Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

Nanotechnology safety is the practice of handling engineered nanomaterials in production and manufacturing.

As life spans expanded dramatically in the United States after 1900, and employers increasingly demanded the speed and stamina of youth in the workplace, men struggled to sustain identities as workers, breadwinners, and patriarchs-the core ideals of twentieth-century masculinity.

This companion to the bestselling Introduction to Health and Safety at Work will help you prepare for the written assessments on the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety (2019 specification).

This book explores theory and practice in the complex policy area of privately rented housing in England, with a particular focus on environmental and public health.

Organized labor is about the collective efforts of employees to improve their economic, social, and political position.

This book provides chemists with technical insight on pyrotechnics and explosives.

There is widespread public concern about hazardous chemicals that are contained in air, soil, water and food.

Introduces the reader to a variety of overseas Homeland Security strategies, policies, and practices in order to present approaches to addressing homeland security challenges and inform students and practitioners This book educates those studying or involved in American Homeland Security on the policies and procedures set by other countries so that they can learn from foreign experiences and determine which overseas approaches may be applicable to improving US Homeland Security policy.

Where Next for Health and Safety?

This book explicitly addresses racism in the paid workplace, showing how racism, and by corollary sexism, are systemic to society.

The first training manual for new staff working in BSL3/4 labs.

In the early 21st century, radically changing work locations and patterns have jolted society to reflect more on the ways that employment affects the body and the mind.

Talking Safety summarises in a short user-friendly read the key element of safety leadership - the management and supervisor 'walk and talk'.

This book explores theory and practice in the complex policy area of privately rented housing in England, with a particular focus on environmental and public health.

In this extraordinary tale of union democracy, Dana L.

Within the labor relations paradigm, employee voice is broadly defined as the ways and means through which employees 'have a say' and influence organizational issues at work.

Today's workforce is experiencing job burnout in epidemic proportions.

This book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "e;Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement,"e; held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union.

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West.

Architecture and Social Behavior (1977) is a groundbreaking study that presents the findings from a five year programme of research concerned with evaluating the impact of architectural design on behavior.

Fukushima Accident presents up-to-date information on radioactivity released to the atmosphere and the ocean after the accident on the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, on the distribution of radionuclides in the world atmosphere and oceans, and their impact on the total environment (man, fauna, and flora).

Occupational Safety and Health for the Young Professional provides a compelling and comprehensive-yet easy-to-read-guide for students and aspiring professionals looking to work in the field of occupational safety and health (S&H).

Fueled by more than 40 years in the safety industry and having conducted thousands of interviews with managers and workers worldwide, Ron C.

Labor Markets and Business Cycles integrates search and matching theory with the neoclassical growth model to better understand labor market outcomes.

Many companies have taken steps to improve awareness and management of safety systems, yet safety directors continue to report high injury rates.

Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the period's most volatile labor strikes.

Since the 1970s, the striking increase in immigration to the United States has been accompanied by a marked change in the composition of the immigrant community, with a much higher percentage of foreign-born workers coming from Latin America and Asia and a dramatically lower percentage from Europe.

Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside.

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.

In the early twentieth century, a group of women workers hired to apply luminous paint to watch faces and instrument dials found themselves among the first victims of radium poisoning.

Some of the most beloved characters in film and television inhabit two-dimensional worlds that spring from the fertile imaginations of talented animators.

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.

The construction industry is vital to any national economy; it is also one of the industries most susceptible to workplace incidents.

Despite many advances, 20 American workers die each day as a result of occupational injuries.

As leaders increasingly understand the importance of good safety practice to support their business objectives, safety and health practitioners develop better tools and solutions.

Japanese manufacturing firms established in Britain have often been portrayed as carriers of Japanese corporate best practice for work and employment.

This new textbook fills an important gap in the existing literature, in that it prepares construction engineering and built environment students for their first experience of the jobsite.

Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO.

Ronald W.

Labor unions and courts have rarely been allies.

Measuring Underemployment: Demographic Indicators for the United States discusses the Labor Utilization Framework of Hauser and Sullivan, which is a measurement scheme that posits the existence of three dimensions, or forms, of underemployment- time, income, and skill-utilization.

France is often described as one of the last Western economies unable to reform itself in the face of globalization.

An indispensable and timely guide, Risk is the authority for assessing threats to your health and safety.

This book explores the precarious margins of contemporary labour markets.

Air Pollution, Climate and Health integrates the current understanding of the issues of air pollution, climate change and human health.