Labour Employment category: 1020 books
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,...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This book explores the normative and legal evolution of the Social Dimension - labour law, social security law and family law - in both the EU and its Member States, during the last decade. It does this from a wide range of theoretical and legal-substantive perspectives. The past decade has witnessed...
by David Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
This book reveals a sombre aspect of contemporary Canadian history, the administration of justice, infringement of the labour law and the exploitation of the circumstances exposed by the decline of unions. The book traces and chronicles the tribulations of one worker who dares to challenge the government...
The Supreme Court on Unions
Why Labor Law Is Failing American Workers
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Labor unions and courts have rarely been allies. From their earliest efforts to organize, unions have been confronted with hostile judges and antiunion doctrines. In this book, Julius G. Getman argues that while the role of the Supreme Court has become more central in shaping labor law, its opinions...
by Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, Alexander J. S. Colvin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to collective bargaining and labor relations with a focus on developments in the United States. It is appropriate for students, policy analysts, and labor relations professionals including unionists, managers, and neutrals. A three-tiered strategic...
by Cynthia Estlund
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
China’s leaders aspire to the prosperity, political legitimacy, and stability that flowed from America’s New Deal, but they are irrevocably opposed to the independent trade unions and mass mobilization that brought it about. Cynthia Estlund’s crisp comparative analysis makes China’s labor unrest and reform legible to Western readers.
In a Day’s Work
The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Over 17,000 women are sexually assaulted at work a year, according to the Justice Department
Almost two-thirds--60%--of those raped or sexually assaulted at work don’t report the incident to the police--the highest percentage of serious violent crimes in the workplace that go unreported.
Undocumented...
Making the Empire Work
Labor and United States Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men...
Dying to Work
Death and Injury in the American Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In Dying to Work, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job. Based on heart-wrenching interviews Karmel conducted with injured workers and surviving family members across the country, the stories in this...
Rights, Not Interests
Resolving Value Clashes under the National Labor Relations Act
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This provocative book by the leading historian of the National Labor Relations Board offers a reexamination of the NLRB and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by applying internationally accepted human rights principles as standards for judgment. These new standards challenge every orthodoxy...