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Johns Hopkins University Press Vegas at Odds Labor Conflict in a Leisure Economy
Book SynopsisAmerican historians and anyone interested in the history of labor or Las Vegas will find this account highly original, insightful, and even-handed.Trade ReviewThis work is a welcome addition to the field of labor relations and labor history... Highly recommended. Choice 2010 This book would appeal to anyone interested in the history of Las Vegas, labor relations, organized labor, or knowing more about the worker struggles that took place behind the neon lights. -- Amy Butler Monthly Labor Review 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Rise of Corporate Resorts2. Working in Las Vegas3. The First Work Stoppages4. The Struggle for the Casinos5. Workplace Incidents6. Fighting for Equal Rights7. The Spirit of '768. Management Digs In, 1982–19849. The Strike of 1984–1985AfterwordNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£51.50
Beacon Press All Labor Has Dignity King Legacy 5
Book SynopsisAn unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justice Covering all the civil rights movement highlights--Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis--award-winning historian Michael K. Honey introduces and traces Dr. King's dream of economic equality. Gathered in one volume for the first time, the majority of these speeches will be new to most readers. The collection begins with King's lectures to unions in the 1960s and includes his addresses made during his Poor People's Campaign, culminating with his momentous Mountaintop speech, delivered in support of striking black sanitation workers in Memphis. Unprecedented and timely, All Labor Has Dignity will more fully restore our understanding of King's lasting vision of economic justice, bringing his demand for equality right into the present.
£17.09
Ohio State University Press Women in Labor Mothers Medicine and Occupational
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£30.88
Saint Austin Press Work and Human Fulfilment
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Picador USA A World Without Work
Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES & MCKINSEY 2020 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAROne of Fortune Best Books of the YearOne of Inc. Best Business Books of the YearOne of The Times (UK) Best Business Books of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceFrom an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it From mechanical looms to the combustion engine to the first computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. But as Daniel Susskind demonstrates, this time really is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds of jobs are increasingly at risk. Drawing on almost a decade of research in the field, Susskind argues that
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McGraw-Hill Education Labor Relations
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£174.60
NOLO The Employers Legal Handbook
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£44.20
Johns Hopkins University Press The New Deals Forest Army
Book SynopsisHow the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed, rejuvenated, and protected American forests and parks at the height of the Great Depression. Propelled by the unprecedented poverty of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established an array of massive public works programs designed to provide direct relief to America's poor and unemployed. The New Deal's most tangible legacy may be the Civilian Conservation Corps's network of parks, national forests, scenic roadways, and picnic shelters that still mark the country's landscape. CCC enrollees, most of them unmarried young men, lived in camps run by the Army and worked hard for wages (most of which they had to send home to their families) to preserve America's natural treasures. In The New Deal's Forest Army, Benjamin F. Alexander chronicles how the corps came about, the process applicants went through to get in, and what jobs they actually did. He also explains how the camps and the work sites were run, how enrollees Trade ReviewAlexander's short work is useful in that it offers an introduction to the program overall and insight into its participants' experiences, with a clear narratuve distilled from an impressive array of sources.—Kim Jarvis, H-NetAlexander has undertaken an impressive amount of primary research for this project . . . As a result, he has un-earthed some extremely significant, and understudied, information on the Corps. involving the history of several female CCC camps as well as the experiences of African-American, Native-American, and Mexican-American enrollees. Although I, myself, have written a book about the CCC, The New Deal's Forest Army taught me new, interesting, and important facts about the program.—Neil M. Maher, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Environmental HistoryAn informative history of America's "tree army" . . . The author's organizational method is outstanding for general readers with little or no knowledge of the CCC as well as appealing to readers who have read extensively about the Roosevelt presidency . . . This volume will be of interest to all readers. The next time you visit a state park with a rustic lodge, take a long look at the bronze plaque noting that it was built by the CCC and be sure to say "Thank you."—Patricia Ann Owens, South Dakota HistoryIn this concise and deliberate study, Benjamin F. Alexander demonstrates the origin, implementation, and ultimate demise of a program that gained tremendous popularity during the 1930s and ably presents why the CCC remains such a prominent part of New Deal history. Alexander's book is a snapshot of the 1930s with an explicit focus that provides significant depth to the CCC story . . . the book moves at a swift pace and is an eminently readable look at one of the most important periods in American history. Alexander succeeds in explaining how the CCC worked and in doing so provides a book will make a great text for use in the classroom.—Douglas Sheflin, Colorado State University, Western Historical QuarterlyBenjamin Alexander fills an important gap in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) literature with his detailed description of the program from its inception in the trough of the Great Depression to its demise at the beginning of World War II . . . Alexander weaves statistics and details about events during the program with colorful narratives that make this book an engaging read . . . I believe that anyone interested in the Great Depression era or in relief programs like those in the New Deal will benefit from reading it.—Erin McGuire, Georgia Institute of Technology, EH.NetTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. How the CCC Came About2. How Boys and Men Joined the CCC3. How the Enrollees Labored and Learned4. How the Enrollees Spent Their Leisure Time5. How the Coming of War Spelled the End of the CCCNotesSuggested Further ReadingIndex
£47.50
Johns Hopkins University Press The New Deals Forest Army
Book SynopsisHow the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed, rejuvenated, and protected American forests and parks at the height of the Great Depression. Propelled by the unprecedented poverty of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established an array of massive public works programs designed to provide direct relief to America's poor and unemployed. The New Deal's most tangible legacy may be the Civilian Conservation Corps's network of parks, national forests, scenic roadways, and picnic shelters that still mark the country's landscape. CCC enrollees, most of them unmarried young men, lived in camps run by the Army and worked hard for wages (most of which they had to send home to their families) to preserve America's natural treasures. In The New Deal's Forest Army, Benjamin F. Alexander chronicles how the corps came about, the process applicants went through to get in, and what jobs they actually did. He also explains how the camps and the work sites were run, how enrollees Trade ReviewAlexander's short work is useful in that it offers an introduction to the program overall and insight into its participants' experiences, with a clear narratuve distilled from an impressive array of sources.—Kim Jarvis, H-NetAlexander has undertaken an impressive amount of primary research for this project . . . As a result, he has un-earthed some extremely significant, and understudied, information on the Corps. involving the history of several female CCC camps as well as the experiences of African-American, Native-American, and Mexican-American enrollees. Although I, myself, have written a book about the CCC, The New Deal's Forest Army taught me new, interesting, and important facts about the program.—Neil M. Maher, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Environmental HistoryAn informative history of America's "tree army" . . . The author's organizational method is outstanding for general readers with little or no knowledge of the CCC as well as appealing to readers who have read extensively about the Roosevelt presidency . . . This volume will be of interest to all readers. The next time you visit a state park with a rustic lodge, take a long look at the bronze plaque noting that it was built by the CCC and be sure to say "Thank you."—Patricia Ann Owens, South Dakota HistoryIn this concise and deliberate study, Benjamin F. Alexander demonstrates the origin, implementation, and ultimate demise of a program that gained tremendous popularity during the 1930s and ably presents why the CCC remains such a prominent part of New Deal history. Alexander's book is a snapshot of the 1930s with an explicit focus that provides significant depth to the CCC story . . . the book moves at a swift pace and is an eminently readable look at one of the most important periods in American history. Alexander succeeds in explaining how the CCC worked and in doing so provides a book will make a great text for use in the classroom.—Douglas Sheflin, Colorado State University, Western Historical QuarterlyBenjamin Alexander fills an important gap in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) literature with his detailed description of the program from its inception in the trough of the Great Depression to its demise at the beginning of World War II . . . Alexander weaves statistics and details about events during the program with colorful narratives that make this book an engaging read . . . I believe that anyone interested in the Great Depression era or in relief programs like those in the New Deal will benefit from reading it.—Erin McGuire, Georgia Institute of Technology, EH.NetTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. How the CCC Came About2. How Boys and Men Joined the CCC3. How the Enrollees Labored and Learned4. How the Enrollees Spent Their Leisure Time5. How the Coming of War Spelled the End of the CCCNotesSuggested Further ReadingIndex
£24.35
History Press Hidden History of Youngstown and the Mahoning
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International Human Resource Management
Book SynopsisNow in its seventh edition, International Human Resource Management is established as a market leader that caters to students worldwide. This textbook has developed alongside the field helping to shape what it is today and remains a leading International Human Resources Management (IHRM) textbook worldwide.International Human Resource Management provides an academic overview of global IHRM, whilst still remaining close to curriculum developments. This textbook also contains nine in-depth case studies written by the authors and global experts, that provide a range of in-depth applications for all of the major functional areas of IHRM.
£117.76
Smithsonian Books The Education-Jobs Gap: Underemployment or
Book SynopsisFrom Research and Reference Book News. . . 'In the new introduction to the award-winning 1999 edition, a Canadian scholar notes that while research on underemployment has increased since then, preoccupation with statistics still emphasizes limited dimensions of the problem of under-utilization of capabilities. Drawing on survey and case study research in advanced economies, Livingstone (U. of Toronto) analyzes various theories (e.g., human capital) as limited in explaining the education-jobs gap. He does support a general conflict theory identifying the highest underemployment with the least powerful social groups.' Trade Review 'A rigorous, beautifully crafted, and stunningly successful shredding of the human capital enterprise. This splendidly executed investigation offers us a timely picture of human capital theory as the social sciences own Titanic.' (Ivar Berg, University of Pennsylvania) 'One of the most important books of the decade. This book breathes new life into the much overlooked relationship between education and economic reform.' (Henry A. Giroux, Pennsylvania State University) 'Livingstone's book is an incisive critique of economic and educational orthodoxy, and a powerful new analysis of the connections among school, learning, and work. An important new study by one of the best educational sociologists in the world.' (R. W. Connell, University of Sydney) 'In contrast to the dismal future of continuing and growing underemployment promised by the dominant social policy elite, the author offers a refreshing alternative of economic democracy that is economically viable, socially just, and politically worth struggling for.' (Raj Pannu, University of Alberta) 'A superb book notable for its effective synthesis of quantitative, qualitative, historical, and theoretical approaches. Livingstone explores an issue of vital importance: the growing disjunction between education and paid work in advanced industrial economies.' (Beverley H. Burris, University of New Mexico) Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mapping the Forest of Underemployment Introduction to the 1999 Edition: Reversing the Education-Jobs Optic Chapter 1. The Knowledge Society: Pyramids and Icebergs of Learning Chapter 2. The Many Faces of Underemployment Chapter 3. Voices from the Gap: Underemployment and Lifelong Learning Chapter 4. Debunking the "Knowledge Economy": The Limits of Capital Theory Chapter 5. Examining the Gap: Social Struggles over Knowledge and Work Chapter 6. Bridging the Gap: Prospects for Work Reorganization in Advanced Capitalism Chapter 7. Endnotes Glossary of Acronyms Bibliography Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Organizing In Hard Times: Labor and Neighborhoods
Book SynopsisIn 1990, Hartford, Connecticut, ranked as the eight poorest city in the country by the census; the real estate market was severely depressed; downtown insurance companies were laying off and the retail department stores were closing; public services were strained; and demolition sites abandoned for lack of funds pockmarked the streets. Hartford's problems are typical of those experienced in numerous U.S. cities affected by a lingering recession. The harsh economic times felt throughout the city's workplaces and neighborhoods precipitated the formation of grassroots alliances between labor and community organizations. Coming together to create new techniques, their work has national implications for the development of alternative strategies for stimulating economic recovery. Louise B. Simmons, a former Hartford City Councilperson, offers an insider's view of these coalitions, focusing on three activist unions the New England Health Care Employees Union, the Hotel and Restaurant Employees, and the United Auto Workers and three community groups Hartford Areas Rally Together, Organized North Easterners-Clay Hill and North End, and Asylum Hill Organizing Project. Her in-depth analysis illustrates these groups' successes and difficulties in working together toward a new vision of urban politics. Louise B. Simmons is Director of the University of Connecticut Urban Semester Program.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Alliances, Coalitions, and Electoral Activities 3. Labor Organizing 4. Neighborhood Organizing 5. Concluding Thoughts Epilogue References Index
£29.45
Temple University Press,U.S. Half A Job: Bad and Good Part-Time Jobs in a
Book Synopsis Over 20 million people are working part-time in the United States, more than six million of them involuntarily. Both Time and Fortune magazines have run recent cover stories about this constrained faction of the workforce, who tend to earn on average 40 percent less than full-time workers. Addressing this disturbing trend, Chris Tilly presents a current, in-depth analysis of how U.S. businesses use part-time employment, and why they are using it more and more. Worker demand for part-time jobs peaked more than twenty years ago, but employers' desires for cheap labor and schedule flexibility have continued to drive the long-term growth of part-time jobs. Tilly argues that this growth is a reaction to the expanding trade and service industries, which, by their nature, depend on part-time workers. Examining the nature and purposes of the different types of part-time employment, he explores the roots of part-time jobs in the organization of work, and the inadequacies of existing public policies on part-time employment. Using not only statistical analysis but over eighty interviews with employers in the retail and insurance industries, Tilly suggests new approaches to providing flexibility without insecurity.Trade Review"Chris Tilly's study of part-time work differs from, and is superior to, most others because he puts the organizations that hire part-time workers at the center of his analysis. His ideas about part-time work are derived logically and rigorously. This is true, most especially, of the original and useful distinction he draws between retention and secondary part-time jobs that is at the heart of the book. Half a Job is original, distinctive, and significant." —Eileen Appelbaum, Economic Policy Institute"In the 1990s, for every person officially counted as 'unemployed,' at least one more person is involuntarily working part-time. These are the workers with only half a job. And their ranks are growing. In this important and compassionate book, scholar-activist Christ Tilly tells us why—and why it matters to the American standard of living." —Bennett Harrison, Harvard University"...someone wanting to understand the nature of part-time employment can do no better than Tilly's book. The analysis is careful and even handed. Even more impressive is the bag of tools that Tilly employs to construct a picture of part-time employment. It is a model for how empirical research should be conducted." —Eastern Economic JournalTable of Contents List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments 1. Half a Job Is Not Enough 2. Why Has Part-Time Employment Continued to Grow? 3. Two Theoretical Frameworks 4. Good and Bad Part-Time Jobs 5. Implications of the Distinction Between Good and Bad Part-Time Jobs 6. How Businesses Set the Level of Part-Time Employment 7. Cycles and Trends 8. The Case for New Policies Appendix: A Formal Model of the Cyclical Adjustment of Part-Time Employment in Noncyclical Industries Notes References Index
£28.49
Temple University Press,U.S. Puerto Rican Women and Work: Bridges in
Book Synopsis"Puerto Rican Women and Work: Bridges in Transnational Labor" is the only comprehensive study of the role of Puerto Rican women workers in the evolution of a transnational labor force in the twentieth century. This book examines Puerto Rican women workers, both in Puerto Rico and on the U.S. mainland. It contains a range of information - historical, ethnographic, and statistical. The contributors provide insights into the effects of migration and unionization on women's work, taking into account U.S. colonialism and globalization of capitalism throughout the century as well as the impact of Operation Bootstrap.The essays are arranged in chronological order to reveal the evolutionary nature of women's work and the fluctuations in migration, technology, and the economy. This one-of-a-kind collection will be a valuable resource for those interested in women's studies, ethnic studies, and Puerto Rican and Latino studies, as well as labor studies. Altagracia Ortiz is Professor of History and Puerto Rican Studies at John Jay College, the City University of New York. She has written numerous articles on Puerto Rican women and work and is author of "Eighteenth-Century Reforms in the Caribbean".Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Altagracia Ortiz 1. Needlewomen under the New Deal in Puerto Rico, 1920-1945 Eileen Boris 2. "En la aguja y el pedal eche la hiel": Puerto Rican Women in the Garment Industry of New York City, 1920-1980 Altagracia Ortiz 3. Toward Bilingual Education: Puerto Rican Women Teachers in New York City Schools, 1947-1967 Virginia Sanchez Korrol 4. The Impact of Job Losses on Puerto Rican Women in the Middle Atlantic Region, 1970-1980 Alice Colon-Warren 5. Our Two Full-Time Jobs: Women Garment Workers Balance Factory and Domestic Demands in Puerto Rico Carmen A. Perez-Herranz 6. Gender and Politics: Grassroots Leadership among Puerto Rican Women in a Health Struggle Marya Munoz-Vazquez 7. Negotiating Gender, Work, and Welfare: Familia as Productive Labor among Puerto Rican Women in New York City Rosa M. Torruellas, Rina Benmayor, and Ana Juarbe 8. New Tappings on the Keys: Changes in Work and Gender Roles for Women Clerical Workers in Puerto Rico Geraldine J. Casey About the Contributors Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Helping Out
Book SynopsisThe growing body of literature on ethnic businesses has emphasized the importance of small family-based businesses as a key form of immigrant adaptation. Although there have been numerous references to the importance of \u0022family labor\u0022 as a key ethnic resource, few studies have examined the work roles and family dynamics entailed in various kinds of ethnic businesses. Helping Out addresses the centrality of children's labor participation in such family enterprises. Discussing the case of Chinese families running take-out food shops in Britain, Miri Song examines the ways in which children contribute their labor and the context in which children come to understand and believe in \u0022helping out\u0022 as part of a \u0022family work contract.\u0022 Song explores the implications of these children's labor participation for family relationships, cultural identity, and the future of the Chinese community in Britain. While doing so, she argues that the practical importance and the broader meanings of children's work must be understood in the context of immigrant families' experiences of migration and ethnic minority status in Western, white-majority societies.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Preface 1 The Role of Family Ties in Ethnic Businesses 2 Chinese Migration and the Establishment of Take-aways in Britain 3 "The Shop Runs Our Lives" 4 Helping Out 5 Upholding and Negotiating the Family Work Contract 6 Siblings' Labor Commitments and Family Reputations 7 Looking to the Future Appendix A: Locations of Take-away Businesses Appendix B: Background Information on Young People Notes Bibliography Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Laboring For Rights
Book SynopsisHow do unions around the world respond to issues raised by sexual minorities? Much as been written on labor's response to issues raised by women and racial minorities, but there has been little work done on labor's engagement with gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and the transgendered. The original essays in this collection attempt to fill that void by bringing together a group of experts who examine labor's response to such issues as benefits for same-sex partners, anti-discrimination language in collective agreements, and education. Speaking from a variety of racial backgrounds, sexual orientations, and political views, the contributors bring their unique personal perspectives and scholarly approaches to this groundbreaking book. The chapters included in Laboring for Rights give a global vision to the increasingly important subject of equity in the workplace. They offer a much-needed look at labor's involvement with current international workplace conditions from such diverse countries as the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, Britain, France, the Netherlands, and South Africa, as well as parts of the South Pacific. Some of these countries have strong and progressive labor unions; some, like the U.S., have relatively weak labor organizations. But whatever the context, as these articles demonstrate, there seems to be a growing and in some instances prospering gay/lesbian labor alliance in many parts of the world. Laboring for Rights is a pioneering text in an important new area of labor study. It will engage readers interested in equality in the workplace, labor and organizational studies, gay and lesbian activism, and international, comparative studies.Trade Review"For the majority of industrial relations academics whose training and research keep us focused on the classical problems of labour-management relations, Laboring for Rights, edited by Gerald Hunt, offers a decided, and much-needed, shift in perspective. This book provides readers with information, much of which will be unknown to most readers, about the extent of 'bridge-building' between the lesbian/gay and union movements in a wide variety of countries. It is a first attempt to document what organized labour is doing in relation to lesbian/gay issues... Laboring for Rights is an important and useful book because it broadens the common understanding about what unions do and why." -Industrial RelationsTable of ContentsCONTENTS "What Can Be Done? Sexual Diversity and Labor Unions in Perspective" -- Gerald Hunt "No Longer Outsiders: Labor's Response to Sexual Diversity in Canada" -- Gerald Hunt "Fighting It Out in Canadian Courts" -- Cynthia Petersen "A Short History of Gay and Lesbian Labor Activism in the United States" -- Christian Arthur Bain "Lesbian and Gay Caucuses in the United States Labor Movement" -- Miriam Frank "Domestic Partner Health Benefits: The Corporate Model vs. the Union Model" -- Desma Holcomb "The Limits to Union: Labor, Gays and Lesbians, and Marriage in Hawaii" -- Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller "Silence at Work: Trade Unions, Gender, and Sexual Diversity in the South Pacific" -- Jacqueline Leckie "Sexual Diversity and the Australian Labor Movement in Historical Perspective" -- Shane Ostenfeld "At a Turning Point: Organized Labor, Sexual Diversity, and the New South Africa" -- Mazibuko K. Jara, Naomi Webster, and Gerald Hunt "On the Fringes of the New Europe: Sexual Diversity Activism and the Labor Movement" -- David Rayside "Labor Unions and Sexual Diversity in Germany" -- Ron Holzhacker "British Trade Unions and Sexual Diversity: Survey Evidence Since the 1980s" -- Phil Greasley "Moving Forward in UNISON: Lesbian and Gay Self-Organization in Action" -- Fiona Colgan "Laboring for Rights in Global Perspective" -- Gerald Hunt
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Temple University Press,U.S. Critical Study Of Work
Book SynopsisTwo broad developments reshaped work at the end of the twentieth century. The first was the implosion of the Soviet Union and the worldwide triumph of market capitalism. The second was the increasing use of computer-based production technologies and management command-and-control systems. How do we make sense of these important developments. The editors have assembled a collection of provocative, original essays on work and workplaces throughout the world that challenge the current celebration of globalization and new technologies. Building on labor process analysis, individual case studies venture beyond factory and office to examine \u0022virtual\u0022 workplaces, computer-era cottage work, and emotional and household labor. The settings range from Indian and Irish software factories to Brazilian supermarkets, Los Angeles sweatshops, and Taiwanese department stores. Other essays seek to make theoretical sense of increasingly de-centered production chains, fluid work relations, and uncertain employment. Individually and collectively the authors construct a new critical study of work, highlighting the connections between geography, technology, gender, race, and class. They offer an accessible and flexible approach to the study of workplace relations and production organization -- and even the notion of work itself.Trade Review"This volume presents innovative, comparative case studies of work and the politics of labor around the world. Moving the field of labor process studies onto new conceptual terrain, The Critical Study of Work should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand globalization and how it shapes and connects work experiences in offices, retail establishments, homes, and factories." -Vicki Smith, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis, and author of Crossing the Great Divide: Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy "[A]n important contribution to the literature on labor, labor relations, labor process, labor value, globalization and technology and work." -Anthropology of Work Review "This edited collection will be of interest to scholars curious about the theoretical development and recent empirical research in labour process analysis... The qualitative/ ethnographic methodologies employed in these labour process analyses yield valuable insights into the real experiences of workers confronting the forces of global market capitalism." -Canadian Journal of Sociology Online "The overall quality of the contributions is outstanding and Baldoz, Koeber and Kraft deserve high marks for assembling work that will interest scholars and stimulate undergraduates and learned nonspecialists." -Social ForcesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Making Sense of Work in the 21st Century Rick Baldoz, Charles Koeber, and Philip Kraft Part I:The Global Perspective: Continuity and Change 1. Dwelling in Capitalism, Traveling Through Socialism Michael Burawoy 2. Do Capitalists Matter in the Capitalist Labor Process? Collective Capacities, Group Interests, and Management Prerogatives, 1886-1904 Jeffery Haydu Part II:Service and Service Sectors Workers 3. Gender, Race, and the Organization of Reproductive Labor Evelyn Nakano Glenn 4. The Body as a Contested Terrain for Labor Control: Cosmetics Retailers in Department Stores and Direct Selling Pei-Chia Lan 5. Silent Rebellions in Capitalist Paradise: A Brazil-Quebec Comparison Angelo Soares Part III: Production and Industrial Workers 6. Flexible Despotism: The Intensification of Insecurity and Uncertainty in the Lives of Silicon Valley's High-Tech Assembly Workers Jennifer J. Chun 7. The Challenge of Organizing in a Globalized/Flexible Industry: The Case of the Apparel Industry in Los Angeles Edna Bonacich 8. Transcending Taylorism and Fordism? Three Decade of Work Restructuring James Rinehart 9. Manufacturing Compromise: The Dynamics of Race and Class Among South African Shop Stewards in the 1990s Edward Webster Part IV: Professional and Technical Workers 10. "Globalization": The Next Tactic in the 50-Year Struggle of Labor and Capital in Software Production Richard Sharpe 11. Controlling Technical Workers in Alternative Work Arrangements: Rethinking the Work Contract Peter Meiksins and Peter Whalley 12. Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace Sean O'Riain
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Management Concepts, Inc Cost-Based Pricing: A Guide for Government
Book SynopsisThis master reference is essential if you contract with the government! Correctly pricing your goods or services—and making certain that those prices are in compliance with myriad federal rules and regulations—is essential to doing business with the government...and ensuring your commercial success. Cost-Based Pricing: A Guide for Government Contractors shows you how to appropriately estimate and price for government contracts and defend those estimates in a government contracting and subcontracting environment. This practical book includes coverage of all government pricing rules and regulations as well as pertinent aspects of related laws, such as the Truth in Negotiations Act. The book walks you through every step of the estimating process. From figuring direct labor costs to intra-company transfers to contract modifications, the coverage is extensive yet accessible for even those new to the process. Using Cost-Based Pricing, you will be able to: • Develop more realistic estimates • Enhance your support of those estimates in negotiations • Avoid violations of the Truth in Negotiations Act • Increase your chances of securing a fair and reasonable price Cost-Based Pricing: A Guide for Government Contractors can make the difference between your success—and profitability—and failure in the federal government arena.
£75.00
Monthly Review Press,U.S. Labor Pains: Inside America's New Union Movement
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United
Book SynopsisThe aftermath of Hurricane Katrina exposed to the world what many U.S. politicians and pundits have long been able to ignore. The media images that commanded our attention spoke loudly of the class and racial divisions that still exist in the United States today. Despite the stock market gains of the 1990s, which increased the ranks of millionaires and created greater wealth for those already wealthy, U.S. society has witnessed a dramatic increase in class inequality over the last two decades. A host of newly available research indicates that the United States is a far more class-bound society than was previously supposed. The rich are becoming both relatively and absolutely richer while the poor are becoming relatively, if not absolutely, poorer. "More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States" is a sobering examination of the dynamics of class relations today. John Bellamy Foster, William K. Tabb, David Roediger, Stephanie Luce, and Mark Brenner - among others - contribute essays that challenge many of our assumptions about class and provide a multilayered analysis. Topics include the impact of social and economic policy on class; wealth and prospects for the working poor; undocumented workers and their exploitation in the U.S. informal economy; race and class struggles post-Hurricane Katrina; women and class over the last forty years; and education reform and the devastating effects for public schooling. Editor, Michael D. Yates shares a personal story of his working-class life and values, the shaping of his political consciousness, and the people and ideas that inspired his teaching. For the vast majority of us, a strong work ethic and desire to see the next generation in better circumstances are no longer enough. The barriers separating classes are hardening. Class inequality manifests itself in wealth, income, and occupation, but also in education, consumption, and health. "More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States" demonstrates that an analysis of society as a whole - its relationships of power, conflict, and potential for social change - is not possible without a thorough investigation of the role and meaning of class.
£76.41
Monthly Review Press,U.S. Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back
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Temple University Press,U.S. The Triangle Fire, Protocols Of Peace: And
Book SynopsisAmerica searched for an answer to \u0022The Labor Question\u0022 during the Progressive Era in an effort to avoid the unrest and violence that flared so often in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In the ladies' garment industry, a unique experiment in industrial democracy brought together labor, management, and the public. As Richard Greenwald explains, it was an attempt to \u0022square free market capitalism with ideals of democracy to provide a fair and just workplace.\u0022 Led by Louis Brandeis, this group negotiated the \u0022Protocols of Peace.\u0022 But in the midst of this experiment, 146 mostly young, immigrant women died in the Triangle Factory Fire of 1911. As a result of the fire, a second, interrelated experiment, New York's Factory Investigating Commission (FIC)—led by Robert Wagner and Al Smith—created one of the largest reform successes of the period. The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York uses these linked episodes to show the increasing interdependence of labor, industry, and the state. Greenwald explains how the Protocols and the FIC best illustrate the transformation of industrial democracy and the struggle for political and economic justice.Trade Review"[This book] is packed with interesting historical facts, based on the author's examination of an impressive volume of primary and secondary resources."—Jonathan Cutler, author of Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism"Richard Greenwald shows how in Progressive Era New York garment workers, middle-class reformers, and Tammany politicians, in coalition and conflict, created new approaches to industrial relations and reform politics that remain with us today. Even those who think they know this story will learn a great deal from this lucid, engaging account."—Joshua B. Freeman, Professor of History, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York"By linking of the Protocols of Peace with the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, Richard Greenwald recasts the history of industrial relations with verve and insight into gendered assumptions and class relations. With a cast of characters that includes giants of modern liberalism like Robert Wagner, Louis Brandeis, and Florence Kelley, he details how the private system of industrial adjustment intersected with a public system of labor standards to elevate middle-class expertise over worker empowerment. His is a model study of reform, labor, and the state."—Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Women's Studies, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Laboring DemocracyPart I. Private Protocolism: Industrial Democracy in New York's Ladies' Garment Industry1. Workers Organizing Industry: The New York City Garment Strikes of 1909 and 19102. The Making of Industrial Democracy in the Ladies' Garment Industry: The Creation of the Protocols of Peace3. The Shifting Ground of Protocolism: Struggling for the Soul of Industrial DemocracyPart II. Public Protocolism: The Triangle Fire and the Transformation of Industrial Democracy4. "The Burning Building at 23 Washington Place": The Triangle Fire and the Transformation of Industrial Democracy5. Politics: Setting the Stage for Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York6. The Politics of Administrative Reform: The Factory Investigating Commission, 1911-19137. Industrial Democracy Meets the Welfare State in Progressive Era New YorkConclusion The Historical Legacy of Industrial Democracy: From Protocolism to the New DealNotesBibliographyIndex
£65.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, The Uaw, And The
Book SynopsisThe movement for a shorter workweek that once defined the labor movement in the United States was largely displaced by the new corporatist structure of organized labor in the post-New Deal era. Labor's Time examines the changes that occurred within organized labor and traces their influence on the decline of the shorter hours movement. Focusing on the internal union politics of the influential United Automobile Workers and Local 600, its chapter at Henry Ford's massive River Rouge factory, Jonathan Cutler demonstrates how an all-but-forgotten interracial movement for a shorter workweek during the 1950s and 1960s became a casualty of an increasingly top-heavy union bureaucracy that lost touch with the desires, fears, and aspirations of rank and file workers and dug its own grave in the process. Jonathan Cutler examines the political context in which the shorter hours movement emerged within Local 600 in the 1940s, then chronicles the attempts by Walter Reuther, the head of the UAW, to suppress it. Cutler also reviews the role the Communist Party played in the controversy. Finally, he documents the UAW response to rank and file pressure for a shorter workweek, and how the local's own organizational flaws allowed Reuther and the national union to wrest control from the dissidents. Fresh and boldly written, Labor's Time recreates a moment when unions-as a movement, not as an amalgam of leaders-could have transformed the landscape of work in the United States.Trade Review"This is, quite simply, the most brilliant and original study of American labor to appear in a generation. Jonathan Cutler shows that the ascendancy of labor 'statesmen' and their ideology of political and industrial responsibility has meant not just the death of the shorter-hours movement, but also the end of the labor movement as a dynamic force in American life. Introducing entirely new conceptions of work, power, desire, and freedom, Labor's Time is a monumental achievement."-Thaddeus Russell, Barnard College, and author of Out of the Jungle: Jimmy Hoffa and the Remaking of the American Working Class "The fight for shorter hours! Now there's a lost bit of American history that is in sore need of remembrance. Jonathan Cutler's perceptive and thoroughly researched history of one key part of that struggle deserves to be read and debated so that the fight against 'overwork' is once more near the top of America's social agenda."-Nelson Lichtenstein, author of Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II "Jonathan Cutler's book is essential reading for those concerned about the fate of America's overworked and underpaid workers. Labor's Time is an engaging and well-researched account of union struggles over work hours. At a moment when many employers are demanding longer workdays and 'shaving' hours from employees' time sheets, Cutler's book makes an important scholarly intervention into an issue whose history has profound implications for the present."-Thomas J. Sugrue, Bicentennial Class of 1940 Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania "This is a very readable, engaging account of a critical moment in labor history."-Industrial Worker "In telling the story, Cutler raises bigger questions about democracy, power, and direction for the labor movement. His book is fascinating and informative, and it made me think."-Against The Current "Cutler is an expert guide... [his] enormous research into the intricacies of the internecine battles with the UAW over the thirty-hour workweek is important in its own right. His insightful and deeply researched study into the struggles compose the majority of his book."-Working USA "[B]rings a welcome focus to a very interesting issue in economic history... the author is quite good at establishing the political climate within the union and Local 600 where much of the story takes place."-EH.Net "Jonathan Cutler's spirited history of the fight for shorter hours in the auto industry offers us a combative narrative... my hat is off to him for coming closer than any other scholar in tracing the fortunes of the anti-Reuther left-communist, opportunist, syndicalist, African American-what for many years proclaimed itself the largest local union in the world."-DissentTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Thirty Hours Work for Forty Hours' Pay2. The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit3. The Collapse of Communism4. Future Perfect5. False Promises6. Retreat and DefeatConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.64
Temple University Press,U.S. Live Wire: Women and Brotherhood in the
Book SynopsisSisters of The Brotherhood struggle for equalityTrade Review"Live Wire is the story of every group of outsiders who has ever tried to enter the world of insiders, of women braving an all-male kingdom, and of unions that cannot succeed without women—and vice versa. In telling the stories of women electricians, Francine Moccio gives us a universal human story, an exposé of why women are still only two percent of the building trades despite thirty years of trying, and a key to the mystery of why Americans are still seventy percent more likely to end up old and poor if they are female. If President Obama wants to solve the problems of poverty and our crumbling bridges and highways at the same time, he should read this book and insist that women work side by side with men. And if anybody thinks for a moment the women's movement is over, he or she should go right out and buy Live Wire." —Gloria SteinemTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Getting Wired 1. Brotherhood: The History 2. A Closer Look at Local 3 3. The Struggle to Become Electricians 4. On the Electrical Construction Work Site: The Sexual Charge 5. Race for the Brotherhood: The Ironies of Integration 6. A Club of Her Own Conclusion: Getting Women Down to the Job Site Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Notes Selected References Glossary Index
£26.59
Red Wheel/Weiser Rise to the Top: How Woman Leverage Their
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£13.29
Rutgers University Press Latinas on the Line: Invisible Information
Book SynopsisLatinas on the Line provides a compelling analysis and historical and theoretical grounding of the oral histories, never before seen, of Latina information workers in the Bell System from their entrance in 1973 to their retirements by 2015. Author Melissa Villa-Nicholas demonstrates the importance of Latinas of the field of telecommunications through their own words and uses supporting archival research to provide an overview of how Latinas engage and remember a critical analysis of their work place, information technologies, and the larger globalized economy and shifting borderlands through their intersectional identities as information workers. The book offers a rich and engaging portrait of the critical history of Latinas in telecommunications, from their manual to automated to digitized labor. Trade Review“Villa-Nicholas weaves together oral histories and social politics to deliver an encompassing history about Latina information laborers and how they were embedded into telecommunications. It is a deeply compassionate book about community and resilience amidst discrimination and corporate uncertainties at AT&T.” -- Sharra Vostral * author of Toxic Shock: A Social History *“Melissa Villa-Nicholas deftly shows how our telecommunications infrastructure, and the labor that undergirds it, have been central to struggles for civil rights. Latinas On The Line is a beautifully written, deeply personal history of a tech labor force that has been simultaneously ubiquitous and hidden—it is a history that holds important lessons about modernization, marginalization, and the exclusion still built in to STEM workforces.” -- Mar Hicks * author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing *“Villa-Nicholas weaves together oral histories and social politics to deliver an encompassing history about Latina information laborers and how they were embedded into telecommunications. It is a deeply compassionate book about community and resilience amidst discrimination and corporate uncertainties at ATT.” -- Sharra Vostral * author of Toxic Shock: A Social History *“Melissa Villa-Nicholas deftly shows how our telecommunications infrastructure, and the labor that undergirds it, have been central to struggles for civil rights. Latinas On The Line is a beautifully written, deeply personal history of a tech labor force that has been simultaneously ubiquitous and hidden—it is a history that holds important lessons about modernization, marginalization, and the exclusion still built in to STEM workforces.” -- Mar Hicks * author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Comp *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Why Latinas? Overlapping Technology Histories 2 The Invisible Information Worker 3 Latinas on the Line 4 We Were Family 5 The Telecommunications Life Cycle: Lorraine 6 Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
£23.99
Rutgers University Press Latinas on the Line: Invisible Information
Book SynopsisLatinas on the Line provides a compelling analysis and historical and theoretical grounding of the oral histories, never before seen, of Latina information workers in the Bell System from their entrance in 1973 to their retirements by 2015. Author Melissa Villa-Nicholas demonstrates the importance of Latinas of the field of telecommunications through their own words and uses supporting archival research to provide an overview of how Latinas engage and remember a critical analysis of their work place, information technologies, and the larger globalized economy and shifting borderlands through their intersectional identities as information workers. The book offers a rich and engaging portrait of the critical history of Latinas in telecommunications, from their manual to automated to digitized labor. Trade Review“Villa-Nicholas weaves together oral histories and social politics to deliver an encompassing history about Latina information laborers and how they were embedded into telecommunications. It is a deeply compassionate book about community and resilience amidst discrimination and corporate uncertainties at AT&T.” -- Sharra Vostral * author of Toxic Shock: A Social History *“Melissa Villa-Nicholas deftly shows how our telecommunications infrastructure, and the labor that undergirds it, have been central to struggles for civil rights. Latinas On The Line is a beautifully written, deeply personal history of a tech labor force that has been simultaneously ubiquitous and hidden—it is a history that holds important lessons about modernization, marginalization, and the exclusion still built in to STEM workforces.” -- Mar Hicks * author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing *“Villa-Nicholas weaves together oral histories and social politics to deliver an encompassing history about Latina information laborers and how they were embedded into telecommunications. It is a deeply compassionate book about community and resilience amidst discrimination and corporate uncertainties at ATT.” -- Sharra Vostral * author of Toxic Shock: A Social History *“Melissa Villa-Nicholas deftly shows how our telecommunications infrastructure, and the labor that undergirds it, have been central to struggles for civil rights. Latinas On The Line is a beautifully written, deeply personal history of a tech labor force that has been simultaneously ubiquitous and hidden—it is a history that holds important lessons about modernization, marginalization, and the exclusion still built in to STEM workforces.” -- Mar Hicks * author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Comp *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Why Latinas? Overlapping Technology Histories 2 The Invisible Information Worker 3 Latinas on the Line 4 We Were Family 5 The Telecommunications Life Cycle: Lorraine 6 Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
£127.30
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Ein More Realistic Approach ?: Zu den
Book SynopsisWährend in Europa in den letzten 20 Jahren intensiv um den Einfluss des "More Economic Approach" gerungen wurde, hat sich in den USA mit "Behavioral Antitrust" ein neuer verhaltensökonomischer Wettbewerbsansatz hervorgetan. Dieser geht bei der wettbewerbsrechtlichen Analyse nur noch von beschränkt rationalen, willensstarken und eigeninteressierten Marktakteuren aus. Die verhaltensökonomische Analyse des Wettbewerbsrechts kann als Basis für einen wiederum neuen Wettbewerbsansatz gesehen werden: dem "More Realistic Approach". Dieser Ansatz will die Wettbewerbspolitik soweit wie möglich von den unrealistischen, theoretischen Annahmen befreien und mit empirisch erhärteten Fakten unterfüttern: Die Wettbewerbspolitik soll sich am realen Verhalten und den realen Zielen der Marktakteure orientieren, und damit der wettbewerbsrechtlichen Analyse realistischere Modelle zugrunde legen. Martin Meier geht dabei der grundlegenden Frage nach, wo die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der verhaltensökonomischen Analyse des Wettbewerbs liegen.
£107.00
Hong Kong University Press China`s Urban Labor Market – A Structural
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£74.73
NUS Press Labour Market Segmentation in Malaysian Services
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to look at labor in Malaysian services, and also the first to use the labor market segmentation approach to study Malaysian labor. As in most other countries, the services sector has long accounted for more of the labor force than manufacturing in Malaysia. Studies of those working in services in developing countries have tended to focus on the public sector and, in recent decades, the informal sector. This study of workers in services also covers those in private enterprises, both modern (e.g. financial services) and traditional (e.g. transportation services). This study also looks more generally at Malaysian labor market segmentation, especially at ethnicity and gender. Of particular importance are the impact of structural change in the economy and the interaction between these processes and the labor market on job and pay opportunities.
£21.26
