Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
by Peter Francia
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
In 1995, promising a more active political presence for unions, John Sweeney was elected president of the AFL-CIO. Labor would develop a "new voice," one that could not be ignored or taken for granted by Democratic and Republican politicians. However, by the summer of 2005 opposition to...
Labor Under Fire
A History of the AFL-CIO since 1979
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate. As America's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO was forced to reckon with severe political and economic headwinds. Yet the AFL-CIO survived, consistently fighting for programs that benefited millions...
Security Culture
A How-to Guide for Improving Security Culture and Dealing with People Risk in Your Organisation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Security Culture starts from the premise that, even with good technical tools and security processes, an organisation is still vulnerable without a strong culture and a resilient set of behaviours in relation to people risk. Hilary Walton combines her research and her unique work portfolio to provide...
The European Democratic Deficit
The Response of the Parties in the 2014 Elections
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The «never-ending crisis» that started in 2008 and the technocratic and fiscal measures demanded by the «Troika» have aggravated the EU’s so-called «democratic deficit» more than ever before. In this essay the principal theoretical and practical dimensions of this phenomenon at the levels...
by Joseph Anthony Rulli
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded during a labor demonstration near Haymarket Square. The ensuing gunfire and chaos brought a grisly end to what began as peaceful support for an eight-hour workday and led to the trial and execution of rally organizers. The incident also drew irrevocable attention to a...
The University Against Itself
The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
During the last two decades, many U.S. universities have restructured themselves to operate more like corporations. Nowhere has this process been more dramatic than at New York University, which has often been touted as an exemplar of the "corporate university." Over the same period,...
by Jason Foster, Bob Barnetson
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Workplace injuries happen every day and can profoundly affect workers, their families, and the communities in which they live. This textbook is for workers and students looking for an introduction to injury prevention on the job. It offers an extensive overview of central occupational health and safety...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
You probably think that learning about the Great Depression is depressing. But behind those sad facts are truths that will help your child get a better grasp of the world. History tells tales of people, their decisions and what resulted from their actions. Perhaps the facts about great depression are depressing but they teach us never to commit the same mistakes again.
Willing Slaves Of Capital
Spinoza And Marx On Desire
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Why do people work for other people? This seemingly naïve question is at the heart of Lordon's argument. To complement Marx's partial answers, especially in the face of the disconcerting spectacle of the engaged, enthusiastic employee, Lordon brings to bear a "Spinozist anthropology" that...
Intelligent and Honest Radicals
The Chicago Federation of Labor and the Politics of Progression
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Intelligent and Honest Radicals explores the Chicago labor movement’s relationship to Illinois legal and political system especially as seen through the eyes of the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL). Newton-Matza focuses on the significant era between the great strike in 1919 and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s...
Human Trafficking in Thailand
Current Issues, Trends, and the Role of the Thai Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Few subjects elicit greater moral outrage than human trafficking. Media reports of dehumanizing practices such as slavery, abduction, child prostitution, and torture, along with shocking statistics, form the basis of public knowledge. Those who work closely with victims acknowledge the complexity...
Militants or Partisans
Labor Unions and Democratic Politics in Korea and Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
The exceptional experiences of South Korea and Taiwan in combining high growth and liberal democracy in a relatively short and similar timetable have brought scholarly attention to their economic and political transformations. This new work looks specifically at the operation of workers and unions...
Brain Gain
Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Many of America's greatest artists, scientists, investors, educators, and entrepreneurs have come from abroad. Rather than suffering from the "brain drain" of talented and educated individuals emigrating, the United States has benefited greatly over the years from the "brain gain"...
The Red Riviera
Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
This compelling ethnography of women working in Bulgaria’s popular sea and ski resorts challenges the idea that women have consistently fared worse than men in Eastern Europe’s transition from socialism to a market economy. For decades western European tourists have flocked to Bulgaria’s beautiful...