Industrial relations, occupational health Books

Book SynopsisPreventing Stress in Organizations:How to Develop Positive Managersoffers an innovative, evidence-based approach to help managers prevent and reduce workplace stress in their staff. Winner of the 2013 BPS Book Award - Practitioner Text category Provides information on the critical skills managers must develop in order to prevent stress in their staff, and the key ongoing behaviours that promote a healthy work environment Shows practitioners in occupational psychology, HR, Health and Safety and related professions how positive management can be integrated into an organizationâs existing practices and processes Serves as an essential guide for managers themselves on how to incorporate proven stress management skills into their everyday interactions with team members Balances rigorous research grounding with real-world vignettes, case studies and exercises Trade Review"In its way, this is a groundbreaking book since it recognises that, no matter what the policy says, tackling organisational stress has to be implemented by normal, fallible people who happen to be managers - and that they could do with all the help they can get." (RoSPA Occupational Safety & Health Journal, 1 September 2011) "The three authors – all chartered occupational psychologists – have used their real-life experience and coupled it with a good understanding of research and theory to create an excellent “How to” book for line managers. I would go so far as to say this is almost an essential read for anybody with line-management responsibility and it also has an important educative role for strategic managers who need to understand exactly the psychological culture that will protect and support their organisation." People Management (July 2011)Table of Contents1 Introduction 1 What is Stress? 2 What Stress is Not: Common Misperceptions 3 Common Causes of Stress 4 Work-Related Stress and the Line Manager 5 Summary 9 References 9 2 Why managing stress is important: The business and legal reasons 11 The Business Case 11 The Costs of Work-Related Stress 12 Calculating the Cost of Stress to Your Business 19 What Should We Be Doing to Monitor these Costs? 23 The Legal Case 24 Legal Cases of Work-Related Stress 25 What Should We Be Doing to Comply with Legislation? 28 Summary 29 References 29 3 How to manage work-related stress 31 Prevention 32 Training and Development 35 Support 37 Organizational, Manager and Team, and Individual Level Interventions 38 What Should Our Organization Be Doing? 41 Where Does the Line Manager Fit In? 42 Summary 44 Reference 44 4 Developing a framework to promote positive manager behaviour 45 Rationale: The Need For a Stress Management Approach Focusing on Positive Manager Behaviour 46 Why We Took a Competency-Based Approach 49 The Research Underlying the Positive Manager Behaviour Framework and Approach 51 The Positive Manager Behaviour Framework 55 Evidence to Support a Positive Manager Behaviour Approach 56 Useful Resources 64 References 65 5 Respectful and responsible: Managing emotions and having integrity (management competency 1) 67 Integrity 68 Managing Emotions 75 Considerate Approach 81 Summary 85 References 87 6 Managing and communicating existing and future work (management competency 2) 89 Proactive Work Management 90 Problem Solving 101 Participative/Empowering 106 Summary 119 References 121 7 Managing the individual within the team (management competency 3) 123 Personally Accessible 124 Sociable 132 Empathetic Engagement 137 Summary 144 References 145 8 Reasoning/managing difficult situations (management competency 4) 147 Managing Conflict 148 Use of Organizational Resources 157 Taking Responsibility for Resolving Issues 164 Summary 168 References 169 9 Overcoming barriers to positive manager behaviour 171 Personal Level Barriers 172 Individual Work or Job Level Barriers 176 Team and Relationship Level Barriers 182 Organizational and Wider Level Barriers 186 Reference 189 10 Supporting managers to change their behaviour 191 Behaviour Change Is Possible 192 Theories of Behaviour Change 193 Implementing Behaviour Change Interventions 195 References 207 11 Is stress management just good management? 209 Comparing Positive Manager Behaviour with General Management/Leadership Competency Frameworks 211 Implications for Practice 214 How to Do Your Own Mapping 215 How to Identify Missing Positive Manager Behaviour Elements 224 How to Integrate Missing Positive Manager Behaviour Elements 225 Valuing People Management Skills 227 References 230 12 The way forward 231 Where are You Now? 231 Starting Out – Understanding Positive Manager Behaviour and How It Might Be Useful 233 Deciding How to Use Positive Manager Behaviour 234 Gaining Buy-In 240 Applying Positive Manager Behaviour 244 Sustainable Impact 250 References 253 Appendix 255 Index 261

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Book SynopsisThis book will offer companies in the food industry a comprehensive guide to preparing for a British Retail Consortium Standard evaluation (Issue 6). It will enable them to ensure that the correct systems are in place to achieve the Standard, and also that they present themselves in the best possible light during the audit process. It will also recommend the correct steps to take following evaluation and how to correct non-conformities. The book will be of interest not only to suppliers who are seeking certification for the first time but also to those already in the scheme, and are seeking to improve their grades.Table of ContentsAbout the Online Training Resources xi Cast of Characters xiii Abbreviations xv Acknowledgements xvii Introduction to Second Edition xix Introduction to First Edition xxi Part One Before the Audit 1 Chapter 1 The Changes: Issue 5 to Issue 6 3 Chapter 2 Keys to Success 7 Chapter 3 Some Background 13 Chapter 4 Familiarity with the Standard: Part 1 – Structure and Concepts 19 Chapter 5 Familiarity with the Standard: Part 2 – The Protocol 31 Chapter 6 Familiarity with the Standard: Part 3 – Section IV and the Appendices 45 Chapter 7 Final Steps to the Audit 51 Chapter 8 The Global Standards Website and Directory 63 Chapter 9 Training for the Standard 69 Part Two The Audit 75 Chapter 10 How to Survive the Audit 77 Chapter 11 Clause 1: Senior Management Commitment 87 Chapter 12 Clause 2: Food Safety Plan – HACCP 101 Chapter 13 Clause 3: Food Safety and Quality Management System 129 Chapter 14 Clause 4: Site Standards 173 Chapter 15 Clause 5: Product Control 263 Chapter 16 Clause 6: Process Control 287 Chapter 17 Clause 7: Personnel 301 Part Three After the Audit 321 Chapter 18 From Audit to Certification 323 Chapter 19 Correcting Nonconformities 329 Chapter 20 Certification and What Happens Next 353 Appendices 361 Appendix 1 Answers to Quizzes and Exercise 363 Appendix 2 Where Did Issue 5 Go? 367 Appendix 3 New Clauses for Issue 6 375 Appendix 4 Changes to Product Categories from Issue 5 to Issue 6 377 Index 379

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Book SynopsisMaintenance and continuous health monitoring of air, land and sea structures is one of the most important concerns in a wide range of industries including transportation and civil engineering. Effective maintenance minimises not only the cost of ownership of structures but also improves safety and the perception of safety.Trade Review"...very relevant and timely...strongly recommend this multidisciplinary book...an integrated volume of real value..." (Measurement and Control, Vol 37(5), June 2004)Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. 1. Introduction (G. Bartelds, J.H. Heida, J. McFeat and C. Boller). 1.1 Health and Usage Monitoring in Aircraft Structures – Why and How? 1.2 Smart Solution in Aircraft Monitoring. 1.3 End-User Requirements. 1.3.1 Damage Detection. 1.3.2 Load History Monitoring. 1.4 Assessment of Monitoring Technologies. 1.5 Background of Technology Qualification Process. 1.6 Technology Qualification. 1.6.1 Philosophy. 1.6.2 Performance and Operating Requirements. 1.6.3 Qualification Evidence – Requirements and Provision. 1.6.4 Risks. 1.7 Flight Vehicle Certification. 1.8 Summary. References. 2. Aircraft Structural Health and Usage Monitoring (C. Boller and W.J. Staszewski). 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Aircraft Structural Damage. 2.3 Ageing Aircraft Problem. 2.4 LifeCycle Cost of Aerospace Structures. 2.4.1 Background. 2.4.2 Example. 2.5 Aircraft Structural Design. 2.5.1 Background. 2.5.2 Aircraft Design Process. 2.6 Damage Monitoring Systems in Aircraft. 2.6.1 Loads Monitoring. 2.6.2 Fatigue Monitoring. 2.6.3 Load Models. 2.6.4 Disadvantages of Current Loads Monitoring Systems. 2.6.5 Damage Monitoring and Inspections. 2.7 Non-Destructive Testing. 2.7.1 Visual Inspection. 2.7.2 Ultrasonic Inspection. 2.7.3 Eddy Current. 2.7.4 Acoustic Emission. 2.7.5 Radiography, Thermography and Shearography. 2.7.6 Summary. 2.8 Structural Health Monitoring. 2.8.1 Vibration and Modal Analysis. 2.8.2 Impact Damage Detection. 2.9 Emerging Monitoring Techniques and Sensor Technologies. 2.9.1 Smart Structures and Materials. 2.9.2 Damage Detection Techniques. 2.9.3 Sensor Technologies. 2.9.4 Intelligent Signal Processing. 2.10 Conclusions. References. 3. Operational Load Monitoring Using Optical Fibre Sensors (P. Foote, M. Breidne, K. Levin, P. Papadopolous, I. Read, M. Signorazzi, L.K. Nilsson, R. Stubbe and A. Claesson). 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Fibre Optics. 3.2.1 Optical Fibres. 3.2.2 Optical Fibre Sensors. 3.2.3 Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors. 3.3 Sensor Target Specifications. 3.4 Reliability of Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors. 3.4.1 Fibre Strength Degradation. 3.4.2 Grating Decay. 3.4.3 Summary. 3.5 Fibre Coating Technology. 3.5.1 Polyimide Chemistry and Processing. 3.5.2 Polyimide Adhesion to Silica. 3.5.3 Silane Adhesion Promoters. 3.5.4 Experimental Example. 3.5.5 Summary. 3.6 Example of Surface Mounted Operational Load Monitoring Sensor System. 3.6.1 Sensors. 3.6.2 Optical Signal Processor. 3.6.3 Optical Interconnections. 3.7 Optical Fibre Strain Rosette. 3.8 Example of Embedded Optical Impact Detection System. 3.9 Summary. References. 4. Damage Detection Using Stress and Ultrasonic Waves (W.J. Staszewski, C. Boller, S. Grondel, C. Biemans, E. O’Brien, C. Delebarre and G.R. Tomlinson). 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Acoustic Emission. 4.2.1 Background. 4.2.2 Transducers. 4.2.3 Signal Processing. 4.2.4 Testing and Calibration. 4.3 Ultrasonics. 4.3.1 Background. 4.3.2 Inspection Modes. 4.3.3 Transducers. 4.3.4 Display Modes. 4.4 Acousto-Ultrasonics. 4.5 Guided Wave Ultrasonics. 4.5.1 Background. 4.5.2 Guided Waves. 4.5.3 Lamb Waves. 4.5.4 Monitoring Strategy. 4.6 Piezoelectric Transducers. 4.6.1 Piezoelectricity and Piezoelectric Materials. 4.6.2 Constitutive Equations. 4.6.3 Properties. 4.7 Passive Damage Detection Examples. 4.7.1 Crack Monitoring Using Acoustic Emission. 4.7.2 Impact Damage Detection in Composite Materials. 4.8 Active Damage Detection Examples. 4.8.1 Crack Monitoring in Metallic Structures Using Broadband Acousto-Ultrasonics. 4.8.2 Impact Damage Detection in Composite Structures Using Lamb Waves. 4.9 Summary. References. 5. Signal Processing for Damage Detection (W.J. Staszewski and K. Worden). 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Data Pre-Processing. 5.2.1 Signal Smoothing. 5.2.2 Signal Smoothing Filters. 5.3 Signal Features for Damage Identification. 5.3.1 Feature Extraction. 5.3.2 Feature Selection. 5.4 Time–Domain Analysis. 5.5 Spectral Analysis. 5.6 Instantaneous Phase and Frequency. 5.7 Time–Frequency Analysis. 5.8 Wavelet Analysis. 5.8.1 Continuous Wavelet Transform. 5.8.2 Discrete Wavelet Transform. 5.9 Dimensionality Reduction Using Linear and Nonlinear Transformation. 5.9.1 Principal Component Analysis. 5.9.2 Sammon Mapping. 5.10 Data Compression Using Wavelets. 5.11 Wavelet-Based Denoising. 5.12 Pattern Recognition for Damage Identification. 5.13 Artificial Neural Networks. 5.13.1 Parallel Processing Paradigm. 5.13.2 The Artificial Neuron. 5.13.3 Multi-Layer Networks. 5.13.4 Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Networks and Others. 5.13.5 Applications. 5.14 Impact Detection in Structures Using Pattern Recognition. 5.14.1 Detection of Impact Positions. 5.14.2 Detection of Impact Energy. 5.15 Data Fusion. 5.16 Optimised Sensor Distributions. 5.16.1 Informativeness of Sensors. 5.16.2 Optimal Sensor Location. 5.17 Sensor Validation. 5.18 Conclusions. References. 6. Structural Health Monitoring Evaluation Tests (P.A. Lloyd, R. Pressland, J. McFeat, I. Read, P. Foote, J.P. Dupuis, E. O’Brien, L. Reithler, S. Grondel, C. Delebarre, K. Levin, C. Boller, C. Biemans and W.J. Staszewski). 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Large-Scale Metallic Evaluator. 6.2.1 Lamb Wave Results from Riveted Metallic Specimens. 6.2.2 Acoustic Emission Results from a Full-Scale Fatigue Test. 6.3 Large-Scale Composite Evaluator. 6.3.1 Test Article. 6.3.2 Sensor and Specimen Integration. 6.3.3 Impact Tests. 6.3.4 Damage Detection Results – Distributed Optical Fibre Sensors. 6.3.5 Damage Detection Results – Bragg Grating Sensors. 6.3.6 Lamb Wave Damage Detection System. 6.4 Flight Tests. 6.4.1 Flying Test-Bed. 6.4.2 Acoustic Emission Optical Damage Detection System. 6.4.3 Bragg Grating Optical Load Measurement System. 6.4.4 Fibre Optic Load Measurement Rosette System. 6.5 Summary. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisNow in its third edition, this authoritative handbook offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of work and health psychology. Updated edition of a highly successful handbook Focuses on the applied aspects of work and health psychology New chapters cover emerging themes in this rapidly growingfield Prestigious team of editors and contributors Trade Review"Recommended for academic collections, upper-division undergraduate and above, as well as professional libraries." (CHOICE, September 2010) "This excellent book helps readers understand how difficulties arise in the workplace and focuses on prevention of problems. It is practical, easy to read, and gives recommendations for positive change. The book covers many different topics, both on the individual and organizational level. It ends with encouraging the organization to become healthy, while maximizing profits, productivity, and employee sense of well?]being. The third edition incorporates new research findings and has new contributors who focus on intervention and prevention." (Doody's, June 2010)Table of ContentsAbout the Editors. List of Contributors. Chapter 1 Introduction (Gary L. Cooper, James Campbell Quick and Marc J. Schabracq). Part I: The Context of Work and Health Today. Chapter 2 Health and Well-Being: The Role of the Psychological Contract (David Guest and Neil Conway). Chapter 3 The Social Context of Work Life: Implications for Burnout and Work Engagement (Michael P. Leiter and Naomi Stright). Chapter 4 The Effects of Job Strain on Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease (Arie Shirom, Galit Armon, Shlomo Berliner, Itzhak Shapira and Samuel Melamed). Chapter 5 Sickness Presenteeism and Attendance Pressure Factors: Implications for Practice (Caroline Biron and Per Øystein Saksvik). Part II: Individual Differences and Health. Chapter 6 Individual Differences, Work Stress and Health (Norbert K. Semmer and Laurenz L. Meier). Chapter 7 Gender and Work Stress: Unique Stressors, Unique Responses (Faye K. Cocchiara and Myrtle P. Bell). Chapter 8 Work Experiences, Stress and Health among Managerial Women: Research and Practice (Ronald J. Burke and Astrid M. Richardsen). Part III: The Role of Workplace Factors on Health. Chapter 9 The Role of Job Control in Employee Health and Well-Being (Paul E. Spector). Chapter 10 Stress and Careers (Yehuda Baruch). Chapter 11 New Technologies and Stress (Kai-Christoph Hamborg and Siegfried Greif). Chapter 12 Flexibility at Work in Relation to Employee Health (Töres Theorell). Chapter 13 Acute Stress at Work (Rolf J. Kleber and Peter G. van der Velden). Part IV: Supporting Individuals at Work. Chapter 14 Management Development for Well-Being and Survival: Developing the Whole Person (Rosemary Maellaro and J. Lee Whittington). Chapter 15 Coaching in Organizations (Helen Williams and Stephen Palmer). Chapter 16 Women’s Coping: Communal Versus Individualistic Orientation (Pamela A. Geller, Stevan E. Hobfoll and Carla Dunahoo). Chapter 17 Employee Assistance Programs: A Research-Based Primer (Mark Attridge). Part V: Organizational Approaches to Health and Well-Being. Chapter 18 Organizational Culture, Leadership, Change and Stress (Manfred Kets de Vries, Laura Guillén Ramo and Konstantin Korotov). Chapter 19 Building Interventions to Improve Staff Well-Being (Gordon Tinline and Ben Moss). Chapter 20 Stress and Effectiveness: An Approach for Changing Organizational Culture (Marc J. Schabracq and Iva Smit). Chapter 21 Epilogue (Cary L. Cooper, James Campbell Quick and Marc J. Schabracq). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis new edition of the critically acclaimed Handbook of Laboratory Health and Safety was designed to help safety officers, laboratory managers, principal investigators, and laboratory workers bring lab health and safety into the twenty-first century.Table of ContentsMANAGING HEALTH AND SAFETY RISKS. Management Leadership and Employee Involvement. Hazard Evaluation and Identification. Responsibilities. LABORATORY HEALTH AND SAFETY ADMINISTRATIVE PROGRAMS. Documentation. Training. Medical Surveillance. Chemical Hygiene Program. HAZARD EVALUATION AND IDENTIFICATION. Chemical Exposure Evaluation. Biosafety. Radiation. Controlled Substances Management. Ergonomics Program Management. Waste Management. ENGINEERING CONTROLS. General Laboratory Design. Barrier System Design. Ventilation. PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AND WORK PRACTICE CONTROLS. Safety Showers and Eyewash Stations. Personal Protective Equipment. Respiratory Protective Equipment. Chemical Handling. Fire and Explosion Protection. EMERGENCY RESPONSE. Emergency Response. Appendices. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is an integrated, comprehensive guide to the core topics in both environmental engineering and occupational health and safety.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: REGULATORY OVERVIEW. Environmental Protection Agency. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING. Air Pollution Engineering. Waste Treatment and Disposal Technologies. Wastewater and Water Quality. Statistical Applications. PRINCIPLES OF SAFETY ENGINEERING. Safety Management. Fire and Life Safety. Construction Safety. PRINCIPLES OF INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH ENGINEERING. Chemical Hazard Assessment and Communication. Industrial Ventilation. Noise and Hearing Conservation. Appendices. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis revised edition presents an engineering design approach to ventilation and air conditioning as part of the comprehensive environmental control of the mine atmosphere. It provides an in-depth look, for practitioners who design and operate mines, into the health and safety aspects of environmental conditions in the underground workplace.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: Environmental Control of the Mine Atmosphere. Properties and Behavior of Air. MINE AIR-QUALITY CONTROL. Mine Gases. Dusts and Other Mine Aerosols. MINE VENTILATION. Airflow Through Mine Openings and Ducts. Mine Ventilation Circuits and Networks. Natural Ventilation. Fan Application to Mines. Auxiliary Ventilation and Controlled Recirculation. Economics of Airflow. Control of Mine Fires and Explosions. MINE AIR CONDITIONING. Heat Sources and Effect in Mines. Mine Air Conditioning Systems. Appendices. References. Answers to Selected Problems. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis easy-to-read guide links the regulatory and technical aspectsof air quality compliance in one self-contained volume. This unique handbook explains air quality compliance in plainlanguage, free of legalese. Russell E. Erbes draws on twenty yearsof industrial air quality compliance experience as he clarifies thecomplex regulatory and technical issues facing industry in the wakeof the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. He guides the reader througha labyrinth of demanding regulations, rising costs, and complexprocedures. A Practical Guide to Air Quality Compliance, Second Edition, sortsthrough requirements and helps environmental professionals managecompliance effectively and efficiently--whatever the needs of theirfacilities. Filled with real-world examples that illustrate bothproblems and solutions, it features: * Unwritten applicability guidelines known only by technicalexperts in air compliance. * Tips on obtaining permits and variances, and monitoring andensTable of ContentsHistory of Air Quality Legislation. Legislative and Regulatory Concepts. Ambient Air Quality Standards and Atmospheric Dispersion. Risk Assessment and Management. Emission Standards for Criteria Pollutants. Hazardous Air Pollutants. New Source Review. Nonattainment. Permits and the New National Operating Permits Program. Acid Rain Provisions of the 1990 CAA. Stratospheric Ozone Protection. Enforcement. Transportation and General Conformity. Future Implementation of the 1990 CAA. Summary. References. Appendices. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive and convenient guide to date on the management, storage, and disposal of hazardous materials and waste. For the professional faced with making sense of the reams of governmental regulations surrounding waste handling and disposal from the EPA, OSHA, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, untangling the legal jargon can be as challenging as managing these materials and wastes. Explaining how these complex regulations interrelate and when they apply, the first edition of Hazardous Materials and Hazardous Waste Management became an instant reference staple-offering practical, comprehensive guidance on current definitions of hazardous wastes and materials as well as their use, management, treatment, storage, and disposal. Extensively revised and expanded with many new topics, this new Second Edition now covers additional areas such as water quality management, pollution prevention, process safety management, and transportation of hazardTable of ContentsHAZARDOUS MATERIALS AND HAZARDOUS WASTE: AN OVERVIEW. A Regulatory Overview. Voluntary Management Standards and Initiatives. Defining a Hazardous Material or Waste. WORKPLACE MANAGEMENT OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS AND HAZARDOUS WASTE. Understanding Exposures from Hazardous Materials and Hazardous Waste. Workplace and Personal Monitoring. Personal Protective Equipment. Workplace and Building Safety. Workplace Management of Radiation Exposure. Administrative Requirements for Proper Management of Hazardous Materials and Hazardous Waste. Hazardous Materials Transportation. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS AND HAZARDOUS WASTE. Tank Systems. Waste Treatment and Disposal Technologies. Groundwater and Soils Assessment and Remediation. Assessing and Managing Water Quality. Air Quality Assessment and Control. Facility Environmental Assessments. Pollution Prevention. INCIDENT AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. Process Safety Management. Emergency Planning and Response. Appendices. Index.

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Book Synopsis'Noise Control Management' presents a system-wide management approach to the many noise-related problems that plague industrial settings. Students learn how to define noise problems and determine the feasibility of mitigating them. The text shows how to identify noise sources and set up priorities for dealing with the problems these sources create.Table of ContentsPreface. PART I: THE NOISE CONTROL MANAGEMENT APPROACH. Noise Control Management: A Systems Approach. Maintaining Noise Levels After Installation Through Proper Maintenance. Noise and Vibration Specifications. Noise Control Guidelines and Materials. Guidelines for a Hearing Conservation Program. PART II: TERMINOLOGY, CRITERIA, MEASUREMENT, AND INSTRUMENTATION. Basic Terminology and Physics of Sound. Noise Criteria. Instrumentation for Noise Measurements. Noise Measurement Procedures. PART III: NOISE CONTROL CASE HISTORIES. Noise Control Measures for Specific Equipment: Studies and Noise Control Solutions. Appendix. Index.

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Book SynopsisWhen an industrial accident occurs, who gets the job ofinvestigation and loss control? In most businesses, it''s managersand line supervisors, whether or not they have any idea how toproceed. Now, there''s a ready-to-use guide to organizing andconducting accident investigations: Basic Guide to AccidentInvestigation and Loss Control The most important objective inaccident investigation is not to establish blame, but to revealcause and prevent recurrence. Basic Guide to Accident Investigationand Loss Control uses a cause-and-prevention approach to help youstart with the most productive strategy, and finish with the mostusable results. Case studies are included to present real-worldapplications of the principles and techniques of modern accidentinvestigation. This vital resource gives you a brief grounding inthe principles of accident investigation, plus how-to instructionsfor every step of the job: * Initial response and public relations * Choosing investigators * InterviewinTable of ContentsTHE ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION PROCESS. Principles of Investigation and Loss Control. Responsibilities in the Investigation Process. Investigation Planning and Preparation. Accident Response Actions. The Human Element. TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR INVESTIGATION. The Accident Investigation Kit. Photography in Accident Investigation. Collection and Examination of Records. Maps, Sketches, and Drawings. System Safety Applications. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisEmergency Incident Risk Management: A Safety & HealthPerspective Jonathan D. Kipp, Murrey E. Loflin While risk management techniques have been successfully used toreduce the potential for physical harm to the public, these provenmethods, strangely enough, have not been applied to one of the mosthazardous environments of all fire fighting operations. The resultis that more than 100,000 injuries occur to fire fighters eachyear. Emergency Incident Risk Management shows fire chiefs, fireofficers, safety officers, and risk managers for the first timeanywhere how to develop and implement a comprehensive riskmanagement program that can sharply reduce on-the-job fatalities,injuries, and harmful exposures while minimizing property andequipment damage. Expanding on the information presented in theNational Fire Protection Association 1500 Handbook, this thoroughguide covers every phase of effective risk management fromassigning roles and preplanning, through all the steps in a solidrisk mTable of ContentsADMINISTRATION AND ORGANIZATION. Overview. Introduction to Risk Management. Accident, Injury, and Illness Data. Law, Codes, and Standards. COMPREHENSIVE RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN. The Management of Risk. Risk Identification. Risk Evaluation. Establishing Priorities. Risk Control. Program Monitoring. Training of Personnel. EMERGENCY INCIDENT RISK MANAGEMENT. Pre-Emergency Risk Management. Principles of Emergency Incident Risk Management. Incident Safety Officer. Personnel Accountability. Incident Management System. Post-Incident Analysis. INTEGRATION. Making It Happen. Appendices. Select Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisBuilding Your Star Program A step-by-step guide to the VoluntaryProtection Programs The demand for information on the VoluntaryProtection Programs (VPP) is rapidly expanding. Set up to promoteexcellence in safety and health management, this prestigiousgovernment program now boasts more than 400 participatingworksites, with gains ranging from increased productivity toreduction in workplace injury and insurance costs. Written by a VPPexpert and one of the original developers of the program at theOccupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), this timelyhow-to book gives safety and health professionals all theinformation they need to get into the VPP as well as renew theirparticipation for years to come. The author clearly outlines thebenefits of the program, offers advice on how to win support for itfrom both management and labor, and presents a complete set oftools for building a successful star program--one that meets all ofthe VPP criteria. Special features include: * Step-Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Voluntary Protection Programs. Why Start? Making Sure Everyone Is For It. Where to Start. The VPP Process. VPP Requirements Guide. Appendices. Index.

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Book SynopsisHow would you like to streamline health and safety and environmental programs into the everyday operations of your organization? Reduce rework, breakage, and worker's compensation claims while increasing productivity, efficiency, and profitability? This title provides answers to such questions and more.Trade Review"...highlights concepts that can help manage and mitigate risks. Topics include safety as a key element of process improvement..." (Professional Safety, Vol. 46, No. 6) "...Noble explains how to establish a quality management system that incorporates environmental health and safety concerns." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 24, No. 4, December 2000) "It is easy to follow and should be studied by management specialists in academia, industry and government." (Int Jnl of Environment Studies, Vol.58 2001)Table of ContentsControlling the Dragon - The Integration of Management Systems. Building Safer, More Productive Jobs! Management Commitment: Policy and Planning. Plan Implementation. Risk Assessment Process. Risk and Operational Control. Measurement and Evaluation. Nonconformance and Incident Investigation. Management Review and Continuous Improvement. Conclusion. Appendices. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisWhether a company operates global facilities or just imports/exports goods to United States, personnel and advisors must understand regulatory requirements.Trade Review"This handbook consolidates all relevant regulatory issues that affect a business…" (Chemical Engineering Progress, June 2004) "All the relevant regulatory issues that a business needs to understand in order to develop a materials compliance system for hazardous chemicals and dangerous goods are covered in this volume." (Environmental Science & Technology, 3/15/2004) "...a very useful reference to aid businesses to comply with the legislation in the countries they trade with." (Hazmat & Environment Notes, February/ March 2004)Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgment. 1. Introduction. PART I: REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS. 2. Chemical Registration, Notification and Listing. 3. Material Safety jData Sheets. 4. Product Label Requirements. 5. Transportation Requirements. 6. Import Compliance. 7. Export Compliance. PART II: MATERIAL COMPLIANCE SYSTEMS. 8. Impact of Terrorism on the Supply Chain. 9. Material Compliance Systems. 10. MCS—Information Systems. Appendix 1: Glossary. Appendix 2: Audit/Inspection Checklists. Appendix 3: Material Management Internet Web Sites. Appendix 4: Import/Export Web Sites. Appendix 5: Occupational Exposures Limits Legislation. Index.

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Book SynopsisTakes into account the human element as well as the classical aspects of mechanical, electrical and chemical designs that contribute to risk. Features a significant amount of data essential for risk analysis not normally available. Contains numerous examples of authentic applications and case studies.Table of ContentsConducting Human Reliability Analysis. Formal Methods for Estimating Human Reliability. HRA Fault and Event Trees. Existing Data Sources and Data Bank. HRA: A Case Study for Nuclear Processing Facility Design. HRA Case Study for a Nuclear Power Plant: Containment VentingProcedure. Relation of HRA to Systems Safety and System Performance. Simulators and Simulation as a Tool for Evaluating HumanReliability. Organizational Factors and Human Reliability. Outstanding Issues. Behavioral Mechanisms Underlying Human Error. The Problem: Representation of Errors of Commission (CognitiveError) in PRA. HRA and the Impact of Emerging Hardware and SoftwareTechnologies. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisComprehensive in scope, it describes the process of system safety--from the creation and management of a safety program on a system under development to the analysis that must be performed as this system is designed and produced to assure acceptable risk in its operation. Unique in its coverage, it is the only work on this subject that combines full descriptions of the management and analysis processes and procedures in one handy volume. Designed for both system safety managers and engineers, it incorporates the safety procedures used by the Department of Defense and NASA and explains basic statistical methods and network analysis methods which provide an understanding of the engineering analysis methods that follow.Table of ContentsMANAGEMENT. System Life Cycle. System Safety Implementation. System Safety Management Organization. System Safety Control. System Safety in System Operation. STATISTICAL METHODS. Probability--A Safety Evaluation Tool. Descriptive Data Measures. Methods of Safety Data Analysis. Binomial Distribution. Multinomial Distribution. Hypergeometric Distribution. Poisson Distribution. Normal Distribution. Lognormal Distribution. Weibull Distribution. Confidence Limits. NETWORK ANALYSIS. Event Systems. Boolean Algebra. Cut Sets. HAZARD ANALYSIS. Elements of Hazard Analysis. Preliminary Hazard Analysis. Subsystem Hazard Analysis. System Hazard Analysis. Operating and Support Hazard Analysis. Fault Hazard Analysis.. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis. Fault Tree Analysis. Software Hazard Analysis. Sneak Circuit Analysis. RISK ANALYSIS. Risk Assessment in Safety. DECISION ANALYSIS. Decision Methods for Safety. Appendices. Index.

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Book SynopsisCorrelating chemical structure with toxicity to humans and the environment, and the chemical structure of compounds to their hazardous properties, A Comprehensive Guide to the Hazardous Properties of Chemical Substances, 3rd Edition allows users to assess the toxicity of a substance even when no experimental data exists.Trade Review"…recommended for bookshelves in facility's health and safety office as well as in the laboratory." (Journal of Chemical Health and Safety) "This is a very comprehensive book containing much useful information (data and tables) which will enable those with a chemistry background to perform assessments of the hazards of chemical substances without prior data." (Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, January 2008) "…a valuable resource to scientists as well as to laymen interested in chemicals, their properties and their hazards." (Journal of Hazardous Materials, October 22, 2007)Table of ContentsPreface xix Preface to the First Edition xxi Acknowledgments xxiii PART A 1 I. Introduction 3 II. Glossary 6 III. Physical Properties of Compounds and Hazardous Characteristics 9 IV. Toxic Properties of Chemical Substances 17 V. Target Organs and Toxicology 26 VI. Cancer-Causing Chemicals 40 VII. Teratogenic Substances 45 VIII. Habit-Forming Addictive Substances 49 IX. Flammable and Combustible Properties of Chemical Substances 65 X. Explosive Characteristics of Chemical Substances 71 XI. Peroxide-Forming Substances 76 XII. Chemical Warfare Agents 79 XIII. Biological Warfare Agents and Bioterrorism 90 PART B 103 Chapter 1 Acids, Carboxylic 105 Chapter 2 Acids, Mineral 115 Chapter 3 Acids, Peroxy 127 Chapter 4 Alcohols 134 Chapter 5 Aldehydes 160 Chapter 6 Alkalies 193 Chapter 7 Alkaloids 200 Chapter 8 Amines, Aliphatic 235 Chapter 9 Amines, Aromatic 251 Chapter 10 Asbestos 269 Chapter 11 Azo Dyes 277 Chapter 12 Chlorohydrins 286 Chapter 13 Cyanides, Organic (Nitriles) 294 Chapter 14 Cyanides, Inorganic 317 Chapter 15 Dioxin and Related Compounds 336 Chapter 16 Epoxy Compounds 348 Chapter 17 Esters 370 Chapter 18 Ethers 390 Chapter 19 Gases, Common Toxic, and Flammable 402 Chapter 20 Glycol Ethers 410 Chapter 21 Haloethers 425 Chapter 22 Halogenated Hydrocarbons 438 Chapter 23 Halogens, Halogen Oxides, and Interhalogen Compounds 470 Chapter 24 Heterocyclic Compounds 484 Chapter 25 Hydrocarbons, Aliphatic and Alicyclic 496 Chapter 26 Hydrocarbons, Aromatic 516 Chapter 27 Industrial Solvents 537 Chapter 28 Isocyanates, Organic 551 Chapter 29 Ketones 568 Chapter 30 Metal Acetylides and Fulminates 592 Chapter 31 Metal Alkoxides 598 Chapter 32 Metal Alkyls 602 Chapter 33 Metal Azides 613 Chapter 34 Metal Carbonyls 622 Chapter 35 Metal Hydrides 630 Chapter 36 Metals, Reactive 643 Chapter 37 Metals, Toxic 650 Chapter 38 Mustard Gas and Sulfur Mustards 669 Chapter 39 Nerve Gases 674 Chapter 40 Nitro Explosives 691 Chapter 41 Oxidizers 704 Chapter 42 Particulates 715 Chapter 43 Peroxides, Organic 719 Chapter 44 Pesticides and Herbicides: Classification, Structure, and Analysis 741 Chapter 45 Pesticides, Carbamate 746 Chapter 46 Pesticides, Organochlorine 762 Chapter 47 Pesticides, Organophosphorus 782 Chapter 48 Herbicides, Chlorophenoxy Acid 804 Chapter 49 Herbicides, Triazine 811 Chapter 50 Herbicides, Urea 817 Chapter 51 Phenols 821 Chapter 52 Phosphorus and Its Compounds 834 Chapter 53 Polychlorinated Biphenyls 854 Chapter 54 Radon and Radioactive Substances 863 Chapter 55 Sulfate Esters 867 Chapter 56 Sulfur-Containing Organics (Miscellaneous) 872 Chapter 57 Miscellaneous Substances 882 Appendix A Federal Regulations 899 Appendix B IARC List of Carcinogenic Agents (Update 2006) 916 Appendix C NTP List of Carcinogens (2004) 11th Annual Report 937 Chemical Substances–CAS Registry Number Index 945 CAS Registry Number–Chemical Substances Index 1015 Subject Index 1045

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Book SynopsisA highly practical troubleshooting tool for today's complex processing industry Evolving industrial technology-driven by the need to increase safety while reducing production losses-along with environmental factors and legal concerns has resulted in an increased emphasis on sound troubleshooting techniques and documentation.Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Introduction. 2. Strength of Materials. 2.1 Load Calculations. 2.2 Stress Calculations. 2.2.1 Axial. 2.2.2 Shear. 2.2.3 Bending. 2.2.4 Torsional. 2.2.5 Combined Stresses. 2.2.6 Thermal Stresses. 2.2.7 Transient Temperatures and Stresses. 2.2.8 High Temperature Creep. 2.2.9 Shell Stresses. 2.3 Piping Thermal Forces, Moments, Frequencies. 2.3.1 Piping Failures. 2.4 Allowable and Design Stresses. 2.5 Fatigue Due to Cyclic Loading. 2.6 Elongation and Deflection Calculations. 2.7 Factors of Safety. 2.8 Case History: Agitator Bearing Loading. 2.9 Case History: Shaft Failure. 2.10 Dynamic Loading. 2.10.1 Centrifugal Force. 2.10.2 Inertia's and WR2. 2.10.3 Energy Relationships. 2.11 Case History: Centrifuge Bearing Failures. 2.12 Case History: Bird Impact Force on a Windscreen. 2.13 Case History: Torsional Impact on a Propeller. 2.14 Case History: Start-up Torque on a Motor Coupling. 2.15 Case History: Frictional Clamping Due to Bolting. 2.16 Case History: Failure of a Connecting Rod in a Race Car. 2.17 Bolting. 2.17.1 Holding Capacity. 2.17.2 Limiting Torque. 2.17.3 Bolt Elongation and Relaxation. 2.17.4 Torquing Methods. 2.17.5 Fatigue of Bolts. 2.17.6 Stripping Strength of Threads. 2.17.7 Case History: A Power Head Gasket Leak. 2.18 Ball and Roller Bearing Life Estimates. 2.18.1 Case History: Bearing Life of a Shaft Support. 2.18.2 Coupling Offset and Bearing Life. 2.19 Hydrodynamic Bearings. 2.19.1 Shell and Pad Failures. 2.20 Gears. 2.20.1 Gear Acceptability Calculations. 2.20.2 Case History: Up-Rate Acceptability of a Gear Unit. 2.21 Interference Fits. 2.21.1 Keyless Hydraulically Fitted Hubs. 2.21.2 Case History: Taper Fit Holding Ability. 2.21.3 Case History: The Flying Hydraulically Fitted Hub. 2.22 Strength of Welds. 2.23 Fatigue of Welds. 2.24 Repair of Machinery. 2.24.1 Shafts. 2.24.2 Housing and Cases. 2.24.3 Gearboxes. 2.24.4 Sleeve bearings and Bushing Clearances. 2.24.5 Alignments. 2.24.6 Acceptable Coupling Offset and Angular Misalignment. 2.24.7 Vibration Measurements. 2.25 Interpreting Mechanical Failures. 2.25.1 Failures with Axial, Bending and Torsional Loading. 2.25.2 Gear Teeth Failures. 2.25.3 Spring Failures. 2.25.4 Bolt Failures. 2.25.5 Bearing Failures. 2.25.6 Reading a Bearing. 2.25.7 Large Gearbox Keyway / Shaft Failures. 2.26 Case History: Sizing a Bushing Running Clearance. 2.27 Case History: Galling of a Shaft In A Bushing. 2.28 Case History: Remaining Fatigue Life with Cyclic Stresses. 2.29 A Procedure for Evaluating Gasket Joints. 2.30 Gaskets In High Temperature Service. 2.31 "O" Ring Evaluation. 2.32 Case History: Gasket Won't Pass Hydrotest. 2.33 Case History: Heat Exchanger Leak Due to Temperature. 2.34 Wear of Equipment. 2.35 Case History: Excessive Wear of a Ball Valve. 3. Vibration Analysis. 3.1 Spring /Mass Systems and Resonance. 3.2 Case History: Critical Speed Problem on Steam Turbine. 3.3 Determining Vibration Amplitudes. 3.3.1 Allowable Levels for X or F at Resonance . 3.4 Case History: Vibratory Torque on Gear of a Ship System. 3.5 Torsional Vibration. 3.6 Case History: Torsional Vibration of Motor-Generator-Blower. 3.7 Vibration Diagnosis and Campbell Diagrams. 3.8 Case History: The Effect of a Suddenly Applied Torsional Load. 3.9 Flow Induced Vibrations. 3.10 Case History: Heat Exchanger Tube Vibration. 3.11 Case History: Piping Vibration Failures. 4. Fluid Flow. 4.1 Continuity Equations. 4.2 Bernoulli's Equations. 4.3 Pressure Drop. 4.4 Forces Due to Fluids. 4.5 Case History: A Piping Failure Due to Water Hammer. 4.6 Case History: A Centrifugal Pump System. 4.6.1 System Curves. 4.6.2 Pump Curves. 4.6.3 Net Positive Suction Head NPSH. 4.6.4 Pump Laws. 4.6.5 Series and Parallel Pump Operation. 4.6.6 Blocked In Pump Concern. 4.6.7 Cryogenic Service Concerns. 4.6.8 Pump Control. 4.7 Case History: Wreck of a Centrifugal Pump. 4.8 Case History: Airfoil Aerodynamic Loads. 4.9 Case History: Pressure Loss Through Slots. 4.10 Friction Losses in Piping Systems. 4.11 Case History: Pipe Friction. 5. Heat Transfer. 5.1 Conduction. 5.2 Convection. 5.3 Radiation. 5.4 Heat Sources. 5.5 Case History: Insulation Burn-Out of a Resistor Bank. 5.6 Case History: Embedded Bearing Temperature. 5.7 Types of Heat Exchangers. 5.8 Heat Exchanger Design. 5.9 Case History: Verifying the Size of an Oil Cooler. 5.10 Case History: Temperature Distribution Along a Flare Line. 5.11 Case History: Derivation of a Pipe Temperature Distribution. 6. Compressor Systems and Thermodynamics. 6.1 Ideal Gas Laws. 6.2 Case History: Non - Relieving Explosion Relief Valve. 6.3 The Energy Equation. 6.4 Case History: Air Conditioner Feasibility Study. 6.5 Centrifugal Compressor Operation. 6.6 Compressor Configurations. 6.7 Centrifugal Compressor Head, Flow and Horsepower. 6.8 Compressor Surge. 6.9 Fan Laws. 6.10 Flow - Head Curve Troubleshooting. 6.11 Reciprocating Gas Compressors. 6.12 Component Failures and Prevention. 6.13 Reciprocating Compressor Horsepower Calculations. 6.14 Troubleshooting Reciprocating Compressors Using Gas Calculations. 6.15 Mechanical Seals. 6.16 Flexible Gear, Diaphragm and Disc Pack Couplings. 7. Statistics. 7.1 Average, Range, Variance, Standard Deviation. 7.2 Histograms and Normal Distributions. 7.3 Case History: Power Cylinder Life Comparison. 7.4 Mean Time Between Failures. 7.5 Case History: MTBF for a Gas Engine Compressor. 7.6 Reliability. 7.7 Deterministic and Probabilistic Modeling. 8. Problem Solving and Decision Making. 8.1 The 80-20 Relationship. 8.2 Going Through the Data. 8.3 A Problem Solving Technique. 8.4 Case History: Loss of a Slurry Pump. 8.5 Case History: The Fatigued Motor Shaft. 8.6 Case History: Coupling Failure. 8.7 Case History: Motorcycle Won't Start. 8.8 Case History: Galled Die. 8.9 Seven Causes. 8.10 A Decision Making Technique. 8.11 Case History: Selection of a Barrel Lifter. 9. Materials of Construction. 9.1 Carbon Steel. 9.2 High Strength Low Alloy Steels. 9.3 Martensitic Stainless Steels. 9.4 Austenitic Stainless Steels. 9.5 Monel 400. 9.6 17-4 PH. 9.7 Incoloy 825. 9.8 Inconel 718. 9.9 Structural Steels. 9.10 All Steels Are Not The Same. 9.11 Useful Material Properties. 9.12 Heat Treatments. 9.13 Failure Modes of Shafts, Bolting, Structures and Vessels. 9.14 Fretting Corrosion. 10. Mechanical System Modeling with Case Histories. 10.1 Sizing Up the Problem. 10.2 Case Histories. 10.3 Failures Caused by Excessive Loads:. 10.3.1 Case History: An Agitator Bolt Failure. 10.3.2 Case History: Loosening of Counterweight Bolt. 10.3.3 Case History: Evaluating Internal Thread Strip - Out. 10.3.4 Case History: Analyzing a Spline Failure. 10.3.5 Case History: The Bending of Impeller Blades . 10.3.6 Case History: A Compressor Rod Failure. 10.3.7 Case History: Seal Failure Due to Misalignment of an Agitator Shaft. 10.3.8 Case History: Gear Tooth Pitting Failure. 10.3.9 Case History: Impact Load Effect on a Large Gearbox Bearing. 10.3.10 Case History: A Motor Shaft Failure . 10.3.11 Case History: An In-Flight Aircraft Crankshaft Failure. 10.3.12 Case History: A Pitting Failure Due to a Poorly Distributed Bearing Load. 10.3.13 Case History: Failure of a Pre-loaded Fan Bearings. 10.3.14 Case History: The Separating Loads in an Extruder. 10.3.15 Case History: Containment of an Impeller. 10.4 Failures Caused by Wear:. 10.4.1 Case History: Examining the Wear of Extruder Screws. 10.4.2 Case History: Wear of a Spline Clutch. 10.5 Failures Caused by Thermal Loads:. 10.5.1 Case History: Thermal Distortions Move a 50 Ton Gearbox. 10.5.2 Case History: The Thermally Bowed Shaft. 10.5.3 Case History: A Steam Turbine Diaphragm Failure. 10.5.4 Case History: Screw Compressor Rotor Rub . 10.5.5 Case History: The Hidden Load in a Three Bearing Machine. 10.6 Miscellaneous Failures. 10.6.1 Case History: Crack Growth in a Rotor. 10.6.2 Case History: Structural Failure Due to Misalignment. 10.6.3 Case History: Oil Film Thickness of a Diesel Engine Bearing. 10.6.4 Case History: The Leaking Flange Gasket. 11. Fitness For Service with Case Histories. 11.1 A Little About Corrosion. 11.2 Stress Corrosion Cracking. 11.3 Uniform Corrosion. 11.3.1 Case History: Local Corrosion of a Vessel Wall. 11.4 Pitting Corrosion. 11.4.1 Case History: Pitting Corrosion of a Vessel Wall. 11.5 Brittle Fracture Concerns. 11.5.1 Academic Example: Temperature Effect on a Steel Plate. 11.5.2 Case History: Crack Like Defect in a Vessel Wall. 11.6 Cold Service Evaluations. 11.6.1 Case History: Cold Service Vessel. 11.7 Crack Growth and Fatigue Life. 11.8 Finding Those Cracks. 11.9 Troubleshooting Isn't So Easy. References. Index.

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Book Synopsis Pertaining to homeland security, this title is a comprehensive guide to radiation protection caused by accidents or terrorism Provides essential strategies and guidance for protecting ports and examines the latest nuclear detection devices that can be deployed Explains the procedures in FEMA''s National Incident Management System Gives specific details for first responders and emergency workers on how to prepare for and handle radiological incidents Table of ContentsPreface xv Foreword xvii Acknowledgments xix 1 Nuclear Fear—The Godzilla of All Fears 1 1.1 The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 2 1.2 Nuclear Fallout in America 2 1.3 WMDs: Witnesses of Mass Destruction 3 1.4 Fear and the Film Industry 4 1.5 Celluloid Spies 5 1.6 Atomic Nature Run Amok 6 1.7 Post-War Nuclear Reactions 7 1.8 The Specter of Cold War 8 1.9 The Fearful Fifties 9 1.10 Dr. Strangelove and Learning to Love the Bomb 10 1.11 Nuclear Terror Revisited 12 1.12 Chernobyl’s Impact on Contemporary Views of Nuclear Energy 13 1.13 The Myth of the Lone Madman 15 1.14 Fear of an Unknown Atom 15 2 Terrorism and Nuclear Fire 17 2.1 A Prophetic Warning 17 2.2 History of Terrorism 18 2.3 Terrorism (Un)Defined 20 2.4 Legal Taxonomy of Terrorism 23 2.5 The Defining Principles of Terrorism 27 2.6 Nation States: Fuel for Nuclear Fire 28 2.7 Global Mass Media: The Oxygen of Terrorism 30 2.8 Extremists Groups: The Spark that Ignites Terrorism 31 2.9 Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Nightmare 35 3 Radiation and Radioactivity Concepts 37 3.1 What, Exactly, Is Radiation? 38 3.2 Units of Radioactivity 40 3.3 The Different Types of Radioactive Decay 40 3.4 Measuring Radioactivity 41 3.5 Environmental Radiation 43 3.6 Radiation from Nuclear Power Plants 44 3.7 The Benefits of Radiation on Health and Medicine 45 3.8 The Benefits of Radiation on Agriculture 47 3.9 The Benefits of Radiation on Industry 48 3.10 The Benefits of Radiation on National Security 49 3.11 The Benefits of Radiological and Nuclear Material on International Security 50 4 Nuclear Countermeasures and Nuclear Security 53 4.1 Security of Radiation Sources 54 4.2 Atomic Authorization 55 4.3 Safety of Radiation Sources 56 4.4 Enforcing International Standards of Safety 57 4.5 Meeting Global Needs for Energy 58 4.6 Difficulties of Radioactive Disposal 59 4.7 A Radiation Role Model 61 4.8 Nuclear Applications to Increase Public Safety and National Security 62 4.9 Current Nuclear and Radiation Countermeasures 64 5 Nuclear Events and Incidents 65 5.1 The Search for Nuclear Substances 66 5.2 Diplomatic Reasoning 67 5.3 Inferring Nuclear Intent 69 5.4 Nuclear Arms in the Wrong Hands 70 5.5 A More Active Defense 72 5.6 Should Diplomacy Fail 73 5.7 A Closer Look at Nuclear Weapons 73 5.8 Nuclear Blast Force 75 5.9 Nuclear Thermal Force 75 5.10 Radioactive Force 75 5.11 Radiological Dispersion Devices 77 6 Radiological Incidents Management and Planning 79 6.1 Threat Assessment 80 6.2 Medical Stockpiling 81 6.3 Medical Development 83 6.4 Readying the Response Infrastructure 85 6.5 Evaluating the Medical Countermeasure Enterprise 86 6.6 The Good News: Areas of Improvement 88 6.7 Protective Action Guidelines 90 6.8 The Role of the Military in a Radiological Emergency 91 7 Role of the First Responder 97 7.1 Structure of the First Response Team’s Patterns of Action 98 7.2 Role of the First Response Team 98 7.3 Protection of Responders and the Public 99 7.3.1 Basic Precautions 99 7.3.2 Registration of Emergency Response Personnel 100 7.4 Lessons Learned from First Response to Past Emergencies 100 7.5 Manage the Medical Response 102 7.6 Manage Criminal and Terrorist Threats After a Radiological Event 103 7.7 Launching the First Response 104 7.8 Incident Command 104 7.9 Members of the First Response Team 105 7.10 Preliminary Assessment and Response 107 7.11 Emergency Response Team 108 7.12 Incident Commander Action Guide 109 7.12.1 Observe and Assess 110 7.12.2 Save Lives and Prevent Escalation 110 7.12.3 Extend the Response 110 7.13 Resource Coordinator Action Guide 111 7.14 Fire Departments Action Guide 111 7.15 Emergency Medical Service Action Guide 112 7.16 Law Enforcement/Security Team Action Guide 113 7.17 Forensic Evidence Management Team Action Guide 113 7.18 Public Information Officer Action Guide 114 7.19 Crisis Communication Tips 115 7.20 Local Hospital Action Guide 115 7.21 National EOC Action Guide 116 7.22 First Responder Monitor Action Guide 117 8 Action Plans 119 8.1 Assess Hazard and Establish Security Area 119 8.2 Personnel Protection Guidelines 120 8.3 Public Protection Guidelines 121 8.4 Public Registration 122 8.5 Monitor the Public and Responders 123 8.6 Public Decontamination 124 8.7 Response Contamination Control 125 8.8 Monitoring and Decontamination of Vehicles and Equipment 126 8.9 Field Triage for Mass Casualties 127 9 Medicaltreatment of Radiological Injuries 129 9.1 The Radiological Effects of RDDs 129 9.2 Radioactivity and Its Impact on the Body 130 9.3 Symptoms and Syndromes 132 9.4 Emergency Assessment 133 9.5 Signs of Dangerous Radiation Dosages 134 9.6 Treatments for Radiation Exposure 136 9.7 Post-Radiation Procedures 137 9.8 Psychological Side Effects 138 9.9 Psychological First Aid 139 9.10 Treating Terror 140 10 Cleanup and Decontamination After a Radiological Incident 141 10.1 Differences between Chemical, Biological, and Radiological 141 10.2 Decontamination Differences for Fallout and a RDD 142 10.3 Who will be in Charge of Cleanup and Decontamination? 143 10.4 Radiological Cleanup Overview and Objectives 144 10.5 Radiological Cleanup Decision Making 145 10.6 Initial Cleanup Scoping 146 10.7 Stakeholder Outreach and Stakeholder Working Group 147 10.8 Evaluation of Cleanup Options 147 10.9 Specific Guidelines for Cleanup and Decontamination 148 10.10 The “Do Nothing” Strategy 148 10.11 Physical Removal Strategy 149 10.12 Physical Entrapment Strategy 149 10.13 Chemical Decontamination Strategy 150 10.14 Use of Isotope Dilution for Decontamination 151 10.15 Priorities for Decontamination 152 11 Conclusions 155 11.1 Nuclear Terror: Are We Prepared Internationally? 155 11.2 Who is Internationally Responsible for Nuclear Countermeasures? 156 11.3 Nuclear Terror: Are We Prepared Nationally? 158 11.4 What We Know About the Inevitable 159 Appendix A Radioactive Contamination Monitoring 161 A.1 Introduction 162 A.2 Types of Nuclear Detection Equipment 163 A.3 Dose Rate Meters 164 A.4 Dosimeters 164 A.5 Surface Contamination Meters 166 A.6 Airborne Contamination Meters and Gas Monitors 166 A.7 Basic Radiation Instrument Components 168 A.8 Ionization Chambers as Gas-Filled Detectors 168 A.9 Proportional Counters and Gas Amplification 169 A.10 Geiger-Müller Counters and Detector Output 170 A.11 Practical Ionization Chamber Instruments 171 A.12 Practical Proportional Counters 172 A.13 Practical Geiger-Müller Counters 173 A.14 Scintillation Counters 173 A.15 Practical Bulk Scintillation Counters 174 A.16 Practical Scintillation Counter Contamination Monitors 175 A.17 Solid State Detectors 175 A.18 Practical Solid State Detectors 176 A.19 Testing Dose Rate Meters 177 A.20 Procedures for Using a Dose Rate Meter 178 A.21 Testing and Calibration of Surface Contamination Meters 179 A.22 Use of a Surface Contamination Meter 179 A.23 Procedures for Using a Surface Contamination Meter 180 A.24 Special Surface Contamination Monitoring Techniques 181 A.25 The Measurement of Airborne Contamination 182 A.26 Criteria for the Selection of Monitoring Instruments 182 Appendix B List of Acronyms and Abbreviations 185 Appendix C Radiologicalterms 195 Appendix D Radiological Attack—Radiological Dispersal Devices—Incident Planning Guide 217 Appendix E Federal Agencies Governing the Immediate Response to a Radiological Event 231 E.1 Introduction 231 E.1.1 Purpose 231 E.1.2 Scope 232 E.1.3 Policies 233 E.1.4 Headquarters Planning and Preparedness 236 E.2 Situation 237 E.3 Planning Assumptions 238 E.4 Responsibilities 239 E.4.1 General 239 E.4.2 Coordinating Agencies 242 E.5 Key Federal Radiological Resources/Assets 248 E.6 Concept of Operations 252 E.6.1 General 252 E.6.2 Notification 252 E.6.3 Activation 253 E.6.4 ICS Implementation 255 E.7 Response Activities 255 E.8 Recovery 261 E.9 Federal Capabilities and Assets 273 Appendix F Potential Isotopes Likely to Be Used in a Radiological Dispersion Device 275 Bibliography 281 Index 285

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Book SynopsisMDI and TDI are polymer building blocks with a wide range of applications in industry. Both are used in large quantities and can be found in a wide variety of industries and applications. As there use will often involve large numbers of workers they are also subject to stringent health and safety regulations.Trade Review“...this book is a superb contribution to the literature.” (Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. 106, 2004) "....This book covers all the important topics concerning MDI and TDI and provides comprehensive coverage on the health and environmental science associated with these. (European Occupational Health & Safety Magazine, June 2003)Table of ContentsList of authors and affiliations ix A book of distinction xv Acknowledgements xvii MDI and TDI usage: responsible risk management 1D C Allport, D S Gilbert and S M Outterside Exposure, hazard and risk 1 Responsible Care®: a framework for industry action 5 Reading 10 1 MDI, TDI and the polyurethane industry 11D C Allport, D S Gilbert and S M Outterside Types of MDI 13 Types of TDI 15 Test substances 16 Misapprehensions 16 Polyurethanes made from MDI and TDI 17 Reading 23 2 Handling MDI and TDI 25D C Allport, R C Blake, C Bastian, C Galavitz, D S Gilbert, R Hurd, B Reeve, W Robert, S M Outterside, A Solinas, D Walsh, U Walber and H Wolfson Pride in safety 25 Successful systems 25 Safety systems for the handling of MDI and TDI 26 Key Theme 1: Know your product 28 Health 31 Environment 32 Key Theme 2: Protecting health 33 Duty of care 33 Exposure: how can MDI or TDI enter the body? 34 Medical symptoms 35 Medical checks 36 Key Theme 3: Neutralization, decontamination and disposal of wastes 39 Types of neutralizer 40 Routine cleaning of equipment and drums 40 Neutralization after a spillage 43 Neutralizer formulations 46 Key Theme 4: Using personal protective equipment 47 Normal operations 47 Emergency situations 48 Selection of personal protective equipment 49 Protective clothing 50 Respiratory protection 51 Key Theme 5: Monitoring exposure 59 How should monitoring be carried out? 60 When should monitoring be carried out? 61 Key Theme 6: Dealing with accidents 62 Accidents can happen 62 Spillages 63 Development of excess pressure inside containers 68 Incidents involving fire 70 Transport of MDI and TDI 72 Transport regulations 73 MDI and TDI: transport temperatures 73 Typical containers for the transport of diisocyanates 75 Accidents and emergencies 85 The workplace: storage and use of MDI and TDI 86 Designing the systems and minimizing the risks 87 Physical and chemical properties relating to storage and processing 93 Storage of MDI and TDI 95 Safety issues in workplaces using MDI and TDI 106 Safety issues in some important polyurethane processes 117 Use of MDI and TDI in laboratories 122 Visitors to the workplace 123 Emergencies in the workplace 124 Releases to atmosphere from polyurethane manufacturing sites 126 Properties of MDI and TDI relevant to releases to atmosphere 127 Releases from polyurethane processes 127 Abatement of releases 138 Reading 148 3 Health 155DC Allport, P Davies, W F Diller, J E Doe, F Floc’h H D Hoffmann, MKatoh and J P Lyon. Appendices by D I Bernstein Perspective on immediate effects following over exposure 156 First aid procedures 156 Commentary on first aid procedures 157 Human health: the medical background 160 Effects on the eyes 163 Effects on the skin 163 Effects when swallowed 165 Effects on the respiratory tract 165 Other health effects of MDI and TDI 185 Biomonitoring of MDI and TDI 186 Experimental toxicology 187 The interaction of MDI and TDI with biological systems 188 Toxicology studies 193 Diagnosis of diisocyanate asthma 203 Appendices (David I. Bernstein) 203 Reading 216 4 The environment 229RE Bailey, A Gard, K H den Haan, F Heimbach, D Pemberton, II Tadokoro, M Takatsuki and Y Yakabe A general approach to environmental risk assessment 229 Exposure 233 Sources of exposure 233 Distribution and persistence 237 Biodegradation 256 Bioaccumulation 257 Hazard 258 Test procedures 258 Aquatic ecotoxicity 259 Terrestrial ecotoxicity 264 Risk assessment 265 Accidental release of MDI and TDI 266 Normal usage 268 Reading 273 5 Supporting sciences 277 5.1 Chemistry of manufacture of MDI and TDI 277D C Allport, D S Gilbert and B Tury Manufacture of MDI 277 Manufacture of TDI 280 Modified MDI and TDI 282 Reading 284 5.2 Structures and nomenclature 285DC Allport, D S Gilbert and B Tury Structures 285 CAS Registry numbers and preferred names 286 IUPAC names 287 Convenient names for MDI and TDI 288 Synonyms 289 Commercial product names 289 Reading 291 5.3 Chemical reactions of MDI and TDI 291DC Allport, D S Gilbert, D Pemberton and B Tury Reaction with –OH groups 292 Reaction with –NH groups 293 Reaction with –SH groups 293 Reaction with biological molecules 294 Self-reactions 295 Catalysts 298 Reading 299 5.4 Physical and fire properties 300SM Outterside and D Pemberton MDI 301 TDI 311 Reading 319 5.5 Fire behaviour of MDI and TDI 321J F Chapman, B Cope, G Marlair and F Prager Test methodology 321 Fire tests on MDI and TDI 323 Reading 340 5.6 Occupational exposure limits, stack limits and community limits 343D C Allport, D S Gilbert, S M Outterside and B Tury Occupational exposure limits 343 Stack release limits and community limits 351 Reading 357 5.7 Sampling and analysis 358K S Brenner, V Dharmarajan and P Maddison Materials to be measured 358 Airborne MDI and TDI species 359 Choice of methods for the sampling and analysis of MDI and TDI in air 360 Analysis of nonairborne MDI and TDI 418 A critical review of exposure assessment techniques used in occupational health studies of MDI and TDI 420 Reading 422 Index 431

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Book SynopsisIn this classic study, Sidney Fine portrays the dramatic events of the 1936-37 Flint Sit-down Strike against General Motors, which catapulted the UAW into prominence and touched off a wave of sit-down strikes across the United States.Trade ReviewSit-Down is everything that a work of historical scholarship should be. It is impeccably organized, is drawn from an exhaustive examination of primary sources, exhibits the author's balanced judgment, and is written with clarity and a certain grace." —Labor History"Fine has meticulously documented what was perhaps the most important strike in American history . . . a splendid story [and] an excellent reminder of the persistence of certain types of political and social behavior. Rewarding and provocative." —The Nation"Sidney Fine's Sit-Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937 is. . . an example of scrupulous, liberal scholarship at its best. . . . It also makes for quite exciting reading." —New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisIn the Japanese labor movement of the early twentieth century, no one captured the public imagination as vividly as Osugi Sakae (1885-1923): rebel, anarchist, and martyr. This work offers a glimpse into a Japanese boy's life at the time of the Sino-Japanese (1894-95) and the Russo-Japanese (1904-5) wars.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Translator's Introduction Chronology of Major Events in The Autobiography THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF OSUGI SAKAE Chapter 1 First Memories: To 1894 Chapter 2 Childhood: 1894-1895 Chapter 3 A Young Hooligan: 1895-1899 Chapter 4 Cadet School: 1899-1901 Chapter 5 A New Life: 1901-1902 Chapter 6 Memories of Mother: 1902-1904 Chapter 7 Life in Prison: 1906-1910 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOpens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, this book finds a rising tide of labor unrest mostly hidden from the world's attention.Trade Review"An ethnographic and analytic masterpiece... Few sociological studies have combined structural and existential, object and subjective truths so memorably as this one." London Review Of Books "This beautifully written book will catalyse further important debates on the class dimensions of labour protest." Labour HistoryTable of ContentsPreface PART I: DECENTRALIZED LEGAL AUTHORITARIANISM 1. Chinese Workers' Contentious Transition from State Socialism 2. Stalled Reform: Between Social Contract and Legal Contract PART II: RUSTBELT: PROTESTS OF DESPERATION 3. The Unmaking of Mao's Working Class in the Rustbelt 4. Life after Danwei: Surviving Enterprise Collapse PART III: SUNBELT: PROTESTS AGAINST DISCRIMINATION 5. The Making of New Labor in the Sunbelt 6. Dagong as a Way of Life PART IV: CONCLUSION 7. Chinese Labor Politics in Comparative Perspective Methodological Appendix: Fieldwork in Two Provinces Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPresents the study of organic farming. This book includes a thorough investigation of the federal organic program, a discussion of how the certification arena has continued to grow and change since its implementation, and a guide to the structure of the organic farming sector.Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Abbreviations Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Maps 1. Agrarian Dreams 2. Finding the Way: Roads to Organic Production 3. Organic Farming: Ideal Practices and Practical Ideals 4. California Dreaming: California's Agro-Industrial Legacy 5. Organic Sediment: A Geography of Organic Production 6. Conventionalizing Organic: From Social Movement to Industry via Regulation 7. Organic Regulation Ramified 8. California Organics, Fifteen Years On Appendix Notes Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Laslett has given us an indispensable resource in this broad, overarching history of workers’ movements in a remarkable city." -- Chris Rhomberg * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Scope and Purpose PART ONE: UNDER THE THUMB OF THE OPEN SHOP 1. Myth versus Reality in the Making of the Southern California Working Class, 1880--1903 2. "It's Class War, without a Doubt": The Open Shop Battle Intensifies, 1904--1916 3. Grassroots Insurgencies and the Impact of World War I, 1905--1924 4. Moving to the "Industrial Suburbs": From Hollywood to South Gate, and from Signal Hill to the Citrus Belt, 1919--1929 PART TWO: ORGANIZED LABOR COMES INTO ITS OWN 5. Unemployment, Upton Sinclair's EPIC Campaign, and the Search for a New Deal Political Coalition, 1929--1941 6. Raising Consciousness at the Workplace: Anglos, Mexicans, and the Founding of the Los Angeles CIO, 1933--1938 7. Battle Royal: AFL versus CIO, and the Decline of the Open Shop, 1936--1941 8. "Two Steps Forward, One Step Back"? L.A. Workers in World War II, 1941--1945 PART THREE: CULTURAL CHANGE AND THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW INDUSTRIAL ORDER 9. "Caught between Consumption and the Cold War": Rebuilding Working-Class Politics, 1945--1968 10. Employment, Housing, and the Struggle for Equality in the Era of Civil Rights, 1965--1980 11. Globalization, Labor's Decline, and the Coming of a Service and High-Tech Economy, 1970--1994 12. False Dawn? L.A.'s Labor-Latino Alliance Takes Center Stage, 1990--2010 Conclusion: Comparative Reflections Notes Primary Sources Index

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Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty-one. Matthiessen lived in New York City, while Chavez lived in the Central Valley farm town of Delano, where the grape strike was unfolding. This book is Matthiessen's panoramic yet finely detailed account of the three years he spent working and traveling with Chavez, including to Sal Si Puedes, the San Jose barrio where Chavez began his organizing. Matthiessen provides a candid look into the many sides of this enigmatic and charismatic leader who lived by the laws of nonviolence. Sal Si Puedes is less reportage than living history. In its pages a whole era comes alive: the Chicano, Black Power, and antiwar movements; the browning of the labor movement; Chavez's fasts; the nationwide boycott of California grapes. When Chavez died in 1993, tens of thousands gathered at his funeral. It was a clear sign of how beloved he was and how important his life had been. A new foreword by Marc Grossman considers the significance of Chavez's legacy for our time. As well as serving as an indispensable guide to the 1960s, this book rejuvenates the extraordinary vitality of Chavez's life and spirit, giving his message a renewed and much-needed urgency.Trade Review""Cesar Chavez is gracefully revealed by Peter Matthiessen as a curiously private public figure who is in love with people," * Chicago Tribune *"The spirit and sense of la Huelga”—the California grape pickers' strike”—is conveyed with passionate clarity in this fine study of Cesar Chavez and his United Farm Workers' Organizing Committee. . . . There isn't any fuller or sharper reportage on this subject than is found here." * Kirkus Reviews *"No labor leader has ever been better served in a contemporaneous account than Cesar Chavez is in this book by Peter Matthiessen. . . . journalism at its finest." * Agricultural History *

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Book SynopsisMaps and challenges many of the mythologies that surround the late iconic labor leader. Focusing on Chavez's own writings, this book argues that La Causa can be fruitfully understood as a quasi-religious movement based on Chavez's charismatic leadership, which he modeled after Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface (Re)Introduction. Enfleshment: Cesar's Body 1. Mythology: Think Different 2. Prophecy: In the Path of Gandhi and Martin Luther King 3. Religion: A Revolutionary Spirit Conclusion. The Lost Gospel: "God Help Us to Be Men!" Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn May 1937, seventy thousand workers walked off their jobs at four large steel companies known collectively as Little Steel. The strikers sought to make the companies retreat from decades of antiunion repression, abide by the newly enacted federal labor law, and recognize their union. This book tells a different story about the conflict.Trade Review"In much the same way as those who appreciate various branches of the arts, scholars are also on a never ending search for excellence; something that lifts the spirits. Ahmed White has accomplished this in The Last Great Strike... The extent of his research is breathtaking... He combines a breadth of minute detail with a clear eye for broader implications." Labour History "Ahmed White's The Last Great Strike is a fascinating analysis of an often overlooked labor struggle in the New Deal era." International Socialist Review "The Last Great Strike is a strong piece of scholarship, rich with archival discoveries. Compelling and accessible ... an important contribution to our understanding of U.S. labor history, union organizing, and class conflict." Monthly ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Labor, Little Steel, and the New Deal PART I The Open Shop 1 * Like a Penitentiary: Steel and the Origins of the Open Shop 2 * They Should Honor Us: Work and Conflict in the Open Shop Era 3 * Sure, We Have Guns: The Open Shop in the Depression Era 4 * I Never Gave That Guy Nothin': The New Deal and the Changing Landscape of Labor Relations 5 * To Banish Fear: The Campaign to Organize Steel PART II The Strike 6 * The Spirit of Unrest: From Stalemate to Walkout 7 * In the Name of the People: The Incident on Memorial Day 8 * What Had to Be Done: The Struggle at the Mill Gates 9 * A Change of Heart: Corporate Power and New Deal Strikebreaking 10 * Let's Bust Them Up: Last Struggles and Defeat PART III The Aftermath 11 * A Steel Strike Is Not a Picnic: The Anatomy of Failure 12 * Kind of a Victory: New Deal Labor Law on Trial 13 * Unreconciled: War, Victory, and the Legacies of Defeat Conclusion: These Things That Mean So Much to Us Appendix Abbreviations Notes Bibliographic Note Index

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Book SynopsisThere is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workers' rights, California unions are embracing working immigrants, and voters are protecting core worker rights. What's the difference?Trade Review"[Glass] takes on California's industrial history, the whole beastly golden expanse of it, and tries to figure out what connects the struggles of workers across time and space... [he] has managed to catalogue the most meaningful moments for working people in the biggest state in the union." East Bay Express "Use this book. Read it and teach the young. Our future will be better if you do." -- Bill Morgan California Federation of Teachers "Anyone involved in social justice work sooner or later finds her interests intersect with the labor movement ... There's no better roadmap to this complex animal than Fred's book ... it's inspiring for the work ahead of us now." -- Lincoln Cushing California Studies Association "In this comprehensive look at California workers-their job experiences and living conditions, antagonisms among them and with the powers that be, their leaders and the rank and file, politicians who claimed to speak for them and some who actually did, their unions and allies, and much more-Fred Glass does for [labor] history what Taylor Branch did in his trilogy of the civil rights movement, The King Years. From Mission to Microchip is filled with stories, analysis, history and data. It is a good and important story, well told." Boom CaliforniaTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE: WHY CALIFORNIA LABOR HISTORY? ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART I:BEFORE THE BEGINNING PART II:EARLY DAYS PART III:FROM PRIDE OF CRAFT TO INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM PART IV:DIVISIONS IN THE GROWING HOUSE OF LABOR PART V:THE ERA OF BUSINESS UNIONISM PART VI:REINVENTING CALIFORNIA LABOR AFTERWORD: A PLACE IN THE SUN LIST OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS AND ACRONYMS BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE SOURCES INDEX

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Book SynopsisThere is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workers' rights, California unions are embracing working immigrants, and voters are protecting core worker rights. What's the difference?Trade Review"[Glass] takes on California's industrial history, the whole beastly golden expanse of it, and tries to figure out what connects the struggles of workers across time and space... [he] has managed to catalogue the most meaningful moments for working people in the biggest state in the union." East Bay Express "Use this book. Read it and teach the young. Our future will be better if you do." -- Bill Morgan California Federation of Teachers "Anyone involved in social justice work sooner or later finds her interests intersect with the labor movement ... There's no better roadmap to this complex animal than Fred's book ... it's inspiring for the work ahead of us now." -- Lincoln Cushing California Studies Association "In this comprehensive look at California workers-their job experiences and living conditions, antagonisms among them and with the powers that be, their leaders and the rank and file, politicians who claimed to speak for them and some who actually did, their unions and allies, and much more-Fred Glass does for [labor] history what Taylor Branch did in his trilogy of the civil rights movement, The King Years. From Mission to Microchip is filled with stories, analysis, history and data. It is a good and important story, well told." Boom CaliforniaTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE: WHY CALIFORNIA LABOR HISTORY? ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART I:BEFORE THE BEGINNING PART II:EARLY DAYS PART III:FROM PRIDE OF CRAFT TO INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM PART IV:DIVISIONS IN THE GROWING HOUSE OF LABOR PART V:THE ERA OF BUSINESS UNIONISM PART VI:REINVENTING CALIFORNIA LABOR AFTERWORD: A PLACE IN THE SUN LIST OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS AND ACRONYMS BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE SOURCES INDEX

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Book SynopsisAt a minimum our goal is to develop a better understanding of Japanese labor market practices and work organization and in so doing develop a more enlightened vision of American practices. We will greatly enhance our ability to achieve both these goals by arriving at a better understanding of the comparative experience of the two nations over time. We can no longer afford the delusion that what exists in the United States reflects the characteristics of industrial society in its most advanced form. Yet to follow current fashion in simply denying that the United States is the very model of a modern society, while advocating that we imitate the Japanese, is to take a course filled with its own pitfalls. Perhaps it is time we accepted the fact that the social scientist's intense commitment to generalization cannot be allowed to obscure the fundamental observation that nations develop along their own paths, based on their own political, cultural, economic and social histories. As nations industrialize there is undoubtedly convergence in important institutional spheres, such as the expansion of education, the adoption of common technologies and determinants of labor mobility. Certainly nations can learn from one another, and indeed some nations impose their will on other nations. Yet there are also unique solutions to common problems. From the IntroductionThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

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Book SynopsisWhen Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and Economics, was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's movement. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed; she was in great demand on the lecture circuit, and her intellectual circle included some of the most prominent thinkers of the age. Yet by the mid-1960s she was nearly forgotten, and Women and Economics was long out of print. Revived here with new introduction, Gilman's pivotal work remains a benchmark feminist text that anticipates many of the issues and thinkers of 1960s and resonates deeply with today's continuing debate about gender difference and inequality.Gilman's ideas represent an integration of socialist thought and Darwinian theory and provide a welcome disruption of the nearly all-male canon of American economic and social thought. She stresses the connection between work and home and between public and private life; anticipates the 1960s debate about wages for housework; calls for extensive childcare facilities and parental leave policies; and argues for new housing arrangements with communal kitchens and hired cooks. She contends that women's entry into the public arena and the reforms of the family would be a win-win situation for both women and men as the public sphere would no longer be deprived of women's particular abilities, and men would be able to enlarge the possibilities to experience and express the emotional sustenance of family life.The thorough and stimulating introduction by Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson provides substantial information about Gilman's life, personality, and background. It frames her impact on feminism since the Sixties and establishes her crucial role in the emergence of feminist and social thought.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Eye-opening as it deconstructs the promises, and downfalls, of the sharing economy." * Foreword Reviews *“Punctures the hype surrounding the ‘sharing economy’ in this lucid and deeply researched study. . . . Schor backs her claims with detailed evidence, and identifies specific, actionable reforms. This incisive account makes a perplexing subject easier to grasp.” * Publishers Weekly *“The author, a nimble writer, concludes that ‘social technology’ has to match technology itself, the foremost need being ‘learning how to share.’ The gig economy is a failure, Schor sharply chronicles—but not one that can’t be redeemed by ‘cooperation and helping.’” * Kirkus Reviews *“Schor’s case studies skillfully represent the full spectrum of optimism and disenchantment—those previously bullish on being their own boss, who have since been dragged into despair. . . . The takeaway from this book is that a complete reimagining of city governance is required if the sharing economy is ever going to work for the people.”
 * Financial Times *"Using an engaging writing style that is accessible to a non-academic audience and to those unfamiliar with the topic, the author brings the reader on a journey along the evolution of the sharing economy, from its roots in the California counterculture through its affirmation in the global capitalist system, to a possible alternative future." * IRL *"Juliet Schor’s After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back tells this story with much flair and nuance, based on her team’s groundbreaking and extensive research." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note: This Book Has Been Coproduced Introduction: The Problem of Work 1 From the Counterculture to “We Are the Uber of X” 2 Earning on the Platforms 3 Shared, but Unequal 4 “The Shared Economy Is a Lie” 5 Swapping with Snobs 6 Co-ops, Commons, and Democratic Sharing Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Serving a Wired World juxtaposes in colorful ways the varied tensions of the period: between administrators and workers, privacy and mediation, female and male employees, good boys and bad ones, order and rebellion. . . . Today’s information workers may recognize some of these tensions, particularly in how library labor is both integral and invisibilized in library operations and how administrative decisions inform public discourse on the labor of information." * College & Research Libraries *"Serving a Wired World… provides a diverse range of sources and insightful analysis to present a rich account of the experiences and activities of telegraphists, telegraph boys, and telephonists." * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgment Introduction 1 • Dispatches from Underground 2 • The Public Service of Discretion 3 • Gendering the Central Telegraph Office 4 • Bodied Telegraphy 5 • Unintended Networks 6 • Tapped Wires 7 • Martial Mercuries 8 • Voices on the Wires Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis2022 International Labor History Association Book of the YearA dramatic, deeply researched account of how legal repression and vigilantism brought down the Wobbliesand how the destruction of their union haunts us to this day. In 1917, the Industrial Workers of the World was rapidly gaining strength and members. Within a decade, this radical union was effectively destroyed, the victim of the most remarkable campaign of legal repression and vigilantism in American history. Under the Iron Heel is the first comprehensive account of this campaign. Founded in 1905, the IWW offered to the millions of workers aggrieved by industrial capitalism the promise of a better world. But its growth, coinciding with World War I and the Russian Revolution and driven by uncompromising militancy, was seen by powerful capitalists and government officials as an existential threat that had to be eliminated. In Under the Iron Heel, Ahmed White documents the torrent of legal persecution and extralegal, somTrade Review"A comprehensive account of the campaign waged by the American state to destroy the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or ‘Wobblies’) in the decade surrounding the First World War. . . . Harrowing reading." * World Socialist Website *"Under the Iron Heel examines the role that progressive and conservative policymakers played in subduing the union, raising questions about political tolerance for organized labor today." * Yale Law Report *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Face to Face with Tragedy 1. Socialism with Its Working Clothes On Industrial Capitalism, Radical Unionism, and the Roots of Repression 2. Protecting the Business People Class, Law, and the Criminalization of Radical Industrial Unionism 3. In the War of Capital against Labor Someone Must Suffer The War and the IWW 4. I’ll Take neither Mercy nor Pity Repression and the IWW during the Red Scare 5. Dealing the Death Blow Repression and the IWW after the Red Scare 6. Between the Drowning and the Broken Punishment, Law, and the Legacies of Repression Conclusion A Vision We Don’t Possess Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A comprehensive account of the campaign waged by the American state to destroy the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or ‘Wobblies’) in the decade surrounding the First World War. . . . Harrowing reading." * World Socialist Website *"Under the Iron Heel examines the role that progressive and conservative policymakers played in subduing the union, raising questions about political tolerance for organized labor today." * Yale Law Report *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Face to Face with Tragedy 1. Socialism with Its Working Clothes On Industrial Capitalism, Radical Unionism, and the Roots of Repression 2. Protecting the Business People Class, Law, and the Criminalization of Radical Industrial Unionism 3. In the War of Capital against Labor Someone Must Suffer The War and the IWW 4. I’ll Take neither Mercy nor Pity Repression and the IWW during the Red Scare 5. Dealing the Death Blow Repression and the IWW after the Red Scare 6. Between the Drowning and the Broken Punishment, Law, and the Legacies of Repression Conclusion A Vision We Don’t Possess Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis* Highlights the very latest trends and issues in global diversity that affect human resource management. * Articles have been carefully chosen from a wide variety of cultural perspectives. * Case applications provide real life examples of successes and problems in a variety of countries. .Trade Review"Well crafted and detailed. I appreciate the quality of Maryann's work and her ability to get at the issues important in understanding contemporary Human Resources thought and practice." Dr Kenneth R Thomson, De Paul University.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Foreword - Fred Luthans. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Global Business:. 1. Difference and Danger: Cultural Profiles of Nations and Limits to Tolerance - Geert Hofstede. 2. Key Concepts: Underlying Structures of Culture - Edward T. Hall and Mildred Reed Hall. 3. European Leadership in Globalization - Philip R. Harris and Robert T. Moran. 4. The Yin and Yang of Managing in Asia - Dean Allen Foster. 5. Case: A Difficult Start - Charlotte Butler and Henri-Claude de Bettignies. 6. Exercise: The World Wide Web and Cultural Diversity - Maryann H. Albrecht. Part II: Strategic Human Resource Management:. 7. Are We Global Yet? - James W. Walker. 8. International HR Policy Basics - John J. Fadel and Mark Petti. 9. Integrated HR Systems Help Develop Global Leaders - Linda K. Stroh, Sven Grasshoff, André Rudé, and Nancy Carter. 10. A Contingency Matrix Approach to IHRM - Fred Luthans, Paul A. Marsnik, and Kyle W. Luthans. 11. Reaping the Rewards of NAFTA - Dick Bottorff. 12. Case: Diversity Management at Hewlett-Packard, Europe - Linda Brimm and Mandakini Arora. 13. Case: Eurochem Shanghai: Corporate Policy or China Practice? - Miles Dodd. Part III: Recruitment, Selection, and Placement in a Global Context:. 14. The Boundaryless Organization: Implications for Job Analysis, Recruitment, and Selection - Jodi Barnes Nelson. 15. Building a Global Workforce Starts With Recruitment - Shannon Peters Talbott. 16. Four Faces of Global Culture - Peter L. Berger. 17. European Competencies - Some Guidelines for Companies - Bruno Leblanc. 18. Case: Grupo Financiero Inverlat - Daniel D. Campbell, Henry W. Lane, and Kathleen E. Slaughter. Part IV: Training and Development:. 19. Diversity Training: A Competitive Weapon - Jenny C. McCune. 20. Training Across Cultures - Joyce L. Francis. 21. Strategy and HRM Initiatives for the '00s Environment: Redefining Roles and Boundaries, Linking Competencies and Resources - Richard M. Hodgetts, Fred Luthans, and John W. Slocum, Jr. 22. Global Dual-Career Couple Mentoring: A Phase Model Approach - Michael Harvey and Danielle Wiese. 23. Case: Bhiwar Enterprises - Gordon Brannan and Joseph J. DiStefano. Part V: Employee Relations:. 24. The Multicultural Organization - Taylor Cox, Jr. 25. Managing Human Resources in Mexico: A Cultural Understanding - Randall S, Schuler, Susan E. Jackson, Ellen Jackofsky, and John W. Slocum, Jr. 26. New Manufacturing Strategies and Labour in Latin America -John Humphrey. 27. Coming to Terms With Local People - John Channon and Adam Dakin. 28. Being "a Third Culture Man" - Geert J. E. M. Sanders. 29. Case: The Evaluation - Charlotte Butler and Henri-Claude de Bettignies. 30. Case: Kentucky Fried Chicken and the Global Fast-Food Industry - Jeffrey A. Krug. 31. Put Your Ethics to a Global Test - Charlene Marmer Solomon. 32. Diversity Stress as Morality Stress - Rae André. 33. Remote Control - Neil Merrick. 34. Should HR Survive? A Profession at the Crossroads - Anthony J. Rucci. 35. Cultural Diversity Programs to Prepare for Work Force 2000: What's. Gone Wrong? - Norma M. Riccucci. 36. Case: Anglo German Trading Corporation - Kenneth E. Roberts. 37. Case: Novell's Global Strategy: "Bytes Are Somewhat Narcotic" - Marjorie McEntire, C. Brooklyn Derr, and Chris Meek. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo increasing emphasis placed on health and safety for contractors and designers aeo new edition substantially revised and expanded aeo covers the latest revisions to the Wiring Regulations and new electricity safety regulations aeo a a very practical booka -- a Electrical Contractora .Table of ContentsThe hazards and risks from electricity; Electrical accidents and dangerous occurrences; Basic safety precautions; The legislative framework; The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974; The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989; European-derived law with electrical and electrotechnical control system safety requirements; The Electricity Supply Regulations 1988; Other legislation with an electrical safety content; BS 761:2001 Requirements for Electrical Installations - IEE Wiring Regulations 16th Edition; Construction sites; Underground cables; Safety-related electrotechnical control systems; Competence: Electrical equipment in flammable and explosive atmospheres; Electric arc welding; Tests and testing; Maintenance; Checking small domestic electrical installations

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the “Great Coalfield War.” In a story of transformation, Andrews illuminates the causes and consequences of the militancy that erupted in colliers’ strikes over the course of nearly half a century.Trade ReviewThe Ludlow Massacre of 1914 has long been known as one of the most notorious events in all of American labor history, but until the publication of Killing for Coal, it was still possible to see this slaughter simply as an episode in the history of American industrial violence. In Thomas Andrews's skilled hands, it becomes something much subtler, more complicated, and revealing: a window onto the profound transformation of work and environment that occurred on the Western mining frontier in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Anyone interested in the history of labor, the environment, and the American West will want to read this book. -- William Cronon, author of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great WestKilling for Coal is a stunning achievement. Beautifully written and masterfully researched, it stands as the definitive history of the dramatic events at Ludlow and breaks new ground in our understanding of industrialization and the environment. If I were to pick one word to describe this book, I would say, "powerful." -- Kathryn Morse, author of The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold RushKilling for Coal arises from the rare and providential convergence of an extraordinary author and an extraordinary topic. With a perfect instinct for the telling detail, Thomas Andrews wields a matching talent for conveying, in crystal-clear prose, the deepest meanings of history. This is, in every sense, an illuminating book, shining light into a dark terrain of the American past and of the human soul. -- Patricia Nelson Limerick, author of The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American WestA groundbreaking work about coal and coal development, labor relations and class conflict. -- Sandra Dallas * Denver Post *Thomas G. Andrews' Killing for Coal offers an intriguing analysis of the so-called Ludlow Massacre of April 20, 1914, a watershed event in American labor history that he illuminates with a new understanding of the complexity of this conflict...Killing for Coal distinguishes itself from conventional labor histories, by going beyond sociological factors to look at the total physical environment--what Andrews calls the "workscape"--and the role it played in the lives of both labor and management...In its deft marriage of natural and social history, Killing for Coal sets a new standard for how the history of industry can and should be written. -- Emily F. Popek * PopMatters *A stunning debut, full of insight into the role of labor and class not just in southern Colorado, but across the country. * Denver Westword *Andrews brings a 21st-century approach to this once-troubled landscape where the region's voracious need for fuel trumped the rights and independence of the men who dragged it out of the ground. -- Bob Hoover * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *Killing for Coal is far more than a blow-by-blow account of America's deadliest labor war. It is an environmental history that seeks to explain strike violence as the natural excretion of an industry that brutalized the earth and the men who worked beneath it. Andrews is one of the excellent young scholars who have given new life to the field of labor and working-class studies by introducing new questions about race and gender, ethnicity and nationality, and new insights drawn from anthropology and physical geography...Andrews deserves credit for writing one of the best books ever published on the mining industry and its environmental impact and for drawing more public attention to the Ludlow story and its significance. -- James Green * Dissent *Andrews does an excellent job of placing the massacre in the larger context of both previous labor strife in the area and the violent reprisals that armed bands of miners launched on mine owners, strikebreakers, and militia men in response to the deaths at Ludlow. One of the great strengths of Andrews's account is his integration of environmental history into his narrative at all levels, and not just as an afterthought. The book is as much a history of coal, coal mining, and the reshaping of Colorado's environment as it is a history of the Great Coalfield War of 1914. -- A. M. Berkowitz * Choice *Table of Contents* List of Illustrations * Introduction: Civil War, Red and Bloody *1. A Dream of Coal-Fired Benevolence *2. The Reek of the New Industrialism *3. Riding the Wave to Survive an Earth Transformed *4. Dying with Their Boots On *5. Out of the Depths and on to the March *6. The Quest for Containment *7. Shouting the Battle Cry of Union * Epilogue * Abbreviations Used in the Notes * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

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Book SynopsisNearly 3% of the world’s population no longer live in the country where they were born. George Borjas synthesizes the theories, models, and econometric methods used to identify the causes and consequences of international labor flows, and lays out with clarity a full spectrum of topics with crucial implications for framing debates over immigration.Trade ReviewThis excellent book is crisply and clearly written and makes a significant contribution to the fields of labor and immigration economics. It will be a go-to resource on immigration for many years to come. -- Gordon H. Hanson, University of California, San DiegoThis book is an excellent synthesis of a diverse set of theory and empirical work on immigration. It is well organized, with early chapters doing a good job of setting up the later ones. I have never seen a better job of bringing together such diverse topics as assimilation, selection, and labor market impacts. The author has done an effective job of simplifying the theories down to their essences; and developing equations that make the theories’ implications plain to see with simple algebra, often accompanied by a clear figure. It will be accessible and interest-provoking to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in economics. -- Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College

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Book SynopsisChina’s leaders aspire to the prosperity, political legitimacy, and stability that flowed from America’s New Deal, but they are irrevocably opposed to the independent trade unions and mass mobilization that brought it about. Cynthia Estlund’s crisp comparative analysis makes China’s labor unrest and reform legible to Western readers.Trade ReviewThis highly readable story of the recent struggle of China’s workers for a better life, and the Communist Party’s complex responses to their demands, will surely meet the urgent need for greater understanding of this dynamic, non-transparent nation. Cynthia Estlund, a leading expert on American labor, has given us a balanced and sophisticated picture of China’s vastly different, rapidly changing labor scene. Like all great comparative studies, it also moves us to reconsider the accomplishments and drawbacks of our own government and even suggests what we might learn from the Chinese. -- Jerome A. Cohen, New York University School of LawThis eloquent account of the fundamental issues facing China’s workers, employers, and officials is an accessible but highly nuanced entrée to the world-historical drama unfolding in the PRC. Estlund has masterfully identified the essential economic, political, and legal dynamics that will determine the fate of the world’s largest and most restive working class. -- Eli Friedman, Cornell UniversityFor those who want to know more about the current status of labor in China, A New Deal for China’s Workers? is a must-read. Addressing labor issues in the United States and China, Estlund goes beyond the common view that workplaces in China are all sweatshops even as she questions China’s prospects for controlled liberalization of trade unions and labor NGOs. The results are enlightening and provocative. -- Mary Gallagher, University of MichiganThis is a terrific, eye-opening book. Cynthia Estlund uses her expert knowledge of American labor history and law as a lens through which to examine the turbulent politically and economically fraught world in which hundreds of millions of Chinese workers press for dignity, democracy, and a better material life. From the most exploitative sweatshop to the highest levels of Chinese government and industry, Estlund offers superb guidance to all those puzzled by the near-insurrectionary struggles of the Chinese working class and by the regime’s capacity to channel, accommodate, and suppress this industrial revolt. -- Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa BarbaraCynthia Estlund provides the most sophisticated and in-depth look ever at China and Chinese workers and their ‘race to the rising bottom.’ Her analysis demonstrates that the Chinese leadership’s fear of an independent ‘organized labor’ movement as a greater threat than ‘organized capital’ or capitalism has actually motivated positive change for Chinese workers. The revealing comparisons of labor law, workplace democracy, and the role of unions between the U.S. and China is stunningly insightful, and will shatter your conventional ideas. -- Andy Stern, Columbia University

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes labor markets from the real-world perspective: employers have significant market (or monopsony) power over their workers. Arguing that this power derives from frictions in the labor market that make it time-consuming and costly for workers to change jobs, this book re-examines much of labor economics based on this assumption.Trade Review"Given the breadth and depth of the issues Manning covers--clearly, a staggering amount of work went into this book--even skeptical readers will not be able to dismiss his theory lightly... The book is so well written that even the most complicated material in it is readable. The presentation is also commendably well balanced... [It] deserves a place on our bookshelves alongside the other seminal works in labor economics."--Michael Rizzo, Industrial and Labor Relations Review "The manner of Manning's exposition of his arguments advocating the monopsonist view is impressive... [I]t will be hard for even the utmost skeptic and expert not to come away having learnt something more about labor economics."--Eric A. Strobl, Journal of Economic Behavior and OrganizationTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. xi*1. Introduction, pg. 3*2. Simple Models of Monopsony and Oligopsony, pg. 29*3. Efficiency in Oligopsonistic Labor Markets, pg. 56*4. The Elasticity of the Labor Supply Curve to an Individual Firm, pg. 80*5. The Wage Policies of Employers, pg. 117*6. Earnings and the Life Cycle, pg. 141*7. Gender Discrimination in Labor Markets, pg. 193*8. Employers and Wages, pg. 217*9. Unemployment, Inactivity, and Labor Supply, pg. 239*10. Vacancies and the Demand for Labor, pg. 269*11. Human Capital and Training, pg. 301*12. The Minimum Wage and Trade Unions, pg. 325*13. Monopsony and the Big Picture, pg. 360*Data Sets Appendix, pg. 369*Bibliography, pg. 379*Index, pg. 397

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Book SynopsisBrings together the authors' work in creating models that more accurately reflect the real-world connections between international trade and labor markets. This book addresses the shortcomings of standard models and describes the empirics that underlie equilibrium unemployment models.Trade Review"The pathbreaking research synthesized in this volume shows that labor market frictions are central to understanding the distributional consequences of international trade. Anyone interested in the intellectual debate about globalization should read this book. It is an essential reference for researchers and students in international trade."—Stephen J. Redding, London School of Economics and Political Science"Davidson and Matusz pioneered the modern theory of international trade with labor market frictions. This book knits together their major work on this subject, and delivers fundamental insights concerning the effects of globalization on unemployment patterns, wage distributions, adjustment burdens, intergenerational welfare gaps, and trade policy formation. Any serious study of this literature should begin with this volume."—James R. Tybout, Pennsylvania State University"This is an important and timely volume. The quality of scholarship in these papers is of a consistently high standard, and readers will not only find the individual papers analytically rich but also accessible. The economics profession has finally recognized just what a central issue trade with unemployment is—Davidson and Matusz recognized it twenty years ago and have been building tractable models that have yielded important insights."—David Greenaway, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsPREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv CHAPTER 1: Our Motivation 1 PART 1: NEW INSIGHTS FROM "OLD" TRADE THEORY 25 Introduction to Part 1 27 CHAPTER 2: The Structure of Simple General Equilibrium Models with Frictional Unemployment 33 CHAPTER 3: Trade and Search-Generated Unemployment 60 PART 2: COMPLICATIONS 91 Introduction to Part 2 93 CHAPTER 4: Multiple Free Trade Equilibria in Micro Models of Unemployment 97 CHAPTER 5: Jobs and Chocolate: Samuelsonian Surpluses in Dynamic Models of Unemployment 110 CHAPTER 6: Long-Run Lunacy, Short-Run Sanity: A Simple Model of Trade with Labor Market Turnover 138 PART 3: EMPIRICS 159 Introduction to Part 3 161 CHAPTER 7: Trade and Turnover: Theory and Evidence 165 CHAPTER 8: Trade, Turnover, and Tithing 195 PART 4: ADJUSTMENT COSTS AND POLICY ISSUES 221 Introduction to Part 4 223 CHAPTER 9: Should Policy Makers Be Concerned about Adjustment Costs? 227 CHAPTER 10: An Overlapping-Generations Model of Escape Clause Protection 265 CHAPTER 11: Trade Liberalization and Compensation 292 CHAPTER 12: Can Compensation Save Free Trade? 321 PART 5: NEW INSIGHTS FROM "NEW" TRADE THEORY 349 Introduction to Part 5 351 CHAPTER 13: Globalization and Firm-Level Adjustment with Imperfect Labor Markets 355 CHAPTER 14: Outsourcing Peter to Pay Paul: High-Skill Expectations and Low-Skill Wages with Imperfect Labor Markets 388 INDEX 407

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Caselli—in his compact, but rich and inspiring compendium—proposes a fascinating universal framework which takes into consideration differences existing (and changing in time) across countries in terms of capital (natural and physical) and labor (skilled and unskilled)."---Mariacristina Piva, Journal of EconomicsTable of ContentsPreface ix 1 Introduction and Preliminaries 1 Part I Technology Differences across Space 2 Skilled and Unskilled Labor 17 3 Natural and Reproducible Capital 40 4 Capital and Labor 48 Part II Interpreting Technology Differences 5 An Endogenous Technology Framework 67 Part III Technology Differences over Time 6 Skilled Labor, Unskilled Labor, and Experience over Time 83 7 Skills and Capital over Time and across Countries 95 8 Conclusions 102 Appendix A. Proofs and Calculations 105 Appendix B. A New Data Set on Mincerian Returns (with Jacopo Ponticelli and Federico Rossi) 108 References 119 Index 125

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the 2018 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association""In her rich and technical account Competition in the Promised Land, Leah Boustan employs the tools of her trade--resourceful matching of data sets, rigorous modeling of labor phenomena, sweeping use of census figures--to analyze the demographics and economics of the Great Migration as a whole."---James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review"Boustan offers several original and valuable insights and extensions [to the existing literature]."---Howard Bodenhorn, EH.Net"Highly recommended for anyone studying mid-twentieth-century black migration in the United States and racially segregated labor markets and housing patterns in northern American cities."---Farley Grubb, Journal of Southern History"Competition in the Promised Land effectively revises and extends the voluminous scholarship on the Great Migration, demonstrating what the very best of economic history can bring to the study of the history of African Americans."---Keona K. Ervin, Michigan Historical Review

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