Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Citizenship is a central concept in political philosophy, bridging theory and practice and marking out those who belong and who share a common civic status. The injustices suffered by immigrants, disabled people, the economically inactive and others have been extensively catalogued, but their disadvantages...
Human Rights and Labor Solidarity
Trade Unions in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Faced with the economic pressures of globalization, many countries have sought to curb the fundamental right of workers to join trade unions and engage in collective action. In response, trade unions in developed countries have strategically used their own governments' commitments to human rights...
Covering for the Bosses
Labor and the Southern Press
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press probes the difficult relationship between the press and organized labor in the South from the past to the present day. Written by a veteran journalist and first-hand observer of the labor movement and its treatment in the region's newspapers and...
Gastonia 1929
The Story of the Loray Mill Strike
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Of the wave of labor strikes that swept through the South in 1929, the one at the Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, is perhaps the best remembered. In Gastonia 1929 John Salmond provides the first detailed account of the complex events surrounding the strike at the largest textile mill in the...
Striking to Survive
Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Workers in the export-processing zones of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) could be regarded as representatives of tChina's new working class. The author has conducted continuous observation, documentation and analysis of this population’s conditions and struggles for many years. Due to the unevenness...
Utopian Discourses Across Cultures
Scenarios in Effective Communication to Citizens and Corporations
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The term Utopia, coined by Thomas More in 1516, contains an inherent semantic ambiguity: it could be read as eu topos (good place) or ou topos (no place). The authors of this volume analyze this polysemous notion and its fascination for scholars across the centuries, who have developed a variety of...
Getting a Cut
A Contextual Understanding of Commission Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
The perspective of those who receive commissions has been largely ignored, and much of the literature on commissions and bonuses focuses on the concerns of management without regard for the employees or much recognition that understanding the employee perspective contributes significantly to fostering...
Work Doesn't Work
From The Working Poor
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
At the bottom of America’s working world, millions live in the shadow of prosperity, in the twilight of poverty and prosperity. Many are trapped for life in a perilous zone of low-wage work that keeps middle-class comforts and necessities forever beyond their reach despite the often long and hard...
Continental Crucible
Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The crucible of North American neoliberal transformation is heating up, but its outcome is far from clear. Continental Crucible examines the clash between the corporate offensive and the forces of resistance from both a pancontinental and a class struggle perspective. This book also illustrates the...
The Main Street Moment
Fighting Back to Save the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
In the wake of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and the Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United decision, politicians are targeting working Americans as never before. As American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Gerald W. McEntee and Secretary-Treasurer...
The Sex of Class
Women Transforming American Labor
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Women now comprise the majority of the working class. Yet this fundamental transformation has gone largely unnoticed. This book is about how the sex of workers matters in understanding the jobs they do, the problems they face at work, and the new labor movements they are creating in the United States...
A New New Deal
How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In A New New Deal, the labor movement leaders Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds offer a bold new plan to revitalize American labor activism and build a sense of common purpose between labor and community organizations. Dean and Reynolds demonstrate how alliances organized at the regional level are...
Nation on Board
Becoming Nigerian at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In the 1940s, British shipping companies began the large-scale recruitment of African seamen in Lagos. On colonial ships, Nigerian sailors performed menial tasks for low wages and endured discrimination as cheap labor, while countering hardships by nurturing social connections across the black diaspora....
by Joseph Kaifala
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This book is a historical narrative covering various periods in Sierra Leone’s history from the fifteenth century to the end of its civil war in 2002. It entails the history of Sierra Leone from its days as a slave harbor through to its founding as a home for free slaves, and toward its political...