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Book SynopsisThere has been a marked increase in the number of immigrants worldwide. However, there is still limited research on immigrant experiences at work, especially the challenges and opportunities they face as they navigate and (re-)establish careers in new host countries.Examining the Career Development Practices and Experiences of Immigrants is a comprehensive reference book that expands the understanding of career development issues faced by immigrants and explores organizational practices relevant to immigrant career development. The book presents research on the challenges, opportunities, and outcomes immigrants face as they navigate new employment and career landscapes. With coverage of such themes as career experience, career identities, and occupational downgrading, this book offers an essential reference source for managers, executives, policymakers, academicians, researchers, and students.

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Scotland's Radical Exports is about the men and women who took trade unionism and working class politics from Scotland to the main countries that make up the Scottish Diaspora. Many of Scotland's industrial workers left home with a formidable combination of trade union conviction and political understanding. Their unrivalled experience made them especially suited to leadership roles. Guided by traditional Scottish models, they formed trade unions wherever they settled, often at a time when membership of a union could mean dismissal, eviction, and deportation. Politically their impact was just as great in the parties of the working class they helped build. Each of the thirteen chapters of the book is a short history of a trade union organisation or a political party, told through the biographies of the Scots who helped shape them. Many of the characters in the book are unknown in Scotland, but their contributions are celebrated by the organisations they helped build. Scotland's Radical Exports records the determination, sacrifices and unqualified heroism of people who passionately believed in the cause for which they fought. It reminds us of their courage and gives them their proper place in Scottish history. "I am exceptionally proud of all of Scotland's achievements and particularly the different ways in which Scots have helped to shape the modern world. Scotland's contribution to the Trades Union movement and enhancing the rights of workers - at home and around the globe - is hugely significant. It is important that these stories are captured and celebrated." -- Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland "Much has been written about Scotland's contribution to the development of the modern world, in science and literature, in trade - good and bad, and of course, in enterprise and philanthropy. This book adds another important chapter to that remarkable history - to the values we shared and the inspirational individuals who spread them far and wide." -- Lord Jack McConnell, First Minister of Scotland, 2001-2007 Pat Kelly is a former president of the STUC and Scottish secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). After graduating from Glasgow University he worked as a civil engineer before he became a full-time trade union official. Since leaving the PCS he has served on the Civil Service Appeal Board and as a non-executive director of NHS24 and Scottish Water. He has four children and lives in Edinburgh with his partner, Jane Lindsay.

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Book SynopsisUpdated with new chapters on 1987-1997 and 1997-2010 In this highly-praised book, Sarah Boston recounts the story of women workers from the early nineteenth century to the present day: the struggles and strikes, successes and failures in their strenuous efforts to organise and win recognition from employers and male trade unionists. Women Workers and the Trade Unions - now republished with the addition of two new chapters - is the only comprehensive account of this neglected overlap of women's history and labour history. In this enlightening history, Sarah Boston argues that male trade unionists' exclusionary treatment of women workers contradicted not only the socialist aims of most trade unions but also the very logic of trade unionism itself. The account is essential reading for anyone concerned with the history of industrial relations, but also with the history of feminism and of women in the workplace. This new and updated edition includes a new preface by Frances O'Grady, as well as the two new chapters by Sarah Boston. The new chapters cover the period from 1987 to 2010, exploring the specific struggles of that period, and women's ongoing fight for equal rights and equal pay in the post-Thatcher period and under New Labour.Table of ContentsPreface by Frances O'Grady Introduction 1. 'Their proper sphere at home' 1874 2. '...and Women' 1874-1906 3. 'The wage that never rises' 1906-1914 4. 'Don't blackleg your man in Flanders' 1914-1918 5. 'Women must go' 1918-1923 6. 'Asking for bread and getting a stone' 1923-1939 7. 'Woman power' 1939-1945 8. 'Liberty on your lips' 1945-1950 9. 'Be true to us on budget day' 1950-1960 10. 'Little indication of progress' 1960-1968 11. 'You'll have to do it yourselves' 1968-1975 12. 'Charters are no Aladdin's lamp' 1976-1986 13. New chapter 'Become feminine or we will become fringe' 1987-1997 14. New chapter 'Our daughters and our granddaughters' 1997-2010 Selected bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJapan's national identity associates the 'Japanese people' with the Japanese land, making the farmer the backbone of the nation. Others in Japanese Agriculture challenges this mythology, revealing the changing faces of Japanese farmers during the colonial and post-war eras. First, it traces the tangled trail of Koreans brought into farming villages as a result of war mobilization and capitalist development. Second, it discusses the plight of those who evacuated from cities as they attempted to eke out a living on marginal land. Third, it points out that settlers repatriated from the colonies were met with hostility from villagers and indifference from authorities. Finally, it explores how those who were encouraged to emigrate for 'the good of the nation' in post-war Japan, found themselves victims of agrarian reforms, which severed their ties. In sum, despite being lauded as the 'backbone of the nation' Japanese farmers have been repeatedly marginalized and othered.Table of Contents Figures Tables Photos Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The ethnic problem in Japan's farming villages 2 Evacuation, return to farming and postwar settlement 3 Farmers' lived experience of borders from Manchuria to postwar settlement 4 Japanese expatriate 'others': Postwar land reform and migration 5 Putting down roots: Postwar administration of overseas agricultural emigration and farmers Conclusion Notes Glossary Bibliography Name Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisThis book covers techniques in the chemical laboratory and safety procedures that are crucial to making the laboratory a safe workplace. The book is divided into two sections, the 1st comprehensively covering safety protocols in a chemical laboratory and the 2nd detailing important techniques to master. This book can be utilized by graduate students, laboratory technicians, and laboratory chemists.

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Book SynopsisThe first training manual for new staff working in BSL3/4 labs. This guide is based on a course developed in 2007 by the EU COST action group 28b which serves as a standard for many courses BSL3/4 training courses worldwide. The four-day course consists of lectures and practical training with the lecturers covering all the different possibilities of organising a BSL-3/4 lab including the adaptation to the local requirements of biosafety, safety at work, and social regulations. This book covers bio-containment, hazard criteria and categorisation of microbes, technical specifications of BSL-3 laboratories and ABSL-3 laboratories, personal protective gear, shipping BSL-3 and BSL-4 organisms according to UN and IATA regulations, efficacy of inactivation procedures, fumigation, learning from a history of lab accidents, handling samples that arrive for diagnostic testing and bridging the gap between the requirements of bio-containment and diagnostics. Course participants can not only use the book for their actual training event but it will remain a useful reference throughout their career in BSL3/4 labs.Table of ContentsAcknowledgement Preface Introduction (Manfred Weidmann) Laboratory Biosafety in Containment Laboratories (Annette A Kraus and Ali Mirazimi) Hazard criteria and categegoisation of microbes: Classification systems (Nigel J. Silman) Technical and practical aspects of BSL-3 laboratories (Frank T. Hufert and Manfred Weidmann) Animal biosafety level 3 facility - enhancements when dealing with large animals (Abad F.X., Solanes D., Domingo M.) Personal Protective Equipment (Nigel J Silman) Shipping of infectious substances according IATA DGR regulations (Mandy Elschner and Martin Heller) Disinfection and decontamination (Patrick Butaye) Fumigation of Spaces (Nigel J. Silman) Learning from a history of laboratory accidents (Manfred Weidmann) Bridging the gap between requirements of bio-containment and diagnostics (Manfred Weidmann, Frank T.Hufert, Nigel Silman) Risk Assessment Procedures (Asa Szekely Bjorndal) Biosecurity (Juergen Mertsching) Appendix

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Book Synopsis“Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth” provides a fresh account of the International Working Men’s Association. Founded in London in 1864, the First International gathered trade unions, associations, co-operatives, and individual workers across Europe and the Americas. The IWMA struggled for the emancipation of labour. It organised solidarity with strikers. It took sides in major events, such as the 1871 Paris Commune. It soon appeared as a threat to European powers, which vilified and prosecuted it. Although it split up in 1872, the IWMA played a ground-breaking part in the history of working-class internationalism. In our age of globalised capitalism, large labour migration, and rising nationalisms, much can be learnt from the history of the first international labour organisation. Contributors are: Fabrice Bensimon, Gregory Claeys, Michel Cordillot, Nicolas Delalande, Quentin Deluermoz, Marianne Enckell, Albert Garcia Balaña, Samuel Hayat, Jürgen Herres, François Jarrige, Mathieu Léonard, Carl Levy, Detlev Mares, Krzysztof Marchlewicz, Woodford McClellan, Jeanne Moisand, Iorwerth Prothero, Jean Puissant, Jürgen Schmidt, Antje Schrupp, Horacio Tarcus, Antony Taylor, Marc Vuilleumier.Trade Review"The essays are well written and well documented. Of particular interest, especially to students of the larger Left, is Jürgen Herres’s contribution, “Karl Marx and the IWMA Revisited,” which provides a much-needed, post–Cold War perspective on the leading—but not authoritarian—figure of the First International during the first wave of globalization. Contributions on Latin American and US sections of the IWMA relieve the time-worn Eurocentrism of many past analyses, and one essay explores the roles and opportunities for women in the overwhelmingly male-dominated groups. In sum, the coverage is well rounded." - J. A. Young, in: CHOICE 56:2 (2018) "The contributions to the collection, both individually and collectively, greatly enrich and bring up-to-date our knowledge and understanding of the IWMA. They also flag important areas of future research, especially those around gender, race and transnationalism. In sum, this book provides a treasure-trove of information and insights for all those interested in labour internationalism, its mid-nineteenth century development, its many-sided character and its strengths and weaknesses." - Neville Kirk, in: Labour History, No. 115 (November 2018), pp. 179-181 "...this book is quite a successful work, certainly as a history of the IWMA itself, but also as a broader contribution to a trans-national and even global view of the working-class organisation and political radicalism during the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Indeed, it is as an analysis of the interaction between the national and the trans-national and global, in political radicalism and working-class organisation, and as an account of both the breaks and the continuities in these interactions that the book makes its greatest scholarly contribution." - Jonathan Sperber, in: Cultural and Social History (2019) [DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2019.1572693] "Der gut lesbare und in jedem Fall nicht nur für das spezialisierte Fachpublikum instruktive Band versammelt (neben einer guten Einleitung der Herausgeber) 23 Beiträge aus der Feder zum großen Teil prominenter Kenner der Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegungen beziehungsweise der Pariser Kommune [...] Jüngere Spezialisten und Spezialistinnen zeichnen sogar für die Mehrzahl der Beiträge verantwortlich, und so bewegt er sich durchaus am cutting edge der Forschung''. Thomas Welskopp, in Francia Recensio 4, (2019).Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Fabrice Bensimon, Quentin Deluermoz and Jeanne Moisand Part 1: Organisation and Debates 2 The IWMA and Its Precursors in London, c. 1830–1860  Fabrice Bensimon 3 Little Local Difficulties? The General Council of the IWMA as an Arena for British Radical Politics  Detlev Mares 4 The IWMA and Industrial Conflict in England and France  Iorwerth Prothero 5 Transnational Solidarity in the Making Labour Strikes, Money Flows, and the First International, 1864–1872  Nicolas Delalande 6 The IWMA, Workers and the Machinery Question (1864–1874)  François Jarrige 7 The IWMA and the Commune A Reassessment  Quentin Deluermoz Part 2: Global Causes and Local Branches 8 Global Values Locally Transformed The IWMA in the German States 1864–1872/76  Jürgen Schmidt 9 The IWMA in Belgium (1865–1875)  Jean Puissant 10 The First International in Switzerland A Few Observations  Marc Vuilleumier 11 For Independent Poland and the Emancipation of the Working Class The Poles in the IWMA, 1864–1876  Krzysztof Marchlewicz 12 Russians in the IWMA The Background  Woodford McClellan 13 The Italians and the IWMA  Carl Levy 14 1871 in Spain Transnational and Local History in the Formation of the FRE-IWMA  Albert Garcia-Balañà 15 Revolutions, Republics and IWMA in the Spanish Empire (around 1873)  Jeanne Moisand 16 The First International in Latin America  Horacio Tarcus 17 Socialism v. Democracy? The IWMA in the USA, 1869–1876  Michel Cordillot 18 “Sectarian Secret Wisdom” and Nineteenth-Century Radicalism The IWMA in London and New York  Antony Taylor Part 3: Actors and Ideologies 19 Karl Marx and the IWMA Revisited  Jürgen Herres 20 The Construction of Proudhonism within the IWMA  Samuel Hayat 21 Professor Beesly, Positivism and the International The Patriotism Question  Gregory Claeys 22 Bringing Together Feminism and Socialism in the First International Four Examples  Antje Schrupp 23 Bakunin and the Jura Federation  Marianne Enckell 24 Carlo Cafiero and the International in Italy From Marx to Bakunin  Mathieu Léonard Appendix 1: The IWMA – A Brief Chronology Appendix 2: Membership Indexes

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Book SynopsisIn Freshwater Boundaries Revisited, María Querol analyzes the different methods applied in the delimitation of international rivers and lakes and the recent developments in the field. This monograph reassesses the diverse methods of boundary delimitation in view of the latest and abundant jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice and the tribunals under the aegis of the Permanent Court of Arbitration on the subject. The author focuses on the influence of human considerations in the field under study and the legal consequences ensuing therefrom, in addition to drawing some conclusions regarding freshwater boundaries.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the Brazilian political process in the period of 2003-2020: the governments led by the Workers’ Party and their reformist policies, the deep political crisis that led to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and the rise of Bolsonaro neofascism. The author maintains that the Party and ideological conflicts present in the Brazilian politics are linked to the class distributive conflicts present in the Brazilian society. Defeated for the fourth consecutive time in the presidential election, the political parties representing the international capital and segments of the bourgeoisie and of the middle class, abandoned the rules of the democratic game to end the Workers' Party government cycle. They paved the way for the rise of neofascism.Table of ContentsPreface to the English Edition List of Tables and Charts part 1 Reform and Social Classes in the pt Governments 1 State, Bourgeoisie, and Neoliberalism in the Lula Government  1 The Bloc in Power in the Neoliberal Period  2 The Political Ascension of the Industrial Bourgeoisie and Agribusiness under the Lula Government  3 Political Rise, but No Hegemony Established  4 The Political Regime and the Hegemony of Financial Capital  5 Final Considerations 2 The Lula Governments The New “National Bourgeoisie” in Power  1 fhc, Lula, and Disputes within the Bourgeoisie  2 The Political Relations of the Big Internal Bourgeoisie with the Lula Government  3 Contradictions within the Internal Bourgeoisie and the Neodevelopmentalist Front 3 The Political Bases of Neodevelopmentalism  1 The Neodevelopmentalist Political Front  2 The Neodevelopmentalist Program  3 The Classes and Class Fractions Integrating the Neodevelopmentalist Front  4 The Contradictions in the Core of the Front 4 Lulism, Populism, and Bonapartism  1 The Concepts  2 Varguism and Lulism  3 Bonapartism and Lulism 5 Neodevelopmentalism, Social Classes, and Foreign Policy in the pt Governments  1 The Bloc in Power and the Neodevelopmentalist Political Front  2 Foreign Policy and the Neodevelopmentalist Front  3 Conclusion 6 Neodevelopmentalism and the Recovery of the Brazilian Union Movement  1 Neodevelopmentalism and the Union Movement  2 The Union Movement’s Political Moderation  3 The Growth of the Strike Struggle  4 Final Considerations part 2 The Nature and Dynamics of the Crisis that Led to the Impeachment 7 The Political Crisis of Neodevelopmentalism and the Instability of Democracy  1 The Political Crisis  2 The Neoliberal Bourgeois Offensive  3 The Participation of the Upper Middle Class  4 The Presence of the Working Classes  5 The Instability of Democracy  6 The Government’s Reaction and the Popular Movement 8 State, State Institutions, and Political Power in Brazil  1 The Bloc in Power and Class Alliances  2 The Political Regime and the Contradictions within the State Bureaucracy  3 bndes, Petrobras, and the Big Internal Bourgeoisie  4 Judicial Institutions, the Associated Bourgeoisie, and the Upper Middle Class  5 Final Considerations 9 Operation Car Wash, the Middle Class, and State Bureaucracy  1 The State’s Social Function, Social Classes, and Bureaucracy  2 Operation Car Wash and the Middle Class  3 The Middle Class and Corruption 10 The Crisis of Neodevelopmentalism and the Dilma Rousseff Government  1 A Couple of Things to Learn from the Crisis  2 The Bloc in Power and Class Alliances  3 The Political Crisis 11 Why was the Resistance to the 2016 Coup D’état so Weak?  1 The Internal Bourgeoisie was Divided in the Face of the Coup  2 The Marginal Mass of Workers Remained Passive  3 The Unionized Workers were Neutralized  4 After the Coup   Afterword Bolsonaro and the Rise of Neofascism  1 When Can We Speak of Fascism?  2 Bolsonarism is One of the Species of the Fascism Genre  3 The Bolsonaro Government and the Originating Political Crisis  4 Fascism and Bourgeoisie: Unity, Conflicts, and Conciliation  5 Final Considerations Bibliography Index 220

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