Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
Disruption in Detroit
Autoworkers and the Elusive Postwar Boom
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
It is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers. Flush with high wages and enjoying the benefits of generous union contracts, these workers became the backbone of a thriving blue-collar middle class. It is also a myth. Daniel J. Clark began by interviewing...
by Jerold Waltman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a thorough and well-documented study of the American and British experience with minimum wage legislation, Prof. Jerold Waltman describes and analyzes the operation of current minimum wage policies and politics in both countries. Where are we and how did we get here? For Britain, he chronicles the...
Patterns In Safety Thinking
A Literature Guide to Air Transportation Safety
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Safety is more than the absence of accidents. Safety has the goal of transforming the levels of risk that are inherent in all human activity, while its interdisciplinary nature extends its influence far into most corporate management and government regulatory actions. Yet few engineers have attended...
Penser le travail avec Simone Weil
Comprendre le monde
Language: French
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Le travail est-il liberté ou aliénation ?
Le travail est-il, quoiqu’on fasse, l’opposé de la liberté et de la « vraie vie », dont l’humanité pourrait, et devrait parvenir à se libérer ? Ou bien, est-il une modalité essentielle de l’accomplissement de soi, le lieu essentiel...
by Julie L. Mell
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe. It traces how and why this narrative was constructed as a philosemitic narrative in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in response to the rise of political...
Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder
Gerhard Schröder hat die deutsche Bundeswehr so verändert wie das Land. Adieu, Kanzler!
Language: German
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Gerhard Schröder Schröder verrubelte seinen Ruf. Der Gasprom-Kanzler Der Bundeskanzler welcher die Deutsche Sozialdemokratie verkauft und verraten hat. Gerhard Schröder hat die deutsche Bundeswehr so verändert wie das Land. Adieu, Kanzler! Gerhard Schröder , "Eine Schande...
by Graeme J. Milne
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
This book explores the tenuous existence of seafarers, divided between their time on the ocean and their residence in sailortown economies geared to exploit them. Particular attention is given both to the contribution of seafarers as a global workforce into the nineteenth century, and to their help...
The Bracero Program
Interest Groups and Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Long before “Cesar Chávez” and “Chicano” became commonly known, the word “bracero” had established itself in the language of American politics. The Mexican Farm Labor Program—or bracero program as it came to be known—was from its inception in 1942 a highly controversial issue. At...
Rethinking the Haitian Revolution
Slavery, Independence, and the Struggle for Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
In this important book, leading scholar Alex Dupuy provides a critical reinterpretation of the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. Dupuy evaluates the French colonial context of Saint-Domingue and then Haiti, the achievements and limitations of the revolution, and the divisions in the Haitian ruling...
The Fight For Time
Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
In today's precarious world, working people's experiences are strangely becoming more alike even as their disparities sharpen. The Fight for Time explores the logic behind this paradox by listening to what Latino day laborers say about work and society. The book shows how migrant laborers are both...
Glück schlägt Geld
Generation Y: Was wir wirklich wollen
Language: German
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Für manche Personalchefs sind sie ein Albtraum: Junge Beschäftigte haben heute wenig Lust, sich zu Sklaven ihres Jobs zu machen. Sie suchen Sinn, Spaß und fordern Zeit für Familie und Freunde. Sie können es sich leisten, so anspruchsvoll zu sein, denn sie sind begehrt. Die Generation Y, nach...
by Giorgio Amendola, Giulio Sapelli
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Uscito nel 1968 e oggi introvabile, "La classe operaia italiana" di Giorgio Amendola, è, come scrive Giulio Sapelli, un punto di riferimento per chiunque voglia capire la storia del nostro paese e del movimento operaio. La tesi di Amendola partiva da una semplice constatazione: la maggioranza...
by Errico Malatesta
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Ciò che veramente importa è che la gente faccia come vuole, perché non vi sono conquiste assicurate se non quelle che il popolo fa coi propri sforzi.
Questa raccolta di lettere, scritti e articoli di Errico Malatesta ha il pregio di fornire grande chiarezza sulla storia dell’anarchia in Italia,...
Pour un revenu sans condition
Garantir l'accès aux biens et services essentiels
Language: French
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Un ouvrage nécessaire qui éclaire et alimente le débat sur l'idée du revenu inconditionnel.
L’idée d’instaurer un revenu inconditionnel réapparaît régulièrement dans le débat public français. Lors de la dernière campagne présidentielle, plusieurs personnalités politiques ont...