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Book SynopsisIn Toronto, in April 1975, three Canadians and one American each presented a paper at a conference on what has become the key issue in current industrial relations – collective bargaining in the essential and public service sectors.This book presents those papers along with transcripts of the substantial and lively discussions that followed each one and involved many of the leading Canadian figures in this field. The status of government employees is one of the most prominent of the issues discussed.The speakers, Ben Aaron, University of California, Jean Boivin, Université Laval, James Matkin, Government of British Columbia, and Paul Phillips, University of Manitoba, deal with the causes of unrest in the essential and service sectors of the economy, the interrelationship of market and political forces, the results of various forms of government intervention, and also with international comparison of procedures for dispute settlement.There was a considerab

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Book SynopsisEquity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour explores the specific challenges put to outmoded attitudes and practices, charting the efforts made by organized labour in Canada towards addressing discrimination in the workplace and within unions themselves.Table of ContentsPreface Union AbbreviationsIntroduction GERALD HUNTLooking Back: A Brief History of Everything JULIE WHITEBargaining against the Past: Fair Pay, Union Practice, and the Gender Pay Gap ANNE FORRESTUnion Response to Pay Equity: A Cautionary Tale JUDY HAIVENLabour's Collective Bargaining Record on Women's and Family Issues KAREN BENTHAMWe Are Family: Labour Responds to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Workers GERALD HUNT AND JONATHAN EATONBroadening the Labour Movement's Disability Agenda DAVID RAYSIDE AND FRASER VALENTINERacism and the Labour Movement TANIA DAS GUPTAEquity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour: A Comparative Perspective DAVID RAYSIDEAfterword LINDA BRISKINReferences Contributors

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Book SynopsisAnalyses the interrelationships between Córdoba’s immigrant entrepreneurs, workforce, labour movement, gender relations, and culture on the one hand, and social revolution, modernization, and the Atlantic community on the other between the 1890s and the 1960s.Trade Review"The author provides a fascinating collective profile of women leaders and their rise from rank and file to a rotating leadership group that controlled union politics for decades."—Susie S. Porter, Hispanic American Historical Review"Heather Fowler-Salamini has given us a rich and satisfying book on the social and economic contours of coffee processing in the Córdoba district of Veracruz."—Edward Beatty, Journal of Latin American StudiesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of MapsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Emergence of a Coffee Commercial Elite in Córdoba, Veracruz2. Work, Gender, and Workshop Culture3. Sorters’ Negotiations with Exporters and the State4. Caciquismo, Organized Labor, and Gender5. Everyday Experiences and Obrera Culture6. Coffee Entrepreneurs, Workers, and the State Confront the Challenges of ModernizationConclusionsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisNo visitor to Mexico can fail to recognise the omnipresence of street vendors, selling products ranging from fruits and vegetables to prepared food and clothes. In Street Democracy Sandra C. Mendiola García explores the political lives and economic significance of this otherwise overlooked population, focusing on the radical street vendors during the 1970s and 1980s in Puebla.Trade Review"Mendiola García’s use of oral interviews and photographs brings Puebla’s streets to life, giving us a sense of the sights, smells, and quotidian rhythms of these dynamic public spaces. Those sources also shed light on aspects of the UPVA’s history that written documents obscure, especially the central role that women played in the union despite their exclusion from the highest rungs of its leadership. . . . The author’s prose is lucid, and the book is a pleasure to read. It will certainly interest historians of twentieth-century Mexico and Latin America as well as scholars of neoliberalism, the informal economy, and social movements across the global South. It would be an excellent addition to graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses."—Andrew Konove, Hispanic American Historical Review"Mendiola García's research casts light on Mexico's recent political and economic history, particularly that of unions and social movements during the adoption of neoliberal policies."—Emilio de Antuñano, H-LatAm"This is an exciting new book that should make a big splash in the still-rather-small historiography of urban Mexico."—Matthew Vitz, Pacific Historical Review“An innovative and highly original book that reveals new findings on the twilight of the PRI rule in Mexico. . . . Street Democracy breaks new ground in the rapidly expanding field of post-1940 Mexico.”—Alex Aviña, author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside “Mendiola García nimbly transports us to the streets of Puebla, where everyday men, women, and children redefine their roles from simple peddlers to organized vendors. She expertly traces the shift in organizing tactics and identity politics in response to state repression and the neoliberal bend.”—Gabriela Soto Laveaga, author of Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the PillTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Prelude to Independent Organizing: Politics and Vendors Chapter Two: Vendors and Students in the 1970s Chapter Three: Staging Democracy at Home and Abroad Chapter Four: The Dirty War on Street Vendors Chapter Five: From La Victoria to Walmart Chapter Six: The Struggle Continues Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNo visitor to Mexico can fail to recognise the omnipresence of street vendors, selling products ranging from fruits and vegetables to prepared food and clothes. In Street Democracy Sandra C. Mendiola García explores the political lives and economic significance of this otherwise overlooked population, focusing on the radical street vendors during the 1970s and 1980s in Puebla.Trade Review"Mendiola García’s use of oral interviews and photographs brings Puebla’s streets to life, giving us a sense of the sights, smells, and quotidian rhythms of these dynamic public spaces. Those sources also shed light on aspects of the UPVA’s history that written documents obscure, especially the central role that women played in the union despite their exclusion from the highest rungs of its leadership. . . . The author’s prose is lucid, and the book is a pleasure to read. It will certainly interest historians of twentieth-century Mexico and Latin America as well as scholars of neoliberalism, the informal economy, and social movements across the global South. It would be an excellent addition to graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses."—Andrew Konove, Hispanic American Historical Review"Mendiola García's research casts light on Mexico's recent political and economic history, particularly that of unions and social movements during the adoption of neoliberal policies."—Emilio de Antuñano, H-LatAm"This is an exciting new book that should make a big splash in the still-rather-small historiography of urban Mexico."—Matthew Vitz, Pacific Historical Review“An innovative and highly original book that reveals new findings on the twilight of the PRI rule in Mexico. . . . Street Democracy breaks new ground in the rapidly expanding field of post-1940 Mexico.”—Alex Aviña, author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside “Mendiola García nimbly transports us to the streets of Puebla, where everyday men, women, and children redefine their roles from simple peddlers to organized vendors. She expertly traces the shift in organizing tactics and identity politics in response to state repression and the neoliberal bend.”—Gabriela Soto Laveaga, author of Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the PillTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Prelude to Independent Organizing: Politics and Vendors Chapter Two: Vendors and Students in the 1970s Chapter Three: Staging Democracy at Home and Abroad Chapter Four: The Dirty War on Street Vendors Chapter Five: From La Victoria to Walmart Chapter Six: The Struggle Continues Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe book describes the central role of workers and the unemployed in the run up to and the aftermath of the popular uprisings of 2011 in Tunisia and Egypt.Trade Review"We know the 'thieves' who plundered Tunisia and Egypt, but few have considered the role of the workers to understand why these countries led the Arab Spring in 2011. Joel Beinin offers this necessary perspective, highlighting in this truly readable and most useful account the clash of workers and thieves that shaped Tunisia's and Egypt's recent history and will determine their future." -- Gilbert Achcar * author of The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising *"While the crucial role played by workers in Egypt and Tunisia has been woefully overlooked by much of the media and think tank scholarship, Joel Beinin traces the rich and complex history of labor movements and their pivotal role in ongoing struggles for change. To fully understand the forces at play in the turbulent political and social landscapes of Egypt and Tunisia, Workers and Thieves is an invaluable book." -- Sharif Abdel Kouddous * Democracy Now! and The Nation Institute *"Joel Beinin's Workers and Thieves ascribes agency to the Arab masses and throws light on the intricacies of the corrupt modern regimes that have ruled Tunisia and Egypt since 1987 and 1981, respectively....What is most interesting about Workers and Thieves is the knowledge one learns about the emergence of the workers' movements in both Tunisia and Egypt during the colonial and postcolonial periods and their role in the anti-colonial movements." -- Salam Mir * Arab Studies Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Workers, Collective Action, and Politics chapter abstractThe social movements of Tunisian and Egyptian workers and those affiliated with them were the most persistent contestations of the 2000s and the largest demographic component of the culture of protest that empowered Arabs to want the fall of autocratic regimes during the popular uprisings of 2011. However during the 2000s, mobilizations of workers and the unemployed infrequently demanded democracy or regime change as such and were not well integrated with movements of the oppositional intelligentsias. Because of its relative autonomy from the state, the UGTT was able to detach itself from the Ben Ali regime, reform itself, and ultimately decisively influence Tunisia's post-Ben Ali trajectory towards procedural democracy. In contrast, ETUF remained loyal to Mubarak until the end. Newly established independent unions and federations did not have the organizational capacity, resources, or political experience to similarly influence the post-Mubarak political agenda. 1Colonial Capitalism to Developmentalism chapter abstractChapter 1 provides the historical context for the argument of the book, tracing the economic development of Egypt and Tunisia and their labor and leftist political movements from the colonial era (colonial capitalism) and their trade union movements through the era of decolonization. In the Nasser era in Egypt and early post-independence Tunisia (the 1950s and 1960s) both countries adopted national developmentalist economic policies (peripheral Keynesianism and import-substitution industrialization). The IMF and the World Bank supported such policies until the decade-long economic crisis of the advanced capitalist countries in the 1970s. 2The Washington Consensus chapter abstractChapter 2 follows the histories of the Egyptian and Tunisian workers movements, trade union organizations, and leftist parties as they contended with the installation of new economic policies (the neoliberal Washington Consensus). During the 1980s and early 1990s strikes, none of them supported by ETUF, became a regular phenomenon in Egypt for the first time since the early 1950s. In Tunisia both wildcat strikes and shorter warning strikes authorized by the UGTT reached historically high levels. 3Insurgent Workers in the Autumn of Autocracy chapter abstractChapter 3 argues that in Egypt and Tunisia (but much less so than in Egypt), middle class mobilizations for human rights and democracy became more active in the 2000s. However workers movements and in Tunisia an uprising of unemployed in the Gafsa phosphate mining basin in 2008 comprised by far the largest mobilizations against autocracy. However, there was a considerable gap between the abstract calls for democratization by the middle class intelligentsias and the economic demands of workers and the unemployed. The contentious actions of Egyptian and Tunisian workers and the unemployed in the 2000s suggest that "political opportunity structures," in the terminology of social movement theory, the "expansion of civil society," and theories of democratization do not reliably explain the origins, character, capacity to persist, or the divergent outcomes of the movements in Tunisia and Egypt. 4Popular Uprisings in 2011 and Beyond chapter abstractChapter 4 argues that workers' mobilizations were central to the movements to oust presidents Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak. Moreover, those mobilizations continued after the ouster of the autocrats. In Tunisia, pressure from second level leaders on the UGTT to support the uprisings eventually resulted in the reform of the UGTT and its central role in the consolidation of procedural democracy. In Egypt, the workers movement could not compel the ETUF to stand with them and the movement against Mubarak. The Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions and the Egyptian Democratic Labor Congress were too inexperienced and lacked sufficient organizational capacity and resources to influence post-Mubarak politics decisively. The organizational weakness of the Egyptian labor movement and the political illusions of some of its leaders explain, in part, the consolidation of a more vicious form of authoritarianism under the presidency of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Conclusion: Workers, Social Struggles, and Democracy chapter abstractWorkers and those affiliated with them played a central role in the 2011 popular uprisings in Tunisia and in Egypt. Unlike in Egypt, in Tunisia a reformed UGTT was ultimately the decisive force in the consolidation of procedural democracy. Democracy in Tunisia was not due to its stronger civil society. In Tunisia, as in Egypt "civil society organizations" – most commonly understood as NGOs – except for the Tunisian Bar Association, did not launch the uprising. The UGTT was the overwhelmingly preponderant force in the Quartet (along with the Bar Association, UTICA and the LTDH) that established procedural democracy. The economic and social demands that were at the core of the uprisings in both Tunisia and Egypt remain unanswered.

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Book SynopsisApproaches American literary naturalism as a means of social criticism, exploring the powerful economic arguments and commentaries on labour struggles presented in novels by Frank Norris, Jack London, and John Steinbeck.

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Book SynopsisThis is a look at how the rise in standards throughout the US after World War II brought significant changes to the lives of southern textile workers. It shows how their economic expectations increased and how their purchasing power grew - with little help from the unions.

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Book SynopsisThis text explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-20th century US. It was in the workplace of this era, the author argues, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape.

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Book SynopsisWhat makes a social movement a movement? Where do the contagious energy, vision, and sense of infinite possibility come from? This book seeks to answer these questions through conversations and interviews with a generation of activists who came of political age in Los Angeles during the 1990s.Trade Review"During the 1990s an amazing new generation of young activists, mostly women, immigrants, and people of color, transformed the Los Angeles labor movement, bringing a new vision of democracy to organizations not always ready for change. Now Karen Brodkin gives us their story in this wonderfully inspiring book, bursting with wisdom, dedication, imagination, and, best of all, models for how the labor movement can become a dynamic and embracing social movement seeking justice for all." -- Dana Frank * University of California, Santa Cruz *"This engaging, accessible volume makes a significant contribution to the scholarly literatures on social movements, racial justice, the political activism of men and women of color, and the labor movement today." -- Sandra Morgen * Professor of Women's Studies, Penn State University *"Persuasive. Insightful. As a contribution to our understanding of social movements, the book's strength is its emphasis on ideological factors and motivations. * Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society *"During the 1990s an amazing new generation of young activists, mostly women, immigrants, and people of color, transformed the Los Angeles labor movement, bringing a new vision of democracy to organizations not always ready for change. Now Karen Brodkin gives us their story in this wonderfully inspiring book, bursting with wisdom, dedication, imagination, and, best of all, models for how the labor movement can become a dynamic and embracing social movement seeking justice for all." -- Dana Frank * University of California, Santa Cruz *"This engaging, accessible volume makes a significant contribution to the scholarly literatures on social movements, racial justice, the political activism of men and women of color, and the labor movement today." -- Sandra Morgen * Professor of Women's Studies, Penn State University *"Persuasive. Insightful. As a contribution to our understanding of social movements, the book's strength is its emphasis on ideological factors and motivations. * Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society *Table of ContentsPreface List of Organizations About the NarratorsIntroduction 1. The Context of Labor and Immigrant Workers' Right Activism in Los Angeles 2. Narrators and Narrative 3. Political Identity Starts at Home: Border-Crossing Families and the Making of Political Selves 4. Making Identities Political 5. Democracy and Political Praxis Conclusion Appendix A: Study Design and Use of Narrative Appendix B: Organizer Survey Notes References Index

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Trade Review"Bourdillon and colleagues analyze the problems, benefits, appropriate interventions, culture, and policies related to children's work with a respect for the individual rights of the children involved. Recommended." * Choice *"While this book is not the first to challenge conventional thinking on children's work, it is comprehensive in its analysis and bold in its call for change." * Comparative Education Review *"In Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, the authors provide us with a definitive and balanced examination of why it is that the majority of the world's children's work for a living. This is an excellent book, which has clearly been designed to engage both the novice and expert. The clarity of reflective thought in this book is particularly impressive and reassuring." * Contemporary Sociology *"Bourdillon and colleagues analyze the problems, benefits, appropriate interventions, culture, and policies related to children's work with a respect for the individual rights of the children involved. Recommended." * Choice *"While this book is not the first to challenge conventional thinking on children's work, it is comprehensive in its analysis and bold in its call for change." * Comparative Education Review *"In Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, the authors provide us with a definitive and balanced examination of why it is that the majority of the world's children's work for a living. This is an excellent book, which has clearly been designed to engage both the novice and expert. The clarity of reflective thought in this book is particularly impressive and reassuring." * Contemporary Sociology *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Acronyms 1. Raising Questions, Questioning the Answers "When I was fired, I cried for two weeks": How Intervention Went Wrong in Morocco's Garment Industry Whose Interests? Ways of Thinking Children's Rights Knowledge, Understanding, and Information 2. Work That Children Do What Is Children's Work? What Children Say about Why They Work Concluding Comment 3. Children's Work in Historical and Comparative Perspective Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution in Britain around the Nineteenth Century Child Work, Education, and Interventions in Asia and Africa: Examples from Indonesia and Zimbabwe Children, Work, and Education in Communist Revolutions and Post-Communist Transitions International Standards and Trends in Interventions 4. Child Work and Poverty: A Tangled Relationship What Is Poverty? Defining and Measuring Labor-Force Work Many Poor Children Do Not Work for Pay Labor Supply and Labor Demand General Patterns Children's Earnings: How Much, and Who Gets Them? Are Children Working Instead of Adults, or Undermining Adult Wages? Conditional Cash Transfers as Compensation for School Enrollment Is Child Work a Cultural Phenomenon Rather Than an Economic Necessity? The Effects of Child Work on Poverty Dynamics: How Learning Matters Does Poverty Cause Child Work? 5. Work in Children's Development Framing the Issue The Idea of Human "Development in Social Science Concluding Observations 6. Education, School, and Work "Earn-and-Learn": Tea Estates in Zimbabwe Children's Perceptions The Right to Education School as Work Problems with Schools Can School Mix with Work? Combining Labor-Force Work with School Learning through Work Conclusion 7. Children Acting for Themselves Agency of Children Street Children Independent Migration Organizations of Working Children Child Participation in Making Decisions 8. Assessing Harm against Benefits Child Domestic Work: Pros and Cons A Continuum of Harm and Benefit Intolerable Forms and Conditions of Work Assessing Hazardous Work Weighing Harm against Benefits A Note on Exploitation What Does This Mean in Practice? 9. The Politics of International Intervention The Case of Child Garment Workers in Bangladesh: Tragedy or Scandal? Stitching Footballs in Sialkot What Should Be Learned from These Experiences? Promoting and Protecting the Interests of Children Who Work: A Case in Egypt Concluding Thoughts 10. Policies and Interventions: What Should They Achieve, and How? Starting Points Principles Practice Notes References Index

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Book Synopsis Rights and Wrongs of Children''s Work, authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, incorporates recent theoretical advances and experiences to explore the place of labor in children''s lives and development.This groundbreaking book considers international policies governing children''s work and the complexity of assessing the various effects of their work. The authors question current child labor policies and interventions, which, even though pursued with the best intentions, too often fail to protect children against harm or promote their access to education and other opportunities for decent futures. They argue for the need to re-think the assumptions that underlie current policies on the basis of empirical evidence, and they recommend new approaches to advance working children''s well-being and guarantee their human rights.Rights and Wrongs of Children''s Work condemns the exploitation and abuse of child workers and supports the right ofTrade Review"Bourdillon and colleagues analyze the problems, benefits, appropriate interventions, culture, and policies related to children's work with a respect for the individual rights of the children involved. Recommended." * Choice *"While this book is not the first to challenge conventional thinking on children's work, it is comprehensive in its analysis and bold in its call for change." * Comparative Education Review *"In Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, the authors provide us with a definitive and balanced examination of why it is that the majority of the world's children's work for a living. This is an excellent book, which has clearly been designed to engage both the novice and expert. The clarity of reflective thought in this book is particularly impressive and reassuring." * Contemporary Sociology *"Bourdillon and colleagues analyze the problems, benefits, appropriate interventions, culture, and policies related to children's work with a respect for the individual rights of the children involved. Recommended." * Choice *"While this book is not the first to challenge conventional thinking on children's work, it is comprehensive in its analysis and bold in its call for change." * Comparative Education Review *"In Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, the authors provide us with a definitive and balanced examination of why it is that the majority of the world's children's work for a living. This is an excellent book, which has clearly been designed to engage both the novice and expert. The clarity of reflective thought in this book is particularly impressive and reassuring." * Contemporary Sociology *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Acronyms 1. Raising Questions, Questioning the Answers "When I was fired, I cried for two weeks": How Intervention Went Wrong in Morocco's Garment Industry Whose Interests? Ways of Thinking Children's Rights Knowledge, Understanding, and Information 2. Work That Children Do What Is Children's Work? What Children Say about Why They Work Concluding Comment 3. Children's Work in Historical and Comparative Perspective Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution in Britain around the Nineteenth Century Child Work, Education, and Interventions in Asia and Africa: Examples from Indonesia and Zimbabwe Children, Work, and Education in Communist Revolutions and Post-Communist Transitions International Standards and Trends in Interventions 4. Child Work and Poverty: A Tangled Relationship What Is Poverty? Defining and Measuring Labor-Force Work Many Poor Children Do Not Work for Pay Labor Supply and Labor Demand General Patterns Children's Earnings: How Much, and Who Gets Them? Are Children Working Instead of Adults, or Undermining Adult Wages? Conditional Cash Transfers as Compensation for School Enrollment Is Child Work a Cultural Phenomenon Rather Than an Economic Necessity? The Effects of Child Work on Poverty Dynamics: How Learning Matters Does Poverty Cause Child Work? 5. Work in Children's Development Framing the Issue The Idea of Human "Development in Social Science Concluding Observations 6. Education, School, and Work "Earn-and-Learn": Tea Estates in Zimbabwe Children's Perceptions The Right to Education School as Work Problems with Schools Can School Mix with Work? Combining Labor-Force Work with School Learning through Work Conclusion 7. Children Acting for Themselves Agency of Children Street Children Independent Migration Organizations of Working Children Child Participation in Making Decisions 8. Assessing Harm against Benefits Child Domestic Work: Pros and Cons A Continuum of Harm and Benefit Intolerable Forms and Conditions of Work Assessing Hazardous Work Weighing Harm against Benefits A Note on Exploitation What Does This Mean in Practice? 9. The Politics of International Intervention The Case of Child Garment Workers in Bangladesh: Tragedy or Scandal? Stitching Footballs in Sialkot What Should Be Learned from These Experiences? Promoting and Protecting the Interests of Children Who Work: A Case in Egypt Concluding Thoughts 10. Policies and Interventions: What Should They Achieve, and How? Starting Points Principles Practice Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisOffers a refreshing examination of how those working for change grapple with shifting racial dynamicsTrade Review"The Price of Progressive Politics is an engaging book with an important take home message. It reminds us that activists challenge a political system plagued by racism, classism, and sexism, while simultaneously struggling to avoid reproducing these inequalities themselves." -- JoEllen Pederson * Mobilization *"Ernst's creative research design offers unique insights into the impact of intersectional marginalization, welfare organizing, and social movement mobilization, and is an important contribution to each of these fields." -- Catherine M. Paden * Political Science Quarterly *"Nelson is as determined to protect the academic freedom of contingent faculty as of full professors . . . he speaks up not only for academic freedom, but for better wages and conditions." -- D.R. Imig * Choice Magazine *"Ernst has provided an amazing window into contemporary welfare organizing and the challenges faced in a political context that urges unitary rather than intersectional frames of social justice. Without a doubt she has provided an important book relevant to scholars and welfare organizers alike." -- Ange-Marie Hancock,author of The Politics of Disgust and the Public Identity of the ‘Welfare Queen’"In this important and courageous book, Rose Ernst shows how the discourse of colorblindness limits the progressive possibilities of the welfare rights movement. One must know the monster one is fighting if one wishes to slay it ‘for real.’ Otherwise, as Ernst’s data demonstrates, one ends up feeding the monster. Bravo for a job well done!" -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva,author of Racism without Racists: Color-BlindRacism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America"Rose Ernst’s book is well-written, with a nuanced theoretical frame that grows out of the relevant literature; it provides an important empirical contribution based poignantly on the voices of the women activists themselves." -- Sanford Schram,author of Welfare Discipline: Discourse, Governance and Globalization"This penetrating and thoughtful work confronts the challenges, conflicts, and opportunities in the fragile coalitions that compose the welfare rights movement today. Written with fidelity to the cause and an empirical eye, Ernst demonstrates how the false construction of a ‘post-racial’ America warps the discourse and activities of welfare rights organizers. A passionately written text that brings these women and this movement to life, The Price of Progressive Politics analyzes the welfare rights movement from within and without using the intersectional lens of race, ethnicity, and class. This timely, fascinating, and intricate book moves forward our understanding of colorblindness and intersectionality." -- Andrea Y. Simpson,author of The Tie That Binds: Identity and Political Attitudes in the Post-Civil Rights GenerationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 To Each Her Own: Race and Class in Gendered Coalitions 3 Closing Rank: Power and Colorblindness 4 Pulling Rank: Gender and Class Colorblindness 5 Breaking Rank: Race and Class Consciousness 6 Crossing Over: Rethinking Movement Organization 7 Critical Alliances: Intersecting National Coalitions Appendix A: Interview Protocol Appendix B: Characteristics of Activists Appendix C: Organizations Appendix D: NOW Newsletters Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisFirst-line managers have to maintain the integrity of facilities, control manufacturing processes, and handle emergency situations, as well as respond to the pressures of production demand. This book offers these managers how-to information on process safety management program execution in the operations and maintenance departments.Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. List of Tables. List of Figures. Glossary. 1. INTRODUCTION. 1.1 Process Safety Management Activities of the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS). 1.2 Process Safety Activities of Governmental Agencies and Trade Organizations. 1.3 Target Audience and Objective of This Document. 1.4 Use of This Document. 1.5 References. 2. ROLE OF OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE IN PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT. 2.1 Accountability. 2.2 Process Knowledge and Documentation. 2.3 Capital Project Review and Design Procedures. 2.4 Process Risk Management. 2.5 Process and Equipment Integrity. 2.6 Human Factors. 2.7 Training and Performance. 2.8 Incident Investigation. 2.9 Standards, Codes, and Regulations. 2.10 Audits and Corrective Action. 2.11 Enhancement of Process Safety Knowledge. 2.12 Management of Change. 2.12.1 Importance of Changes. 2.12.2 Examples of Lessons To Be Learned from the Failure to Manage Change. 2.12.3 What Constitute Change? 2.12.4 Process Change Authorization. 2.13 Summary. 2.14 References. 3. PLANT DESIGN. 3.1 Operations and Maintenance Departments’ Roles. 3.2 Documentation. 3.3 Process Hazard Reviews. 3.4 Designing for Inherent Process Safety. 3.4.1 Process Fluids. 3.4.2 Inventory Minimization. 3.4.3 Operating and Storage Conditions. 3.5 Controlling of Hazards to Reduce Risks. 3.6 Plant Layout. 3.6.1 Site Planning. 3.6.2 Process Area Layout. 3.7 Plant Standards and Practices. 3.8 Human Factors in Plant Design. 3.9 Maintenance Considerations. 3.10 Management of Change. 3.11 References. 4. PLANT CONSTRUCTION. 4.1 Roles of the Operations and Maintenance Department. 4.1.1 Communication and Coordination with Project Team. 4.1.2 Control of Specific Construction-Related Activities. 4.1.3 Inspection of Equipment Installation. 4.2 Materials of Construction. 4.3 Custom Equipment Fabrication and Inspection. 4.4 Field Installation. 4.4.1 Piping Installation. 4.4.2 Pressure-Relief/Vent Collection. 4.4.3 Other Safety Systems. 4.5 Equipment Recordkeeping. 4.6 Summary. 4.7 References. 5. PRE-STARTUP AND COMMISSIONING. 5.1 Organization and Roles. 5.1.1 Startup Team. 5.1.2 Role of Operations and Maintenance Departments. 5.2 Planning. 5.3 Preparation for Startup. 5.3.1 Staffing Operations and Maintenance Departments. 5.3.2 Training. 5.3.3 Maintenance Activities during Pre-startup. 5.3.4 Development of Operating Procedures. 5.4 Pre-startup Safety Review. 5.5 Commissioning. 5.5.1 Commissioning Utilities. 5.5.2 Commissioning Equipment. 5.5.3 Instruments, Computer, and Control. 5.6 Final Preparations for Startup. 5.7 References. 6. STARTUP. 6.1 Roles and Responsibilities. 6.2 Initial Startup. 6.2.1 Final Preparation. 6.2.2 Introduction of Process Chemicals and Materials. 6.2.3 Process and Process Equipment Monitoring. 6.2.4 Baseline Data. 6.2.5 Updating Startup Procedures. 6.3 Restart. 6.4 Startup after Turnaround. 6.5 Startup after Extended Outage. 6.6 Resources. 6.7 Summary. 6.8 References. 7. OPERATION. 7.1 Roles and Responsibilities. 7.2 Routine Operations. 7.2.1 Operating within Process and Equipment Limits. 7.2.2 Written Procedures. 7.2.3 Communication. 7.2.4 Communication During Shift Changes. 7.2.5 Special Safety Considerations of Batch Processes. 7.2.6 Process Control Software. 7.3 Nonroutine Operations. 7.3.1 Abnormal Operations. 7.3.2 Standby Operations. 7.4 Emergency Operations. 7.5 Management of Change. 7.6 Safety Protective Systems. 7.6.1 Safety Shutdown Systems. 7.6.2 Pressure Relief Equipment. 7.7 Operator Training. 7.7.1 Refresher Training. 7.7.2 Playing “What-If” Games. 7.8 Incident Investigation. 7.8.1 Recognizing and Reporting Incidents. 7.8.2 The Investigation. 7.8.3 Investigation Results and Followup. 7.9 Human Factors. 7.9.1 Human-Process Interfaces. 7.9.2 Behavioral Issues. 7.9.3 Spontaneous Response. 7.10 Audits, Inspections, Compliance Reviews. 7.11 Summary. 7.12 References. 8. MAINTENANCE. 8.1 Roles and Responsibilities. 8.2 Routine Maintenance. 8.2.1 Preventive Maintenance. 8.2.2 Predictive Maintenance. 8.2.3 Communication between the Maintenance and Operations Departments. 8.2.4 Communication at Shift Change. 8.3 Nonroutine Maintenance. 8.3.1 Breakdown Maintenance. 8.3.2 Troubleshooting Maintenance. 8.4 Management of Change. 8.5 Aging Equipment. 8.5.1 Corrosion, Erosion, and Fatigue. 8.5.2 Wear, Intermittent Operation, and Fouling. 8.6 Critical Instrumentation and Safety Interlocks. 8.6.1 Proof Testing. 8.6.2 Critical Instrumentation and Interlock Classification. 8.7 Maintenance Training. 8.7.1 Upgrade and Refresher Training. 8.7.2 Loss of Plant-Specific Maintenance Knowledge. 8.8 Work Permits. 8.9 Maintenance Management Information Systems. 8.9.1 Work Order Tracking. 8.9.2 Process Equipment Files. 8.9.3 Process and Equipment Drawings. 8.10 Quality Control. 8.10.1 Replacement Parts. 8.10.2 Inspection. 8.10.3 Certified Equipment. 8.10.4 Continuous Improvement. 8.11 Contractor Safety. 8.12 Incident Investigation. 8.13 Summary. 8.14 References. Addition References. 9. SHUTDOWN. 9.1 Normal Shutdown. 9.1.1 Pre-shutdown Planning. 9.1.2 Shutdown Sequence Steps. 9.1.3 Testing Safety Protective Systems. 9.1.4 Shutdown Period Maintenance Activities. 9.1.5 Unit Restart after Maintenance. 9.1.6 Formal Review of Shutdown. 9.2 Extended or Mothball Shutdown. 9.3 Sudden or Emergency Shutdown. 9.3.1 Preplanning for Student Shutdown. 9.3.2 Shutdown Sequences. 9.3.3 Safety Interlock Failures. 9.3.4 Investigation of Sudden Shutdown. 9.4 Emergency Response. 9.5 Summary. 9.6 References. 10. DECOMMISSIONING AND DEMOLITION. 10.1 Decommissioning/Demolition Plan. 10.2 Operation and Maintenance Roles. 10.3 Decommissioning Procedures. 10.4 Maintenance of Decommissioned Status. 10.5 Demolition Concerns. 10.6 Summary. 10.7 References. Appendix A. Summary of the Process Safety Management Rule Promulgated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, United States Department of Labor. Appendix B. Example Management Guidelines for the Safe Dismantling and Demoliton of Process Plants. Appendix C. Examples of Site-Specific Demolition Checklist/Questionnaire. Index.

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Book SynopsisWritten by industry professionals for warehouse operators and designers, this book offers a performance-based approach to hazards such as health effects, environmental pollution, fire, and explosion. It also presents practical means to minimize the risk of these hazards to employees, the surrounding population, the environment, and property.Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgment. Acronyms. Chapter 1. Introduction. 1.1. Background. 1.2. Scope. 1.3. Purpose. Chapter 2. Commodity Hazards. 2.1. Synopsis. 2.2. Identification of Chemicals. 2.3. Properties and Hazard Identification of Chemicals. 2.4. Systems for Commodity Classification. 2.4.1. Environmental Protection Agency. 2.4.2. National Fire Protection Association. 2.4.3. National Paint and Coating s Association's Hazardous Materials Identification System. 2.4.4. United nations (UN) and Department of Transportation (DOT) Hazardous Materials Classes. 2.5. Container and Packaging Systems. 2.6. Commodity Compatibility and Separation. References. Additional Reading. Chapter 3. Administrative Controls. 3.1. Synopsis. 3.2. Safety and Risk Management Policies. 3.3. Hazard and Risk Management. 3.4. Control of Ignition Sources. 3.5. Regulatory Compliance. 3.6. Risk Management Organization. 3.7. Employee Hiring, Training and Operations. 3.7.1. Employee Hiring. 3.7.2. Training. 3.7.3. Operations. 3.8. Housekeeping. 3.9. Inventory Management. 3.10. Management of Change. References. Additional Reading. Chapter 4. Employee Safety and Health. 4.1. Synopsis. 4.2. Policy. 4.3. Administrative and Engineering Controls. 4.3.1. Administrative Controls. 4.3.2. Engineering Controls. 4.4. Hazard Communication. 4.4.1. Labels. 4.4.2. Material Safety Data Sheets. 4.4.3. Employee Information and Training. 4.5. Personal Protective Equipment. 4.5.1. Implementing a PPE Program. 4.5.2. Selecting PPE Program. 4.5.3. Chemical Protective Clothing. 4.5.4. Foot Protection. 4.5.5. Head Protection. 4.5.6. Eye and Face Protection. 4.5.7. Hand Protection. 4.5.8. Respirators. 4.5.9. Respirator Selection. 4.5.10. Respirator Usage. 4.5.11. Training. 4.5.12. Maintenance and Inspection. 4.6. Safety Equipment. 4.7. Emergency Response Training. 4.7.1. Emergency Spill Response. 4.7.2. Manual Fire Fighting. 4.7.3. First Aid. References. Additional Reading. Chapter 5. Site Considerations. 5.1. Synopsis. 5.2. Health and Environmental Exposure. 5.2.1. Baseline Environmental Assessment. 5.2.2. Population Proximity, Density, and Sensitivity. 5.2.3. Warehouse Truck Traffic. 5.2.4. Highly Sensitive Environments. 5.2.5. Surface Water, Ground water, and Soil Permeability. 5.3. Natural Peril Exposures. 5.3.1. Earthquake. 5.3.2. Flood. 5.3.3. Hurricanes. 5.3.4. Tornadoes. 5.3.5. Lightning. 5.3.6. Arctic Freeze. 5.4. Exposures from Surrounding Activities. 5.4.1. Adjacent Facilities, Airports, Highways, and Railroads. 5.4.2. High Pressure Flammable Gas and Liquid Transmission Lines. 5.4.3. Riot and Civil Commotion. 5.5. Emergency Responders. 5.6. Adequacy and Reliability of Public Utilities. References. Additional Reading. Chapter 6. Design and Construction. 6.1. Synopsis. 6.2. Construction Documents-Approvals and Permits. 6.3. Means of Egress. 6.3.1. travel Distance. 6.4. Environmental Protection. 6.4.1. Containment and Drainage Capacity Considerations. 6.4.2. Warehouse Floor System. 6.4.3. Concrete Criteria. 6.4.4. Surface Preparation. 6.4.5. Coating and Sealers. 6.4.6. Maintenance and Repair of the Floor. 6.4.7. Airborne Effluent. 6.5. Fire Mitigation Construction Features. 6.5.1. Fire-Rated Separations. 6.5.2. Protection of Openings and Penetrations. 6.5.3. Through-Penetrations. 6.5.4. Heat and Smoke Venting. 6.5.5. Powered Ventilation Systems. 6.5.6. Emergency and Standby Power Systems. 6.6. Deflagration Prevention and Mitigation. 6.1.1. Temperature Control. 6.6.2. Gas and Vapor Control. 6.6.3. Sources of Ignition. 6.6.4. Spatial Separation. 6.6.5. Damage Limiting Construction. 6.7. Natural Peril Mitigation. 6.7.1. Earthquake. 6.7.2. Flood. 6.7.3. Lightning. 6.7.4. Windstorm, Hurricane, and Tornado. 6.8. Security Features. 6.9. Outdoor Storage. References. Additional Reading. Chapter 7. Fire Protection Systems. 7.1. Synopsis. 7.2. Storage Considerations. 7.3. Fire Control, Suppression, and Extinguishing Systems. 7.3.1. Fire Control. 7.3.2. Fire Suppression. 7.3.3. Fire Extinguishment. 7.3.4. Fire Extinguishers. 7.4. Fire Detection and Alarm Systems. References. Additional Reading. Chapter 8. Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance Programs. 8.1. Synopsis. 8.2. Inspection and Test Programs. 8.2.1. Program Objectives. 8.2.2. Critical Equi9pment and Construction Features. 8.2.3. Inspection and Test Program Elements. 8.2.5. Maintenance Procedures. References. Additional Reading. Chapter 9. Emergency Planning. 9.1. Synopsis. 9.2. Loss Scenarios. 9.3. Plan Objectives. 9.3.1. Employees. 9.3.2. Surrounding Population. 9.3.3. Environment. 9.3.4. Property Protection and Business Interruption. 9.4. Plan Development. 9.5. Plan Elements. 9.5.1. Policy Statement. 9.5.2. Scope and Objectives. 9.5.3. Pre-Incident Planning. 9.5.4. Incident Response. 9.6. Emergency Spill Response. 9.6.1. Planning. 9.6.2. Responding to a Hazardous Material Spill. 9.6.3. Cleanup. 9.6.4. Reporting. 9.6.5. Public Response. 9.7. Regulations and Resources. 9.7.1. U.S. Regulations. 9.7.2. CMA Responsible Care Program. References. Additional Reading. Chapter 10. Selected research and Discussion Topics. 10.1. Synopsis. 10.2. Commodity Hazards and Fire Protection Systems. 10.3. Design and Construction. Appendix A. Summary of NFPA 704 Marking System. Appendix B. Summary of HMIS. Appendix C. United Nations and U.S. Department of Transportation Hazardous Materials Classes. Appendix D. Additional Resources. Glossary of Terms. Index.

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Book SynopsisThere are many different types of explosions, each with its own complex mechanism. This work provides information on explosions for everyone involved in the operation, design, maintenance, and management of chemical processes, helping enhance understanding of the nature of explosions and the methods required to prevent them from occurring.Table of ContentsPREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1. Accident Loss History 3 1.2. The Accident Process (AIChE, 2000) 4 1.3. A Case History—Flixborough, England 4 1.4. Hazard Identification and Evaluation 6 1.5. Inherently Safer Design 7 2 FUNDAMENTALS OF FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS 9 2.1. Gases and Vapors 13 2.1.1. Flammability Diagram 18 2.1.2. Estimating Flammability Limits 28 2.1.3. Temperature Effect on Flammability 30 2.1.4. Pressure Effect on Flammability 31 2.1.5. Flammability of Gaseous Mixtures 31 2.1.6. Minimum Ignition Energies 32 2.1.7. Autoignition Temperature 34 2.1.8. Example Applications 34 2.2. Liquids 37 2.2.1. Flashpoints of Mixtures of Liquids 40 2.2.2. Example Applications 42 2.3. Aerosols and Mists 43 2.4. Dusts 43 2.5. Hybrid Mixtures 48 2.6. Kinetics and Thermochemistry 48 2.6.1. Calculated Adiabatic Flame Temperatures (CAFT) 50 2.6.2. Example Application 52 2.7. Gas Dynamics 54 2.7.1. Detonations and Deflagrations 58 2.7.2. Estimating Peak Side-on Overpressures 61 2.7.3. Example Applications 62 2.7.4. Pressure Piling and Deflagration to Detonation Transition 63 2.8. Physical Explosions 64 2.8.1. BLEVEs 65 2.8.2. Rapid Phase Transition Explosions 67 2.9. Vapor Cloud Explosions 68 2.9.1. TNT Equivalency 70 2.9.2. TNO Multi-Energy Method 71 2.9.3. Baker-Strehlow-TangMethod(AIChE, 1999a) 77 2.9.4. Computational Fluid Mechanics (CFD) Method 82 2.9.5. Example Applications 83 2.10. Runaway Reactions 85 2.10.1. Steady-State and Dynamic Reactor Behavior 88 2.10.2. Experimental Characterization 92 2.11. Condensed Phase Explosions 94 2.12. Fireballs, Pool, Flash, and Jet Fires 96 2.13. Explosion Effects 98 2.13.1. Thermal Exposure 98 2.13.2. Overpressure Exposure 99 2.14. Ignition Sources 103 2.14.1. Static Electricity 105 3 PREVENTION AND MITIGATION OF EXPLOSIONS 113 3.1. Additional References 113 3.2. Inherently Safer Design 113 3.3. Using the Flammability Diagram to Avoid Flammable Atmospheres 117 3.4. Inerting and Purging 120 3.4.1. Vacuum Purging 121 3.4.2. Pressure Purging 123 3.4.3. Combined Pressure-Vacuum Purging 124 3.4.4. Sweep Purging 126 3.4.5. Siphon Purging 127 3.4.6. Advantages and Disadvantages of the Various Inerting Procedures 127 3.4.7. Inert Gas Blanketing of Storage Vessels 128 3.4.8. Inert Purging and Blanketing during Drumming Operations 128 3.5. Example Application 130 3.6. Explosion Venting 132 3.7. Grounding and Bonding 132 3.8. Ventilation 138 3.9. Sprinkler and Deluge Systems 139 3.10. Charging and Drumming Flammable Liquids 142 3.11. Example Application 142 3.12. Charging Powders 145 3.13. Electrical Equipment in Hazardous (Classified) Areas 148 3.13.1. Protection Techniques 156 Appendix A DETAILED EQUATIONS FOR FLAMMABILITY DIAGRAMS 161 Part A: Equations Useful for Gas Mixtures 161 Part B: Equations Useful for Placing Vessels Into and Out of Service 165 Appendix B EQUATIONS FOR DETERMINING THE ENERGY OF EXPLOSION 169 B.l. Example Application 171 Appendix C FLAMMABILITY DATA FOR SELECTED MATERIALS 173 Appendix D PROCEDURE FOR EXAMPLE 3.2 177 Appendix E COMBUSTION DATA FOR DUST CLOUDS 191 REFERENCES 193 GLOSSARY 203 INDEX 209

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Book SynopsisDesigned for personnel involved in the design, operation, and maintenance of facilities and equipment where deflagration and detonation flame arresters (DDFAs) may be required, this book fosters effective application and operation of DDFAs through treatment of their principles of operation, selection, installation, and maintenance methods.Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. Acronyms and Abbreviations. 1. Introduction. 1.1 Intended Audience. 1.2 Why This Book Was Written. 1.3 What Is Covered in This Book. 1.4 What the Reader Should Learn From This Book. 1.5 Units of Measure. 2. History and State-of-the Art. 2.1 Historical Development of Flame Arresters. 2.2 Case Histories of Successful and Unsuccessful Applications of Flame Arresters. 2.2.1 Successful Applications. 2.2.2 Unsuccessful Applications. 2.3 Evolution of Standards and Codes. 2.3.1 United States. 2.3.2 Canada. 2.3.3 United Kingdom. 2.3.4 Europe and International. 2.4 Safety Concerns and Environmental Regulations: Tradeoffs and Conflicts. 2.5 References. 3. Overview of Deflagration and Detonation Prevention and Protection Practices. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Deflagration and Detonation Flame Arresters. 3.3 Deflagration Venting. 3.4 Oxidant Concentration Reduction. 3.5 Combustible Concentration Reduction. 3.6 Deflagration Suppression. 3.7 Deflagration Pressure Containment. 3.8 Equipment and Piping Isolation. 3.9 References. 4. Overview of Combustion and Flame Propagation Phenomena Related to DDAs. 4.1 Introduction to the Chemistry and Physics of Flame Propagation. 4.1.1 Combustion Chemistry and Thermodynamics. 4.1.2 Flammability Characteristics. 4.1.3 Decomposition Flames. 4.2 Dynamic of Flame Propagation. 4.2.1 Burning Velocity and Flame Speed. 4.2.2 Flame Acceleration and Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition (DDT). 4.2.3 Detonations. 4.3 Ignition and Quenching. 4.4 Theoretical Basis for Flame Arrester Design and Operation. 4.5 References. 5. Deflagration and Detonation Flame Arrester Technology. 5.1 Where Flame Arresters May Be Needed. 5.2 Types of Flame Arresters. 5.2.1 Introduction. 5.2.2 Crimped Metal Ribbon. 5.2.3 Parallel Plate. 5.2.4 Expanded Metal Cartridge. 5.2.5 Perforated Plate. 5.2.6 Wire Gauze. 5.2.7 Sintered Metal. 5.2.8 Ceramic Balls. 5.2.9 Metal Shot. 5.2.10 Hydraulic (Liquid Seal) Flame Arrester. 5.2.11 Packed Bed Flame Arrester. 5.2.12 Velocity Flame Stopper. 5.2.13 High Velocity Vent Valve. 5.2.14 Conservation Vent Valves as Flame Arresters. 5.3 Selection and Design Criteria/Considerations. 5.3.1 Classification According to NEC Groups and MESGs. 5.3.2 Reactions and Combustion Dynamics of Fast-Burning Gases. 5.3.3 Flame Propagation Direction. 5.3.4 Quenching Diameter, Quenching Length, and Flame Velocity. 5.3.5 Burnback Resistance. 5.3.6 Pressure Drop Limitations. 5.3.7 Fouling and Plugging Potential and Protection. 5.3.8 Unwanted Phases. 5.3.9 Material Selection Requirements. 5.3.10 Special Design Options. 5.3.11 System Constraints. 5.3.12 Mixture Composition. 5.3.13 Operating Temperature and Pressure. 5.3.14 Ignition Location. 5.3.15 Changes in Pipe Diameter. 5.3.16 Location and Orientation. 5.3.17 Reliability. 5.3.18 Monitoring and Instrumentation. 5.3.19 Inspection and Maintenance Requirements. 5.4 Special Applications. 5.4.1 Hydrogen. 5.4.2 Acetylene. 5.4.3 Ethylene Oxide. 5.5 Information That Should Be Provided to Manufacturers. 5.6 References. 6. Installation in Process Systems. 6.1 Design Considerations with Respect to Other System Components. 6.2 Piping and Flame Arrester System Design Considerations. 6.3 Maintaining Reliability. 6.4 Optimum Location in System. 6.5 Supports for Static and Dynamic Forces. 6.6 References. 7. Inspection and Maintenance of Flame Arresters. 7.1 Need and Importance of Maintenance. 7.2 Mechanical Integrity Issues. 7.2.1 Inspection. 7.2.2 Current Maintenance Practices. 7.2.3 Documentation and Verification of Flame Arrester Maintenance. 7.3 Training and Competence Issues for Operating and Maintenance Personnel. 7.4 On-Stream Isolation and Switching of Parallel Spares. 7.5 Check List for Inspection. 7.6 References. 8. Regulations, Codes, and Standards. 8.1 Regulations, Codes, and Standards Summaries. 8.1.1 United States. 8.1.2 Canada. 8.1.3 United Kingdom. 8.1.4 Europe and International. 8.2 Comparison of Various Flame Arrester Standards and Codes. 8.3 Standards and Codes in Preparation. 8.4 References. 9. Illustrative Examples, Calculations, and Guidelines for DDA Selection. 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 Example 1-Protective Measures for a Vent Manifold System. 9.3 Example 2-Sizing of an End-of-Line Deflagration Flame Arrester. 9.4 Example 3-Calculation of Limiting Oxidant Concentration (LOC). 9.5 Example 4-Calculation of the LFL and UFL of Mixtures. 9.6 Example 5-Calculation of the MESG of Mixtures. 9.7 Determination If a DDT Can Occur. 9.8 Typical Locations in Process Systems. 9.9 List of Steps in the Selection of a DDA or Other Flame Propagation Control Method. 9.10 References. 10. Summary. 10.1 Status of DDA Technology. 10.2 Recommended Practices. 10.3 Why Flame Arresters Fail. 10.4 Future Technology Development. 10.5 References. Appendix A. Flame Arrester Specification Sheet for Manufacturer Quotation. Appendix B. List of Flame Arrester Manufacturers. Appendix C. UL and FM Listings and Approvals. Appendix D. Suggested Additional Reading. Glossary. Index.

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Book SynopsisWritten by Laurence Britton, who has over 20 years'' experience in the fields of static ignition and process fire and explosion hazards research, this resource addresses an area not extensively covered in process safety standards or literature: understanding and reducing potential hazards associated with static electricity. The book covers the nature of static electricity, characteristics and effective energies of different static resources, techniques for evaluating static electricity hazards, general bonding, grounding, and other techniques used to control static or prevent ignition, gases and liquids, powders and hybrid mixtures.Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. Chapter 1. Introduction. 1.1. Purpose. 1.2. Exclusive. 1.3. Units. 1.4. Organization of the Book. Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Static Electricity. 2.1. What is Static Electricity. 2.1.1. Charge Separation. 2.1.2. Magnitude of Current and Potential. 2.1.3. Concentration of Charged Species. 2.1.4. Importance of Trace Contaminants. 2.1.5. Hazard Evaluation. 2.1.6. Statistics. 2.2. Charge Generation. 2.2.1. Induction Charging. 2.2.2. Ionic Charging. 2.3. Charge Dissipation. 2.3.1. Variability of Conductivity. 2.4. Charge Accumulation. 2.5. Ignition. 2.5.1. Effective Energy. 2.6. Static Discharges. 2.6.1. Corona Discharge. 2.6.2. Brush Discharge. 2.6.3. Bulking Brush Discharge. 2.6.4. Spark Discharge. 2.6.5. Propagating Brush Discharge (PBD). 2.6.6. Surface Streamer. 2.7. Personnel Spark and Shock Hazards. 2.7.1. Body Capacitance and Resistance. 2.7.2. Voltage (V) and Energy (W) Attained. 2.7.3. Human Shock Response. Chapter 3. Evaluating the Hazard of Static Electricity. 3.1. General. 3.2. Hazard Identification Methods. 3.2.1. Decision Trees. 3.3. Charge Accumulation. 3.3.1. Conductive Objects. 3.3.2. Nonconductive Objects. 3.4. Energy Estimates. 3.4.1. Charge Sharing. 3.5. Instrumentation. 3.5.1. Charge. 3.5.2. Electric Field. 3.5.3. Potential. 3.5.4. Ignition Energy. 3.5.5. Conductivity of Liquids. 3.5.6. Resistivity of Solids. 3.5.7. Resistance. 3.6. Direct Observation of Discharges. 3.7. Radio Frequency Detection of Discharges. 3.8. Measuring the Effective Energy of Nonspark Discharges. 3.8.1. Gas Composition. Chapter 4. Controlling Electrostatic Hazards. 4.1. Bonding and Grounding. 4.1.1. Definitions. 4.1.2. Purpose of Bonding and Grounding. 4.1.3. Resistance to Ground. 4.1.4. Bonding and Grounding Systems. 4.1.5. Ground Rods. 4.1.6. Grounding and Cathodic Protection. 4.2. Control of Charge Relaxation. 4.2.1. Increase of Conductivity. 4.2.2. Charge Neutralizers. 4.3. Control of Personnel Charging. 4.3.1. Personnel Grounding. 4.3.2. Clothing. 4.3.3. Gloves. 4.4. Control of Flammable Atmospheres. 4.4.1. Liquid Nitrogen/Liquid Air Hazards. Chapter 5. Flammable Liquids, Vapors, and Gases. 5.1. Ignition Hazards of Liquid Vapor and Mist. 5.1.1. Flammable Liquid. 5.1.2. Flammable Limits. 5.1.3. Liquid Mist. 5.1.4. Minimum Ignition Energy (MIE). 5.1.5. Explosion Prevention Systems. 5.2. Generation and Relaxation (Loss) of Charge in Liquid Systems. 5.2.1. Charge Generation. 5.2.2. Charge Density. 5.2.3. Factors Influencing Charge Generation. 5.2.4. Charge Relaxation. 5.2.5. Classification of Liquids based on Conductivity. 5.2.6. Antistatic Additives. 5.2.7. Bonding and Grounding. 5.3. Flow in Pipe, Hose, and Tubing. 5.3.1. Metallic Piping Systems. 5.3.2. Nonconductive Pipe and Linings. 5.3.3. Flexible Hoses. 5.3.4. Dip Pipes. 5.3.5. Filters and Relaxation Tanks. 5.3.6. Suspended Material. 5.3.7. Valves and Other Line Restrictions. 5.4. Filling Criteria for Tank Operations. 5.4.1. Storage Tanks. 5.4.2. Road Tankers. 5.4.3. Rail Cars. 5.4.4. Liquid Phase Mixers, Blenders, and Reactors. 5.4.5. Liquid-Solid Mixers, Blenders and Reactors. 5.4.6. Vacuum Trucks. 5.4.7. Plastic Tanks. 5.5. Sampling, Gauging, and Analysis. 5.5.1. Sample Container Cord. 5.5.2. Sampling. 5.5.3. Gauging. 5.5.4. Portable Flammable Gas Analyzers. 5.6. Tank Cleaning. 5.6.1. Water Washing. 5.6.2. Solvent Washing. 5.6.3. Steam Cleaning. 5.6.4. Acid Washing. 5.6.5. Grit Blasting. 5.7. Portable Tanks. 5.7.1. Metal Portable Tanks. 5.7.2. Plastic Portable Tanks. 5.8. Portable Containers Less Than 60 Gallons Capacity. 5.8.1. All-Steel Drums. 5.8.2. Plastic Lined Drums. 5.8.3. Plastic Drums. 5.8.4. Hand-Held Containers. 5.8.5. Wet-Dry Vacuum Cleaners. 5.9. Miscellaneous Flammable Atmospheres. 5.9.1. Clean Rooms. 5.9.2. Water and Steam Curtains. 5.9.3. Static Electrification in Gas Flow. 5.9.4. Ignition of Vented Gas. 5.9.5. Hazards of Plastic Sheet and Wrap. 5.9.6. Oxidant Enriched Atmospheres. 5.9.7. Elevated Temperature and Pressure. 5.9.8. Automotive and Marine. 5.9.9. Aerosol Spray Cans. 5.10. Cathode Ray Tube Video Display Screens. 5.10.1. Cleaning. 5.10.2. Screens in Hazardous Locations. 5.10.3. Static Dissipating Screen Overlays. Chapter 6. Powders and Solids. 6.1. Flammability of Dust Suspensions. 6.1.1. Flammable Limits. 6.1.2. Minimum Ignition Energy (MIE) of Dust Suspensions. 6.1.3. Hybrid Mixtures. 6.1.4. Unstable or Energetic Powders. 6.1.5. Effect of Temperature on Ignition Energy. 6.1.6. Effect of Moisture on Ignition Energy. 6.2. Charging Mechanisms. 6.2.1. Charge Density. 6.2.2. Classification of Powders Based on Conductivity. 6.3. Pneumatic Conveying. 6.3.1. Charging in Pipeline Flow. 6.3.2. Special Grounding Cases. 6.4. Types of Static Discharge in Powder Systems. 6.4.1. Sparks. 6.4.2. Bulking Brush Discharges. 6.4.3. Propagating Brush Discharge. 6.5. General Operations. 6.5.1. Vacuum Trucks. 6.5.2. Bag Houses. 6.6. Manual Transfers from Portable Containers. 6.7. Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers (FIBCs). 6.7.1. Powder Transfers in Air Atmospheres. 6.7.2. Powder Transfers from FIBCs to Flammable Liquids. 6.7.3. Conductive and Antistatic FIBCs. 6.7.4. Vacuum FIBC Transfers. Appendix A. Explanatory Material. Propagating Brush Discharge. Resistance to Ground. MIE of Liquid Mists. Hyperbolic Relaxation. Filtration. Filling Criteria for Tank Operations. Effect of Road Tires. Potentials During Water Washing of Tanks. Effect of Particle Size on Dust MIE. Ignition Energy of Hybrid Mixtures. Effect of Temperature on Powder MIE. Appendix B. Data Tables. Flammability Data for Gases and Vapors. Typical Conductivities, Dielectric Constants and Relaxation (or Dissipation) Times of Liquids. Typical Resistivities, Dielectric Constants, and Breakdown Strengths of Solid Dielectrics. Appendix C. Formulas and Mathematical Relationships (SI UNITS). C.1. Principal Relationships. C.2. Analysis: Grounded Sphere above Charged Nonconductive Disc. References. Glossary. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe first major study of the Soninke labor migration within Africa and to France, Willing Migrants is based upon critical analysis of French precolonial and colonial records and oral interviews with Soninke migrants.Trade Review“This book speaks to those interested in labor migrations, to those interested in the origins of contemporary migrants in France, as well as to Africanists in general who are hungry for a well-researched monograph that shakes up current assumptions.”

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Book SynopsisFrom the beginning of the Industrial Age and continuing into the twenty-first century, companies faced with militant workers and organizers have often turned to agencies that specialized in ending strikes and breaking unions.Trade Review“This book is as interesting as the title promises. It is an excellent little volume, succinct and well-researched. The main thesis of the book is compellingly laid out, bringing readers easily to share the author's contention that union-busting today is much the same as it was in 1880.”“Few people, even in the labor movement, know the tremendous investment and effort put into unionbusting over the past century. The book vividly demonstrates the need for labor history as an integral part of labor education and a stimulus to activism.”“This work will become the convenient handbook for the distasteful but necessary look at the rearguard tactics that still too often shape American labor-management relations.” * Labor Research Center, University of Rhode Island *

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Book SynopsisA comparative study of Polish migrants in the Ruhr Valley and in northeastern Pennsylvania, The Borders of Integration questions assumptions about race and white immigrant assimilation a hundred years ago, highlighting how the Polish immigrant experience is relevant to present-day immigration debates.Trade Review“McCook offers an insightful comparative study that carefully situates in time Polish immigrant communities in the Ruhr valley and in Pennsylvania and demonstrates well their social and political evolution. He makes a strong case for the modern relevance of the Polish experience in discussion of immigration and government policy today.” * The Journal of American History *“The Borders of Integration offers a welcome new approach to migration and labor history. The analysis rests on comparison and leads up to concrete suggestions for contemporary policies of integration, based on the divergent rates of return migration in post-World War I Westphalia and Pennsylvania.” * Nations and Nationalism *“McCook renders his complex material with a graceful clarity that makes this work a pleasure to read. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.” * Choice *“McCook has produced a formidable piece of comparative history…. Present debates about immigration are often uninformed by historical examples and lacking in explanations regarding the mechanism by which integration works. As such, McCook’s Borders of Integration should be welcomed by those scholars who wish to engage seriously and soberly in the hot-button debates of assimilation and multiculturalism in present-day America and Germany.” * German Studies Review *“McCook has updated existing ethnic studies by demonstrating that comparative studies of the factors shaping the complex integration process help us to better understand the immigrant experience. Scholars should follow his call for using this approach to evaluate recent and current migration trends.” * Yearbook of German-American Studies *“This study offers an important lesson that the path towards successful integration includes immigrants' economic, political and cultural participation in the public sphere. Only through a shared cultural community in which both the immigrants become familiar to the host society, and the native populations undergo changes prompted by immigration, are the barriers to integration removed.” * Urban History *“This study is a model of comparative social history.”“This is a historical analysis of migration patterns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that provides highly illuminating perspectives on a range of difficult and important questions to do with the integration of migrants and the importance of migration for questions of national identity. The author is to be congratulated on writing in elegant and clear prose, which will be attractive to scholars and students alike.”

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Book SynopsisDiamonds in the Rough explores the lives of African laborers on Angola’s diamond mines from the commencement of operations in 1917 to the colony’s independence from Portugal in 1975.Trade Review“This meticulous study is a must read for scholars and graduate students interested in African labor history and Portuguese colonialism. Those with an interest in (diamond) mining will take away as much as those reading for information on forced labor or on the interplay between the Portuguese colonial state and concessional companies. However, those keen to learn about the rich texture of workers’ experiences, both on and o the mine, stand to gain the most.” * H-Net *“Diamonds in the Rough is a significant contribution to Angolan historiography and to the literature on mining on the continent. Cleveland persuasively argues that laborers on Angolan mines were active participants in shaping the stable conditions that made Diamang profitable, and, ironically, helped further the Portuguese regime in Angola.”“[Cleveland] is particularly strong on African workers’ experiences and perceptions of the mines and its Janus-faced character: getting well paid while being exploited. … [Diamonds in the Rough] is balanced, showing that there are no facile answers and the Appendix, entitled “Digging Deeper,” contains useful discussion questions and suggestions for further reading, all of which enhances its quality for the educated layperson and its obvious audience, students.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“[Cleveland] appropriately and generously acknowledges the many people who shepherded him through these challenge, but, in the end, his own patience and determination were crucial for the appearance of this remarkable work.” * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“This book is relevant, rich, and interesting for people who are interested in the histories of mining in colonial settings, the relationship between the colonial state and companies, the role of companies in the pacification of native peoples, and the emergence and reflections of the working class in the colonies.” * Canadian Journal of History *Table of Contents* List of Illustrations* Acknowledgments* Chapter 1: An Introduction to Angola's Diamond Past Paternalism, Professionalism, and Place* Chapter 2: A Bountiful Place The Political Economy of Lunda, 1870-1975* Chapter 3: The Recruitment Process, 1921-75* Chapter 4: A Group Effort The Collaborative Process of Diamond Extraction, 1917-75* Chapter 5: Negotiating Stability Laborers' Work-Site Strategies, 1922-75* Chapter 6: Eventful Evenings Life after the Whistle Blew, 1925-75* Chapter 7: To Stay or to Leave The End of the Labor Contract, 1921-75* Epilogue* Notes* Bibliography* Index

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Book SynopsisSchler’s study of Nigerian seamen during Nigeria’s transition to independence provides a fresh perspective on the meaning of decolonization for ordinary Africans.Trade Review”Highly organized and well written, Lynn Schler’s Nation on Board is an important addition to the fields of maritime history, labor history, business history, and the history of decolonization.“ * H-Net Reviews *“This is an outstanding piece of social historical research and a significant addition to Nigerian labour and industrial/business history. Schler has made excellent use of a range of archives and interviews and crafted an attractively written book that will be accessible to a range of readers. I take my hat off to her.”“Schler places the sometimes abstract notion of nationhood into a fresh and dynamic context, and the testimony she presents provides wonderful insights into the textures of life aboard ship and in foreign ports

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Book SynopsisA fundamental critique of American law and legal thought, this book consists of a series of essays written from three different perspectives that coalesce into a criticism of contemporary legal culture. It is of interest not only to the legal academics under attack in the book, but also to sociologists, historians, and social theorists.Trade Review“Against the Law is a sometimes playful, sometimes pungent polemic about the state of legal theory today. Three authors from different parts of the political spectrum come together in this book to attack contemporary legal scholarship’s complacency, idolatry, and insipidness. Against the Law is not against the law; just the ways law professors imagine it.”—J. M. Balkin, Yale Law School“Against the Law is must reading, especially for those who believe that Law does or can embody Reason and Morality. Campos, Schlag, and Smith, ever the iconoclasts, raise profound questions about both the truth of these claims and their meaning. All legal theorists will benefit from the encounter with this highly intelligent, quite original, and unflinchingly skeptical work.”—Larry Alexander, University of San Diego School of Law

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Book SynopsisSuitable for scholars and students in a range of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, women's studies, political economy, and Caribbean studies, as well as labour and postcolonial studies, this book presents an ethnography of globalisation positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies.Trade Review“High Tech and High Heels is a treasure trove. Freeman is among a handful of truly original thinkers in the field of social anthropology and she has produced in this book a major contribution to our understanding of the fluid relationship between gender, social class, and culture.”—Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Princeton University“Freeman helps us understand how new forms of labor power are being tapped in old places. This is a penetrating demonstration of the genuine relevance of anthropology to the modern world. It also shows us in what ways change and persistence are subtly interwoven, in a world that is not quite so new as others tell us.”—Sidney Mintz, Johns Hopkins University“What Freeman’s innovative investigation of Barbadian women data-entry workers reveals is that cultural processes—globalization, identity(ies), constructions, consumerism—are informed in no small part by the ways in which paid labor is structured—and restructured. She alerts us to phenomena that should shake us out of our all-too-comfortable dichotomizing habits.”—Cynthia Enloe, Clark UniversityTable of ContentsList of tables, maps, and figures ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Introduction 1 2. Pink-Collar Bajans: Working Class through Gender and Culture on the Global Assembly Line 21 3. Localizing Informatics: Situating Women and Work in Barbados 66 4. Myths of Docile Girls and Matriarchs: Local Profiles of Global Workers 102 5. Inside Multitext and Data Air: Discipline and Agency in the "Open Office" 140 6. Fashioning Femininity and "Professional" Identities: Producing and Consuming Across Formal and Informal Sectors 213 7. Epilogue 253 Notes 263 Bibliography 293 Index 323

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Book SynopsisAddresses the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. This book shows how, as technology changed from a manual process to a computerised one, sexual and racial stereotypes enabled management to manipulate both the workers and the workplace.Trade Review“Race on the Line is an extraordinary achievement. It sets a new standard for understandingf the impact of race, gender, and technological change on the labor process in American society.”—Joe W. Trotter, author of The African American Experience“A compelling, well-argued, and richly-documented study of the interplay between technology and the racial and sexual division of labor in one of the most important industries in the global economy. Green provides a powerful commentary as well on the contemporary uses of racism and affirmative action as vehicles for minimizing resistance to job displacements created by automation and computerization. A superb book!”—Nancy Hewitt, Rutgers University“Green has produced a study that enables us to understand concretely what differences race, class, and gender make in people’s work lives. Her special understanding of the technology and of the constraints and possibilities of work at the telephone company gives her arguments extra force. Finally, she does a magnificent job of showing the complexity of the considerations that motivates all parties involved, giving full attention to both multiple and shifting motivations.”—Susan Porter Benson, University of ConnecticutTable of ContentsPreface Ackowledgments Introduction Part I: The Beginnings of Telephony 1. “Hello Central”: The Beginning of a New Industry 2. “Hello Girls”: The Making of the Voice with a Smile 3. The “Ladies” Rebel: Unions and Resistance Part 2: The Dial Era, 1920–1960 4. “Goodbye Central”: Automating Telephone Service 5. The Bell System Family: The Formation of Employee Associations 6. The Dial Era Part 3: The Computer Era 7. Racial Integration and the Demise of the “White Lady” Image 8. Black Operators in the Computer Age Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAddresses the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. This title shows how, as technology changed from a manual process to a computerised one, sexual and racial stereotypes enabled management to manipulate both the workers and the workplace.Trade Review“Race on the Line is an extraordinary achievement. It sets a new standard for understandingf the impact of race, gender, and technological change on the labor process in American society.”—Joe W. Trotter, author of The African American Experience“A compelling, well-argued, and richly-documented study of the interplay between technology and the racial and sexual division of labor in one of the most important industries in the global economy. Green provides a powerful commentary as well on the contemporary uses of racism and affirmative action as vehicles for minimizing resistance to job displacements created by automation and computerization. A superb book!”—Nancy Hewitt, Rutgers University“Green has produced a study that enables us to understand concretely what differences race, class, and gender make in people’s work lives. Her special understanding of the technology and of the constraints and possibilities of work at the telephone company gives her arguments extra force. Finally, she does a magnificent job of showing the complexity of the considerations that motivates all parties involved, giving full attention to both multiple and shifting motivations.”—Susan Porter Benson, University of ConnecticutTable of ContentsPreface Ackowledgments Introduction Part I: The Beginnings of Telephony 1. “Hello Central”: The Beginning of a New Industry 2. “Hello Girls”: The Making of the Voice with a Smile 3. The “Ladies” Rebel: Unions and Resistance Part 2: The Dial Era, 1920–1960 4. “Goodbye Central”: Automating Telephone Service 5. The Bell System Family: The Formation of Employee Associations 6. The Dial Era Part 3: The Computer Era 7. Racial Integration and the Demise of the “White Lady” Image 8. Black Operators in the Computer Age Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisProvides an examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. This book reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements came to symbolise the heart of colonialism in India. It exposes how this image has distracted from working conditions, low wages, and coercive labour practices enforced by the patronage system.Trade Review“Piya Chatterjee presents an innovative ethnography of female tea plantation workers through a kaleidoscope of drama, personal narrative, labor history review, and the interrogations of her subjects. A Time for Tea addresses issues of colonial and postcolonial power structures, transnational flows, subaltern history, labor relations, and feminist ethnography. Tea does not taste the same after one has read this strikingly original book.”—Kirin Narayan, author of Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching“This is a finely layered, theoretically astute and informed cultural and historical account of a tea plantation in India. The ethnography is not content to address localized politics and culture; its importance lies in the way in which it reveals the global and political dimensions of local practices of gendered labor.”—Inderpal Grewal, author of Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel“A Time for Tea says quite a bit about the endurance of women pluckers on a tea plantation in West Bengali called Sarah’s Hope Tea Estate. . . . The world drawn in A Time for Tea is the “other” world of tea, beyond ladies lounging in gauzy gowns upon velvet Victorian chaises, sipping Darjeeling, and munching cucumber sandwiches. . . . Indeed, this is not your typical coffee table tea book. . . . A Time for Tea is an argument for Fair Trade tea -- and more. . . . It ‘stirs the conscious, creates dissonance.’ And perhaps it also will produce a new perspective when you savor your next cuppa pai mu tan.” -- Donis W. Ford * Tea - A Magazine *“A detailed history of the labor structure on tea plantations. . . . Interesting. . . . Her use of language, rich in metaphor and allusion. indicates a deep-rooted empathy for these women, which is almost contrary to scholarly detachment. . . . A multifaceted understanding of a complex socioeconomic system.” -- Chitrita Banerji * Gastronomica *“Piya Chatterjee’s A Time for Tea is more than a skillful and reflective ethnography of women’s labor in the tea industry in India. Her analysis of the fieldwork she conducted on an Indian plantation is contextualized through a cultural and material history of the tea industry in India, which is intertwined with the politics and economics of empire, the impact of capitalism, and the shifting production and performance of gender, class, and consumption.” -- Suzanne Franzway and Mary Margaret Fonow * Signs *"A highly readable ethnography. . . . This book wears its theory lightly but is deftly and often ingeniously written. . . . [A] meditative and reflective work. . . ." -- Kamala Visweswaran * American Historical Review *"A tour de force of intimate reflection on the embodied histories and gendered fetishisms at work on a postcolonial plantation. . . . A Time for Tea holds lessons for a remarkable array of audiences, not only in its theoretically astute, well-researched argument but also in a passionate commitment to the poetics and politics of writing in solidarity with subaltern voices without presuming to speak them. . . . Wonderful. . . . Piya Chatterjee is a remarkable, visionary writer. A Time for Tea is an erudite and powerful book that should be read widely and closely." -- Sharad Chari * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Alap 1 2. Travels of Tea, Travels of Empire 20 3. Cultivating the Garden 51 4. The Raj Baroque 84 5. Estates of a New Raj 115 6. Discipline and Labor 168 7. Village Politics 235 8. Protest 289 9. A Last Act 325 Appendix 327 Glossary 333 Notes 335 Bibliography 383 Index 411

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Book SynopsisAn attempt to gauge the impact of Chile's neo-liberal reform policies and of the Chilean "economic miracle" on various groups of workersTrade Review“Showcasing some of the best current U.S. work on recent Chilean labor and economic history, this collection lays to rest any remaining doubts as to the partial and extremely uneven nature of the ‘economic miracle’ and its devastating impact on workers. Especially welcome are discussions of neoliberalism’s contributions to environmental degradation and its contradictory impact on working-class culture and gender relations.”—Florencia Mallon, editor of When a Flower Is Reborn: The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist by Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef“The great strength of this volume is that it provides readers with an original, historically based, human-focused analysis of the so-called Chilean miracle.”—Brian Loveman, author of Chile: The Legacy of Hispanic CapitalismTable of ContentsIndex 411 Foreword / Paul W. Drake ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction / Peter Winn 1 The Pinochet Era / Peter Winn 14 Politics without Policy: The Failure of Social Concentration in Democratic Chile, 1990-2000 / Volker Frank 71 “No Miracle for Us”: The Textile Industry in the Pinochet Era, 1973–1998 / Peter Winn 125 Disciplined Works and Avid Consumers: Neoliberal Policy and the Transformation of Work and Identity Among Chilean Metalworkers / Joel Stillerman 164 Class, Community, and Neoliberalism in Chile: Copper Workers and the Labor Movement During the Military Dictatorship and the Restoration of Democracy / Thomas Miller Klubock 209 More Than Victims: Women Agricultural Workers and Social Change in Rural Chile / Heidi Tinsman 261 Shuckers, Sorters, Headers, and Gutters: Labor in the Fisheries Sector / Rachel Schurman 298 Labor, Land, and Environmental Change in the Forestry Sector in Chile, 1973–1998 / Thomas Miller Klubock 337 Bibliography 389 Contributors 409

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic analysis of the work of computer programmers in India working for the U.S. software industry illuminates the growing phenomenon of "virtual migration"Trade Review“Virtual Migration is an exciting, innovative, and brilliant examination of how software flows replace people flows. It joins the urgent effort now under way in the social sciences to map a new field of inquiry.”—Saskia Sassen, coeditor of Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm“Virtual Migration is a phenomenal book on a very important topic. A. Aneesh not only describes, explains, and interprets the phenomena of ‘body shopping’ and virtual migration in the global software industry, with especial emphasis on India and the United States; he also provides a series of suggestions to improve policymaking in these rapidly changing areas of the global economy.”—Mauro F. Guillén, Dr. Felix Zandman Professor in International Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania“This is a brilliant and innovative intervention in the study of globalization that demonstrates how much the specific forms taken by global institutional arrangements and processes depend on the structure and design of computer code. Virtual Migration will be invaluable not only to students in science and technology studies but to scholars in all fields interested in the troubled politics of the global movement of capital, technology, and people.”—Akhil Gupta, author of Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India“Aneesh’s arguments are well-organized and effectively communicate the often jargon-ridden world of complex technologies for those who have yet to go virtual themselves. . . . Virtual Migration itself opens up a very real (as opposed to virtual) space for discussing new forms of migration, governance, and globalization in which geographic perspectives and voices still have much to contribute.” -- Angela Gray * Cultural Geographies *Table of Contents1. Of Code and Capital 1 2. Programming Globalization: Visions and Revisions 14 3. Body Shopping 37 4. Virtual Migration 67 5. Actions Scripts: Rule of the Code 100 6. Code as Money 133 7. Migrations: Nations, Capital, and the State 153 Appendix A: A Note on Method 165 Appendix B: Tables 171 Notes 175 Bibliography 179 Index 191

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic analysis of the work of computer programmers in India working for the U.S. software industry illuminates the growing phenomenon of "virtual migration"Trade Review“Virtual Migration is an exciting, innovative, and brilliant examination of how software flows replace people flows. It joins the urgent effort now under way in the social sciences to map a new field of inquiry.”—Saskia Sassen, coeditor of Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm“Virtual Migration is a phenomenal book on a very important topic. A. Aneesh not only describes, explains, and interprets the phenomena of ‘body shopping’ and virtual migration in the global software industry, with especial emphasis on India and the United States; he also provides a series of suggestions to improve policymaking in these rapidly changing areas of the global economy.”—Mauro F. Guillén, Dr. Felix Zandman Professor in International Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania“This is a brilliant and innovative intervention in the study of globalization that demonstrates how much the specific forms taken by global institutional arrangements and processes depend on the structure and design of computer code. Virtual Migration will be invaluable not only to students in science and technology studies but to scholars in all fields interested in the troubled politics of the global movement of capital, technology, and people.”—Akhil Gupta, author of Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India“Aneesh’s arguments are well-organized and effectively communicate the often jargon-ridden world of complex technologies for those who have yet to go virtual themselves. . . . Virtual Migration itself opens up a very real (as opposed to virtual) space for discussing new forms of migration, governance, and globalization in which geographic perspectives and voices still have much to contribute.” -- Angela Gray * Cultural Geographies *Table of Contents1. Of Code and Capital 1 2. Programming Globalization: Visions and Revisions 14 3. Body Shopping 37 4. Virtual Migration 67 5. Actions Scripts: Rule of the Code 100 6. Code as Money 133 7. Migrations: Nations, Capital, and the State 153 Appendix A: A Note on Method 165 Appendix B: Tables 171 Notes 175 Bibliography 179 Index 191

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Book SynopsisAsserts that the labor issues in the music industry can stimulate insights about the political-economic and imaginative challenges currently facing working people of all kindsTrade Review“Here is a book that does several things at once. It explains the current status of recording artists, both as subordinated employees and as free entrepreneurs who license rights to intellectual property, namely their music compositions and recordings. It also shows how, from the standpoint of labour politics, these cultural workers are not so different from other workers in a neoliberal political economy: competing individually while dreaming of autonomy, and contractually tied to a record company that snaps up their creative output for exploitation and keeps them indebted while offering little security.” -- Hillegonda Rietveld * Times Higher Education *“An important addition to the field of popular music studies and labor studies, Unfree Masters lucidly and bracingly documents the imbricated, contested working relationship between artists and labels…[the book] offers the most detailed and exhaustively researched writing to date on the contractual relationships between artists and record labels and on the political stratagems designed to codify these relationships and change the nature of labor relationships between ‘workers’ and ‘bosses’.” -- John Dougan * Labor *“What Stahl’s fascinating study shows then, in sum, is that the creative labour of recording artists is like regular work in being conditioned by the inequality of the employment relation and by the spurious freedom of contract.” * Reviews in Cultural Theory *“Matt Stahl provides an absorbing account of a pivotal period in the history of the recording industry in the United States…. [T]his text is sure to spark further debate and discourse and as such Unfree Masters is a valuable and timely contribution to the field of popular music studies.” -- Kenny Barr * Popular Music *“Unfree Masters takes in an impressive range of materials and methods in shedding light on sites of ideological tension within recording industry work. It will be of interest not only to students of the music industry but also to those who seek a more general understanding of how neoliberal ideology plays out in everyday culture and politics." -- Rob Drew * International Journal of Communication *"After reading this book one will understand well why major record companies are in trouble today—and will probably not be very sympathetic with their plight. Summing Up: Highly recommended." -- R. J. Phillips * Choice *"Unfree Masters is an important book which ought to be widely read. It contributes not only to an enlightening turn towards cultural and musical labour in contemporary scholarship; it is also part of a renewal of radical critique in popular music studies." -- Jason Toynbee * Popular Music History *"Unfree Masters makes an important contribution to the field of recording industry studies by providing a detailed overview of the landscape of labour in the North American popular music industries. The research and its implications can be applied beyond music and into other creative industries including film, television and media." -- Natalie Lewandowski * Perfect Beat *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Popular Music and (Creative) Labor 1 Part I: Representation 31 1. American Idol and Narratives of Meritocracy 36 2. Rockumentary and the New Model Worker 64 Part II: Regulation 101 3. Carving Out Recording Artists from California's Seven-Year Rule 105 4. Freedom, Unfreedom, and the Rhetoric of the Recording Contract 143 5. Recordings Artists, Work for Hire, Employment, and Appropriation 182 Conclusion: "I'm Free!" 226 Notes 235 Bibliography 269 Index 283

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Book SynopsisIn the story of Argentina's diplomatic worker attachés dispatched to further Peronism, organized labor became a crucial aspect in defining democracy and perceptions of social justice, freedom, and sovereignty in the Americas.Trade Review"In this insightful volume, the author provides a multilevel analysis of the workings and lasting impact of Argentine labor attachés in the post–World War II era. . . . Among the many unique contributions of this book is the analysis of how nationalist Perónism became a symbol for domestic and transnational competing visions of liberal democracy and how it was a lens through which US policy makers and elites viewed the legacy of the New Deal. Highly recommended." -- L. M. Barnett * Choice *"Ambassadors of the Working Class is one of those rare hidden histories that come to light out of the blue to capture the imagination." -- Gavin O'Toole * Latin American Review of Books *"This book will be essential reading for scholars interested in international labor relationships, Peronism, and the ways in which democracy was being debated and redefined in post-World War II Latin America." -- Amie Campos * H-Latam, H-Net Reviews *“An outstanding piece of scholarship.” -- Stephen G. Rabe * Canadian Journal of History *“Ambassadors of the Working Class is an example of the possibilities offered by a truly transnational historical approach, informed by careful research and relevant theoretical frameworks. It opens interesting comparative perspectives with other movements and countries in Latin America, and it should be of interest to scholars and students of Peronism and the Cold World in Latin America.” -- Jorge A. Nállim * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Ambassadors of the Working Class is a terrific story, absorbingly told." -- David M. K. Sheinin * Journal of American History *"Ambassadors of the Working Class presents a contradictory and multifaceted Peronism. . . . The timeliness of Semán’s analysis is extraordinary. . . . A powerful antidote to conceptions that do not see anything more in Latin American popular governments than 'totalitarian populism.'" -- Fernando Teixeira da Silva * American Historical Review *"Engagingly written, and impressively researched, [Ambassadors of the Working Class] is a major contribution to the history of Peronism, of labour in Latin America, of inter-American relations, and of the Cold War." -- Paulo Drinot * Journal of the Social History Society *"Excellent multinational archival research. . . . Written in accessible and even entertaining style, and solidly grounded in previously untapped primary sources, the book therefore sheds new light not only on Peronism, but more broadly on the international history of the years immediately following the Second World War." -- Michael Goebel * Social History *"Semán not only tells a fascinating story but also, by taking seriously the challenge of doing transnational history, should inspire reflection on how global history, when produced from below, can shed light on previously ignored issues. . . . Ambassadors of the Working Class is obligatory reading for anyone interested in global history, the Cold War in Latin America, and, of course, Peronism and populism." -- Larrisa Rosa Correa * HAHR *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. From the Fringes of the Nation to the World 1 1. In Search of Social Reform 23 2. "The Argentine Problem" 44 3. Apostles of Social Revolution 68 4. From the Belly of the Beasts 102 5. At the Turn of the Tide 132 6. Political Declension 166 7. A Bitter Pill 193 Conclusion. Branding Mass Politics in the Americas 219 Notes 233 Bibliography 287 Index 311

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Book SynopsisIn the story of Argentina's diplomatic worker attachés dispatched to further Peronism, organized labor became a crucial aspect in defining democracy and perceptions of social justice, freedom, and sovereignty in the Americas.Trade Review"In this insightful volume, the author provides a multilevel analysis of the workings and lasting impact of Argentine labor attachés in the post–World War II era. . . . Among the many unique contributions of this book is the analysis of how nationalist Perónism became a symbol for domestic and transnational competing visions of liberal democracy and how it was a lens through which US policy makers and elites viewed the legacy of the New Deal. Highly recommended." -- L. M. Barnett * Choice *"Ambassadors of the Working Class is one of those rare hidden histories that come to light out of the blue to capture the imagination." -- Gavin O'Toole * Latin American Review of Books *"This book will be essential reading for scholars interested in international labor relationships, Peronism, and the ways in which democracy was being debated and redefined in post-World War II Latin America." -- Amie Campos * H-Latam, H-Net Reviews *“An outstanding piece of scholarship.” -- Stephen G. Rabe * Canadian Journal of History *“Ambassadors of the Working Class is an example of the possibilities offered by a truly transnational historical approach, informed by careful research and relevant theoretical frameworks. It opens interesting comparative perspectives with other movements and countries in Latin America, and it should be of interest to scholars and students of Peronism and the Cold World in Latin America.” -- Jorge A. Nállim * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Ambassadors of the Working Class is a terrific story, absorbingly told." -- David M. K. Sheinin * Journal of American History *"Ambassadors of the Working Class presents a contradictory and multifaceted Peronism. . . . The timeliness of Semán’s analysis is extraordinary. . . . A powerful antidote to conceptions that do not see anything more in Latin American popular governments than 'totalitarian populism.'" -- Fernando Teixeira da Silva * American Historical Review *"Engagingly written, and impressively researched, [Ambassadors of the Working Class] is a major contribution to the history of Peronism, of labour in Latin America, of inter-American relations, and of the Cold War." -- Paulo Drinot * Journal of the Social History Society *"Excellent multinational archival research. . . . Written in accessible and even entertaining style, and solidly grounded in previously untapped primary sources, the book therefore sheds new light not only on Peronism, but more broadly on the international history of the years immediately following the Second World War." -- Michael Goebel * Social History *"Semán not only tells a fascinating story but also, by taking seriously the challenge of doing transnational history, should inspire reflection on how global history, when produced from below, can shed light on previously ignored issues. . . . Ambassadors of the Working Class is obligatory reading for anyone interested in global history, the Cold War in Latin America, and, of course, Peronism and populism." -- Larrisa Rosa Correa * HAHR *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. From the Fringes of the Nation to the World 1 1. In Search of Social Reform 23 2. "The Argentine Problem" 44 3. Apostles of Social Revolution 68 4. From the Belly of the Beasts 102 5. At the Turn of the Tide 132 6. Political Declension 166 7. A Bitter Pill 193 Conclusion. Branding Mass Politics in the Americas 219 Notes 233 Bibliography 287 Index 311

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Book SynopsisA detailed, carefully wrought business biography of Henry Clay Frick, one of the leading entrepreneurs in American heavy industry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Book Synopsis"People sometimes believe that they were born too late or too early. After reading Donoghue's book, I feel that I have timed it just right, for it seems that I have had a career that would not have been available to me had I entered the world 50 years later. Just lucky, I guess."-The New York TimesTrade Review"An associate professor of English at Ohio State University, Frank Donoghue, insightfully analyzes, predicts, and laments the inevitable extinction of the faculty of the humanities-especially literature-at flagship state universities." -- Bruce A. Kimball -The Journal of Higher Education "Donoghue's well written, thoroughly documented and convincingly reported book is a must read..." -The Ukrainian Quarterly "... focuses on the daunting challenges facing new humanities Ph.D.s in an increasingly corporatized academy." -Technology and Culture "... Donoghue writes that tenure-track and tenured professors now make up only 35 percent of college facutly, and that number is steadily falling." -- -Valerie Saturen In These Times "Donoghue says that in our time the corporate university will end professors as we have come to know them." -- -Leonard R. N. Ashley Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance

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Book SynopsisTraces the rise of the Molly Maguires from Ireland’s devastating potato famine to the turbulent dawn of the American labor movement. With a heavy emphasis on the folk culture that underpinned the Mollies, the book documents the group’s Civil War rebirth in Pennsylvania, and its lasting influence.Trade Review"Mark Bulik's The Sons of Molly Maguire is a superb work of scholarship. Focused on origins, this work situates the Irish emergence and American persistence of the Molly Maguires in all of their considerable complexity, while likewise ably revealing not only the crucial developments of the 1870s that have embedded the Mollies in American memory but also the factors contributing to the Mollies' continuing legacy extending into the present." -- -James P. Leary University of Wisconsin "Mark Bulik's 'The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War' is a work of considerable scholarship, which carefully unpicks the tightly braided strands of ethnic, labor and party politics in the mid-nineteenth-century coal fields, especially the west branch of Schuylkill County. Drawing on the extensive research, he illuminates the competition between the Irish and other immigrant groups, and, most interestingly, the regional, class and generation tensions within the Irish community itself." -- -Breandan Mac Suibhne Dublin Review of Books "Mark Bulik's The Sons of Molly Maguire is an engaging and enlightening work of historical research and scholarship. As well as bring into focus the Mollies' role in giving America its first taste of class warfare, Bulik's incisive and original explorations sweep aside myths, legends, half-truths, and untruths. He significantly deepens our understanding of these flesh-and blood laborers, who they were, where they came from, and how their struggle resonated through the labor movement in the United States. Thoughtful, insightful and unfailing fair, The Sons of the Molly Maguire is history at its best." -- -Peter Quinn author of Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America "With deft writing and impressive research, Mark Bulik offers a new explanation for a conflict that shook the very foundations of post-Civil War America. The Molly Maguires were at the center of America's first great labor war, but as Bulik shows, the first shots of that war were fired not in northeastern Pennsylvania, but in the fields and villages of Ireland." -- -Terry Golway author of Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American PoliticsTable of ContentsPART I Introduction: The Fountainhead | 3 1 “A Slumbering Volcano” | 10 PART II 2 The Black Pig’s Realm | 25 3 The Secret Societies | 44 4 Land and Politics | 62 5 The Molly Maguires | 77 PART III 6 Brotherly Love | 109 7 The Hibernians | 122 8 Another Ulster | 139 9 Resurrection | 166 10 “Brave Sons of Molly” | 183 11 Mars in Mahantango | 193 12 “A Damned Hard Hole” | 203 13 “A Howling Wilderness” | 221 14 Parting Shots | 235 15 The Road to Black Thursday | 254 16 Shadows of the Gunmen | 288 Notes | 319 Index | 357 Illustrations follow page 182

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how a variety of immaterial labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines and around the world generate and explore vital affects, multiple networks, and other worlds. These forms of living capture life-making capacities within the capitalist world of disruptions and circulations of bodies and time.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Accumulating Time | 1 1 “I’ve Never Been to Me”: Redirecting Arrivals and Returns | 22 2 “Holding Out for Something Better”: Timing and Other In-Between Times | 43 3 “I Understand Where You’re Coming From”: Temporal Migration and Offshore Chronographies | 67 4 “We Have No Time to Wallow”: Death and Other Timely Diversions | 91 Coda: Presence and Mourning to the Future | 115 Acknowledgments | 127 Notes | 131 Works Cited | 147

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how a variety of immaterial labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines and around the world generate and explore vital affects, multiple networks, and other worlds. These forms of living capture life-making capacities within the capitalist world of disruptions and circulations of bodies and time.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Accumulating Time | 1 1 “I’ve Never Been to Me”: Redirecting Arrivals and Returns | 22 2 “Holding Out for Something Better”: Timing and Other In-Between Times | 43 3 “I Understand Where You’re Coming From”: Temporal Migration and Offshore Chronographies | 67 4 “We Have No Time to Wallow”: Death and Other Timely Diversions | 91 Coda: Presence and Mourning to the Future | 115 Acknowledgments | 127 Notes | 131 Works Cited | 147

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Book SynopsisFor a number of years the promise of biotechnology has been dimmed by concerns over the intrinsic safety of transgenic organisms. Although considerable knowledge of the properties of recombinant systems and a vast volume of data gathered from different applications of biotechnology are now available, these concerns are still evident. In the developing world, there are also fears that such countries might be used as testing grounds for recombinant products. Considerations of this nature have often overshadowed the benefits these countries might derive from the application of genetic engineering. In response to these concerns, UNIDO, together with the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Health Organization, formed in 1985 the Informal Working Group on Biosafety. In 1991 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations also joined the Group. The present volume was commissioned by the Group and is intended to help scientists and regulators to conceptualize the majTable of Contents1: Biological risk assessment: an editorial overview of some key policy and implementation issues, G T Tzotzos 2: Public perception of biotechnology, M Leopold 3: Risk assessment and contained use of genetically modified microorganisms(GMMs), J Grinsted 4: Safety in the contained use and the environmental release of transgenic crop plants, P J Dale and J Kinderlerer 5: Environmental release of genetically modified rhizobia and mycorrhizas, GHall 6: Microbial pesticides: safety considerations, M Levin 7: Safety in the contained use and release of transgenic animals and recombinant proteins, D Powell 8: Safety aspects of aquatic biotechnology, R A Zilinskas 9: Safety considerations in biotreatment operations, M Levin 10: Glossary of terms

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Book SynopsisContains distinctive papers that explore important aspects of contemporary employment relationships, some on micro level in orientation, whereas others are more macro oriented. This title deals with topics such as: the dual alignment of industrial relations activity in terms of strategic choice and mutual gains; and, more.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Introduction. Dual Alignment of Industrial Relations Activity: From Strategic Choice to Mutual Gains. First Contract Arbitration and the Employee Free Choice Act: Multi-Jurisdictional Evidence from Canada. Understanding Worker Participation and Organizational Performance at the Firm Level: In Search for an Integrated Model. The Impact of Employee Well-Being Policies and Sickness Absence on Workplace Performance. Reducing Work–Life Conflict: The Role of Participating in Decision Making. Union Engagement in Western New York Economic Development: An Institutional Analysis. The International Labor Organization for Minimum Labor Standards: The Seafarers' Case. Advances in industrial and labor relations. Advances in industrial and labor relations. Advances in industrial and labor relations. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisTransaction cost economics has and continues to be a fruitful area of research. There is still much to be done in the field with past research being used in conjunction with the vast number of contractual phenomena that have yet to be investigated in transaction cost economics terms.Trade ReviewAs recognized by the Economics Sciences Prize Committee in awarding the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, Oliver Williamson altered irreversibly the way we approach and analyze organization. But such is the depth of Williamson insights that often his contributions can only be fully appreciated in the context of real world organizational phenomena. It is thus not uncommon that, after struggling with some particularly thorny problem of economic organization, I will discover on rereading a familiar piece that Williamson had anticipated and already addressed the subject of my efforts. This collection contains the articles and chapters to which I most frequently return and provides the essential readings for anyone seriously interested in the science of organization. --Scott Masten, University of MichiganTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Oliver Williamson PART I THEORY AND CONCEPTS 1. O.E. Williamson (2001), ‘Hierarchies and Markets’ 2. Oliver E. Williamson (1971), ‘The Vertical Integration of Production: Market Failure Considerations’ 3. Oliver E. Williamson (1979), ‘Transaction Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations’ 4. Oliver E. Williamson (1983), ‘Credible Commitments: Using Hostages to Support Exchange’ 5. Oliver E. Williamson (1991), ‘Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Structural Alternatives’ 6. Oliver E. Williamson (1985), ‘The Limits of Firms: Incentive and Bureaucratic Features’ 7. Oliver E. Williamson (1991), ‘Strategizing, Economizing, and Economic Organization’ PART II PUBLIC POLICY 8. Oliver E. Williamson (1976), ‘Franchise Bidding for Natural Monopolies – in General and with Respect to CATV’ 9. Oliver E. Williamson (2009), ‘Opening the Black Box of Firm and Market Organization: Antitrust’ 10. Oliver E. Williamson (1988), ‘Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance’ 11. Oliver E. Williamson (2008), ‘Corporate Boards of Directors: In Principle and in Practice’ PART III INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCE 12. Oliver E. Williamson (1993), ‘Transaction Cost Economics and Organization Theory’ 13. Oliver E. Williamson (1993), ‘Calculativeness, Trust, and Economic Organization’ 14. Oliver E. Williamson (2005), ‘Why Law, Economics, and Organization?’ PART IV PERSPECTIVES 15. Oliver E. Williamson (2009), ‘Pragmatic Methodology: A Sketch, with Applications to Transaction Cost Economics’ 16. Oliver E. Williamson (2010), ‘Transaction Cost Economics: The Natural Progression’

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Book SynopsisTransaction cost economics has and continues to be a fruitful area of research. There is still much to be done in the field with past research being used in conjunction with the vast number of contractual phenomena that have yet to be investigated in transaction cost economics terms.Trade ReviewAs recognized by the Economics Sciences Prize Committee in awarding the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, Oliver Williamson altered irreversibly the way we approach and analyze organization. But such is the depth of Williamson insights that often his contributions can only be fully appreciated in the context of real world organizational phenomena. It is thus not uncommon that, after struggling with some particularly thorny problem of economic organization, I will discover on rereading a familiar piece that Williamson had anticipated and already addressed the subject of my efforts. This collection contains the articles and chapters to which I most frequently return and provides the essential readings for anyone seriously interested in the science of organization. --Scott Masten, University of MichiganTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Oliver Williamson PART I THEORY AND CONCEPTS 1. O.E. Williamson (2001), ‘Hierarchies and Markets’ 2. Oliver E. Williamson (1971), ‘The Vertical Integration of Production: Market Failure Considerations’ 3. Oliver E. Williamson (1979), ‘Transaction Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations’ 4. Oliver E. Williamson (1983), ‘Credible Commitments: Using Hostages to Support Exchange’ 5. Oliver E. Williamson (1991), ‘Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Structural Alternatives’ 6. Oliver E. Williamson (1985), ‘The Limits of Firms: Incentive and Bureaucratic Features’ 7. Oliver E. Williamson (1991), ‘Strategizing, Economizing, and Economic Organization’ PART II PUBLIC POLICY 8. Oliver E. Williamson (1976), ‘Franchise Bidding for Natural Monopolies – in General and with Respect to CATV’ 9. Oliver E. Williamson (2009), ‘Opening the Black Box of Firm and Market Organization: Antitrust’ 10. Oliver E. Williamson (1988), ‘Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance’ 11. Oliver E. Williamson (2008), ‘Corporate Boards of Directors: In Principle and in Practice’ PART III INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCE 12. Oliver E. Williamson (1993), ‘Transaction Cost Economics and Organization Theory’ 13. Oliver E. Williamson (1993), ‘Calculativeness, Trust, and Economic Organization’ 14. Oliver E. Williamson (2005), ‘Why Law, Economics, and Organization?’ PART IV PERSPECTIVES 15. Oliver E. Williamson (2009), ‘Pragmatic Methodology: A Sketch, with Applications to Transaction Cost Economics’ 16. Oliver E. Williamson (2010), ‘Transaction Cost Economics: The Natural Progression’

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Book SynopsisPresents aspects of management, leadership, regulation, and compliance that pertain to mining health and safety. This book details effective health and safety management systems and concentrates on safety and health hazard anticipation, identification, evaluation, and control.

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Book SynopsisDesigned to support safe, responsible management of tailings across the global mining industry, providing guidance on good governance and engineering practices to support continual improvement in tailings storage facility management and help foster and strengthen the safety culture of mining companies

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