Labour category: 1663 books
by Lisa Rodgers
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
The shifting nature of employment practice towards the use of more precarious work forms has caused a crisis in classical labour law and engendered a new wave of regulation. This timely book deftly uses this crisis as an opportunity to explore the notion of precariousness or vulnerability in employment...
Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain
Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book poses a major revisionist challenge to 20th century British labour history, aiming to look beyond the Marxist and Fabian exclusion of working class experience, notably religion and self-help, in order to exaggerate ‘labour movement’ class cohesion. Instead of a ‘forward march’ to...
by Daniel Williams, Anne C. Pickering, William Steenson
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Employment, Labour and Industrial Law in Australia provides a comprehensive, current and accessible resource for the undergraduate and Juris Doctor student. With a social and political background to the law, this text provides insightful legal analysis underscored by practical business experience,...
Migrant Rights at Work
Law's precariousness at the intersection of immigration and labour
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Public debates about the terms of membership and inclusion have intensified as developed economies increasingly rely on temporary migrant labour. While most agree that temporary migrant workers are entitled to the general protection of employment laws, temporary migrants have, by definition, restricted...
Hard Lessons
The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1995
This book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement," held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. The...
Regulation Theory and Australian Capitalism
Rethinking Social Justice and Labour Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The end of the post-World War II ‘long boom’ in the mid-1970s proved the beginning of a process of political-economic change that has fundamentally transformed labour law, both in Australia and across the developed world more generally. This is a phenomenon with deep ramifications for social justice.
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by Karl Kautsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in English in 1924 this ambitious work, by the famous Marxist theoretician Karl Kautsky, aims to provide nothing less than an "exposition of the methods to introduce socialism" amongst the capitalist economies of Europe in the post-World War One era. Looking back on the experiences...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
This collection of essays presents an interdisciplinary investigation by lawyers and philosophers into the philosophical ideas, concepts, and principles that provide the foundation for the field of labour law and employment law. The book addresses the doubts that have been expressed about whether...
The Making of an African Working Class
Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
It is now 50 years since E.P. Thompson published his classic, The Making of the English Working Class. The Making of an African Working Class follows Thompson in exploring the formation of working class identity among low-paid African workers. In arguing for a radical public anthropology of worker...
Union Power
Solidarity and Struggle in Niagara
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
From factory workers in Welland to retail workers in St. Catharines, from hospitality workers in Niagara Falls to migrant farm workers in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Union Power showcases the role of working people in the Niagara region. Charting the development of the region’s labour movement from the...
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...
Trade Unions in China
The Challenge of Labour Unrest
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
The transition from a command economy to a capitalist market economy has entirely altered the industrial landscape in which Chinese trade unions have to operate. This book focuses on how the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is reforming under current conditions and demonstrates that labour...
by Ken Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Occasionally a book will shake people's ideas and Ken Phillips shakes them often by exposing concepts you may not even realize you hold. Every day, when you 'go to work', you are involved in legal and human relationships that have a vast impact on who you are or, more significantly, who you are allowed...
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...