Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Rights, Not Interests
Resolving Value Clashes under the National Labor Relations Act
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This provocative book by the leading historian of the National Labor Relations Board offers a reexamination of the NLRB and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by applying internationally accepted human rights principles as standards for judgment. These new standards challenge every orthodoxy...
Safety in Numbers
Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Legally mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are one of the most controversial topics in health care today. Ratio advocates believe that minimum staffing levels are essential for quality care, better working conditions, and higher rates of RN recruitment and retention that would alleviate the current...
Class and Campus Life
Managing and Experiencing Inequality at an Elite College
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
In 2015, the New York Times reported, "The bright children of janitors and nail salon workers, bus drivers and fast-food cooks may not have grown up with the edifying vacations, museum excursions, daily doses of NPR and prep schools that groom Ivy applicants, but they are coveted candidates for elite...
Encountering Religion in the Workplace
The Legal Rights and Responsibilities of Workers and Employers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a recent survey, 20 percent of the workers interviewed reported that they had either experienced religious prejudice while at work or knew of a coworker who had been subjected to some form of discriminatory conduct. Indeed, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the filing of...
Union Voices
Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In Union Voices, the result of a thirteen-year research project, three industrial relations scholars evaluate how labor unions fared in the political and institutional context created by Great Britain’s New Labour government, which was in power from 1997 to 2010. Drawing on extensive empirical evidence,...
Creative State
Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At the turn of the twenty-first century, with the amount of money emigrants sent home soaring to new highs, governments around the world began searching for ways to capitalize on emigration for economic growth, and they looked to nations that already had policies in place. Morocco and Mexico featured...
Bedside Manners
Play and Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In recent years, there has been growing awareness of the need for interprofessional cooperation in healthcare. Countless studies have shown that genuine teamwork and team intelligence are critical to patient safety. Poor communication among health care personnel is a major factor in hospital errors,...
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...
Labor in Israel
Beyond Nationalism and Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Using a comprehensive analysis of the wave of organizing that swept the country starting in 2007, Labor in Israel investigates the changing political status of organized labor in the context of changes to Israel’s political economy, including liberalization, the rise of non-union labor organizations,...
Prescription for the People
An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In Prescription for the People, Fran Quigley diagnoses our inability to get medicines to the people who need them and then prescribes the cure. He delivers a clear and convincing argument for a complete shift in the global and U.S. approach to developing and providing essential medicines—and a primer...
by Vicki Smith, Esther B. Neuwirth
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Temporary agencies place approximately two and a half million people in jobs each day in the United States. Every year, about twelve million people use these placement agencies to find temporary work. Many Americans, even those who desire permanent jobs, decide to enter the labor market through the...
Mobilizing Restraint
Democracy and Industrial Conflict in Post-Reform South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Mobilizing Restraint, Emmanuel Teitelbaum argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, democracies are better at managing industrial conflict than authoritarian regimes. This is because democracies have two unique tools at their disposal for managing worker protest: mutually beneficial union-party...
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...
The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Welfare Machine
Immigration and Social Democracy in Twentieth-Century Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Sweden is well known for the success of its welfare state. Many believe that success was made possible in part by the country’s ethnic homogeneity and that the increased diversity of Sweden’s population is putting its welfare state at risk. Few, however, have suggested convincing mechanisms for...