Industrial Relations, Health & Safety

First published in 1921, Industrial Fatigue and Efficiency aims to provide a fairly complete overview of industrial fatigue and its influence on ef...

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...

Electrical Safety and the Law describes the hazards and risks from the use of electricity, explaining with the help of case studies and accident st...

Environment, health and safety (EHS) management has become increasingly important in the past 10 years, especially within high risk and high reliab...

Workplace safety has never been seen as sexy, clever or cool. Fraught with legislative hurdles, ambiguous policy and complex procedures, despite it...

Contesting Precarity in Japan details the new forms of workers' protest and opposition that have developed as Japan's economy has transformed over ...

Management and labor have been adversaries in American and Canadian workplaces since the time of colonial settlement. Labor lacked full legal legit...

How-To Guide Written By Practicing ProfessionalsPhysical Security and Safety: A Field Guide for the Practitioner introduces the basic principles of...

Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indeb...

Vicente Lombardo Toledano was the founder of numerous labour union organisations in Mexico and Latin America between the 1920s and the 1960s. He wa...

One of the major obstacles unions face in building influence in the workplace is the opposition and resistance from those that own those workplaces...

This book presents a comprehensive view of the different theories of risk management in water, drawing on recent studies that serve to inform the w...

The Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus where religious history and working-class history...

Innovations, Disruptions and Future Trends in the Global Construction Industry examines current and futuristic developments in the construction ind...

The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In this holistic history, Will Mari tells that story from the 1920s throu...

Today, hazardous work kills 2.3 million people each year and injures millions more. Among the most compelling yet controversial forms of legal prot...

Includes Case Studies from a Range of Event Sites Introduction to Crowd Science examines the growing rate of crowd-related accidents and incidents ...

Education Workforce Well-being brings together the multitude of perspectives on well-being, placing them in the context of the education workforce ...

The poems in Millrat are full of blessed and flawed humanity, based on author Michael Caseys experience working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massac...

A compelling analysis of social inequality through the perspective of pregnant, low-wage service workers The low-wage service industry is one of th...

In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the United States acquisition of an overseas empire compelled the nation to reconsider the boundary b...

Logistics is a complex industry that exposes employees to a whole variety of risks. These include not only accidents on the road and deaths and i...

This new and extensively updated edition of Introducing Employment Relations draws on the most up-to-date research and contemporary examples to h...

A distinctive exploration of how workers see work For more than twenty years, Robert Bruno has taught labor history and labor studies to union memb...