Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

Gesund bleiben am Arbeitsplatz-  Erfolgsfaktor BGM: So etablieren Sie ein Gesundheitsmanagement im Unternehmen- Gesunde Mitarbeitende als Faktor für UnternehmenserfolgDie Mitarbeitenden sind das wichtigste Vermögen eines Unternehmens.

Gesund bleiben am Arbeitsplatz-  Erfolgsfaktor BGM: So etablieren Sie ein Gesundheitsmanagement im Unternehmen- Gesunde Mitarbeitende als Faktor für UnternehmenserfolgDie Mitarbeitenden sind das wichtigste Vermögen eines Unternehmens.

An "e;engaging"e; firsthand account of the organizing effort inside one of the world's largest tech companies-and its impact on one Pittsburgh family (Booklist).

This Handbook seeks to examine and advance current understanding of the confluence of construction health, safety and well-being and the broad range of Industry 4.

This Handbook seeks to examine and advance current understanding of the confluence of construction health, safety and well-being and the broad range of Industry 4.

When accidents occur in the oil and gas industry, the impacts can be profound.

The purpose of this book is to awaken leaders to the unique opportunities now present in the areas typically delegated to Health and Safety.

On September 30, 1919, local law enforcement in rural Phillips County, Arkansas, attacked black sharecroppers at a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America.

Building and Facilities Maintenance Management: An Innovative Operational Approach is a new introductory textbook aimed at students who are studying building maintenance and asset management for the first time as part of their undergraduate or foundation course.

The rise and fall of America's first truly interracial labor union For almost a decade during the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia waterfront was home to the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the United States prior to the CIO era.

As companies increasingly look to the global market for capital, cheaper commodities and labor, and lower production costs, the impact on Mexican and American workers and labor unions is significant.

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Though recognized for their work in the mining and railroad industries, the Chinese also played a critical role in the nineteenth-century lumber trade.

Starting in the 1990s, San Francisco launched a series of bold but relatively unknown public policy experiments to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers.

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

The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks traces the evolution of revolutionary anarchist ideas in Europe and their migration to the United States in the 1880s.

Award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks has explored the U.

From the time of Booker T.

Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning.

Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment.

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.

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.

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

When the Great Depression hit, millions of families were affected but the degree of effect varied greatly between cities and farms.

From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes.

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, and in New York City, few such jobs were as sought-after as positions in the fire department (FDNY).

The 1920s Jazz Age is remembered for flappers and speakeasies, not for the success of a declining labor movement.

Pacific countries lack workers with construction skills and rely on large firms to import skilled workers for large infrastructure projects.

One worrisome trend in Asia is growing inequality-the rich are getting richer much faster than the poor.

Across the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), there are over 500 special economic zones (SEZs) and industrial zones located near GMS economic corridors and covering over 50 million people.

Public-sector employees enjoy much more generous pay and benefit packages than private-sector workers, including guaranteed pensions and retiree health benefits whose long-term costs threaten to break the backs of state and local taxpayers.

The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically since the 1970s.

Nanotechnology is a new and emerging discipline that is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary.

Remediation of Contaminated Environments summarises - amongst other things - what happened to the people and environment around Chernobyl (and other nuclear sites) and what measures need to be taken in future in the event of nuclear accidents etc.

In this important reference work, Zeliger catalogs the known effects of chemical mixtureson the human body and also proposes a framework for understanding and predicting theiractions in terms of lipophile (fat soluble) / hydrophile (water soluble) interactions.

In the last twenty years considerable progress has been made in process safety, particularly in regard to regulatory compliance.

Human Fatigue Risk Management: Improving Safety in the Chemical Processing Industry teaches users everything they need to know to mitigate the risk of fatigued workers in a plant or refinery.

There is widespread public concern about hazardous chemicals that are contained in air, soil, water and food.

Any structural system in service is subject to age-related deterioration, leading to potential concerns regarding maintenance, health & safety, environmental and economic implications.

Engineers need to be able to test the flammability of the materials they use in buildings and other structures.

Toxic fire effluents are responsible for the majority of fire deaths, and an increasing large majority of fire injuries, driven by the widespread and increasing use of synthetic polymers.

This book is a direct companion to Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens in that the hazardous chemicals listed in Sittig's Handbook are the source for this guide.

Databook of Biocides contains critical data on the most important biocides in use today.

This book analyses the principle of equality from three perspectives: public international law, private international law and EU law.

The book builds an innovative theoretical framework, through which previously neglected international factors are brought into the analysis of transitions to democracy.

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

The definitive guide to distribution and transmission line technology-fully revised for the latest standardsThoroughly updated to reflect the 2017 National Electrical Safety Code (NESC ), this authoritative resource explains the principles and practices of electric transmission and distribution line construction, operation, and maintenance.

The first complete history of US industry's most influential and controversial lobbyistFounded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers-NAM-helped make manufacturing the basis of the US economy and a major source of jobs in the twentieth century.