Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
New Forms of Worker Organization
The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class-Struggle Unionism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
As bureaucratic labor unions are currently under assault throughout the world, most have surrendered the achievements of the mid-20th century, when the working class was a militant force for change. As unions implode and weaken, workers are independently forming their own unions, rooted in the tradition...
Root-Cause Regulation
Protecting Work and Workers in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Work is now more deadly than war, killing approximately 2.3 million people a year worldwide. The United States, with its complex regulatory system, has one of the highest rates of occupational fatality in the developed world, and deteriorating working conditions more generally. Why, after a century...
Global Woman
Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
In a remarkable pairing, two renowned social critics offer a groundbreaking anthology that examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide
Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles,...
by Dale Gieringer, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
California NORML Guide to Drug Testing is the authorative and indispensable guide to: dealing with drug testing on short notice; drug test detection times; medical marijuana and drug tests; drug tests and DUI, and what’s wrong with drug testing. Paul Armentano, deputy director of NORML writes, “This...
Karl Marx
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: April 10, 2017
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Plus d'un siècle après sa mort, Karl Marx apparaît bien comme le premier théoricien du «socialisme scientifique» (même s'il n'est pas l'inventeur de cette expression, déjà utilisée avant lui par Proudhon) et,...
by Tamara L. Falicov, Ben Goldsmith, Janice Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Locating Migrating Media details the extent to which media productions, both televisual and cinematic, have sought out new and cheaper shot locations, creative staff, and financing around the world. The book contributes to debates about media globalization, focusing on the local impact of new sites...
Building the Golden Gate Bridge
A Workers' Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Moving beyond the familiar accounts of politics and the achievements of celebrity engineers and designers, Building the Golden Gate Bridge is the first book to primarily feature the voices of the workers themselves. This is the story of survivors who vividly recall the hardships, hazards, and victories...
by Vanna Boffo
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The topics of work flexibility, precarious jobs, and the relationship between work, the market and production are subjects that are widely debated in the sociological, philosophical, economic and political spheres. Yet these topics are less touched on in the tradition of pedagogical research. The...
Jobs and the Labor Force of Tomorrow
Migration, Training, Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
The new volume in the Urban Agenda series addresses the challenges shaping the development of human capital in metropolitan regions. The articles, products of the 2016 Urban Forum at the University of Illinois at Chicago, engage with the overarching idea that a dynamic metropolitan economy needs a...
by Margo L. Azzarelli, Marnie Azzarelli
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
On an August morning in 1877, a dispute over wages exploded between miners and coal company owners. A furious mob rushed down Lackawanna Avenue only to be met by a deadly hail of bullets. With its vast coal fields, mills and rail lines, Scranton became a hotbed for labor activity. Many were discontented...
It Started in Wisconsin
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
In the spring of 2011, Wisconsinites took to the streets in what became the largest and liveliest labor demonstrations in modern American history. Protesters in the Middle East sent greetings—and pizzas—to the thousands occupying the Capitol building in Madison, and 150,000 demonstrators converged...
Mining Towns
Making a Living, Making a Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
A history of iconic Australian towns that have emerged as a result of mining booms—including Broken Hill, Mount Isa, Queenstown, Mount Morgan, Port Pirie, and Kambalda—this book is a unique attempt to introduce urban readers to those communities, past and present. Unlike many mining books, this...
Global Unions, Local Power
The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
News about labor unions is usually pessimistic, focusing on declining membership and failed campaigns. But there are encouraging signs that the labor movement is evolving its strategies to benefit workers in rapidly changing global economic conditions. Global Unions, Local Power tells the story of...
The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture
Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
The story told by The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture begins 8,000 years ago as humans began using the land and weather to provide themselves with food, housing, and clothing. Productive farmers took care of most daily needs within the small conservative world in which they lived. This world...