Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
FIELDS, FACTORIES OR WORKSHOPS
or Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Fields, Factories and Workshops: or Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work is a persuasive landmark anarchist communist text on the theories and practise of workers’ self-management by Peter Kropotkin. It is, arguably, among the most influential and positive statements...
The EU's Government of Industries
Markets, Institutions and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
To what extent is business activity governed at a European scale? Since the advent of the recent economic crisis, the EU’s choices about the euro, debt ratios and interest rates have caught the headlines and highlighted the importance of EU decision-making arenas. However, these macro-economic events...
Silk Stockings and Socialism
Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The 1920s Jazz Age is remembered for flappers and speakeasies, not for the success of a declining labor movement. A more complex story was unfolding among the young women and men in the hosiery mills of Kensington, the working-class heart of Philadelphia. Their product was silk stockings, the iconic...
The Well-Being of the Labor Force in Colonial Bombay
Discourses and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
This study draws on extensive archival research to explore the social history of industrial labor in colonial India through the lens of well-being. Focusing on the cotton millworkers in Bombay in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book moves beyond trade union politics and examines...
Made in Mexico
Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s–1940s
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
The experiment with neoliberal market-oriented economic policy in Latin America, popularly known as the Washington Consensus, has run its course. With left-wing and populist regimes now in power in many countries, there is much debate about what direction economic policy should be taking, and there...
Prosperity in a Stable World
Volume 3 of Social Capitalism in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2008
The reform of the financial-industrial infrastructure cannot be undertaken without considering fully the political culture in which it exists. But such reforms can only best be initiated from within the capitalist system itself by those most technically competent to effect necessary change, and hence...
Evaluation of Rail Technology
A Practical Human Factors Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Rapid advancements in train control and in-cab technologies provide significant opportunities for rail operators to improve efficiency and enhance their operations. New technologies often provide elegant solutions to existing problems or new capabilities for the operator. However, new technologies...
Resilience Engineering Perspectives, Volume 1
Remaining Sensitive to the Possibility of Failure
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In the resilience engineering approach to safety, failures and successes are seen as two different outcomes of the same underlying process, namely how people and organizations cope with complex, underspecified and therefore partly unpredictable work environments. Therefore safety can no longer be...
New Tools, Old Tasks
Safety Implications of New Technologies and Work Processes for Integrated Operations in the Petroleum Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
New Tools, Old Tasks explores how Integrated Operations (IO) will influence the safety of offshore drilling operations. The book is based on several years of practical experience combined with a research study on the safety of IO within the drilling domain. The overall objective of the book is to...
Union Power
The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
If you're lucky enough to be employed today in the United States, there's about a one-in-ten chance that you're in a labor union. And even if you’re part of that unionized 10 percent, chances are your union doesn't carry much economic or political clout. But this was not always the case, as historian...
The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System
A Worker-based Model for Community Investment
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System: A Worker-based Model for Community Investment articulates a new model for economic security based upon steelworkers’ pension provisions and labor politics after World War II. Labor’s collective bargaining agreements created interdependent commitments...
The Transnationalisation of Collective Bargaining
Approaches of European Trade Unions
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
This book analyses the transnationalisation of collective bargaining by European trade unions, presenting key theoretical concepts and debates on the Europeanisation of collective bargaining and social dialogue.
The author uses comprehensive empirical evidence to illustrate that trade union strategies...
by Ricardo Charles
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
My thirty years of experience in construction as a journeyman carpenter in North America, including twelve years in civil industrial construction in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas, have provided an eye-opening education for me regarding Mexican cliques in my industry.Even though cliques are not always...
Promoters and Politicians
The North-Shore Railways in the History of Quebec 1854-85
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
The history of the north-shore railways provides a case study in the complexities of industrial development in nineteenth-century Quebec. Constructed in the fifteen years following Confederation, the North Shore and the Montreal Colonization Railways reinforced Quebec's integration into a transcontinental...