Trade unions Books

This book provides a penetrating new study of the Labour Party's thinking on international relations, which probes the past, present and future of the party's approach to the international stage. The foreign policy of the Labour Party is not only...

Die Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Politik Hamburg ist schon seit Jahren auf ver­ schiedenste Art und Weise mit dem Thema "Frau" befaßt. Seit 1978 gibt es einzel­ ne Lehrveranstaltungen mit frauenspezifischen Themenstellungen...

"Die Arbeitszeit" hat in den letzten Jahren zunehmend Offentliche Beachtung erfah­ reno Mehrere Stromungen trafen hierbei zeitlich zusammen: Traditionelle Bestre­ bungen zur Verkiirzung der Lebensarbeitszeit als ein Element der...

Umstrukturierungen in der internationalen Arbeitsteilung sowie produktionstech­ nische und arbeitsorganisatorische Umwälzungen auf Basis der Mikroelektronik als neuer Schlüsseltechnologie führen gegenwärtig zu weitreichenden...

Affirmative action is still a reality of the American workplace. How is it that such a controversial Federal program has managed to endure for more than five decades? Inside Affirmative Action addresses this question.Beyond the usual ideological debate...

Paul D. Moreno offers a bold reinterpretation-truly a "new history"-of the role of race and racial discrimination in the American labor movement. Breaking with historians' deadlocked debate over the importance of race in labor organization, Moreno...

Bringing together leading international scholars within the fields of social and political theory and philosophy, this book explores how we should understand work and its role(s) in our lives and wider society.What challenges are posed by work in our...

This book examines the factors driving youth unemployment in South Africa, exploring potential future outcomes of its mass unemployment, and offering a variety of strategies to avoid an impending crisis in the country.Utilizing scenario analysis rooted...

Family Dynamics in China was the first English-language demographic profile by a Chinese author of contemporary population trends and family structure in China. Author Zeng Yi constructs a viable mathematical model for extending existing family status...

""The Future of Trades-Unionism and Capitalism in a Democracy"" is a book written by Charles William Eliot and published in 1910. The book is a detailed analysis of the relationship between trades-unionism, capitalism, and democracy. Eliot explores the...

The English Rising in 1450 is a historical book written by George Kriehn in 1892. The book is a detailed account of the English Peasants' Revolt that took place in 1450. The revolt was a significant event in English history, and it was marked by the...

""Studies of the Land and Tenantry of Ireland"" is a historical book written by Bernhard Samuelson in 1870. The book is a comprehensive study of the land and tenantry system in Ireland during the 19th century. Samuelson, an industrialist and politician,...

Labor, Its Rights And Wrongs: Statements And Comments By The Leading Men Of Our Nation On The Labor Question Of Today (1886) is a collection of essays and speeches by prominent figures in the American labor movement of the late 19th century. Published by...

""Ireland and England: Or The Irish Land and Church Questions"" is a historical book written by Charles Tennant in 1868. The book discusses the complex relationship between Ireland and England, particularly in relation to the issues of land and the...

""Collective Bargaining For Farmers: Hearing Before The Committee On The Judiciary, House Of Representatives (1919)"" is a book that documents a hearing held by the Committee on the Judiciary in the House of Representatives in 1919. The hearing focused...

Della Indipendenza Italiana V2: Cronistoria (1873) is a historical book written by Cesare Cantu. It is the second volume of a two-part series that chronicles the history of Italian independence. The book covers the period from 1848 to 1870, which saw the...

The coal industry has always occupied a symbolic place in British economic and political life, inspiring debates and arousing passions throughout the last two centuries. This account of the economics of coal, first published in 1990, is unique in its...

The concept of social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of their social networks in "getting ahead." Social capital isn't just about the connections in networks, but fundamentally concerns the distribution of resources on the basis of...

In this first comparative study of organized labor in India and Pakistan, the author analyses the impact and role of organized labor in democratization and development. The study provides a unique comparative history of Indian and Pakistani labor...

Considerations On The State Of Ireland is a book written by William Knox in 1778. The book is a detailed analysis of the political, social, and economic conditions of Ireland during the late 18th century. Knox was an Englishman who served as an...

Il libro ""Conforti All' Italia, Ovvero, Preparamenti All'Insurrezione"" scritto da Giuseppe Ricciardi nel 1846 ����� un testo politico che si concentra sulla situazione dell'Italia dell'epoca e sulle possibili soluzioni per migliorarla. L'autore...

British Colonial Policy, 1783-1915 is a historical book written by Charles Herbert Currey and published in 1916. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the British colonial policy during the period from 1783 to 1915. Currey examines the various...

While predominantly agrarian, Kansas has a surprisingly rich heritage of labor history and played an active role in the major labor strife of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Farmers vs. Wage Earners is a survey of the organized labor...

The key theme of this book is organizational learning and its consequences for the field of aviation safety. Air safety rates have been improving for a long time, demonstrating the effects of a good learning model at work. However, the pace of...

This is volume 2 of the set A Short History of the British Working Class Movement (1937). The volumes reprinted here provide a general narrative of the history of the working class movement in all its main aspects - Trade Unions, Socialism and...

Labor-Union Socialism And Socialist Labor-Unionism is a book written by William English Walling and published in 1912. The book is a detailed exploration of the relationship between labor unions and socialism in the United States during the early 20th...

Through a series of empirical studies, this book scrutinizes polarization in Sweden, identifying patterns and variations in labour market transformation and exploring the consequences in terms of jobs, income, prestige, unionization, and employment...

In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the growth of urban manufacturing was transforming the contours of women's wage work and stimulating significant...

Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State brings together new research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Aviva Chomsky and Aldo A. Lauria...

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...

Your guided tour to America's employment crisis, the title says it all. Where Did the Jobs Go--and How Do We Get Them Back? is a clear, nonpartisan, surprisingly entertaining look at our nation's current joblessness mess and how we can get ourselves...

Governing Affects explores the neoliberal transformation of state governance in Europe towards affective forms of dominance exercised by customer-oriented neo-bureaucracies and public service providers.By investigating the rise of affective labour in...

This book makes the argument, supported by rich and extensive historical research into original sources, that it is possible to revolutionize work so that it can be, in the author's words, "satisfying, creative, and stimulating at the same time that it...

Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellín was famous as a success story of industrialization, a place where protectionist tariffs had created a "capitalist paradise." By the 1960s, the city's textile...

Immigrant laborers who came to the New South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries found themselves poised uncomfortably between white employers and the Black working class, a liminal and often precarious position. Campaigns to recruit...

Seeking to extend our understanding of the contemporary global political economy, this book provides an important and original introduction to the current theoretical debates about social reproduction and argues for the necessity of linking social...

In his book, S?ndor Ag?cs explores the conflicts that accompanied the emergence of the Italian Catholic labor movement. He examines the ideologies that were at work and details the organizational forms they inspired.During the formative years of the...

All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the...