Industrial Relations, Health & Safety

Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside. Lou Martin weaves the narrative of how the reloca...

Monumental and revelatory, Free Labor explores labor activism throughout the country during a period of incredible diversity and fluidity: the Amer...

During the 1950s and 1960s, labor leaders Harold Gibbons and Ernest Calloway championed a new kind of labor movement that regarded workers as "tota...

For more than thirty years Nelson Lichtenstein has deployed his scholarship--on labor, politics, and social thought--to chart the history and prosp...

As companies increasingly look to the global market for capital, cheaper commodities and labor, and lower production costs, the impact on Mexican a...

Over the last decade there has been an explosion of academic interest in the study of Behavioral Operations (Behavioral Ops). Simultaneous concerns...

Political scientist Immanuel Ness thoroughly investigates the use of guest workers in the United States, the largest recipient of migrant labor in ...

Deep-sea fishing has always been a hazardous occupation, with crews facing gale-force winds, huge waves and swells, and unrelenting rain and snow. ...

From Deliveroo to Amazon, digital platforms have drastically transformed the way we work. But how are these transformations being received and chal...

Renowned Marxist scholar Michael Löwy offers an indispensable assessment of an enduringly fascinating revolutionary.Vibrant, insightful, and wide-r...

This collection aims to analyse, advertise, and criticize the contribution of industrial relations to social science understanding. It brings toget...

Dr Parnell provides a two-level analysis of the politics of government-industry relations in Germany. On the one hand, he presents an in-depth exam...

Between 1980 and 1985, the French economy and industry faced a dramatic crisis; in the ten years that followed, it witnessed a remarkable revival. ...

During the past two decades, the nature of work has changed dramatically, as more and more organizations downsize, outsource and move toward short-...

The substantial political changes in Eastern Europe and Russia since 1989 have been accompanied by the attempted transfer, imposition, and imitatio...

Management is a powerful mode of thought and code of conduct in the modern world, closely associated with the American way and a natural extension ...

This study of the problems confronting institutions for the creation of occupational skills in seven advanced industrialized countries contributes ...

This book examines the working of the Munition of War Acts 1915-1917, during the First World War. The munitions code, parts of which remained in fo...

This study of vocational education in advanced industrial countries contributes to two different areas of debate. The first is the study of the div...

In some western European countries trade unions and employers' organizations share responsibility with government for maintaining order and efficie...

The rapid pace of industrial restructuring and the emergence of new employment policies have focused attention on the role of employers in determin...

This comparative study uses Barrington Moore's notion of `suppressed historical alternatives' to reassess theories of industrial conflict, class or...