Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

Americans have always regarded farming as a special calling, oneimbued with the Jeffersonian values of individualism and self-sufficiency.

Aerosols in workplace atmospheres have been - and continue to be - a major focus of industrial hygiene.

Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory

This book analyses the literary response to the 1926 General Strike and sheds light on the relationship between modernist politics and literature.

In the late nineteenth century, Midwestern miners often had to decide if joining a union was in their interest.

Ernsting's Aviation and Space Medicine applies current understanding in medicine, physiology and the behavioural sciences to the medical challenges and stresses that are faced by both civil and military aircrew, and their passengers, on a daily basis.

Provides insights into how health and safety can be more effectively integrated into the procurement, design, and management of construction projects This book aims to explore the ways in which technological, organizational, and cultural strategies can be combined and integrated into construction project management to produce sustained and significant health and safety (H&S) improvements.

The book's breadth and grounding in labor law make it most accessible and useful to a professional audience, but even nonspecialists and lay readers will appreciate Blackett's insights about law and domestic work and provocative issues such as social stratification and immigration.

'Bretherick' is widely accepted as the reference work on reactive chemical hazards and is essential for all those working with chemicals.

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

Ernsting's Aviation and Space Medicine applies current understanding in medicine, physiology and the behavioural sciences to the medical challenges and stresses that are faced by both civil and military aircrew, and their passengers, on a daily basis.

The previous edition of the International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors made history as the first unified source of reliable information drawn from many realms of science and technology and created specifically with ergonomics professionals in mind.

This timely and comprehensive volume will spur and strengthen public debate over the role of teachers unions in education reform for years to come.

This lucid, hard-hitting book explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy: the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that depends on their labor to maintain its status as a world economic leader.

Bernan Press proudly presents the sixteenth edition of Employment, Hours, and Earnings: States and Areas, 2021.

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.

"e;"e;This timely book provides a wide-ranging and insightful discussion of how labor market institutions and policies influence the mechanisms of economic integration and how economic integration inturn is likely to influence key features of labor markets.

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Facilities which utilize hazardous liquids and gases represent a significant potential liability to the owner, operator, and general public in terms of personnel safety and preservation of assets.

In this innovative grassroots to global study, Kathleen Mapes explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest by introducing large factories, contract farming, and foreign migrant labor.

Well Testing is recognised by many operating oil and gas companies to be the most hazardous operation they routinely undertake.

Published to coincide with the centenary of the founding of the Actors' Equity Association in 1913, Weavers of Dreams, Unite!

Chinese workers helped build the modern world.

This book offers a unique contribution that examines major recent changes in conflict, negotiation and regulation within the labour relations systems and related governance institutions of advanced societies.

Risk-informed Methods and Applications in Nuclear and Energy Engineering: Modelling, Experimentation, and Validation presents a comprehensive view of the latest technical approaches and experimental capabilities in nuclear energy engineering.

The Exposome: A Primer is the first book dedicated to exposomics, detailing the purpose and scope of this emerging field of study, its practical applications and how it complements a broad range of disciplines.

The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history.

This book argues that liberalization of industrial relations has been a universal tendency among European countries over the last thirty-five years.

Focusing or Fragmenting Representation at Work?

Exploring the Blue Bioeconomy: Marine Bioresources and Sustainable Applications provides an overview of marine bioresources in the blue bioeconomy.

Some 70,000 hazardous materials are in various workplaces across the country.

Providing quality research for the reader, this title encompasses all the recent developments in smart sensor technology for health monitoring in aerospace structures, providing a valuable introduction to damage detection techniques.

Resonance Self-Shielding Calculation Methods in Nuclear Reactors presents the latest progress in resonance self-shielding methods for both deterministic and Mote Carlo methods, including key advances over the last decade such as high-fidelity resonance treatment, resonance interference effect and multi-group equivalence.

This book demonstrates some of the ways in which communication and developing technologies can improve global food and water safety by providing a historical background on outbreaks and public resistance, as well as generating interest in youth and potential professionals in the field History of muckraking in the food industry Case study on groundwater regulation Interviews with members of the beef industry and livestock market owners

Doron Taussig invites us to question the American Dream.

Other books on industrial hygiene focus more on classroom use than on practical application and are too large and cumbersome to use on the job.

The built environment influences health and well-being in a myriad of ways.

Over recent years, many companies have developed an awareness of the importance of an active, rather than passive, approach to wellbeing at work.

This companion to the bestselling Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction is an essential revision aid for students preparing for their written assessments on the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety.

Long a bastion of Jewish labor power, garment unions provided financial and political aid essential to founding and building the nation of Israel.

In this present internet age, risk analysis and crisis response based on information will make up a digital world full of possibilities and improvements to people's daily life and capabilities.

The book provides a collection of cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work, workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety.

Head, Eye, and Face Personal Protective Equipment: New Trends, Practice, and Applications presents protective equipment in the context of the latest design trends, materials, and technologies.

Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos.

In All I Want Is a Job!

There is an urgent need to disseminate ergonomics "e;know-how"e; to the work place.