Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook
A James Boggs Reader
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Born in the rural American south, James Boggs lived nearly his entire adult life in Detroit and worked as a factory worker for twenty-eight years while immersing himself in the political struggles of the industrial urban north. During and after the years he spent in the auto industry, Boggs wrote two...
by Robert H. Zieger
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) encompassed the largest sustained surge of worker organization in American history. Robert Zieger charts the rise of this industrial union movement, from the founding of the CIO by John L. Lewis in 1935 to its merger under Walter Reuther with the American...
Representation and Rebellion
The Rockefeller Plan at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1914-1942
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
In response to the tragedy of the Ludlow Massacre, John D. Rockefeller Jr. introduced one of the nation’s first employee representation plans (ERPs) to the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in 1915. With the advice of William Mackenzie King, who would go on to become prime minister of Canada, the plan—which...
International Management and International Relations
A Critical Perspective from Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Over the last few decades, the field of management enlarged its boundaries, especially in international terms, in a very rapid fashion—mainly because of the arrival of the so-called era of globalization. Many renowned scholars have criticized the universal approach given to ‘management’ in the...
Small Farms Are Real Farms
Sustaining People through Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Since the middle of the last century, American farm policy has taken the nation into the dead end of industrial farm production and food distribution. Farming, at its core a biological process, has been transformed into an industrial process, thus demolishing the economic and cultural values upon...
Coal, Class & Community
The United Mineworkers of New Zealand, 18801960
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Geographically isolated and long regarded as the "quintessential" proletarians, industrial bogeymen and revolutionaries, coal miners occupy an important place in the history of industrial radicalism in New Zealand. Looking behind the stereotypes, this study tells a story about New Zealand's...
Organizing at the Margins
The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
The realities of globalization have produced a surprising reversal in the focus and strategies of labor movements around the world. After years of neglect and exclusion, labor organizers are recognizing both the needs and the importance of immigrants and women employed in the growing ranks of low-paid...
Healing Together
The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country. It also happens to have the largest and most complex labor-management partnership ever created in the United States. This book tells the story of that partnership-how it started, how it grew, who made it happen, and the lessons...
Business-State Relations in Brazil
Challenges of the Port Reform Lobby
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
In recent years, the spotlight of international attention on Brazil has often been in the area of logistics infrastructure—for example, on its capacity to deal with the high demand expected during the World Cup and the Olympics. However, neither competitiveness nor infrastructure concerns are new...
Memoria e identidad del Mediterráneo - Memory and Identity of the Mediterranean
Las relaciones exteriores y políticas de la Unión Europea y la cooperación en el Mediterráneo - European Union Foreign Relations and Foreign Policy, and the Cooperation in the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Esta obra contiene las actas del seminario doctoral «Las Relaciones exteriores y políticas de la Unión Europea y la cooperación en el Mediterráneo», organizado por la Fundación Academia Europea de Yuste con la colaboración de la Red SEGEI en el Real Monasterio de Yuste y Palacio de Carlos...
by E. P. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A history of the common people and the Industrial Revolution: “A true masterpiece” and one of the Modern Library’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the twentieth century (Tribune)****.
During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in...
The Edge of Anarchy
The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
"Timely and urgent...The core of The Edge of Anarchy is a thrilling description of the boycott of Pullman cars and equipment by Eugene Debs’s fledgling American Railway Union..." —The New York Times
"During the summer of 1894, the stubborn and irascible Pullman became a central...
Out of Sight
The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A provocative analysis of labor, globalization, and environmental harm by the award-winning historian and author of A History of America in Ten Strikes.
In the current state of our globalized economy, corporations have no incentive to protect their workers or the environment. Jobs moves seamlessly...
Songs of the Factory
Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
In Songs of the Factory, Marek Korczynski examines the role that popular music plays in workers' culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory that manufactures window blinds, Korczynski shows how workers make often-grueling assembly-line work tolerable...