Industrial Relations

Partners in Gatekeeping illuminates a complex, distinctly transnational story that recasts the development of U.S. immigration policies and institu...

Within the labor relations paradigm, employee voice is broadly defined as the ways and means through which employees have a say and influence organ...

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

Title first published in 2003. Contributors from a wide range of European countries illustrate the validity of four propositions about employee par...

In the late twentieth century, nothing united union members, progressive students, Black and Chicano activists, Native Americans, feminists, and me...

From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate. As America's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO...

For many African Americans, getting a public sector job has historically been one of the few paths to the financial stability of the middle class, ...

When acclaimed labor historian Julie M. Greene researched her book The Canal Builders, which went on to be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2009, ...

Whether valorized as the heartland or derided as flyover country, the American Midwest became instantly notorious when COVID-19 infections skyrocke...

This title was first published in 2002: Although the economic integration of the European Union is far-advanced, its social dimension remains under...

Through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, employers and powerful individuals deployed a variety of tactics to control ordinary peo...

This title was first published in 2000: This book describes and accounts for the patterns of industrial relations which have emerged in the UK coal...

Comprising five thematic sections, this volume provides a critical, international and interdisciplinary exploration of employment relations. It exa...

Autoworkers in Oshawa unionized the General Motors plant in Oshawa in 1937 after a bitterly fought strike that pitted them against a rabidly anti-u...

Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Cornell ILR School, 2019 A Black Perspectives Be...

What happened to the loggers of Americas past when lumbermen moved west and south in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How did the...

This is the first book to provide a clear overview and innovative analysis of the multiple ways the European Union affects industrial relations. It...

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

Employment Relations in South Korea provides readers with an overarching view of Korean employment relations and insight into recent changes, and a...

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

In this absorbing narrative, Barry E.C. Boothman traces the history of Abitibi Power & Paper Limited alongside the rise and fall of the newspri...

In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art as a passion for self-expression and an activity done out of love, without an...

From the very dawn of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organised themselves into unions, fought bitter strikes and even gone so far as to ch...

A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroadFor the...

Revisiting Gramsci's Notebooks offers a rich collection of historical, philosophical, and political studies addressing the thought of Antonio Grams...

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

In the 1960s, historians on both sides of the Atlantic began to challenge the assumptions of their colleagues and push for an understanding of hist...

Boston 's economy has become defined by a disconcerting trend that has intensified throughout much of the United States since the 2008 recession. E...

Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease, once thought to b...

From forced trusteeships to hostile inter-union raids, American labour has been gripped by a devastating civil war that has resulted in 30 years of...

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...