Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
Précarisés, pas démotivés
Les jeunes, le travail, l'engagement
Language: French
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Les jeunes salariés seraient-ils malléables à l’esprit de l’entreprise flexible ? Se résignent-ils, dans un contexte de chômage et de précarité, à la loi de la concurrence généralisée ? Ou au contraire, sont-ils capables de s’engager pour la dignité et la reconnaissance du travail...
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Winner of the California Book Award
A searching portrait of an iconic figure long shrouded in myth by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of an acclaimed history of Chavez's movement.
Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched...
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)
My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
In 1995, in the first contested election in the history ofthe AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presidency of the nation’s largest laborfederation, promising renewal and resurgence. Today, less than 7 percent ofAmerican private-sector workers belong to a union, the lowest percentage sincethe beginning...
Blue and Green
The Drive for Justice at America's Port
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation's largest port.
In Blue and Green, Scott Cummings examines a campaign by the labor and environmental movements to transform trucking at America's largest port in Los Angeles....
The Retail Revolution
How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
The definitive account of how a small Ozarks company upended the world of business and what that change means
Wal-Mart, the world's largest company, roared out of the rural South to change the way business is done. Deploying computer-age technology, Reagan-era politics, and Protestant evangelism,...
The Utopia of Rules
On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And...
The Power of a Single Number
A Political History of GDP
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Widely used since the mid-twentieth century, GDP (gross domestic product) has become the world's most powerful statistical indicator of national development and progress. Practically all governments adhere to the idea that GDP growth is a primary economic target, and while criticism of this measure...
Beyond $15
Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The inside story of the first successful $15 minimum wage campaign that renewed a national labor movement
With captivating narrative and insightful commentary, labor organizer Jonathan Rosenblum reveals the inside story of the first successful fight for a $15 minimum wage, which renewed a national...
Shadowbosses
Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
SHADOWBOSSES reads like an organized crime novel, but it's actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political process. This compelling and insightful book exposes how unions have organized federal, state, and local government employees without their...
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...
Retirement Heist
How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
"'As far as I can determine there is only one solution [to the CEO's demand to save more money]', the HR representative wrote to her superiors. 'That would be the death of all existing retirees.'"
It's no secret that hundreds of companies have been slashing pensions and health coverage...
by Saru Jayaraman
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
"Sustainability is about contributing to a society that everybody benefits from, not just going organic because you don't want to die from cancer or have a difficult pregnancy. What is a sustainable restaurant? It's one in which as the restaurant grows, the people grow with it."-from Behind...
Live Work Work Work Die
A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A scathing, sardonic exploration of Silicon Valley tech culture, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefit
At the height of the startup boom, journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with little...