Industrial category: 6894 books
Psychology and Work Today
Pearson New International Edition CourseSmart eTextbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
This book describes industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology programs in action, showing how they are developed and implemented in a variety of organizational settings, using workers who differ by gender, age, culture, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
A Country That Works
Getting America Back on Track
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Andy Stern, one of the most visionary leaders in America today, has fought relentlessly to ensure that Americans' hard work is rewarded in today's hypercompetitive, globalized world. As the newsmaking president of the fastest-growing, most dynamic union in America, he has led the charge for modernizing...
Palazzos of Power
Central Stations of the Philadelphia Electric Company, 1900-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
"If it isn't Electric, it isn't Modern." Such was the slogan of the Philadelphia Electric Company, developer of an unprecedented network of massive metropolitan power stations servicing greater Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. These once-brilliant sentinels of civic utility...
Rochester's Downtown Architecture
1950-1975
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Following World War II, many American cities underwent a large-scale modernization to keep up with the changing times in business technology and architecture. With help from federal funding and planning, expansive and low-density modern projects replaced the crowded blocks of century-old buildings. State-of-the-art...
Snakes in Suits
When Psychopaths Go to Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Revised and updated with the latest scientific research and updated case studies, the business classic that offers a revealing look at psychopaths in the workplace—how to spot their destructive behavior and stop them from creating chaos in the modern corporate organization.
Over the past...
by Mrinmoy Majumder
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
The uncontrolled utilization of natural resources to supply to the water demands of the ever-growing population has brought about worldwide scarcity. The supply shortage has resulted in conflicts between countries, created prolonged drought, closing of industrial units, shifting of local inhabitants...
Labor and Monopoly Capital
The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital overturned the reigning ideologies of academic...
The Chicken Trail
Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In The Chicken Trail, Kathleen C. Schwartzman examines the impact of globalization—and of NAFTA in particular—on the North American poultry industry, focusing on the displacement of African American workers in the southeast United States and workers in Mexico. Schwartzman documents how the transformation...
Workplace Democracy
An Inquiry into Employee Participation in Canadian Work Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
This book begins with a historical review of how authority in the Canadian workplace has changed over the past century. It proceeds to outline a theory of organization which provides a broad conceptual framework for the empirical analysis which follows. This theory is based on five concepts: the values...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Many complex systems in civil and military operations are highly automated with the intention of supporting human performance in difficult cognitive tasks. The complex systems can involve teams or individuals working on real-time supervisory control, command or information management tasks where a...
by Bob Barnetson
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Workplace injuries are common avoidable and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts intervening only when necessary to maintain the system's legitimacy. Dr. Bob Barnetson sheds light on...
America at the Fair
Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
At the time of the World�s Columbian Exposition of 1893, the United States was fast becoming the world�s leading economy. Chicago, the host city, had grown in less than half a century from a village to the country�s second-largest metropolis. During this, the Gilded Age, the world�s most extensive...
The Search for the Ultimate Sink
Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
Whether it comes by air, by land, or by water, pollution has long plagued the American city. And for just as long, the question of how to deal with urban wastes has taxed the minds of scientists, engineers, and public officials - and the pocketbooks of ordinary citizens. For more than twenty years,...
Direct Action & Sabotage
Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The pamphlets reprinted in this collection were first published in the 1910s amidst great controversy; the significant works included are “Direct Action and Sabotage” by William E. Trautmann, “Sabotage: Its History, Philosophy and Function” by Walker C. Smith, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's...