Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

Free enterprise is off the leash and chasing new opportunities for profit making across the globe.

Over the last fifteen years, the deregulation of Britain's labour market has led to economic growth, employment opportunities, and a more diverse workforce: the 'fat years'.

Over the last fifteen years, the deregulation of Britain's labour market has led to economic growth, employment opportunities, and a more diverse workforce: the 'fat years'.

This book explores the precarious margins of contemporary labour markets.

Japanese corporate governance and managerial practice is at a critical juncture.

In the early twentieth century, asbestos had a reputation as a lifesaver.

Employee participation encompasses the range of mechanisms used to involve the workforce in decisions at all levels of the organization - whether direct or indirect - conducted with employees or through their representatives.

Employee participation encompasses the range of mechanisms used to involve the workforce in decisions at all levels of the organization - whether direct or indirect - conducted with employees or through their representatives.

This book explores the precarious margins of contemporary labour markets.

Japanese corporate governance and managerial practice is at a critical juncture.

The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history.

As Trade Union membership has declined, union mergers have been prominent features in strategies of revitalization.

In the early twentieth century, asbestos had a reputation as a lifesaver.

Work is fundamental to human society and modern organizations, and consequently has been central to the thinking of major social theorists and social science disciplines.

Free enterprise is off the leash and chasing new opportunities for profit making across the globe.

As unions face an ongoing crisis all over the industrialized world, they have often been portrayed as outmoded remnants of an old economic structure.

The stagnation of the Japanese economy and the ageing of Japanese society has led to major changes in the labour market in Japan.

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

Much of the received wisdom about the world of work emphasizes the marketization of the employment relationship; the decline of class-based forms of inequality, and the individualization of employment relations.

From assembly line to call centre, this volume charts the immense transformation of work and pay across the 20th century and provides the first labour focused history of Britain.

A Theory of Employment Systems considers why there are such great international differences in the way employment relations are organized within the firm.

The book examines ethics and employment issues in contemporary Human Resource Management (HRM).

This book presents a broad-ranging survey of contemporary writing about work and employment.

Arbitration of Commercial Disputes is intended for anyone who is involved in the arbitral process.

This first comparative-historical analysis of the regulations that restrict the managerial capacity to dismiss employees and use temporary forms of employment addresses four puzzles that have long troubled the comparative political economy literature.

In today's precarious world, working people's experiences are strangely becoming more alike even as their disparities sharpen.

The Midwest experienced an upheaval over labor rights beginning in the winter of 2011.

The Midwest experienced an upheaval over labor rights beginning in the winter of 2011.

Human capital theory, or the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity, has dominated public policy on education and labor for the past fifty years.

Human capital theory, or the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity, has dominated public policy on education and labor for the past fifty years.

How does the insecurity of work affect us?

Oil Booms and Business Busts looks at how government policymaking shapes a puzzling phenomenon in economic development--the "e;curse"e; of natural resources.

The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required.

The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required.

Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s by working alongside federal agencies created during the New Deal.

The Avon Lady acquired iconic status in twentieth century American culture.

The Avon Lady acquired iconic status in twentieth century American culture.

Oil Booms and Business Busts looks at how government policymaking shapes a puzzling phenomenon in economic development--the "e;curse"e; of natural resources.

In today's precarious world, working people's experiences are strangely becoming more alike even as their disparities sharpen.

The typical workplace is a hotbed of human relationships--of friendships, conflicts, feuds, alliances, partnerships, coexistence and cooperation.

Ela Bhatt is widely recognized as one of the world's most remarkable pioneers and entrepreneurial forces in grassroots development.

In the great boom of the 1990's, top management's compensation soared, but the wages of most Americans barely grew at all.

A map of the relationship between work and health that is truly global--both geographically and in its coverage of the impact of work on the health of individuals, families, and societies, has not previously been drawn.

Conventional wisdom argues that welfare state builders in the US and Sweden in the 1930s took their cues from labor and labor movements.

Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s by working alongside federal agencies created during the New Deal.

The Handbook of Behavioral Operations Management provides easy-to-access insights into why associated behavioral phenomena exist in specific production and service settings, illustrated through ready-to-play games and activities that allow instructors to demonstrate the phenomena in class settings along with applicable prescriptions for practice.

Fractional-Order Models for Nuclear Reactor Analysis presents fractional modeling issues in the context of anomalous diffusion processes in an accessible and practical way.

Over the last several decades, employers have increasingly replaced permanent employees with temporary workers and independent contractors to cut labor costs and enhance flexibility.

Job Hazard Analysis: A Guide for Voluntary Compliance and Beyond presents a new and improved concept for Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) that guides the reader through the whole process of developing tools for identifying workplace hazards, creating systems that support hazard recognition, designing an effective JHA, and integrating a JHA based program into occupational safety and health management systems.

Advances in Power Boilers is the second volume in the JSME Series on Thermal and Nuclear Power Generation.