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The Coal Miner's War (Paperback): Randall R Reese The Coal Miner's War (Paperback)
Randall R Reese
R341 R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Save R58 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Work of Repair - Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa (Hardcover): Thomas Cousins The Work of Repair - Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa (Hardcover)
Thomas Cousins
R2,866 Discovery Miles 28 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Despotism on Demand - How Power Operates in the Flexible Workplace (Paperback): Alex J. Wood Despotism on Demand - How Power Operates in the Flexible Workplace (Paperback)
Alex J. Wood
R725 Discovery Miles 7 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Despotism on Demand draws attention to the impact of flexible scheduling on managerial power and workplace control. When we understand paid work as a power relationship, argues Alex J. Wood, we see how the spread of precarious scheduling constitutes flexible despotism; a novel regime of control within the workplace. Wood believes that flexible despotism represents a new domain of inequality, in which the postindustrial working class increasingly suffers a scheduling nightmare. By investigating two of the largest retailers in the world he uncovers how control in the contemporary "flexible firm" is achieved through the insidious combination of "flexible discipline" and "schedule gifts." Flexible discipline provides managers with an arbitrary means by which to punish workers, but flexible scheduling also requires workers to actively win favor with managers in order to receive "schedule gifts": more or better hours. Wood concludes that the centrality of precarious scheduling to control means that for those at the bottom of the postindustrial labor market the future of work will increasingly be one of flexible despotism.

Conflicting Commitments - The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston (Paperback): Shannon Gleeson Conflicting Commitments - The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston (Paperback)
Shannon Gleeson
R784 Discovery Miles 7 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Conflicting Commitments, Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards apply to all workers, yet this principle clashes with increasingly restrictive immigration laws and creates a confusing bureaucratic terrain for local policymakers and labor advocates. Gleeson examines this issue in two of the largest immigrant gateways in the country: San Jose, California, and Houston, Texas.

Conflicting Commitments reveals two cities with very different approaches to addressing the exploitation of immigrant workers both involving the strategic coordination of a range of bureaucratic brokers, but in strikingly different ways. Drawing on the real life accounts of ordinary workers, federal, state, and local government officials, community organizers, and consular staff, Gleeson argues that local political contexts matter for protecting undocumented workers in particular. Providing a rich description of the bureaucratic minefields of labor law, and the explosive politics of immigrant rights, Gleeson shows how the lessons learned from San Jose and Houston can inform models for upholding labor and human rights in the United States."

Industrial Relations in India - Issues, Institutions & Outlook (Hardcover): Aparna Raj Industrial Relations in India - Issues, Institutions & Outlook (Hardcover)
Aparna Raj
R1,427 R1,088 Discovery Miles 10 880 Save R339 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Industrial peace is a pre-requisite for smooth and uninterrupted production process in an economy. Industrial relations are a matter of importance not only for the employers and the employees but also for the society at large. In the wake of economic liberalisation sweeping across the world economies, the concept and nature of industrial relations are also undergoing a change. The past philosophy of industrial relations has become comparatively irrelevant in the context of new technology, emerging trade relations, and increased movement of labour and capital across continents. This book examines this most complex and delicate problem of the modern industrial society with reference to India. It analyses various aspects of industrial relations with particular emphasis on trade unions, industrial disputes, collective bargaining, grievance management, workers participation, labour legislations and social security schemes.

Taking Care of Our Own - When Family Caregivers Do Medical Work (Hardcover): Sherry N. Mong Taking Care of Our Own - When Family Caregivers Do Medical Work (Hardcover)
Sherry N. Mong
R2,929 Discovery Miles 29 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Mixing personal history, interviewee voices, and academic theory from the fields of care work, the sociology of work, medical sociology, and nursing, Taking Care of Our Own introduces us to the hidden world of family caregivers. Using a multidimensional approach, Sherry N. Mong seeks to understand and analyze the types of skilled work that family caregivers do, the processes through which they learn and negotiate new skills, and the meanings that both caregivers and nurses attach to their care work. Taking Care of Our Own is based on sixty-two in-depth interviews with family caregivers, home and community health care nurses, and other expert observers to provide a lens through which in-home care processes are analyzed, while also exploring how caregivers learn necessary procedures. Further, Mong examines the emotional labor of caregiving, as well as the identities of caregivers and nurses who are key players in the labor process, and gives attention to the ways in which the labor is transferred from medical professionals to family caregivers.

One Man's Quest to Keep You Safe - Dale Seiberling and Clean-In-Place Innovation (Paperback): Dale A. Seiberling, Bonnie B... One Man's Quest to Keep You Safe - Dale Seiberling and Clean-In-Place Innovation (Paperback)
Dale A. Seiberling, Bonnie B Daneker
R831 R698 Discovery Miles 6 980 Save R133 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chinese Politics and Labor Movements (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Jake Lin Chinese Politics and Labor Movements (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Jake Lin
R2,265 Discovery Miles 22 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth - The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas (Hardcover): Thomas Alter Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth - The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas (Hardcover)
Thomas Alter
R2,875 Discovery Miles 28 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Agrarian radicalism's challenge to capitalism played a central role in working-class ideology while making third parties and protest movements a potent force in politics. Thomas Alter II follows three generations of German immigrants in Texas to examine the evolution of agrarian radicalism and the American and transnational ideas that influenced it. Otto Meitzen left Prussia for Texas in the wake of the failed 1848 Revolution. His son and grandson took part in decades-long activism with organizations from the Greenback Labor Party and the Grange to the Populist movement and Texas Socialist Party. As Alter tells their stories, he analyzes the southern wing of the era's farmer-labor bloc and the parallel history of African American political struggle in Texas. Alliances with Mexican revolutionaries, Irish militants, and others shaped an international legacy of working-class radicalism that moved U.S. politics to the left. That legacy, in turn, pushed forward economic reform during the Progressive and New Deal eras. A rare look at the German roots of radicalism in Texas, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth illuminates the labor movements and populist ideas that changed the nation's course at a pivotal time in its history.

An Economic Analysis on Automated Construction Safety - Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and 3D Printing (Hardcover,... An Economic Analysis on Automated Construction Safety - Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and 3D Printing (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Rita Yi Man Li
R4,123 Discovery Miles 41 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book addresses information technologies recently applied in the field of construction safety. Combining case studies, literature reviews and interviews to study the issue, it presents cutting-edge applications of various information technologies (ITs) in construction in different parts of the world, together with a wealth of figures, tables and examples. Though primarily intended for researchers and experts in the field, the book will also benefit graduate students.

Still Broke - Walmart's Remarkable Transformation and the Limits of Socially Conscious Capitalism (Hardcover): Rick... Still Broke - Walmart's Remarkable Transformation and the Limits of Socially Conscious Capitalism (Hardcover)
Rick Wartzman
R673 Discovery Miles 6 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How America's biggest company began taking better care of its workers--and why such efforts will never be enough.Fifteen years ago, Walmart was the most controversial company in America. By offering incredibly low prices, it had come to dominate the retail landscape. But with this dominance came a suite of ethical concerns. Walmart was accused of wiping out of mom-and-pop businesses across the country; ruthlessly pressuring suppliers to cut costs, even if it meant closing up U.S. factories and moving production overseas; and, above all, not taking adequate care of its own employees, who were paid so little that many wound up on public assistance. Today, while Walmart remains America's largest employer, the picture is very different. It has become an environmental leader among businesses, and has taken many other steps to use its immense scale to have a positive social impact. Most notably, its starting wage has risen from $7.25 to $12, and employee benefits have improved. With internal and external threats to its business looming, the company began to change directions in 2005-a transformation that accelerated in 2014, with the arrival of CEO Doug McMillon. By undertaking such large-scale change without a legal mandate to do so, Walmart has joined a number of major corporations that say they are dedicated to practicing a new, socially conscious form of capitalism.In Still Broke, award-winning author Rick Wartzman goes inside the company's transformation, showing in novelistic detail how the company has gotten to where it is. Yet he also asks a critical question: is it enough? With a still-simmering public debate around the minimum wage and widespread movements by workers demanding better treatment, how far will $12 an hour go in today's economy? Or even $15? Or Walmart's average wage, which now hovers above $16-but, even so, doesn't pencil out to so much as $35,000 a year for a fulltime worker? In the richest nation on earth, how did the bar get set so low? How did America find itself relying on an army of low-wage workers without ever acknowledging their most basic needs? And if Walmart's brand of change is the best we have, how can we ever expect to build a healthy society?With unparalleled access to the key executives and change-makers at Walmart, Still Broke does more than document a remarkable business makeover. It interrogates the role of business in American life, and asks what the future of our economy and country can be-and whose job it is to make it.

Fraying Fabric - How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America (Paperback): James C. Benton Fraying Fabric - How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America (Paperback)
James C. Benton
R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The decline of the U.S. textile and apparel industries between the 1940s and 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the twenty-first century's potent economic populism in America. James C. Benton looks at how shortsighted trade and economic policy by labor, business, and government undermined an employment sector that once employed millions and supported countless communities. Starting in the 1930s, Benton examines how the New Deal combined promoting trade with weakening worker rights. He then moves to the ineffective attempts to aid textile and apparel workers even as imports surged, the 1974 pivot by policymakers and big business to institute lowered trade barriers, and the deindustrialization and economic devastation that followed. Throughout, Benton provides the often-overlooked views of workers, executives, and federal officials who instituted the United States' policy framework in the 1930s and guided it through the ensuing decades. Compelling and comprehensive, Fraying Fabric explains what happened to textile and apparel manufacturing and how it played a role in today's politics of anger.

The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean - How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression (Hardcover): Tariq D. Khan The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean - How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression (Hardcover)
Tariq D. Khan
R2,543 Discovery Miles 25 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The long relationship between America’s colonizing wars and virulent anticommunism The colonizing wars against Native Americans created the template for anticommunist repression in the United States. Tariq D. Khan’s analysis reveals bloodshed and class war as foundational aspects of capitalist domination and vital elements of the nation’s long history of internal repression and social control. Khan shows how the state wielded the tactics, weapons, myths, and ideology refined in America’s colonizing wars to repress anarchists, labor unions, and a host of others labeled as alien, multi-racial, multi-ethnic urban rabble. The ruling classes considered radicals of all stripes to be anticolonial insurgents. As Khan charts the decades of red scares that began in the 1840s, he reveals how capitalists and government used much-practiced counterinsurgency rhetoric and tactics against the movements they perceived and vilified as “anarchist.” Original and boldly argued, The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean offers an enlightening new history with relevance for our own time.

State, Labor, and the Transition to a Market Economy - Egypt, Poland, Mexico, and the Czech Republic (Paperback, Second... State, Labor, and the Transition to a Market Economy - Egypt, Poland, Mexico, and the Czech Republic (Paperback, Second Edition)
Agnieszka Paczynska
R1,146 Discovery Miles 11 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In response to mounting debt crises and macroeconomic instability in the 1980s, many countries in the developing world adopted neoliberal policies promoting the unfettered play of market forces and deregulation of the economy and attempted large-scale structural adjustment, including the privatization of public-sector industries. How much influence did various societal groups have on this transition to a market economy, and what explains the variances in interest-group influence across countries?

In this book, Agnieszka Paczyńska explores these questions by studying the role of organized labor in the transition process in four countries in different regions--the Czech Republic and Poland in eastern Europe, Egypt in the Middle East, and Mexico in Latin America. In Egypt and Poland, she shows, labor had substantial influence on the process, whereas in the Czech Republic and Mexico it did not. Her explanation highlights the complex relationship between institutional structures and the "critical junctures" provided by economic crises, revealing that the ability of groups like organized labor to wield influence on reform efforts depends to a great extent on not only their current resources (such as financial autonomy and legal prerogatives) but also the historical legacies of their past ties to the state.

This new edition features an epilogue that analyzes the role of organized labor uprisings in 2011, the protests in Egypt, the overthrow of Mubarak, and the post-Mubarak regime.

The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean - How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression (Paperback): Tariq D. Khan The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean - How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression (Paperback)
Tariq D. Khan
R739 Discovery Miles 7 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The long relationship between America’s colonizing wars and virulent anticommunism The colonizing wars against Native Americans created the template for anticommunist repression in the United States. Tariq D. Khan’s analysis reveals bloodshed and class war as foundational aspects of capitalist domination and vital elements of the nation’s long history of internal repression and social control. Khan shows how the state wielded the tactics, weapons, myths, and ideology refined in America’s colonizing wars to repress anarchists, labor unions, and a host of others labeled as alien, multi-racial, multi-ethnic urban rabble. The ruling classes considered radicals of all stripes to be anticolonial insurgents. As Khan charts the decades of red scares that began in the 1840s, he reveals how capitalists and government used much-practiced counterinsurgency rhetoric and tactics against the movements they perceived and vilified as “anarchist.” Original and boldly argued, The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean offers an enlightening new history with relevance for our own time.

Economic Optimization of Innovation and Risk (Hardcover): Robert Shuler Economic Optimization of Innovation and Risk (Hardcover)
Robert Shuler
R758 R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Save R137 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
You can tell a Book by its Cover - A lesson in Hygiene, etiquette, and courtesy For the Food, Health, and Hospitality... You can tell a Book by its Cover - A lesson in Hygiene, etiquette, and courtesy For the Food, Health, and Hospitality industries (Paperback)
Lea The Healer
R673 R542 Discovery Miles 5 420 Save R131 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Manhood on the Line - Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland (Paperback): Stephen Meyer Manhood on the Line - Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland (Paperback)
Stephen Meyer
R688 Discovery Miles 6 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer recreates a social milieu in stunning detail--the mean labor and stolen pleasures, the battles on the street and in the soul, and a masculinity that expressed itself in violence and sexism but also as a wellspring of the fortitude necessary to maintain one's dignity while doing hard work in hard world.

Economic Optimization of Innovation & Risk (Paperback): Robert Shuler Economic Optimization of Innovation & Risk (Paperback)
Robert Shuler
R374 R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Save R68 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Office Romance (Love Power and Sex in the Workplace) (Paperback): Lisa Mainiero Office Romance (Love Power and Sex in the Workplace) (Paperback)
Lisa Mainiero
R517 R451 Discovery Miles 4 510 Save R66 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Labor Matters - The African American Labor Crisis, 1861-Present 2nd Edition (Paperback): Roderick O. Ford Labor Matters - The African American Labor Crisis, 1861-Present 2nd Edition (Paperback)
Roderick O. Ford
R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Strategic Labor Relations Management in Modern Organizations (Hardcover): Ana Maria Lucia Casademunt Strategic Labor Relations Management in Modern Organizations (Hardcover)
Ana Maria Lucia Casademunt
R6,495 R945 Discovery Miles 9 450 Save R5,550 (85%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Rapid changes within the modern business landscape have created new demands for human resources management. With a different set of challenges to face, human resources managers must implement novel approaches to improve policy effectiveness. Strategic Labor Relations Management in Modern Organizations is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on emerging human resource practices in relation to labor management, featuring innovative methods to remain competitive in the global business arena. Focusing on critical analyses and real-world applications, this book is ideally designed for professionals, upper-level students, managers, and researchers actively involved in human resources settings.

Labor Matters - The African American Labor Crisis, 1861-Present 2nd Edition (Hardcover, Revised ed.): Roderick O. Ford Labor Matters - The African American Labor Crisis, 1861-Present 2nd Edition (Hardcover, Revised ed.)
Roderick O. Ford
R1,127 Discovery Miles 11 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Management Principles for Safety and Occupational Health Managers (Paperback): Fred Fanning Management Principles for Safety and Occupational Health Managers (Paperback)
Fred Fanning
R256 Discovery Miles 2 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In Solidarity - Academic Librarian Labour Activism and Union Participation in Canada (Paperback): Jennifer Dekker In Solidarity - Academic Librarian Labour Activism and Union Participation in Canada (Paperback)
Jennifer Dekker; Mary Kandiuk
R1,044 Discovery Miles 10 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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