Labor & Industrial Relations

During the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia waterfront was home to the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the United States prior to the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) era. For much of its time, Local 8's majority was...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771136471Author Harry GlasbeekFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Between the LinesPublisher Between the Lines

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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...

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 miners' strike against Pittston Coal in 1989-1990, which spread throughout southwestern Virginia, southern West Virginia, and eastern Kentucky, was one of the most important strikes in the history of American labor, and, as Richard Brisbin observes,...

In both Japan and the United States, migration, refugee, and citizenship policies have become highly contentious political issues. Japan, traditionally a closed society with the lowest proportion of foreigners of any major industrial country, has...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565847330Author Beth ShulmanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 410g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973027143Author Elliott LeytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 167Imprint Boulder PublicationsPublisher Boulder PublicationsWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900384912Author Geoffrey Nielsen OstergaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Freedom PressPublisher Freedom Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330435210Author Conor McCabeFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint Iskra BooksPublisher Iskra BooksWeight(grams) 699g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789350180129Author Sarkar SoumitraFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Readworthy Publications Pvt LtdPublisher Readworthy Publications Pvt Ltd

This work challenges the view, widely held among historians of the Bolshevik revolution, that the upsurge of labour unrest of 1920-22 was the result of the appalling living conditions caused by the Civil War, had little significant content and was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631813638Author Adam SzymanskiFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AG

Meatpackers provides an important window into race and racism in the American workplace. In their own words, male and female packinghouse workers in the Midwest-mostly African-American-talk of their experiences on the shop floor and picket lines. They...

In recent years, there has been an increase in new forms of employment. Namely, thanks to the use of platforms in business and the emergence of the ""gig economy"", there are gradual changes in this domain. These include part-time, temporary, informal,...

The presidency of Tsai Ing-wen coincided with momentous shifts in Taiwan's domestic and international affairs. On the back of a growing popular mandate, President Tsai sought to assert the autonomy and independence of Taiwan. These moves were mirrored by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904750628Author Richard CroucherFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Middlesex University PressPublisher Middlesex University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252088643Author Nick JuravichFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams) 454g

In a globalized economy that is heavily sustained by the labor of immigrants, why are certain nations defined as 'ideal' labor resources and why do certain groups dominate a particular labor force? The Philippines has emerged as a lucrative source of...

Traditional industrial relations theories of organizing, employment relations, and economic democracy are cloaked in the language of color-blindness, with conceptualizations of justice and class identity viewed through the lens of dominant social...

This is a study of working women in Scotland in the period 1850-1914. In a detailed scholarly analysis, based on a wide range of contemporary sources, Eleanor Gordon uncovers the patterns of their employment, their involvement in and relationship to...

Covering a key topic in nearly every sociology course, this book is a thorough and lively introduction to the role and importance of youth and employment in contemporary British society. The book looks at the momentous changes that have occurred in...

In this book, first-rate international scholars in the field explore the role that unions are likely to play in the changed economic environment of the new century. Questions discussed include: What will unions look like in the years to come? Which kind...

For up to twenty years after the Second World War both in Britain and the US boasted `mature' industrial relations systems supported by their governments and, allowing for some differences in degree, by most employers. Since the early 1980s, these...

The Industrial Democracy in Europe project offers a unique opportunity to assess the changes in European industrial relations systems in general, and participation schemes in particular. In 1981 the Industrial Democracy in Europe team (IDE) reported...

This is a study of the working women of Belgium from the country's independence in 1830 until the First World War. Patricia Penn Hilden argues that the success of Belgium's industrial revolution - second only to Britain's in the nineteenth century - was...

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages, that income inequality falls with wider access to schooling, and that the Information Technology revolution will re-ignite worker pay...

Both parties and interest groups matter to democracy. Historically, examples of close relationships between the two abound. But perhaps the best known because it was supposedly the most intimate and politically important is the relationship between...

Migration, Precarity, & Global Governance explores an understudied, but central, area within contemporary studies of globalisation and precarisation. It relates to the interface between migration, global governance and the role of civil society, with...

This book provides the first systematic assessment of trends in inequality in job quality in Britain in recent decades. It assesses the pattern of change drawing on the nationally representative Skills and Employment Surveys (SES) carried out at regular...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910259894Author Darragh GoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint ECPR PressPublisher ECPR Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330435319Author Conor McCabeFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Iskra BooksPublisher Iskra BooksWeight(grams) 549g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798991018616Author Jerry RhoadsFormat PaperbackPage Count 588Imprint Jerry RhoadsPublisher Jerry RhoadsWeight(grams) 776g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925823851Author Pradhyuman Singh LakhawatFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Central West PublishingPublisher Central West PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

In a globalized economy that is heavily sustained by the labor of immigrants, why are certain nations defined as "ideal" labor resources and why do certain groups dominate a particular labor force? The Philippines has emerged as a lucrative source of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349007578Author Asa BriggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 473g