Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

The 2008 global financial crisis and the subsequent Eurozone crisis triggered dramatic changes in European labour relations.

With the advancements in sensor and computation technologies, connected autonomous vehicle (CAV) services are being tested and deployed on public roads, sharing the road with human- driven vehicles (HVs).

Written to celebrate the 30th anniversary of CEDR's emergence as the world's leading independent disputes consultancy, The Mediator's Tale: The CEDR Story of Better Conflicts captures the experience of two leading internationally renowned mediators and married couple Eileen Carroll and Karl Mackie.

With growing international competition, American firms have been gaced with increasing pressures to produce better products, cut costs, and improve efficiency.

This book aims to encourage a more reflective, multidisciplinary approach to public safety, and the 'reenfranchisement' of those affected by this new phenomenon.

The objective of these proceedings was to provide a platform for the exchange of information on the design, construction and operation of fusion experiments.

This book provides an up-to-date, accessible, and comprehensive coverage of human cold stress from principles and theory to practical application.

In this fresh perspective on one of the major demographic trends in our history, Weiner skillfully interweaves evidence on women's employment, government social policy, and the contemporary debate about women's sphere to explore the interconnections between patterns of women's work and the ideologies that arose in response to that work.

Corporate governance is a complex idea that is often inappropriately simplified as a cookbook of recommended measures to improve financial performance.

The history of the north-shore railways provides a case study in the complexities of industrial development in nineteenth-century Quebec.

This book discusses the fundamental skills, techniques, and tools of auditing, and the characteristics of a good process safety management system.

Ruth Milkman's groundbreaking research in women's labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States.

This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism.

This book on TENR discusses the basic Physics and Chemistry principles of natural radiation.

This innovative book aims to bring the science of safety into a simple and practical approach to investigating workplace incidents.

Essentials of Occupational Health Psychology provides a thorough overview of Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) with a focus on empowering readers to take appropriate and reasoned action to address a wide variety of worker health, safety, and well-being challenges that are present in working situations all over the world.

Time-Dependent Reliability Theory and Its Applications introduces the theory of time-dependent reliability and presents methods to determine the reliability of structures over the lifespan of their services.

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

Occupational health psychology (OHP) involves the application of psychology to improving the quality of work life and to promoting and protecting the safety, health and well-being of employees.

In October 2015, the federal Liberals came to power with sweeping plans to revamp Canada's democratic and federal institutions - a modernizing agenda intended to revitalize Canada's democratic architecture.

Detroit's Cold War locates the roots of American conservatism in a city that was a nexus of labor and industry in postwar America.

Decades of neoliberal authoritarianism have propelled Turkey into crisis.

This is the first systematic study of strikebreaking, intimidation, and anti-unionism in the United States, subjects essential to a full understanding of labor's fortunes in the twentieth century.

Much has been written about the care of research animals.

'Decent Work' is a concept developed by the International Labour Organisation that sums up the aspirations of people in work life.

Safety Management Systems: Applications for the Aviation Industry provides an in-depth review of specific applications of an aviation-related Safety Management System (SMS) by following it from design through application.

EHS auditing has been around since the mid-1970's when the Securities and Exchange Commission launched enforcement actions against three U.

In an original and striking study of migration management in operation, Disrupting Deportability highlights obstacles confronting temporary migrant workers in Canada seeking to exercise their labor rights.

Environmental Ergonomics addresses the problems of maintaining human comfort, activity and health in stressful environments.

This book serves as a technical yet practical risk management manual for professionals working with water and wastewater organizations.

In 1938, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) sent communist union organizer Arthur "e;Slim"e; Evans to the smelter city of Trail, British Columbia, to establish Local 480 of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.

This book presents findings from EU (and other) projects on the theme of science in society, focusing on nanotechnology and the potential for democratisation of science.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Construction Superintendents: Essential Skills for the Next Generation is the first college-level textbook designed to prepare you to take on a site supervisor role on a complex jobsite.

Operating at a high level of fuel efficiency, safety, proliferation-resistance, sustainability and cost, generation IV nuclear reactors promise enhanced features to an energy resource which is already seen as an outstanding source of reliable base load power.

You just know that an improvement of the user interface will reap rewards, but how do you justify the expense and the labor and the time-guarantee a robust ROI!

Published in the 50th anniversary year of the 1973 Durban strikes, Labour Disrupted honours this milestone by reflecting on the past and the future of labour, primarily in South Africa but also globally.

State and federal regulations affecting hazardous air pollutants have produced an escalating dilemma for industrial facilities.

It is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers.

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

With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today.

The Dictionary for Human Factors/Ergonomics is a major compilation of the basic terminology in the field of ergonomics.

Every porn scene is a record of people at work.

Nuclear Decommissioning Case Studies: Safety, Environmental and Security Rules, Volume Four in Michele Laraia's series that presents a selection of global case studies on different aspects of Nuclear Decommissioning, focuses on the people side, including public perception, public relations and human factors.

What are the correlations between the education employees bring to their jobs, the education required to do those jobs, and the skills employees acquire while working on the job?