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Book SynopsisDavid Bomhard untersucht in diesem Buch die Veränderung der Arbeitswelt durch Automatisierung und Digitalisierung hin zur „Arbeitsorganisation 4.0“. Im Zentrum stehen zwei Digitalisierungs-Aspekte: Einerseits kann Automatisierung von Arbeitgeberentscheidungen den Arbeitnehmer zum Objekt einer „Maschinenherrschaft“ machen. Andererseits wird die Arbeitsorganisation instabiler und fragmentarischer, was die Kollektive des kollektiven Arbeitsrechts bedroht, vor allem aber den Betrieb als Grundeinheit der Betriebsverfassung. Der digitale Wandel kann ohne eine wechselseitige Berücksichtigung technischer und rechtliche Aspekte nicht verstanden werden. Der Autor sucht diese Synthese.Table of ContentsComputergesteuerte Organisation von Beschäftigten.- Automatisierung von Arbeitgeber-Entscheidungen.- Diskriminierung durch Algorithmen.- Zukunft des BetrVG.- Potentielle Ursachen betrieblicher Entkollektivierung.

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing the effects of regulation and deregulation on Latin American labor markets, Law and Employment joins the ongoing debate about the virtues and costs of legislating mandatory benefits for workers.

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Book SynopsisThis text explores the role that litigation has played in the struggle for equal pay between women and men. It explains how wage discrimination battles have raised public legal consciousness and helped reform activists mobilize working women in the pay equity movement since the 1970s.

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Book SynopsisOpinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker ''s history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary? Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio present essays that address these essential questions. Ranging from Canada and the United States to Chile and Argentina, the authors search for common factors in the appearance of labor courts while recognizing the specific character of the creative process in each nation. Their transnational and comparative approach advances a global perspective on the various mechanisms for regulating industrial relations and resolving labor conflicts. The result is the first country-by-country study of its kind, one that addresses a defining shift in law in the first half of the twentieth century. Contributors: Rossana Barragán Romano, Angela de Castro Gomes, David Díaz-Arias, Leon Fink, Frank Luce, Diego Ortúzar, Germán Palacio, Juan Manuel PaTrade Review"This is a fabulous book. As historians and social scientists return to the distributional dimensions of capitalist development, they should look closely at this anthology. It contains insightful studies of national experiences; it also lays out a template for analyzing a central institution in framing class conflict in the modern age: labor courts and the struggle for justice and recognition. This is a wonderful example of connected and comparative history." --Jeremy Adelman, author of Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman"Labor Justice across the Americas can help us to learn from past struggles to think creatively about new ideas for effective labor justice. It is a unique book that deserves to be read by labor historians, legal historians, labor advocates, and quixotic dreamers who want to keep a toe on the ground." --New Labor Forum“An important and necessary first step in assessing the role of the law in twentieth-century capital-labor relations, a valuable contribution greatly enhanced by its comparative focus." --Hispanic American Historical Review"Highly recommended." --Choice"An ambitious transnational project developed around a specialized body of knowledge, this volume has many great strengths. This book artfully presents side-by-side national histories within their hemispheric context and points us toward a sophisticated neo-Boltonian hemispheric labor history founded on deeply researched national case studies." --Labor

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Workers against the City is an excellent, nuanced, and timely history of Hague and the fight for free speech. . . . His careful analysis of free speech and civil liberties before the era of FDR is appropriately grounded in the Reconstruction and World War I periods." --Labor"Workers against the City brings a fresh perspective to one of the more famous free speech and assembly battles of the turbulent 1930s, which was the newly emerging Committee of Industrial Organizations' and American Civil Liberties Union's clash with the Jersey City, New Jersey, machine led by Major Frank Hauge." --Journal of American History "Rogers set out to write a book about Hague v. CIO, and the book accomplishes this task admiringly. That it points to other areas worth exploring underlines its strengths, not it weaknesses." --NJS"A refreshing and thorough study of the Supreme Course case of Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization, which considered the constitutionality of municipal restrictions on outdoor assembly. . . . Professor Rogers' analysis of Hague is incisive and original." --Journal of Supreme Court History"Skillfully blending the histories of American civil liberties, organized labor, and urban politics, Rogers shows us how a complex set of forces has shaped and limited the rights of modern Americans to assemble and speak their minds in public."--James J. Connolly, author of An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing AmericaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Rise of Boss Hague: Municipal Politics and Civil Liberties in the Old Era Chapter 2. The Transformation of Labor Unionism in a Boss-Run Town Chapter 3. Street Fight and Media Fight in the Battle for Jersey City Chapter 4. Into Federal District Court: Municipal Power and Civil Liberties in a New Forum Chapter 5. “Time Out of Mind”: The Supreme Court Decision(s) Epilogue: Aftermath and Legacy Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Workers against the City is an excellent, nuanced, and timely history of Hague and the fight for free speech. . . . His careful analysis of free speech and civil liberties before the era of FDR is appropriately grounded in the Reconstruction and World War I periods." --Labor"Workers against the City brings a fresh perspective to one of the more famous free speech and assembly battles of the turbulent 1930s, which was the newly emerging Committee of Industrial Organizations' and American Civil Liberties Union's clash with the Jersey City, New Jersey, machine led by Major Frank Hauge." --Journal of American History "Rogers set out to write a book about Hague v. CIO, and the book accomplishes this task admiringly. That it points to other areas worth exploring underlines its strengths, not it weaknesses." --NJS"A refreshing and thorough study of the Supreme Course case of Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization, which considered the constitutionality of municipal restrictions on outdoor assembly. . . . Professor Rogers' analysis of Hague is incisive and original." --Journal of Supreme Court History"Skillfully blending the histories of American civil liberties, organized labor, and urban politics, Rogers shows us how a complex set of forces has shaped and limited the rights of modern Americans to assemble and speak their minds in public."--James J. Connolly, author of An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing AmericaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Rise of Boss Hague: Municipal Politics and Civil Liberties in the Old Era Chapter 2. The Transformation of Labor Unionism in a Boss-Run Town Chapter 3. Street Fight and Media Fight in the Battle for Jersey City Chapter 4. Into Federal District Court: Municipal Power and Civil Liberties in a New Forum Chapter 5. “Time Out of Mind”: The Supreme Court Decision(s) Epilogue: Aftermath and Legacy Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisProfessional writers may earn a tidy living for their work, but they seldom own their writing. Catherine Fisk traces the history of labor relations that defined authorship in film, TV, and advertising in the mid-twentieth century, showing why strikingly different norms of attribution emerged in these overlapping industries.Trade ReviewThis is an incisive work of scholarship and historical reconstruction that not only captures the dilemma of authorship in corporatized film, TV, and advertising but also demonstrates the central importance of good old-fashioned trade unionism in defending the creativity, status, and income of even the most renowned writers. For any ‘knowledge worker’ vexed about his or her place in the gig economy, Catherine Fisk’s eye-opening book is essential reading. -- Nelson Lichtenstein, author of A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics, and LaborDrawing on previously unexplored archival sources, Catherine Fisk has produced a rich and rewarding comparison of two parallel cultures of professional writers doing similar work in different industries. Fisk’s book combines a captivating narrative with insightful legal, economic, and social analysis of how writers, movie studios, and advertising agencies grappled with issues of attribution in the formative decades of radio, film, and television. -- R. Anthony Reese, University of California, Irvine School of LawOpening the archives of firms, guilds, and corporations, Catherine Fisk uncovers the stories of dozens of writer-employees and the rapidly changing parameters of their work. Madison Avenue and Hollywood appear as we’ve never seen them before—as twin sectors of the work-for-hire economy separated at birth by divergent practices of attribution, recognition, and unionization. Writing for Hire makes labor history an indispensable means of understanding copyright in the twentieth century and beyond. -- Paul K. Saint-Amour, author of Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic FormCatherine Fisk has written an immensely readable historical study of the legal and social significance of creative authorship in the American entertainment and advertising industries. Writing for Hire provides clarity and insight on questions of authorship, intellectual property, and unionization—all of which are essential concerns for anyone working in or studying the creative industries today. -- Miranda Banks, author of The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their GuildAn illuminating work for everyone interested in histories of ‘the author,’ of intellectual property, of unionization, and of Hollywood. Fisk tells a largely unknown story of labor success. And along the way, she uses her imaginative and extensive research to offer something close to an ethnography of contracting behavior and the cultural underpinnings of contracting in twentieth-century America. -- Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University

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Book SynopsisWhere did affirmative action in employment come from? This book presents a fresh perspective, tracing the roots of the policy to partisan conflicts over fair employment practices (FEP) legislation from the 1940s to the 1970s.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2010 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association Co-Winner of the 2010 J. David Greenstone Award in the Politics and History section by the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2010 Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity and Politics section of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2008 President's Book Award, Social Science History Association "This meticulously researched book makes a bold new contribution to the literature on the origins of affirmative action... [T]he book is well written ... a valuable contribution to the literature."--Paul Moreno, Journal of American History "[T]he main narrative of the book, grounded in extensive research and reading on mid-twentieth-century politics, makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the opposition to civil rights and its link to modern American conservatism."--Tracy E. K'Meyer, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society "The Fifth Freedom is a thoughtful and challenging book. The chapters on state antidiscrimination measures are illuminating accounts of grass-roots debates over the public policy of race in the North during the heyday of civil-rights activism in the South. Indeed, Chen makes a compelling case that the classic narrative of the postwar struggle for racial justice in the South has obscured the equally fierce, if less lethal, battle for employment rights that raged throughout the northern states during those years... [A] valuable addition to the literature on the civil-rights era."--Robert H. Zieger, Business History Review "The Fifth Freedom is a comprehensive, compelling account of affirmative action's development. Appropriate for graduate-level methods courses, where Chen's incisive use of quantitative models should prompt valuable discussion of scholarly approaches, this impressive contribution to scholarship on postwar US culture should be read by any student of twentieth-century America."--David Kieran, Journal of American Studies "Fifth Freedom is a fine text (appropriate for most graduate courses), engagingly written, stunningly thorough, and certain to be integral to charting the trajectory for future research on affirmative action."--David Crockett, Journal of African American HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xxi Chapter 1: On the Origins of Affirmative Action: Puzzles and Perspectives 1 Chapter 2: The Strange Career of Fair Employment Practices in National Politics and Policy, 1941-1960 32 Chapter 3: Experimenting with Civil Rights: The Politics of Ives-Quinn in New York State, 1941-1945 88 Chapter 4: Laboratories of Democracy? The Unsteady March of Fair Employment in the States, 1945-1964 115 Chapter 5: I Have a Dream Deferred: The Fall of Fair Employment and the Rise of Affirmative Action 170 Chapter 6: Conclusions and Implications 230 Appendix 255 Abbreviations in the Notes 287 Notes 291 Index 377

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Book SynopsisLochner v. New York pitted a conservative activist judiciary against a reform-minded legislature, and is a frequently-cited case in Supreme Court history. In this guide Kens shows why the case remains an important marker in the ideological battles between the free market and the regulatory state.Trade Review“This is a welcome contribution. Kens places the Lochner decision firmly within its historical context and uses it as a window to an age. In the course of his narrative, Kens introduces the reader to an array of subjects including the noisome conditions in New York’s tenement bakeries, Progressive reformers and Tammany Hall politics; nineteenth-century intellectual, economic, and labor history; and the lives and personalities of important jurists and lawyers.”—Law and History Review

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Book SynopsisBarry Cushway is an independent HR consultant and Personnel Adviser to the Institute of Directors. With over 30 years' HR and employment law experience, he has previously worked for PWC, Hay and MSL. A fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, he is the author of several titles including The Handbook of Model Job Descriptions and Human Resource Management, both published by Kogan Page.Trade Review"guides employers through a maze of employment issues" * The Times (about a previous edition) *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Recruiting Staff; Chapter - 02: Writing Employment Contracts; Chapter - 03: Paying Staff; Chapter - 04: Employee Benefits; Chapter - 05: Performance Management; Chapter - 06: Dealing With Absence; Chapter - 07: Maternity and Paternity Rights; Chapter - 08: Working Hours and Holidays; Chapter - 09: Writing a Staff Handbook; Chapter - 10: Personnel Records and Data Protection; Chapter - 11: Handling Organizational Change; Chapter - 12: Handling Disciplinary Issues; Chapter - 13: Dealing With Grievances; Chapter - 14: Terminating Employment; Chapter - 15: Dealing With Tribunal Cases; Chapter - 16: Ensuring the Health, Safety and Welfare of Employees; Chapter - 17: Working With Trade Unions

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Book SynopsisThe Trades Union Congress (TUC) exists to make the working world a better place for everyone. They bring together more than 5.5 million working people who make up their 48 member unions. The TUC support unions to grow and thrive, and they stand up for everyone who works for a living.Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Section - ONE: Mental Health and Wellbeing; Chapter - 01: Safeguarding Mental Health; Chapter - 02: Redressing Stress; Chapter - 03: Bullying at the Workplace and Beyond; Chapter - 04: Suicide; Section - TWO: Physical Health; Chapter - 05: Occupational Cancers and Hazardous & Dangerous Substances; Chapter - 06: Musculoskeletal Disorders; Chapter - 07: Disability Discrimination and Reasonable Adjustments; Chapter - 08: Physical Health for an Ageing Workforce; Chapter - 09: Working Time; Chapter - 10: Night and Shift Work; Chapter - 11: Physical Wellbeing and Health Initiatives; Chapter - 12: Access to Occupational Health Advice; Section - THREE: Health and Wellbeing for Specific Groups; Chapter - 13: New Ways of Working; Chapter - 14: Young or Inexperienced workers and apprentices; Chapter - 15: Accommodating Specific Conditions; Chapter - 16: Migrant Workers; Chapter - 17: Violence and Abuse; Chapter - 18: Gender and Transgender Issues; Section - FOUR: Legal Rights and Expectations; Chapter - 19: Realising Your Rights

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Book SynopsisOver a million self-employed Canadians work every day but many of them are not entitled to the basic labour protections and rights. The authors offer a multi-disciplinary examination of the legal, political, and social realities that limit collective action by self-employed workers and create impediments for unions attempting to organize them.Trade Review"This book covers a field crying out for research and publication. As there is very little written on this subject, this book constitutes a significant and very valuable addition to the field, not only in Canada but across the industrialized world." Larry Haiven, Department of Management, Saint Mary's University

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Book SynopsisIn Canada's liberal dream, the law extends its benefits to everyone. But the law also determines who is included in that everyone. Migrant workers, long welcomed in Canada for their labour, are often excluded from both workplace protections and basic social benefits such as health care, income assistance, and education due to their lack of permanent status.Enforcing Exclusion recasts what migration status means to both the state and to non-citizens. Through interviews with migrants and their advocates, Sarah Marsden shows that migrants face barriers in law, policy, and practice, affecting their ability to address adverse working conditions and their interactions with institutions such as hospitals, schools, and employment standards boards. In documenting the impact of precarious migration status on people's lives, Marsden questions the adequacy of human-rights-based responses in addressing its exclusionary effects. Trade ReviewAlthough this book takes an anthropological approach and focuses on precarious migrants in Canada, its interdisciplinarity makes it relevant to a broader audience. Through testimonies and life stories, it provides a much-needed account of how immigration laws and policies foster the exclusion of migrants in their daily lives. It will be enriching for anyone researching immigration law and policy from a legal or political perspective, as well as for anyone studying the anthropology and sociology of migration. -- Celine Hocquet * Oxford Law Review *Enforcing Exclusion should be on every immigration lawyer’s bookshelf. -- Andrea Black * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Creation and Growth of Precarious Migration in Canada: “Illegal” Migration and the Liberal State2 Status, Deportability, and Illegality in Daily Life3 Working Conditions and Barriers to Substantive Remedies4 Exclusion from the Social State: Health, Education, and Income Security5 Multi-Sited Enforcement: Maintaining Subordinate Membership6 Rights and Membership: Toward Inclusion?PostscriptAppendix A: Migrant Participant ProfilesAppendix B: Sample Interview ScriptNotes; Index

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Book SynopsisHilgert finds that the protection of the right to refuse unsafe work, as constituted under international labor standards, is a failure and calls for a reexamination of worker health and safety policy from the ground up.Trade ReviewHazard or Hardship uncovers an important path-not-taken in the world of workplace health and safety standards.... It speaks to an important set of issues in a resolute voice. It has influenced my own understanding of health-and-safety regulation, and I believe it will be similarly helpful for other scholars of domestic and global labor standards. -- Tim Bartley * Social Forces *This book charts an important but hitherto neglected aspect of social protection in the field of occupational health and safety—the right of workers to refuse unsafe work. The right to refuse unsafe work should be inalienable in societies that respect and value their citizens, and it should be defined and institutionally facilitated so it can be exercised in a meaningful way.... This is a valuable book. -- Michael Quinlan * British Journal of Industrial Relations *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Commodified Workers and the International Response1. Human Rights and the Struggle to Define Hazards2. Theoretical Perspectives on Individual Employment Rights3. The Right to Refuse in International Labor Law4. How Effective Are Convention 155 Refusal Rights?5. Ideological Origins of the Global Framework6. Negotiating "Safe" Rights versus Seeking Social JusticeConclusion: The Future of Labor Rights in the Working EnvironmentNotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCompelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor relations, Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, and Alexander J. S. Colvin give us the first textbook to focus on the workplace outcomes of the production of goods and services in emerging countries. In Labor Relations in a Globalizing World, they draw lessons from the United States and other advanced industrial countries to provide a menu of options for management, labor, and government leaders in emerging countries. They include discussions based in countries such as China, Brazil, India, and South Africa which, given the advanced levels of economic development they have already achieved, are often described as transitional, because the labor relations practices and procedures used in those countries are still in a state of flux.Katz, Kochan, and Colvin analyze how labor relations functions in emerging countries in a manner that is useful to practitioners, policymakers, and academics. They take accouTrade ReviewThis excellent comparative relations text written by three masters of the Wisconsin 'institutional' tradition analyzes employment through the perspective of industrial relations.... Readers will benefit from the insights the authors have derived from their own interventions as consultants and activists. Recommended for serious upper-division students and graduate students in labor relations, human resource management, sociology, and economics. -- D. C. Jacobs * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPART 1. The Strategic Level of Labor Relations 1. A Framework for Analyzing Labor Relations 2. Labor, Management, and Government Interactions 3. The Law and Legal Systems 4. The Role of the Economic, Technological, and Demographic EnvironmentsPART 2. The Middle (Functional) Level of Labor Relations 5. Employment Systems—Informal, Bureaucratic, and Human Resource Management 6. The Negotiations Process and Structures 7. Dispute Resolution ProceduresPART 3. The Workplace Level of Labor Relations 8. Workplace Labor Relations 9. Employment OutcomesPART 4. Special Topics 10. Labor Relations in the Public Sector 11. Global Pressures: Multinational Corporations, International Unionism, and NGOs 12. Economic Development Strategies and PoliciesGlossary Index

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume set out to study union strategies toward immigrant workers in four countries: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and United States.Trade Review"The immigrant workforce is both victimized as the most precarious element of the low-wage workforce and scapegoated by nativist and anti-immigrant elements as the cause of low wages and terrible working conditions. Through several case studies examining immigrant worker organizing in the United States and Europe, Mobilizing against Inequality provides vital insights into the importance of organizing the immigrant workforce and fully integrating immigrants into the general society as the best way to protect and improve wages and working conditions across the board. These insights can inform the debate in the United States at a time when immigration policy is under close examination and change is on the horizon." -- Robert P. Deasy, immigration law and policy specialistTable of ContentsForeword by Ana Avendaño Acknowledgments List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Part I UNIONS AND THE MOBILIZATION OF IMMIGRANT WORKERS 1. Organizing Immigrant Workers Lowell Turner 2. Union Campaigns as Countermovements: "Best Practice" Cases from the United Kingdom, France, and the United States Maite Tapia, Lowell Turner, and Denisse Roca-Servat Part II CASES AND NATIONAL CONTEXTS 3. The United States: Tackling Inequality in Precarious Times Lee H. Adler and Daniel B. Cornfield 4. The United Kingdom: Dialectic Approaches to Organizing Immigrant Workers, Postwar to 2012 Maite Tapia 5. France: Battles for Inclusion, 1968–2010 Lowell Turner 6. Germany: Success at the Core, Unresolved Challenges at the Periphery Lee H. Adler and Michael Fichter Part III COMPARISONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS 7. Opportunity and Choice for Unions Organizing Immigrant Workers: A Comparison across Countries and Industries Gabriella Alberti, Jane Holgate, and Lowell Turner 8. The Countermovement Needs a Movement (and a Counterstrategy) Janice Fine and Jane Holgate 9. Integrative Organizing in Polarized Times: Toward Dynamic Trade Unionism in the Global North Daniel B. Cornfield

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Book SynopsisCompelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor relations, Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, and Alexander J. S. Colvin give us the first textbook to focus on the workplace outcomes of the production of goods and services in emerging countries. In Labor Relations in a Globalizing World, they draw lessons from the United States and other advanced industrial countries to provide a menu of options for management, labor, and government leaders in emerging countries. They include discussions based in countries such as China, Brazil, India, and South Africa which, given the advanced levels of economic development they have already achieved, are often described as transitional, because the labor relations practices and procedures used in those countries are still in a state of flux.Katz, Kochan, and Colvin analyze how labor relations functions in emerging countries in a manner that is useful to practitioners, policymakers, and academics. They take accouTrade ReviewThis excellent comparative relations text written by three masters of the Wisconsin 'institutional' tradition analyzes employment through the perspective of industrial relations.... Readers will benefit from the insights the authors have derived from their own interventions as consultants and activists. Recommended for serious upper-division students and graduate students in labor relations, human resource management, sociology, and economics. -- D. C. Jacobs * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPART 1. The Strategic Level of Labor Relations 1. A Framework for Analyzing Labor Relations 2. Labor, Management, and Government Interactions 3. The Law and Legal Systems 4. The Role of the Economic, Technological, and Demographic EnvironmentsPART 2. The Middle (Functional) Level of Labor Relations 5. Employment Systems—Informal, Bureaucratic, and Human Resource Management 6. The Negotiations Process and Structures 7. Dispute Resolution ProceduresPART 3. The Workplace Level of Labor Relations 8. Workplace Labor Relations 9. Employment OutcomesPART 4. Special Topics 10. Labor Relations in the Public Sector 11. Global Pressures: Multinational Corporations, International Unionism, and NGOs 12. Economic Development Strategies and PoliciesGlossary Index

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Book SynopsisDocuments organized crime's exploitation of organized labor and the massive federal clean-up effort. This book explains how Cosa Nostra families gained a foothold in the labor movement, and used this power to become part of the political and economic power structure of 20th-century urban America.Trade Review"Jacobs offers a history of the federal government's efforts to curb labor racketeering. The heart of his text focuses on the results achieved by employing Civil RICO suits to weed out organized crime from unions long mired in corruption. The Justice Department has mounted twenty such efforts since 1982, and Jacobss book is the first to provide a comprehensive assessment of this controversial tactic. He tackles this ambitious project with a combination of detailed research, clear writing, and judicious consideration, all of which have been a hallmark of his previous texts on corruption and organized crime. The result is a must read book for anyone interested in the problem of union corruption and what to do about it." * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *"I am not aware of a book that covers the same ground as this one, let alone one that does so using such thorough research and with such technical competence." -- Anthony M. Gould,University"For an understanding of RICO litigation against unions, Jacobss book is a good choice." * Law and History Review *"Jacobs, legal scholar and expert on the Mafia, sets out to show how the Mob has distorted American labor history, explaining the relationship between organized crime and organized labor, as well as recent federal efforts to clean up unions." * Booklist *"“James Jacobs, a New York University law professor and author of Mobsters, Unions and Feds, says Mafiosi were hired by union organizers in the early twentieth century to combat company toughs. Now, he says, they specialize in & selling the rights of workers." * USA Today *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms1 Introduction 2 Organized Crime and Organized Labor 3 President's Commission on Organized Crime 4 Labor Racketeering in New York City 5 Organized Labor's Response to Organized Crime 6 Labor Racketeering and the Rank and File 7 Attacking Labor Racketeering Prior to Civil RICO (1982) 8 Civil RICO Suits and Trusteeships 9 The Liberation of IBT Local 560 10 The New York City District Council of Carpenters 11 The Four International Unions 12 Evaluating Civil RICO 13 Concluding Re?ections Notes Bibliography IndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisDrug testing at the work place and efforts made by some to get around it.Trade ReviewTunnell has written an insightful volume that is clearly written, well organized, informative, and interesting. * Choice *Pissing on Demand presents a wide-ranging and thought-provoking discussion of the contemporary erosion of civil liberties. No one can read this fine book without being infuriated and alarmed, challenged and—ultimately—enlightened. A real contribution to democratic discourse. -- Philip Jenkins,author of Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the InternetAn informative and thought-provoking book. Tunnell locates drug testing within its broader social context and in so doing demonstrates the importance of a dynamic and interactive approach to a complex topic. . . . Necessary reading for anyone interested in technology and social control. -- Gary T. Marx,author of Undercover Police Surveillance in AmericaReports on the Orwellian invasion of our privacy by pre-employment and on-the-job surprise drug tests carried out by government agencies, the military, and business firms. The book also provides a comprehensive review of the bustling market in products and tactics to beat the testing regimens. Pissing on Demand needs to be read widely to alert us to the ever-shrinking limits of our personal privacy. -- Gilbert Geis,author of White-Collar Crime: Classic and Contemporary ViewsUsing as his starting point a study of workplace drug testing, Ken Tunnell's Pissing on Demand presents a wide-ranging and thought-provoking discussion of the contemporary erosion of civil liberties. No one can read this fine book without being infuriated and alarmed, challenged and-ultimately-enlightened. A real contribution to democratic discourse. -- Philip Jenkins,author of Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the InternetTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 The Emergence of Drug Testing 2 The Drug-Testing Industry 3 The Detox Industry 4 Drug Testing as Social Monitoring and Control 5 The Politics of Resistance Appendix Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisDrug testing at the work place and efforts made by some to get around it.Trade ReviewTunnell has written an insightful volume that is clearly written, well organized, informative, and interesting. * Choice *Pissing on Demand presents a wide-ranging and thought-provoking discussion of the contemporary erosion of civil liberties. No one can read this fine book without being infuriated and alarmed, challenged and—ultimately—enlightened. A real contribution to democratic discourse. -- Philip Jenkins,author of Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the InternetAn informative and thought-provoking book. Tunnell locates drug testing within its broader social context and in so doing demonstrates the importance of a dynamic and interactive approach to a complex topic. . . . Necessary reading for anyone interested in technology and social control. -- Gary T. Marx,author of Undercover Police Surveillance in AmericaReports on the Orwellian invasion of our privacy by pre-employment and on-the-job surprise drug tests carried out by government agencies, the military, and business firms. The book also provides a comprehensive review of the bustling market in products and tactics to beat the testing regimens. Pissing on Demand needs to be read widely to alert us to the ever-shrinking limits of our personal privacy. -- Gilbert Geis,author of White-Collar Crime: Classic and Contemporary ViewsUsing as his starting point a study of workplace drug testing, Ken Tunnell's Pissing on Demand presents a wide-ranging and thought-provoking discussion of the contemporary erosion of civil liberties. No one can read this fine book without being infuriated and alarmed, challenged and-ultimately-enlightened. A real contribution to democratic discourse. -- Philip Jenkins,author of Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the InternetTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 The Emergence of Drug Testing 2 The Drug-Testing Industry 3 The Detox Industry 4 Drug Testing as Social Monitoring and Control 5 The Politics of Resistance Appendix Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA breathtakingly innovative exploration of employment discrimination cases that show how courts construct masculinities. McGinleys examination of race and sex cases with male plaintiffs will change the way academics and practitioners think about Title VII.-Nancy Levit,Curators' and Edward D. Ellison Professor of Law, University of Missouri * Kansas City *A groundbreaking blueprint to achieve meaningful equality. Most significantly, it brings to bear new social science research and theorizing that tackles the difficult and challenging issue of exposing and proving the presence of gender discrimination that is cultural and structural. . . . Engaging and persuasive. -- Nancy Dowd,David H. Levin Chair in Family Law, University of FloridaAnn McGinley has long been at the forefront of work on masculinity and the law. This book represents pathbreaking work in the gendered dimensions of employment law. It will be of enormous value to scholars, litigators, courts and anyone interested in how the law can better promote gender equality and social justice. -- Deborah L. Rhode,E.W. McFarland Professor of Law, Stanford UniversityPutting masculinities social science research together with antidiscrimination law, McGinley not only describes the law as it is now but also develops ways in which masculinities theory can be used to move antidiscrimination law forward towards its ultimate goal: eliminating discrimination. -- Michael Zimmer,Loyola University ChicagoIn sum, I think this book did a wonderful job of accomplishing its goal. It provides sound logic and additional protections for all types of people from gender-based discrimination at work. * Sex Roles *This book could be incorporated into upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in criminal justice, sociology, womens studies and psychology. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisAnya Bernstein offers a unique perspective on one of the few major policy innovations of the 1990s, and on the contentious issue of the role of the state in legislating family and medical leaves in the United States.

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Book SynopsisThe Trades Union Congress (TUC) believes that working people joining together can change things. For more than 150 years, trade unions have fought for safer workplaces and wages you can build a life on. Today they're needed more than ever to make sure every job is a decent job and everyone at work is treated with respect.Table of Contents Chapter - 01: Introduction; Chapter - 02: Starting a job; Chapter - 03: Payday; Chapter - 04: Working time rights; Chapter - 05: Families and work; Chapter - 06: Common problems at work; Chapter - 07: Discrimination; Chapter - 08: Getting the sack; Chapter - 09: Enforcing your rights; Chapter - 10: Further information

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Book SynopsisElizabeth Aylott has over 15 years' experience as an HR specialist and lecturer in areas of Employment Law and Employee Relations. After a career in HR both in industry and the charitable sector, she joined the Hampshire Business School where she lectured on CIPD programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is based in Surrey, UK.Trade Review"The compact yet extremely informative text will prove invaluable to both students and professionals in in the HR and legal fields. What stands out is the clarity in which complicated concepts are broken down and no assumption of legal knowledge is made, or jargon used. Diagrams are used where appropriate to ensure a full understanding of systems and processes. I thoroughly recommend this text." * Adam Doyle, Director of Careers and Enterprise, Royal Docks School of Business and Law, University of East London *"This book has been written clearly and concisely and will be very useful to students as well as professionals. Each topic covers comprehensive aspects of case law and case studies for easy understanding. How I wish this book was out while I was studying my MSc. in Human Resources Management to easily learn key points with ease and to acquire good grades. A must buy." * Enide Freeman, Administrator, Brixton Prison *"When looking for a good text, you have to ask yourself what learners, HR professionals and line managers with responsibility for people actually need and want: knowledge which is accessible, comprehensive and easy to apply in the real world. Employment law and practice are dynamic areas which often require quick decision-making rather than trawling through dry accounts of case law for an answer. This book offers that depth and knowledge while remaining a concise and easily understood reference point for a diverse range of employment and HR topics." * Chris Dobbs, Employment Solicitor, Frettens Solicitors *"As an HR professional, I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to educate people about their rights at work, as well as help HR professionals to think more broadly about their profession. Having had the opportunity to attend Elizabeth's Employment Law seminars, I am proud to say that Elizabeth had a major influence on my career choice as I was hugely inspired by her knowledge and expertise which she shared with us with a great passion. Following Elizabeth Aylott's Employment Law 1st and 2nd editions, I found the 3rd edition as interesting as the first two. As a past HRM student, I would highly recommend the 3rd edition to all students who wish to embark on their career as HR professionals. The book provides in-depth knowledge on Employment Law and the core principles and legislation of HR Management in global business which I found fascinating." * Karine Harutyunyan, HR Business Partner at the Security Industry Authority *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Section - ONE: Fundamentals; Chapter - 01: What is employment law?; Chapter - 02: The importance of employment law; Chapter - 03: Employment law and strategy; Section - TWO: In practice; Chapter - 04: How it works; Chapter - 05: How you do it; Chapter - 06: Planning and action; Chapter - 07: Measurement; Chapter - 08: Conclusions and Government changes to employment law

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Book SynopsisElizabeth Aylott is an experienced HR specialist and lecturer in the areas of employee relations and employment law. After a career in HR, both in industry and the charitable sector, she taught on CIPD programmes at all levels and lectured on HRM and business degree courses. She is also the author of Employment Law, published by Kogan Page. She is based in Surrey, UK.Trade Review"The easy- to-follow format and up-to-date case studies that illustrate the underpinning theories will be useful to students learning about the topic for the first time as well as to HR practitioners and people managers in the workplace. It is a handy reference guide with tips to build up skills when deciding on both ethical and strategic choices and practical actions to take in a specific context to stay within the existing legal framework." * Linda Holden, Freelance CIPD Tutor and HR Trainer *"For those interested in understanding and learning employee relations, this is an exceptional book with a well-structured critical text, conceptual rigour, engaging case studies, empirical richness, up-to-date examples and thoughtful balance between theory and practice. What else is desired in a complete book? Yet, Elizabeth Aylott offers us more, no less than a brand-new sense of complex employment relations in a simple, concise, and clear way for the 21st century. Positively recommended for an invaluable learning experience." * Dr M Naseer Akhtar, Associate Editor, 'Employee Relations', Senior Lecturer in HRM and People Analytics, Royal Docks School of Business and Law, University of East London, UK *"Employee Relations is an easy-to-read, practical and informative guide packed full with case studies and up to date research, making it an invaluable resource for HR students, practitioners and business managers." * Debbie Paddington, HR Business Partner, The Kent Autistic Trust *"The political and economic landscape both at home in the UK and internationally, is built on the shifting sands of unprecedented change, which is actively shaping and changing the world of work and how organisations develop and maintain positive working relationships with the modern-day employee. While employee relations naturally fall under the wider umbrella of HRM, it is a complex area of people management practice which requires practitioners to have a deep understanding of the relationship between employer and employee and how this relationship is intrinsically woven into the fabric of UK employment law and industrial relations. Employee Relations is the essential text for practitioners at all stages of their careers for developing and maintaining a deep understanding of employee in relations in practice." * Nathaniel Andrews, Founder and CEO at Okana Limited *"This is a bookshelf essential that strikes the right balance between theory and practice in relation to the subject of employee relations. The book is not only for HR personnel but also for those in leadership positions aspiring to build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with their team members. As an MD I have found the book to be practical, insightful and engaging - an invaluable resource overall!" * Dianne Ramdeen, Managing Director, Quartic Training *Table of Contents Section - ONE: Fundamentals; Chapter - 01: What is Employee Relations?; Chapter - 02: The importance of Employee Relations; Chapter - 03: Employee Relations and strategy; Section - TWO: In practice; Chapter - 04: Employee Relations in practice; Chapter - 05: Planning and action; Chapter - 06: Measurement; Chapter - 07: Conclusion

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