Labor & Industrial Relations

In an industry under attack, a veteran autoworker offers his take on the collapse of the American dream.Book InformationISBN 9781608461424Author Greg ShotwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket BooksWeight(grams) 357g

A timely and accessible guide which debunks the 21 biggest myths and stereotypes in today's heated immigration debate, written by one of the leading and longest-running human rights activists. Claims that immigrants take jobs away from nationals, are a...

From forced trusteeships to hostile inter-union raids, American labour has been gripped by a devastating civil war that has resulted in 30 years of decline. With the economic crises putting more pressure on organised labour than ever and prompting a...

In China, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class. In the vast export-processing zones along China's southeastern coast, countless so-called 'migrant workers' or 'peasant workers' from interior...

Belgium has a unique place in the history of migration in that it was the first among industrialized nations in Continental Europe to develop into an immigrant society. In the nineteenth century Italians, Jews, Poles, Czechs, and North Africans settled...

German unification brought fundamental, often traumatic changes for the people in eastern Germany. Women as a group were arguably more deeply affected by the changes than any other, and in one area in particular: that of work, which had far-reaching...

European trade unions are among the most influential and powerful institutions within Western economies, in many cases cooperating with the government and employers' associations in socio-economic decision-making processes. Consequently they also play an...

European union movements played a central role in promoting a "Europeanmodel of society", a humane industrial relations system, high labor standards, generous welfare states, and collective political representation which reached its pinnacle in...

Boston's economy has become defined by a disconcerting trend that has intensified throughout much of the United States since the 2008 recession. Economic growth now delivers remarkably few benefits to large sectors of the working class - a phenomenon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642592498Author Joe AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books

Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during the past three decades, despite substantial changes in macroeconomic conditions. Why is this so?...

German unification brought fundamental, often traumatic changes for the people in eastern Germany. Women as a group were arguably more deeply affected by the changes than any other, and in one area in particular: that of work, which had far-reaching...

European union movements played a central role in promoting a "Europeanmodel of society", a humane industrial relations system, high labor standards, generous welfare states, and collective political representation which reached its pinnacle in...

First Published in 1950, Trade Unions in the New Society examines the changing significance of trade unionism and the place they occupy in the democratic world. Harold J. Laski contrasts their function in a capitalist or socialist society with what it...

Dedicated to organizing workers from diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, many of whom were considered "unorganizable" by other unions, the progressive New York City-based labor union District 65 counted among its 30,000 members retail...

The Nordic countries have the world's best working life. Unlike in many other countries, global competition has not created inequality, uncertainty, long working hours, standardization and restrictive managerial control. The main reason for this lies in...

The successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact of contingent work—an umbrella term for a variety of tenuous and insecure employment arrangements such as...

Why, in the recent campaigns for universal health care, did organized labor maintain its support of employer-mandated insurance? Did labor's weakened condition prevent it from endorsing national health insurance? Marie Gottschalk demonstrates here that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591845430Author Caitlin KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780135177631Author Ken BeattyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Prentice HallPublisher Prentice Hall (Higher Education Division, Pearson...

What do human beings do when they work, how is work organized, and what are its multidimensional - economic, social, political, biographical, ecological - effects? We cannot answer these questions without drawing on the numerous categories that we use to...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367166885Author Mark A FossettFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 156g

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 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...