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Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division...

Is Organized Labor A Decaying Business Model?The book examines the organized labor business model from the perspectives of the economic and political influences of organized labor, relative to the domestic and global economy. The traditional organized...

How to Survive Redundancy & Create the Life You Want: 7 Step Self Help Guide is an invaluable tool kit for making the transition from job lost to life gained.

Esquisse D'Une Histoire De La Conquete Et De L'Administration Romaines Dans Le Mord De L'Afrique Et Particulierement Dans La Province De Numidie (1878) est un livre �����crit par Gustave Boissiere. Ce livre traite de la conqu������te et de...

Le livre ""Documents Sur La Reunion D'Avignon Et Du Comtat-Venaissin A La France, 1790-1793 (1891)"" par Duhamel, L�����opold est une collection de documents historiques relatifs ������ la r�����union d'Avignon et du Comtat-Venaissin ������ la France...

Das Buch ""Der Stadtrechtsbrief, Welchen Der Graf Rudolf Von Habsburg Im Jahre 1264 Denen Von Winterthur Ertheilte"" wurde im Jahr 1864 von Georg Geilfus ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine historische Abhandlung �����ber den Stadtrechtsbrief,...

Le livre ""Histoire Du Clerge V1-2: Pendant La Revolution Francaise (1800)"" de l'auteur Augustin Barruel est une �����tude approfondie de l'histoire du clerg����� fran�����ais pendant la R�����volution fran�����aise. Le livre est divis����� en deux...

In all the debates on the combinations of workmen, much stress is laid on the necessity of protecting capital. What capital performs is therefore a question of considerable importance, which the author was, on this account, induced to examine. As a...

The following Lectures contain little that is not well known to many of my readers, and still less that is peculiarly and exclusively appropriate to the present emergency. They were written and delivered in a period of profound tranquillity; but we are...

The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898 unveils the formative years of one of the 20th century's most influential socialist thinkers and revolutionary leaders. In this groundbreaking collection, historian Conor McCabe brings together...

Over the 1980s unions have lost about 5 million members in OECD countries. The proportion of unionized workers is increasing in the services, public sector and among women. Today, almost two out of five union members are...

This book explores the experience of small farmers, labourers and graziers in provincial Ireland from the immediacy of the Famine until the eve of World War One. During this period of immense social and political change, they came to grips with the...

This study draws on extensive archival research to explore the social history of industrial labor in colonial India through the lens of well-being. Focusing on the cotton millworkers in Bombay in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the...

In this groundbreaking volume, Juan José Baldrich traces the deep changes affecting Puerto Rican tobacco growers and manufacturers and their export markets from the Spanish colonization of the island to the present. Based on more than twenty years of...

Harold Gibbons (1910-1982), leader of St. Louis Teamsters Local 688, fought and defeated Communists and mobsters and was instrumental in ending racial discrimination in the union. His many friends included Frank Sinatra and Secretary of State Henry...

Originally published in 1981, this book, unlike conventional textbooks concerning the Industrial Revolution, stresses the continuity of the labour experience in the 18th Century.

Originally published in 1982 and now reissued with a new Preface by Stephen Wood the contributors of this book discuss the issues surrounding the organization of labour. They use insights from industrial sociology, historical research and...

Originally published in 1976, the 14 papers in this collection discuss the history and significance of the concept of 'involuntary unemployment', particularly as seen from a Keynesian perspective. The micro-economic foundations of employment and...

Originally published in 1989, and now reissued with a new preface by the editor, this interdisciplinary study brings together an internationally distinguished group of scholars to shed light about work organization and the effects of new management...

Originally published in 1964, at a time of much public unease regarding redundancy, this book contains the results of a comprehensive survey, inspired by a suggestion of the then Minister of Labour that the mass redundancies in the Midlands motor...

Originally published in 1936 during the Great Depression this book analyses the efforts of the British Government to relieve the rampant unemployment in the most distressed areas and discusses why these efforts were ineffective.

Originally published in 1923, this volume collected an analysed material bearing on the UK Government practice during the early part of the 20th Century in settling wages in 4 key government departments.

Originally published in 1980, this book examines a range of Government attitudes to their workers arguing that these provide the touchstone for all civil justice.

Originally published in 1962, this book discusses public service salaries in post-war England and as such makes a valuable contribution to literature of the labour market.

Ten years ago this book taught you how to get a seat at the table. That was then, this is now. Now we use the table for kindling.Design has changed, and this book has changed with it. In this second edition, Mike Monteiro not only covers how to be a...

Edmond Malinvaud This book provides a most welcome survey of what statisticians and economists know about an aspect of production that is difficult to precisely characterize but matters a lot for both its importance on economic...

The basic objective of agricultural research at ICARDA is to enhance pro­ ducer and consumer welfare through increasing the productivity, stability, and profitability of agriculture. Improved practices must be technically, ec­...

Het is mogelijk dat het orimogelijk is om iets nieuwer enjuister te zeggen, maar over al het geschrevene daalt het stof der tijden neer, en ik peins daarom dat het goed is als er om de 10 jaar een andere een kruis trekt over al...

Peter B. Doeringer Many of our approaches to education and training date back to the nine­ teenth and early twentieth centuries. Since that time, the skills and abilities demanded by the economy have undergone far greater...

This volume provides an up-to-date overview of activation strategies in unemployment benefit systems and social assistance in selected European countries and the United States. A particular focus lies on the development of...

This book contains the papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Pr- tical Aspects of Knowledge Management organized by the Department of Knowledge Management, Institute of Computer Science and Business ...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an increasingly important topic in our global society. Corporate Social Responsibility Across Europe is the first volume of its kind to bring together twenty-three national...