Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
by Jason Russell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The post-war period witnessed dramatic changes in the lives of working-class families. Wages rose, working hours were reduced, pension plans and state social security measures offered greater protection against unemployment, illness, and old age, the standard of living improved, and women and members...
James Larkin: Lion of the Fold
The Life and Works of the Irish Labour Leader
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
This book is a detailed compilation of writings and lectures about the life of James Larkin.
It reviews his influence in history and on various movements across the country and abroad.
James Larkin: Lion of the Fold includes writing by James Larkin and is a timely reminder of the long...
by Penelope Mathew
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Touching on the laws and practices of a wide array of countries around the globe, this book examines the extent to which refugees and asylum-seekers’ right to work is protected by international human rights law. The book examines a number of key international treaties, national constitutions and...
Workers and Labour in a Globalised Capitalism
Contemporary Themes and Theoretical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
An introduction to work and society for undergraduate and postgraduate students. This new text brings together international experts on work and employment from a range of disciplines to debate key themes and issues related to work in a globalised economy.
Employing the Enemy
The Story of Palestinian Labourers on Israeli Settlements
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
In the wake of the most recent Israel-Gaza conflict, Israel has initiated a new wave of settlement building in the West Bank, and so the subject is likely to remain highly topical for some time.
The first book on the subject to be written for a general audience.
Fills a gap in the scholarship. Although...
We’re Going to Run This City
Winnipeg's Political Left after the General Strike
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Stefan Epp-Koop’s "We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left After the General Strike" explores the dynamic political movement that came out of the largest labour protest in Canadian history and the ramifications for Winnipeg throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Few have studied...
Rocks in the Water, Rocks in the Sun
A Memoir from the Heart of Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
When Joegodson Déralciné was still a small child, his parents left rural Haiti to resettle in the rapidly growing zones of Port-au-Prince. As his family entered the city in 1986, Duvalier and his dictatorship exited. Haitians, once terrorized under Duvalier’s reign, were liberated and emboldened...
The Song of the Shirt
The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch - stitch - stitch, In poverty, hunger and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. -from "The Song of the Shirt" by Thomas Hood (1843)...
International Health Worker Migration and Recruitment
Global Governance, Politics and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
This book is the first comprehensive study of international health worker-migration and -recruitment from the perspective of global governance, policy and politics.
Covering 70 years of history of the development of this global policy field, this book presents new and previously unpublished...
Organise or Die?
Democracy and Leadership in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Organise or Die? Democracy and Leadership in South Africa?s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is the first in-depth study of one of the leading trade unions in the country. Founded in 1982, the trade union played a key role in the struggle against white minority rule, before turning into a central...
Making It
Why Manufacturing Still Matters
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
A veteran New York Times economics correspondent reports from factories nationwide to illustrate the continuing importance of industry for our country.
In the 1950s, manufacturing generated nearly 30 percent of US income. But over the decades, that share has gradually declined to less than...
The Coal Question (Routledge Revivals)
Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The coal industry has always occupied a symbolic place in British economic and political life, inspiring debates and arousing passions throughout the last two centuries. This account of the economics of coal, first published in 1990, is unique in its comprehensive three-part approach. First, Ben Fine...
Building China
Informal Work and the New Precariat
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Roughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass migration of peasants moving into the cities, and construction workers account for almost half of them. In Building China, Sarah Swider draws on her research in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai between 2004 and 2012, including living...
Power in Coalition
Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The labor movement sees coalitions as a key tool for union revitalization and social change, but there is little analysis of what makes them successful or the factors that make them fail. Amanda Tattersall—an organizer and labor scholar—addresses this gap in the first internationally comparative...