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Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor
by James C. Docherty  Publisher Comments An essential reference source that introduces scholars to the study of organized labor on the international as well as national level. Contains nearly 500 entries describing the labor movements in various countries and the important people, organizations,...
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Granny @ Work : Aging and New Technology on the Job in America (04 Edition)
by Karen E. Riggs Publisher Comments Thought-provoking analysis of the graying of the American workforceLooks at issues of aging and new technology reflected in business and in popular entertainmentAsks whether older workers are benefiting from new...
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From Alienation to Addiction: Modern American Work in Global Historical Perspective (U.S. History in International Perspective)
by Peter N. Stearns Publisher Comments This book has two foci: first, an examination of how work changed as societies industrialized. Modern work, not only in factories but also offices and elsewhere, has characteristics of speed, supervision, and subdivision of tasks that separate it from...
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International Migration: Trends, Policy and Economic Impact (Routledge Contemporary Economic Policy Issues Series)
by Slobodan Djajic Publisher Comments This book provides a contemporary perspective on a broad range of international migration problems. It considers recent immigration trends and policies, examining migrant behaviour, illegal immigration and links between migration and trade....
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Ending Poverty as We Know It: Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage
by William P. Quigley Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-240) and index....
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Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History
by Paul D Moreno Publisher Comments Paul D. Moreno offers a bold reinterpretation-truly a new history-of the role of race and racial discrimination in the American labor movement. Breaking with historians' deadlocked debate over the importance of race in labor organization, Moreno applies...
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Reviews of National Policies for Education Romania (OECD Proceedings)
by Oecd Publishing Publisher Comments The reviews of national policies for education have been conducted for more than 25 years. Their objective is to analyse the change that take place in education and to identify solutions for the future....
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Working in China: (Asia's Transformations)
by Ching Kwan Lee Publisher Comments Based on extensive field research, this book examines the lived experiences of Chinese labour in a wide range of occupations and settings, highlighting the complexity of changes and challenges taking place in the Chinese work place today....
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Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia (Working Class in American History)
by Peter Cole Publisher Comments The rise and fall of America's first truly interracial labor union For almost a decade during the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia waterfront was home to the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the United States prior to the CIO...
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Cost-benefit Analysis and the Theory of Fuzzy Decisions
by Kofi Kissi Dompere Publisher Comments This monograph is devoted to the identification and measurement theory of costs and benefits in a fuzzy information environment. The process of cost-benefit analysis is presented, requiring the development of real cost-benefit databases and the...
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American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture
by Robert W. (edt) Cherny Publisher Comments The American labor movement seemed poised on the threshold of unparalleled success at the beginning of the post-World War II era. Fourteen million strong in 1946, unions represented thirty five percent of non-agricultural workers. Why then did the gains...
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The Wobblies: The Story of the IWW and Syndicalism in the United States
by Patrick Renshaw Publisher Comments The story of how the Wobblies, the Industrial Workers of the World, planned to combine the American working class into one big labor union....
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A Will of Their Own: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Working Children
by Manfred Liebel Publisher Comments Children's work is on the increase in all parts of the world, including the affluent countries of Europe and North America, and is closely linked with the processes of globalization. It can take on widely differing forms and can harm children, but also...
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Law and Disorder on the Narova River
by Reginald E. Zelnik Publisher Comments Reginald Zelnik uses a single episode--a militant strike at the Kreenholm factory, Europe's largest textile plant--to explore the broad historical moment. In examining this crucial event of Russian history he sheds fresh light on local power relations...
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Work and the Workplace: A Resource for Innovative Policy and Practice (Foundations of Social Work Knowledge)
by Sheila H. Akabas and Paul A. Kurzman Publisher Comments Sheila H. Akabas and Paul A. Kurzman present a comprehensive look at the ways in which management, labor organizations, government, and the social work profession can better respond to the needs of workers and their families and communities. Focusing on...
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Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream
by Bruce Watson Publisher Comments A rousing history with the narrative drive of a novel, this is the true-to-life tale of the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, that became the fabric of a community and an inspiration to workers around the world. High school & older....
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Labour relations in Eastern Europe :organisational design and dynamics
by Krastyu Petkov Publisher Comments Changes in labor relations in Eastern Europe arising from recent political events can only be understood against the backdrop of the existing structures and mechanisms of labor relations. This full-length collaborative study--the first in its field...
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Air Transport Labor Relations (Southern Illinois University Press Series in Aviation Management)
by Robert W. Kaps Publisher Comments Robert W. Kaps examines air transport labor law in the United States as well as the underlying legislative and policy directives established by the federal government. The body of legislation governing labor relations in the private sector of the U.S...
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Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919???1939
by Lizabeth Cohen Publisher Comments This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as they make choices about whether to attend ethnic...
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Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994: The Labor-Liberal Alliance (Suny Series, American Labor History)
by Kevin (edt) Boyle Publisher Comments Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994 traces the rise and fall of labor's power over the course of the twentieth century. It does so through provocative and engaging essays written by distinguished scholars of the modern labor movement. The...
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