Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
The Politics of West German Trade Unions
Strategies of Class and Interest Representation in Growth and Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
First published in 1986, this book assesses the politics of the West German trade unions in the context of their larger role as major actors in the polity. By focusing on the historical realities of the labour movement both before and after 1945, the study explains the extent to which organized labour...
Rights, Not Interests
Resolving Value Clashes under the National Labor Relations Act
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This provocative book by the leading historian of the National Labor Relations Board offers a reexamination of the NLRB and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by applying internationally accepted human rights principles as standards for judgment. These new standards challenge every orthodoxy...
Ending Forced Labour in Myanmar
Engaging a Pariah Regime
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) efforts since the early 1990s to address the forced labour situation in Myanmar represent a rare example of success in influencing the behaviour of that regime, and this book gives a first-hand account of these efforts.
As the ILO’s representative...
Working in China
Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global economy. Its immense labour force accounts for some twenty-nine per cent of the world's total labour pool but all too little is known about Chinese labour beyond...
Discounted Labour
Women Workers in Canada, 1870-1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
The years between 1870 and 1939 were a crucial period in the growth of industrial capitalism in Canada, as well as a time when many women joined the paid workforce. Yet despite the increase in employment, women faced a difficult struggle in gaining fair remuneration for their work and in gaining access...
Union Voices
Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In Union Voices, the result of a thirteen-year research project, three industrial relations scholars evaluate how labor unions fared in the political and institutional context created by Great Britain’s New Labour government, which was in power from 1997 to 2010. Drawing on extensive empirical evidence,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
As the "world’s factory" China exerts an enormous pressure on workers around the world. Many nations have had to adjust to a new global political and economic reality, and so has China. Its workers and its official trade union federation have had to contend with rapid changes in industrial relations....
Collective Bargaining in the Essential and Public Service Sectors
Proceedings of a conference held on 3 and 4 April 1975, organized by David Beatty through the Centre for Industrial Relations University of Toronto, chaired by John Crispo
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
In Toronto, in April 1975, three Canadians and one American each presented a paper at a conference on what has become the key issue in current industrial relations – collective bargaining in the essential and public service sectors.
This book presents those papers along with transcripts of...
by Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, Alexander J. S. Colvin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to collective bargaining and labor relations with a focus on developments in the United States. It is appropriate for students, policy analysts, and labor relations professionals including unionists, managers, and neutrals. A three-tiered strategic...
Union Power
Solidarity and Struggle in Niagara
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
From factory workers in Welland to retail workers in St. Catharines, from hospitality workers in Niagara Falls to migrant farm workers in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Union Power showcases the role of working people in the Niagara region. Charting the development of the region’s labour movement from the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This volume seeks to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces are the contested social foundations upon which the global economy stands.
Through a combination...
A Path for Chinese Civil Society
A Case Study on Industrial Associations in Wenzhou, China
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
This book combines empirical research and theoretical discussions to demonstrate that the civil society paradigm as a western concept could be applicable to the study of state-society relations in contemporary China. However, the growth of Chinese civil society does not necessarily present an adversarial...
by Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, Alexander J. S. Colvin
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Compelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor relations, Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, and Alexander J. S. Colvin give us the first textbook to focus on the workplace outcomes of the production of goods and services in emerging countries. In Labor Relations in a...
Labour market policies in the era of pervasive austerity
A European perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
This book investigates the changing patterns of labour market and unemployment policies in EU member states during the period since fiscal austerity took hold in 2010 during the deepest postwar recession in Europe. Looking at the big European picture, do we see a convergence or a divergence in labour...