Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
Domestica
Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence, With a New Preface
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles. The new preface looks at the current issues facing immigrant domestic workers in a global context.
New Labor in New York
Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
New York City boasts a higher rate of unionization than any other major U.S. city—roughly double the national average—but the city's unions have suffered steady and relentless decline, especially in the private sector. With higher levels of income inequality than any other large city in the nation,...
by Harvey Araton
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Harvey Araton writes, with keen insight, of a time when power was ebbing fast from both newspapers and their unions. It’s an especially bittersweet tale he tells of the people who had grown up in newspapers and unions, as they struggle to adapt to this evolving new order. And, of course, what makes...
Diamonds in the Rough
Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Diamonds in the Rough explores the lives of African laborers on Angola’s diamond mines from the commencement of operations in 1917 to the colony’s independence from Portugal in 1975. The mines were owned and operated by the Diamond Company of Angola, or Diamang, which enjoyed exclusive mining...
From Accidents to Zero
A Practical Guide to Improving Your Workplace Safety Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
As leaders increasingly understand the importance of good safety practice to support their business objectives, safety and health practitioners develop better tools and solutions. However, there is still a gulf between these two groups where engagement, communication and shared understanding can be...
by Eugene Victor Debs
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
7 works of Eugene Victor Debs American union leader (1855-1926)
This ebook presents a collection of 7 works of Eugene Victor Debs. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: Labor and Freedom Political Appeal to American Workers...
The Gulf
High Culture/Hard Labor
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
On Saadiyat Island, just off the coast of Abu Dhabi, branches of iconic cultural institutions, including the Louvre, the Guggenheim, the British Museum and New York University, are taking shape to the designs of starchitects such as Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid, and Norman Foster. In this...
Class Action
The Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harrassment
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
The true story of Lois Jenson, a petite single mother, who was among the first women hired by a northern Minnesota iron mine in 1975. In this brutal workplace, female miners were relentlessly threatened with pornographic graffiti, denigrating language, stalking, and physical assaults. Terrified of...
The Limits of Expertise
Rethinking Pilot Error and the Causes of Airline Accidents
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Why would highly skilled, well-trained pilots make errors that lead to accidents when they had safely completed many thousands of previous flights? The majority of all aviation accidents are attributed primarily to human error, but this is often misinterpreted as evidence of lack of skill, vigilance,...
Seasons of Change
Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes. Examining a period that began with the tribe's removal to reservations and closed with the Indian New Deal, Chantal Norrgard explores the critical link between...
Reworking Race
The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai'i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to arguably the most progressive part of the United States. Spearheading the shift, tens of thousands of sugar, pineapple, and longshore workers eagerly...
Leverage of the Weak
Labor and Environmental Movements in Taiwan and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Comparing Taiwan and South Korea strategically, Hwa-Jen Liu seeks an answer to a deceptively simple question: Why do social movements appear at different times in a nation’s development?
Despite their apparent resemblance—a colonial heritage, authoritarian rule, rapid industrialization,...
New Order and Progress
Development and Democracy in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Ben Ross Schneider's volume, New Order and Progress takes a thorough look at the political economy of Brazil. The distinctive perspective of the 11 chapters is historical, comparative, and theoretical. Collectively, the chapters offer sobering insight into why Brazil has not been the rising economic...
Indian Diaspora in the United States
Brain Drain or Gain?
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
Indian Diaspora in the United States takes a new perspective on the topic of brain drain, departing from the traditional literature to include discussions on brain gain and brain circulation using Indian migration to the United States as a case study. Sahay acknowledges that host country policies...