Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
by David Weil
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
In the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, on the list of big business's priorities, sustaining the employer-worker relationship ranks far below building a devoted customer base and delivering value to investors. As David Weil's...
by Philip M. Dine
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
After years of being ignored by the media and public, labor finds itself squarely in the spotlight - under attack from all angles and fighting back fiercely. No longer can anyone claim that labor's falling membership has made it a mere relic, for its adversaries would not expend so much energy to destroy...
Bananeras
Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
"[Bananeras] is a vital accounting of the struggles still being waged."—Margaret Randall, author of When I Look Into the Mirror and See You: Women, Terror, and Resistance
Women banana workers have organized themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces,...
Braceros
Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In Braceros, historian Deborah Cohen asks why these temporary migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety...
Unfinished Business
Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of U.S. Work-Family Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Unfinished Business documents the history and impact of California’s paid family leave program, the first of its kind in the United States, which began in 2004. Drawing on original data from fieldwork and surveys of employers, workers, and the larger California adult population, Ruth Milkman and...
On New Terrain
How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Kim Moody analyzes how changes in global capitalism have altered both the composition of the working class and the economic and political ground on which it struggles. From the logistics revolution to the unprecedented concentration of business and wealth in the hands a shrinking few, Moody examines the impact of this new economic terrain on potential working class resistance movements.
The Industrialist and the Mountaineer
The Eastham-Thompson Feud and the Struggle for West Virginia's Timber Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis’s book uses this largely forgotten episode as a...
Teacher Strike!
Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
A wave of teacher strikes in the 1960s and 1970s roiled urban communities. Jon Shelton illuminates how this tumultuous era helped shatter the liberal-labor coalition and opened the door to the neoliberal challenge at the heart of urban education today. Drawing on a wealth of research ranging from...
by Ron Graner
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
The 2016 elections are over! It no longer matters who you voted for, or against! It no longer matters if you are a Republican or a Democrat! If you are an American Worker YOU and YOUR FAMILY are in serious DANGER!!!
The people who really control America’s major political parties have now...
Race on the Line
Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880–1980
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2001
Race on the Line is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green—a former Bell System employee and current labor historian—presents a hundred year history of telephone operators and their work processes, from the invention of...
Beaten Down, Worked Up
The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
From the longtime New York Times labor correspondent, an in-depth look at working men and women in America, the challenges they face, and how they can be re-empowered
In an era when corporate profits have soared while wages have flatlined, millions of Americans are searching for ways to improve...
The Annotated Works of Henry George
Social Problems and The Condition of Labor
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
This is the first fully annotated edition of Social Problems (1883) and The Condition of Labor (1891), two important works by one of America’s most popular social economists. Social Problems grew out of a series of articles Henry George (1839-1897) published in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper...
The Path of Labor
Theme: Christianity and The World’s Workers
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Those who labored with such desire and earnestness for the selection of a theme for the textbooks for 1918–1919, that should present not only a vital but a paramount issue to the church at this time when only great realities and issues claim serious thought, chose better than they knew when they...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Respond quickly and effectively to workplace trauma
For years, employee assistance programs have been providing critical incidence stress management services to employees who have been involved in, or witness to, workplace fatalities and accidents that are likely to traumatize workers and affect...