Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
Workers' Movements and Strikes in the Twenty-First Century
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
While workers movements have been largely phased out and considered out-dated in most parts of the world during the 1990s, the 21st century has seen a surge in new and unprecedented forms of strikes and workers organisations.
The collection of essays in this book, spanning countries across...
Make America Great Redefined
American series, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
This book is carefully written to help you understand how the American economy began in the 18th Century and the various economic policies that have helped the country in the league of industrialized nations. You will also discover the mistakes that government has committed over several decades that...
The Apocalypse Of Great America
American series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
The American government spends trillions of dollars annually to import goods and services. Over eighty five thousand (85,000) companies have closed their manufacturing plants and moved their production to other parts of the world. About four million Americans who were employed in those companies are...
Patient Safety
Perspectives on Evidence, Information and Knowledge Transfer
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Patient Safety: Perspectives on Evidence, Information and Knowledge Transfer provides background on the patient safety movement, systems safety, human error and other key philosophies that support change and innovation in the reduction of medical error. The book draws from multidisciplinary areas...
The Big Rig
Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn’t always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States.
The...
Team Leadership in High-Hazard Environments
Performance, Safety and Risk Management Strategies for Operational Teams
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Safety performance is a complicated issue, particularly in high-hazard environments, where time and other constraints can be amplified, and result in numerous impacts. From an organizational and business perspective, safety and production/performance are often seen as competing goals. When production...
by Giovanni Capannelli, Ravi Kanbur
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
This study explores prospects for inclusive growth in the Central Asia and the South Caucasus region and highlights the central role played by the creation of good jobs. The study reviews economic performance in the region and discusses prospects through 2030, introducing two growth scenarios related...
Too Few Women at the Top
The Persistence of Inequality in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The number of women in positions of power and authority in Japanese companies has remained small despite the increase in the number of educated women and the passage of legislation on gender equality. In Too Few Women at the Top, Kumiko Nemoto draws on theoretical insights regarding Japan's coordinated...
by Michael D. Yates
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
One of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But, as Karl Marx points out, it is the fact of being paid for one's work that validates capitalism as a viable...
What is Work?
Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn’t. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household...
High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy
Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2000
High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Carla Freeman’s fieldwork in Barbados grounds the processes of transnational capitalism—production, consumption, and the crafting of...
by Margaret Sweatman
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Fox, Margaret Sweatman’s debut novel, is a phenomenal work of historical and postmodern fiction. When Fox burst onto the literary scene in 1991, it was clear a singular talent was at work. Decades later, Fox’s deft examination of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike is a startling reminder of the...
To Live Here, You Have to Fight
How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen caregiving and seasoned by decades of activism and community service. Jessica...
State, Labor, and the Transition to a Market Economy
Egypt, Poland, Mexico, and the Czech Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
In response to mounting debt crises and macroeconomic instability in the 1980s, many countries in the developing world adopted neoliberal policies promoting the unfettered play of market forces and deregulation of the economy and attempted large-scale structural adjustment, including the privatization...