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A Global History of Runaways - Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600-1850 (Hardcover): Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty,... A Global History of Runaways - Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600-1850 (Hardcover)
Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, Matthias van Rossum
R2,561 Discovery Miles 25 610 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600-1850, workers of all kinds-slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors-repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of Runaways, edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, and Matthias van Rossum, compares and connects runaways in the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Mughal, Portuguese, and American empires. Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. At the same time, these laborers challenged that order-from the undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth.

Trade Unions in Western Europe - Hard Times, Hard Choices (Paperback): Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick, Richard Hyman Trade Unions in Western Europe - Hard Times, Hard Choices (Paperback)
Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick, Richard Hyman
R1,116 Discovery Miles 11 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Trade unions in most of Europe are on the defensive: in recent decades they have lost membership, sometimes drastically; their collective bargaining power has declined, as has their influence on government; and in many countries, their public respect is much diminished. This book explores the challenges facing trade unions and their responses in ten west European countries: Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Italy. Based on a substantial number of interviews with key union representatives and academic experts in each country, together with the collection of a large amount of union documentation and background material, the book gives an account of how trade unionism has evolved in each country, the main recent challenges that unions have faced, and their responses. The book engages with the debates of the past two decades on union modernization and revitalization, and more generally with theories of institutional change and the literature on varieties of capitalism. Some observers ask whether unions remain relevant socio-economic actors, but challenging times can stimulate new thinking, and hence provide new opportunities. This book aims to show why trade unions are (still) important subjects for scientific analysis: first, as a means of collective 'voice' allowing employees to challenge management control and bringing a measure of balance to the employment relationship; second, as a form of 'countervailing power' to the socio-economic dominance of capital; and third, their potential as a 'sword of justice' to defend the weak, vulnerable and disadvantaged, express a set of values in opposition to the dominant political economy, and offer aspirations for a different-and better-form of society.

Reconstructing Solidarity - Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe (Hardcover):... Reconstructing Solidarity - Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe (Hardcover)
Virginia Doellgast, Nathan Lillie, Valeria Pulignano
R3,015 Discovery Miles 30 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Work is widely thought to have become more precarious. Many people feel that unions represent the interests of protected workers in good jobs at the expense of workers with insecure employment, low pay, and less generous benefits. Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe argues the opposite: that unions try to represent precarious workers using a variety of creative campaigning and organizing tactics. Where unions can limit employers' ability to 'exit' labour market institutions and collective agreements, and build solidarity across different groups of workers, this results in a virtuous circle, establishing union control over the labour market. Where they fail to do so, it sets in motion a vicious circle of expanding precarity based on institutional evasion by employers. Reconstructing Solidarity examines how unions build, or fail to build, inclusive worker solidarity to challenge this vicious circle and to re-regulate increasingly precarious jobs. Comparative case studies from fourteen European countries describe the struggles of workers and unions in industries such as local government, retail, music, metalworking, chemicals, meat packing, and logistics. Their findings argue against the thesis that unions act primarily to protect labour market insiders at the expense of outsiders.

Labor and Legality - An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network, 10th Anniversary Edition (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Ruth... Labor and Legality - An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network, 10th Anniversary Edition (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Ruth Gomberg-Munoz
R1,135 Discovery Miles 11 350 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network, Tenth Anniversary Edition, is an ethnography of undocumented immigrants who work as busboys at a Chicago-area restaurant. Ruth Gomberg-Munoz introduces readers to the Lions, ten friends from Mexico committed to improving their fortunes and the lives of their families. Set in and around "Il Vino," a restaurant that could stand in for many places that employ undocumented workers, The Tenth Anniversary Edition of Labor and Legality reveals the faces behind the war being waged over "illegal immigrants" in America. Gomberg-Munoz focuses on how undocumented workers develop a wide range of social strategies to cultivate financial security, nurture emotional well-being, and promote their dignity and self-esteem. She also reviews the political and historical circumstances of undocumented migration, with an emphasis on post-1970 socioeconomic and political conditions in the United States and Mexico. Labor and Legality, Tenth Anniversary Edition, is one of many volumes in the series ISSUES OF GLOBALIZATION: CASE STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY, which introduces key concepts and theories of globalization through rich and compelling ethnography. It offers new research through case studies in a style and format appropriate for both students and scholars of Anthropology and related fields. Each volume offers a brief and engaging exploration of a particular issue arising from globalization and its cultural, political, and economic effects on certain peoples or groups.

Bluster - Donald Trump's War on Terror (Hardcover): Peter R. Neumann Bluster - Donald Trump's War on Terror (Hardcover)
Peter R. Neumann
R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wheeling's Polonia - Reconstructing Polish Community in a West Virginia Steel Town (Paperback): William Hal Gorby Wheeling's Polonia - Reconstructing Polish Community in a West Virginia Steel Town (Paperback)
William Hal Gorby
R833 Discovery Miles 8 330 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

William Hal Gorby's study of Wheeling's Polish community weaves together stories of immigrating, working, and creating a distinctly Polish-American community, or Polonia, in the heart of the upper Ohio Valley steel industry. It addresses major topics in the history of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, while shifting from urban historians' traditional focus on large cities to a case study in a smaller Appalachian setting. Wheeling was a centre of West Virginia's labour movement, and Polish immigrants became a crucial element within the city's active working-class culture. Arriving at what was also the centre of the state's Roman Catholic Diocese, Poles built religious and fraternal institutions to support new arrivals and to seek solace in times of economic strain and family hardship. The city's history of crime and organised vice also affected new immigrants, who often lived in neighbourhoods targeted for selective enforcement of Prohibition. At once a deeply textured evocation of the city's ethnic institutions and an engagement with large questions about belonging, change and justice, Wheeling's Polonia us an inspiring account of a diverse working-class culture and the immigrants who built it.

Closing Sysco - Industrial Decline in Atlantic Canada's Steel City (Paperback): Lachlan Mackinnon Closing Sysco - Industrial Decline in Atlantic Canada's Steel City (Paperback)
Lachlan Mackinnon
R1,140 Discovery Miles 11 400 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Closing Sysco presents a history of deindustrialization and working-class resistance in the Cape Breton steel industry between 1945 and 2001. The Sydney Steel Works is at the heart of this story, having existed in tandem with Cape Breton's larger coal operations since the early twentieth century. The book explores the multifaceted nature of deindustrialization; the internal politics of the steelworkers' union; the successful efforts to nationalize the mill in 1967; the years in transition under public ownership; and the confrontations over health, safety, and environmental degradation in the 1990s and 2000s. Closing Sysco moves beyond the moment of closure to trace the cultural, historical, and political ramifications of deindustrialization that continue to play out in post-industrial Cape Breton Island. A significant intervention into the international literature on deindustrialization, this study pushes scholarship beyond the bounds of political economy and cultural change to begin tackling issues of bodily health, environment, and historical memory in post-industrial places. The experiences of the men and women who were displaced by the decline and closure of Sydney Steel are central to this book. Featuring interviews with former steelworkers, office employees, managers, politicians, and community activists, these one-on-one conversations reveal both the human cost of industrial closure and the lingering after-effects of deindustrialization.

The Wales TUC, 1974-2004 - Devolution and Industrial Politics (Paperback, New): Joe England The Wales TUC, 1974-2004 - Devolution and Industrial Politics (Paperback, New)
Joe England
R142 Discovery Miles 1 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Wales TUC is the national institution representing the organised workers of Wales. Joe England seeks to explain and assess its achievements over the past thirty years of dramatic change: the rundown of the coal and steel industries, the decline in manufacturing jobs, the growth of white-collar employment and unions, the Thatcher and Major years of high unemployment and industrial law reform, and the increasing numbers of low-paid part-time workers, most of them women. Throughout the period the Wales TUC has negotiated with a succession of Secretaries of State of varying persuasions, consistently promoting the case for investment in jobs and fair treatment for workers. A leading campaigner for a Welsh Assembly it now has to adjust to the demands of that body whilst seeking to halt the decline in trade union membership and promote partnership with industry. The result is a book that is relevant not only to the study of recent Welsh political and industrial history and to an understanding of pressure group politics, but also to labour history and industrial relations.

Blue and Green - The Drive for Justice at America's Port (Paperback): Scott L. Cummings Blue and Green - The Drive for Justice at America's Port (Paperback)
Scott L. Cummings
R1,037 Discovery Miles 10 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation's largest port. In Blue and Green, Scott Cummings examines a campaign by the labor and environmental movements to transform trucking at America's largest port in Los Angeles. Tracing the history of struggle in an industry at the epicenter of the global supply chain, Cummings shows how an unprecedented "blue-green" alliance mobilized to improve working conditions for low-income drivers and air quality in nearby communities. The campaign for "clean trucks," Cummings argues, teaches much about how social movements can use law to challenge inequality in a global era. Cummings shows how federal deregulation created interrelated economic and environmental problems at the port and how the campaign fought back by mobilizing law at the local level. He documents three critical stages: initial success in passing landmark legislation requiring port trucking companies to convert trucks from dirty to clean and drivers from contractors to employees with full labor rights; campaign decline after industry litigation blocked employee conversion; and campaign resurgence through an innovative legal approach to driver misclassification that realized a central labor movement goal-unionizing port truckers. Appraising the campaign, Cummings analyzes the tradeoffs of using alternative legal frameworks to promote labor organizing, and explores lessons for building movements to regulate low-wage work in the "gig" economy. He shows how law can bind coalitions together and split them apart, and concludes that the fight for legal reform never ends, but rather takes different turns on the long road to justice.

The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs Volume II - The Rise and Fall of the American Railway Union, 1892-1896 (Paperback): Tim... The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs Volume II - The Rise and Fall of the American Railway Union, 1892-1896 (Paperback)
Tim Davenport, David Walters
R888 R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Save R263 (30%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Tim Davenport and David Walters have extracted the essential core of Debs's life work, illustrating his intellectual journey from conservative editor of the magazine of a racially segregated railway brotherhood to his role as the public face and outstanding voice of social revolution in early twentieth-century America. Well over 1,000 Debs documents will be republished as part of this monumental project, the vast majority seeing print again for the first time since the date of their original publication. Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) was a trade unionist, magazine editor, and public orator widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of American socialism.

A Global History of Runaways - Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600–1850 (Paperback): Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty,... A Global History of Runaways - Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600–1850 (Paperback)
Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, Matthias van Rossum
R813 Discovery Miles 8 130 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of Runaways, edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, and Matthias van Rossum, compares and connects runaways in the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Mughal, Portuguese, and American empires. Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. At the same time, these laborers challenged that order—from the undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth.  

Financialization, New Investment Funds, and Labour - An International Comparison (Hardcover): Howard Gospel, Andrew Pendleton,... Financialization, New Investment Funds, and Labour - An International Comparison (Hardcover)
Howard Gospel, Andrew Pendleton, Sigurt Vitols
R3,524 Discovery Miles 35 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book provides a comprehensive, comparative treatment of the development of New Investment Funds (NIFs)-private equity, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds-and their impact upon labour and employment. Several countries are selected for in-depth treatment with a chapter devoted to each: US, UK, Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Poland, and Japan. The book examines variations in the level and type of fund activity between countries, considers influences upon these variations, and analyses differences in the impact of these funds on labour and employment. This analysis is located in a broader discussion of the nature and development of corporate financialization and comparative capitalism. Financialization has supported the development and growth of these funds, and many aspects of these funds exemplify the process of financialization. Each chapter reports the evidence on the impact of these funds on labour and employment. Case studies conducted by the authors supplement other evidence. Much of the evidence shows that private equity funds can have adverse effects on labour, such as reductions in employment, but there is also evidence of more positive effects in some cases such as employment growth and adoption of high commitment human resource practices. There is much less evidence on the effects of activist HFs and SWFs, with the impact on labour typically being indirect. Between them, the chapters show that variations in national regulation have a significant impact on both the development of fund activities and their effects. With regard to labour effects, employment and labour regulations do not seem to be of prime importance in explaining the level of fund activity, but regulation supporting worker consultation and voice affects the capacity of labour representatives to influence the outcomes of fund activity on labour and employment.

State of the Union - A Century of American Labor - Revised and Expanded Edition (Paperback, Revised edition): Nelson... State of the Union - A Century of American Labor - Revised and Expanded Edition (Paperback, Revised edition)
Nelson Lichtenstein
R786 Discovery Miles 7 860 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, and people in a streamlined narrative of work and labor in the twentieth century.

The "labor question" became a burning issue during the Progressive Era because its solution seemed essential to the survival of American democracy itself. Beginning there, Lichtenstein takes us all the way to the organizing fever of contemporary Los Angeles, where the labor movement stands at the center of the effort to transform millions of new immigrants into alert citizen unionists. He offers an expansive survey of labor's upsurge during the 1930s, when the New Deal put a white, male version of industrial democracy at the heart of U.S. political culture. He debunks the myth of a postwar "management-labor accord" by showing that there was (at most) a limited, unstable truce.

Lichtenstein argues that the ideas that had once sustained solidarity and citizenship in the world of work underwent a radical transformation when the rights-centered social movements of the 1960s and 1970s captured the nation's moral imagination. The labor movement was therefore tragically unprepared for the years of Reagan and Clinton: although technological change and a new era of global economics battered the unions, their real failure was one of ideas and political will. Throughout, Lichtenstein argues that labor's most important function, in theory if not always in practice, has been the vitalization of a democratic ethos, at work and in the larger society. To the extent that the unions fuse their purpose with that impulse, they can once again become central to the fate of the republic. "State of the Union" is an incisive history that tells the story of one of America's defining aspirations.

This edition includes a new preface in which Lichtenstein engages with many of those who have offered commentary on "State of the Union" and evaluates the historical literature that has emerged in the decade since the book's initial publication. He also brings his narrative into the current moment with a final chapter, "Obama's America: Liberalism without Unions."

Employment in the Lean Years - Policy and Prospects for the Next Decade (Paperback, New): David Marsden Employment in the Lean Years - Policy and Prospects for the Next Decade (Paperback, New)
David Marsden
R1,254 Discovery Miles 12 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over the last fifteen years, the deregulation of Britain's labor market has led to economic growth, employment opportunities, and a more diverse workforce: the "fat years." However, now as Britain faces its lean years with job cuts, rising unemployment, income insecurity, and related social strains, how can and should the government and key labor market policy makers ensure the labor market provides job opportunities and reasonable levels of social justice?
The fundamental changes that have occurred in labor market institutions mean that 'solutions' of previous decades no longer work. This volume sets out to address the major challenges faced:
- Unemployment, immigration, housing and job subsidies
- Key institutional changes, such as the decline of collective regulation, rise of occupational licensing, and the National Minimum Wage
- Pay and subsidies in the private and public sector
Contributions from leading experts in the field employ the latest theory and empirical research to examine a different set of problems and the policies that could help to resolve them.

Leistungsfoerderndes Entgelt erfolgreich einfuhren - Gestaltungshinweise und Umsetzungshilfen fur den Einfuhrungsprozess... Leistungsfoerderndes Entgelt erfolgreich einfuhren - Gestaltungshinweise und Umsetzungshilfen fur den Einfuhrungsprozess (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2018)
Ifaa - Institut Fur Angewandte
R517 Discovery Miles 5 170 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Dieses Buch ist ein Praxisleitfaden fur die systematische und erfolgreiche Einfuhrung von leistungsbezogenen Entgeltsystemen und ist besonders fur kleine und mittelstandische Unternehmen interessant. Es beschreibt den Prozess von der Auswahl der richtigen Entgeltmethode bis hin zur Ausgestaltung und Implementierung im Unternehmen. Dabei werden zahlreiche organisatorische Hilfsmittel und Checklisten dargestellt sowie praktische Tipps und Informationen zur Vermeidung klassischer Fehler im Einfuhrungsprozess gegeben. Das Autorenteam besteht aus Experten mit umfassender Erfahrung auf dem Gebiet der Entgeltgestaltung in Unternehmen mit und ohne Tarifbindung.

The Oxford Handbook of Participation in Organizations (Hardcover, New): Adrian Wilkinson, Paul J Gollan, Mick Marchington,... The Oxford Handbook of Participation in Organizations (Hardcover, New)
Adrian Wilkinson, Paul J Gollan, Mick Marchington, David Lewin
R4,766 Discovery Miles 47 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Employee participation encompasses the range of mechanisms used to involve the workforce in decisions at all levels of the organization--whether direct or indirect--conducted with employees or through their representatives. In its various guises, the topic of employee participation has been a recurring theme in industrial relations and human resource management. One of the problems in trying to develop any analysis of participation is that there is potentially limited overlap between these different disciplinary traditions, and scholars from diverse traditions may know relatively little of the research that has been done elsewhere. Accordingly in this book, a number of the more significant disciplinary areas are analyzed in greater depth in order to ensure that readers gain a better appreciation of what participation means from these quite different contextual perspectives.
Not only is there a range of different traditions contributing to the research and literature on the subject, there is also an extremely diverse sets of practices that congregate under the banner of participation. The handbook discusses various arguments and schools of thought about employee participation, analyzes the range of forms that participation can take in practice, and examines the way in which it meets objectives that are set for it, either by employers, trade unions, individual workers, or, indeed, the state.
In doing so, the handbook brings together leading scholars from around the world who present and discuss fundamental theories and approaches to participation in organization as well as their connection to broader political forces. These selections address the changing contexts of employee participation, different cultural/ institutional models, old/'new' economy models, shifting social and political patterns, and the correspondence between industrial and political democracy and participation.
About the Series
Oxford Handbooks in Business & Management bring together the world's leading scholars on the subject to discuss current research and the latest thinking in a range of interrelated topics including Strategy, Organizational Behavior, Public Management, International Business, and many others. Containing completely new essays with extensive referencing to further reading and key ideas, the volumes, in hardback or paperback, serve as both a thorough introduction to a topic and a useful desk reference for scholars and advanced students alike.

Entkoppelte Gesellschaft - Ostdeutschland seit 1989/90; Band 1 - Anschluss (German, Hardcover): Yana Milev Entkoppelte Gesellschaft - Ostdeutschland seit 1989/90; Band 1 - Anschluss (German, Hardcover)
Yana Milev
R1,392 Discovery Miles 13 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Seit das Ende des Kommunismus auf 1990 festgeschrieben und der Unrechtsstaat DDR der Justiz ubergeben wurde, inszenieren neue Institutionen, Stiftungen und Behoerden auf Bundesebene den oekonomischen, kulturellen und moralischen Erfolg des Rechtsstaats. Dabei wird die Mehrheit der Neuburger mit Schockereignissen des krassen sozialen Wandels und der gesellschaftlichen Stigmatisierung konfrontiert. Konzepte wie "Transformation", "Modernisierung", "Demokratisierung" treten als Euphemismen auf, die uber eine neoliberale Annexion der "Neulander" hinwegtauschen. Das Investmentprojekt "Aufschwung Ost" ist ein Laborfall der Globalisierung. UEber eine Aufarbeitung der DDR im Totalitarismus- und Diktaturenvergleich hinaus ist eine politische Soziologie der Landnahme, des Gesellschaftsumbaus und des strukturellen Kolonialismus in Ostdeutschland langst uberfallig. Das Forschungsprogramm "Entkoppelte Gesellschaft. Liberalisierung und Widerstand in Ostdeutschland seit 1989/90. Ein soziologisches Laboratorium" will im dreissigsten Jahr der "Einheit" diesem Thema mit einer mehrbandigen Publikation Rechnung tragen. Der Band "Anschluss" widerlegt den Mythos von der "friedlichen Revolution" und von der "Wiedervereinigung" dessen, was zusammengehoert und geht der These nach, dass Liberalisierung die Fortsetzung des Krieges mit anderen Mitteln ist. Der Band belegt die zeithistorischen Zusammenhange fur den koordinierten Staatsanschluss der DDR an die BRD und zeigt auf, warum die basisdemokratische Reformbewegung 1990 scheitern musste.

In Solidarity - Essays on Working-Class Organization and Strategy in the United States (Paperback): Kim Moody In Solidarity - Essays on Working-Class Organization and Strategy in the United States (Paperback)
Kim Moody
R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this thorough collection of inspiring and informed essays Kim Moody, one of the world's most authoritative and recognised labour writers, analyses the past, present and future of unions in the United States. With a sharp understanding of Marxist theory and labour history, Moody charts a well-reasoned course for the future of rank-and-file struggle.

Black and Blue - African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party (Paperback): Paul Frymer Black and Blue - African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party (Paperback)
Paul Frymer
R1,451 Discovery Miles 14 510 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"This book will be the standard and basic book for generations to come. It will be and is the "sine qua non" for serious scholars in this area."--William Gould, former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board

"Institutional structures matter. Paul Frymer shows how misleading it is to see 'the national government' as an undifferentiated whole. Instead, its division into separate branches, cabinet departments, agencies, and commissions has profound consequences for the actualities of public policy. Frymer offers constant illumination of the consequences for labor unions and racial-justice advocates of this almost 'anarchic' organization, but the basic insights of the book apply even more broadly."--Sanford Levinson, author of "Our Undemocratic Constitution"

"A major book by an important scholar, Paul Frymer's carefully researched and elegantly constructed account of the struggle for racial equality in the American workplace clearly exposes the tensions and contradictions that attended this struggle. It will be widely read and have a substantial impact on the field."--Robert C. Lieberman, Columbia University, author of "Shaping Race Policy"

"Paul Frymer has written a fascinating, provocative, and original contribution to debates on the labor movement and race in the twentieth century. The book covers ground few scholars have dealt with, while also drawing synthetically and fruitfully on a rich literature."--Eric Arnesen, University of Illinois at Chicago

The End of Burnout - Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives (Paperback): Jonathan Malesic The End of Burnout - Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives (Paperback)
Jonathan Malesic
R601 Discovery Miles 6 010 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing. Burnout has become our go-to term for talking about the pressure and dissatisfaction we experience at work. But in the absence of understanding what burnout means, the discourse often does little to help workers who suffer from exhaustion and despair. Jonathan Malesic was a burned out worker who escaped by quitting his job as a tenured professor. In The End of Burnout, he dives into the history and psychology of burnout, traces the origin of the high ideals we bring to our jobs, and profiles the individuals and communities who are already resisting our cultural commitment to constant work. In The End of Burnout, Malesic traces his own history as someone who burned out of a tenured job to frame this rigorous investigation of how and why so many of us feel worn out, alienated, and useless in our work. Through research on the science, culture, and philosophy of burnout, Malesic explores the gap between our vocation and our jobs, and between the ideals we have for work and the reality of what we have to do. He eschews the usual prevailing wisdom in confronting burnout ("Learn to say no!" "Practice mindfulness!") to examine how our jobs have been constructed as a symbol of our value and our total identity. Beyond looking at what drives burnout-unfairness, a lack of autonomy, a breakdown of community, mismatches of values-this book spotlights groups that are addressing these failures of ethics. We can look to communities of monks, employees of a Dallas nonprofit, intense hobbyists, and artists with disabilities to see the possibilities for resisting a "total work" environment and the paths to recognizing the dignity of workers and nonworkers alike. In this critical yet deeply humane book, Malesic offers the vocabulary we need to recognize burnout, overcome burnout culture, and acknowledge the dignity of workers and nonworkers alike.

Labour Law in an Era of Globalization - Transformative Practices and Possibilities (Paperback, Revised): Joanne Conaghan,... Labour Law in an Era of Globalization - Transformative Practices and Possibilities (Paperback, Revised)
Joanne Conaghan, Richard Michael Fischl, Karl Klare
R1,556 Discovery Miles 15 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Throughout the industrial world, the discipline of labour law has fallen into deep philosophical and policy crisis, at the same time as new theoretical approaches make it a field of considerable intellectual ferment. Modern labour law evolved in a symbiotic relationship with a postwar institutional and policy agenda, the social, economic, and political underpinnings of which have gradually eroded in the context of accelerating international economic integration and wage-competition, a decline in the capacity of the nation-state to steer economic progress, the ascendancy of fiscal austerity and monetarism over Keynesian/welfare state politics, the appearance of post-industrial production models, the proliferation of contingent employment relationships, the fragmentation of class-based identities and emergence of new social movements, and the significantly increased participation of women in paid work. These developments offer many appealing possibilities - the opportunity, for example, to contest the gender division of labour and re-think the boundaries between immigration and labour policy. But they also hold out quite threatening prospects - including increased unemployment and inequality and the decline of workers' organizations and social participation - in the context of proliferating constraints imposed by international financial pressures on enacting redistributive social and economic policies. New strategies must be developed to meet these challenges. These essays - which are the product of a transnational comparative dialogue among academics and practitioners in labour law and related legal fields, including social security, immigration, trade, and development - identify, analyse, and respond to some of the conceptual and policy challenges posed by globalization.

Labor Visions and State Power - The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States (Hardcover): Victoria C. Hattam Labor Visions and State Power - The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States (Hardcover)
Victoria C. Hattam
R3,338 Discovery Miles 33 380 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the structure of the American state, particularly to the influence of American courts. The AFL's strategic calculation was not universal, however. This book reveals the competing ideologies and acts of interpretation that produced these variations in state-labor relations. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Der Bruch; Ursachen und Konsequenzen des Umsturzes der Verfassungsordnung Polens 2015-2016 (German, Hardcover): Klaus Bachmann Der Bruch; Ursachen und Konsequenzen des Umsturzes der Verfassungsordnung Polens 2015-2016 (German, Hardcover)
Klaus Bachmann; Klaus Bachmann
R1,201 Discovery Miles 12 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Der Autor untersucht die Auswirkungen der Wahlsiege der rechtspopulistischen Partei "Recht und Gerechtigkeit" in 2015. Sie gewann sowohl die Prasidentschafts- als auch die Parlamentswahlen in Polen und konnte als erste Partei nach 1989 ohne Koalitionspartner eine Regierung bilden. Mit geradezu revolutionarem Eifer ging sie daran, die bestehende Verfassungsordnung zu sturzen. Dieses Buch beschaftigt sich ausfuhrlich mit den Ursachen und gesellschaftlichen Hintergrunden fur diese Entwicklung und ihren Folgen fur Demokratie, Rechtsstaatlichkeit und innenpolitische Stabilitat in Polen. Es diskutiert die Konsequenzen fur die internationale Position Polens in der EU und der NATO. Der Autor halt fest, dass die Entwicklung nicht nur einen Bruch mit der Verfassungsordnung, sondern auch mit den Traditionen und politischen Werten der polnischen Rechten und der aussenpolitischen Grundlinie der Dritten Polnischen Republik darstellt.

Manufacturing Consent (Paperback, New edition): Michael Burawoy Manufacturing Consent (Paperback, New edition)
Michael Burawoy
R1,005 Discovery Miles 10 050 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Since the 1930s, industrial sociologists have tried to answer the question, Why do workers not work harder? Michael Burawoy spent ten months as a machine operator in a Chicago factory trying to answer different but equally important questions: Why do workers work as hard as they do? Why do workers routinely consent to their own exploitation?
"Manufacturing Consent," the result of Burawoy's research, combines rich ethnographical description with an original Marxist theory of the capitalist labor process. "Manufacturing Consent" is unique among studies of this kind because Burawoy has been able to analyze his own experiences in relation to those of Donald Roy, who studied the same factory thirty years earlier. Burawoy traces the technical, political, and ideological changes in factory life to the transformations of the market relations of the plant (it is now part of a multinational corporation) and to broader movements, since World War II, in industrial relations.

Teachers and Politics in Japan (Hardcover): Donald R. Thurston Teachers and Politics in Japan (Hardcover)
Donald R. Thurston
R4,381 Discovery Miles 43 810 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Japan Teachers' Union, which represents 500,000 elementary and lower secondary school teachers, is an important interest group in Japanese politics. It is especially significant as a radical group operating both within and outside the political system and in direct conflict with conservative government policies in education and other areas of domestic and foreign policy. Donald R. Thurston's descriptive and analytic study of this most controversial labor union reveals a great deal about Japan's educational and political systems, and about the teaching profession in Japan and its relations with government and the community. It will therefore be of great interest both to political scientists and to those interested in comparative education. The purpose of this broad cross-sectional case study of the Japan Teachers' Union was to find out how much influence it has had on its own members and on the formulation and implementation of educational policies. The conclusion is that the union is much more influential at the local level where educational policies are implemented, and changed in the process of implementation, than at the national level where policy is formulated. It also shows that the Japan Teachers' Union has changed teachers' attitudes towards their roles, and that although the JTU is attached to the left-wing Japan Socialist Party, it is much more autonomous than has been thought. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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