Industrial Relations, Health & Safety

Over the last twenty years in Canada there has been an increasing trend toward retirement at age sixty-five or earlier. Despite this trend, relativ...

This book examines class relations through numerous empirical case studies, reports, and other sets of data before and during COVID-19. It is divid...

Digital evolution, whether through Internet advances or the development of connected objects, has triggered a veritable societal revolution. Thanks...

Explains how to implement the best safety practices and why they work Reviews from the Third Edition "An excellent piece of work." —Safety Health P...

Work, so fundamental to well-being, has its darker and more costly side. Work can adversely affect our health, well beyond the usual counts of inju...

From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she livedGoddess of Anarchy recounts the...

Shipping is a pillar of global trade, with 90 per cent of the world’s trade in goods and raw materials carried by ship. Despite the economic benefi...

A call to action in an ongoing battle against industrial agriculture From the early twentieth century and across generations to the present, In the...

This book is essential for anyone working in laboratories or workshops, as it provides crucial insights into safety measures, accident management, ...

The Great Labour Unrest examines the struggle between liberals, socialists and revolutionary syndicalists for control of Britain's best established...

Reworking Japan examines how the past several decades of neoliberal economic restructuring and reforms have challenged Japan's corporate ideologies...

"While demographic forces make it inevitable that social institutions that encouraged workers to retire in their early sixties must change, this bo...

First published in 1956, Empire in Wood is the definitive history of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, from its predeces...

The book is designed to help trainers design and deliver health and safety training in a fun and high-impact way, such that trainees engage with th...

Over recent years, many companies have developed an awareness of the importance of an active, rather than passive, approach to wellbeing at work. W...

The realities of globalization have produced a surprising reversal in the focus and strategies of labor movements around the world. After years of ...

In Mobilizing Restraint, Emmanuel Teitelbaum argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, democracies are better at managing industrial conflict t...

The exceptional weakness of the American labor movement has often been attributed to the successful resistance of American employers to unionizatio...

From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on Ameri...

The essays in this book, written by people involved either involved in the strike (graduate students, faculty, organizers) or who are nationally re...

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

The Japanese way of work is notoriously ‘different’. But is it Japan or Britain which is the odd man out? When originally published this was the fi...

In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 20...

Between 1870 and 1942, successive generations of Asians and Asian Americans—predominantly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino—formed the predominant b...

How do accidents and disasters occur? How has knowledge of accident processes evolved? A significant improvement in safety has occurred during the ...

This book provides practical insights into improving the effectiveness of labour negotiations in the public sector. It outlines the common concepti...

The Enterprise Culture of the 1980s helped transform economies of Western Europe, but left behind a legacy of stress, both for managers and shop fl...