A fascinating account of the growing Yes in My Backyard urban movement The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world.
The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework for studying collective actionHow Civic Action Works renews the tradition of inquiry into collective, social problem solving.
A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of lifeLong-haul truckers are the backbone of the American economy, transporting goods under grueling conditions and immense economic pressure.
With growing international competition, American firms have been gaced with increasing pressures to produce better products, cut costs, and improve efficiency.
On Forbes list of 10 Books To Help You Foster A More Diverse And Inclusive WorkplaceHow law, policy, and official state rhetoric have fueled the resurgence of Islamophobiawith a call to action on how to combat it.
This study of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) explains in detail how public officials in the executive branch and Congress overcame strong opposition from business and organized labor to pass landmark legislation regulating employer-sponsored retirement and health plans.
This study examines how institutions and social practices transform the meaning of Family and Medical Leave Act rights to recreate power and inequality systems.
On Forbes list of 10 Books To Help You Foster A More Diverse And Inclusive WorkplaceHow law, policy, and official state rhetoric have fueled the resurgence of Islamophobiawith a call to action on how to combat it.
This study examines how institutions and social practices transform the meaning of Family and Medical Leave Act rights to recreate power and inequality systems.
This extensively updated second edition explores how individual European labour law systems combine to produce a distinctly European transnational system.
This extensively updated second edition explores how individual European labour law systems combine to produce a distinctly European transnational system.
This is an account of the development of European labour and social security law as it interrelates with the evolution of market integration in the European Union.
Das Buch wendet sich an alle, die eine knappe, klare, zuverlässige und in einfacher Sprache gehaltene Einführung in das deutsche Arbeitsrecht erhalten wollen, also nicht nur an Studierende und Rechtsreferendare, sondern ebenso an Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftler, Beschäftigte in Personalabteilungen sowie Führungskräfte in allen Bereichen von Wirtschaft und Verwaltung.
The emergence of the terms 'pink tax' and 'tampon tax' in everyday language suggests that women, who already suffer from an economic disadvantage due to the gender wage gap, are put in an even more detrimental position by means of 'discriminatory consumption taxes'.
The emergence of the terms 'pink tax' and 'tampon tax' in everyday language suggests that women, who already suffer from an economic disadvantage due to the gender wage gap, are put in an even more detrimental position by means of 'discriminatory consumption taxes'.
The numbers of women undergoing Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART) treatments have risen steadily, yet they remain largely outside the scope of equality and employment law protection while undergoing treatment.
The numbers of women undergoing Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART) treatments have risen steadily, yet they remain largely outside the scope of equality and employment law protection while undergoing treatment.
This book provides a detailed discussion of four class-action discrimination cases that have recently been settled within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and have led to a change in the way in which the USDA supports farmers from diverse backgrounds.
This book provides a detailed discussion of four class-action discrimination cases that have recently been settled within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and have led to a change in the way in which the USDA supports farmers from diverse backgrounds.