Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

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.

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

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

Fatigue is a mechanism of failure which involves the formation and growth of cracks under the action of repeated stresses.

This book provides a summary of the main obstacles for creating and maintaining high standards of health and safety in higher education and research organisations.

This book provides a summary of the main obstacles for creating and maintaining high standards of health and safety in higher education and research organisations.

Volume 25 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains eight new peer-reviewed papers highlighting key aspects of employment relations from a global perspective.

Volume 25 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains eight new peer-reviewed papers highlighting key aspects of employment relations from a global perspective.

The first major study of how the pandemic affected gig workersa sociological exploration that reads like a novel.

Logistics is a complex industry that exposes employees to a whole variety of risks.

After a generation of retreat and decline, the trade unions are once more starting to command the public agenda and become a major force in political and social life in the UK.

US Labor in Trouble and Transition tells the story of union decline in America and of the split in the labor movement it led to, following the dismal tale of union mergers and management partnerships that accompanied the retreat from militancy since the 1980s.

Introduction to Environmental Toxicology is designed as a concise text, introducing students to the fundamentals of this important subject.

Introduction to Environmental Toxicology is designed as a concise text, introducing students to the fundamentals of this important subject.

The first attempt since the 1980s to analyse the British state's capacity to block change and derail social movements.

Thirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of "e;the white working class,"e; a strike wave-the first in over four decades-rocked the United States.

In this short and accessible book, Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite the Union, presents the case for joining a trade union.

Women across the world experience gender-based violence and harassment in the workplace.

Women across the world experience gender-based violence and harassment in the workplace.

There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization of labour regimes in various disciplines.

There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization of labour regimes in various disciplines.

Where Next for Health and Safety?

Improve employee safety, reduce workplace incidents and create better, safer working conditionsAccording to a report from the ILO (International Labour Organization), there are more than 2.

Improve employee safety, reduce workplace incidents and create better, safer working conditionsAccording to a report from the ILO (International Labour Organization), there are more than 2.

Volume 24 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains eight papers highlighting important aspects of the employment relationship.

Volume 24 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains eight papers highlighting important aspects of the employment relationship.

An evening of shameless entertainment,of divine feminine fury.

Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated.

Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated.

Higher education has long been contested terrain.

Higher education has long been contested terrain.

In the field of 'climate change', no terrain goes uncontested.

In the field of 'climate change', no terrain goes uncontested.

'Work hard, have fun, make history' proclaims the slogan on the walls of Amazon's warehouses.

'Work hard, have fun, make history' proclaims the slogan on the walls of Amazon's warehouses.

With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions?

With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions?

Capitalism is a dynamic system, continually adapting itself to exploit workers in new ways.

Capitalism is a dynamic system, continually adapting itself to exploit workers in new ways.

**Winner of the UALE Book Award 2021**Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become the richest person in history, and one of the few people to profit from a global pandemic.

**Winner of the UALE Book Award 2021**Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become the richest person in history, and one of the few people to profit from a global pandemic.

In 2009, cabin crew in the BASSA union embarked on a historic, two-year battle against British Airways which was seeking to impose reduced crew levels and to transform working conditions.

In 2009, cabin crew in the BASSA union embarked on a historic, two-year battle against British Airways which was seeking to impose reduced crew levels and to transform working conditions.

From Cuba to Vietnam, from China to South Africa, the October Revolution inspired millions of people beyond the territory of Russia.