Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

Much has been written about the care of research animals.

Despite many advances, 20 American workers die each day as a result of occupational injuries.

Uninsured in America goes to the heart of why more than forty million Americans are falling through the cracks in the health care system, and what it means for society as a whole when so many people suffer the consequences of inadequate medical care.

The more than 200,000 men and women that make up the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) workforce have been entrusted with the ultimate responsibility - ensuring that the homeland is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards.

The use of hazardous chemicals such as methyl isocyanate can be a significant concern to the residents of communities adjacent to chemical facilities, but is often an integral part of the chemical manufacturing process.

This book brings together in one volume what researchers have learned about workers, employers, and retirees that is important for formulating retirement income policies.

Despite many advances, 20 American workers die each day as a result of occupational injuries.

This report reviews documents on acute exposure guideline levels (AEGLs) for nerve agents GA (tabun), GB (sarin), GD (soman), GD, and VX, sulfur mustard, diborane, and methyl isocyanate.

Much has been written about the care of research animals.

In a book as provocative and newsworthy as Listening to Prozac and Driven to Distraction, a physician speaks out on America''s epidemic level of diagnoses for attention deficit disorder, and on the drug that has become almost a symbol of our times: Ritalin.

Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos.

Measuring Safety Management Performance lists and explains the difference between lagging and leading measures of safety management performance.

The labor movement is weak and divided.

Accident law is currently under review throughout the United States, and indeed the world, as present systems prove increasingly inadequate to handle the mounting costs of automobile accidents.

"e;[This] admirably balanced book will most likely stand as the definitive account of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis for some time .

Silver Award Winner, 2016 Nautilus Book Award in Young Adult (YA) Non-FictionMoving beyond the familiar accounts of politics and the achievements of celebrity engineers and designers, Building the Golden Gate Bridge is the first book to primarily feature the voices of the workers themselves.

Historian Carlos A.

We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by LABOR in this country, a move which will leadNO ONE KNOWS WHERE!

Experts discuss improving job quality in low-wage industries including retail, residential construction, hospitals and long-term healthcare, restaurants, manufacturing, and long-haul trucking.

How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation''s largest port.

An exploration of a new division of labor between machines and humans, in which people provide value to the economy with little or no compensation.

How to increase both job satisfaction and enterprise productivity—and make American manufacturing competitive again.

Prominent economists discuss internal labor markets, the dynamics of immigration, labor market regulation, and other key topics in the work of Michael J.

The aim of this book is to provide "e;human engineering"e; for workplaces, tools, machinery, computers, shift work, lighting, sound, climate, work demands, offices, vehicles, healthcare, and the home - and everything else that we can produce - to suit the human body and mind.

When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and Economics, was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's movement.

The rise of Trumpism and the Covid-19 pandemic have galvanized debates about globalization.

During global capitalismslong ascent from 16001850, workers of all kindsslaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailorsrepeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects.

In a world increasingly run by algorithms and artificial intelligence, Hatim Rahman traces how organizations are using algorithms to control workersin an ';invisible cage.

Imagining the Post-COVID Workplace explores the impact of how work and the workplace have changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, cost of living crisis, worldwide inflation, and potential impending recession.

In a world increasingly run by algorithms and artificial intelligence, Hatim Rahman traces how organizations are using algorithms to control workersin an ';invisible cage.

A wave of teacher strikes in the 1960s and 1970s roiled urban communities.

Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor.

Winner of the Herbert G.

Labor studies scholars and working-class historians have long worked at the crossroads of academia and activism.

Religion has played a protean role in the lives of America's workers.

Ruth Milkman's groundbreaking research in women's labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States.

Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America.

The McCarthy-era witch hunts marked the culmination of an anticommunist crusade launched after the First World War.

The Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus where religious history and working-class history converge.

In the 1950s, Milwaukee's strong union movement and socialist mayor seemed to embody a dominant liberal consensus that sought to continue and expand the New Deal.

A century ago, governments buoyed by Progressive Era-beliefs began to assume greater responsibility for protecting and rescuing citizens.

During the 1950s and 1960s, labor leaders Harold Gibbons and Ernest Calloway championed a new kind of labor movement that regarded workers as "e;total persons"e; interested in both workplace affairs and the exercise of effective citizenship in their communities.

Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside.

Though recognized for their work in the mining and railroad industries, the Chinese also played a critical role in the nineteenth-century lumber trade.

From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on American shores.

Monumental and revelatory, Free Labor explores labor activism throughout the country during a period of incredible diversity and fluidity: the American Civil War.

Michael K.

In 1946, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) undertook Operation Dixie, an initiative to recruit industrial workers in the American South.

Digital Rebellion examines the impact of new media and communication technologies on the spatial, strategic, and organizational fabric of social movements.