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Are Skills the Answer?: The Political Economy of Skill Creation in Advanced Industrial Societies
by Colin Crouch  Publisher Comments While the acquisition of skills has become a major public need, there is increasing dependence for their provision on individual firms. These firms can have no responsibility for general needs with government action being restricted to residual care for...
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Factories in the Field : the Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California (99 Edition)
by Carey Mcwilliams Publisher Comments A passionate survey and documentation of the irresponsible exploitation of migrant labor by the owners and managers of large farms and ranches in California, woven with a history of the rise of agribusiness in the west and the efforts of workers to...
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Unions in the 21st Century: An International Perspective
by Anil Verma Publisher Comments Unions have been among the most salient symbols of pluralism in modern democratic nations. Yet now their influence is waning. What are the reasons for this decline? What, if anything, can unions do to stop the downward trend? And should we care if unions...
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What Woman Ought To Be and To Do : Black Professional Women Workers During the Jim Crow Era (96 Edition)
by Stephanie J. Shaw Publisher Comments Foreword, by Catharine R. StimpsonPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: What a Woman Ought to Be1. "Aim always to attain excellence in character and culture": Child-rearing strategies2. "The daughters of our community coming up": Developing community...
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Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien #609: Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market: Critical Issues in the New Millennium
by George Wilson Synopsis What patterns of racial and ethnic stratification are emerging in the American labor market as representation of racial and ethnic minorities continues to increase in the new millennium? The articles in this special volume of The Annals demonstrate that...
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Ifo Survey Data in Business Cycle and Monetary Policy Analysis (Contributions to Economics)
by J. -e Sturm Publisher Comments The business surveys of the ifo Institute (short for "Information und Forschung") are internationally renowned. Every month close to 7,000 enterprises are questioned on their short-term planning and their appraisals of the actual and future business...
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Teleworking Handbook 4e
by Imogen Bertin And Alan Denbigh Publisher Comments The fourth edition of the book that has sold over 28,000 copies. "Read it before you take the plunge" "Mail On Sunday"....
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Unions in America (05 Edition)
by Gary Chaison Publisher Comments Unions in America provides a concise and current introduction to what America's labor unions do and why they do it. In this engaging text, author Gary Chaison portrays America's unions as complex, self-governing organizations that are struggling to...
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Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations #15: Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, Volume 15
by David Lewin Publisher Comments Volume 15 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains ten papers, four of which deal with human resource management and six of which deal with unionization. Six of the papers were originally presented in ???Best Papers??? sessions at...
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The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina 1860-1870
by Julie Saville Publisher Comments In their efforts to achieve freedom, ex-slaves mounted a dual struggle to elude the personal domination of the old order and to blunt new coercions embedded in terms of emerging wage employment. This book draws on a rich documentary record to allow ex...
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The State of Working America (State of Working America)
by Lawarence Mishel Publisher Comments The latest authority on how the economy affects the living standards of the American People....
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
by James Green Publisher Comments On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. Coming in the midst of the largest national strike Americans had ever seen, the bombing created mass hysteria and led to a sensational...
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Monographs in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relatio #25: Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Institutionalization of Industrial Relations in the Third World
by S. Kuruvilla Publisher Comments A comparative study of how the current industrial relations systems come to be and of changes in such systems in non-industrialized countries since the 1980s. After an introduction, six essays look at the delusion of the Molotov cocktail in South African...
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"The River Ran Red": Homestead 1892 (Pittsburgh Series in Social & Labor History)
by David P Demarest Book News Annotation Commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Homestead Strike (Pittsburgh, PA) of 1892. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Delano: The Story of the California Grape Strike
by John Gregory Dunne Publisher Comments In September 1965, Filipino and Mexican American farm workers went on strike against grape growers in and around Delano, California. More than a labor dispute, the strike became a movement for social justice that helped redefine Latino and American...
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Labour and the Multiracial Project in the Caribbean
by Sara Abraham Publisher Comments The Multiracial Project in the Caribbean covers major twentieth-century political developments in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. It pays particular attention to social movements, class formation, and new emancipatory ideas on liberation from colonial...
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Economics of Earnings (93 Edition)
by Solomon W. Polachek Publisher Comments This book examines the wages people earn, the jobs they do, and the effect of government labor market policies on wages and employment. The book synthesizes research findings on these topics, using a human capital framework that no other similar book...
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Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda for America
by Thomas A Kochan Publisher Comments How to give working families the tools and opportunities to prosper in the new economy: a call to action for families, business, labor, and government....
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Starving Amidst Too Much & Other Iww Writings on the Food Industry
by Peter Rachleff Publisher Comments This is a book about the irrepressible conflict between the poorly paid workers who actually feed the world and the parasitical multi-billionaire corporate powers that make the rules and graba the profits. Reproduced here are rare classic documents on...
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Made in Indonesia (01 Edition)
by Labotz Publisher Comments In "Reform or Revolution? "independent researcher Dan La Botz gives us a personal look at the Indonesian workers who are taking on global corporate giants and igniting a multinational labor solidarity movement. <P>Through rare personal interviews...
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