Trade unions Books

This book explores how globalization affects the contemporary workplace and how workplace policies can make nations more internationally competitive. The contributors come from a variety of disciplines but all bear expertise in international industrial...

Venu à Moscou en 1881 pour l’éducation de ses enfants, Tolstoï y découvre, à l’occasion du recensement de 1882, le spectacle de la misère urbaine. Il en tire dans Que devons-nous faire ? une...

Zukunftsperspektiven der Bundesrepublik Deutschland werden in der Öffentlichkeit wie unter Wissenschaftlern gerade heute hoch kontrovers debattiert. Besonders deutlich wird dies z. B. an sehr unterschiedlichen Einschätzungen von Reaktionsnotwendigkeiten...

What happened to the loggers of America's past when lumbermen moved west and south in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How did these communities continue to create value and meaning in these marginal lands? Cutover Capitalism: The...

Honorable Mention, 2018 Global Division Book Award presented by the Global Division of the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsHistorically, the Indian state has not offered welfare and social rights to all of its citizens, yet a remarkable...

Why is Collective Bargaining Failing in South Africa? offers an extensive analysis of the current nature of collective bargaining in South Africa. Collective bargaining is failing in South Africa because the parties to the process have failed to seek...

The political identities of the Turkish working class began a transformative journey that started during a period of industrialization following World War II and continued until the military interventions of 1960. Working Class Formation in Turkey...

This comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to collective bargaining and labor relations with a focus on developments in the United States. It is appropriate for students, policy analysts, and labor relations professionals including unionists,...

What Germany Wants is a book written by Edmund Robert Otto Von Mach in 1915. The book is a political analysis of Germany's goals and aspirations during World War I. The author argues that Germany's ultimate goal is to become the dominant power in Europe...

Trade Unionism is a book written by Richard Bell and was first published in 1907. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the trade union movement in the United Kingdom during the early 20th century. It covers the history of trade unionism, the...

The I.W.W.: A Study Of American Syndicalism is a book written by Paul Frederick Brissenden in 1919. The book is a comprehensive study of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.), a labor union that was founded in 1905 in the United States. The I.W.W...

First published in 1986. This study examines both labor's and management's political activities in the state of Massachusetts. The book, while historical in character, provides an interpretation of change, and identifies, describes and interprets...

First published in 1979. In this important study of Labour Party ideology, the author sought to provoke his readers to a fundamental re-evaluation of the party and of the relationships between the party, Labour ideology and socialist doctrine. What he...

First published in 1951. The purpose of this study was to consider the prospects of the British Co-operative movement in all its main aspects and not as a consumers' movement only. The author examines ways in which the Co-operative enterprise, in its...

First published in 1995. This volume offers a comparative perspective on labour relations and political change in eastern Europe within a common theoretical and empirical framework. Its coverage includes Bulgaria, and Czech and Slovak republics, Hungary,...

First published in 1960. This title is a study of one of the most controversial alliances in British political history. The 'wage freeze', Bevanism, the block vote, nuclear disarmament: these are only a few of the points at which the unions' activities...

First published in 1978. This book is an essay in labour biography. Labour leaders of the nineteenth century are often enigmatic personalities, and James Keir Hardie is no exception. The main purpose of this study is to penetrate the heart of the enigma...

First published in 1990. Of all British cities, it is perhaps Coventry which has come to symbolise best the country's experience of World War II and the post-war period. An important engineering centre, Coventry immediately found itself geared up to...

Polish Atrocities In Ukrainian Galicia (1919) is a historical account of the events that took place in the region of Galicia during the year 1919. The book is written by Volodymyr Temnytskyl, a Ukrainian historian and writer, who documents the brutal...

Oranje's Tirannie (1782) is een historisch boek geschreven door Willem van Ollefen. Het boek behandelt de opkomst van de Oranjes en hun heerschappij over Nederland, en beschrijft de politieke en sociale omstandigheden die hebben bijgedragen aan de...

En base de los datos recolectados durante la investigación del campo y aplicando el método "process tracing", el libro infiere que el movimiento se desmoviliza cuando entra en el gobierno más bien que parlamento y al mismo tiempo goza de las políticas...

This book attempts to show the context of the clash of the fundamental values democracy and solidarity which serve as the leading political principles of European integration. Therefore several further concepts and problems have been discussed such as...

Die Schweiz verfügt über eines der dichtesten Eisenbahnnetze der Welt. Dies ist keine Selbstverständlichkeit: Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurden in fast allen Industrieländern zahlreiche Eisenbahnstrecken stillgelegt. Der motorisierte Individualverkehr...

The current crisis of capitalism has led to the renewed interest in Marxism and its core categories of analysis such as class and exploitation. In our own discipline - Library and Information Science - voices and ideas that have long been confined to the...

""Work and Wages, Part 1: Foreign Competition"" is a book written by Sydney John Chapman in 1904. This book explores the impact of foreign competition on the labor market and wages in England during the early 20th century. Chapman examines the causes and...

""On Work and Wages"" is a book written by Thomas Brassey in 1883 that discusses the relationship between labor and capital. Brassey argues that the interests of workers and employers are not necessarily in opposition, and that both groups can benefit...

This book examines the construction of Euroscepticism in civil society discourse, focusing on Turkey's possible EU-membership, the ongoing political struggles between different political camps in Turkey and general Western discourse.

The authors of this volume analyze discourses on utopia with a view to adopting a multidisciplinary vision. Belonging to a wide range of disciplines (from political science and economics to computer science and linguistics), they offer interesting...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

This book is the first comprehensive study of international health worker-migration and -recruitment from the perspective of global governance, policy and politics.Covering 70 years of history of the development of this global policy field, this book...

Le livre ""Etude Sur L'Action Directe En Matiere De Louage (1898)"" �����crit par Henri Boeuf est une �����tude approfondie sur l'action directe en mati�����re de location. Publi����� en 1898, cet ouvrage est une r�����f�����rence pour les professionnels...

Dieses Buch mit dem Titel ""Die Standischen Verhaltnisse Des Oesterreichischen Monarchie In Urkunden (1848)"" wurde von August Heinrich Simon verfasst. Es handelt sich um eine historische Arbeit, die sich mit den st�����ndischen Verh�����ltnissen in der...

King and Baronage, 1135-1327 is a historical text written by William Holden Hutton and published in 1906. The book focuses on the relationship between the English monarchy and the baronage during the period from 1135 to 1327, covering the reigns of Henry...

¿Quieres una economía verdaderamente democrática, justa y con oportunidades para todos? Este libro inicia con una critica al capitalismo desde la perspectiva de la democracia y la libertad; analiza la relación del libre...

Mary G. Harris Jones (baptized 1837; died 1930), known as Mother Jones, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent organized labor representative and community organizer. She helped coordinate major strikes and...

""A Criticism of the Theory of Trades' Unions"" is a book written by Thomas S. Cree in 1892. It is a critical analysis of the theory and practices of trades unions, which were becoming increasingly popular in the late 19th century. Cree argues that...

""Principles of Labor Legislation"" is a book written by John Rogers Commons and originally published in 1920. The book discusses the principles and practices of labor legislation, including the history and evolution of labor laws, the role of government...

""Monarchical Socialism in Germany"" is a historical book written by Elmer Roberts in 1913. The book explores the political and economic system of Germany during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, specifically focusing on the concept of...

Papers Relating To Public Events In Massachusetts Preceding The American Revolution is a historical book published in 1856 by the Seventy Six Society. The book contains a collection of primary source documents and letters that detail the events leading...

""A Reconstruction Labor Policy V81: The Annuals, January, 1919"" is a book written by Charles Holloway Crennan and published in 1919. The book focuses on labor policies that were put in place during the reconstruction period after World War I. The...