Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
The Chicken Trail
Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In The Chicken Trail, Kathleen C. Schwartzman examines the impact of globalization—and of NAFTA in particular—on the North American poultry industry, focusing on the displacement of African American workers in the southeast United States and workers in Mexico. Schwartzman documents how the transformation...
Workplace Democracy
An Inquiry into Employee Participation in Canadian Work Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
This book begins with a historical review of how authority in the Canadian workplace has changed over the past century. It proceeds to outline a theory of organization which provides a broad conceptual framework for the empirical analysis which follows. This theory is based on five concepts: the values...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Many complex systems in civil and military operations are highly automated with the intention of supporting human performance in difficult cognitive tasks. The complex systems can involve teams or individuals working on real-time supervisory control, command or information management tasks where a...
by Bob Barnetson
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Workplace injuries are common avoidable and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts intervening only when necessary to maintain the system's legitimacy. Dr. Bob Barnetson sheds light on...
Direct Action & Sabotage
Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The pamphlets reprinted in this collection were first published in the 1910s amidst great controversy; the significant works included are “Direct Action and Sabotage” by William E. Trautmann, “Sabotage: Its History, Philosophy and Function” by Walker C. Smith, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's...
Immigrant City
Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The violence and radicalism connected with the Industrial Workers of the World textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, left the popular impression that Lawrence was a slum-ridden city inhabited by un-American revolutionaries. Immigrant City is a study of Lawrence which reveals that the...
Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2006
Before 1980, sick building syndrome did not exist. By the 1990s, it was among the most commonly investigated occupational health problems in the United States. Afflicted by headaches, rashes, and immune system disorders, office workers—mostly women—protested that their workplaces were filled with...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to...
The Annotated Works of Henry George
Our Land and Land Policy and Other Works
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Henry George (1839–1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth century. His best-selling Progress and Poverty (1879) captures the ravages of privileged monopolies and the woes of industrialization in a language of eloquent...
by Edward S. Greenberg, Leon Grunberg, Sarah Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic organizational change. As Boeing transformed itself, workers and managers contended with repeated downsizing, shifting corporate culture, new roles for women,...
To Be a Worker
Identity and Politics in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
A contemporary classic in Peru, where it was first published in 1986, this book explores changes in the political identity and economic strategies of the Peruvian working class in the 1970s and 1980s. Jorge Parodi uses a case study of Metal Empresa, a large factory in Lima, to trace the surge and...
by Henry Wood
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This book , first published in the last years of the 19th century, has received a profusion of commendatory notices from the press in all sections of the country. It is simple, yet profound, and makes a "dry subject" positively entertaining. The burning topics of the day, including trusts,...
Reskilling America
Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
From Katherine Newman, award-winning author of No Shame in My Game, and sociologist Hella Winston, a sharp and irrefutable call to reenergize this nation's long-neglected system of vocational training
After decades of off-shoring and downsizing that have left blue collar workers obsolete and...
AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers
Solidarity or Sabotage?
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
The principles of trade unionism are based on working people acting together in solidarity with each other, to improve wages, working conditions, and life for themselves and all others. In its most developed forms, this extends not only to the worker next to you, but to working people all around the...