Industrial Relations

In Co-operative Struggles, Denise Kasparian expands the theoretical horizons regarding labour unrest by proposing new categories to make visible an...

Bostons economy has become defined by a disconcerting trend that has intensified throughout much of the United States since the 2008 recession. Eco...

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...

The book explores the effect of modern technological shifts on human society, showing that technologies are undergoing accelerating qualitative cha...

Philadelphia exploded in violence in 1910. The general strike that year was a notable point, but not a unique one, in a generations-long history of...

In order to describe how the elites in two political systems grappled with the potentially explosive influx of foreign labor, Gary Freeman analyzes...

A unique account of labor relations in the modern Chinese economy, Beyond the Iron Rice Bowl brings together more than thirty in-depth case studies...

Historical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet f...

The McCarthy-era witch hunts marked the culmination of an anticommunist crusade launched after the First World War. With Bolshevism triumphant in R...

As globally recognized arbitration experts, the authors of THE LABOR RELATIONS PROCESS bring nearly a century of combined experience with the labor...

Thirteen original chapters by major scholars examine different aspects of the ICU's record in the 1920s and 1930s, assessing its achievements and i...

What part do/should corporate actors play in global governance? With regard to concerns over such issues as public health, education, human rights,...

From grassroots to global activism, the untold story of the world's first domestic workers' movement. Domestic workers exist on the margins of the...

''[a] memoir of modern American industrial life, written by the insider who got away - or got away enough to reflect intelligently on where they ca...

In Songs of the Factory, Marek Korczynski examines the role that popular music plays in workers culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethn...

As the worlds factory China exerts an enormous pressure on workers around the world. Many nations have had to adjust to a new global political and ...

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...

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...

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...

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

Since the onset of the Great Recession, Germanys economy has been praised for its superior performance, which has been reminiscent of the economic ...

Volume 20 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains seven papers that deal with important aspects of employment relationships i...

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

In this ground breaking study of organic farming, Julie Guthman challenges accepted wisdom about organic food and agriculture in the Golden State. ...

In Employment Relations the authors translate years of experience, with the help of interesting vignettes, real life examples and connections with ...

An innovative study of labor relations, particularly the interactions of recruitment agents and migrant workers, in the mining concessions of Wassa...

Affirmative action is still a reality of the American workplace. How is it that such a controversial Federal program has managed to endure for more...