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Nine to Five provides a lively and accessible introduction to the
laws and policies regulating sex, sexuality, and gender identity in
the American workplace. Contemporary cases and events reveal the
breadth and persistence of sexism and gender stereotyping. Through
a series of essays organized around sex discrimination, sexual
harassment, pregnancy discrimination, and pay equity, the book
highlights legal rules and doctrines that privilege men over women
and masculinity over femininity. In understanding the law - what it
forbids, what it allows, and to what it turns a blind eye - we see
why it is far too soon to declare the triumph of working women's
equality. Despite significant gains for women, gender continues to
define the work experience in both predictable and surprising ways.
A witty and engaging guide to the legal terrain, Nine to Five also
proposes solutions to the many obstacles that remain on the path to
equality.
This book features essays by leading legal scholars on 'landmark'
labour law cases from the mid-19th century to the present day. The
essays are acutely sensitive to the historical and theoretical
context of each case, and the volume provides original and
sometimes startling new perspectives on some familiar friends.
There are few activities as distinctively human as work and labour.
The book traces the development of labour law through the social
struggles and economic conflicts between workers, trade unions, and
employers. The narrative arc of its landmark cases reveals the
richness and complexity of the human story played out in the
working lives of real people. It also charts the remarkable
transformation of the constitutional role of courts in labour law,
from instruments of class oppression to the vindication of workers'
fundamental rights at work. The collection will be of interest to
students, scholars, and legal practitioners in labour and equality
law, as well as students in management studies, industrial
relations, and labour history.
What effect do robots, algorithms, and online platforms have on the
world of work? Using case studies and examples from across the EU,
the UK, and the US, this book provides a compass to navigate this
technological transformation as well as the regulatory options
available, and proposes a new map for the era of radical digital
advancements. From platform work to the gig-economy and the impact
of artificial intelligence, algorithmic management, and digital
surveillance on workplaces, technology has overwhelming
consequences for everyone's lives, reshaping the labour market and
straining social institutions. Contrary to preliminary analyses
forecasting the threat of human work obsolescence, the book
demonstrates that digital tools are more likely to replace
managerial roles and intensify organisational processes in
workplaces, rather than opening the way for mass job displacement.
Can flexibility and protection be reconciled so that legal
frameworks uphold innovation? How can we address the pervasive
power of AI-enabled monitoring? How likely is it that the
gig-economy model will emerge as a new organisational paradigm
across sectors? And what can social partners and political players
do to adopt effective regulation? Technology is never neutral. It
can and must be governed, to ensure that progress favours the many.
Digital transformation can be an essential ally, from the warehouse
to the office, but it must be tested in terms of social and
political sustainability, not only through the lenses of economic
convenience. Your Boss Is an Algorithm offers a guide to explore
these new scenarios, their promises, and perils.
Global value chains (GVCs) powered the rapid expansion of
international trade after 1990. Countries import not only for
domestic consumption, but also to export, and transactions
typically involve long-term, firm-to-firm relationships rather than
anonymous spot market transactions. Trade and the rise of GVCs
enabled an unprecedented convergence: poor countries grew faster
and began to catch up with richer countries. More than 1 billion
people escaped poverty as a result. Since the Great Recession, the
growth of trade has been sluggish and the expansion of GVCs has
slowed down. At the same time, potentially serious threats have
emerged to the model of labor-intensive, trade-led growth. New
labor-saving technologies could draw production closer to the
consumer and reduce demand for labor. And trade conflict among
large countries could lead to a retrenchment of supply chains or a
segmentation of GVCs. The World Development Report (WDR) 2020:
Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains examines
whether there is still a path to development through GVCs. It
concludes that technological change is at this stage more a boon
than a curse. GVCs can continue to boost growth, create better
jobs, and reduce poverty, provided that developing countries
implement deeper reforms and industrial countries pursue open,
predictable policies.
The Covid, climate and cost of living crises all hang heavy in the
air. It's more obvious than ever that we need radical social and
political change. But in the vacuum left by defeated labour
movements, where should we begin? For longtime workplace activist
Ian Allinson, the answer is clear: organising at work is essential
to rebuild working-class power. The premise is simple: organising
builds confidence, capacity and collective power - and with power
we can win change. Workers Can Win is an essential, practical guide
for rank-and-file workers and union activists. Drawing on more than
20 years of organising experience, Allinson combines practical
techniques with an analysis of the theory and politics of
organising and unions. The book offers insight into tried and
tested methods for effective organising. It deals with tactics and
strategies, and addresses some of the roots of conflict, common
problems with unions and the resistance of management to worker
organising. As a 101 guide to workplace organising with politically
radical horizons, Workers Can Win is destined to become an
essential tool for workplace struggles in the years to come.
Today, hazardous work kills 2.3 million people each year and
injures millions more. Among the most compelling yet controversial
forms of legal protection for workers is the right to refuse unsafe
work. The rise of globalization, precarious work, neoliberal
politics, attacks on unions, and the idea of individual employment
rights have challenged the protection of occupational health and
safety for workers worldwide. In Hazard or Hardship, Jeffrey
Hilgert presents the protection of refusal rights as a moral and a
human rights question.
Hilgert finds that the protection of the right to refuse unsafe
work, as constituted under international labor standards, is a
failure and calls for a reexamination of worker health and safety
policy from the ground up. The current model of protection follows
an individual employment rights framework, which fails to protect
workers against the inherent social inequalities within the
employment relationship. To adequately protect the right to refuse
as a human right, both in North America and around the world,
Hilgert argues that a broader protection must be granted under a
freedom of association framework. Hazard or Hardship will be a
welcome resource for labor and environmental activists, trade union
leaders, labor lawyers and labor law scholars, industrial relations
experts, human rights advocates, public health professionals, and
specialists in occupational safety and health.
What effect do robots, algorithms, and online platforms have on the
world of work? Using case studies and examples from across the EU,
the UK, and the US, this book provides a compass to navigate this
technological transformation as well as the regulatory options
available, and proposes a new map for the era of radical digital
advancements. From platform work to the gig-economy and the impact
of artificial intelligence, algorithmic management, and digital
surveillance on workplaces, technology has overwhelming
consequences for everyone's lives, reshaping the labour market and
straining social institutions. Contrary to preliminary analyses
forecasting the threat of human work obsolescence, the book
demonstrates that digital tools are more likely to replace
managerial roles and intensify organisational processes in
workplaces, rather than opening the way for mass job displacement.
Can flexibility and protection be reconciled so that legal
frameworks uphold innovation? How can we address the pervasive
power of AI-enabled monitoring? How likely is it that the
gig-economy model will emerge as a new organisational paradigm
across sectors? And what can social partners and political players
do to adopt effective regulation? Technology is never neutral. It
can and must be governed, to ensure that progress favours the many.
Digital transformation can be an essential ally, from the warehouse
to the office, but it must be tested in terms of social and
political sustainability, not only through the lenses of economic
convenience. Your Boss Is an Algorithm offers a guide to explore
these new scenarios, their promises, and perils.
Employment Law Concentrate is written and designed to help you
succeed. Written by experts and covering all key topics,
Concentrate guides go above and beyond, not only consolidating your
learning but focusing your revision and maximising your exam
performance. Each guide includes revision tips, advice on how to
achieve extra marks, and a thorough and focused breakdown of the
key topics and cases. Revision guides you can rely on: trusted by
lecturers, loved by students... "The Concentrate books are my
favourite revision guides as the quality of the information is
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College London "The exam style questions are brilliant and the
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Concentrate is the most impressive I've come across" - Alice
Munnelly, law student, King's College London Digital formats and
resources The seventh edition is available for students and
institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported
by extensive online resources to take your learning further
(www.oup.com/lawrevision/). The e-book offers a mobile experience
and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation
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advice on revision and exam technique from experienced examiner
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focus your revision on; - interactive glossary and key cases to
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questions in the book.
The call center industry is booming in the Philippines. Around the
year 2005, the country overtook India as the world's "voice
capital," and industry revenues are now the second largest
contributor to national GDP. In Lives on the Line, Jeffrey J.
Sallaz retraces the assemblage of a global market for voice over
the past two decades. Drawing upon case studies of sixty Filipino
call center workers and two years of fieldwork in Manila, he
illustrates how offshore call center jobs represent a middle path
for educated Filipinos, who are faced with the dismaying choice to
migrate abroad in search of prosperity versus stay at home as an
impoverished professional. A rich ethnographic study, this book
challenges existing stereotypes regarding offshore service jobs and
sheds light upon the reasons that the Philippines has become the
world's favored location for "voice." It looks beyond call centers
and beyond India to advance debates concerning global capitalism,
the future of work, and the lives of those who labor in offshored
jobs.
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