Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

This book will present contributions by economists, systems developers, safety, health services, occupational and environmental health, and biomedical researchers in the fields of regulatory development, safety, quality assurance, health outcomes, occupational health, and biomedicine.

Overcoming Capitalism is a book about strategy, particularly how the powerless can get the upper hand.

Atthe very end of Rebellion in Patagonia, Osvaldo Bayer writes: Time always tears down the curtain that tries to hide the truth.

Seeing the writing on the wall, one of Spain's largest unions began secretly arming workers throughout the country.

Sewing Freedom is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early 20th centurya time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare, and a radical working class counter-culture.

Most people spend at least 40 hours a week in the office, and constant deadlines, heavy workloads, and daily dilemmas can make working a stressful experience.

For decades, researchers have examined the job stressors and their outcomes for individuals and organizations.

Volume 16 of "e;Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations"e; ("e;AILR"e;) highlights important and interesting aspects of industrial and labor relations.

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

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 book examines the contribution of different Christian traditions to the waves of democratisation that have swept various parts of the world in recent decades.

This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the 'global justice movement'.

Cultural warfare and trust: fighting the Mafia in Palermo concentrates on a central issue in research on democratic processes: the development of generalised trust.

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

This new edition examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the 'democratic project' which increasingly dominates the fields of comparative development and international relations.

This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the 'global justice movement'.

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.

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

Cultural warfare and trust: fighting the Mafia in Palermo concentrates on a central issue in research on democratic processes: the development of generalised trust.

This book examines the contribution of different Christian traditions to the waves of democratisation that have swept various parts of the world in recent decades.

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

The laws relating to the environment and health and safety have become so closely interrelated that the previous edition of the Pocket Guide to Environmental Law has been completely revised, updated and enlarged to include Health and Safety Law.

Uninsured in America goes to the heart of why more than forty million Americans are falling through the cracks in the health care system, and what it means for society as a whole when so many people suffer the consequences of inadequate medical care.

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.

Understanding and recognising failure mechanisms in concrete is a fundamental pre-requisite to determining the type of repair, or whether a repair is feasible.

Structural health monitoring is an extremely important methodology in evaluating the 'health' of a structure by assessing the level of deterioration and remaining service life of civil infrastructure systems.

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

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.

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.