Migration and Care Labour: Theory, Policy and Politics
by Bridget Anderson and Isabel Shutes
Babies and Bosses - Reconciling Work and Family Life
by OECD Publishing
Collective Bargaining Reconsidered (Stamp Memorial Lectures)
by Ernest H.Phelps Brown
Mainstreaming Informal Employment and Gender in Poverty Reduction (New Gender Mainstreaming Series on Development Issues)
by MS Martha Alter Chen, Joann Vanek, and Marilyn Carr
The Samuel Gompers Papers
With almost forty years' experience as a labor leader by 1909, Samuel Gompers had learned the value of practical achievements. Shorter hours, higher wages, safer and more sanitary workplaces, and a voice in establishing working conditions were the hallmarks of trade unionism in the Progressive Era, and these hard-won, incremental gains had significantly improved working-class lives. While these were not all he hoped to achieve, they represented, Gompers believed, essential victories in a bitter...
Self-Determination Theory in New Work Arrangements
Nowadays, organisational competitiveness depends on its effectiveness, versatility and the ability to respond to customer needs. Thus, companies look for flexibility in human resources as a means of attaining an economic advantage. In fact, the increasing recourse to contingent work may be regarded as more than an economic matter; it can be considered a reflex of an actual social change. Moreover, contingent workers are no longer confined to peripheral activities. Today, it is common to find tem...
Health Care Labor - Management Relations
by Robert D Gray and John E Johnson
Little Black Book für den Weg nach oben (Little Black Books (Deutsche Ausgabe))
by Nicholas Noyes
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...
Investment in Women's Human Capital
How are human capital investments allocated between women and men? What are the returns to investments in women's nutrition, health care, education, mobility and training? Presenting 13 empirical analyses, this text explores the nature of human capital distributions to women and their effect on outcomes within the family. The first section considers the experiences of high-income countries, examining topics such as: the limitations of industrialization for the advancement of women; returns to se...
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...
Theory of the Leisure Class (Modern Library) (Cosimo Classics Economics)
by Thorstein Veblen
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...
Employment-Based Immigration
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) specifies a complex set of numerical limits and preference categories that include economic priorities among the criteria for admission. The INA allocates 140,000 visas annually for employment-based legal permanent residents (LPRs), and they were 14.2% of the total 1.0 million LPRs in 2010. The INA further specifies that each year, countries are held to a numerical limit of 7% of the world-wide level of U.S. immigrant admissions, known as per-country lim...
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...
Work and Pay in 20th Century Britain
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...