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Urban Flow

Jeffrey L Kidder

• Hardcover | Engels
• Bike messengers are familiar figures in the downtown cores of major cities. Tasked with delivering time-sensitive materials within, at most, a few hou... Lees meer

Bootstrap Dreams

Nancy Jurik

• Hardcover | Engels | Ilr Press Books
• Declines in real wages, increases in the number of poor families, and cutbacks to welfare and other safety-net programs have stimulated the popularity... Lees meer

It's about Time

• Paperback | Engels
• How do two-career couples manage in a one-career world?It's about Time examines this mismatch between outdated scripts and the experiences of dual-ear... Lees meer

The New Politics of Transnational Labor

Marissa Brookes

• Paperback | Engels
• Over the years many transnational labor alliances have succeeded in improving conditions for workers, but many more have not. In The New Politics of T... Lees meer

An Introduction to the Law of Employment Discrimination

Michael Evan Gold

• Paperback | Engels | Ilr Bulletin | nr. 68
• This new edition of An Introduction to the Law of Employment Discrimination summarizes the federal laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the... Lees meer

Democracy at Work in an Indian Industrial Cooperative

Richard W Franke, Pyralal Raghavan, T M Thomas Isaac

• Paperback | Engels | Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports
• The authors tell the story of a democratic workers' cooperative that makes hand-rolled cigarettes, known as "beedis," in the unorganized sector of a f... Lees meer

The New American Workplace

Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt

• Hardcover | Engels
• Despite formidable obstacles, a small but growing number of U.S. companies rccognize that today's domestic and international markets require them to t... Lees meer

Dishonest Dollars

Terry L Leap

• Hardcover | Engels
• In an environment where corporate scandals fill the headlines and ethics courses have suddenly become standard fare in business schools, Terry Leap of... Lees meer

Rebuilding Labor

• Hardcover | Engels | Ilr Press Book
• "In order to recruit new members on a scale that would be required to significantly rebuild union power, unions must fundamentally alter their interna... Lees meer

Organizing to Win

• Paperback | Engels | Detroit Studies in Music
• At a time when the American labor movement is mobilizing for a major resurgence through new organizing, here, at last, is a book about research on uni... Lees meer

Missing Class

Betsy Leondar-Wright

• Paperback | Engels
• Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensi... Lees meer

Workers Without Borders

Ines Wagner

• Hardcover | Engels
• How the European Union handles posted workers is a growing issue for a region with borders that really are just lines on a map. A 2008 story, dissecte... Lees meer

The Hard Work of Hope

Michael Ansara

• Paperback | Engels
• The Hard Work of Hope takes you into the heady days of 1960s and 1970s activism, chronicling the hopes and strategies of the young people who created ... Lees meer

Confronting Dystopia

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Confronting Dystopia , a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditi... Lees meer

Don't Count Me Out

Rafael Alvarez

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Don't Count Me Out chronicles the life of Bruce White from the beginning of his drug use in elementary school through criminal acts fueled by his need... Lees meer

The Triangle Fire

Leon Stein

• Paperback | Engels
• March 25, 2011, marks the centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 garment workers lost their lives. A work of history relevan... Lees meer

Disintegrating Democracy at Work

Virginia Doellgast

• Paperback | Engels
• The shift from manufacturing- to service-based economies has often been accompanied by the expansion of low-wage and insecure employment. Many conside... Lees meer

The Real World of Employee Ownership

John Logue, Jacquelyn Yates

• Paperback | Engels
• Using data from an extensive study of employee-owned companies in Ohio, where employee ownership is a well-developed trend, this book offers a strong ... Lees meer

Life Support

Suzanne Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• In this book, Suzanne Gordon describes the everyday work of three RNs in Boston--a nurse practitioner, an oncology nurse, and a clinical nurse special... Lees meer

The Challenge to Change

Rebecca Kolins Givan

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• There is constant pressure on hospitals to improve health care delivery and increase cost effectiveness . New initiatives are the order of the day in ... Lees meer

Between Conflict and Collegiality

Asaf Darr

• Paperback | Engels
• Between Conflict and Collegiality explores how ethnonational-religious struggle between Jews and Palestinians affects relations in ethnically mixed wo... Lees meer

Unwelcome and Unlawful

Raymond F Gregory

• Hardcover | Engels
• Nearly every American woman will, at some point during her working life, be sexually harassed, according to Raymond F. Gregory, a lawyer specializing ... Lees meer

Pioneering

Susan Eisenberg

• Paperback | Engels
• Poems in this volume bring readers through the construction site gate alongside the women who practice a skilled trade in a dangerous industry. Assure... Lees meer

The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Welfare Machine

Carly Elizabeth Schall

• Hardcover | Engels
• Sweden is well known for the success of its welfare state. Many believe that success was made possible in part by the country's ethnic homogeneity and... Lees meer