In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 2008, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, timber corporations distributed hot cooked meals as a nutrition intervention to bolster falling productivity and profits. But life and sustenance are about much more than calories and machinic bodies. What is at stake is the nurturing of capacity across all domains of life-physical, relational, cosmological-in the form of amandla. An Nguni word meaning power, strength or capacity, amandla organizes ordinary concerns with one's abilities to earn a wage, to strengthen one's body, and to take care of others; it describes the potency of medicines and sexual vitality; and it captures a history of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggle for freedom. The ordinary actions coordinated by and directed at amandla do not obscure the wounding effects of plantation labor or the long history of racial oppression, but rather form the basis of what the Algerian artist Kader Attia calls repair. In this captivating ethnography, Cousins examines how amandla, as the primary material of the work of repair, anchors ordinary scenes of living and working in and around the plantations. As a space of exploitation that enables the global paper and packaging industry to extract labor power, the plantation depends on the availability of creative action in ordinary life to capitalize on bodily capacity. The Work of Repair is a fine-grained exploration of the relationships between laborers in the timber plantations of KwaZulu-Natal, and the historical decompositions and reinventions of the milieu of those livelihoods and lives. Offering a fresh approach to the existential, ethical and political stakes of ethnography from and of late liberal South Africa, the book attends to urgent questions of postapartheid life: the fate of employment; the role of the state in providing welfare and access to treatment; the regulation of popular curatives; the queering of kinship; and the future of custom and its territories. Through detailed descriptions, Cousins explicates the important and fragile techniques that constitute the work of repair: the effort to augment one's capacity in a way that draws on, acknowledges, and reimagines the wounds of history, keeping open the possibility of a future through and with others.

This book engages with Foucault's theoretical works to understand the (re-) making of the working-class in China. In so doing, the author applies Foucault's genealogical (historicalization) method to explore the ways the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) develop Chinese governmentality (or government of mentalities) among everyday workers in its thought management system. Through the investigation of the key events in Chinese history, she presents how China's stable political party is sustained through the CCP's ability to retain, update and incorporate many Confucian discourses into its contemporary form of thought management system using social networks, such as families and schools, to continuously (re-) shape workers' consciousness into one that maintains their docility. This book will bring a new voice to the debate of Chinese working-class politics and labour movements. It will serve as a gateway to comprehensive knowledge about China for students and academics with interests in Chinese employment relations, Chinese politics, labourist activist culture, and social movements.

This book comprises selected papers on advances in the field of health and environment safety that were presented at the International Conference on Advances in the field of Health, Safety, Fire, Environment, Allied sciences and engineering (HSFEA 2020). This book presents a number of research papers which focuses on basic concept of sustainable development and its role in modern world for clean development technology. The book also presents methods that can be used to effectively monitor and measure climate change and global warming. Further, the contents of this work stress the importance of maintaining safety and healthy work environments that are free of occupational health hazards. This book will be of interest to researchers, professionals, and policy makers alike.

The last twenty-five years have seen the world of work transformed in Britain. Manufacturing and nationalized industries contracted and private services expanded. Employment became more diverse. Trade union membership collapsed. Collective bargaining disappeared from much of the private sector, as did strikes. This was accompanied by the rise of human resource management and new employment practices. The law, once largely absent, increasingly became a dominant influence. The experience of work has become more pressured. The Evolution of the Modern Workplace, first published in 2009, provides an authoritative account and analysis of these changes and their consequences. Its main source is the five Workplace Employment Relations Surveys that were conducted at roughly five-year intervals between 1980 and 2004. Drawing on this unique source of data, a team of internationally renowned scholars show how the world of the workplace has changed, and why it has changed, for both workers and employers.

This text provides a theoretical and empirical approach to investigating the nature of emerging OSH (Occupational Health and Safety) epidemics across the industrialized world. The author of each chapter in this book deals with exposure to a particular OSH hazard and examines the epidemic nature of the resulting ill-health or injury outcome. The authors also evaluate the contribution of globalization and neoliberal policies in creating workplace environments which foster such new OSH epidemics.

Industrial and business economics is a very important field with a great deal of relevance to the commercial world and to business studies students as well as to economists. It is a rapidly developing field in which many new research advances have been made in recent years. This book, first published in 1986, considers many aspects of both the theory of and the evidence on economic behaviour, and in particular the operations of firms and markets. The book was written in honour of Basil Yamey by his former research students.

Crafting the Movement presents an explanation of why the Swedish working class so unanimously adopted reformism during the interwar period. Jenny Jansson discusses the precarious time for the labor movement after the Russian Revolution in 1917 that sparked a trend towards radicalization among labor organizations and communist organizations throughout Europe and caused an identity crisis in class organizations. She reveals that the leadership of the Trade Union Confederation (LO) was well aware of the identity problems that the left-wing factions had created for the reformist unions. Crafting the Movement explains how this led labor movement leaders towards a re-formulation of the notion of the worker by constructing an organizational identity that downplayed class struggle and embraced discipline, peaceful solutions to labor market problems, and cooperation with the employers. As Jansson shows, study activities arranged by the Workers' Educational Association became the main tool of the Trade Union Confederation's identity policy in the 1920s and 1930s and its successful outcome paved the way for the well-known "Swedish Model." Thanks to generous funding from Uppsala University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.

This book brings a radically new voice to the debate in the field of Chinese politics and labor movement. Using a psychological and cognitive approach, the author examines workers and activists' everyday interpretation of the source of their problems, their prospect of labor movements, and their sense of solidarity. The project shows how workers themselves have become a part of the apparatus of state repression and argues that Chinese workers have not acquired sufficient cognitive strength to become the much hoped-for agent for political change, which hinders labor activism from developing into a sustainable social movement. Multidisciplinary in its approach, the monograph provides analysis of Chinese politics, labor studies, international political economy, social movements, and contentious politics.

Briefe eines Einzelnen, aber vor allem "Briefwechsel zweier oder mehrerer durch Thatigkeit in einem gemeinsamen Kreise sich fortbildender Personen" wie Goethe formulierte sind eine "unschatzbare" historische Quelle. Dies gilt auch fur die uber Jahre und Jahrzehnte sich hinziehenden Briefwechsel zwischen Liberalen, Demokraten, Sozialisten und Kommunisten, die nach der Revolution von 1848 Deutschland verlassen mussten und uber die wir auch 150 Jahre spater viel zu wenig wissen. In der Geschichtsschreibung wurde den beiden Jahrzehnten zwischen 1850 und 1870 lange Zeit kaum Bedeutung beigemessen. Das vollige Scheitern der Revolution von 1848 einerseits und der Aufstieg Bismarcks und die Reichsgruendung andererseits schienen fruher eine solche Verkurzung und Mediatisierung zu rechtfertigen. In den letzten Jahren haben diese beiden Jahrzehnte jedoch eine neue Bewertung erfahren. Sie werden heute als eine der "bewegtesten und folgenreichsten Abschnitte" des 19. Jahrhunderts (Reinhard Rurup), gepragt durch Umbruche und Neuanfange, angesehen. Kaum erforscht ist jedoch, welche Rolle die demokratischen und radikalen Emigranten, die 1849 Deutschland verlassen mussten und anschliessend Jahrzehnte in London, Paris, Brussel, in der Schweiz oder in den USA lebten, in diesen politischen Formationsprozessen zwischen Revolution und Reichsgrundung spielten. Welchen Anteil hatten sie an der Neuformierung der politischen Stromungen und Ideen, des Liberalismus, der National- und der Arbeiterbewegungen? Welche Blicke hatten sie auf die deutsche und europaische Politik? Inwieweit wollten und konnten sie Einfluss nehmen? Das 19. Jahrhundert erlebte eine Blutezeit der Briefliteratur, wozu nicht zuletzt die durch Dampfschiff und Eisenbahn verbesserte Infrastruktur beitrug. Die ausgepragte Briefkultur des Burgertums ist bekannt und bereits erforscht, aber auch fur die fruhen Arbeiterbewegungen stellte der Brief die zentrale Kommunikationsform dar. Aufgrund ihres dialogischen Charakters erlauben Briefe bei aller gebotenen Quellenkritik Einblick in Stimmungen, Meinungen und Beweggruende. Sie enthalten oft unmittelbare Niederschriften von Absichten, Auffassungen und Erlebnissen. Auch fur die Erforschung der lange vernachlassigten Geschichte der deutschen Emigration eignen sich die uberlieferten und nur zum geringen Teil veroffentlichten Briefwechsel in besonderer Weise. Die Emigranten waren auf personliche Kommunikation angewiesen, da sie durch Flucht, Verfolgung und Zensur von anderen Ausserungs- und Einflussmoglichkeiten abgeschnitten waren. Zudem begannen sich Liberalismus und Arbeiterbewegung erst seit Ende der 1850er Jahre langsam wieder zu formieren und eine Gegenoffentlichkeit zu schaffen."

A call to action in an ongoing battle against industrial agriculture From the early twentieth century and across generations to the present, In the Struggle brings together the stories of eight politically engaged scholars, documenting their opposition to industrial-scale agribusiness in California. As the narrative unfolds, their previously censored and suppressed research, together with personal accounts of intimidation and subterfuge, is introduced into the public arena for the first time. In the Struggle lays out historic, subterranean confrontations over water rights, labor organizing, and the corruption of democratic principles and public institutions. As California’s rural economy increasingly consolidates into the hands of land barons and corporations, the scholars’ work shifts from analyzing problems and formulating research methods to organizing resistance and building community power. Throughout their engagement, they face intense political blowback as powerful economic interests work to pollute and undermine scientific inquiry and the civic purposes of public universities. The findings and the pressure put upon the work of these scholars—Paul Taylor, Ernesto Galarza, and Isao Fujimoto among them—are a damning indictment of the greed and corruption that flourish under industrial-scale agriculture. After almost a century of empirical evidence and published research, a definitive finding becomes clear: land consolidation and economic monopoly are fundamentally detrimental to democracy and the well-being of rural societies.

Energiewende und transition energetique beschreiben im Wortsinn auf den ersten Blick das Gleiche. Fokussiert man sich jedoch auf die deutsche Energiewende und die transition energetique francaise, sind damit sehr unterschiedliche Ideen und Massnahmen verbunden. Wie kommt es zu diesen signifikanten Unterschieden im Verstandnis uber die kunftige Ausrichtung der Energiemarkte im Kontext eines besonders von der EU-Kommission forcierten europaweit einheitlichen Energiemarktes? Diese und viele andere Inkonsistenzen sind Ausgangspunkt fur die deskriptive Betrachtung der Zusammenhange zwischen nationalstaatlicher und europaischer energiepolitischer Arena am Beispiel der beiden groessten Volkswirtschaften Europas, Deutschland und Frankreich.

Understanding and applying the principles of ergonomics consistently in an organization not only reduces the risk of employee injuries, but it also reduces an organization's costs and increases productivity. This newly updated handbook examines 17 new workplace factors 50 in all to consider when implementing an ergonomics program. Organized alphabetically by factor, each section includes a descriptive checklist, allowing managers to quickly assess each factor's status and level of conformance with safety, quality, and productivity considerations. The author, an internationally recognized expert and public speaker, will show you why ergonomics is a business solution and not a business problem, how to create cost-effective ergonomics programs, which step-by-step procedures to use for evaluating a workplace environment and implementing ergonomic changes, how to accommodate the needs of aging and disabled workers, and how to use ergonomics to increase productivity. A glossary of ergonomic terms and a listing of sources of additional information are included.

Francois Ewald's landmark The Birth of Solidarity-first published in French in 1986, revised in 1996, with the revised edition appearing here in English for the first time-is one of the most important historical and philosophical studies of the rise of the welfare state. Theorizing the origins of social insurance, Ewald shows how the growing problem of industrial accidents in France throughout the nineteenth century tested the limits of classical liberalism and its notions of individual responsibility. As workers and capitalists confronted each other over the problem of workplace accidents, they transformed the older practice of commercial insurance into an instrument of state intervention, thereby creating an entirely new conception of law, the state, and social solidarity. What emerged was a new system of social insurance guaranteed by the state. The Birth of Solidarity is a classic work of social and political theory that will appeal to all those interested in labor power, the making and dismantling of the welfare state, and Foucauldian notions of governmentality, security, risk, and the limits of liberalism.

Werte setzen stets Grenzen. So entstehen Ethikraume, Kulturraume mit ihren je spezifischen Politiken. Doch was herrscht jenseits dieser Grenzen? Eine Welt anderer Wertvorstellungen? Eine Welt der Barbarei? Welche Rolle spielt wirklich Europas propagiertes Wertesystem, was konstituiert seine Wertegemeinschaft und damit auch die konkrete Wertepraxis der EU? Politik ist insofern auch ein Management von Grenzerfahrungen und Grenzuberschreitungen. Wie verlaufen Wertewandelprozesse in einzelnen Landern, etwa in OEsterreich? Welche Rolle spielen Kunst, Literatur und Sport als offener, ethischer Raum und der Wunsch nach UEberschaubarkeit und Geborgenheit, der sich im emotionalen Wert Heimat spiegelt?

Dieser zweite von zwei Sammelbanden zur Bestandsaufnahme von betriebswirtschaftlicher Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung zielt darauf ab, empirische betriebswirtschaftliche Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung hinsichtlich ihrer Zugange zu verorten und fur ihre Standortbestimmung aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse in den Blick zu nehmen. Dazu prasentiert dieses Buch 12 Beitrage, die unterschiedliche Ausgangs- und Ansatzpunkte fur ihre sehr vielfaltigen empirischen Analysen in verschiedenen Kontexten haben.

Aufgrund der EU-Erweiterung sind zahlreiche Reformvorschlage zur Ratsprasidentschaft entstanden. Fur die Handlungsfahigkeit der EU ist entscheidend, inwiefern diese die Defizite der Rotation beheben, die Vorteile weiterhin ermoeglichen und die aus der Erweiterung resultierenden Herausforderungen bewaltigen koennen. Ausgehend von einer systematischen Erfassung der Vorschlage der Mitglieds- und Beitrittsstaaten, der EU-Organe und des Europaischen Konvents sowie der akademischen Institutionen werden die jeweiligen Vor- und Nachteile aufgezeigt. Dies erfolgt in Abhangigkeit der Weiterentwicklung des institutionellen Systems der EU, das durch Modelle operationalisiert wird. Die Perspektiven des europaischen Integrationsprozesses werden mit Reformoptionen der Ratsprasidentschaft in Einklang gebracht.

Managing Electrical Safety provides an overview of electric basics, hazards, and established standards that enables you to understand the hazards you are likely to encounter in your workplace. Focusing on typical industrial environments which utilize voltages much higher than household or office circuits the author identifies the eight key components of an electrical safety program and examines each using a model safety management process. You'll learn how to identify electrical hazards, how to prescribe necessary electrical Personal Protective Equipment, how to ensure that equipment is de-energized, and how to safely plan for work on or around exposed live parts.

Contesting Precarity in Japan details the new forms of workers' protest and opposition that have developed as Japan's economy has transformed over the past three decades and highlights their impact upon the country's policymaking process. Drawing on a new dataset charting protest events from the 1980s to the present, Saori Shibata produces the first systematic study of Japan's new precarious labour movement. It details the movement's rise during Japan's post-bubble economic transformation and highlights the different and innovative forms of dissent that mark the end of the country's famously non-confrontational industrial relations. In doing so, moreover, she shows how this new pattern of industrial and social tension is reflected within the country's macroeconomic policymaking, resulting in a new policy dissensus that has consistently failed to offer policy reforms that would produce a return to economic growth. As a result, Shibata argues that the Japanese model of capitalism has therefore become increasingly disorganized.

Contesting Precarity in Japan details the new forms of workers' protest and opposition that have developed as Japan's economy has transformed over the past three decades and highlights their impact upon the country's policymaking process. Drawing on a new dataset charting protest events from the 1980s to the present, Saori Shibata produces the first systematic study of Japan's new precarious labour movement. It details the movement's rise during Japan's post-bubble economic transformation and highlights the different and innovative forms of dissent that mark the end of the country's famously non-confrontational industrial relations. In doing so, moreover, she shows how this new pattern of industrial and social tension is reflected within the country's macroeconomic policymaking, resulting in a new policy dissensus that has consistently failed to offer policy reforms that would produce a return to economic growth. As a result, Shibata argues that the Japanese model of capitalism has therefore become increasingly disorganized.

Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the immigrants who composed many of their workforces. As Robert F. Zeidel argues, attribution of industrial-era class conflict to an "alien" presence supplements nativism-a sociocultural negativity toward foreign-born residents-as a reason for Americans' dislike and distrust of immigrants. And in the era of American industrialization, employers both relied on immigrants to meet their growing labor needs and blamed them for the frequently violent workplace contentions of the time. Through a sweeping narrative, Zeidel uncovers the connection of immigrants to radical "isms" that gave rise to widespread notions of alien subversives whose presence threatened America's domestic tranquility and the well-being of its residents. Employers, rather than looking at their own practices for causes of workplace conflict, wontedly attributed strikes and other unrest to aliens who either spread pernicious "foreign" doctrines or fell victim to their siren messages. These characterizations transcended nationality or ethnic group, applying at different times to all foreign-born workers. Zeidel concludes that, ironically, stigmatizing immigrants as subversives contributed to the passage of the Quota Acts, which effectively stemmed the flow of wanted foreign workers. Post-war employers argued for preserving America's traditional open door, but the negativity that they had assigned to foreign workers contributed to its closing.

This is the first book to discuss workplace harm through an ultra-realist lens and examines the connection between individuals, their working conditions and management culture. It investigates the reorganisation of labour markets and the shift from security to flexibility, a central function of consumer capitalism and highlights working conditions and organisational practices which employees experience as normal and routine but within which multiple harms occur. Reconnecting ideology and political economy with workplace studies, it uses examples of legal and illegal activity to demonstrate the multiple harms within the service economy.

Zeitarbeit und Telearbeit sind zwei Formen der Arbeitsflexibilisierung, die zu nehmend Bedeutung erlangen. Sie entsprechen einem steigenden Flexibilisie rungsbedarf in den Unternehmen. Wahrend die Zeitarbeit eher ein traditionel les Instrument zur Flexibilisierung von Arbeitsbeziehungen ist, bietet die Tele arbeit vollig neue Moglichkeiten der Arbeitsorganisation durch Anwendung mo derner Kommunikationstechniken. Die Unterschiede zwischen beiden Organi sationsformen bedingen getrennte Untersuchungsansatze, deren Ergebnisse in zwei eigenstandigen Teilen dieses Forschungsberichts dargestellt werden. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung zur Zeitarbeit stehen neben der Analyse ihrer Flexibilisierungseigenschaften die Motive, die zur Nachfrage nach Zeitarbeit fuhren, insbesondere eine Differenzierung dieser Motive nach Unternehmens grossen. Um zu klaren, welche Bedeutung die Zeitarbeit im Kalkul der Unter nehmen gewinnen kann, wird ihr Verhaltnis zu anderen Formen der Arbeitsfle xibilisierung untersucht. Schliesslich werden auch arbeitsmarktpolitische lmpli kationen der Zeitarbeit erortert. Untersuchungsschwerpunkt bei der Telearbeit ist die Frage, in welchen For men diese inzwischen etabliert ist und inwieweit auch kleine und mittlere Un ternehmen daran partizipieren. Neben der Erorterung arbeitsschutzrechtlicher Fragen werden insbesondere die Probleme diskutiert, die in kleineren und mittleren Unternehmen bei der Einfuhrung von Telearbeit hinderlich sein kon nen. Neue Formen der Arbeitsorganisation, die ungewohnt sind und vom Normalar beitsverhaltnis im Sinne des Arbeitsrechts abweichen, werden vielfach als "atypisch" oder "prekar" mit erheblichem Misstrauen betrachtet. Demgegenuber muss sich die Erkenntnis durchsetzen, dass die Flexibilisierung der Arbeitsbe ziehungen in den Unternehmen nicht Selbstzweck, sondern die Reaktion auf veranderte Wettbewerbsbedingungen ist. Die vorliegenden Untersuchungen sollen dazu beitragen, eine differenziertere Betrachtungsweise zu vermitteln."