Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

This book provides the guidelines and fundamental methods of estimation and calculation needed by maintainability engineers.

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).

Reassessing the Employment Relationship is an edited volume written by leading academics at Cardiff Business School.

Company town.

Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands?

Shukri Z.

Museums and Well-being outlines the historical development of well-being within museums and offers a critical engagement with this field from a museum studies perspective.

This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail.

In response to the challenges of a growing population and food security, there is an urgent need to construct a new agri-food sustainability paradigm.

This book addresses smoke management in enclosures and provides a platform for understanding the principles of smoke propagation and spread, heat release rate, and the effect of sprinklers on suppression.

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

Natech Risk Assessment and Management: Reducing the Risk of Natural-Hazard Impact on Hazardous Installations covers the entire spectrum of issues pertinent to Natech risk assessment and management.

Safety Management Systems in Aviation presents the quality management underpinnings of SMS.

Assembled in Japan investigates one of the great success stories of the twentieth century: the rise of the Japanese electronics industry.

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.

How a distinctive approach to social policy led democracy to flourish in the Federal Republic of Germany despite its past.

"e;Uberization,"e; "e;digitalization,"e; "e;platform economy,"e; "e;gig economy,"e; and "e;sharing economy"e; are some of the buzzwords that characterize the current intense discussions about the development of the economy and work around the world, among both experts and laypersons.

This book provides 101 real-life construction management case studies from an author with over 40 years' experience in the construction industry and as a lecturer in construction management.

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

In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens.

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

Winner of the Herbert G.

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

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Taylorism has been the dominant mode of organizing paid work since early in the twentieth century.

The Double-Edged Sword is a guide to understanding and addressing the root causes of nurse compassion fatigue by effectively translating this knowledge into everyday preventive practice.

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.

The book's breadth and grounding in labor law make it most accessible and useful to a professional audience, but even nonspecialists and lay readers will appreciate Blackett's insights about law and domestic work and provocative issues such as social stratification and immigration.

Written for members of the construction industry and any industry where fall hazards exist, this reference book/self-study guide features more than 250 original illustrations of the 29 CFR Parts 1910 and 1926 requirements.

Handbook of Generation IV Nuclear Reactors, Second Edition is a fully revised and updated comprehensive resource on the latest research and advances in generation IV nuclear reactor concepts.

In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred U.

On the 50th anniversary of In Place of Strife, this scholarly study makes extensive use of previously unpublished archival and other primary sources to explain why Harold Wilson and Barbara Castle embarked on legislation to regulate the trade unions and curb strikes, and why this aroused such strong opposition, not just from the unions, but within the Cabinet and among backbench Labour MPs.

This book examines the life and work of a remarkable trade unionist and revolutionary.

In January 1992, human resources manager Louise Moser Illes was notified, along with nine hundred co-workers, that the semiconductor plant where she worked would be closed by the end of the year.

From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes.

Practical Human Factors for Pilots bridges the divide between human factors research and one of the key industries that this research is meant to benefit-civil aviation.

The Fire Safety and Risk Management Revision Guide: for the NEBOSH Fire Certificate is the perfect revision aid for students preparing to take their NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management.

Case Studies in Nanotoxicology and Particle Toxicology presents a highly-illustrated analysis of the most prominent cases on the adverse effects of nanoparticles and their impact on humans and the environment.

Divided into four sections-public safety agencies, key issues like interoperability and cybercrime, management skills, and emerging trends like the transfer of military technologies to civilian agencies, Managing Public Safety Technology illustrates how essential managing technology is to the success of any project.

Gendered Commodity Chains is the first book to consider the fundamental role of gender in global commodity chains.

Wie kann Arbeit zur Gesundheit beitragen?

Michael K.

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.

An authoritative and accessible account by insiders of the tumultuous changes in the contemporary labour relations of China.

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.

A case study of the largest industrial concentration in Latin America, this work shows how the unique situation of auto workers led them to articulate demands relevant for the whole working class.

Internal auditing is an essential tool for managing compliance and for initiating and driving continual improvement in any organization's systematic HSEQ performance.

Job Hazard Analysis: A Guide for Voluntary Compliance and Beyond, Second Edition, provides a complete reference for performing JHA and setting up a JHA program.