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Gender Pay Differentials: Cross-National Evidence from Micro-Data (Applied Econometrics Association)
by Benoit Mahy  Publisher Comments Pay inequalities between women and men are a key issue for labour market policy. This book provides new evidence on the magnitude and sources of these pay inequalities in European countries and New Zealand on the basis of micro data. Particular attention...
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Shifting Fortunes
by Daniel Nelson Publisher Comments A concise, original, and illuminating interpretation of union activity in the United States over almost two centuries....
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The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity
by Anson Rabinback Publisher Comments Science once had an unshakable faith in its ability to bring the forces of nature--even human nature--under control. In this wide-ranging book Anson Rabinbach examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed...
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The Forgotten Americans
by John Schwarz Publisher Comments The authors explore the reasons why this kind of poverty is so widespread and detail how the government came to underestimate its severity. Unless correct action is taken, the authors suggest, the United States risks the emergence of rigid class...
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Money Makes Us Relatives : Women's Labor in Urban Turkey (2ND 04 Edition)
by Jenny B. White Publisher Comments In the rural immigrant community of Istanbul, poor women spend up to fifty hours a week producing goods for export, yet deny that they actually "work." Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among family producers and pieceworkers, and using...
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Strategic Negotiations
by Richard E Walton Publisher Comments Strategic Negotiations identifies three fundamental negotiating strategies that are being used to effect changes in labor-management relations. The first, called forcing, involves making labor accept unwanted substantive terms while simultaneously...
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On Strike and on Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America
by Ellen R Baker Publisher Comments In 1950, Mexican American miners went on strike for fair working conditions in Hanover, New Mexico. When an injunction prohibited miners from picketing, their wives took over the picket lines—an unprecedented act that disrupted mining families but...
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National Labour Relations in Internationalized Markets: A Comparative Study of Institutions, Change, and Performance
by Franz Traxler Publisher Comments This book presents and examines evidence and theories about changing patterns of industrial relations and their links to convergence on the one hand, and economic competitiveness on the other. It includes a comprehensive set of comparable date on...
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Outsourcing America Updated Edition the True
by Ron Hira Publisher Comments One of the hottest, most controversial topics in the news is the outsourcing of American jobs to other countries. Outsourced jobs are extending well beyond the manufacturing sector to include white-collar professionals, particularly in information...
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In the Name of the Poor Contesting Polit
by Neil Webster Publisher Comments Current development discourse on poverty reduction mainly emphasizes the respective roles of the state and the market. This book argues for the importance of exploring and understanding the poor's own actions. These actions may seek to change their...
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Peasants on Plantations (98 Edition)
by Peloso Publisher Comments After the 1854 abolition of slavery in Peru, a new generation of plantation owners turned to a system of peasant tenantry to maintain cotton production through the use of cheap labor. In Peasants on Plantations Vincent C. Peloso analyzes the changing...
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The State & Labor in Modern America
by Melvyn Dubofsky Publisher Comments In this important new book, Melvyn Dubofsky traces the relationship between the American labor movement and the federal government from the 1870s until the present. His is the only book to focus specifically on the 'labor question' as a lens through...
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Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields
by Natl Comm For The De Publisher Comments The Dreiser Committee, including writers Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, investigated the desperate situation of striking Kentucky miners in November 1931. When the Communist-led National Miners Union competed against the more...
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Common Sense and Labor
by Samuel Crowther Publisher Comments This work is a study into labor practices, employers and employees. Contents: fundamental causes of labor unrest; relation between the employer and the employed; the worker and his wage; wages and profit-sharing delusions; fetish of industrial democracy;...
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Workplace Justice: Organizing Multi-Identity Movements
by Sharon Kurtz Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-278) and index....
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Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity
by Ella Bell Publisher Comments Based on a seven-year research effort, this book is a revealing study of the roles that gender, race, and class play in corporate America....
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Nightshift NYC
by Russell Leigh Sharman Publisher Comments New York is the city that never sleeps. This luminous book peels back the cover of darkness over the city as it hums along in the night, revealing a hidden world populated by the thousands of women and men who work and live the nightshift. Written with...
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Employment, Hours, and Earnings
by Eva E Jacobs Publisher Comments This special edition of the Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics presents employment, hours, and earnings estimates as well as unemployment rates that are useful for private and public sector analysis of state and local labor market conditions in the 50...
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Jobs with Equality. Lane Kenworthy
by Lane Kenworthy Publisher Comments Economic and social shifts have led to rising income inequality in the world's affluent countries. This is worrisome for reasons of fairness and because inequality has adverse effects on other socioeconomic goods. Redistribution can help, but government...
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United Mind Workers: Unions and Teaching in the Knowledge Society (Jossey-Bass Education Series)
by Charles Ta Kerchner Publisher Comments This new model of teacher unions is organized around issues of quality teaching and professional development, as well as economic fairness. The authors propose strategies for expanding the influence of unions by involving them in the setting of...
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