Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

Learn the project management skills you need to survive as an EH&S professional.

Managing Electrical Safety provides an overview of electric basics, hazards, and established standards that enables you to understand the hazards you are likely to encounter in your workplace.

Using the simple and effective checklist method, this book offers a convenient and efficient way to comply with complicated federal regulations and to help your employees understand the dangers of the hazardous materials in your workplace.

In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas.

Conducted by NIOSH, these comprehensive case studies bring the latest research and technology to bear on workplace health problems which companies are likely to encounter at a variety of worksites.

Pierce helps you take control of the dizzying process of effecting changing procedures, processes, and attitudes in your company's safety and health program and then position your operations for continuous improvement.

This 2nd Edition is a significantly expanded exploration of hazardous chemicals, their effects on human health, and the principles of hazards materials toxicology and industrial hygiene.

Having written safety and health policies isn't enough.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as "e;unproductive citizens.

Harold Gibbons (1910-1982), leader of St.

In 1922, a coal miner strike spread across the United States, swallowing the heavily-unionized mining town of Herrin, Illinois.

The world of safety for professionals can often be unclear.

In 2017, Workers United/SEIU called veteran organizer Phil Cohen out of retirement to investigate and expose a union-busting plot by Mohawk Industries at a North Carolina carpet mill.

A central motor of Argentine historical and political development since the early twentieth century, unions have been the site of active citizenship in both political participation and the distribution of social, economic, political, and cultural rights.

Bob Crow was the most high-profile and militant union leader of his generation.

In this new work, political theorist Michael J.

You probably think that learning about the Great Depression is depressing.

Just how comprehensive is your company's safety plan?

Using an easy-to-use checklist format, author Jeffrey Stull, an internationally recognized expert in the area of protective clothing, examines the types of industrial and fire hazards that warrant PPE protection.

Emergency Preparedness: A Safety Guide to Planning for People, Property, and Business Continuity provides step-by-step instructions for developing prevention and response plans for all types of emergencies and disasters.

The seventh of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Transportation Protection and Homeland Security is a valuable reference source.

The third edition of Safety Engineering: Principles and Practices has been thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded.

Read about the Industrial Revolution and how that societal shift has affected millions of lives.

Cesar Chavez was one tough fellow.

Many companies have taken steps to improve awareness and management of safety systems, yet safety directors continue to report high injury rates.

Government-workers unions have been political juggernauts in the U.

In the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Marx explains how, under capitalism, people rely on labor to live.

Técnicas de Relajación para el Bienestar y la Vida Sana es un método fácil y práctico que se basa en ejercicios isométricos y entrenamientos alternativos.

This story of Latina labor organizers is "e;a vital accounting of the struggles still being waged"e; (Margaret Randall, author of When I Look Into the Mirror and See You: Women, Terror, and Resistance).

Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations is a refereed research volume published annually or biannually.

The Yearbook of International Sports Arbitration is the first academic publication aiming to offer comprehensive coverage, on a yearly basis, of the most recent and salient developments regarding international sports arbitration, through a combination of general articles and case notes.

Labour migration has become one of the hot topics in Europe, especially since 2000 with the shift from restriction to managed migration.

The repair of deteriorated, damaged and substandard civil infrastructures has become one of the most important issues for the civil engineer worldwide.

This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail.

This important book provides a comprehensive account of the advances that have occurred in fire science in relation to a broad range of materials.

Health and safety issues now impose upon almost every part of business life.

This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail.

Within the labor relations paradigm, employee voice is broadly defined as the ways and means through which employees 'have a say' and influence organizational issues at work.

Aeronautical Decision-Making and Aviation Safety in the Alaskan Operational Setting introduces the reader to the real-life experiences of aviators who fly in remote settings such as Alaska in the United States.

During the 1960s and 1970s, teachers, sanitation workers and many other public employees rose up to demand collective bargaining rights in one of the greatest upsurges in labor history.

Now in its fourth edition, Occupational Hearing Loss delivers a complete overview of the hazards of occupational noise exposure, causes of hearing loss, testing of hearing, criteria to distinguish occupational hearing loss, and more.

In recent years many employers in the U.

This book considers the potential setup for a future Multilateral Investment Court (MIC).

This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13-15 October 2016.

The field of risk science continues to learn from the long history of events to develop principles and practices that enable individuals, organizations, and societies to understand and manage future risk.

This book reviews recent research advances in sustainable agriculture, with focus on crop production, biodiversity and biofuels in Africa and Asia.

This book examines a range of contemporary ideas and arguments concerning the core yet unsettled clinical issues.

This volume provides case studies conducted in Malaysia based on environmental management and the sustainable development of human and ecological systems.

The aim of this book is to present articles that are stimulating to read and inform readers with the most up-to-date clinical research.