The management, design and operation of microbiological containment laboratories
Irish Industrial Relations in Practice
Computer Chips and Paper Clips
Drawing on the historical changes in five areas?the jobs of telephone operators, workers in the printing and publishing industries, information and data processors, retail clerks, and nurses?this volume offers a comprehensive examination of how microelectronics and telecommunications have affected women's work and their working environments and looks ahead to what can be expected for women workers in the next decade. It also offers perspectives on how workers can more easily adapt to the changin...
This text explains the causes and consequences of democratization within the firm. It discusses workers' cooperatives, collective capital ownership and industrial democracy. A subject which includes topics such as property rights, democracy and the ownership of capital must inevitably be political and, although the book does present standard economic analysis, it also deals with political issues. A substantial portion of the book reports original research and, in addition to this, the book surve...
Freelancer ALS Forschungsgegenstand Und Praxisphaenomen: Betriebswirtschaftliche Und Psychologische Perspektiven
Particle Size-selective Aerosol Sampling in the Workplace
Dynamic management of risk at operational incidents
Food Safety Act 1990
The Labouring Classes in Early Industrial England, 1750-1850 (Themes in British Social History)
by J. Rule
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of current research on the social conditions, experiences and reactions of working people during the period 1750 - 1850.
Gulag Town, Company Town (Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes)
by Alan Barenberg
This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous "Gulag Archipelago" by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. Author Alan Barenberg's eye-opening study reveals Vorkuta as an active urban center with a substantial nonprisoner population where the borders separating camp and city were contested and permeable, enabling prisoners to establish social connections that would eventually aid them i...
Key Qualifications in Work and Education
In today's rapidly changing world a constant renewal of knowledge and skills in every human endeavour can be observed. The characteristics of workers and the jobs that they perform have been attended by technological, social, and political change on a global scale. New forms of employment have made work more mobile to an extent never experienced before. An increasing proportion of workers no longer need come to their employer's job site in order to do their work. The instability of employ...
CIEH Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace Trainers Notes
by Tessa Blewchamp
Trade Unions in Britain 1933-1992 (Studies in economic & social history)
by Chris Wrigley
This study sets the trade unions in the broader contexts of the economy and of industrial relations, and also examines the pattern of trade union development in Britain over 60 years. It discusses such controversies as those over the trade unions' impact on government policy, the performance of the economy and British politics. It also looks at the trade union record in representing a large sector of the workforce, not its successes and failures.
The Future of Trade Unionism (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1997, this volume discusses the conditions for contemporary and future unionism in the light of recent economic, political and managerial changes. It presents theoretical and empirical research from Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, Sweden and the United States. Part 2 provides a rich international description of threats and challenges to contemporary and future unionism. Part 3 focuses on union strategical and stru...
Beacons of Excellence in Stress Prevention (Research Report S., RR 133)
This book shares the results of a decennial research aimed at finding housing solutions for unprivileged people in informal settlements of Brazil. To understand the spatial logics of these settlements, the author also lived in some of them. The participative observation revealed, that labour is the social practice which mostly designs, shapes and governs the spaces of informal settlements. The study shows how labour is a priority for people struggling with their physical survival, which overcome...
Hygiene Management in Factories (The CHGL series on the food industry)
by Paul Thomas
Officewise (Leaflet Packs, IND(G)173)
Enslaved Lives? (New historical perspectives on migration)
by Crispin Bates and Marina Carter
An introduction to the fundamental changes in 19th-century India which contributed to the flow of labour out of the subcontinent, this book focuses on the nature of labour mobilization/immobilization and the reorganization of the Indian labour market in the colonial period, and the consequent Indian diaspora. The story begins in the mid-18th century, outlining the change in society and political economy of early-colonial India that helped to create the labour force required by the plantation and...