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The High Tide of British Trade Unionism
by John (edt) Mcilroy  Publisher Comments Exploring the exciting, turbulent period in labor history from 1964 to 1979, this volume of path-breaking analysis recalls an era of popular mythology and political discourse, examining how workers unions nearly drove Britain into the...
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Sharing the Wealth: Workers and the World Economy
by Ethan Kapstein 
Book News Annotation The world may be moving inexorably toward one of those tragedies that will lead historians to ask why nothing was done in time, warns Kapstein (political science, U. of Minnesota). He examines labor's global struggle with free markets and the domestic...
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Women in the Labour Market in Changing Economies: Demographic Issues
by John Langone Publisher Comments Increased female participation in the labour market is a very significant feature of recent economic development. This volume analyzes how demographic conditions have favored or slowed the increase and what the demographic effects of the increase will be....
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Levi's Children : Coming To Terms With Human Rights in the Global Marketplace (00 Edition)
by Karl Schoenberger Publisher Comments Over the last decade, ugly allegations of corporate complicity in human-rights violations have exploded into one of the most controversial issues of our time. Companies are being held responsible by human-rights advocates for the injustices that are the...
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Can Workers Have a Voice: The Politics of Deindustrialization in Pittsburg
by Dale A. Hathaway Publisher Comments An important contribution to understanding the massive social transformation of the 1980's. Hathaway's critical but sympathetic chronicle of regional organizing efforts is the best in print, and the questions raised about the vitality of American...
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The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising
by Robert Shogan Publisher Comments In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners-- outraged over years of brutality and exploitation-- picked up their Winchesters and marched against their tormentors, the powerful mine owners who ruled their corrupt state. For ten days the miners fought...
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Female Ambition: How to Reconcile Work and Family
by Ma Nuria Chinchilla Albiol Publisher Comments "Female Ambition" traces the development of women in the workplace, and focuses on a host of critical issues such as current governmental legislation and the family unit, family-responsible companies, personal leadership and the management of time in the...
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Unpaid Work in the Household: A Review of Economic Evaluation Methods
by Luisella Goldschmidt-clermont Publisher Comments Women, Work and Development Series The majority of women around the world work long hours and contribute significantly to production and to family income, although this fact is not generally recognised in attitudes and policies or reflected in official...
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Between Class and Market: Postwar Unionization in the Capitalist Democracies
by Bruce Western Publisher Comments Bruce Western has produced an analysis of union growth and decline that is a tour de force, methodologically as well as substantively. . . . This is a "must read" for all social scientists seriously interested in labor unions and the operation of labor...
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Rosie's Mom: Forgotten Women Workers of the First World War
by Carrie Brown Publisher Comments This book restores to history the lives of American women involved in war work during World War I....
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Demanding Work: The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy
by Francis Green Publisher Comments Since the early 1980s, a vast number of jobs have been created in the affluent economies of the industrialized world. Many workers are doing more skilled and fulfilling jobs, and getting paid more for their trouble. Yet it is often alleged that the...
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Race, Gender and Discrimination At Work (00 Edition)
by Samuel Cohn Publisher Comments In Race and Gender Discrimination at Work Samuel Cohns provides a fascinating, unorthodox account of the causes of discrimination at work. The book is packed with statistics, yet witty; rigorous, yet light. Cohn introduces readers to the fundamental...
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Bargaining Power
by Roderick Martin Publisher Comments This book examines the balance of power between management and trade unions--showing why some managements and unions are more powerful than others. Bargaining power has long been recognized as central to industrial relations, but no previous work has...
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Gloablization, Univertainty and Late Careers in Society
by Hans-peter Blossfeld Synopsis Globalization has been strongly shaping and transforming both national economies and individual careers in recent decades. These profound changes have had significant consequences for individual careers of men and women both during and after their...
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Force of Labour
by Stefan Berger Publisher Comments This innovative text aims to provide a comprehensive overview and comparative analysis of European labour movements from 1900 to 1990. The authors examine the links between workers and organized labour in seven European countries - Britain, Germany...
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By the Ore Docks : Working People
by Richard Hudelson Publisher Comments Located on the shore of Lake Superior near the Iron Range of Minnesota and, for much of its history, the site of vast steel, lumber, and shipping industries, Duluth has been home to people who worked tirelessly in the rail yards, grain elevators, and...
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Voluntary and Compulsory Arbitration of Labour Disputes ASEAN
by Ilo Synopsis One of the important objectives of the ASEAN Programme on Industrial Relations for Development (a joint project ILO/UNDP/ASEAN) was to promote the study and analysis of basic issues in labour relations and labour laws within the ASEAN countries. To meet...
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Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
by Miriam Golden Publisher Comments Heroic Defeats is a comparative investigation of how unions and firms interact when economic circumstances require substantial job loss....
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The Political Economy of World Mass Migration: Comparing Two Global Centuries
by Jeffrey G. Williamson Publisher Comments This monograph examines the political economy of immigration backlash and immigration policy in two global centuries....
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Not Your Father's Union Movement : Inside the Afl-cio (98 Edition)
by Jo-ann Mort Publisher Comments An indispensable guide for anyone who is a union member or who cares about social change, this book covers the seismic shift that occurred inside the U.S. trade union movement in 1994 when the "New Voice" campaign swept a new leadership into the AFL-CIO....
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