Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
Thinking Union
Activism and Education in Canada's Labour Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1995
Over the past seventeen years, trade union educator D’Arcy Martin has conducted hundreds of courses for Canadian workers. He has learned that there are people-”conscious romantics”-who dream of a more egalitarian world while confronting the obstacles that stand in the way of building it. This book provides a refreshing personal account of union culture and its dynamics.
by Joan Sangster
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in the context of developing theory...
Boycotts Past and Present
From the American Revolution to the Campaign to Boycott Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
In this book historians and social scientists examine boycotts from the eighteenth century to the present day. Employed in struggles against British rule in the American colonies, against racial discrimination in the United States during the Civil Rights movement, and Apartheid in South Africa,...
Defying Expectations
The Case of UFCW Local 401
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
In October 2005, Jason Foster, then a staff member of the Alberta Federation of Labour, was holding a picket line outside Lakeside Packers in Brooks, Alberta with the members of local 401. It was a first contract strike. And although the employees of the meat-packing plant—many of whom were immigrants...
The Wages of Relief
Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929–39
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In the early part of the Dirty Thirties, the Canadian prairie city was a relatively safe haven. Having faced recession before the Great War and then again in the early 1920s, municipalities already had relief apparatuses in place to deal with poverty and unemployment. Until 1933, responsibilty for...
by Cynthia Estlund
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
China’s leaders aspire to the prosperity, political legitimacy, and stability that flowed from America’s New Deal, but they are irrevocably opposed to the independent trade unions and mass mobilization that brought it about. Cynthia Estlund’s crisp comparative analysis makes China’s labor unrest and reform legible to Western readers.
Combining paid work and family care
Policies and experiences in international perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring...
In a Day’s Work
The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Over 17,000 women are sexually assaulted at work a year, according to the Justice Department
Almost two-thirds--60%--of those raped or sexually assaulted at work don’t report the incident to the police--the highest percentage of serious violent crimes in the workplace that go unreported.
Undocumented...
Dying to Work
Death and Injury in the American Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In Dying to Work, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job. Based on heart-wrenching interviews Karmel conducted with injured workers and surviving family members across the country, the stories in this...
by Sharon Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Workplace accidents and errors cost organizations hundreds of billions of dollars each year, and the injured workers and their families endure considerable financial and emotional suffering. It's obvious that increasing employee health and safety pays. The accumulating evidence shows that investing...
Solidarités provinciales
Histoire de la Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick
Language: French
Release Date: May 1, 2013
La Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick, fondée en 1913, est la deuxième plus ancienne fédération provinciale du travail au Canada. Son histoire remonte aux premières campagnes en faveur de l’indemnisation des accidents du travail et de la reconnaissance syndicale,...
Asociativa, movilizada, violenta - Tomo I
La vida pública en Córdoba, 1850-1930
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Fruto de casi siete años de investigaciones, este trabajo del historiador Pablo Vagliente se centra en un caso, Córdoba, y un período, 1850-1930, decisivos para entender el zigzagueante curso de la historia argentina en el siglo XX. Lo hace desde un aspecto menos frecuentado, el de la sociedad...
by Carla Ponterio, Rita Sanlorenzo
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Il lavoro non c’è, e quando c’è, è sottopagato, precario, privo di diritti e di garanzie. Il numero dei disoccupati è in continua crescita e non bastano, a invertire la tendenza, il moltiplicarsi di tipologie contrattuali sempre meno garantite. La situazione è determinata, certo, da ragioni...
Wage Theft In America
Why Millions of Americans Are Not Getting Paid—And What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
“This book will give you an entirely new perspective on work in America.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed
In what has been described as “the crime wave no one talks about,” billions of dollars’ worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the United States...