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Book SynopsisAre we all temps now? A penetrating exploration of how making a living has become such a precarious taskTrade ReviewNice Work provides insight into a sea change in labor markets and work lives that has occurred over the past forty years. It is an intelligent work that raises thought-provoking questions about contingent labor. -- Steven T. Sheehan * Enterprise and Society *Nice Work If You Can Get It, insists that the combination of transnational capitalism and globalization has eliminated stability and security from the lives of working people. * The New Leader *Nice Work If You Can Get It, is impressive for its extraordinary range and sweep, and for asking questions about the kinds of transnational and cross-class alliances that might be made, the kinds of solidarities that might be forged, between differently positioned members of the global & precariat: sweatshop labourers, janitors, academics, and creatives. In doing so it offers a passionate, humane critique of contemporary capitalism. * Times Higher Education Supplement *According to Ross, job insecurity became commonplace long before the current financial debacle. As economies shifted from industry to information, the benefits and securities of the Keynesian era quietly gave way to a workforce of temps, freelancers, adjuncts, and migrants. Ross finds that city fathers are more interested in Olympic bids and stadium projects than in sustainable employment, while corporations spend more on & social responsibility public-relations campaigns than on addressing worker complaints, and activists are too focussed on narrow concerns to find common cause with natural allies. * The New Yorker *Economic liberalization, [Ross] demonstrates, has opened up a frenetic global traffic in jobs and migrants, uprooting people in a manner both useful and troubling to the managers of capital. In short, more people are available to exploit, but they are also harder to control. . . . A thorough and thoughtful study of global professional insecurity. * The Times Literary Supplement *Though Ross favors ironic twists on cliches like Nice Work If You Can Get It, he might also have titled the book Working Absurd. And though he would probably resist the high handed aspect of the public intellectual, he has fleshed out the precarious and inequitable terms of contemporary labor, meeting people where they are." * The Chronicle Review *With admirable timing, [Ross] examines a global workplace infrastructure thats as shaky as the economy would indicate. . . . Though far from uplifting, this is a bold, pointed look at reality as it is, a far more valuable commodity. * Publishers Weekly, Starred Review *What is compelling about Rosss analysis of precarity is recognition that the & movement of these part-time workers is loaded with a host of internal contradictions. The concept of precarity has been deployed by academics and organized labor to describe the & condition of social and economic insecurity associated with post-Fordist employment and neoliberal governance (p. 34). [] As Ross asks: & Even if this concept is theoretically plausible, does it make sense to imagine cross-class coalitions of the precarious capable of developing a unity of consciousness and action on an international scale? (p. 6). Indeed, this remains a pertinent question considering the debates emerging as a result of the international Occupy phenomenon. * Critical Sociology *This excellent and, in places, brilliant book should be read by anyone interested in a timely and astute analysis of the malaise of life and work in neoliberal postmodern society. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Illuminating. . . . Who knows what will be on the table when the damage of the global crisis is told? At the very least, one may hope for a return to security, sensible financial regulation, and a renewed interest in economic equity. Other worlds are possible, and with luck thinkers like Ross can point the way to imagining them more fully. * BookForum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction I Creative Workers and Rent-Seeking 1 The Mercurial Career of Creative Industries Policymaking in the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States 2 China's Next Cultural Revolution? 3 The Olympic Goose That Lays the Golden Egg II Sustainability and the Ground Staff 4 Teamsters, Turtles, and Tainted Toys 5 Learning from San Ysidro III Instruments of Knowledge Capitalism 6 The Copyfight over Intellectual Property 7 The Rise of the Global University Conclusion: Maps and ChartersNotesReferences Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisFires on the Border takes up questions of labor and community organizing—its “affect-culture”—on Mexico’s northern border from the early 1970s to the present day. Through these campaigns, Rosemary Hennessy illuminates the attachments and identifications that motivate people to act on behalf of one another and that bind them to a common cause. Trade Review"Fires on the Border addresses a clear gap in the scholarship on transnational movements and organizing along the Mexico-U.S. divide: the role of sexuality in the creation of affective bonds within social alliances and political networks that span the grassroots to the transnational. In this timely, excellent book, Rosemary Hennessy incorporates a political economic analysis in her discussion of affective alliances in social movements (binational and/or transnational) among workers affected by the maquiladora industry." —Melissa W. Wright, author of Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global CapitalismTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionI. History, Affect, Representation1. Labor Organizing in Mexico's Entangled Economies2. The Materiality of Affect3. Bearing WitnessII. Sex, Labor, Movement4. Open Secrets5. The Value of a Second Skin6. Feeling Bodies, Jeans, Justice7. The North-South EncuentrosIII. The Utopian Question8. Love in the CommonAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Marc Doussard posits a new interpretation of the 2001 to 2006 profit-wage disjuncture that is innovative and fresh. This is the stuff of truly innovative urban-economic analysis."—David Wilson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign"Distinctive and pioneering, Degraded Work analyzes the areas of excess profit within two sectors that are often viewed as very close to perfectly competitive, smaller scale neighborhood retail and residential construction. These detailed analyses help make a broader case that low wages and precarious work are not inevitable. Doussard integrates these elements into an instructive polemic against some popular but oversimplified analyses of urban and labor market restructuring, introducing the concept of degraded work to capture the changes he observes."—Chris Tilly, UCLA"An important and much-needed intervention in the literature on inequality and low-wage work."—Labour/Le Travail"Degraded Work is a valuable contribution to the study of low-wage work, inequality, labor markets, and organizing. Doussard makes a convincing case that policy makers, practitioners, and scholars need to engage in serious local, sectoral research in order to truly understand the labor market."—Social Service Review"Well-written and clearly argued."—International Journal of Urban and Regional Research"Well-researched and illuminating."—Labor Studies Journal"A remarkably detailed book, Degraded Work challenges one of the dominant theories for urban inequality in North America and challenges readers to do something about inequality in their own city. Perhaps Doussard’s greatest accomplishment is to challenge what his readers believe and what they are doing with their lives or careers, without being confrontational. His analysis shows considerable depth and detail, but he presents it with humor, and without pretense, so it is accessible to experts and laypeople alike."—Economic Geography"Marc Doussard’s Degraded Work is a timely foray into the complex and controversial reality of current workplace circumstances and conditions in urban America."—AAG Review of BooksTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Boom in Poorly Paid and Precarious Jobs1. New Inequalities: The Deterioration of Local-Serving Industries2. Beyond Low Wages: The Problem of Degraded Work3. The City That Sweats Work: Growth and Inequality in Post-Fordist Chicago4. Oases in the Midst of Deserts: How Food Retailers Thrive in Disinvested Neighborhoods5. “They’re Happy to Have a Job”: Mid-Size Supermarkets and Degraded Work6. Building Degradation: Dangerous Work and Falling Pay during a Construction Boom7. A Perfectly Flexible Workforce: Day Labor in a Precarious Industry8. New Answers to New Problems: The Creative Work of Reversing Degradation Conclusion: Building a Fair Labor Market in Post-Manufacturing EconomiesAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisEstimating the gross and net replacement rates in 9 countries for steady conditions until 2040 show that they are adequate for most categories of workers, with the exception of those with intermittent or no formal sector employment.

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Book SynopsisCommon narratives about development in Africa miss the critical technological work of women. Twagira’s study instead positions Malian women as rural engineers whose strategic planning and labor over the course of the twentieth century assured their food security.Trade Review“Through vivid stories of individual innovation and strategies of survival, Twagira offers a new perspective on twentieth-century biopolitics in Mali. Embodied Engineering adds important critical nuance to understandings of environmental crisis, cultural value, and gendered knowledge production in West Africa.”“By focusing on gender ideology, food technologies, and development initiatives, Twagira encourages readers to consider the “lived material bodies” of women in twentieth-century rural Mali…. Summing up: Recommended.” * Choice 59, no. 10 (June 2022) *“A fantastic contribution to multiple fields of study, both within and beyond the academy. Twagira fulfills her stated objectives, particularly that of addressing the prevalent assumptions of African women as without access to technology and static in their work. Her research shows the immense agency and importance of Malian women in their capacity to cultivate embodied relationships with the natural world through the cultivation, collection, and cooking of food.” * H-Sci-Med-Tech / H-Net Reviews *

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Book SynopsisThe story of urban growth, the politics of labour, and the relationships among the many immigrant groups who have come to work on the sewing machines of the women's garment industry over the last century. This book is of interest to a range of scholars, including those engaged in labour, immigrant, and women's history.Trade Review“Nancy Green consistently challenges the narratives and categories by which labor historians, sociologists, economists, and journalists have addressed the history of urban garment production. Green’s analysis is a tour de force.”—Donald Reid, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill“This is a terrific, wide-ranging, and convincing comparative study. It provides the big picture, analyzing the garment industry and particularly ‘ready-to-wear’ from the point of view of economic, social, cultural, political, and gender history. Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work provides a much-needed synthesis which is all the bolder for the original research on which it is built.”—John Merriman, Yale University

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Book SynopsisPresents the study and story of industrial class relations in North Brabant, a Catholic province of The Netherlands, over a hundred-year period. This book is useful for labour historians, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, and scholars of Dutch or European history.Trade Review"Don Kalb has put labor history back on the cutting edge of methodological innovation."—William M. Reddy, Duke University"Don Kalb has taken a boisterous series of excursions into North Brabant’s modern history and come back with important news concerning ways of understanding economic change, class, and social experience."—Charles Tilly, Columbia University

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Book SynopsisThe Steel Workers remains a readable and timeless account of labor conditions in the early years of the steel industry. An introduction by the noted historian Roy Lubove places the book in political and historical context.

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book describes the historical development of human resource management (HRM) in seventeen countries around the world.Trade Review‘This is an excellent book. Bruce Kaufman, in his ever thoughtful way, has not just analyzed the history of the development of HRM, but assembled 17 chapters in which world-class local experts report on that history in their own country. The book is full of fascinating information, stories and analysis and will be a touchstone text for everyone wanting to break out of the usual narrow ethnocentric view that often afflicts studies of HRM.’ -- Chris Brewster, University of Reading, UK‘In summary, this book is disciplined and effective comparative research that meets its stated objectives. The historical evolutions it describes are, in themselves, fascinating. . . It’s quite rightly said that HR professionals should read a definitive text at least annually to prime their thinking for the future, and this book fits that bill.’ -- Geoff De Lacy, Australian Human Resource Institute JournalTable of ContentsContents 1. The Development of Human Resource Management Across Nations: History and Its Lessons for International and Comparative HRM Bruce E. Kaufman 2. A Century of Human Resource Management in Argentina Carlos Aldao-Zapiola 3. Human Resource Management in Australia: Historical Development and Contemporary Tensions Christopher Wright 4. The Historical Evolution of Human Resource Management in Brazil Zilá Guimarães Horta 5. The Evolution of Human Resource Management in China: Traditions, Reforms and Developments Xiangquan Zeng, Liwen Chen, Zhongxing Su 6. The History of Human Resource Management in France Jacques Rojot 7. The History of Human Resource Management in Germany Ruth Rosenberger 8. The Evolution of Human Resource Management in the UK Howard Gospel 9. Human Resource Management in India J.S. Sodhi 10. The Historical Development of human resource management in Israel Itzhak Harpaz 11. The Evolution of Human Resource Management in Italy: An Historical-Institutional Perspective Giovanni Costa and Arnaldo Camuffo 12. Evolution of Human Resource Management in Japan: Continuity, Change, and Enduring Challenges Jong-Won Woo 13. The Development of People Management in South Korea Young-Myon Lee 14. Human resource management in Russia over a Century of Storm and Turmoil: A Tale of Unrealized Dreams. Igor Gurkov, Evgeny Morgunov, Alexander Settles, and Olga Zelenova 15. Human Resource Management in the Republic of South Africa Marius Meyer 16. Employment Regimes and Personnel Work in Sweden Lena Gonäs and Patrik Larsson 17. Human Resource Management in Turkey Lale Tüzüner 18. The Origins, Evolution, and Current Status of Human Resource Management in the United States Bruce E. Kaufman. Index

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book provides an in-depth analysis of the working poor phenomenon and its causes across welfare regimes, and identifies the most efficient policy mixes and best practices that could be utilized to resolve this problem.Trade Review‘This is a very well written study. . . the discussion here of the impact of such policies as tax credits, employment subsidies and childcare support in relation to welfare regime is sophisticated and insightful. One can learn much here about “the interplay of markets (especially the labour market), the welfare state and families”.’ -- Neil Fraser, Journal of Social PolicyTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Dilemmas and Puzzles of the Fight Against Working Poverty 2. Arbitrary Definitions, Official Definitions and Useful Typologies 3. The Three Mechanisms that Lead to Working Poverty 4. Potential Solutions: Minimum Wages, Social Transfers and Childcare Policy 5. The Real World of Social Policies: The Welfare Regime Approach 6. What Works Where and for Whom? A Meta-analytical Approach 7. The Weight of Each Working Poverty Mechanism Across Welfare Regimes 8. There is No Such Thing as ‘the Working Poor’ or a One-Size-Fits-All Solution Appendix: Summary Tables and Data-sets Used for the Meta-analyses References Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook deepens and extends the engagement between research concerned with work and employment and labour geography. It links fundamental concepts concerning the politics of place that human geographers have developed in recent years with the world of work.Trade Review’. . . provides valuable analysis and debate. It is clearly of value to students, providing comprehensive coverage of the relevant ground, and to both students and academics familiar with the territory for whom the essays begin to point the way toward future debates, clearly highlighting the necessity of geography to fully understanding work and employment.' -- Oliver Mallett, Industrial Relations Journal'This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the analytical interactions between geography, space, work and employment. Space is not simply a banal backdrop against which work and employment processes and relations operate. Rather, the specific geographical context both colours, and is coloured by, the modes and nature of work and employment taking place in that context. Moreover, these issues are magnified by the tensions between processes operating at the local and global scales. The volume is particularly timely in the light of the recent credit crisis.' -- Philip McCann, University of Groningen, The Netherlands'This Handbook represents a major milestone in the revitalization of scholarship on work and employment. It demonstrates that human geography can - indeed, must - be integrated into labor studies and industrial relations. Our present era may be characterised as global capitalism, but "working space" is a social (and often highly contested) construct and people live and work in a particular place. To drive these points home, the editors weave together contributions highlighting the experience of workers in a wide variety of locations. The result is a volume rich in conceptual and practical insights; it deserves a wide audience.' -- Charles J. Whalen, Utica College and Cornell University, US'This major edited volume from some of the most eminent scholars writing on employment and society is to be welcomed. . . The reader is rewarded with an invaluable volume of excellent work from original empirical research.' -- Jane Holgate, Leeds University, UK in Labor Studies JournalTable of ContentsContents: 1. Foundations Andrew Herod, Susan McGrath-Champ and Al Rainnie PART I: WORK, SPACE AND THE STATE 2. Globalisation and the State Bob Jessop 3. Creating Markets, Contesting Markets: Labour Internationalism and the European Common Transport Policy Peter Turnbull PART II: WORKING SPACES 4. Working Spaces Al Rainnie, Susan McGrath-Champ and Andrew Herod Section 2.1 Regionalisation, Globalisation and Labour 5. Labour Markets from the Bottom Up Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore 6. Clothing Workers after Worker States: The Consequences for Work and Labour of Outsourcing, Nearshoring and Delocalisation in Postsocialist Europe John Pickles and Adrian Smith 7. Tele-mediated Servants and Self-servants of the Global Economy: Labour in the Era of ICT-enabled E-commerce Matthew Zook and Michael Samers 8. Gender, Space and Labour Market Participation: The Experiences of British Pakistani Women Robina Mohammad 9. Filipino Migration and the Spatialities of Labour Market Subordination Philip F. Kelly Section 2.2 Building Space 10. Competing Geographies of Welfare Capitalism and its Workers: Kohler Village and the Spatial Politics of Planned Company Towns Kathryn J. Oberdeck 11. Work, Place and Community in Socialism and Postsocialism Alison Stenning 12. Plastic Palm Trees and Blue Pumpkins: Synthetic Fun and Real Control in Contemporary Space Chris Baldry 13. Dormitory Labour Regimes and the Labour Process in China: New Workers in Old Factory Forms Ngai Pun and Chris Smith PART III: WORKERS IN SPACE 14. Workers in Space Al Rainnie, Andrew Herod and Susan McGrath-Champ Section 3.1 Labour Institutions in Space and Place 15. Global Unions versus Global Capital: Or, the Complexity of Transnational Labour Relations Ronaldo Munck and Peter Waterman 16. Methodological Nationalism and Territorial Capitalism: Mobile Labour and the Challenges to the ‘German Model’ Christian Berndt 17. European Works Councils: From the Local to the Global? Ian Fitzgerald and John Stirling 18. The New Economic Model and Spatial Changes in Labour Relations in Post-NAFTA Mexico Enrique de la Garza Toledo Section 3.2 Organising in Space and Place 19. Contested Space: Union Organising in the Old Economy Bradon Ellem 20. Contesting the New Politics of Space: Labour and Capital in the White Goods Industry in Southern Africa Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster 21. The Multi-scalarity of Trade Union Practice Jeremy Anderson, Paula Hamilton and Jane Wills 22. Working Space and the New Labour Internationalism Rob Lambert and Michael Gillan 23. Online Union Campaigns and the Shrinking Globe: The LabourStart Experience Eric Lee 24. ‘Across the Great Divide’: Local and Global Trade Union Responses to Call Centre Offshoring to India Phil Taylor and Peter Bain PART IV: AFTERWORD 25. Workers, Economies, Geographies Noel Castree Index

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Book SynopsisWork Inequalities in the Crisis provides an in-depth overview of the effects of the crisis on inequalities in the world of work. An assessment of national trends in 30 European countries precedes case studies of 14 of them, in which noted European specialists report on individual enterprises or sectors.Trade ReviewWho are the losers and the occasional winners in the current economic crisis? How have employers responded to the slump in economic growth? What lessons can be learned both from their and government labour policies? Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead, and a team of leading researchers address these questions applying the latest data and research including company case studies from across Europe, including Turkey and the transition economies. They observe some similarities, but also enormous differences. They find novel answers as the policies developed over the past two decades to foster greater flexibility have altered the way firms respond to market changes. Are all these changes socially desirable? The authors are to be congratulated for providing such a detailed panorama and frank assessment which will be of value to both academic and policy readers. - David Marsden, London School of Economics, UK Since the successive crises erupted the increase in inequality has not been addressed. This important publication offers a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the workplace. It will help to promote a different policy agenda that is desperately needed to overcome the causes and consequences of the crisis, namely addressing work inequalities. --- Philippe Pochet, Catholic University of Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, and General Director of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Brussels, BelgiumTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Maria Helena André Foreword Nicolas Schmit Foreword Guy Ryder 1. Introduction: Has the Crisis Exacerbated Work Inequalities? Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead 2. Mixed Adjustment Forms and Inequality Effects in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania Jaan Masso and Kerly Krillo 3. Inequality at Work Emerging in the Current Crisis in Bulgaria Vasil Tzanov 4. Croatia: Prolonged Crisis with an Uncertain Ending Vojmir Franičević 5. France: Protecting the Insiders in the Crisis and Forgetting the Outsiders? Jérôme Gautié 6. The German Labour Market after the Financial Crisis: Miracle or Just a Good Policy Mix? Gerhard Bosch 7. Hungary: Crisis Coupled with a Fiscal Squeeze – Effects on Inequality János Köllő 8. Italy: Limited Policy Responses and Industrial Relations in Flux, Leading to Aggravated Inequalities Niall O’Higgins 9. The Netherlands: Is the Impact of the Financial Crisis on Inequalities Different from in the Past? Wiemer Salverda 10. From the Highest Employment Growth to the Deepest Fall: Economic Crisis and Labour Inequalities in Spain Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo Llorente and José-Ignacio Antón Pérez 11. Negotiated Flexibility in Sweden: A More Egalitarian Response to the Crisis? Dominique Anxo 12. Crisis in Turkey: Aggravating a Segmented Labour Market and Creating New Inequalities Seyhan Erdoğdu 13. Social Impact of the Crisis in the United Kingdom: Focus on Gender and Age Inequalities Damian Grimshaw and Anthony Rafferty Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful Handbook examines how labour unions across the world have experienced and responded to the growth of neo-liberalism.Trade Review’Gall, Wilkinson, and Hurd have produced an impressive collection of scholarly essays on labour's responses to neoliberalism. The International Handbook of Labour Unions provides policymakers, analysts, academics, researchers, and advanced students a compelling framework and key insights in identifying the dilemmas facing labour in the ages of globalisation. -- Edward Webster, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Labour Unionism and Neo-liberalism Gregor Gall, Richard Hurd and Adrian Wilkinson 2. Theories of Collective Action and Union Power John Kelly 3. Union Renewal: Objective Circumstances and Social Action Pauline Dibben and Geoffrey Wood 4. Pragmatism, Ideology or Politics? Unions’ and Workers’ Responses to the Imposition of Neo-liberalism in Argentina Maurizio Atzeni and Pablo Ghigliani 5. Neo-liberal Evolution and Union Responses in Australia David Peetz and Janis Bailey 6. Britain: How Neo-liberalism Cut Unions Down to Size John McIlroy 7. Unions in China in a Period of Marketisation Fang Lee Cooke 8. France: Union Responses to Neo-liberalism Sylvie Contrepois 9. German Unions Facing Neo-liberalism: Between Resistance and Accommodation Heiner Dribbusch and Thorsten Schulten 10. India, Neo-liberalism and Union Responses – Unfinished Business and Protracted Struggles Ernesto Noronha and David Beale 11. Russian Unions After Communism: A Study in Subordination Sarah Ashwin 12. Neo-liberalism, Union Responses and the Transformation of the South Korean Labour Movement Dae-oup Chang 13. Unions Facing and Suffering Neo-liberalism in the United States Bob Bruno 14. The Crisis of Neo-liberalism and the American Labour Movement Richard L. Trumka 15. Interaction between Labour Unions and Social Movements in Responding to Neo-liberalism Bill Fletcher Jr 16. Unions, Globalisation and Internationalism: Results and Prospects Ronaldo Munck 17. A Future for the Labour Movement? Lowell Turner Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the period from 1920 to 1940 during which the shorter hour movement ended and the drive for economic expansion through increased work took over. This book traces the political, and social dialogues that changed the American concept of progress from dreams of leisure in which to pursue the higher things in life to an obsession.Trade Review"An extraordinarily informative scholarly history of the debate over working hours from 1920 to 1940."—New York Times Book Review"Work Without End presents a compelling history of the rise and fall of the 40-hour work week, explains bow Americans became trapped in a prison of work that allows little room for family, bobbies or civic participation and suggests bow they can free themselves from relentless overwork. [This book] is a sober reconsideration of a topic that is critical to America’s future. It suggests that progress doesn’t mean much if there is not time for love as well as work, and liberation is an empty achievement if the work it frees one to do is truly without end."—The Washington Post"Hunnicutt, with this excellent book, becomes the first United States historian to examine fully why this momentous change occurred."—The Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Century of Shorter Hours and Work Reduction 2. The New Economic Gospel of Consumption 3. Leisure for Labor 4. Leisure for Culture and Progress 5. Shorter Hours in the Early Depression 6. FDR Counters Shorter Hours 7. Idleness Reemployed: Public Works and Deficit Spending 8. Social Security and the Fair Labor Standards Act 9. Intellectuals and Reformers Abandon Shorter Hours 10. A Case in Point: Scientists 11. The Age of Work Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines questions related to the prevention, compensation, and accommodation of work disabilities. It focuses on disabilities arising out of workplace...Trade Review"The editors and contributors highlight the inevitable trade-offs that are involved in disability in the workplace, and make policy recommendations that are generally reasonable and backed by careful analysis and often new research findings." -- Morley Gunderson, Dept. of Economics, University of Toronto * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *"Why is it so easy to recommend this book to JVIB readers —more precisely, to readers keenly interested in designing and applying disability policy to the complex area loosely summarized as 'the workplace'? Two virtues stand out: analytic sophistication and a reasonably balanced perspective on hotly debated issues." -- Corinne Kirchner * Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness *Table of ContentsDispelling the myths about work disability; the prevention of disability from work-related sources - the roles of risk management, government intervention and insurance; the prevention of behavioural disabilities from non-work sources - employee assistance programmes and related strategies; the role of unions and collective bargaining in preventing work-related disability; reducing the consequences of disability - policies to reduce discrimination against disabled workers; facilitating employment through vocational rehabilitation; compensation for disabled workers - workers' compensation; social security disability insurance - a policy review; disputes and dispute resolutions; convergence - a comparison of European and US disability policy.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This book usefully collects together recent papers by John Creedy about measurement of income inequality and income mobility, with the added bonus of providing novel applications to data for New Zealand. Creedy, an expert in the field, provides many instructive insights.’ -- Stephen P. Jenkins, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, President, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, 2021-23‘John Creedy’s distinguished career has been exemplified by careful empirical analysis and creative exploration of many thorny issues in public finance, specifically relating to economic inequality. This new book is no exception, it dives into deep questions of appropriately measuring inequality and doesn’t shy away from getting into dynamic versus static issues. I recommend it highly to anyone who wants to understand how topflight researchers in the field look at these issues.’ -- Daniel Slottje, Professor Emeritus, Southern Methodist University, USTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Alternative Distributions and Metrics 3. Interpreting Inequality Measures 4. Inequality-Preserving Changes 5. Decomposing Inequality Changes 6. Inequality Over a Long Period 7 Regression Models of Mobility 8. Illustrating Differential Growth 9. Summary Measures of Equalising Mobility 10. Mobility as Positional Change 11. Poverty Persistence Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘With this book Bruno Jossa brings to completion his lifelong research on market socialism. Drawing on economics, politics and philosophy, he presents a modern manifesto for industrial democracy. No student and no militant should ignore it, for it constitutes the most comprehensive, scrupulous and deep model of a socialist system available to date.’ -- Ernesto Screpanti, University of Siena, Italy‘Bruno Jossa offers a comprehensive exposition of the cooperative form of enterprise as an organisation that assigns ownership rights and governance control to stakeholders other than investors. With a great deal of literary panache, he writes in a non-technical language accessible to non-specialist readers and shows how Marx’s equation of capitalism with market has been inhibited for a long time and considers that a prospective socialist society does not imply the destruction of the market system per se, but only the abolition of the privately-owned firms. Jossa’s account will capture the attention of anyone seriously interested in the future of the market system as a viable and inclusive model of social order. A must read.’ -- Stefano Zamagni, University of Bologna, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The labour-managed firm: an introduction 2. A model of socialism 3. Is the final advent of socialism a realistic prospect? 4. Marxism and producer cooperatives 5. On ‘contradiction’ in Marxism and the orthodox economic theory 6. Democratic firm management and the role of the state in a system of cooperative firms 7. Reform versus revolution: Struve’s critique of Marx Index

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Book SynopsisProviding an insightful analysis of the key issues and significant trends relating to labour within the platform economy, this Modern Guide considers the existing comparative evidence covering all world regions. It also provides an in-depth look at digital labour platforms in their historical, economic and geographical contexts.Trade Review‘This collected volume on the world of work produced by platform companies should be required reading for anyone interested in the modern politics of labor. Drahokoupil and Vandaele have brought together cutting-edge scholars and scholarship to historicize the emergence of the platform economy and to understand its complex, transnational implications for work and workers. Together, the chapters help to contextualize both the challenges and opportunities posed by digital labor and should be required reading for regulators, policymakers, and academics alike.’ -- Veena Dubal, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, US‘Here’s everything you need to know about the platform economy and workers—and perhaps hadn’t even thought of asking—in this comprehensive Modern Guide. It covers emerging trends, particular cases, regulatory issues and much else, and is likely to become an essential guide for researchers and policy makers.’ -- Jayati Ghosh, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: Janus meets Proteus in the platform economy 1 Jan Drahokoupil and Kurt Vandaele PART I CONTEXT AND ISSUES 2 The business models of labour platforms: Creating an uncertain future 33 Jan Drahokoupil 3 Moving on, out or up: The externalization of work to B2B platforms 49 Pamela Meil and Mehtap Akgü. 4 Measuring the platform economy: Different approaches to estimating the size of the online platform workforce 66 Agnieszka Piasna 5 A historical perspective on the drivers of digital labour platforms 81 Gérard Valenduc 6 The platform economy at the forefront of a changing world of work: Implications for occupational health and safety 96 Pierre Bérastégui and Sacha Garben 7 How place and space matter to union organizing in the platform economy 112 Benjamin Herr, Philip Schörpf and Jörg Flecker PART II REGULATING PLATFORM WORK 8 Embedding platforms in contemporary labour law 129 Valerio De Stefano and Mathias Wouters 9 The regulation of platform work in the European Union: Mapping the challenges 145 Sacha Garben 10 Workers, platforms and the state: The struggle over digital labour platform regulation 162 Sai Englert, Mark Graham, Sandra Fredman, Darcy du Toit, Adam Badger, Richard Heeks and Jean-Paul Van Belle 11 Trade union responses to platform work: An evolving tension between mainstream and grassroots approaches 177 Simon Joyce and Mark Stuart PART III CASE STUDIES ACROSS THE GLOBE: ONLINE LABOUR PLATFORMS 12 The uneven potential of online platform work for human development at the global margins 194 Mark Graham, Vili Lehdonvirta, Alex J. Wood, Helena Barnard, Isis Hjorth and David Peter Simon 13 From outsourcing to crowdsourcing: Assessing the implications for Indian workers of different outsourcing strategies 209 Janine Berg, Uma Rani and Nora Gobel 14 The geographic and linguistic variety of online labour markets: The cases of Russia and Ukraine 225 Mariya Aleksynska, Andrey Shevchuk and Denis Strebkov PART IV CASE STUDIES ACROSS THE GLOBE: LOCATION-BASED LABOUR PLATFORMS 15 Aliada and Alia: Contrasting for-profit and non-profit platforms for domestic work in Mexico and the United States 242 Andrea Santiago Páramo and Carlos Piñeyro Nelson 16 The role of worker collectives among app-based food delivery couriers in France, Germany and Norway: All the same or different? 258 Kristin Jesnes, Denis Neumann, Vera Trappmann and Pauline de Becdelièvre 17 The pitfalls and promises of successfully organizing Foodora couriers in Toronto 274 Raoul Gebert 18 Labour management and resistance among platform-based food delivery couriers in Beijing 290 Jack Linchuan Qiu, Ping Sun and Julie Chen 19 Struggles over the power and meaning of digital labour platforms: A comparison of the Vienna, Berlin, New York and Los Angeles taxi markets 308 Hannah Johnston and Susanne Pernicka 20 Passenger transport in Australia: Injury compensation, public policy and the health pandemic 323 David Peetz PART V CLOSING THOUGHTS 21 Institutional experimentation and the challenges of platform labour 339 Maria Figueroa Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book offers an engaging contemporary analysis of research into the gender pay gap while also providing important nuanced observations. It illustrates the variant methodologies that have been employed by researchers who have attempted to elucidate this challenging topic.Trade Review‘Sielska’s book should be required reading for all who ignorantly use the term “gender wage gap” and rant about alleged discrimination. This is the definitive work on the subject.’ -- Philipp Bagus, Rey Juan Carlos University, SpainTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements 1. Economic theories of discrimination 2. The gender wage gap under the microscope: methods of measurement 3. The explained part of the gender wage gap 4. The unexplained part of the gender wage gap. Conclusion to Explaining the Gender Wage Gap Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTransformative guidance for putting responsible sourcing at the heart of your supply chain strategy In Certifiable: How Businesses Operationalize Responsible Sourcing, supply chain and corporate social responsibility expert Chris van Bergen delivers a practical and incisive discussion of how to create, implement, and audit transformative socially responsible sourcing practices that create a permanent competitive advantage for your firm. In the book, you'll find start-to-finish guidance on doing the hard work and creative problem solving required to put responsibly sourced products on store shelves. Drawing on his own experience creating the groundbreaking Ethical Handcraft program at non-profit organization Nest, as well as many other real-world case studies, the author shows you exactly how to navigate the complex arena of global supply chains without falling victim to the common pitfalls presented by typical factory auditing systems. You'll also find: Expansive discussions of the impact of corporate finance, Covid-19, shifting consumer attitudes and demographics, and information sharing policies on supply chain transparencyInterviews with recognized business leaders in a variety of industries that address the challenges you're likely to face and the solutions you need to overcome themExamples of contemporary businesses that have made corporate social responsibility a central plank of their company's business model and the benefits they've realized as a result An engaging and rigorously supported exploration of the real-world implementation of supply chain transparency and corporate social responsibility, Certifiable belongs on the bookshelves of managers, executives, directors, operations and sourcing professionals, and other business leaders seeking transformative change.Table of ContentsForeword by Rebecca van Bergen ix Chapter 1 Down the Dusty Road: The Complexity of Supply Chains in the Age of Globalization 1 Chapter 2 Globalization and a Corporate Crisis 15 Chapter 3 The Power Pathway: External and Internal Pressures on Global Supply Chains 33 Chapter 4 Pulling Back the Curtain: The Basics of Standard-Setting and Auditing to Increase Transparency 59 Chapter 5 Wake-Up Calls: The Dual Disasters of Rana Plaza and COVID-19 83 Chapter 6 Walking Further Together: Partnership and Innovation 103 Chapter 7 Rays of Sunshine: Stories of Brand Success 125 Chapter 8 Let Me Tell You a Story: The Responsible Marketing of Responsible Sourcing 149 Chapter 9 Convincing the Money Folks: Business Finance for Sustainability and Impact 173 Chapter 10 On Your Own Path 189 Acknowledgments 205 About the Author 207 Endnotes 209 Index 225

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Book SynopsisElizabeth Aylott is an experienced HR specialist and lecturer in the areas of employee relations and employment law. After a career in HR, both in industry and the charitable sector, she taught on CIPD programmes at all levels and lectured on HRM and business degree courses. She is also the author of Employment Law, published by Kogan Page. She is based in Surrey, UK.Trade Review"The easy- to-follow format and up-to-date case studies that illustrate the underpinning theories will be useful to students learning about the topic for the first time as well as to HR practitioners and people managers in the workplace. It is a handy reference guide with tips to build up skills when deciding on both ethical and strategic choices and practical actions to take in a specific context to stay within the existing legal framework." * Linda Holden, Freelance CIPD Tutor and HR Trainer *"For those interested in understanding and learning employee relations, this is an exceptional book with a well-structured critical text, conceptual rigour, engaging case studies, empirical richness, up-to-date examples and thoughtful balance between theory and practice. What else is desired in a complete book? Yet, Elizabeth Aylott offers us more, no less than a brand-new sense of complex employment relations in a simple, concise, and clear way for the 21st century. Positively recommended for an invaluable learning experience." * Dr M Naseer Akhtar, Associate Editor, 'Employee Relations', Senior Lecturer in HRM and People Analytics, Royal Docks School of Business and Law, University of East London, UK *"Employee Relations is an easy-to-read, practical and informative guide packed full with case studies and up to date research, making it an invaluable resource for HR students, practitioners and business managers." * Debbie Paddington, HR Business Partner, The Kent Autistic Trust *"The political and economic landscape both at home in the UK and internationally, is built on the shifting sands of unprecedented change, which is actively shaping and changing the world of work and how organisations develop and maintain positive working relationships with the modern-day employee. While employee relations naturally fall under the wider umbrella of HRM, it is a complex area of people management practice which requires practitioners to have a deep understanding of the relationship between employer and employee and how this relationship is intrinsically woven into the fabric of UK employment law and industrial relations. Employee Relations is the essential text for practitioners at all stages of their careers for developing and maintaining a deep understanding of employee in relations in practice." * Nathaniel Andrews, Founder and CEO at Okana Limited *"This is a bookshelf essential that strikes the right balance between theory and practice in relation to the subject of employee relations. The book is not only for HR personnel but also for those in leadership positions aspiring to build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with their team members. As an MD I have found the book to be practical, insightful and engaging - an invaluable resource overall!" * Dianne Ramdeen, Managing Director, Quartic Training *Table of Contents Section - ONE: Fundamentals; Chapter - 01: What is Employee Relations?; Chapter - 02: The importance of Employee Relations; Chapter - 03: Employee Relations and strategy; Section - TWO: In practice; Chapter - 04: Employee Relations in practice; Chapter - 05: Planning and action; Chapter - 06: Measurement; Chapter - 07: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisEmma Bridger is an award-winning employee engagement specialist and Director of People Lab, an employee engagement consultancy that works with high-profile clients worldwide. Based in Hastings, UK, she has designed and developed the CIPD range of public and in-house employee engagement courses and is a regular conference speaker. She contributed to the UK Government Review Engaging for Success and is a member of the Engage for Success movement as part of its "guru group". In 2021, she was named as one of the Most Influential HR Thinkers by HR Magazine.Trade Review"Emma Bridger is the go-to expert for employee engagement which makes this book the definitive guide for engaging your employees. This third edition has been updated to include the latest thinking and practice required to make a difference to your people. Employee engagement is more critical now than it has ever been and this book has everything you need; whether you're starting out in the field or you're an established practitioner. Packed full of practical tools and guidance backed up by science, and relatable case-studies, it's a must read for anyone working in employee engagement." * Pete Markey, CMO, Boots *"Emma Bridger's book Employee Engagement is a concise reference for the practical implementation of staff engagement approaches within organizations. Managers, HR staff and academics can use this book to plan how to introduce a thorough staff engagement programme and research how it all works in practice. Employee Engagement design, measurement, implementation and future action planning are all investigated within this comprehensive book and Emma also provides an easily digestible literature overview within the field." * Dr Julian A Edwards, Research Fellow, The Open University (about a previous edition). *"This is essential reading for everyone working in employee engagement and, beyond that, an invaluable source of learning for all individuals working in teams as critical components within organizations striving to deliver better results." * Rob Neil OBE, Director & Founder, Krystal Alliance (about a previous edition) *"Employee Engagement is the must-read book for any manager or HR professional who is concerned about raising and maintaining high levels of engagement. Written in an authoritative yet accessible style by one of the UK's leading experts, the book guides the reader step-by-step through the complex decisions that need to be made in developing and implementing a successful engagement strategy." * Katie Bailey, Professor of Work and Employment, King's College London (about a previous edition) *"Emma Bridger brings a practical and effective approach to the big subjects of employee engagement and organizational culture, which are so vital for any organization's success today. Beneath her warm and friendly style lies considerable expertise, and this book shares the insight she has gained over many years helping organizations like ours to unlock the potential of our people." * Richard Parry, Chief Executive, Canal & River Trust (about a previous edition) *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: What is employee engagement?; Chapter - 02: Does engagement matter?; Chapter - 03: Developing your employee engagement strategy; Chapter - 04: How it works; Chapter - 05: Employee engagement: How do you do it?; Chapter - 06: Employee engagement tools and techniques; Chapter - 07: Planning and action; Chapter - 08: Measuring engagement; Chapter - 09: The future of employee engagement

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the controversial call for international labor standards, seeking to productively further this debate by considering the economic implications and history of these standards. A result of an initiative by Professor Kaushik Basu in his capacity as member of the Expert Group of Development Issues (EGDI) sponsored by the Swedish Foreign Ministry, the contributions are based on discussions at a seminar held in Stockholm in August 2001. Compiling the best research in the field, this book provides a solid basis for policy decisions, while also serving as a challenging text for students in trade, development, and labor economics. Analyzes the economic implications and history of international labor standards. Productively furthers the debate about intervening with international labor standardsStems from a seminar organized through the Expert Group on Development Issues (EGDI), sponsored by the Swedish MTrade Review‘Questions relating to international labour standards have been the subject of much controversy and research as several unions and some rich-country governments have sought to advance them through sanctions while most poor-country governments and some important and sizeable democratic unions in them have opposed this. This volume is an important and timely contribution to this debate, providing scholarly and penetrating research to illuminate the issues at stake. It is a classic that must be studied by everyone engaged in this debate.’ Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University ‘International Labor Standards is an extremely valuable and wide-ranging introduction to current debates over labor standards. The book gives a detailed history of standards; a broad and even-handed view of economic arguments for and against standards; and serious discussion of the problem of child labor. [It] concludes with an intriguing analysis of the potential role of the World Trade Organization in helping to raise standards. In place of the vitriole and rhetoric that the debate over standards all too often degenerates into, this volume is a serious investigation of what we know and do not know in this area.’ Richard Freeman, London School of Economics ‘This impressive book brings together some of the best research on the important and controversial topic of international labor standards. The contributions are illuminating and provocative, and they provide a valuable scientific foundation for policy debates.’ Kyle Bagwell, Columbia University Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction: Kaushik Basu, Henrik Horn, Lisa Román, Judith Shapiro. Part II: The Evolution of Labor Standards:. 1. The History and Political Economy of International Labor Standards: Stanley Engerman (Rochester University). Commentary 1.1 The Parallels Between the Past and the Present: Jane Humphries (All-Souls College, Oxford University). Commentary 1.2 Legislation Versus Bargaining Power: The Evolution of Scandinavian Labor Standards: Karl-Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein (Oslo University). Part III: The Theory of International Labor Standards:. 2. The Impact of International Labor Standards. A Survey of Economic Theory: Nirvikar Singh (University of California, Santa Cruz). Commentary 2.1 Old Wine in New Bottles?: T.N. Srinivasan (Yale University). Commentary 2.2 Governing Labor Relations: Tore Ellingsen (Stockholm School of Economics). Part IV: The Issue Of Child Labor:. 3. Child Labor: Theory, Evidence and Policy: Drusilla Brown (Tufts University), Alan Deardorff (Michigan University), and Robert Stern (Michigan University). Commentary 3.1 The Political Economy of Child Labor: Alan Krueger (Princeton University). Commentary 3.2 Social Norms, Coordination and Policy Issues in the Fight Against Child Labor: Luis-Felipe López-Calva (El Colegio de Mexico). Part V: The International Organisation and Enforcement of Labor Standards:. 4. A Role For The WTO: Robert Staiger (University of Wisconsin). Commentary 4.1 Trade and Labor Standards. To Link or Not to Link?: Alan L Winters (University of Sussex). Commentary 4.2 The Need to Micro-Manage Regulatory Diversity: Petros Mavroidis (University of Neuchatel). Index.

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Book SynopsisThe contributors consider a wide range of issues, from an examination of the male/female wage gap that starts when girls are teenagers, to policewomen in Persian Gulf countries, to Latinas' politics, to Aboriginal health care workers, to secretarial work, and to feminist activism in Cuban hip hop.Trade ReviewA powerful collection of experiences. Midwest Book Review

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Book SynopsisOver the past century, new farming methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures have radically transformed agriculture around the globe, often at the expense of human health. In Chickenizing Farms and Food, Ellen K. Silbergeld reveals the unsafe world of chickenization-big agriculture's top-down, contract-based factory farming system-and its negative consequences for workers, consumers, and the environment. Drawing on her deep knowledge of and experience in environmental engineering and toxicology, Silbergeld examines the complex history of the modern industrial food animal production industry and describes the widespread effects of Arthur Perdue's remarkable agricultural innovations, which were so important that the US Department of Agriculture uses the term chickenization to cover the transformation of all farm animal production. Silbergeld tells the real story of how antibiotics were first introduced into animal feeds in the 1940s, which has led to the emergence of Trade ReviewAn insightful book that should be of interest to anyone who eats food, animal or not. Kirkus Reviews This engaging treatise lays out a compelling case for reexamining the way we produce the food we eat. Required reading for those who are interested in learning more about where our food comes from. Library Journal Little doubt exists that meat production is fraught with problems. After reading Silbergeld's book, my next visit to the farmer's market will be a more enlightened one. Science A sobering, vivid tour of people and places covers the far-reaching impact of Arthur Perdue's chicken empire, animalfeed antibiotics and MRSA, worker safety at a hog-slaughter megaplant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, and Brazil and China's recent "chickenization". Chronicle of Higher Education Chickenizing Farms & Food is essential reading for anyone concerned about food safety, about worker safety, and the industry that has far too little concern for either. Metapsychology ... much good can be found in these pages, and Ellen K. Sibergeld offers useful input regarding the most complicated question in globalization and food production today: what are we supposed to do about it? San Francisco Book Review She is clear-eyed and practical in the solutions she offers at the end of the book. Refreshingly, Silbergeld does not advocate a return to "the agriculture of the past" (which she believes is romanticized and effective only for affluent producers and consumers), but rather a systematic overhaul of agriculture as an industry. Choice Silbergeld writes in an easy, conversational style that demonstrates a sweeping knowledge of human history ranging from the Egyptians to Immanuel Wallerstein's works on the modern world system. She also marshals an impressive array of facts to defend her case. Chickenizing Farms & Food is a must-read for anyone who cares about the production of the things we eat. Washington Independent Review of Books The strengths of this volume are its clear presentation of concepts and evidence, lucid explanations of the supporting science, and spirited critique of both sides in the Big Ag/Food vs. Small/Local Ag/Food encounter. FoodAnthropology The book is engaging and compelling... She [Silbergeld] glosses over nothing.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Can We Talk about Agriculture?2. Confinement, Concentration, and Integration3. It All Started in Delmarva4. The Chickenization of the World5. The Coming of the Drugs6. When You Look at a Screen, Do You See Lattices or Holes?7. Antimicrobial Resistance8. Collateral Damage9. Have a Cup of Coffee and Pray10. Food Safety11. Can We Feed the World?12. A Path Forward, Not BackwardNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Uber-ization of the classroom and what it means for faculty. One of the most significant trends in American higher education over the last decade has been the shift in faculty employment from tenured to contingent. Now upwards of 75% of faculty jobs are non-tenure track; two decades ago that figure was 25%. One of the results of this shiftalong with the related degradation of pay, benefits, and working conditionshas been a new push to unionize adjunct professors, spawning a national labor movement. Professors in the Gig Economy is the first book to address the causes, processes, and outcomes of these efforts. Kim Tolley brings together scholars of education, labor history, economics, religious studies, and law, all of whom have been involved with unionization at public and private colleges and universities. Their essays and case studies address the following questions: Why have colleges and universities come to rely so heavily on contingent faculty? How have federal and state lTrade ReviewProfessors in the Gig Economy is a valuable addition to the too-small library of books on contingent faculty and graduate employee unionism. The book's focus on the organizing process puts it in even more rarified company. It enters the truly charmed center of the circle because it was edited by a teacher, Kim Tolley, who herself recently had the life-changing experience of helping to organize her own workplace, Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. Tolley's experience makes her particularly well qualified to edit such a book, especially since organizing a bargaining unit of both tenure-track and contingent faculty at a private university is very unusual in American higher education.—Joe Berry, AcademeTable of ContentsPreface, by Kim TolleyAcknowledgements1. From Golden Era to Gig Economy, by A. J. Angulo2. Understanding the Need for Unions, by Adrianna Kezar and Thomas DePaola3. A Long History of Activism and Organizing, by Timothy R. Cain4. Union Organizing and the Law, by Gregory Saltzman5. A Just Employment Approach to Adjunct Unionization, by Joseph McCartin and Nicholas Wertsch6. Unionizing Adjunct and Tenure-Track Faculty at Notre Dame de Namur , by Kim Tolley, Marianne Delaporte, and Lorenzo Giachetti7. Unions, Shared Governance, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities , by Elizabeth K. Davenport8. Forming a Union, by Shawn Gilmore9. Wall to Wall, by Luke Elliot-Negri10. California State University East Bay, by Kim Geron and Gretchen M. ReevyConclusion, by Kim Tolley and Kristen EdwardsContributorsAppendixIndex

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1984. In The Working People of Paris, 18711914, Lenard Berlanstein examines how technological advances, expanding industrialization, bureaucratization, and urban growth affected the lives of the working poor and near poor of one of the world's most influential cities during an era of intense social and cultural change. Berlanstein departs from other historians of the working classes in treating, in a parallel manner, not only craftsmen and factory laborers but also service workers and lower-level white-collar employees. Avoiding the fallacy of letting the city limits set the boundaries of an urban study, he deals also with the industrial suburbs, with their considerable concentration of workers, to examine the transformation of the work, leisure, and consumer experiences of the people who did not own property and who lived from one payday to the next during the Second Industrial Revolution. The Working People of Paris describes a cycle of adaptation and resistTable of ContentsList of Tables and FiguresPrefaceChapter 1. The Working PopulationChapter 2. Material ConditionsChapter 3.The Work ExperienceChapter 4. Off-the-Job LifeChapter 5. Politics and ProtestChpater 6. ConclusionAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAn enlightening look at American women's work in the late eighteenth century. What was women's work truly like in late eighteenth-century America, and what does it tell us about the gendered social relations of labor in the early republic? In Entangled Lives, Marla R. Miller examines the lives of Anglo-, African, and Native American women in one rural New England communityHadley, Massachusettsduring the town's slow transformation following the Revolutionary War. Peering into the homes, taverns, and farmyards of Hadley, Miller offers readers an intimate history of the working lives of these women and their vital role in the local economy. Miller, a longtime resident of Hadley, follows a handful of eighteenth-century women working in a variety of occupations: domestic service, cloth making, health and healing, and hospitality. She asks about the social openings and opportunities this work createdand the limitations it placed on ordinary lives. Her compelling stories about women's everyTable of ContentsList of Figures Foreword, by Cathy Matson Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Placings Part I: Women, Work, and Community Chapter 1: From Nolwotogg to Hadley Chapter 2: Women, Work, and the Business of Gentility: The View from Forty Acres Chapter 3: Women, Work, and "Economies of Makeshifts": The View from the Back Street Part II: Livelihoods Chapter 4: Domestic Service Chapter 5: Making Cloth Chapter 6: Hospitality Work Chapter 7: Healing and Caregiving Part III: Topographies of Change Chapter 8: Working Women and the Domestic Landscapes of Forty Acres Chapter 9: New Labor, New Landscapes Coda: Remembering Women and Work Abbreviations NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisOriginally published 1982. Bodnar's central concern in Workers' World is with the working people of Pennsylvania prior to World War II. He examines how ordinary people throughout the state navigated the changing set of industrial relations that fanned out across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since workers could not rely on unionism or government-sponsored safety nets, workers in Pennsylvania relied on kinship ties, job structures, and community relationships. In the past, Bodnar contends, American labor historians have focused mainly on the history of strikes, the rise of unionism, and the struggle for control over the workplace. In an effort to mitigate historians' flattening of workers into the two-dimensional plane of politics and protest, Bodnar revives workers and the world in which they lived by conducting oral interviews with textile workers, coal miners, steelworkers, and others in Pennsylvania.Trade ReviewIndispensable for an understanding of immigrants and their children in early twentieth century industrial America . . . Insightful and stimulating.—Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Kinship: The Ties That Bind Part II. The Enclave: A World Within a World Part III. Organizing in the Thirties: Defending the Workers' World Conclusion. Culture and Protest A Note on Sources Index 195

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1967. Many documents essential for understanding the development of Soviet labor policies from 1917 to 1921 have been selected, translated, and presented in this volume. The Origin of Forced Labor in the Soviet State, 1917-1921 begins with the early months of the revolution, when the utopian slogans of workers' control of industry and the promise of trade-union management of industrial production were the controlling factors in shaping Soviet policy on labor. Chapter 2 traces the gradual introduction of measures of labor compulsion, first in relation to those the Bolsheviks classified as the bourgeoisie and afterwards in relation to the working class. Chapters 3 through 5, the core of the study, tell the story of labor militarizationthe new formula that, for the Communists, held the key to solving all economic problems in a socialist state. Chapter 3 presents the theories used to justify the militarization of labor and outlines the institutional framework that kTable of ContentsChapter 1. The Role of Labor in the Soviet StateChapter 2. The Drift Toward Labor CompulsionChapter 3. Militarization of Labor: The Decision and Its Intstitutional FrameworkChapter 4. Application of Militarized Forms to Civilian LaborChapter 5. Militarization of the Transport System and the Revolt Against Trotsky's PoliciesChapter 6. The Revolution in CrisisBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFrom the contributors to The Conversation, this collection of essays by leading experts in biotechnology provides foundational knowledge on a range of topics, from CRISPR gene sequencing to the ethics of GMOs and designer babies.In The Conversation on Biotechnology, editor Marc Zimmer collects essays from The Conversation U.S. by top scholars and experts in the field, who present a primer on the latest biotechnology research, the overwhelming possibilities it offers, and the risks of its abuse. From an overview of CRISPR technology and gene editing in GMOs to the ethical questions surrounding designer babies and other applications of biotechnology in humans, it highlights the major implications biotechnology will bring for health and society. Topics range from the spectacular use of light to fire individual neurons in the brain to making plant-based meats; from curbing diseases with genetically modified mosquitoes to looking back on 40 years of opinions on IVF babies. The Critical CoTable of ContentsSeries Editor's ForewordPrefacePart I. Building Blocks of Life1. What Is mRNA? The Messenger Molecule That's Been in Every Living Cell for Billions of Years Is of Great Interest to Vaccine Developers2. What Is CRISPR, the Gene Editing Technology That Won the Chemistry Nobel Prize?3. What Is a Protein? A Biologist Explains4. Three Ways RNA Is Being Used in the Next Generation of Medical Treatment5. Why Sequencing the Human Genome Failed to Produce Big Breakthroughs in Disease6. Editing Genes Shouldn't Be Too Scary—Unless They Are the Ones That Get Passed to Future Generations7. How Many Genes Does It Take to Make a Person?8. Everything You Wanted to Know about the First Cloned Mammal—Dolly the Sheep9. From CRISPR to Glowing Proteins to Optogenetics—Scientists' Most Powerful Technologies Have Been Borrowed from NaturePart II. Biotechnology, Food, and the Environment10. What Is Bioengineered Food? An Agriculture Expert Explains11. Organic Farming with Gene Editing: An Oxymoron or a Tool for Sustainable Agriculture?12. How We Got to Now: Why the US and Europe Went Different Ways on GMOs13. Can Genetic Engineering Save Disappearing Forests?14. How Scientists Make Plant-Based Foods Taste and Look More Like Meat15. Genetically Modified Mosquitoes May Be the Best Weapon for Curbing Disease Transmission16. How Engineered Bacteria Could Clean Up Oil Sands Pollution and Mining WastePart III. Powerful Tools for Medicine and Health17. New Gene Therapies May Soon Treat Dozens of Rare Diseases, but Million-Dollar Price Tags Will Put Them out of Reach for Many18. Engineered Viruses Can Fight the Rise of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria19. Genetic Engineering Transformed Stem Cells into Working Mini-livers That Extended the Life of Mice with Liver Disease20. We're Creating "Humanized Pigs" in Our Ultraclean Lab to Study Human Illnesses and Treatments21. When Researchers Don't Have the Proteins They Need, They Can Get AI to "Hallucinate" New Structures22. Living Drugs: Engineering Bacteria to Treat Genetic Diseases23. How Gene-Editing a Person's Brain Cells Could Be Used to Curb the Opioid Epidemic24. CRISPR Can Help Combat the Troubling Immune Response against Gene Therapy25. 3D-Printed Organs Could Save Lives by Addressing the Transplant Shortage26. From Marmots to Mole-Rats to Marmosets—Studying Many Genes in Many Animals Is Key to Understanding How Humans Can Live LongerPart IV. Genetic Frontiers and Ethics 27. Scared of CRISPR? 45 Years on, IVF Shows How Fears of New Medical Technology Can Fade28. How Can a Baby Have 3 Parents?29. Ethicists Need More Flexible Tools for Evaluating Gene-Edited Food30. Lab-Grown Embryos and Human-Monkey Hybrids: Medical Marvels or Ethical Missteps?31. Those Designer Babies Everyone Is Freaking Out about Are Not Likely to Happen32. Bioweapons Research Is Banned by an International Treaty—but Nobody Is Checking for Violations33. From Coronavirus Tests to Open-Source Insulin and Beyond, "Biohackers" Are Showing the Power of DIY ScienceContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisHow attorneys' work is deprofessionalized, downgraded, and controlled through part-time and temporary assignmentsTrade Review"Law schools paint bright illusions of their graduates’ earnings potential. This book is the reality. Nowhere near courtrooms or plush offices labor an exploited, minimally paid underclass of lawyers in a Dickens-meets-Dilbert world of 'document review,' in which professionals with advanced degrees live tenuous existences sorting documents into categories, work that ninth graders could accomplish and with nothing lawyerly about it.... Brooks presents a firsthand account of his own experiences and interviews coworkers in these dead-end jobs with no benefits, no chance for promotion, and no possibility to even act as a lawyer. It’s a scary world showing that nobody has any security. VERDICT Would-be law students must read this look at the profession’s dark underbelly... this is essential for law school libraries and a good purchase for comprehensive labor collections and large public library systems, as well." —Library Journal Table of ContentsContentsPreface 1. Degraded and Insecure: The “New” Workforce 2. “Basically Interchangeable”: The Creation of the Temporary Lawyer 3. Life on the Concourse Level: Doing Document Review 4. Box Shopping in “Nike Town”: Struggles over Work 5. “Keeping Count of Every Freakin’ Minute”: Struggles over Time 6. “A Glorified Data Entry Person”: Struggles over Identity 7. “I Would Rather Grow in India”: The Emerging Legal Underclass Appendix A: Document Review Project Summary Appendix B: The Questionnaire Appendix C: The Attorneys References Index

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Book SynopsisHow attorneys' work is deprofessionalized, downgraded, and controlled through part-time and temporary assignmentsTrade Review"Law schools paint bright illusions of their graduates’ earnings potential. This book is the reality. Nowhere near courtrooms or plush offices labor an exploited, minimally paid underclass of lawyers in a Dickens-meets-Dilbert world of 'document review,' in which professionals with advanced degrees live tenuous existences sorting documents into categories, work that ninth graders could accomplish and with nothing lawyerly about it.... Brooks presents a firsthand account of his own experiences and interviews coworkers in these dead-end jobs with no benefits, no chance for promotion, and no possibility to even act as a lawyer. It’s a scary world showing that nobody has any security. VERDICT Would-be law students must read this look at the profession’s dark underbelly... this is essential for law school libraries and a good purchase for comprehensive labor collections and large public library systems, as well." —Library Journal Table of ContentsContentsPreface 1. Degraded and Insecure: The “New” Workforce 2. “Basically Interchangeable”: The Creation of the Temporary Lawyer 3. Life on the Concourse Level: Doing Document Review 4. Box Shopping in “Nike Town”: Struggles over Work 5. “Keeping Count of Every Freakin’ Minute”: Struggles over Time 6. “A Glorified Data Entry Person”: Struggles over Identity 7. “I Would Rather Grow in India”: The Emerging Legal Underclass Appendix A: Document Review Project Summary Appendix B: The Questionnaire Appendix C: The Attorneys References Index

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Book SynopsisA magisterial overview of the history of the fight for leisure in the United StatesTrade Review "Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt's new book could hardly be more timely. His central theme--that the American dream once was not confined merely to ever growing levels of abundance--is all the more relevant in an era of climate science denial and anti-environmentalism of various sorts. . . I had a hard time putting Free Time down."--John Buell, author of Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age ? ?Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Higher Progress—the Forgotten American Dream1 The Kingdom of God in America: Progress as the Advance of Freedom2 Labor and the Ten-Hour System3 Walt Whitman: Higher Progress at Mid-century4 The Eight-Hour Day: Labor from the Civil War to the 1920s5 Infrastructures of Freedom6 Labor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Dream7 Challenges to Full-Time, Full Employment8 Labor Turns from Shorter Hours to Full-Time, Full Employment9 Higher Progress Fades, Holdouts Persist10 The Eclipse of Higher Progress and the Emergence of OverworkNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA job is no longer something we do, but instead something we are. This book insists that many jobs in the West are now regulated by a new matrix of power-biopower - where life itself is put to work through our ability to self-organize around formal rules.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Why Work? 1 Come as You Are: The New Corporate Enclosure Movement 2 Common Matters 3 Why the Corporation Does Not Work: A Brief History 4 Corporate Culture and the Coming Bioproletariat 5 “Free Work” Capitalism 6 How to Resist Work Today Conclusion: Working after Neoliberalism Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisOut in the Union tells the continuous story of queer American workers from the mid-1960s through 2013. Miriam Frank shrewdly chronicles the evolution of labor politics with queer activism and identity formation, showing how unions began affirming the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender workers in the 1970s and 1980s. She documents coming out on the job and in the union as well as issues of discrimination and harassment, and the creation of alliances between unions and LGBT communities. Featuring in-depth interviews with LGBT and labor activists, Frank provides an inclusive history of the convergence of labor and LGBT interests. She carefully details how queer caucuses in local unions introduced domestic partner benefits and union-based AIDS education for health care workers-innovations that have been influential across the U.S. workforce. Out in the Union also examines organizing drives at queer workplaces, campaigns for marriage equality, and other gay civil rights issuTable of Contents Acknowledgments A Brief Chronology of LGBT Labor History, 1965–2013 Prologue: Love and Work and Queer Survival I Coming Out 1 From Construction to Couture: Coming Out in Unionized Workplaces 2 Outsiders as Insiders: Sexual Diversity and Union Leadership II Coalition Politics 3 From Common Enemies to Common Causes: The Labor Movement and the Gay Movement in Action and Coalition 4 The Heart of the Matter: Union Politics, Queer Issues, and the Life of the Local III Conflict and Transformation 5 Organizing the Gay Unorganized: Talking Union, Talking Queer Epilogue: When Connie Married Phyllis Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe gender wage gap is one of the most persistent problems of labor markets and women's lives.Most approaches to explaining the gap focus on adult employment despite the fact that many Americans begin working well before their education is completed. In her critical and compelling new book, The Cost of Being a Girl, Yasemin Besen-Cassino examines the origins of the gender wage gap by looking at the teenage labor force, where comparisons between boys and girls ought to show no difference, but do. Besen-Cassino's findings are disturbing. Because of discrimination in the market, most teenage girls who start part-time work as babysitters and in other freelance jobs fail to make the same wages as teenage boys who move into employee-type jobs. The cost of being a girl is also psychological; when teenage girls work retail jobs in the apparel industry, they have lower wages and body image issues in the long run. Through in-depth interviews and surveys with workers and employees, The Cost o

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