Industrial category: 6894 books
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)
My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
In 1995, in the first contested election in the history ofthe AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presidency of the nation’s largest laborfederation, promising renewal and resurgence. Today, less than 7 percent ofAmerican private-sector workers belong to a union, the lowest percentage sincethe beginning...
Jony Ive
The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
“An adulating biography of Apple’s left-brained wunderkind, whose work continues to revolutionize modern technology.” —Kirkus Reviews
In 1997, Steve Jobs discovered a scruffy British designer toiling away at Apple’s headquarters, surrounded by hundreds of sketches and prototypes....
Blue and Green
The Drive for Justice at America's Port
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation's largest port.
In Blue and Green, Scott Cummings examines a campaign by the labor and environmental movements to transform trucking at America's largest port in Los Angeles....
by Paul F. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Paul F. Clark believes union leaders should take advantage of the valuable discoveries made in behavioral science to make their organizations more effective and, in Building More Effective Unions, he offers an accessible and straightforward account of how they can do so. The second edition provides...
The Bully at Work
What You Can Do to Stop the Hurt and Reclaim Your Dignity on the Job
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
A landmark book that blazed light on one of the business world's dirtiest secrets, The Bully at Work exposed the destructive, silent epidemic of workplace bullying that devastates the lives, careers, and families of millions. In this completely updated new edition based on an updated survey of workplace...
The Retail Revolution
How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
The definitive account of how a small Ozarks company upended the world of business and what that change means
Wal-Mart, the world's largest company, roared out of the rural South to change the way business is done. Deploying computer-age technology, Reagan-era politics, and Protestant evangelism,...
Open Innovation Learning
Theory building on open sourcing while private sourcing
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Organizations embark on open innovation initiatives to sweep in external knowledge, practices and resources in cooperation with partners. This contrasts to the mainstream private innovation approach of in-house research and development sponsored solely by an incorporated funder, with intellectual...
The Utopia of Rules
On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And...
Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace
Building Effective Relationships in Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Trust is a non-negotiable for high performing relationships and organizations. Yet trust is fragile, and ninety percent of the behaviors that break it are subtle, fleeting, and unintentional. Drs. Dennis and Michelle Reina have rewritten this third edition of their best-selling, award-winning book...
The Power of a Single Number
A Political History of GDP
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Widely used since the mid-twentieth century, GDP (gross domestic product) has become the world's most powerful statistical indicator of national development and progress. Practically all governments adhere to the idea that GDP growth is a primary economic target, and while criticism of this measure...
The Plaza
The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today's Billionaire Row.
From the moment in 1907 when New York millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt strode...
The Best Place to Work
The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
For readers of Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Pink, and Freakonomics, comes a captivating and surprising journey through the science of workplace excellence.
Why do successful companies reward failure?
What can casinos teach us about building a happy workplace?
How do you design an office that enhances...
Summary of The Third Wave
by Steve Case | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
**Summary of The Third Wave by Steve Case | Includes Analysis **
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The Third Wave relates AOL co-founder and former CEO Steve Case’s reflections on his career and the future of the technology industry in America. Part memoir, part analysis of the industry, The...
Beyond $15
Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The inside story of the first successful $15 minimum wage campaign that renewed a national labor movement
With captivating narrative and insightful commentary, labor organizer Jonathan Rosenblum reveals the inside story of the first successful fight for a $15 minimum wage, which renewed a national...