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Labor Standards in International Supply Chains: Aligning Rights and Incentives by Daniel Berliner 9781783470365
RRP: $53.09$48.41The authors examine developments in labor standards in global supply chains over the past thirty years, analyzing factors that create challenges and opportunities for improving working conditions. They illustrate the complex dynamics within and among key... -
The Formation of a Labour Market in Russia by Simon Clarke 9781858988313
$205.84The Russian labour market has been hailed by some economists as being 'perfectly flexible' because Russia has achieved enormous employment restructuring with minimal unemployment, and by others as plagued by rigidities since pay structures have been... -
Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work: Ethnographies of Accommodation and Resistance by Rob Lambert 9781788115254
RRP: $63.38$57.34With the renaissance of market politics on a global scale, precarious work has become pervasive. This edited collection explores the spread across a number of economic sectors and countries worldwide of work that is invariably insecure, dirty, low-paid,... -
Low Pay and Earnings Mobility in Europe by Rita Asplund 9781858988542
$202.29Is it possible for low-paid workers to obtain higher-paid jobs through upward mobility over time within the earnings distribution? Based on new empirical evidence from a number of European countries, the book focuses on earnings mobility, an issue that... -
Growth, Employment and Migration in Southeast Asia: Structural Change in the Greater Mekong Countries by Prema-Chandra Athukorala 9781840642711
$164.00This comparative analysis of growth, structural change and labour market dynamics in the Greater Mekong countries (Yunnan Province in China, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar) of Southeast Asia is the first of its kind. It explores... -
The Book of the Martyrs of Tolpuddle 1834-1934: The Story of the Dorsetshire Labourers Who Were Convicted and Sentenced to Seven Years Transportation for Forming a Trade Union by The Trades Union Congress 9781850065012
RRP: $47.17$39.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850065012Author The Trades Union CongressFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Tolpuddle Martyrs Memorial TrustPublisher Tolpuddle Martyrs Memorial Trust -
Profits for All?: The Cost & Benefits of Employee Ownership by Agustin J. Ros 9781590330616
RRP: $120.05$77.96Profits for All? - The Cost & Benefits of Employee OwnershipBook InformationISBN 9781590330616Author Agustin J. RosFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Nova BiomedicalPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 544g -
Windows on the Workplace: Computers, Jobs, and the Organization of Office Work by Joan M Greenbaum 9781583671146
$143.35In this eye-opening book, Joan Greenbaum tells the story of changes in management policies, work organization, and the design of office information systems from the 1950s to the present. She describes the impact of new technologies on the organization of... -
Labor Pains: Inside America's New Union Movement by Suzan Erem 9781583670576
$144.12Labor Pains is an insider's account of the struggle to rebuild a vibrant and powerful trade union movement in the United States. It takes as its starting point the daily experience of a union organizer, and brings that experience to life. It enables us... -
New Labour / New Thinking: The Politics, Economics & Social Policy of the Blair Government by Maurice Mullard 9781560728245
RRP: $114.91$90.89The focus of this outstanding book is the politics, economics and social policy of the UK Labour Government of Tony Blair. There is always a problem in the attempt to make sense of something that is still taking shape. However, there is equally a problem... -
Rising from Ashes. CB by E M Wood 9780853459491
$135.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853459491Author E M WoodPage Count 217Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University Press -
Flames of Discontent: The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike by Gary Kaunonen 9781517902674
$131.65Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Tainted Harvest: Child Labor and Obstacles to Organizing on Ecuador's Banana Plantations by Human Rights Watch 9781564322739
RRP: $17.07$13.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564322739Author Human Rights WatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Human Rights WatchPublisher Human Rights Watch -
The Impact of Public Job Placing Programmes by Michael White 9780853747154
RRP: $25.64$21.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853747154Author Michael WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Policy Studies InstitutePublisher Policy Studies InstituteWeight(grams) 135g -
Employment Relations and National Culture: Continuity and Change in the Age of Globalization by Ferrie Pot 9781840642292
$186.30Historically, alternative models of the employment relationship have developed across culturally diverse nation states. However, the trend towards globalization incorporates a powerful force towards an international uniformity of employment relations... -
Poverty and the Minimum Wage by David Parsons 9780844734095
$15.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780844734095Author David ParsonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint AEI PressPublisher AEI PressWeight(grams) 454g -
The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921 by Daniel L. Letwin 9780807846780
RRP: $80.53$76.79This study explores a tradition of interracial unionism that persisted in the coal fields of Alabama from the dawn of the New South through the turbulent era of World War I. Daniel Letwin focuses on the forces that prompted black and white miners to... -
Women Workers and Global Restructuring by Kathryn Ward 9780875461625
RRP: $53.17$39.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875461625Author Kathryn WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint ILR PressPublisher Cornell University Press -
Minimum Wages: Measures & Ind by Peterson 9780844734538
$15.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780844734538Author PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint AEI PressPublisher AEI PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems by Harry C. Katz 9780801488115
RRP: $48.01$36.48Exploring recent changes in employment practices in seven industrialized countries (Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the United States) and in two essential industries (automobile and telecommunications), Harry C. Katz and Owen... -
Strategic Negotiations: A Theory of Change in Labor-Management Relations by Richard E. Walton 9780801486975
RRP: $48.01$37.27Strategic Negotiations makes a significant contribution to the literature on strategic choice (the explicit structuring by management and labor of business and bargaining strategies that use the economic and political environment as a framework to create... -
The New Unionism: Employee Involvement in the Changing Corporation with a New Introduction by Charles C. Heckscher 9780801483578
RRP: $53.17$39.67In his visionary analysis, Charles Heckscher argues for "associational unionism," a model outside the tradition of American labor law. Rejecting the usual boundary between workers and management, Heckscher defines a genuinely new system of... -
Out of Practice: Fighting for Primary Care Medicine in America by Frederick M. Barken 9780801449765
RRP: $48.01$35.83Primary care medicine, as we know and remember it, is in crisis. While policymakers, government administrators, and the health insurance industry pay lip service to the personal relationship between physician and patient, dissatisfaction and disaffection... -
Shut'em Down: Black Women, Racism and Corporate America by Carey Yazeed 9780985031640
RRP: $34.31$27.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985031640Author Carey YazeedFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Shero ProductionsPublisher Shero ProductionsWeight(grams) 152g -
Behind the Kitchen Door by Saru Jayaraman 9780801479519
RRP: $25.71$22.49"Sustainability is about contributing to a society that everybody benefits from, not just going organic because you don't want to die from cancer or have a difficult pregnancy. What is a sustainable restaurant? It's one in which as the restaurant... -
Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies by Kate Bronfenbrenner 9780801484469
RRP: $41.15$32.16At a time when the American labor movement is mobilizing for a major resurgence through new organizing, here, at last, is a book about research on union organizing strategies. Previous studies have focused on factors contributing to union decline,... -
European Unions: Labor's Quest for a Transnational Democracy by Roland Erne 9780801476662
RRP: $42.87$32.25Roland Erne's view of transnational trade union networks challenges the assertion that no realistic prospect exists for remedying the European Union's democratic deficit-that is, its domination by corporate interests and lack of a cohesive European... -
Between Slavery and Freedom: Special Magistrate John Anderson's Journal of St Vincent During the Apprenticeship by Barbara Currie Dailey 9789766400903
RRP: $63.47$61.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789766400903Author Barbara Currie DaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint University of the West Indies PressPublisher University of the West Indies... -
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America by Philip Dray 9780307389763
RRP: $39.45$29.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307389763Author Philip DrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
Fetal Rights, Women's Rights: Gender Equality in the Workplace by Suzanne Uttaro Samuels 9780299145446
RRP: $23.93$20.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299145446Author Suzanne Uttaro SamuelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin... -
Re-Union: How Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize, and Reunite the United States by David Madland 9781501755378
RRP: $44.58$33.29In Re-Union, David Madland explores how labor unions are essential to all workers. Yet, union systems are badly flawed and in need of rapid changes for reform. Madland's multilayered analysis presents a solution-a model to replace the existing firm-based... -
Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21 by Lon Savage 9780822954262
RRP: $31.73$24.56The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops. ... -
The Homestead Strike of 1892 by Arthur G. Burgoyne 9780822953104
RRP: $37.74$30.12In 1893 Arthur Burgoyne, one of Pittsburgh’s most skilled and sensitive journalists, published Homestead, a complete history of the 1892 Homestead strike and the ensuing conflict between the Carnegie Steel Company and the Amalgamated Association of Iron... -
Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America by Jonathan D. Rosenblum 9780801485541
RRP: $37.72$29.31In this second edition of his in-depth and gripping account of the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983, Jonathan D. Rosenblum describes in a new epilogue the resurgence of union activism at Steelworkers Local 890 in Silver City, New Mexico, more than a decade... -
New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy by Stanley Vittoz 9780807866313
RRP: $85.68$80.62By examining the textile, clothing, coal, automobile, and steel industries, Vittoz shows that a variety of interest-group pressures were responsible for many New Deal labor reforms. The author demonstrates that labor and its political allies took much of... -
The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930 by Nikki Mandell 9780807853511
RRP: $73.67$68.23The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable growth of corporate welfare programs in American industry. By the mid-1920s, 80 percent of the nation's largest companies--firms including DuPont, International Harvester, and Metropolitan... -
Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era by Landon R. Y. Storrs 9780807848388
RRP: $73.67$71.05Offering fresh insights into the history of labor policy, the New Deal, feminism, and southern politics, Landon Storrs examines the New Deal era of the National Consumers' League, one of the most influential reform organizations of the early twentieth... -
Like Night and Day: Unionization in a Southern Mill Town by Daniel J. Clark 9780807846179
RRP: $73.67$68.97Daniel Clark demonstrates the dramatic impact unionization made on the lives of textile workers in Henderson, North Carolina, in the decade after World War II. Focusing on the Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, he shows that workers valued the Textile... -
Wage Labor and Guilds in Medieval Europe by Steven A. Epstein 9780807844984
RRP: $73.67$69.69Relying on a broad range of printed and secondary sources, Wage Labor and Guilds charts the history of guilds from their antecedents in the Roman Empire to their 'crisis' in the fourteenth century. . . . As a much-needed synthesis, [the book] will serve... -
The State and Labor in Modern America by Melvyn Dubofsky 9780807844366
RRP: $80.53$77.34In this important new book, Melvyn Dubofsky traces the relationship between the American labor movement and the federal government from the 1870s until the present. His is the only book to focus specifically on the 'labor question' as a lens through...