Labor & Employment

It is now 50 years since E.P. Thompson published his classic, The Making of the English Working Class. The Making of an African Working Class follows Thompson in exploring the formation of working class identity among low-paid African workers. In arguing...

How can the EU's community of welfare states adapt their public policies to economic globalization? What happens when the economic and social aims of the EU come into conflict? This book examines the developing legal regimes and regulation of public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928309321Author M McgregorFormat PaperbackImprint Siber Ink, South AfricaPublisher Siber Ink, South Africa

Every business needs to be aware of the complexities of South African labour law - whether they employ one person or 1 000 people they are governed by South African labour law. In this accessible guide, South Africa's foremost expert on the subject helps...

Fifty years ago, President John F Kennedy signed landmark legislation to guarantee equal pay for women and men performing equal work for the same employer. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 was the first in a series of major federal and state laws that had a...

This book describes programs for the admission and employment of guest workers in fourteen selected countries, the European Union, the Association Agreement between the European Union and Turkey, and the Multilateral Framework of the International Labour...

This important text maps out ways in which those already disadvantaged have been affected by legal responses to COVID-19. Contributors tackle issues including virtual trials, adult social care, racism, tax and spending, education and more. Drawing on...

In Putin's Labor Dilemma, Stephen Crowley investigates how the fear of labor protest has inhibited substantial economic transformation in Russia. Putin boasts he has the backing of workers in the country's industrial heartland, but as economic growth...

The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), as amended, is intended to help employees balance work and family life. The act provides eligible employees with two types of job-protected leave: regular leave and military family leave. In turn, military...

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) establishes most private-sector workers' rights to unionise and collectively bargain over wages, benefits, and working conditions. Enacted in 1935, the NLRA also permits collective bargaining contracts between...

Written specifically for HR and business students, Introduction to Employment Law is a clear, accessible and jargon-free guide to UK employment law and how it applies in practice. This book covers all the essentials of employment law including...

laborers in American West Coast agricultural fields and Alaska salmon canneries. There, they found themselves confined to exploitative low-wage jobs in racially segregated workplaces as well as subjected to vigilante violence and other forms of ethnic...

This comprehensive and well-organised text, now in its Fourth Edition, explains, with great clarity and precision, the labour and industrial laws such as the Industrial Disputes Act, the Factories Act, and the Contract Labour Act. While giving a broad...

The legal and financial treatment of labour regulation can vary significantly from country to country. An understanding of these differences is of the utmost importance when evaluating the labour implications for any company establishing itself in a new...

This edited collection draws together papers delivered at a symposium on New Frontiers in Empirical Labour Law Research held at the University of Cambridge in April 2014. It contains contributions from established and emerging experts across a range of...

This unique selection of chapters brings together researchers from a variety of academic disciplines to explore aspects of law's engagement with working families. It connects academic debate with policy proposals through an integrated set of approaches...

EU Labour Law is a concise, readable and thought-provoking introduction to the labour and employment law of the European Union. The book explores the subject's major policy themes, examines the various procedures by which EU labour law is made, and...

Workers, Collectivism and the Law offers a captivating historical account of worker democracy, from its beginnings in European guild systems to present-day labor unions, across the national legal systems of Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the...

While vulnerability is a concept often mentioned in labour law and employment policy discourse, its precise meaning can remain elusive. This book provides rigorous theoretical analysis and contains fresh insights to aid our understanding of vulnerability...

Applying a comparative analysis on law and practices, combined with extensive data, this book considers the legal consequences for public servants who make unauthorised disclosures of official information and the protections available for whistleblowers...

Modern Employment Law covers all aspects relating to the employment relationship between employer and employee at both individual and collective levels. All chapters are absorbing and exact, with nuanced topics such as unfair dismissal, discrimination...

Labour market flexibility is one of the most closely debated public policy issues in India. This book provides a theoretical framework to understand the subject, and empirically examines to what extent India's `jobless growth' may be attributed to labour...

Prevailing wage laws affecting the construction industry in the United States exist at the Federal and State levels. These laws require that construction workers employed by contractors on government works be paid at least the wage rates and fringe...

In late October 2013, the Miami Dolphins' player Jonathan Martin walked out on his team and checked into a mental health institution. The original story implied that Martin could not take the professional pressure. Within days, the story changed. News...

While discrimination in the workplace is often perceived to be undertaken at the hands of individual or 'rogue' employees acting against the better interest of their employers, the truth is often the opposite: organizations are inciting discrimination...

Increased life expectancy and an ageing workforce have highlighted the problem of age discrimination in developed countries. Malcolm Sargeant's Age Discrimination in Employment is an encyclopedic guide for HR specialists and employment lawyers to the...

The European economic unification - mainly inspired by a neoliberal philosophy - has made a lot of victims. The realization of the single market has come about without any adjusting or accompanying economic and social policies. Its effects on social and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161504372Author Director Jurgen BasedowFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 1197g

An updated edition of the first-ever consumer guide to whistleblowing by the nation’s leading whistleblower attorneyThe newest edition of The Whistleblower’s Handbook brings the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to exposing workplace wrongdoing...

The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement mechanisms. Today, the Nordic countries top the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index –but they have still...

In this revealing comparative study, Mark Findlay examines the problematic nexus between undervalued labour and vulnerable migration status in dis-embedded markets. It highlights the frustrations raised by timeless regulatory failure and the chronic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864199Author Staughton LyndFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 108g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241563994Author World Health OrganizationFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health OrganizationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642253474Author Gregg H MossonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Advantage Media GroupPublisher Advantage Media GroupWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789264861114Author Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Organization for Economic Co-operation and...

This book examines the role of law in regulating and influencing the lived experiences of posted workers in Europe. The ‘posting’ of workers is an unusual type of labour mobility, where workers are hired out to provide a specific service in another...

In a book that confronts the moral choices that U.S. corporations make every day in the treatment of their workers, James A. Gross issues a clarion call for the transformation of the American workplace based on genuine respect for human rights, rather...

Presenting the issues of discrimination in employment in a multifaceted manner, this book examines the standards on anti-discrimination law for employment at international and EU levels and those deriving from national jurisdictions. Bringing together...

Scholars with an interest in contemporary labour relations, labour law, and the discourse of rights, as well as labour movements, will find this book useful and interesting.Book InformationISBN 9780774835381Author Larry SavageFormat HardbackPage Count...

This book exposes how inequalities based on class and social background arise from employment practices in the digital age. It considers instances where social media is used in recruitment to infiltrate private lives and hide job advertisements based on...