Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
The Price of Progressive Politics
The Welfare Rights Movement in an Era of Colorblind Racism
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Through the voices of women activists in the welfare rights
movement across the United States, The Price of Progressive
Politics exposes the contemporary reality of welfare rights
politics, revealing how the language of colorblind racism undermines
this multiracial movement. Through in-depth interviews
with...
Peasants on Plantations
Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1999
After the 1854 abolition of slavery in Peru, a new generation of plantation owners turned to a system of peasant tenantry to maintain cotton production through the use of cheap labor. In Peasants on Plantations Vincent C. Peloso analyzes the changing social and economic relationships governing the...
Laborers and Enslaved Workers
Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class, 1850-1920
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
From the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro was home to the largest urban population of enslaved workers anywhere in the Americas. It was also the site of an incipient working-class consciousness that expressed itself across seemingly distinct...
Too Small to Make an Impact?
The Czech Republics Influence on the European Unions Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Do small EU member states exert influence over the EU’s foreign policy-making process? Ten years after the Czech Republic joined the European Union, Marek Neuman attempts to answer this question by looking into whether Prague succeeded in translating its foreign policy preferences vis-à-vis Russia...
by Andrew Kolin
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This book presents a detailed explanation of the essential elements that characterize capital labor relations and the resulting social conflict that leads to repression of labor. It links repression to the class struggle between capital and labor. The starting point involves an historical approach...
by Richard A. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
With the Obama administration in the White House and an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) appears likely. But it can and should be stopped if at all possible, given the adverse impact that it will have on the workplace and the overall economy. In The...
Labor in Israel
Beyond Nationalism and Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Using a comprehensive analysis of the wave of organizing that swept the country starting in 2007, Labor in Israel investigates the changing political status of organized labor in the context of changes to Israel’s political economy, including liberalization, the rise of non-union labor organizations,...
Modern Slavery
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has documented the dark realities of modern slavery in order to reveal the degrading and dehumanizing systems that strip people of their dignity for the sake of profit—and to link the suffering of the enslaved...
Oil Booms and Business Busts
Why Resource Wealth Hurts Entrepreneurs in the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Oil Booms and Business Busts looks at how government policymaking shapes a puzzling phenomenon in economic development--the "curse" of natural resources. It investigates how oil and mineral wealth shapes a government's policies toward the business environment, entrepreneurs, and innovative activities....
Economic Crisis and New Nationalisms
German Political Economy as Perceived by European Partners
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
As of a consequence of the ongoing economic crisis, in 2010 there was a marked deterioration in cross-border relations between Italy and Germany. In both countries the press published articles openly blaming economic hardship on the squandering attitude of southerners or the egoistic and mercantilist...
Syndicalistes ou voyous?
Nos années à la FTQ-Construction
Language: French
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Est-il vrai qu'au Québec, le travail fait chaque année deux fois plus de victimes que tous les meurtriers réunis? Pourquoi le placement est-il si important pour les syndicats? Qu'est-il advenu des milliards de dollars recueillis à même les contributions des travailleurs et disparus...
Inside Affirmative Action
The Executive Order That Transformed America's Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Affirmative action is still a reality of the American workplace. How is it that such a controversial Federal program has managed to endure for more than five decades? Inside Affirmative Action addresses this question.
Beyond the usual ideological debate and discussions about the effects of...
by Marlène Benquet, Xavier Vigna, Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Ce numéro aborde les conditions de l’action collective en entreprise – de l’adhésion syndicale aux grèves – en plaçant la focale sur les dispositifs et stratégies patronales pour l’entraver et la canaliser. Si les sciences sociales se sont de nouveau penchées sur les mobilisations...
Edoardo Pollastri
Impegno civile e strategia di azione al servizio delle reti italiane nel mondo
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Il mercato è una costruzione sociale che può produrre effetti positivi sulla libertà e lo sviluppo dei popoli solo se si accompagna a istituzioni capaci di metabolizzarne le spinte competitive con le esigenze di crescita delle culture e dei contesti locali.
Dobbiamo...