Labor & Industrial Relations

While retiree health plans are a dying benefit in the private sector, all US states and many local governments extend health insurance coverage to their retired employees. This book is the first to thoroughly examine public sector health insurance plans...

Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States examines the developments in labour markets in advanced economies in the 21st century, as regards contingent employment. This is defined as employment relationships that can be terminated with minimal...

Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe addresses the role played by institutions in European wage formation with a focus on EMU and institutional change in labour markets. Under this general heading there are three broad but distinct themes...

The 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...

Nearly every job application asks it: have you ever been convicted of a crime? For the hundreds of thousands of young men leaving American prisons each year, their answer to that question may determine whether they can find work and begin rebuilding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967727998Author Antoinette HarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Antoinette HarrellPublisher Antoinette HarrellWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354981Author Zoe BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864823Author Elizabeth Gurley FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 132g

Modern societies set limits, on everything from how fast motorists can drive to how much waste factory owners can dump in our rivers. But incomes in our deeply unequal world have no limits. Could capping top incomes tackle rising inequality more...

Available for the first time in paperback, this book explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. The crisis facing established democratic institutions in the advanced societies has been widely noted. In response, there...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807086025Author Dr. Martin Luther KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849351386Author Michael SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 163g

Howard Zinn has illuminated American history like none other. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University, he wrote more than 20 books, including A People's History of the United States. He was also a known anti-war...

This is the first book to discuss workplace harm through an ultra-realist lens and examines the connection between individuals, their working conditions and management culture. It investigates the reorganisation of labour markets and the shift from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060930653Author Craig KielburgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 204mm...

I Am Not a Tractor! celebrates the courage, vision, and creativity of the farmworkers and community leaders who have transformed one of the worst agricultural situations in the United States into one of the best. Susan L. Marquis highlights past abuses...

This revised and updated edition of Sharon Smith's accessible, critical history of the US labour movement examines the hidden radical history of workers' resistance from the nineteenth century to the present.Book InformationISBN 9781608469178Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604869569Author Immanuel NessFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 375g

Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.S. address the dwindling importance of labor throughout the world. The contributors to this volume highlight the growing disconnect...

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...

Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years...

This multi-disciplinary edited collection critically examines the causes and effects of anti-unionism in Canada. Primarily through a series of case studies, the book's contributors document and expose the tactics and strategies of employers and...

In reaction to the changes imposed on public schools across the country in the name of "education reform," the Chicago Teachers Union redefined its traditional role and waged a multidimensional fight that produced a community-wide school strike...

One hundred years of progress for Canadians. One hundred years of results for Canadian workers. On February 6, 1920, a small group of public service employees met for the first time to form a professional association. A century later, the Professional...

Originally published in 1952, The Government of British Trade Unions analyses the government, in theory and in practice, of one of Britain’s most important labour organizations – The Transport and General Works Union in the first half of the 20th Century...

Originally published in 1981, Trade Unions was written at a time when there was a widespread belief that Britain’s trade unions were undemocratic, obstructive and strike-prone. This book argues that throughout their history, British trade unions have...

Originally published in 1934, Trade Unions and the State is a study of political institutions. This is a lucid account of the diverse views that have been held about the nature, attributes, functions and prerogatives of the State. The book analyses the...

Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress brings together recent essays and reporting by labor journalist Steve Early. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers, whether they're trying to democratize their union, win a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552669822Author Stephanie ProcykFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Fernwood PublishingPublisher Fernwood PublishingWeight(grams) 299g

Casino Women is a pioneering look at the female face of corporate gaming. Based on extended interviews with maids, cocktail waitresses, cooks, laundry workers, dealers, pit bosses, managers, and vice presidents, the book describes in compelling detail a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438462936Author Michael SchiavoneFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press

Originally published in 1986, this book analyses the impact of the changing economic and political climate on trade unions in Europe. The first part of the book deals with general issues, and the succeeding parts look at developments in the UK, Italy and...

Originally published in 1963, The Landsorganisationen I Sverige (LO – Swedish Confederation of Trades Unions), enjoys an international reputation as a trade union movement with progressive ideas on wage policy and collective bargaining. The authors of...

Originally published in 1973, this book was designed as a concise and usable guide to those aspects of the law which particularly affect trade union members and officials. It deals with the internal and external affairs of trade unions and the law...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802205121Author Julieta HaidarFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing LtdPublisher Edward Elgar Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 156g

The state of Kerala in southern India is notable for the ways in which lower-class mobilization and state intervention have combined to create one of the most successful cases of social and redistributive development in the Third World. In contrast to...

Are unions still relevant in digitized workplaces? Could basic income be the solution to both poverty and technology-driven job loss? What are the benefits and drawbacks of a guaranteed jobs policy? Are multinational firms better regulators of global...

Are we doomed because of the new digital technologies used in workspaces? Can we avoid measuring in our work? Or are we trapped in a metrification dystopia? Can we create workspaces that can produce what we prefer in order to use our human effort in ways...

Originally published in 1976, Democracy and Government in European Trade Unions is a detailed and practical examination of the organisational structure and internal control of trade unions in 8 Western European countries. It provides an introduction to...

Originally published in 1991, this book opens with a theoretical and historical section and analyses the affairs of both the communist party and the trade unions of specific European countries. The first part of the book deals with cases of communist...