Author: Kuna-Jacob, Thomas, J. Publisher: Peace Works Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Blacks, Native Americans, Latinos, Arabs, Moslems, many Asians, and Rose (a.k.a. 'white') youth all suffer the exceptionally high rates of unemployment and underemployment that the capitalist market a...
Author: Lewin, David Publisher: JAI Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Volume 15 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains ten papers, four of which deal with human resource management and six of which deal with unionization. Six of the papers were or...
Author: Friedemann, Greta Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Colombia is a major exporter of fresh-cut flowers. As in other global assembly line industries, women constitute a majority of Colombia's floriculture workforce. This ethnographic study explores the l...
Author: Czarniawska, Barbara Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed can cause organizations to institute the 'problem of difference', so that attempts to remove inequality may actually promote it by making difference...
Author: N/A Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From Silicon Valley in California to Silicon Glen in Scotland, from Silicon Island in Taiwan to Silicon Paddy in China, the social, economic, and ecological effects of the international electronics in...
Author: Crompton, Rosemary Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Changing Forms of Employment examines the widespread evidence of change in specific aspects of employing organizations, employment and employment related institutions.
Author: Deadwiley, Eric M. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Civil Death Policies are Federal and State laws that restrict or prevent formerly convicted people from enjoying many of the rights and privileges of the rest of society. It is estimated that there ar...
Author: Walder, Andrew G. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Based on official Chinese sources as well as intensive interviews with Hong Kong residents formerly employed in mainland factories, Andrew Walder's neo-traditional image of communist society in China ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Labour migration has been on the agenda of many countries around the globe, and governments of both sending and receiving countries have made attempts to develop regulatory mechanisms to deal with the...
Author: Fantasia, Rick Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A commonplace assumption about American workers is that they lack class consciousness. This perception has baffled social scientists, demoralized activists, and generated a significant literature on A...
Description: If you're getting increasingly disillusioned by the daily commute, the expense of urban life and the stressful work environment and dream of a more peaceful and relaxing lifestyle then you're ready fo...
Description: Lucille Milner describes her early years as a reformer. She documents her work as a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and work with other progressive organizations.
Author: Corby, Susan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book adopts a thematic approach to the analysis of employee relations in the UK public services, allowing for a more rigorous and coherent critique than can be obtained from other descriptive, or...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book considers the EU's effect on trade unions and the reponses they have developed. It includes studies from key industrial sectors, comparing unions in these sectors in Germany, the UK, Spain, ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book explores the prospects for the emergence of a distinctly European pattern in industrial relations, in which European-level organisations representing employers and trade unions gain in impor...
Author: Brooks, Ann Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The concept of emotional labour has largely emerged from the analysis of organizations in the West. However, little has been written about the issue of what defines emotional labour and how it is conf...
Author: Burnette,Joyce Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A major new study of the role of women in the labor market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wa...
Author: Xiang, Biao Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book begins from the central premise that progressive social change requires collective struggle underpinned by a clear strategy, and that processes of neoliberal globalisation have altered the c...
Description: Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation takes Ireland as a paradigmatic case of social transformation, exploring the reasons for which emigration was so quickly replaced by immigration, alo...
Author: Rotella, Carlo Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This eloquent, streetwise book is a paean to America's Rust Belt and a compelling exploration of four milieus caught up in a great transformation of city life. With loving attention to detail and a fi...
Author: Gerson, Kathleen Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How do women choose between work and family commitments? And what are the causes, limits, and consequences of the "subtle revolution" in women's choices over the 1960s and 1970s? To answer these quest...
Author: Fantasia, Rick / Voss, Kim Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This concise overview of the labor movement in the United States focuses on why American workers have failed to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries. Packed with va...
Author: Owings, Alison Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Most of us have sat across the tray from a waitress, but how many of us know what really is going on from her side? Hey, Waitress! aims to tell us. Containing lively, personal portraits of waitresses ...
Author: London, Jack Publisher: Frederick Ellis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A perfect biography of Jack London as a drunk; it is most likely the first novel and thoughtful analysis on alcoholism in American literture. The novel is packed with London's notorious advevtures inc...
Author: N/A Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: """The experience of Central and Eastern Europe is unique. It is evidence of great success in demolishing the communist system and building a market economy. It is also evidence of major remaining cha...
Author: Mosley, Layna Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Labor Rights and Multinational Production investigates the relationship between workers' rights and multinational production. Mosley argues that some types of multinational production, embodied in dir...
Author: Murillo, Maria Victoria Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why do labor unions resist economic restructuring and adjustment policies in some countries and in some economic sectors while they submit in other cases? And why do some labor leaders fashion more cr...
Author: Murphy, Rachel Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines labour migration in China, focusing in particular on the social dimensions, exploring important issues including poverty alleviation, inequality, social insurance, health and educat...
Author: Gall, Gregor Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In recent years, there has been an acute crisis of worker representation in the finance sector in the UK. Labour union and staff association membership has fallen, collective organisation has experien...
Author: Stepan-Norris, Judith / Zeitlin, Maurice Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the late 1930s through the mid-1950s, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) brought together America's working men and women under a united class banner. Of the 38 CIO unions, 18 were 'l...
Author: Rosen, Ellen Israel Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry, this book focuses on the reemergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of new ones abroad....
Author: Hanningan, Thomas, A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Only by adopting a new style of high-performance union management can labor recover and revitalize itself, says Thomas A. Hannigan, of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. His book off...
Author: Kay, Tamara Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When NAFTA went into effect in 1994, many feared it would intensify animosity among North American unions, lead to the scapegoating of Mexican workers and immigrants, and eclipse any possibility for c...
Author: Danford, Andy Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book makes a major contribution to the debate within the UK and abroad on the reality of workplace unionism in an era of change. Drawing on examples of union renewal, the authors present an histo...
Author: Block, Fred Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: While it is often acknowledged that we live in a "postindustrial" age, our economic concepts have lagged far behind our postmodern sensibility. In this incisive new work, the well-known sociologist, F...
Author: Iceland, John Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a remarkably concise, readable, and accessible format, John Iceland provides a comprehensive picture of poverty in America, He shows how poverty is measured and understood and how it has changed ov...
Author: Bach, Stephen Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Written and edited by some of the country's primary authorities on public sector industrial relations, this outstanding book provides an up-to-date analysis of the restructuring of public service empl...
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