Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy
Beyond the Weapons of the Weak
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Women as a group have often been divided by a number of intersecting inequalities: class, race, ethnicity, caste. As individuals - often isolated in reproductive or other home-based work - their weapons of resistance have tended to be restricted to the traditional weapons of the weak: hidden subversions...
Strikebreaking and Intimidation
Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
This is the first systematic study of strikebreaking, intimidation, and anti-unionism in the United States, subjects essential to a full understanding of labor's fortunes in the twentieth century. Paradoxically, the country that pioneered the expansion of civil liberties allowed corporations to assemble...
The New Normal of Working Lives
Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This critical, international and interdisciplinary edited collection investigates the new normal of work and employment, presenting research on the experience of the workers themselves. The collection explores the formation of contemporary worker subjects, and the privilege or disadvantage in play...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire happened on a Saturday inside the Asch Building in what is now Greenwich Village. Multiple tenants occupied the twelve floors of the building adjacent to Washington Place and Green Street. It was about 4:30 p.m. when a blaze shot up from beneath one of the cutting...
The Precariat
The New Dangerous Class
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
First published in 2011 The Precariat is the hugely influential first account of an emerging class of people facing insecurity, moving in and out of precarious work that gives little meaning to their lives. Standing warns that the growth of the precariat is producing instabilities in society. Its...
Workers Unite!
The International 150 Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Major political and economic shifts have succeeded one another over the past twenty-five years. The rise to prominence of ecological issues, social changes generated by neoliberal globalization, and - most recently - one of the worst world economic crises ever, compels us to reflect urgently on the...
Insurgency Trap
Labor Politics in Postsocialist China
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, worker resistance in China increased rapidly despite the fact that certain segments of the state began moving in a pro-labor direction. In explaining this, Eli Friedman argues that the Chinese state has become hemmed in by an "insurgency trap" of...
Casino Women
Courage in Unexpected Places
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Casino Women is a pioneering look at the female face of corporate gaming. Based on extended interviews with maids, cocktail waitresses, cooks, laundry workers, dealers, pit bosses, managers, and vice presidents, the book describes in compelling detail a world whose enormous profitability is dependent...
Factors Affecting Worker Well-Being
The Impact of Change in the Labor Market
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
This volume contains new important research on worker well-being. Topics include employment contracts, compensation schemes, worker productivity, retirement decisions, the demographic transition, time allocation, and child labor. Among the questions answered are: How important is incentive pay in...
Where Are The Unions?
Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
First book to compare the anti-neoliberal uprisings in Latin America (‘Turn to the Left’), the Middle East and North Africa (‘Arab Spring’), and Europe (anti-austerity movements).
Interdisciplinary approach: contributors are activists, journalists and academics; historians, sociologists,...
Sewing the Fabric of Statehood
Garment Unions, American Labor, and the Establishment of the State of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Long a bastion of Jewish labor power, garment unions provided financial and political aid essential to founding and building the nation of Israel. Throughout the project, Jewish labor often operated outside of official channels as non-governmental organizations. Adam Howard explores the untold story...
Reorganizing Popular Politics
Participation and the New Interest Regime in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
A historic shift has occurred in the organizational structures through which the lower classes in Latin America express voice and find political representation. With the political and economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, networks of community-based associations and nongovernmental organizations...
by Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
For most countries, women's labor force participation and hours of work has risen while men's have fallen. Concomitantly, men's and women's wages and occupational structures have been converging. This volume contains new and innovative research on issues related to gender convergence in the labor...
Unified We Are a Force
How Faith and Labor Can Overcome America’s Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The American dream of "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" is no longer possible, if it ever was. Most of us live paycheck-to-paycheck, and inequality has become one of the greatest problems facing our country. Working people and people of faith have the power to change this-but only...