Labor & Industrial Relations

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583672815Author Michael D. YatesFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

In this new edition of Why Unions Matter, Michael D. Yates shows why unions still matter. Unions mean better pay, benefits, and working conditions for their members; they force employers to treat employees with dignity and respect; and at their best,...

Embedded With Organized Labor describes how union members have organized successfully, on the job and in the community, in the face of employer opposition now and in the past. The author has produced a provocative series of essays-an unusual exercise in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583671139Author Joan M GreenbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 1770Imprint Monthly Review PressPublisher Monthly Review PressWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583670583Author Suzan EremFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

If you're lucky enough to be employed today in the United States, there's about a one-in-ten chance that you're in a labor union. And even if you re part of that unionized 10 percent, chances are your union doesn't carry much economic or political clout...

Going far beyond the basic study of union history and structure, this accessible introductory text emphasizes how the values, objectives, and activities of unions are shaped in the face of modern challenges such as employer resistance and hostile...

A groundbreaking consideration of death from capitalism, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century From a 2013 Texas fertilizer plant explosion that killed fifteen people and injured 252 to a 2017 chemical disaster in the wake of Hurricane...

On June 2, 1916, forty mostly immigrant mineworkers at the St. James Mine in Aurora, Minnesota, walked off the job. This seemingly small labor disturbance would mushroom into one of the region's, if not the nation's, most contentious and significant...

In The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta bring a novel perspective to building worker power and what labor organizing could look like in the future, suggesting ways to evolve collective bargaining to match the needs of modern people-not only...

When people cannot find good work, can they still find good lives? By investigating this question in the context of South Africa, where only 43 percent of adults are employed, Christine Jeske invites readers to examine their own assumptions about how...

Labor in the Time of Trump critically analyzes the right-wing attack on workers and unions and offers strategies to build a working-class movement. While President Trump's election in 2016 may have been a wakeup call for labor and the Left, the...

In an original and striking study of migration management in operation, Disrupting Deportability highlights obstacles confronting temporary migrant workers in Canada seeking to exercise their labor rights. Leah F. Vosko explores the effects of...

A story that involves as its main players "workers" and "Walmart" does not usually have a happy ending for labor, so the counternarrative offered by Building Power from Below is must reading for activists and union personnel as well...

In Dying to Work, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job. Based on heart-wrenching interviews Karmel conducted with injured workers and surviving family...

Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors,...

Foregrounds the working black body as both a category of analysis and lived experience "How does it feel to be a problem?" asked W.E.B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk. For many thinkers across the color line, the "Negro problem"...

This book investigates the changing patterns of labour market and unemployment policies in EU member states during the period since fiscal austerity took hold in 2010 during the deepest postwar recession in Europe. Looking at the big European picture, do...

The labor–climate movement in the U.S. laid the groundwork for the Green New Deal by building a base within labor for supporting climate protection as a vehicle for good jobs. But as we confront the climate crisis and seek environmental justice, a “jobs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919618541Author Evelyn DumasFormat PaperbackPage Count 145Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books

This volume examines questions related to the prevention, compensation, and accommodation of work disabilities. It focuses on disabilities arising out of workplace activity.Book InformationISBN 9780913447741Author Terry ThomasonFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913447567Author Bruce E. KaufmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903319744Author Andrew BibbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationPublisher Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

International competition and variable economic conditions have brought the threat of layoffs to the doorsteps of workers and managers in all sectors of our economy. One response to this problem is Unemployment Insurance-Supported Work Sharing. This new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851246826Author Ken CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833044112Author Christine EibnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 240g

Workers in India program software applications, transcribe medical dictation online, chase credit card debtors, and sell mobile phones, diet pills, and mortgages for companies based in other countries around the world. While their skills and labor...

Contents include: Introduction and Summary Public Policy Implications of Declining Old-Age Mortality Aging the Ability to Work: Policy Issues and Recent Trends Occupational Effects on the Health and Work Capacity of Older Men Involuntary Early Retirement...

In this provacative study of the "disease" afflicting American industry today, George Lodge, a distinguished professor at the Harvard Business School, reveals the malady as a psychological disorder, characterized by a refusal to face the facts...

The 2011 battle in Wisconsin over public sector employees' collective bargaining rights occasioned the largest protests in the state since the Vietnam War. Protestors occupied the state capitol building for days and staged massive rallies in downtown...

Throughout recorded history, labor to produce goods and services has been a central concern of society, and questions surrounding the terms of labor-the arrangements under which labor is made to produce and to divide its product with others-are of great...

The labor movement sees coalitions as a key tool for union revitalization and social change, but there is little analysis of what makes them successful or the factors that make them fail. Amanda Tattersall-an organizer and labor scholar-addresses this...

The failure of the Textile Workers Union of America to organize its jurisdiction has often been considered the CIO's most critical setback in establishing industrial unionism in the United States. The textile industry had more than 1,250,000 workers, and...

Historically, Canada has adopted immigration policies focused on admitting migrants who were expected to become citizens. A dramatic shift has occurred in recent years as the number of temporary labourers admitted to Canada has increased substantially...

Uzbekistan is the world's fifth largest producer and second largest exporter of cotton in the world, and unlike other countries where child labor is common, it is the totalitarian state of Uzbekistan's official policy to employ children. This book...

This book provides a detailed investigation and comparison of the trade unions of five EU member states: Austria, Britain, France, Germany and Sweden, and their positions on Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Several European-level trade union...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717807703Author John Bennett SearsFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint 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 9780717808670Author Philip FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint International PublishersPublisher International PublishersWeight(grams) 358g

This collection of original essays brings econometric theory to bear on the problem of estimating the labor force participation of women. Five scholars here examine, both theoretically and empirically, the determinants of women's wages in the market, the...

Volume III examines in clear and elegant prose the roles of knowledge and information in economics. Part One analyzes the effects of new or uncertain information on market performance; examines the formation and revision of expectations; and provides a...