Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

In the late twentieth century, nothing united union members, progressive students, Black and Chicano activists, Native Americans, feminists, and members of the LGBTQ+ community quite as well as Coors beer.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually?

In this unique book, Sidney Dekker tackles a largely unexplored dilemma.

Virtual reality (VR) techniques are becoming increasingly popular.

This textbook - now thoroughly revised and updated - provides a practical guide for those in training, or practising within, occupational health nursing.

Now in its third edition, this authoritative handbook offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of work and health psychology.

In the twentieth century, Americans have increasingly looked to the schools--and, in particular, to the nation's colleges and universities--as guardians of the cherished national ideal of equality of opportunity.

Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians shows how outdoor lighting is important for pedestrians' safety, personal security, and comfort, with major impacts on street, path, and park aesthetics and neighborhood sense of place.

In this gripping ethnography, Jeffrey J.

Valores, profesionalismo y bioética aplicada es un trabajo que traslada al lector, la que fuera su tesis para alcanzar la titulación de Experto en bioética aplicada al ámbito clinico y experimentación por la Universidad Europea del Atlántico, España.

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

Designing Coffee Shops and Cafes for Community brings together research, theory, and practical applications for designing coffee shops and cafes as places to enhance community connections.

An understanding of organizational change management (OCM) an often overlooked subject is essential for successful corporate decision making with little adverse effect on the health and safety of employees or the surrounding community.

Wastewater-based Epidemiology for the Assessment of Human Exposure to Environmental Pollutants discusses wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) and its use in risk assessment and monitoring of human exposure to hazardous pollutants and pathogens.

This book covers a wide range of topics relating to the health and wellbeing of the construction workforce.

The Great Labour Unrest examines the struggle between liberals, socialists and revolutionary syndicalists for control of Britain's best established district miners' union.

This volume contains distinctive papers that explore important aspects of contemporary employment relationships, some on micro level in orientation, whereas others are more macro oriented.

For human resource professionals, labor law specialists, and others involved in the practice of labor-management relations, Lencsis provides a concise, easily-accessed description of the workers compensation system in the United States, its governing laws and also its insurance aspects.

People deal with physical hazards every day at the workplace, in their homes, on the roadways, and in many other areas.

This is a story of art and movement building at the limits of imagination.

Of the wave of labor strikes that swept through the South in 1929, the one at the Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, is perhaps the best remembered.

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

Occupational Health and Safety has been a growth industry for several decades and has moved beyond the realm of the human resource department and workers' compensation claims.

Worker centers are becoming an important element in labor and community organizing and the struggle for fair pay and decent working conditions for low-wage workers, especially immigrants.

Drawing a transdisciplinary perspective, this book investigates the ways in which gender intersect with rebuilding and post-disaster recovery process.

Disaster medicine is a broad and dynamic field that encompasses the medical and surgical response to mass casualty incidents including rail, air, and road traffic accidents; domestic terrorism; and pandemic outbreaks.

Nuclear Power Reactor Designs: From History to Advances analyzes nuclear designs throughout history and explains how each of those has helped to shape and inform the nuclear reactor designs of today and the future.

Francois Ewald's landmark The Birth of Solidarity-first published in French in 1986, revised in 1996, with the revised edition appearing here in English for the first time-is one of the most important historical and philosophical studies of the rise of the welfare state.

Work has never been as safe as it seems today.

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.

This book looks at the success of attempts to expand the boundaries of the postwar welfare state in The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Following an enquiry by a Royal Commission in 1957-60, the London Government Act, 1963 made sweeping changes in the local government of Greater London.

The United States has recently witnessed an explosion of personal injury lawsuits involving medical malpractice, unsafe products, and widespread environmental hazards.

This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the transition from communism to capitalism.

This book is devoted to the efforts of Environmental Health Practitioners (EHPs), their employers and supportive professional bodies world-wide in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Service life estimation is an area of growing importance in civil engineering both for determining the remaining service life of civil engineering structures and for designing new structural systems with well-defined periods of functionality.

Nuclear Power Plant Design and Analysis Codes: Development, Validation, and Application presents the latest research on the most widely used nuclear codes and the wealth of successful accomplishments which have been achieved over the past decades by experts in the field.

Created for those who have little experience with statistics, or for those who need to keep a concise reference book on hand, this newly updated handbook provides an introductory guide to basic statistics and data analysis.

Nuclear Decommissioning Case Studies: Organization and Management, Economics, and Staying in Business is the fifth volume in Michele Laraia's series, which presents a selection of global case studies on different aspects of nuclear decommissioning.

Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products.

Occupational safety and health management theory is now rightly focused on pro-activity, risk assessment and management.

Introduction to Oil and Gas Operational Safety is aligned directly to the NEBOSH International Technical Certificate in Oil and Gas Operational Safety.

This book is the first piece of extensive research in studying employment relations in ethnic Chinese small businesses in Britain.

Much of the received wisdom about the world of work emphasizes the marketization of the employment relationship; the decline of class-based forms of inequality, and the individualization of employment relations.

Safety Rebels: Real-World Transformations in Health and Safety discusses the pragmatic experiences of over 30 safety professionals worldwide who managed to positively transform safety within their organizations.