Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

Seeking to historicize the 2007-2009 Great Recession, this volume of essays situates the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace.

Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia.

Long a bastion of Jewish labor power, garment unions provided financial and political aid essential to founding and building the nation of Israel.

Emancipator of the Seamen explores the life and impact of Andrew Furuseth, a Norwegian-born seaman who became a defining figure in the American labor movement through his dedication to the Sailors Union of the Pacific (SUP).

Ernsting's Aviation and Space Medicine applies current understanding in medicine, physiology and the behavioural sciences to the medical challenges and stresses that are faced by both civil and military aircrew, and their passengers, on a daily basis.

Safety and Wearable Technology tackles the profound issue of workplace safety, as each day unacceptable numbers of workers lose their lives in accidents, with even more succumbing to work-related illnesses across the globe.

Community Wage Patterns offers an insightful analysis into the dynamics of wage levels and structures within Los Angeles County, providing a case study that extends its relevance to broader economic contexts.

Employment Expansion and Population Growth: The California Experience, 1900-1950 provides a detailed analysis of the dramatic population growth and employment trends that shaped California's development during the first half of the 20th century.

In large corporations in Japan, much of the clerical work is carried out by young women known as "e;office ladies"e; (OLs) or "e;flowers of the workplace.

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

Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century.

In 2019, a National Health Service Trust in England lost 11 members of current and former staff members to suspected suicide.

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Here is an extensive and highly original inquiry into the origins, dynamics, and internal order of the modern metropolis.

It has never been more essential to support our mental health at work.

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'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones'Thought-provoking and funny' The TimesUp to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary.

In 1995, promising a more active political presence for unions, John Sweeney was elected president of the AFL-CIO.

The fire was visible from seventy miles away and the heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle the rig at a perimeter of one mile.

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

The Modernisation of the Public Services and Employee Relations provides an integrated and up-to-date account of changes in work and employment in the public services.

An educational crisis from its origins to present-day experiences In the United States today, almost three-quarters of the people teaching in two- and four-year colleges and universities work as contingent faculty.

This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the 'global justice movement'.

Traditional and Novel Adsorbents for Antibiotics Removal from Wastewater describes, in detail, the importance of removing antibiotics from aqueous systems, along with new information on their variation, solubility, toxicology and allowable concentration in groundwater.

An estimated one out of five employees in this country works for some branch of government.

The Perfect Fit shows us how globalization works through the many people and places involved in making women's shoes.

The Digital Factory reveals the hidden human labor that supports today's digital capitalism.

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The papers in this volume present an excellent sampling of the best of current research in labor economics, combining the most sophisticated theory and econometric methods with high-quality data on a variety of problems.

Research by economists and economic historians has greatly expanded our knowledge of labor markets and real wages in the United States since the Civil War, but the period from 1820 to 1860 has been far less studied.

One of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's proudest accomplishments is his expansion of the Work Experience Program, which uses welfare recipients to do routine work once done by unionized city workers.

The Great Recession not only shook Americans' economic faith but also prompted powerful critiques of economic institutions.

When used in conjunction with corporations, the term "e;public"e; is misleading.

This volume brings together a massive body of much-needed research information on a problem of crucial importance to labor economists, policy makers, and society in general: unemployment among the young.

During the past two decades, wages of skilled workers in the United States rose while those of unskilled workers fell; less-educated young men in particular have suffered unprecedented losses in real earnings.

In recent years, the earnings of young blacks have risen substantially relative to those of young whites, but their rates of joblessness have also risen to crisis levels.

Workers' compensation was arguably the first widespread social insurance program in the United States and the most successful form of labor legislation to emerge from the early Progressive Movement.

Since the early 1980s, the U.

The twentieth century saw significant increases in both life expectancy and retirement rates-changes that have had dramatic impacts on nearly every aspect of society and the economy.

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.

The economic status of young people has declined significantly over the past two decades, despite a variety of programs designed to aid new workers in the transition from the classroom to the job market.

Are immigrants squeezing Americans out of the work force?

In this present internet age, risk analysis and crisis response based on information will make up a digital world full of possibilities and improvements to people's daily life and capabilities.

Occupational Safety and Hygiene presents selected papers from the International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene , SHO2013 (Guimar,, Portugal, 14-15 February 2013), which was organized by the Portuguese Society for Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SPOSHO).

This influential text was fully revised and updated for the second edition with the addition of substantial new material, and takes the reader, in a logical sequence, through the main areas of ergonomics relevant to design, in a way that allows ergonomics to be integrated with all aspects of the design process.

Professionals striving for accident reduction must deal with systems in which both technical and human elements play equal and complementary roles.

With industrial systems becoming ever more mechanized and reliant on advanced technology, the complexity of equipment, especially in risky industries, is increasing on a daily basis.

Non-destructive evaluation (NDE) methods have dominated most of the fields of applied research and technology over the last twenty years.

As workers in the private sector struggle with stagnant wages, disappearing benefits, and rising retirement ages, unionized public employees retire in their fifties with over $100,000 a year in pension and healthcare benefits.

As workers in the private sector struggle with stagnant wages, disappearing benefits, and rising retirement ages, unionized public employees retire in their fifties with over $100,000 a year in pension and healthcare benefits.