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The Shoe Workers' Journal, published by the Boot and Shoe Workers' Union, offers a valuable glimpse into the world of American labor at the turn of the 20th century. This historical journal provides insights into the issues, debates, and organizing...

"The Worker and his Country" (1912) examines the relationship between the working class and the British nation at the turn of the 20th century. Sir Fabian Ware explores the social and economic conditions of workers, their contributions to society, and...

Because human reliability assessment (HRA) is a developing discipline, its methods often have elements of controversy. Exploring these elements, this book covers data and data sources, choice of methods, training of individuals, use of simulators,...

Is your Web site serving your whole market, including international customers? Not designing with language and cultural differences in mind is no longer an option that companies can afford. This book will be a wonderful asset to web designers and usabili

This book helps employees to comply with the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988, which requires that any company receiving a grant or contract from the Federal government in the amount of $25,000 or more establish a program to educate all employees as to...

Meeting the needs of the manufacturing and service sectors of contemporary industry, this volume is concerned with the human factors, ergonomics, and safety issues related to the design of products, processes, and systems, as well as the operation and...

Illustrating a wide range of practical applications, GIS in Hospital and Healthcare Emergency Management explains how hospitals and healthcare facilities can improve their emergency management and disaster preparedness through the use of GIS. The text...

Under the guidance of John Krumm, a ubiquitous computing pioneer, this book brings together eleven ubicomp trailblazers who report on their area of expertise. Starting with a historical introduction, it moves on to summarize a number...

Drawing on his 44 years of pilot experience and 31 years as a professor of psychology and human factors engineering, the author addresses the questions of how to apply sound human factors principles to the training of pilots and to flying. He takes a...

The handbook discusses smart technologies, covering a broad range of technological trends such as artificial intelligence, advanced robotics and cyber-physical systems to shed light on the associated potentials and challenges for the economy...

Labor studies explore the evolving dynamics of work, labor relations, and employment in an increasingly globalized and technologically driven world. This interdisciplinary field combines theoretical frameworks from sociology, economics, political...

"The Union Label; its History and Aims; Prize Essays" presents a historical perspective on the union label movement. Authored by the American Federation of Labor, this collection of essays explores the origins, significance, and objectives of the union...

In Ireland, family farming retains enormous ideological and cultural significance. As a social form it is one of the last preserves of male dominance in which women's contributions and concerns are largely overlooked. This book breaks new ground as the...

The occurrence of failures and mistakes in health care, from primary care procedures to the complexities of the operating room, has become a hot-button issue with the general public and within the medical community. Around the Patient Bed: Human Factors...

This book examines the economic consequences of immigration and asylum migration, it focuses on the economic consequences of legal and illegal immigration as well as placing the study of immigration in a global context.

Sebastian Dullien gives a novel explanation for unemployment and inflation in the Euro-Zone. He argues that unemployment stems from a lack of co-operation between unions and monetary authorities: In an economy with endogenous money as EMU, wage setters...

This book brings together the work of international economist, labour economists and sociologists in a far-reaching study of global production networks and the challenges they pose for developing country workers. A number of both empirical and...

The contributions collected in this volume take a fresh look at the traditional debate on education, training and labour market outcomes. The quality of education is difficult to measure in the education market and does not always find clear recognition...

Mario Baldassarri and Francesco Busato evaluate the impact produced by a new cycle of structural reforms over European Union economies. The structural reforms concern the size and the composition of government expenditure, the good and services markets,...

Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life. This exciting new volume is unique in that it is the first book of its kind in...

This book systematically examines social dumping in the context of the European integration process. It defines social dumping as the practice, undertaken by self-interested market participants, of undermining or evading existing social regulations with...

This book will illustrate to both regional and international professionals the many domains in which HF/E opportunities can be applied within the region. The book will also be used to introduce the HF/E science and overall discipline to the region. It...

Slavery in the United States clarifies the institution of slavery in its historical context. Filler avoids the all too prevalent literary attitude of either treating slavery as an unmitigated nightmare from the past, or regarding it as a way of life...

Economic success in Japan has been attributed to the existence of harmonious labour-management relations. This book, first published in 1991, argues that this unique 'culture of harmony' was consciously invented and developed over the last century. A...

How has the recession affected the conduct of human resource management? How have HR departments and managers fared? Have leading firms taken measures to sustain and revive their businesses through innovative HR measures? How have union representation...

Agrarian Crisis in the United States: Pathways for Reform situates the many food system problems that the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare in historical context across four key policy areas, namely, in land, labor, markets, and the environment.

The Employability Market Orientation (EMO) model, which is more extensive than traditional approaches in the field of personal marketing, along with a questionnaire for its measurement, makes the employee "anti-fragile" behaving as a micro-entrepreneur...

International Trade, Labor Relations, and Bargaining Power: International Strawberry Commodity Networks examines power in the commercial food system through the history of always available strawberries.

Although often assumed to have begun with post-war immigration, the black presence in Europe in fact pre-dates the forced migrations of trans-Atlantic slavery. This volume seeks to not only mark these early histories, but to examine the lives of those...

Lifelong Learning in Paid and Unpaid Work provides a new paradigm for understanding work and learning, documenting the active contribution of workers to their development and their adaptation to paid and unpaid work.

Call centers have come, in the last three decades, to define the interaction between corporations, governments, and other institutions and their respective customers, citizens, and members. The offshoring and outsourcing of call center employment, part...

The fourth industrial revolution is developing globally, with no geographical centre. It is also taking place at enormous speed. This development will shape the workplaces of the future, which will be entirely different from the workplaces created by the...

Protective clothing and equipment used for firefighters protect them against their harsh working environment loaded with strong thermal hazards, elevated environmental temperatures, low oxygen concentration and smoke. This book describes an in-depth...

The final out of the World Series marks the beginning of baseball's second season, when teams court free agents and orchestrate trades with the hope of building a championship contender. The real and anticipated transactions generate excitement among...

Although married four times, Julia Ruuttila claimed that the love of her life was not a man but a union. From her Industrial Workers of the World origins to the CIO, the International Woodworkers of America, and the International Longshore and Warehouse...

This is a critical and descriptive analysis of the UK construction industry based on up-to-date statistics. The emphasis is on the industry as a whole, including its associated professions, rather than on individual firms or projects. Dr Hillebrandt...

""Istoria D'italia V9-10 E Saggio Sulle Azioni E Sulle Opere"" ����� un libro scritto da Francesco Guicciardini e pubblicato nel 1820. Questo volume ����� composto da due parti: la prima ����� la nona e la decima parte della sua opera ""Storia...

""Istoria del Consiglio dei Dieci V1"" ����� un libro scritto da Mauro Macchi nel 1848. Il Consiglio dei Dieci era un'istituzione politica della Repubblica di Venezia, creata nel 1310 per combattere la corruzione e la cospirazione contro lo stato. Questo...