Labor & Industrial Relations

In recent decades, Latin American countries have sought to modernize their labor market institutions to comply with the demands of globalization. This book evaluates the impact of such neoliberal reforms on labor movements and workers' rights in the...

The 'Your Rights at Work' campaign was an unprecedented campaign in Australia's political history and it aroused great public interest. This book presents an in-depth account of the campaign, based on over 60 interviews with key union leaders, rank and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013293788Author Ernesto ScrepantiFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013267888Author Jennifer RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Across Massachusetts, workers in virtually all sectors of the economy are facing reorganization, new technology, and the intensification of expectations and demands. With globalization, smaller employers are increasingly becoming part of large...

The Ordeal of the Jungle boldly revises previous scholarship regarding Chicago's labor movement in the World war I era. It examines the failures of the Chicago Federation of Labor to build a progressive, interracial organization. Following failed strikes...

Respecting both the history a labor theories and the variety of theoretical points of view concerning the labor movement, this collection of readings includes selections by Karl Marx, V. I. Lenin, William Haywood, Georges Sorel, Stanley Aronowitz, John R...

From the late eighteenth century, the hinterlands of Northern Luzon and its Indigenous people were in the crosshairs of imperial and capitalist extraction. Combining the breadth of global history with the intimacy of biography, Adrian De Leon follows the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570030352Author Stephen M. HillsFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South Carolina Press

This retrospective on past Caribbean labour struggles provides the beginnings of a region-wide comparative perspective. Extending initial insights from the Anglophone to the Hispanic Caribbean, and from the momentous upheavals of the 1930s to the...

Steven Levi discusses and analyzes the rise and fall of the last of the old western vigilance committees - and the rise of the first modern American committee devoted to ferreting out 'Un- American activities' among the laboring poor, union leaders,...

In this accessible treatment of child labor in Africa, straightforward prose is enriched throughout with photographs that give a human face to the issues involved. The authors draw on sources ranging from scholarly studies to children's own voices. After...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813235677Author Paul MisnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint The Catholic University of America PressPublisher The Catholic University of America...

This collection of essays explores the dynamic new face of Southern labour since 1950. Life and Labor in the New New South weaves together the best work of established scholars with emerging cutting-edge research on ethnicity, gender, prison labour,...

"Impressively researched. . . . Digests a mountain of literature and follows up with a dazzling compilation of anecdotes and specific local knowledge based on extensive first-person on-the-scenes interviews. . . . Far and away the best single source...

From the national maritime strike of 1890 to the violent dockside clashes of 1998, the waterfront has loomed large as a key battle site in Australian industrial relations. After Robert Menzies was swept to power on a wave of anti-communist sentiment in...

The clothing and textile industry employs nearly 30 million people worldwide, mostly in Asia and Central America. Workers frequently face long hours, inadequate wages, harassment and abuse. While some resist such conditions by joining labor unions, many...

Has the apartheid workplace been superseded or entrenched over the past ten years of democracy in South Africa? In order to answer these questions, the authors of this book studied seventeen different workplaces, including BMW, a state hospital, footwear...

Comparing cases in Sri Lanka and India, this study looks at the negative social implications of privatising state-run industries. The book praises the significant increases in efficiency brought about by privatisation around the globe, but warns that in...

This publication brings together three important reports of India's National Commissions on Labour appointed from time to time. The latest report, 2002, just released, is a subject of great discussion and debate. For the benefit of those interested in...

This new book is an historical examination of how popular magazines portrayed wage-earning women during the critical interwar years, 1918-1941. Although women had been entering the workplace for some time, their contributions to World War I, the passage...

Offering an informative case study of the post-war shift of the US economy, this study provides a broader historical view of current union struggles to preserve the nation's manufacturing base. It focuses on the developments in three cities: Fall River,...

Women and minorities have entered higher-paying occupations, but their overall earnings still lag behind those of white men. Why? Looking nationwide at workers across all employment levels and occupations, Robert Kaufman examines the unexpected ways that...

This new book is an historical examination of how popular magazines portrayed wage-earning women during the critical interwar years, 1918-1941. Although women had been entering the workplace for some time, their contributions to World War I, the passage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816535743Author James C. FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484304464Author Martin SchindlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint International Monetary Fund (IMF)Publisher International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Since World War I, says Joseph McCartin, the central problem of American labor relations has been the struggle among workers, managers, and state officials to reconcile democracy and authority in the workplace. In his comprehensive look at labor issues...

This is the first systematic study of strikebreaking, intimidation, and anti-unionism in the United States, subjects essential to a full understanding of labor's fortunes in the twentieth century. Paradoxically, the country that pioneered the expansion...

This paper presents findings from a module in the HSRC's 2006 South African Social Attitudes Survey that was designed by the Centre for the Analysis of South African Social Policy at the University of Oxford.Respondents were asked for their views on...

Servants of the State traces the halting rise of a pluralistic attitude in hiring and promotion procedures within the federal government. Ranging from the Great Depression to World War II to the early days of both the civil rights movement and the Cold...

Youth employment issues are a major concern for many countries because they have negative effects on the welfare of young people, and may also adversely affect economic performance and social stability. This is the first Independent Evaluation Group...

In the past twenty-five years Iran has experienced a revolution and a turbulent post revolutionary period under an Islamic state that declared itself the government of the oppressed while it struggled to establish a utopian Islamic economy. In this...

Out to Work is a fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of migrant women who, while in their teens, moved from rural towns to Beijing to take up work as maids, office cleaners, hotel chambermaids, and migrant schoolteachers. Part of the vanguard...

For much of the twentieth century, unions played a vital role in shaping political regimes and economic development strategies, particularly in Latin America and Europe. However, their influence has waned as political parties with close ties to unions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870230424Author Melvyn DubofskyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts Press

With the decline of the labor movement in the United States over the past four decades, unions are facing the future with unresolved concerns over free trade agreements, dwindling memberships, and their own leverage with industry and government. Which...

In the past twenty-five years Iran has experienced a revolution and a turbulent post revolutionary period under an Islamic state that declared itself the government of the oppressed while it struggled to establish a utopian Islamic economy. In this...

In a global economy, workers must assert their collective rights as workers in order to win human rights as individuals. 'Workers of the world, unite!' Karl Marx's famous call to action still promises an effective means of winning human rights in the...

Offers policy ideas for improving the incomes of American womenBook InformationISBN 9780472097470Author Mary C. KingFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press