Industrial arbitration and negotiation

This practical text on the handling of investigations and safeguards includes a comprehensive historical and conceptual overview.

This book demonstrates how the public international law character of investment treaty arbitration has impacted on the dispute settlement procedure.

A human rights analysis of international efforts to confiscate wealth in grand corruption cases that focuses on protections for property.

Shows how political and legal forces have shaped the evolution of a surprisingly effective regime to resolve transborder commercial disputes.

A leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements shares stories from the front lines to help us organize our own workplaces and ';better understand the aims and goals for a resurgent trade union movement and how workers all over the country can join in solidarity with it' (Senator Bernie Sanders).

Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded the slave trade, and spurred Spains northern European competitors to become Atlantic powers.

This cutting-edge volume offers a theoretical and applied introduction to the emerging legal technology and informatics industry.

A practical and thematic approach to negotiation and mediation for students and professionals.

The first comprehensive, article-by-article commentary on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration.

The first comprehensive, article-by-article commentary on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration.

Uses an interdisciplinary and empirical approach to analyze the process of institutionalizing alternative dispute resolution (ADR) for shareholder disputes in Hong Kong.

Many of the rules that govern labor markets in Latin America (and elsewhere) raise labor costs, create barriers to entry, and introduce rigidities in the employment structure.

Do your company and employees have the necessary "e;IQ"e; not only to withstand a crisis but also come through it with strength and confidence?

Some of the most beloved characters in film and television inhabit two-dimensional worlds that spring from the fertile imaginations of talented animators.

Whether as slaves or freedmen, the political and social status of African Americans has always been tied to their ability to participate in the nation's economy.

In this updated edition of a groundbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on three issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument concerning equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories.

In this updated edition of a groundbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on three issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument concerning equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories.

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Some of the most beloved characters in film and television inhabit two-dimensional worlds that spring from the fertile imaginations of talented animators.

A riveting account of labors bottom-up resurgence, providing a roadmap for workers, unions, and social movements to win widely.

With growing international competition, American firms have been gaced with increasing pressures to produce better products, cut costs, and improve efficiency.

Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions.

Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels.

The United States has seen a dramatic rise in the number of informal day labor sites in the last two decades.

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

In the blizzard of attention around the virtues of local food production, food writers and activists place environmental protection, animal welfare, and saving small farms at the forefront of their attention.

With a Foreword by Bruce Springsteen In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S.

Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning.

Delving beneath Southern California's popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles's large working class.

Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions.

This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption.

Award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks has explored the U.

In this gripping ethnography, Jeffrey J.

In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States.

Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the "e;shadow mothers"e; they hire.

Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant.

This study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country.

From the time of Booker T.

How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's economy seems to demand.

The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species.

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In his 1999 book, Disposable People, Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished (legal slavery would have to wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Japan embarked on a mission to modernize its society and industry.

In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention.

"e;I got my first job working in a toy store when I was 41 years old.

This highly accessible, engagingly written book exposes the underbelly of California's Silicon Valley, the most successful high-technology region in the world, in a vivid ethnographic study of Mexican immigrants employed in Silicon Valley's low-wage jobs.

This eloquent, streetwise book is a paean to America's Rust Belt and a compelling exploration of four milieus caught up in a great transformation of city life.

In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles.

Although slavery is illegal throughout the world, we learned from Kevin Bales's highly praised expose, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, that more than twenty-seven million people-in countries from Pakistan to Thailand to the United States--are still trapped in bondage.

Most of us have sat across the tray from a waitress, but how many of us know what really is going on from her side?