Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
Working People in Alberta: A History
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Working People in Alberta traces the history of labour in Alberta from the period of First Nations occupation to the present. Drawing on over two hundred interviews with labour leaders, activists, and ordinary working people, as well as on archival records, the volume gives voice to the people who...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
This volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of offering a sweeping and generalizing overview of the past, we propose a ‘micro-spatial’ approach, combining micro-history with the concept of space. A focus on primary sources and awareness of the historical discontinuities and...
Provincial Solidarities
A History of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Established in 1913, the New Brunswick Federation of Labour is the second oldest provincial federation of labour in Canada. Its history began in early campaigns for workers’ compensation and union recognition and continues today in the latest battles to defend social standards, secure employment,...
The Labour Party, Denis Healey and the International Socialist Movement
Rebuilding the Socialist International during the Cold War, 1945–1951
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
This book describes how, after the Second World War, the Labour Party assumed leadership of the International Socialist Movement, thanks to the achievements of the Attlee Government. International Secretary Denis Healey guided the reconstruction of the Socialist International through the early Cold...
by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ranajit Das Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta’s Some Aspects of the Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century presents a sharply posed conversation between them in October 1981 on working-class consciousness in Bengal. The arguments posited here show that rather than being a direct, mechanical...
Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star
The Nordic Countries, 1700-2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden today all enjoy a reputation for strong labour movements, which in turn are widely seen as part of a distinctive regional approach to politics, collective bargaining and welfare. But as this volume demonstrates, narratives of the so-called “Nordic model”...
by Bruce S. Feldacker, Michael J. Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Labor Guide to Labor Law is a comprehensive survey of labor law in the private sector, written from the labor perspective for labor relations students and for unions and their members. This thoroughly revised and updated fifth edition covers new statutes, current issues, and the latest developments...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Processes of neoliberal globalization have put national trade unions under pressure as the transnational organization of production puts these labour movements in competition with each other. The global economic crisis has intensified these pressures further. And yet, economic and political integration...
Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain
Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book poses a major revisionist challenge to 20th century British labour history, aiming to look beyond the Marxist and Fabian exclusion of working class experience, notably religion and self-help, in order to exaggerate ‘labour movement’ class cohesion. Instead of a ‘forward march’ to...
Hard Lessons
The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1995
This book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement," held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. The...
Regulation Theory and Australian Capitalism
Rethinking Social Justice and Labour Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The end of the post-World War II ‘long boom’ in the mid-1970s proved the beginning of a process of political-economic change that has fundamentally transformed labour law, both in Australia and across the developed world more generally. This is a phenomenon with deep ramifications for social justice.
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by Karl Kautsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in English in 1924 this ambitious work, by the famous Marxist theoretician Karl Kautsky, aims to provide nothing less than an "exposition of the methods to introduce socialism" amongst the capitalist economies of Europe in the post-World War One era. Looking back on the experiences...
Unions, Change and Crisis
French and Italian Union Strategy and the Political Economy, 1945-1980
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
First published in 1982, Unions, Change and Crisis represents the first detailed, comparative, historical and theoretically grounded study of two of the major trade union movements of Europe. It brings together the results of the first part of the first major study from Harvard University’s Centre...
Freedom's Children
The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer argues that, a hundred years after the abolition of slavery, Jamaica's disgruntled workers challenged the oppressive status quo and forced a morally ossified British colonial...