Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
Losing Labour's Soul?
New Labour and the Blair Government 1997-2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Based on extensive original research and interviews with a wide variety of key players, this is a compelling assessment of the Labour Party in power.
Beginning with a detailed account of the development of New Labour, including the ideological tensions within the party, Eric Shaw provides a...
Unfree Labour?
Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Over the past decade, Canada has experienced considerable growth in labour migration. Moreover, temporary labour migration has replaced permanent immigration as the primary means by which people enter Canada. Utilizing the rhetoric of maintaining competitiveness, Canadian employers and the state have...
Labor’s Great War
The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Since World War I, says Joseph McCartin, the central problem of American labor relations has been the struggle among workers, managers, and state officials to reconcile democracy and authority in the workplace. In his comprehensive look at labor issues during the decade of the Great War, McCartin...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary? Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio present essays that address these essential...
A Rational Wages System
Some Notes on the Method of Paying the Worker a Reward for Efficiency in Addition to Wages
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
It is universally admitted that the war will bring about great changes in industry. The readjustment of financial affairs, the greatly increased taxation, the displacement of labour due to the employment of men now at the front, the dilution of labour by the employment of women, the development of...
Mobilizing Restraint
Democracy and Industrial Conflict in Post-Reform South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Mobilizing Restraint, Emmanuel Teitelbaum argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, democracies are better at managing industrial conflict than authoritarian regimes. This is because democracies have two unique tools at their disposal for managing worker protest: mutually beneficial union-party...
The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron tells the story of Canada's workers from the mid-nineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early...
by Kevin Gray
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
One of the most remarkable aspects of South Korea’s transition from impoverished post-colonial nation to fully-fledged industrialized democracy has been the growth of its independent and dynamic labour movement. Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation examines current trends and transformations...
Labors Appropriate to Their Sex
Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2001
In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the growth of urban manufacturing was transforming the contours of women’s wage work and stimulating significant public debate, new legislation, educational reform,...
by Bob Barnetson
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
How does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and governments and economists to investigate the ways in which labour power is produced and reproduced in...
by Scott, Sam
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Labour exploitation is a highly topical though complex issue that has international resonance for those concerned with social justice and social welfare, but there is a lack of research available about it. This book, part of the Studies in Social Harm series, is the first to look at labour exploitation...
The Workers' Festival
A History of Labour Day in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
For most Canadians today, Labour Day is the last gasp of summer fun: the final long weekend before returning to the everyday routine of work or school. But over its century-long history, there was much more to the September holiday than just having a day off.
In The Workers' Festival, Craig...
Working Bodies
Chronic Illness in the Canadian Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
While significant research has been produced in the field of disability studies, little attention has been paid to experiences of chronic illness. Working Bodies emphasizes the workplace as an important site for understanding such experiences, as employment status has an enormous impact on social and...
Inclusion and Exclusion in Europe
Migration, Work and Employment Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Recent decades have seen the EU grappling with a major struggle between the securitization of its external borders and demand for exploitable and disposable cheap workforce in various sectors. As a result, the EU has multiplied its borders by pushing them both outwards and inwards, and the distinction...