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Herkules hatte die Wahl: Ein steiniger entbehrungreicher Weg oder ein einfacher, leichter mit Gold gepflasterter. Er w?hlte den steinigen, Herkules ist tot. Mit Flei?, Intelligenz und Entbehrung kann jeder Erfolg haben. Das ?Little Black Book f?r den Weg nach oben? zeigt Ihnen, dass es auch anders geht. Bierernst erkl?rt Ihnen dieser Ratgeber, wie Sie als durchschnittlich begabter Mitarbeiter mit ?berschaubarem Ehrgeiz zu etwas kommen k?nnen. Getreu dem Motto: Schmeicheln statt malochen stellt I...

Very little has been written about the background of pre-World War II labor leaders, especially of working-class women. This book fills in the gaps by tracing the history of Ellen Dawson through Scotland, England, and the United States. Anyone interested in labor history or women's history will find this book of great use.--Daniel Lee Georgianna, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth ""Paints a vivid portrait of the people, places, and events that shaped Dawson and that she, in turn, shaped. Of...

In September 1966 the Ford Foundation announced a major grant to the Industrial Research Unit of the Wharton School to fund a three-year study of the racial policies of American industries. This is report no. 22 derived from that study.

The Productive Body asks how the human body and its labor have been expropriated and re-engineered through successive stages of capitalism; and how capitalism's transformation of the body is related to the rise of scientific psychology and social science disciplines complicit with modern regimes of control. In Discipline and Punish, Foucault cited Guery and Deleule in order to link Marx's diagnosis of capitalism with his own critique of power/knowledge. The Productive Body brings together Marxis...

In The Theory of the Leisure Class, his first and best-known work, Thorstein Veblen challenges some of society's most cherished standards of behavior and, with devastating wit and satire, exposes the hollowness of many of our canons of taste, education, dress, and culture.Veblen uses the leisure class as his example because it is this class that sets the standards followed by every level of society. The sign of membership in the leisure class is exemption from industrial toil and the mark of suc...

Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labour leaders declared themselves America's ""first line of defence"" against Communism. In this surprising account, Jennifer Luff shows how the American Federation of Labour fanned popular anticommunism but defended Communists' civil liberties in the aftermath of the 1919 Red Scare. The AFL's ""commonsense anticommunism, "" she argues, steered a middle course between the American Legion and the ACLU, helping to check campaigns for federal se...

From assembly line to call centre, this volume charts the immense transformation of work and pay across the 20th century and provides the first labour focused history of Britain. Written by leading British historians and economists, each chapter stands as a self-contained reading for those who need an overview of the topic, as well as an introduction to and analysis of the controversies among scholars for readers entering or refreshing deeper study. The 20th century was a period of unrivalled...

Der Einsatz neuer Technologien bringt nicht nur hohes Wirtschaftswachstum, sondern auch neue Arten von Arbeitsbelastungen fur die Beschaftigten in Ost und West. Wie die DDR-Fuhrung, die fur sich beansprucht, eine sozialistische und somit humane Entwicklungsperspektive zu verfolgen, das Probleme zu losen versucht, wird anhand der Rationalisierungspolitik, unter Einbeziehung der Wirtschaftsbedingungen der DDR, dargestellt. Ob eine faktische Interessenvertretung der Betroffenen durch den FDGB statt...

While the concept of teleworking has existed for many years, the COVID-19 pandemic drastically altered the operations of businesses and industries around the world. Through these shifts, there have been many challenges of adapting employees, business operations, productivity levels, technology, and more to meet this increased demand in teleworking. Through these challenges, not only were businesses forced to adapt, but a new wave of telework and its approach have been fostered. Analyzing Telew...

Over the past seventeen years, trade union educator D'Arcy Martin has conducted hundreds of courses for Canadian workers. He has learned that there are people-"conscious romantics"-who dream of a more egalitarian world while confronting the obstacles that stand in the way of building it. This book provides a refreshing personal account of union culture and its dynamics.

This book showcases the inequalities experienced between the Global North and the Global South by exploring the production and distribution model of goods and services worldwide through an analysis of why the structure, framework, and interconnectedness of global supply chains increases the persistence of worker rights' violations. The narrative explains the power relationships between multinational corporations, their subcontractors, governments, non-governmental organizations, labor unions, an...

Uses original source material to portray the momentous changes that took place in American labor, industry, and trade-unionism following the Civil War. Focuses on the work environment in this early age of mass production and mechanization, and shows how abusive conditions often led to labor unrest.

This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century. Billy G. Smith demonstrates how the "lower sort" (as they were called by their contemporaries) struggled to carve out meaningful lives during an era of vast change stretching from the Seven Years' War, through the turbulent events surrounding the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, into the first decade of the new nation.