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Arcadia Publishing The Everett Massacre A History of the Class
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Johns Hopkins University Press My Office Is Killing Me
Book SynopsisWhether it's a case of mold in an elementary school or inadequate ventilation in a high-rise office building, this valuable guide can help people cope when the air they breathe indoors is making them sick.Trade ReviewWell researched and clearly presented by a recognized expert in the field. -- Dr. Kenneth W. Edwards Real Estate Professional 2006 An interesting read and a good resource for information on indoor air quality... it offers solutions rather than blame. -- Lauren Heine, PhD Chemical and Engineering News 2006 May does a good job of explaining technical information in a simple manner, using instructive photographs... Will be especially useful for libraries emphasizing legal and policy collections. Choice 2007 This book is a non-alarmist, extremely current, review of many now recognized sources of inevitable and not-so-inevitable air quality impairment... this book belongs in your reference library. -- Richard Hughes M.D. News 2007 May's new book on sick buildings offers practical cures for both individuals and those in charge of such properties. Boston Herald 2006 A scientific, practical, and thorough guide to indoor air quality. Environmental Building News 2007 Takes on very complex issues, explains them in a language we can understand, and best of all stresses that sources of indoor air pollution can be identified and removed. Allergy & Asthma Today 2006 This very readable, 317-page book targets the general public and office occupants. -- Janice Camp Respiratory Care 2007 This little book as a lot to offer. -- J. Thomas Pierce, MBBS, PhD Doody's Review Service 2008Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: The Basics1. Poor Indoor Air Quality: A Health Concern2. Shelter in the Storm3. Diseased Decor4. A Sea of Air5. Gases in the Sea of Air6. Particles in the Sea of Air7. Menace in the MechanicalsPart II: Daily Life8. Schools: Our Children, Our Future9. Nine to Five: Where We Work10. Infirm Infirmaries and Coughing Courthouses11. Retail Spaces: Shop Till You Drop12. Before Nine and After Five: Recreation and TravelPart III: The Final Test: Grading the Air13. Do It Yourself14. Call in a Professional15. More Data for TechiesConclusionResource GuideList of AbbreviationsNotesIndex
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Holt McDougal Rising from the Rails Pullman Porters and the
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. The Case Against the Employee Free Choice Act
Book SynopsisWith the Obama administration in the White House and an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) appears likely. In The Case against the Employee Free Choice Act, Richard Epstein examines this proposed legislation and why it is a large step backward in labour relations that will work to the detriment of employees, employers, and the public at large.
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MJ - Ohio University Press Labor and Democracy in Namibia 19711996
Book SynopsisIn this compelling study of labor and nationalism during and after Namibia’s struggle for liberation, Gretchen Bauer addresses the very difficult task of consolidating democracy in an independent Namibia.
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University of New Mexico Press Mother Jones Raising Cain and Consciousness
Book SynopsisRadicalized in a brutal era of repeated violence against hard-working men and women, Mother Jones criss-crossed the country to demand higher wages and safer working conditions. This work recounts her story explaining the dramatic times through which she lived and to which she contributed so much.
£22.42
Pathfinder Books Ltd Labours Giant Step
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£25.00
Labor and Employment Research Association Union Organizing and Collective Bargaining at a Critical Moment
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Titletown Publishing, LLC My Job
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R.S. Means Company Ltd Construction Project Safety
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£75.00
Picador USA A World Without Work
Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES & MCKINSEY 2020 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAROne of Fortune Best Books of the YearOne of Inc. Best Business Books of the YearOne of The Times (UK) Best Business Books of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceFrom an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it From mechanical looms to the combustion engine to the first computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. But as Daniel Susskind demonstrates, this time really is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds of jobs are increasingly at risk. Drawing on almost a decade of research in the field, Susskind argues that
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Jones & Bartlett Publishers Uglys Electrical Safety and NFPA 70E 2021 Edition
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£24.26
Johns Hopkins University Press American Workers American Unions
Book SynopsisGall presents new information on government workers and their recent battles to defend workplace rights.Table of ContentsPreface1. The New Industrial Regime2. War, Prosperity, and Depression, 1914–19333. Rebirth of the Unions, 1933–19394. Labor Goes to War, 1939–19455. Strikes, Politics, Radicalism, 1945–19506. Affluent Workers, Stable Unions Labor in the Postwar Decades7. Race, War, Politics Labor in the 1960s8. Labor at the Close of the Twentieth Century9. Losing Ground Workers and Unions since 9/11Selected Further ReadingIndex
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Thorndike Press Large Print The Radium Girls The Dark Story of Americas
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£32.99
Arcadia Publishing Nestle in Fulton New York
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Arcadia Publishing Pittsburgh and the Great Steel Strike of 1919
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£18.69
The University of North Carolina Press Mining Language Racial Thinking Indigenous
Book SynopsisBuilding on works that have narrated the global history of American mining in economic and labour terms, Mining Language is the first book-length study of the technical and scientific vocabularies that miners developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they engaged with metallic materials.
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Basic Books Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long
Book SynopsisHow essential workers? fight for better jobs during the pandemic revolutionized US labor politicsThroughout the coronavirus pandemic, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and safety risks, attracting a level of support unseen in decades. This explosion of labor unrest seemed sudden to many. But Essential reveals that American workers had simmered in discontent long before their anger boiled over.Decades of austerity, sociologist Jamie K. McCallum shows, have left frontline workers vulnerable to employer abuse, lacking government protections, and increasingly furious. Through firsthand research conducted as the pandemic unfolded, McCallum traces the evolution of workers? militancy, showing how their struggles for safer workplaces, better pay and health care, and the right to unionize have benefitted all Americans and spurred a radical new phase of the labor movement. This is essential reading for understanding the past, present, and future of the working class.
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Health Administration Press Healthcare Executive Compensation: A Guide for
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging
Book SynopsisThis account of the formation of United Auto Workers' Union shows how the gains workers made were not easy or inevitable, but required strategic and tactical sophistication as well as concerted action. An oral history is included.Table of ContentsPart 1 Lost history - Sol Dollinger: Toledo Auto-Lite strike of 1934; 1935 Chevrolet transmission strike; Homer Martin elected president; factional warfare in the U.A.W.; U.A.W. Twenty-point program; U.A.W. targets Ford Motor; equality of sacrifice; anti-union forces ambush U.A.W. Local 212; mafia and Briggs linked by Senator Estis Kefauver hearings; Reuther slams door on union democracy, 1947-1948; good housekeeping seal of approval; who led the 1937 sitdown strikes in Flint? Part 2 Striking Flint - an oral history of Genora (Johnson) Dollinger by Susan Rosenthal: conditions before the strike; preparing for battle; sit down! women comer forward; the women's emergency brigade; breaking the stalemate; a blow against racism; the sweet fruit of victory; fighting racism; organizing the unemployed; personality speaking; class struggle during the war; the employers strike back; back to the future.
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Labor Pains: Inside America's New Union Movement
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£72.90
Monthly Review Press,U.S. Why Unions Matter
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£76.41
Monthly Review Press,U.S. Silvertown: The Lost Story of a Strike That Shook
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£28.50
Smithsonian Books The Sweat on Their Face: Portraying American
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£31.50
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography
Book SynopsisNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistCalifornia Book Award Winner"The Crusades of Cesar Chavez is a biography for readers who find real human beings more compelling than icons." --Los Angeles TimesCesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched a movement, and inspired a generation. He rose from migrant worker to icon, becoming one of the great leaders of the twentieth century. Two decades after his death, Chavez remains the most significant Latino figure in U.S. history. Yet his life story has been told only in hagiography--until now. In the first comprehensive biography of Chavez, Miriam Pawel offers a searching yet empathetic portrayal. Chavez emerges here as a visionary whose eyes were fixed on a horizon others often could not even see. He was a brilliant strategist who sometimes stumbled, and a streetwise organizer whose pragmatism was often at odds with his soaring dreams. Drawing on thousands of documents, hundreds of hours of audiotape, and scores of interviews, this superbly written life deepens our understanding of one of Chavez's most salient qualities: his profound humanity. Pawel traces Chavez's rise as he empowered the poor and disenfranchised and led farmworkers to historic victories over the agriculture industry. With compassion and compelling detail, she narrates the equally dramatic later years when Chavez's charismatic leadership devolved into a cult of personality, with heartbreaking consequences for his union. The Crusades of Cesar Chavez reveals how this unlikely American hero ignited one of the great social movements of our time--and left a legacy that resonates today, from California to the White House.
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Verso Books It Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from the
Book SynopsisIn the spring of 2011, Wisconsinites took to the streets in what became the largest and liveliest labor demonstrations in modern American history. Protesters in the Middle East sent greetings-and pizzas-to the thousands occupying the Capitol building in Madison, and 150,000 demonstrators converged on the city.In a year that has seen a revival of protest in America, here is a riveting account of the first great wave of grassroots resistance to the corporate restructuring of the Great Recession.It Started in Wisconsin includes eyewitness reports by striking teachers, students, and others (such as Wisconsin-born musician Tom Morello), as well as essays explaining Wisconsin's progressive legacy by acclaimed historians. The book lays bare the national corporate campaign that crafted Wisconsin's anti-union legislation and similar laws across the country, and it conveys the infectious esprit de corps that pervaded the protests with original pictures and comics.Trade Review[A] collection of stories from those that participated in one of the most inspiring movements to erupt in the US heartland in decades. Those stories provide the observer from afar with a fairly universal and nuanced look at the daily lives of those involved in organizing, occupying, reporting and otherwise participating in those weeks of popular democracy. Interspersed between the tales of the workers, students, farmers and other protesters are a number of photographs and comics. The inclusion of these graphics truly enhances the overall effect ... .worthwhile and provocative. -- Ron Jacobs * Counterpunch *These essays delve into the historical, political, and ideological underpinnings of the 2011 events. [L]ater chapters are meatier, with events set against the backdrop of early-20th-century Wisconsin progressive politics when Governor Robert 'Fighting Bob' LaFollette began the crusade against the dominance of corporate America (at that time, railroads) over government. The book exposes how that same dominance continues today. [W]ill help readers, regardless of their own stance, to understand much of what's at stake in the country's current labor and political battles. -- Carol J. Elsen * Library Journal *Midwest pride of place animates much of the writing, along with awareness of Wisconsin's progressive history, the global context for the Madison protests and a genuine outrage that transcends the particular grievances of public sector union members. If anything, Walker has reawakened a dormant spirit of solidarity. The harvest of the extremism he sowed may be his own undoing. -- David Luhrssen * Express Milwaukee *Convey[s] some deeper understanding and offer[s] important lessons valuable for struggles to come ... will stand as a future reference point for those wishing to get some later handle on what happened in the 'Badger State.' Importantly, several of the key essays provide a deeper backdrop for an understanding of what happened. The massive show of solidarity with those directly affected by the 'budget repair bill' did not come just from police and firefighters exempted from the assault, or from private sector trade union hands. It came from a broader public not directly tied to organized labor. [C]ontains several important perspectives on the state of Wisconsin labor, key for understanding the uprising. -- Allen Ruff * Against the Current *
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Construction Reliability: Safety, Variability and
Book SynopsisThis book provides answers to the following problems: how to identify the most probable critical failures; how to describe and use data-concerning materials that are either heterogeneous, time-variant, or space-variant; how to quantify the reliability and lifetime of a system; how to use feedback information to actualize reliability results; and how to optimize an inspection politic or a maintenance strategy. Numerous authors from public research centers and firms propose a synthesis of methods, both new and well-known, and offer numerous examples concerning dams, geotechnical study, and structures from nuclear and civil engineering.Table of ContentsPreface xiii Julien BAROTH, Franck SCHOEFS and Denys BREYSSE Introduction xvii Julien BAROTH, Alaa CHATEAUNEUF and Franck SCHOEFS PART 1. QUALITATIVE METHODS FOR EVALUATING THE RELIABILITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING STRUCTURES 1 Introduction to Part 1 3 Chapter 1. Methods for System Analysis and Failure Analysis 5 Daniel BOISSIER, Laurent PEYRAS and Aurélie TALON 1.1. Introduction 5 1.2. Structural analysis 7 1.3. Functional analysis 10 1.4. Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) 14 1.5. Bibliography 19 Chapter 2. Methods for Modeling Failure Scenarios 21 Daniel BOISSIER, Laurent PEYRAS and Aurélie TALON 2.1. Introduction 21 2.2. Event tree method 22 2.3. Fault tree method 24 2.4. Bow-tie method 26 2.5. Criticality evaluation methods 29 2.6. Bibliography 34 Chapter 3. Application to a Hydraulic Civil Engineering Project 37 Daniel BOISSIER, Laurent PEYRAS and Aurélie TALON 3.1. Context and approach for an operational reliability study 37 3.2. Functional analysis and failure mode analysis 39 3.3. Construction of failure scenarios 42 3.4. Scenario criticality analysis 44 3.5. Application summary 50 3.6. Bibliography 51 PART 2. HETEROGENEITY AND VARIABILITY OF MATERIALS: CONSEQUENCES FOR SAFETY AND RELIABILITY 53 Introduction to Part 2 55 Chapter 4. Uncertainties in Geotechnical Data 57 Denys BREYSSE, Julien BAROTH, Gilles CELEUX, Aurélie TALON and Daniel BOISSIER 4.1. Various sources of uncertainty in geotechnical engineering 57 4.2. Erroneous, censored and sparse data 62 4.3. Statistical representation of data 64 4.4. Data modeling 66 4.5. Conclusion 74 4.6. Bibliography 74 Chapter 5. Some Estimates on the Variability of Material Properties 77 Denys BREYSSE and Antoine MARACHE 5.1. Introduction 77 5.2. Mean value estimation 77 5.3. Estimation of characteristic values 82 5.4. Principles of a geostatistical study 86 5.5. Bibliography 96 Chapter 6. Reliability of a Shallow Foundation Footing 97 Denys BREYSSE 6.1. Introduction 97 6.2. Bearing capacity models for strip foundations – modeling errors 98 6.3. Effects of soil variability on variability in bearing capacity and safety of the foundation 101 6.4. Taking account of the structure of the spatial correlation and its influence on the safety of the foundation 109 6.5. Conclusions 115 6.6. Bibliography 117 PART 3. METAMODELS FOR STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY 119 Introduction to Part 3 121 Chapter 7. Physical and Polynomial Response Surfaces 123 Frédéric DUPRAT, Franck SCHOEFS and Bruno SUDRET 7.1. Introduction 123 7.2. Background to the response surface method 124 7.3. Concept of a response surface 125 7.4. Usual reliability methods 131 7.5. Polynomial response surfaces 133 7.6. Conclusion 143 7.7. Bibliography 143 Chapter 8. Response Surfaces based on Polynomial Chaos Expansions 147 Bruno SUDRET, Géraud BLATMAN and Marc BERVEILLER 8.1. Introduction 147 8.2. Building of a polynomial chaos basis 149 8.3. Computation of the expansion coefficients 151 8.4. Applications in structural reliability 158 8.5. Conclusion 164 8.6. Bibliography 165 PART 4. METHODS FOR STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY OVER TIME 169 Introduction to Part 4 171 Chapter 9. Data Aggregation and Unification 173 Daniel BOISSIER and Aurélie TALON 9.1. Introduction 173 9.2. Methods of data aggregation and unification 173 9.3. Evaluation of evacuation time for an apartment in case of fire 181 9.4. Conclusion 185 9.5. Bibliography 185 Chapter 10. Time-Variant Reliability Problems 187 Bruno SUDRET 10.1. Introduction 187 10.2. Random processes 188 10.3. Time-variant reliability problems 192 10.4. PHI2 method 197 10.5. Industrial application: truss structure under time-varying loads 202 10.6. Conclusion 204 10.7. Bibliography 205 Chapter 11. Bayesian Inference and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods 207 Gilles CELEUX 11.1. Introduction 207 11.2. Bayesian Inference 208 11.3. MCMC methods for weakly informative data 210 11.4. Estimating a competing risk model from censored and incomplete data 219 11.5. Conclusion 225 11.6. Bibliography 225 Chapter 12. Bayesian Updating Techniques in Structural Reliability 227 Bruno SUDRET 12.1. Introduction 227 12.2. Problem statement: link between measurements and model prediction 228 12.3. Computing and updating the failure probability 229 12.4. Updating a confidence interval on response quantities 233 12.5. Bayesian updating of the model basic variables 235 12.6. Updating the prediction of creep strains in containment vessels of nuclear power plants 238 12.7. Conclusion 245 12.8. Acknowledgments 246 12.9. Bibliography 246 PART 5. RELIABILITY-BASED MAINTENANCE OPTIMIZATION 249 Introduction to Part 5 251 Chapter 13. Maintenance Policies 253 Alaa CHATEAUNEUF, Franck SCHOEFS and Bruno CAPRA 13.1. Maintenance 253 13.2. Types of maintenance 257 13.3. Maintenance models 262 13.4. Conclusion 269 13.5. Bibliography 269 Chapter 14. Maintenance Cost Models 271 Alaa CHATEAUNEUF and Franck SCHOEFS 14.1. Preventive maintenance 271 14.2. Maintenance based on time 273 14.3. Maintenance based on age 275 14.4. Inspection models 276 14.5. Structures with large lifetimes 283 14.6. Criteria for choosing a maintenance policy 284 14.7. Example of a corroded steel pipeline 285 14.8. Conclusion 290 14.9. Bibliography 290 Chapter 15. Practical Aspects: Industrial Implementation and Limitations in a Multi-criteria Context 293 Franck SCHOEFS and Bruno CAPRA 15.1. Introduction 293 15.2. Motorway concession with high performance requirements 296 15.3. Ageing of civil engineering structures: using field data to update predictions 303 15.4. Conclusion 307 15.5. Bibliography 308 Conclusion 311 Julien BAROTH, Franck SCHOEFS and Denys BREYSSE List of Symbols 315 List of Authors 323 Index 325
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For Beginners Unions for Beginners
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Belt Publishing The History of Democracy Has Yet to Be Written:
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Sutherland House Books We Have Received A Complain US Edition
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Vertrauen und Politik im Alltag: Die
Book SynopsisText in German. Why was the German working-class movement struggling against the rise of National-Socialism so easily defeated, whereas the French working-class movement, which was numerically and organizationally much weaker than its German counterpart, succeeded in mobilizing hundreds of thousands of workers against the radical right at the moment of a "fascist threat"? To answer this question, Joachim C. Haberlen's study investigates the social and political practices within the working-class movement in Leipzig and Lyon at the end of the Weimar Republic and, respectively, the Third French Republic. At the core of the study are the role of trust and distrust in social and political movements, and the ambivalent consequences of the politicization of the working-class movement within its local context. The study draws on a broad variety of primary sources from archives in Leipzig, Berlin, Lyon, Paris, and elsewhere. Informed by everyday historical approaches, it creates a lively and multifaceted image of workers' lives and grassroots politics in both cities. The comparative approach results in a careful analysis that identifies major differences that help explain the different outcomes of the working-class movement's struggles. Leipzig's working-class movement, the study shows, was characterized by a deep-seated distrust, which was a major impediment for a successful mobilization against the Nazis. Furthermore, the politicization of the local working-class movement not only reproduced the conflicts between Social Democrats and Communists at the rank-and-file level, but also turned politics into a "nuisance" that made many workers turn away from politics altogether. In Lyon, by contrast, workers succeeded in overcoming existing distrust. In addition, the politicization of the working-class movement during the rise of the Popular Front (1934-36) had, at first, an integrative function. Yet, soon enough the overburdening of social practices like strikes with political meaning contributed to the decline of the Popular Front.
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World Health Organization Evaluation of Certain Food Additives and
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World Health Organization Reunión Conjunta Fao/Oms de Expertos Acerca de la
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WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Guidelines for a National Programme for the
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