Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

Workers in India program software applications, transcribe medical dictation online, chase credit card debtors, and sell mobile phones, diet pills, and mortgages for companies based in other countries around the world.

This compelling ethnography of women working in Bulgaria's popular sea and ski resorts challenges the idea that women have consistently fared worse than men in Eastern Europe's transition from socialism to a market economy.

"e;Diversity"e; has become a mantra in corporate boardrooms, higher education, and government hiring and contracting.

Chile was the first major Latin American nation to carry out a complete neoliberal transformation.

Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile's latifundia system of traditional landed estates and throughout the governments of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende.

Race on the Line is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry.

This classic study of the American working class, originally published in 1973, is now back in print with a new introduction and epilogue by the author.

In Men, Mobs, and Law, Rebecca N.

In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the growth of urban manufacturing was transforming the contours of women's wage work and stimulating significant public debate, new legislation, educational reform, and social movements directed at women workers.

High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies.

In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea.

In Contested Communities Thomas Miller Klubock analyzes the experiences of the El Teniente copper miners during the first fifty years of the twentieth century.

In 1946 Juan Peron launched a populist challenge to the United States, recruiting an army of labor activists to serve as worker attaches at every Argentine embassy.

Sandor Agocs presents an intellectual and social history of the nascent Italian labor movement, exploring the conflicts between the conservative Catholic hierarchy and Catholic activists.

"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.

The services industrieswhich include jobs ranging from flipping hamburgers to providing investment advicecan no longer be characterized, as they have in the past, as a stagnant sector marked by low productivity growth.

The Evolving Pension System examines the foundations and the future of the private pension system.

A Brookings Institution Press and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation publicationThe trend toward greater decentralization of governance activities, now accepted as commonplace in the West, has become a worldwide movement.

Ask people whether teachers unions are good or bad for education and you are likely to receive a wide variety of opinions.

Many of the rules that govern labor markets in Latin America (and elsewhere) raise labor costs, create barriers to entry, and introduce rigidities in the employment structure.

For more than a quarter century, Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens has proven to be among the most reliable, easy-to-use and essential reference works on hazardous materials.

Interwoven within our semiconductor technology development had been the development of technologies aimed at identifying, evaluating and mitigating the environmental, health and safety (EH&S) risks and exposures associated with the manufacturing and packaging of integrated circuits.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the primary industrial hygiene topics relevant to semiconductor processing: chemical and physical agents, and ventilation systems.

Damage from noise exposure of sufficient intensity and duration is well established and hearing loss may be temporary or permanent.

This book is a direct companion to Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens in that the hazardous chemicals listed in Sittig's Handbook are the source for this guide.

Provides an advanced level of study of industrial hygiene engineering situations with emphasis on the control of exposure to occupational health hazards.

This reference has been written for emergency response personnel, plant safety specialists, and emergency response coordinators.

Monitoring hazardous gases is highly complex, yet critical to semiconductor manufacturing.

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

The degree of danger in the atmosphere of a hazardous location needs to be determined prior to selecting an acceptable electrical equipment installation.

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.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of electrical system installation within areas where flammable gases and liquids are handled and processed.

This volume has been prepared for the Environmental and Health & Safety Manager.

This book describes fixed firewater pump installations for industrial facilities from the viewpoint of the end users, fire protection engineers, loss prevention professionals, and those just entering a career in which decisions about fire pump installations must be made.

This handbook has been prepared as a working reference for the safety officer, the environmental engineer, and the consultant.

This book describes the application of major safety reviews used in the process industries (principally petroleum, petrochemical, chemical industries, nuclear installations, utility systems, and medical facilities).

Do your company and employees have the necessary "e;IQ"e; not only to withstand a crisis but also come through it with strength and confidence?

Sandor Agocs presents an intellectual and social history of the nascent Italian labor movement, exploring the conflicts between the conservative Catholic hierarchy and Catholic activists.

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

Whether as slaves or freedmen, the political and social status of African Americans has always been tied to their ability to participate in the nation's economy.

In this updated edition of a groundbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on three issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument concerning equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories.

In this updated edition of a groundbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on three issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument concerning equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories.

This classic memoir is "e;an absorbing tale"e; of life in Appalachian Kentucky during the Great Depression (The Washington Post).

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

The broad chronological sweep and comprehensive nature of Reconsidering Southern Labor History set this volume apart from any other collection on the topic in the past forty years.

Film noir, which flourished in 1940s and 50s, reflected the struggles and sentiments of postwar America.

Given its importance in analysing and influencing the world around us, an understanding of colour is a vital tool in any design process.