Der Begriff industrial relations hat erst in jungster Zeit Eingang in die sozialwissen 1 schaftliche Forschung der Bundesrepublik gefunden. Bei dieser Feststellung wird nicht ubersehen, dass Teilbereiche, wie etwa die Gewerkschaften und ihre Politik, 2 durchaus auch schon fruher das sozialwissenschaftliche Interesse gefunden haben. Ei ne solche Einschrankung des Untersuchungsfeldes verkennt jedoch, dass sich, um auf einen von Theodor Geiger gepragten Begriff zuruckzugreifen, mit der "Institutionali 3 sierung des Klassenantagonismus" zwischen Arbeit und Kapital bzw. zwischen die In teressenverbande beider Seiten ein Netz vielfaltiger institutioneller und organisatori scher Vermittlungsmechanismen geschoben hat. Dadurch muss sich die isolierte Be trachtung gewerkschaftlichen Handeins als unzureichend erweisen. Theoretisches Be muhen um den Gegenstandsbereich der industrial relations muss vielmehr immer um die Einbeziehung des gesamten Spannungsfeldes zwischen Kapital und Arbeit bemuht 4 sein. Haufig wird das nur geringe Bemuhen der Sozialwissenschaften und insbesondere der Soziologie in der Bundesrepublik um den Gegenstandsbereich der industriellen Ar beitsbeziehungen mit dem Hinweis zu erklaren versucht, dass sich irrfolge einer umfang reichen rechtlichen Normierung des Arbeitsverhaltnisses ln diesem Land eine vorwie 5 gend juristische Betrachtungsweise durchgesetzt hat. Neben der Tatsache, dass durch Gesetzgebung in starkem Masse Einfluss auf die Regelung von Arbeitsverhaltnissen ge nommen wird, kann es auch als Ausdruck weitgehend verrechtlichter Arbeitsbeziehun gen in der Bundesrepublik angesehen werden, dass Konflikte um die rechtmassige An wendung bestehender Regelungen selten zwischen den Parteien ausgetragen werden. In 6 vielen Fallen entscheiden die Gerichte hieruber. Der deutschen Situation wird die englische gegenubergestellt."

Canadian Labour Policy and Politics is essential reading for undergraduates studying the politics of inequality in Canada's labour market, guiding students through its causes and consequences, and providing alternatives for a sustainable future. This comprehensive textbook explores how globalization, labour laws, employment standards, COVID-19, and other challenges affect Canadian workers. Written by leading experts and practitioners, it will engage students with real-world examples - and real-world reforms - to the many dimensions of inequality that Canadians face on and off the job today. Key features include chapter summaries and outlines, suggestions for further reading, and glossaries.

In the mid-twentieth century, corporations consolidated control over agriculture on the backs of Mexican migrant laborers through a guestworker system called the Bracero Program. The National Agricultural Workers Union (NAWU) attempted to organize these workers but met with utter indifference from the AFL-CIO. Andrew J. Hazelton examines the NAWU's opposition to the Bracero Program against the backdrop of Mexican migration and the transformation of North American agriculture. His analysis details growers' abuse of the program to undercut organizing efforts, the NAWU's subsequent mobilization of reformers concerned by those abuses, and grower opposition to any restrictions on worker control. Though the union's organizing efforts failed, it nonetheless created effective strategies for pressuring growers and defending workers' rights. These strategies contributed to the abandonment of the Bracero Program in 1964 and set the stage for victories by the United Farm Workers and other movements in the years to come.

With an estimated 20% of working women leaving their job or taking a lesser role because they are struggling to deal with menopause symptoms, there has never been a more urgent need for better education about this all too often taboo subject. Women feel confused and frustrated with the lack of support from health practitioners and often feel embarrassed or scared to raise the subject at work for fear of ridicule or judgement. And yet, women over 50 are the fastest growing sector of the UK workforce, with more than 80% of the 4.4 million working women currently dealing with menopause. This book provides a no-nonsense guide to help women not only get clear on what menopause is but also what they can do about it.

What have jobs really been like for the past 40 years and what do the workers themselves say about them? In What Workers Say, Roberta Iversen shows that for employees in labor market industries-like manufacturing, construction, printing-as well as those in service-producing jobs, like clerical work, healthcare, food service, retail, and automotive-jobs are often discriminatory, are sometimes dangerous and exploitive, and seldom utilize people's full range of capabilities. Most importantly, they fail to provide any real opportunity for advancement. What Workers Say takes its cue from Studs Terkel's Working, as Iversen interviewed more than 1,200 workers to present stories about their labor market jobs since 1980. She puts a human face on the experiences of a broad range of workers indicating what their jobs were and are truly like. Iversen reveals how transformations in the political economy of waged work have shrunk or eliminated opportunity for workers, families, communities, and productivity. What Workers Say also offers an innovative proposal for compensated civil labor that could enable workers, their communities, labor market organizations, and the national infrastructure to actually flourish.

The labor movement in the United States is a bulwark of democracy and a driving force for social and economic equality. Yet its stories remain largely unknown to Americans. Robert Forrant and Mary Anne Trasciatti edit a collection of essays focused on nationwide efforts to propel the history of labor and working people into mainstream narratives of US history. In Part One, the contributors concentrate on ways to collect and interpret worker-oriented history for public consumption. Part Two moves from National Park sites to murals to examine the writing and visual representation of labor history. Together, the essayists explore how place-based labor history initiatives promote understanding of past struggles, create awareness of present challenges, and support efforts to build power, expand democracy, and achieve justice for working people. A wide-ranging blueprint for change, Where Are the Workers? shows how working-class perspectives can expand our historical memory and inform and inspire contemporary activism. Contributors: Jim Beauchesne, Rebekah Bryer, Rebecca Bush, Conor Casey, Rachel Donaldson, Kathleen Flynn, Elijah Gaddis, Susan Grabski, Amanda Kay Gustin, Karen Lane, Rob Linne, Erik Loomis, Tom MacMillan, Lou Martin, Scott McLaughlin, Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan, Karen Sieber, and Katrina Windon

What have jobs really been like for the past 40 years and what do the workers themselves say about them? In What Workers Say, Roberta Iversen shows that for employees in labor market industries-like manufacturing, construction, printing-as well as those in service-producing jobs, like clerical work, healthcare, food service, retail, and automotive-jobs are often discriminatory, are sometimes dangerous and exploitive, and seldom utilize people's full range of capabilities. Most importantly, they fail to provide any real opportunity for advancement. What Workers Say takes its cue from Studs Terkel's Working, as Iversen interviewed more than 1,200 workers to present stories about their labor market jobs since 1980. She puts a human face on the experiences of a broad range of workers indicating what their jobs were and are truly like. Iversen reveals how transformations in the political economy of waged work have shrunk or eliminated opportunity for workers, families, communities, and productivity. What Workers Say also offers an innovative proposal for compensated civil labor that could enable workers, their communities, labor market organizations, and the national infrastructure to actually flourish.

The aim of this Handbook is to produce an interdisciplinary and international benchmark text for anyone wanting to understand job quality. Job quality matters and has long and continually done so, even if the terminology used to describe it has, and continues, to vary. Debate about the future of work and job quality in the twenty-first century centres on the impact of the new digital technologies of the putative fourth industrial revolution. This debate compounds existing concerns about the restructuring of employment and, importantly, a worrying proliferation of poor-quality jobs, often within the context of neo-liberal political-economic hegemony since the early 1980s or the economic crisis that followed the Global Financial Crisis of the late 2000s. Job quality is offered as a solution to challenges such as health, welfare, productivity, innovation, economic competitiveness, democracy and democratic participation, Bildung/cultivation, societal equality, individual and collective quality of life, and environmental sustainability. As job quality is a key factor in addressing these and the other challenges, it needs to be understood in all its complexity in terms of what it affects as well as what affects it. This Handbook draws together into a single volume: first, an explicit focus on job quality both as a significant factor in and of itself and as producing instrumental effects on a range of other processes and outcomes; second, a catalogue of the diverse range of multiple contributions and applications related to job quality; and third, the complexity and multiple interpretations of the concept of job quality. Each chapter provides distinct responses to the question of why job quality matters, coupled to a contention about for whom or for what job quality matters most. As the chapters with their respective answers and arguments attest, there are a range of ways in which job quality is relevant to an equally broad range of social, economic, and political concerns.

In The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta bring a novel perspective to building worker power and what labor organizing could look like in the future, suggesting ways to evolve collective bargaining to match the needs of modern people-not only changing their wages and working conditions, but being able to govern over more aspects of their lives. Weaving together stories of real working people, Smiley and Gupta position the struggle to build collective bargaining power as a central element in the effort to build a healthy democracy and explore both existing levers of power and new ones we must build for workers to have the ability to negotiate in today and tomorrow's contexts. The Future We Need illustrates the necessity of centralizing the fight against white supremacy and gender discrimination, while offering paths forward to harness the power of collective bargaining in every area for a new era.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

Bernan Press proudly presents the 15th edition of Employment, Hours, and Earnings: States and Areas, 2020. A special addition to Bernan Press Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics: Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data, this reference is a consolidated wealth of employment information, providing monthly and annual data on hours worked and earnings made by industry, including figures and summary information spanning several years. These data are presented for states and metropolitan statistical areas. This edition features: Nearly 300 tables with data on employment for each state, the District of Columbia, and the nation's seventy-five largest metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) Detailed, non-seasonally adjusted, industry data organized by month and year Hours and earnings data for each state, by industry An introduction for each state and the District of Columbia that denotes salient data and noteworthy trends, including changes in population and the civilian labor force, industry increases and declines, employment and unemployment statistics, and a chart detailing employment percentages, by industry Ranking of the seventy-five largest MSAs, including census population estimates, unemployment rates, and the percent change in total nonfarm employment, Concise technical notes that explain pertinent facts about the data, including sources, definitions, and significant changes; and provides references for further guidance A comprehensive appendix that details the geographical components of the seventy-five largest MSAs The employment, hours, and earnings data in this publication provide a detailed and timely picture of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the nation's seventy-five largest MSAs. These data can be used to analyze key factors affecting state and local economies and to compare national cyclical trends to local-level economic activity. This reference is an excellent source of information for analysts in both the public and private sectors. Readers who are involved in public policy can use these data to determine the health of the economy, to clearly identify which sectors are growing and which are declining, and to determine the need for federal assistance. State and local jurisdictions can use the data to determine the need for services, including training and unemployment assistance, and for planning and budgetary purposes. In addition, the data can be used to forecast tax revenue. In private industry, the data can be used by business owners to compare their business to the economy as a whole; and to identify suitable areas when making decisions about plant locations, wholesale and retail trade outlets, and for locating a particular sector base.

Redgrave's Health and Safety is a leading authority on health and safety law and practice. It sets out key legislation in the field of health and safety at work, including commentary on significant Acts and Regulations; references to both English and Scottish cases, with concise commentaries on the case law; and a thorough source of fully annotated legal materials with additional commentary from the general editor and contributors. The title's logical and coherent structure and user-friendly format makes it accessible and easy to use - even in court. Every practitioner serious about health and safety relies on Redgrave's Health and Safety for expert guidance on the subject. Key updates covered in the new 10th edition include: * Court decisions on relevance of health and safety regulations to claims for damages for injury sustained after September 2013; * The impact of Brexit on employer's liability claims; * Latest health and safety legislation, including latest amendments to existing legislation; * Latest court decisions, including those relating to employment status of workers.

Das Interesse fur das Problem "Werksgemeinschaft" ist standig im Wachsen. Aus allen Erorterungen ist aber erkennbar, dass sowohl uber die Entstehung der Werksgemeinschafts bewegung als auch uber den Begriff Werksgemeinschaft noch grosste Unklarheit herrscht. Der Verfasser des ersten Teils der vorliegeRden Schrift hat sich die Aufgabe gestellt, die historische Entwicklung des Werksgemeinschaftsgedankens zu zeigen und gleichzeitig aus dem Schrifttum uber die Werksgemeinschaft das, was Wesentliches uber Idee, Wesen und Organisation gesagt wird, zusammenzufassen und soweit erforderlich kritisch zu beleuchten. Dem Verfasser des zweiten Teiles dagegen kommt es darauf an, die Idee der Werksgemeinschaft auf ihren soziologisch-syste matischen Gehalt zu untersuchen und ihre Fundamentierung und Gestaltung dem sozialwissenschaftlichen Denken der Gegen- wart naherzubringen. Es handelt sich in dieser Doppelschrift nicht um eine wirt schaftspolitische Programmschrift. In aller Sachlichkeit und auf wissenschaftlicher Grundlage soll das Wesen und Werden der "Werksgemeinschaft" gezeigt werden, wie es sich uns gegenwartig darstellt und weitere Ent-wicklungsmoglichkeiten bietet. Berlin, im Oktober 1928. Vorwel'ck. Dunkmann. Inhaltsverzeichnis. Erster Teil. Die Werksgemeinschaft in historischer und wirtschafts wissenschaftlicher Beleuchtung. Von Dr. Karl Vorwerck. Seite 1. Anfange der Werksgemeinschaftsbewegung . 1 2. Die Idee der Werksgemeinschaft ... 8 3. Werksgemeinschaft ? . . . . . . . 20 4. Die Gestaltung der Werksgemeinschaft 26 5. Wege zur Werksgemeinschaft . 39 6. Die Kritiker .. .. 51 Literaturverzeichnis . . . 58 Zweiter Teil. Werksgemeinschaft als Organisationsproblem. Von Prof. D. Karl Dunkmann. 1. Die Aufgabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 2. Die Notwendigkeit der Organisation der Industriearbeiter. 66 3. Die Organisation der Interessenkoalition . 69 4. Kritik der Interessenkoalition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 5. Das Fuhrerproblem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 . 6. Das Lohnproblem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 ."