Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
Civilizing Capitalism
The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Offering fresh insights into the history of labor policy, the New Deal, feminism, and southern politics, Landon Storrs examines the New Deal era of the National Consumers' League, one of the most influential reform organizations of the early twentieth century.
Founded in 1899 by affluent women...
Workers and Thieves
Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Since the 1990s, the Middle East has experienced an upsurge of wildcat strikes, sit-ins, and workers' demonstrations. Well before people gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, workers had formed one of the largest oppositional movements to authoritarian rule in Egypt. In...
Partners in Conflict
The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2002
Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile’s latifundia system of traditional landed estates and throughout the governments of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende. Heidi Tinsman analyzes differences between...
Making and Faking Kinship
Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
In the years leading up to and directly following rapprochement with China in 1992, the South Korean government looked to ethnic Korean (Chosǒnjok) brides and laborers from northeastern China to restore productivity to its industries and countryside. South Korean officials and the media celebrated...
Work, Wealth, and Postmodernism
The Intellectual Conflict at the Heart of Business Endeavour
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
This work examines the rise of postmodernism in management scholarship and argues that the prevalence of postmodernist thought reflects a lack of understanding by management researchers of the core principles upon which Western business endeavour is based. The author highlights postmodernism’s methodological...
Le travail
Histoire d’une idéologie
Language: French
Release Date: February 20, 2018
L'auteur dresse un panorama synthétique et complet des liens complexes que nous entretenons avec le travail.
Ce livre s’intéresse à sa naissance en tant que phénomène économique et social et souligne le lien historique existant entre le travail et les rapports d’exploitation, depuis...
Les inégalités scolaires en Suisse
École, société et politiques éducatives
Language: French
Release Date: December 9, 2014
L’ouvrage propose d’examiner l’ampleur et les sources des inégalités scolaires en Suisse. Chaque auteur s’attache à comprendre les conditions de la réussite et de l’échec scolaire. En quoi l’accès aux diplômes et la maîtrise des savoirs dépendent-ils de facteurs « collectifs...
Republican learning
John Toland and the crisis of Christian culture, 1696–1722
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book explores the life, thought and political commitments of the free-thinker John Toland (1670-1722). Studying both his private archive and published works, it illustrates how Toland moved in both subversive and elite political circles in England and abroad. It explores the connections between...
by Julie L. Mell
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe. Where Volume I traced the development of the narrative in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and refuted it with an in-depth study of English Jewry,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
In China, rent seeking has been linked to the idea of the local developmental state in which rapid economic development is explained in terms of the promotion of village and township enterprises by local cadres who wants to maximize revenue. At the same time, the rent-seeking state is also seen as...
Le travail, quelles valeurs ?
Idées reçues et propositions
Language: French
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Les Français sont-ils ceux qui travaillent le moins en Europe, ceux qui coûtent le plus cher ?
La réduction du temps de travail peut-elle résoudre la question du chômage ? Les 35h sont-elles la principale source de difficultés économiques en France ? Le travail est-il une valeur importante,...
Class War, USA
Dispatches from Workers’ Struggles in American History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This book tells the stories of ordinary people who resisted oppression and exploitation throughout United States history. Weber's short essays capture the little known moments of struggle when workers and veterans built movements of hope in the darkest of times. Using evocative imagery, archival photographs and descriptive text Weber brings labor history to life.
by Dr. Karen Messing, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the radiation was harming the...
Health in the City
Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women’s Health in New York City, 1915–1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Shortly after the dawn of the twentieth century, the New York City Department of Health decided to address what it perceived as the racial nature of health. It delivered heavily racialized care in different neighborhoods throughout the city: syphillis treatment among African Americans, tuberculosis...