addition, employee participation in decision-making and financial performance has consistently attracted...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
This volume extends and deepens our knowledge about cross-border mobility and its role in an enlarged EU. More specifically, its main purpose is to enlighten the growing and yet rather uninformed debate about the role of post-enlargement migration for economic adjustment in the crisis-stricken labor...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
A country's economic productivity is directly related to the health of its workforce. Thus, how a nation allocates resources to the physical health of its population is of vital importance in establishing the economic well-being of its citizens.
This volume contains nine original and innovative...
Organizational Transition and Systematic Governance
Labor Relations in Enterprises
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
By assessing the transition in enterprise-employee relations in China over the six decades since the founding of the nation and the three decades since the implementation of a reform and opening up policy, this book investigates these changes from three key perspectives: occupation, operation and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Gender is a defining feature of informal/precarious work in the 21st century, yet studies rarely adopt a gendered lens when examining collective efforts to challenge informality and precarity. This volume foregrounds the gendered dimensions of informal/precarious workers' struggles as a crucial starting...
Fighting Unemployment
The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
With much of Europe plagued by high levels of unemployment, it has become widely accepted that the culprit is labor market rigidity and that the prescription can only be labor market deregulation: lower wages, higher earnings inequality, greater decentralization in bargaining, less generous unemployment...
by Philip Dray
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience.
In this stirring new history, Philip Dray...
Do What You Love
And Other Lies About Success & Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The American claim that we should love and be passionate about our job may sound uplifting, or at least, harmless, but Do What You Love exposes the tangible damages such rhetoric has leveled upon contemporary society.
Virtue and capital have always been twins in the capitalist, industrialized...