Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership
To Lead Our Organizations in a Conscientious and Authentic Manner
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Performance at all costs, productivity without regard to consequences, and a competitive work environment: these are the ethical factors discussed in The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership, which highlights issues in workplace culture while looking into a brighter future for labour ethics. Langlois maintains...
Working Together
How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2003
The typical workplace is a hotbed of human relationships--of friendships, conflicts, feuds, alliances, partnerships, coexistence and cooperation. Here, problems are solved, progress is made, and rifts are mended because they need to be - because the work has to get done. And it has to get done among...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Slim, accessible, inexpensive, irreverent introduction to socialism by the writers of Jacobin magazine
The remarkable run of self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders for president of the United States has prompted—for the first time in decades and to the shock of many—a...
Mobilizing against Inequality
Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Among the many challenges that global liberalization has posed for trade unions, the growth of precarious immigrant workforces lacking any collective representation stands out as both a major threat to solidarity and an organizing opportunity. Believing that collective action is critical in the struggle...
Informal Workers and Collective Action
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Informal Workers and Collective Action features nine cases of collective action to improve the status and working conditions of informal workers. Adrienne E. Eaton, Susan J. Schurman, and Martha A. Chen set the stage by defining informal work and describing the types of organizations that represent...
by Isabella Longobardi
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Scheduling staff shifts is a difficult task. In organizations that work on Sundays, and/or on public holidays, and/or during night hours, scheduling shifts accurately and efficiently is a time consuming job, and it also exposes employers to the risk of excessive overtime costs and poor distribution...
Labor Law for the Rank & Filer
Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Blending cutting-edge legal strategies for winning justice at work with a theory of dramatic, bottom-up social change, this practical guide to workers’ rights aims to make work better while reinvigorating the labor movement. A powerful organization model called solidarity unionism” is explained,...
Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine
Rival Images of a New World in 1930s Vancouver
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2014
In the early years of the Great Depression, thousands of unemployed homeless transients settled into Vancouver’s “hobo jungle.” The jungle operated as a distinct community, in which goods were exchanged and shared directly, without benefit of currency. The organization of life was immediate...
Care Work and Class
Domestic Workers’ Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Despite constitutions that enshrine equality, until recently every state in Latin America permitted longer working hours (in some cases more than double the hours) and lower benefits for domestic workers than other workers. This has, in effect, subsidized a cheap labor force for middle- and upper-class...
The Worker Center Handbook
A Practical Guide to Starting and Building the New Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Worker centers are becoming an important element in labor and community organizing and the struggle for fair pay and decent working conditions for low-wage workers, especially immigrants. There are currently more than two hundred worker centers in the country, and more start every month. Most of these...
by Michael D. Yates
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In early 2011, the nation was stunned to watch Wisconsin’s
state capitol in Madison come under sudden and unexpected
occupation by union members and their allies. The protests
to defend collective bargaining rights were militant and practically
unheard of in this era of declining union power. Nearly
forty...
Black and Blue
African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred U.S. labor union members were African American. By 1980, the figure was more than one in five. Black and Blue explores the politics and history that led to this dramatic integration of organized labor. In the process, the book tells a broader story about...
A Precariat Charter
From Denizens to Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the social unrest characterized by the...
Value
The Representation of Labour in Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
This republication of a long out-of-print collection of essays, first published in 1979, focuses on the elusive concept of “value.” The field of study surrounding the theory of value remains comparatively sparse in Anglophone circles, and the essays here aim to answer the question, “Why is Marx’s theory of value important?”