"Most people would be startled to know the many ways in which their employers are capable of intruding on privacy. Huge technological advances are steadily shrinking workers' personal space, and it's up to individuals to know which parts of their daily lives may fall under the corporate magnifying glass. Corporations have the means to monitor e-mails, phone conversations, and web-surfing, but that's not all...Among other things, video surveillance, GPS tracking of company cars, and even the use...
Union Mergers in Hard Times (Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports)
by Gary N. Chaison
The past fifteen years have been difficult for the labor movements in industrial countries. Gary N. Chaison addresses questions implicit in the decline of unions in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand: How and why do labor unions merge under pressure? What role do mergers play in the unions' strategies to deal with membership losses, management opposition, and hostile governments? Are there distinctive national profiles of union mergers? Chaison begins by descri...
Sexual Identity on the Job: Issues and Services
by Alan L Ellis and Ellen D Riggle
Converging Divergences (Cornell Studies in Industrial and Labor Relations)
by Harry C. Katz and Owen Darbishire
Exploring recent changes in employment practices in seven industrialized countries (Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the United States) and in two essential industries (automobile and telecommunications), Harry C. Katz and Owen Darbishire find that traditional national systems of employment are being challenged by four cross-national patterns. The patterns, which are becoming ever more prevalent, can be categorized as low-wage, human resource management, Japanese-oriented,...
This book makes the argument, supported by rich and extensive historical research into original sources, that it is possible to revolutionize work so that it can be, in the author's words, "satisfying, creative, and stimulating at the same time that it is materially productive: we can have material abundance along with interesting work." Rather than argue the issue in the abstract, Clawson investigates the development of industrial management in the late nineteenth-century United States, when in...
Ordnungspolitisches Konzept Der Regionalpolitik (Schriften Zur Wirtschaftstheorie Und Wirtschaftspolitik,, #6)
by Wolfgang Grimme
Institutionen bestimmen die Anpassungsfahigkeit und die Innovationsfahigkeit politischer und wirtschaftlicher Systeme und entscheiden damit mittel- und langfristig uber deren Erfolg. Am Beispiel der Regionalpolitik in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern untersucht die Arbeit die institutionellen Strukturen in Europa und Deutschland. Regionalpolitik wird durch konstruktivistische Politikkonzeptionen gepragt und im Rahmen eines verflochtenen politischen Systems geplant und implementiert. Dies fuhrt zur Zentral...
In 1930, on 1 September, 100,000 workers, employed and unemployed, marched through Budapest under the slogan 'Work and Bread!'. Many were injured and one person was killed as the police used swords and, at one point, fired into the crowd. This study sketches the political history of the Hungarian labour movement from the late 19th century to the 1920s and the build-up to the 1930 protest, Hungary's largest in the inter-war period. Drawing on contemporary newspaper accounts and recollections of p...
Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales of all time. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. Astonishingly, this fairy tale was a nursery room staple, one of the tales translated into English from Charles Perrault's French Mother Goose Tales. Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the...
Industrial Relations in Transition (Wiley series in management)
by Daniel Quinn Mills and Janice McCormick
Union Sisters
Transnational Nationalism and Collective Identity among the American Irish
by Howard Lune
In Transnational Nationalism and Collective Identity among the American Irish, Howard Lune considers the development and mobilization of different nationalisms over 125 years of Irish diasporic history (1791–1920) and how these campaigns defined the Irish nation and Irish citizenship. Lune takes a collective approach to exploring identity, concentrating on social identities in which organizations are the primary creative agent to understand who we are and how we come to define ourselves. As ex...
Raumwirkungen Des Finanzsystems Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Finanzwissenschaftliche Schriften, #6)
by Friedemann Tetsch
The "bonus rule" of 1953-1957 required players who signed a baseball contract for more than $4,000 to remain on the major league roster for two full seasons. These were the bonus babies young men of about 18 or 19 years old, so full of promise and talent that they overshadowed their high school or collegiate teammates and had professional teams scrambling to sign them. This system produced three members of the Baseball Hall of Fame (Al Kaline, Harmon Killebrew, and Sandy Koufax) and several othe...
Anderson's Complete Guide to Revenue Rulings on Qualified Plans
by Arthur W Anderson