Search results for “[Subject: labor-general]”

• Author(s): Adelle Blackett • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & EmploymentThe book's breadth and grounding in labor law make it most accessible and useful to a professional audience, but even nonspecialists...

• Author(s): Joseph E. Slater • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyFrom the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, barga...

• Author(s): Bruce E. Kaufman | Morris M. Kleiner • Publisher: Labor and Employment Research Association • Publisher Imprint: Labor and Employment Research Association • BISAC: General

• Author(s): Virginia Doellgast • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Industrial ManagementThe shift from manufacturing- to service-based economies has often been accompanied by the expansion of low-wage and insecure empl...

• Author(s): Us Department of Health | Elliot R. Richardson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralWork In America discusses the fundamental role of work in the lives of most adult...

• Author(s): Lawrence S. Bacow • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralAssessing the role of government regulation in occupational safety issues.In 1977, a grain elevator explosion ...

• Author(s): Sheldon Friedman | David Jacobs • Publisher: Labor and Employment Research Association • Publisher Imprint: Labor and Employment Research Association • BISAC: Insurance - GeneralSocial insurance and employee benefits are key elements...

• Author(s): Lawrence Mishel • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsFrom reviews of previous editions--"The State of Working America remains unrivaled as the most-trusted source for a compre...

• Author(s): Jennifer Jihye Chun • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsThe realities of globalization have produced a surprising reversal in the focus and strategies of labor movements arou...

• Author(s): Leonard Joel Kirsch • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralDuring the past fifteen years, a unique wage structure emphasizing consistency and equity has developed in t...

• Author(s): David Finegold • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor - GeneralWhat jobs will Americans hold in the global economy of the twenty-first century and how will they develop the skills they need to compete fo...

• Author(s): Harry C. Katz • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor - GeneralExploring recent changes in employment practices in seven industrialized countries (Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and th...

• Author(s): Teresa Ghilarducci • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor - GeneralThis volume outlines a fresh view on pension plans from the perspective of both the employer and employee, describing the possibilities ...

• Author(s): Janice Fine | Linda Burnham | Kati Griffith • Publisher: Labor and Employment Research Association • Publisher Imprint: Labor and Employment Research Association • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralWorkers and their or...

• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In 1907, the editor of The New York Times wrote, "Employers, naturally, look to the young. A man or woman of advanced ye...

• Author(s): Eva Paus • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor - GeneralIn Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working cond...

• Author(s): Gary N. Chaison • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralThe past fifteen years have been difficult for the labor movements in industrial countries. Gary N. Chaison addr...

• Author(s): Richard B. Freeman | Peter Boxall | Peter Haynes • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralThis book brings together research in the United States, Canada, the United Kin...

• Author(s): Bruce E. Kaufman • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations

• Author(s): Carolina Bank Muñoz • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralA story that involves as its main players "workers" and "Walmart" does not usually have a happy ending for l...

• Author(s): Peter Ikeler • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralAlong with fast-food workers, retail workers are capturing the attention of the public and the media with the Fight...

• Author(s): Tom Juravich | Kate Bronfenbrenner • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralOver the past two decades, Americans have seen their workplaces downsized and streamlined, th...

• Author(s): Stephen J. Silvia • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralSince the onset of the Great Recession, Germany's economy has been praised for its superior performance, which...

• Author(s): Kim Bobo • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsWorker centers are becoming an important element in labor and community organizing and the struggle for fair pay and decent worki...

• Author(s): Mark S. Anner • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsMark S. Anner spent ten years working with labor unions in Latin America and returned to conduct eighteen months of field re...

• Author(s): Emmanuel Teitelbaum • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralIn Mobilizing Restraint, Emmanuel Teitelbaum argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, democracies are b...

• Author(s): Caitrin Lynch • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralWhen a government program brought garment factories to rural Sri Lanka, women workers found themselves caught betw...

• Author(s): Michael Slade Shull • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This work identifies 436 American silent films released between 1909 and 1929 that engaged ...

• Author(s): Neil Shafer | Tom Sheehan | Fred Reed • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General This extensively illustrated work catalogs all known U.S. emergency currency iss...

• Author(s): Maurice Friedberg | Heyward Isham • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThe essays in this volume assess key aspects of Soviet society and social policy under Gorbachev. It provides a survey of Soviet ...

• Author(s): R. Scott Appleby | Kathleen Sprows Cummings • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christianity - Catholic - GeneralOver the course of the twentieth century, Catholics, who make u...

• Author(s): M. B. B. Biskupski • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralOn the morning of April 27, 1935, Louis N. Hammerling fell to his deat...

• Author(s): Katherine M. D. Dunbabin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralTheater, spectacle, and performance played significant roles in the political and so...

• Author(s): Gus Tyler • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralThis work provides a history of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Topics covered include: the union's ...

• Author(s): Gerald Finkel • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Industries - GeneralThe American construction industry directly employs over five million people and provides millions of additional support jobs in related...