Labor & Industrial Relations

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

While sexual harassment of women in the workplace has only been discussed publicly in the mainstream media, to any extent, for less than two decades it is a pervasive problem that women have faced for centuries. This book looks at the history of that...

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...

On Christmas Day in 1854, teachers and advocates of education came together to form the Indiana State Teachers Association. At that time, many Hoosiers did not embrace the concept of ""free education,"" instead believing that schools...

Increasingly, the governments of virtually all industrialised countries are confronted with persistent problems of unemployment and low pay for those with little formal education and few skills. To combat this growing problem, various countries are...

This book provides a comparative study of the telecommunication reform process in three Central American countries - Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras - focusing on the roles of the local private sector and international financial institutions. By...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864281Author Jeremy BrecherFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 520g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850365672Author V.L. AllenFormat HardbackImprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd

The global economy has an insatiable need for creative workers - to develop new products and services in a speeded-up hyper-competitive environment; to provide content for the exponentially growing mass media; to manage; and yet educate inform and pacify...

In this study of Birmingham's iron and steel workers, Henry McKiven unravels the complex connections between race relations and class struggle that shaped the city's social and economic order. He also traces the links between the process of class...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851244402Author Ken CoatesFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717805044Author Paul William RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455522736Author Mallory FactorFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 290g

From 1894 to 1934, a span of forty years that saw its parent company go from coal mining to oil drilling, the Texas Pacific Mercantile and Manufacturing Company operated and managed the various commercial and service enterprises essential to the life and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875461922Author Bruce E. KaufmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ILR PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 28g

The Lectures to Women given by Alfred Marshall at Cambridge in 1873, which focus on the effects of working conditions on man's character and prospects, are unique in their content and purpose. They offer insight into a radical period in Marshall's life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850363128Author Chris McGuffieFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd

The minimum wage appears to be a standard economic regulatory measure, yet a politics of symbolism more than anything else defines the political contests that periodically erupt over it. Detractors abhor its corruption of market principles, while...

Essays study the development of the Australian workers' movement in the age of Empire. Why did the Australian Labour Party win a role in government so quickly? How widespread was Australian racism? Did women's winning the vote give them more influence in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853458463Author Teresa AmottFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 204g

After the 1854 abolition of slavery in Peru, a new generation of plantation owners turned to a system of peasant tenantry to maintain cotton production through the use of cheap labor. In Peasants on Plantations Vincent C. Peloso analyzes the changing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780869755273Author Margaret KilohFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Ravan Press (Pty) LtdPublisher Ravan Press (Pty) LtdWeight(grams) 516g

Big changes in the global economy and world politics have put new questions on the table for labour movements around the world. Can workers regain the initiative against the tidal wave of corporate downsizing and government cutbacks? Is labour rising...

Essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the national controversy about set-asides and other forms of affirmative action. "I strongly recommend this book to sociologists, political scientists, politicians, and business leaders as an...

The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the country's imagination. Since 2008, the UFW has lent its rallying cry to a presidential campaign and been the subject of no less than nine books, two...

This book employs novel techniques to compare technological capabilities and economic performance in seven countries at varying stages of industrial development: Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, South Africa and Uganda. The author uses a...

This selection of John Creedy's essays on labour economics sheds light on the areas of labour mobility, skilled labour markets and trade unions and wages. Among other issues, Professor Creedy discusses: * the effects of migration, population ageing and...

This insightful Handbook examines how labor unions across the world have experienced and responded to the growth of neo-liberalism.Since the 1970s, the spread of neo-liberalism across the world has radically reconfigured the relationship between unions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552665183Author John PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Fernwood Publishing Co LtdPublisher Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552664797Author Habiba ZamanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Fernwood Publishing Co LtdPublisher Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850362701Author Richard CroucherFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd