Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
Soviet Princeton
Slim Evans and the 1932-33 Miners' Strike
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The winter of 1932–33 saw the small interior town of Princeton, BC divided. Charges of outside agitators and charges by mounted provincial police into picket lines of workers, Ku Klux Klan threats and a beating and cross–burning, the kidnapping of legendary labour organizer Slim Evans who was...
Colin Palmer’s Trilogy on Imperialism in the Caribbean, Omnibus E-Book
Includes Freedom's Children, Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power, and Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This Omnibus E-Book brings together all three of Colin A. Palmer's books on the making of the modern Caribbean. Included are:
Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
This is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion...
by Praveen Jha
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Generation of decent livelihood opportunities ought to be among the most important objectives on any meaningful agenda of economic development. On this front, however, the Indian experience has remained seriously inadequate. During the first four decades after Independence, India’s achievements...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Both parties and interest groups matter to democracy. Historically, examples of close relationships between the two abound. But perhaps the best known because it was supposedly the most intimate and politically important is the relationship between left-of-centre parties and trade unions. Whether...
Heavy Burdens on Small Shoulders
The Labour of Pioneer Children on the Canadian Prairies
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
The phrase "child labour" carries negative undertones in today's society. However, only a century ago on the Canadian Prairies, youngsters laboured alongside their parents' working the land, cleaning stovepipes, and chopping wood. By shouldering their share of the chores, these children...
A Long Way Home
Migrant Worker Worlds 1800-2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialization been as comprehensively based on migrant labour as in South Africa. Rather than focusing on the well-documented narrative of displacement and oppression, A Long Way Home captures the humanity, agency and creative modes of self-expression...
Making the Empire Work
Labor and United States Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men...
The Supreme Court on Unions
Why Labor Law Is Failing American Workers
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Labor unions and courts have rarely been allies. From their earliest efforts to organize, unions have been confronted with hostile judges and antiunion doctrines. In this book, Julius G. Getman argues that while the role of the Supreme Court has become more central in shaping labor law, its opinions...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
The term ‘social dumping’ regularly appears in public debates and in policymaking circles. However, due to its ambiguity it is used in a manner that is convenient for individual discourse participants, thus opening the door for misconceptions and ill-grounded accusations.
This book systematically...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Read through the highlights of the Industrial Revolution in this awesome ebook collection. The Industrial Revolution was a major turning point because it was in this era that technology was introduced and labor laws were re-examined. It is important to read about history so as not to repeat the mistakes of the past and to better appreciate the present. Grab a copy today.
Homeboy Came to Orange
A Story of People's Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The story of a union organizer who found a second career in community organizing and helped a Jim Crow city become a better place.
Ernest Thompson dedicated his life to organizing the powerless. This lively, illustrated personal narrative of his work shows the great contribution that people’s...
Hazards of the Job
From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States. It was in the workplace of this era, argues Christopher Sellers, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape. At the crossroads where medicine and...
Forging a Laboring Race
The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Forging a Laboring Race foregrounds the working black body as both a category of analysis and lived experience.
“How does it feel to be a problem?” asked W.E.B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk. For many thinkers across the color line, the “Negro problem” was inextricably linked to...
Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism
Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state policies and is reflected...