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In Dying to Work**, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job.** Based on heart-wrenching interviews……続きを見る

This comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to collective bargaining and labor relations with a focus on developments in the United States. It is appropriate for students, policy analysts, ……続きを見る

Winner of the 2023 John K. Fairbank Prize and the 2023 James B. Palais Prize. Women in the Sky examines Korean women factory workers' century-long activism, from the 1920s to the present, with a foc……続きを見る

Stitching the 24-Hour Cityreveals the intense speed of garment production and everyday life in Dongdaemun, a lively market in Seoul, South Korea. Once the site of uprisings against oppressive workin……続きを見る

Worker centers are becoming an important element in labor and community organizing and the struggle for fair pay and decent working conditions for low-wage workers, especially immigrants. There are ……続きを見る

Labor unions and courts have rarely been allies. From their earliest efforts to organize, unions have been confronted with hostile judges and antiunion doctrines. In this book, Julius G. Getman argu……続きを見る

The book's breadth and grounding in labor law make it most accessible and useful to a professional audience, but even nonspecialists and lay readers will appreciate Blackett's insights about law and……続きを見る

In this revealing look at home care, Cynthia J. Cranford illustrates how elderly and disabled people and the immigrant women workers who assist them in daily activities develop meaningful relationsh……続きを見る

Unionizing the Ivory Tower chronicles how a thousand low-paid custodians, cooks, and gardeners succeeded in organizing a union at Cornell University. Al Davidoff, the Cornell student leader who beca……続きを見る

The world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hu……続きを見る

Critical and iconoclastic, Comrade or Brother? traces the history of the British Labour Movement from its beginnings at the onset of industrialisation through its development within a capitalist soc……続きを見る

Capitalism is a dynamic system, continually adapting itself to exploit workers in new ways. In Britain today, the gig economy is its newest form, expressed through precarious contracts and the suppo……続きを見る

It is now 50 years since E.P. Thompson published his classic, The Making of the English Working Class. The Making of an African Working Class follows Thompson in exploring the formation of working c……続きを見る

In 2009, cabin crew in the BASSA union embarked on a historic, two-year battle against British Airways which was seeking to impose reduced crew levels and to transform working conditions. In the fac……続きを見る

Growing levels of income and wage inequality and the precaritization of many sections of the labour force have made labour unions as salient as ever. Although membership levels have decreased, they ……続きを見る

Diskurse und Veröffentlichungen zur Interkulturalität sind heute Legion. Die Versuche, das Phänomen in seiner komplexen Vielfalt zu erfassen, sind kaum mehr überschaubar. Damit wird eine allgemein a……続きを見る

International student migration makes a significant contribution to higher education in the United Kingdom, with Southern Africa, and Nigeria in particular, positioned joint sixth in the top ten of ……続きを見る

The collective complaints procedure was created in 1995 as an optional quasi-jurisdictional monitoring mechanism specific for the protection of social rights, within the framework of the Council of ……続きを見る

Recent years in Europe have been marked by efforts to introduce changes in labour law in order to boost employment, reduce labour costs and increase flexibility of national labour markets. The incre……続きを見る

L’évolution de la structure des âges au sein de la population de l’Union européenne représente un défi majeur sur le terrain de l’emploi. Les conditions de travail permettant aux travailleurs âgés d……続きを見る

Every year, over a hundred thousand workers bring claims to an Employment Tribunal. The settling of disputes between employers and unions has been exchanged by many for individual litigation. In Str……続きを見る

«This book by Jerome Teelucksingh showcases his excellent craftsmanship as a social historian. The subject of the study is the involvement of the Labour Movement of Trinidad and Tobago in party poli……続きを見る

Als Reaktion auf den Ruf der Wirtschaft nach weiterer Flexibilisierung ist der aktuelle Arbeitsmarkt geprägt durch die zunehmende Bereitstellung von Arbeitsleistung jenseits des klassischen zweiseit……続きを見る

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit den arbeitsvölkerrechtlichen Grundlagen des Streikrechts im öffentlichen Dienst und deren Vereinbarkeit mit dem deutschen Recht. Dabei ist es Ziel der Autorin, die durch……続きを見る

Die Haftung des Arbeitgebers für diskriminierendes Verhalten anderer Personen ist nicht explizit geregelt. Der Autor erörtert ausführlich die rechtlichen Auswirkungen einer verbotenen Benachteiligun……続きを見る

Desde el punto de vista del contenido, este volumen comienza con varios estudios que abordan ciertos aspectos generales y de interés de la relación individual de trabajo en la actualidad. Ejemplo de……続きを見る

Der Autor geht der Frage nach, ob die seit Erlass des Opferentschädigungsgesetzes geltende formale Einordnung in die Materie des sozialen Entschädigungsrechts (noch) opferinteressengerecht erscheint……続きを見る

Dieses Buch behandelt das europäische Verbot der Altersdiskriminierung und wendet es auf deutsche Berufssoldatinnen und Berufssoldaten an. Diese unterliegen sehr ausdifferenzierten Altersgrenzen. Ob……続きを見る

Pflegequalität ist eine komplexe Herausforderung an alle Akteure und daher auch Aufgabe und Ziel der zahlreichen Regelungsebenen des Pflegesektors. In diesem Sinne führt der Tagungsband des «ineges»……続きを見る

Dieses Buch untersucht die Mitbestimmung des Betriebsrats bei Dienstkleidung, welche angesichts steigender Anzahl betriebseinheitlicher Kleidervorgaben zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnt. Bisher wurde d……続きを見る