Labor & Industrial Relations

Known for his seminal work in efficiency-wage theory, Andrew Weiss surveys recent research in the field and presents new results. He shows how wage schedules affect the kinds of workers a firm employs and how well those workers perform on the job. Using...

In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred U.S. labor union members were African American. By 1980, the figure was more than one in five. Black and Blue explores the politics and history that led to this dramatic integration of organized labor. In the...

A massive compendium looking at experience in an international and in the South African context. It will be interesting both for Africanists and for those interested in comparative labour studies. When first published this book was hailed as...

This book is a study of labor relations and the first generation of skilled workers in colonial Korea, a subject crucial to the understanding of modernization in twentieth-century Korea. Born in rural Korea, these workers confronted both the colonial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624063452Author Thanduxolo JikaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 270g

Joined-up government is a complex, expensive and elusive goal, which has captured the imaginations of public administrators since the 1950s. It offers great promise for tackling the complex or `wicked' policy problems that concern the governments of...

This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor. Drawing on massive archival evidence from Britain and Germany, as well as historical evidence from France and Italy, The Fabrication of Labor shows how the very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268025502Author Edward C. LorenzFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame Press

An educational crisis from its origins to present-day experiences In the United States today, almost three-quarters of the people teaching in two- and four-year colleges and universities work as contingent faculty. They share the hardships endemic in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252044281Author Thomas AlterFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams) 156g

In 1995, promising a more active political presence for unions, John Sweeney was elected president of the AFL-CIO. Labor would develop a "new voice," one that could not be ignored or taken for granted by Democratic and Republican politicians...

Throughout the 1980s Mrs Thatcher dominated political life in the UK and Thatcherism became the shorthand for a series of political initiatives all over the world. Most accounts of these years have concentrated on the economics of free markets and...

The European Convention on Human Rights has had a significant impact on the courts of the Member States of the Council of Europe. the aim of the present study is threefold. First, to determine conclusively whether or not there exists a legal obligation...

The new international economy is today the single most important factor shaping relations between employers, unions, and governments in the world's advanced industrial societies. While companies compete in global markets with firms around the world,...

Some employers maintain that they continue to need the "best and the brightest" workers, regardless of their country of birth, to remain competitive in a world-wide market and to keep their firms in the United States. While support for...

The 113th Congress is expected to take up comprehensive immigration reform. Some of the most difficult immigration policy questions on the table concern unauthorised immigration and unauthorised employment. The discussion about these issues builds on the...

Industrial Relations Between Command & Market A Comparative Analysis Of Eastern Europe & ChinaBook InformationISBN 9781560724032Author Gerd SchienstockFormat HardbackPage Count 331Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science...

This book summarises the current salary of members of Congress, limits on their outside earned income and honoraria, and applicable health insurance and retirement benefits. It also provides information on allowances available to Representatives and...

This book is structured in four sections. Section 1 looks at the issues related to theoretical and methodological considerations. Chapter 1 to 5 deal with gaps in measuring effectiveness of development aid programs including issues related to...

This book presents and discusses information on a variety of labour issues and policies. Topics discussed include (among others)outsourcing and in-sourcing jobs in the U.S. economy; immigration of foreign workers; trade adjustment assistance for workers;...

This book examines wage earnings from 1975 through to 2009 with a focus on real earnings, health insurance, pension coverage, and the distribution of earnings analysed. Also discussed is the rise in wage inequality by level of education since 1975 and...

Since the late 1980s, incomes have fallen sharply in most countries of Central and Eastern Europe, while unemployment and poverty rates have risen dramatically. The level of the minimum wage, intended to protect the low-paid and those dependent on state...

Gender-based discrimination, harassment, and violence against women in the home, workplace, and society at large are continuing topics of legislative and judicial concern. Legal doctrines condemning the extortion of sexual favours as a condition of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791437162Author Gary RhoadesFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy examines the formative years of the classic social thinker once called the 'bourgeois Marx,' specifically focusing on his relationship to the foremost working-class organization of his time. Offering...

In Subterranean Matters, Andrea Marston examines the ongoing history of Bolivian mining cooperatives, an economic formation that has been central to Bolivian politics and to the country’s economy. Marston outlines how mining cooperatives occupy a...

Social insurance and employee benefits are key elements of society's safety net for workers. Social Security, although popular and successful, is under attack by critics who advocate privatization and benefit cuts. In health care, the United States has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247526Author Ken CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850366877Author Joan AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833034922Author Lynn A. KarolyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 422g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822954668Author Paul KrauseFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh Press

The first major study of the Soninke labor migration within Africa and to France, Willing Migrants is based upon a critical analysis of French precolonial and colonial records and interviews with Soninke migrants. Francois Manchuelle shows that these...

Through the voices of women activists in the welfare rightsmovement across the United States, The Price of ProgressivePolitics exposes the contemporary reality of welfare rightspolitics, revealing how the language of colorblind racism underminesthis...

Through the voices of women activists in the welfare rightsmovement across the United States, The Price of ProgressivePolitics exposes the contemporary reality of welfare rightspolitics, revealing how the language of colorblind racism underminesthis...

Of the wave of labor strikes that swept through the South in 1929, the one at the Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, is perhaps the best remembered. In Gastonia 1929 John Salmond provides the first detailed account of the complex events surrounding...

Working for Justice, which includes eleven case studies of recent low-wage worker organizing campaigns in Los Angeles, makes the case for a distinctive "L.A. Model" of union and worker center organizing. Networks linking advocates in worker...

Becoming Transnational Youth Workers contests mainstream notions of adolescence with its study of a previously under-documented cross-section of Mexican immigrant youth. Preceding the latest wave of Central American children and teenagers now fleeing...

The last two decades of the twentieth century were a tumultuous time of innovation for business and labor. Perhaps the boldest and most far-reaching experiment in industry was the creation of the Saturn Corporation. Working together as partners, the UAW...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807003329Author Bill FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm

The living wage movement is considered by many to be the most interesting grassroots enterprise to emerge since the civil rights movement. Ten years after the first ordinance was passed in Baltimore, there are more than one hundred living wage ordinances...