Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
The New Guide to Identity
How to Create and Sustain Change Through Managing Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
It is, of course, commonplace for corporations to operate sophisticated identity programmes. But identity has now moved way beyond the commercial area. We live in a world in which cities, charities, universities, clubs - in fact any activity that involves more than two or three people - all seem to...
Capitalists Against Markets
The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Conventional wisdom argues that welfare state builders in the US and Sweden in the 1930s took their cues from labor and labor movements. Swenson makes the startling argument that pragmatic social reformers looked for support not only from below but also from above, taking into account capitalist interests...
Redeeming the Revolution
The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A tale of sin and redemption, Joseph U. Lenti’s Redeeming the Revolution demonstrates how the killing of hundreds of student protestors in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco district on October 2–3, 1968, sparked a crisis of legitimacy that moved Mexican political leaders to reestablish their revolutionary...
A Serf's Journal
The Story of the United States' Longest Wildcat Strike
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Recalling the JeffBoat incident of 2001, A Serf's Journal is Terry Tapp's formidable first-hand account of American workers in Jeffersonville, Indiana, as they fought a multinational company and their corrupt union to stage the longest wildcat strike in US history.
Marikana
Voices from South Africa’s Mining Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The Marikana Massacre of August 16, 2012, was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of apartheid. Those killed were mineworkers in support of a pay raise. Through a series of interviews conducted with workers who survived the attack, this...
Euroscepticism in Turkey
Power and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This book examines the construction of Euroscepticism in civil society discourse, focusing on Turkey’s possible EU-membership, the ongoing political struggles between different political camps in Turkey and general Western discourse. Applying semi-structured qualitative interviews with Civil Society...
by Sarit Cohen-Goldner, Joseph F. Ferrie, Volker Grossmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Recent U.S. immigration reform proposals have focused almost exclusively on regulating the population of low-skilled foreign workers. High-Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market contends that policymakers should focus more on attracting immigrants with exclusive skill sets-professional, technical,...
by Byron Goines
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Byron Goines gives a thorough examination of the history of minimum wage increases since its beginning in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act. Senate salary increases since 1789 are examined in detail, and compared with the federal minimum wage increases since 1938. Get ready Americans; you may by surprised...
by Sándor Agócs
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In his book, Sándor Agócs explores the conflicts that accompanied the emergence of the Italian Catholic labor movement. He examines the ideologies that were at work and details the organizational forms they inspired. During the formative years of the Italian labor movement, Neo-Thomism became the...
Hispanics in the US Labor Market
Selected Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Hispanic population has emerged at the largest ethnic/racial minority in the United States, and has also become a major political constituency. Consequently, it is important to gauge the extent to which they have been integrated into various societal institutions. One important institution is...
Trade Union Education
Transforming the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Trade union education is in the doldrums. It generally lacks modern ways of teaching and is full of outdated content and avoids history, economics and politics. This book demonstrates clearly that what is delivered in trade union education, and how it is delivered, have to be reformed and modernised....
Out of Practice
Fighting for Primary Care Medicine in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Primary care medicine, as we know and remember it, is in crisis. While policymakers, government administrators, and the health insurance industry pay lip service to the personal relationship between physician and patient, dissatisfaction and disaffection run rampant among primary care doctors, and...
by Tilman Becker
Language: German
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit dem Zusammenhang zwischen der Verfügbarkeit von Glücksspielen und dem Ausmaß pathologischen Glücksspiels in der Bevölkerung. Die Thematik wird kontrovers diskutiert und betrifft insbesondere das Automatenspiel. Die Gesetzgebung sieht Maßnahmen vor, die auf eine...
by Bilal Bhat
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Uzbekistan is the world's fifth largest producer and second largest exporter of cotton in the world, and unlike other countries where child labor is common, it is the totalitarian state of Uzbekistan's official policy to employ children. This book discusses the use of child labor in cotton cultivation...