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What's Class Got To Do With It?: American Society in the Twenty-First Century
(2004-01-01)The contributors to this volume argue that class identity in the United States has been hidden for too long. Their essays, published here for the first time, cover the relation of class to race and gender, to globalization ... -
Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900–1962
(2004-01-01)From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers ... -
The Blue Eagle At Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace
(2004-01-01)Charles J. Morris, a renowned labor law scholar and preeminent authority on the National Labor Relations Act, uncovers a long-forgotten feature of that act that offers an exciting new approach to the revitalization of the ... -
Theoretical Perspectives on Work and the Employment Relationship
(2004-01-01)Developing a strong theoretical base for research and practice in industrial relations and human resource management has, to date, remained a largely unfulfilled challenge. This pioneering volume helps close the theory gap ... -
Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement
(2004-01-01)In Rebuilding Labor, Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss bring together established researchers and a new generation of labor scholars to assess the current state of labor organizing and its relationship to union revitalization. ... -
Employment with a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice
(2004-01-01)John W. Budd contends that the turbulence of the current workplace and the importance of work for individuals and society make it vitally important that employment be given "a human face." Contradicting the traditional ... -
The New Structure of Labor Relations: Tripartism and Decentralization
(2004-01-01)Tripartism, the national-level interaction among representatives of labor, management, and government, occurs infrequently in the United States. Based on the U.S. experience, then, such interactions might seem irrelevant ... -
Paradise Laborers: Hotel Work in the Global Economy
(2004-01-01)Resorts have become important to American society and its economy; one in eight Americans is now employed by the tourism industry. Yet despite the ubiquity of hotels, little has been written about those who labor there. ... -
New Working-Class Studies
(2005-01-01)In this book, contributors trace the origins of the new working-class studies, explore how it is being developed both within and across fields, and identify key themes and issues. Historians, economists, geographers, ... -
Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of Building Trades History
(2005-01-01)Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits follows the history of the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department from the emergence of building trades councils in the age of the skyscraper; through treacherous fights over ... -
Unfair Advantage: Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States Under International Human Rights Standards
(2005-01-01)This book exposes the violations of human rights witnessed daily in workplaces across the United States. Based on detailed case studies in a variety of sectors, it reveals an “unfair advantage” in U.S. law and practice ... -
Nursing Against The Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care
(2005-01-01)In the United States and throughout the industrialized world, just as the population of older and sicker patients is about to explode, there is a major shortage of nurses. In Nursing against the Odds, one of North America’s ... -
The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More Than Canadians do but Join Much Less
(2005-01-01)Why have Americans, who by a clear majority approve of unions, been joining them in smaller numbers than ever before? This book answers that question by comparing the American experience with that of Canada, where approval ... -
Bootstrap Dreams: U.S Microenterprise Development in an Era of Welfare Reform
(2005-01-01)Declines in real wages, increases in the number of poor families, and cutbacks to welfare and other safety-net programs have stimulated the popularity of microenterprise development programs (MDPs). These programs typically ... -
Unwelcome And Unlawful: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace
(2005-01-01)Nearly every American woman will, at some point during her working life, be sexually harassed, according to Raymond F. Gregory, a lawyer specializing in employment and discrimination law. This book provides information for ... -
The State of Working America, 2004/2005
(2005-01-01)The State of Working America, prepared biennially since 1988 by the Economic Policy Institute, includes a wide variety of data on family incomes, wages, taxes, unemployment, wealth, and poverty--data that enable the authors ... -
Nobody's Home: Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide
(2005-01-12)After caring for his mother at the end of her life, Thomas Edward Gass felt drawn to serve the elderly. He took a job as a nursing home aide but was not prepared for the reality that he found at his new place of employment, ... -
What Workers Want
(2006-01-01)[Excerpt] This updated edition of What Workers Want keeps the core text and chapter structure of the first edition (Chapters 1-7 in the current book), while eliminating its appendices. The appendices reported the methodology, ... -
Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines
(2006-01-01)[Excerpt] So how do we make sense of high-tech production as it emerges in developing countries like the Philippines? What explains the changes and wide variation in how work is organized? What can these changes tell us ... -
Moving Up in the New Economy: Career Ladders for U.S. Workers
(2006-01-01)[Excerpt] This book is about restoring the upward mobility of U.S. workers. Specifically it is about the one workforce-development strategy that is currently aimed at exactly that goal – the strategy of creating (or ...
