Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

In the blizzard of attention around the virtues of local food production, food writers and activists place environmental protection, animal welfare, and saving small farms at the forefront of their attention.

The United States is among the most affluent nations in the world and has its largest economy; nevertheless, it has more poverty than most countries with similar standards of living.

With a Foreword by Bruce Springsteen In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S.

Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning.

Delving beneath Southern California's popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles's large working class.

Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions.

This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption.

Award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks has explored the U.

In this gripping ethnography, Jeffrey J.

In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States.

Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the "e;shadow mothers"e; they hire.

Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant.

Challenging many common perceptions, this is the first book fully dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon-the large numbers of skilled urban workers who are now coming across the border from Mexico's cities.

This study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country.

Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives a rare insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California.

This concise overview of the labor movement in the United States focuses on why American workers have failed to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries.

From the time of Booker T.

How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's economy seems to demand.

The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species.

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In his 1999 book, Disposable People, Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished (legal slavery would have to wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Japan embarked on a mission to modernize its society and industry.

In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention.

"e;I got my first job working in a toy store when I was 41 years old.

This highly accessible, engagingly written book exposes the underbelly of California's Silicon Valley, the most successful high-technology region in the world, in a vivid ethnographic study of Mexican immigrants employed in Silicon Valley's low-wage jobs.

This eloquent, streetwise book is a paean to America's Rust Belt and a compelling exploration of four milieus caught up in a great transformation of city life.

In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles.

Although slavery is illegal throughout the world, we learned from Kevin Bales's highly praised expose, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, that more than twenty-seven million people-in countries from Pakistan to Thailand to the United States--are still trapped in bondage.

Most of us have sat across the tray from a waitress, but how many of us know what really is going on from her side?

The only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.

A commonplace assumption about American workers is that they lack class consciousness.

An ambitious new work by a well-respected sociologist, Information and Organizations provides a bold perspective of the dynamics of organizations.

Based on official Chinese sources as well as intensive interviews with Hong Kong residents formerly employed in mainland factories, Andrew Walder's neo-traditional image of communist society in China will be of interest not only to those concerned with China and other communist countries, but also to students of industrial relations and comparative social science.

How do women choose between work and family commitments?

While it is often acknowledged that we live in a "e;postindustrial"e; age, our economic concepts have lagged far behind our postmodern sensibility.

Choose your hours, choose your work, be your own boss, control your own income.

An authoritative account of how the workplace has changed, and why it has changed, for both workers and employers.

Delving beneath Southern California's popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles's large working class.

This book examines the changing fortunes of Australian trade unionism in the past 40 years.

In the world of safety science, where complex socio-technical systems demand innovative approaches, the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) stands as a beacon of insight.

An authoritative account of how the workplace has changed, and why it has changed, for both workers and employers.

This book identifies the political origins of bureaucratic neutrality.

An accessible but thought-provoking introduction to labour law.

This book studies changes in the employment relationship and the implications for labor and employment law.

This 2004 book examines the influence of EC rules on European nations'' policies towards part-time working.

This 2006 book addresses the implications of globalization for the legal regulation of the workplace.

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).

Japanese employment, corporate governance and management issues set in context of modern business practice, originally published in 2005.

A history of British trade unions between 1933 and 2000, covering key issues and controversies.

Sylos Labini suggests a strategy of institutional reform to tackle problems of underdevelopment.