Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
The Hamlet Fire
A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Previous books have gained major review attention: Bryant Simon’s work has been featured in the New Yorker, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Phoenix and AP. He has done dozens of national and local radio interviews, and appeared on BBC, CNN, HBO, Nightline, and Dateline NBC.
An...
by Dalek Iga Ghandi
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
A first in a series of books, from an author who wishes to remain anonymous, this book is like the first piece of a larger puzzle. Let the reader be aware, that the other pieces will follow to give a picture of the puzzle. Inspiration for it comes from a higher authority. If after going through a...
Public Workers
Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900–1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did,...
Black Firefighters and the FDNY
The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
For many African Americans, getting a public sector job has historically been one of the few paths to the financial stability of the middle class, and in New York City, few such jobs were as sought-after as positions in the fire department (FDNY). For over a century, generations of Black New Yorkers...
by Michael Graybeal, Carl Meacham
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
This report examines the fundamental link between Mexico’s economic performance and migration to the United States, with a particular focus on the post-NAFTA time period. Also examined is the dramatic decline of Mexican migration to the United States since the 2008 financial crisis and its implications...
Building Power from Below
Chilean Workers Take On Walmart
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
A story that involves as its main players "workers" and "Walmart" does not usually have a happy ending for labor, so the counternarrative offered by Building Power from Below is must reading for activists and union personnel as well as scholars. In 2008 Walmart acquired a controlling share in a large...
Socialism
Vision and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2010
This book is aimed at those, especially young people, who have just become invilved politically, as well as those engaged in single issue movements,having come across the word 'socialism' and want to know more about it. It is not a detailed text book on the subject. The author was a full-time trade...
The City Is the Factory
New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Urban public spaces, from the streets and squares of Buenos Aires to Zuccotti Park in New York City, have become the emblematic sites of contentious politics in the twenty-first century. As the contributors to The City Is the Factory argue, this resurgent politics of the square is itself part of a...
Promoting Skill Transfer for Human Capacity Development in Papua New Guinea
The Role of Externally Financed Infrastructure Projects
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Pacific countries lack workers with construction skills and rely on large firms to import skilled workers for large infrastructure projects. In Papua New Guinea (PNG), for example, the working-age population is estimated to grow by 2.2 million people between 2014 and 2030. The country faces a growing...
Strike for America
Chicago Teachers Against Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century—and perhaps for the last forty years—and the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda for restructuring education, which advocates for more charter schools and tying teacher salaries to standardized...
Shadow Mothers
Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the "shadow mothers" they hire. Cameron Lynne Macdonald illuminates both sides of an unequal...
by Paul M. Angle
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This is a horror story of native American violence. It carries a grim lesson for the whole country. Political doctrines have played no part in the violence and murder that have brought much ill fame to one corner of Illinois. On the map, Williamson is just another county. But in history it is a place...
by J. M. D. Pringle
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2018
Unlike Japan, which awoke quickly to the new industrialism of the West, China was content to glide peacefully along, ignoring the rest of the world, pursuing the wisdom of her philosophers and artists. But with the turn of the century, as the devastating effect of foreign imperialism begand to make...
The Jonathan Presidency
The First Year
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
The Jonathan Presidency provides a comprehensive and unique analysis of Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan’s first twelve months in office. The Jonathan Presidency analyzes the ability of the featured Nigerian politicians to deliver their electoral promises, protect and uphold the Nigerian Constitution, and sustain a transparent, citizen-friendly administration.