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Regulation and Management of Workplace Health and Safety
Historical and Emerging Trends
Av Peter Sheldon, Sarah Gregson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2512 kr
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The book provides a collection of cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work, workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety. Featuring research from Australia, Europe and North America, the chapters traverse important historical examples and place …
Trade Unions and Regions
Better Work, Experimentation, and Regional Governance
Av Christian Lévesque, Peter Fairbrother m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2586 kr
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Trade Unions and Regions: Better Work, Experimentation, and Regional Governance is about the place of workers and their unions in the modern world. It addresses current challenges for unions working in regions and the experiments that may take place at this level of governance. The book addresses …
Crossing Boundaries
Work and Industrial Relations in Perspective
Inbunden, 2020
2073 kr
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This book provides thoughtful insights into the development in work, organisations and employment relations in the last 50 years. In a semi-autobiographical approach, the author reflects on important contributions by other scholars, practitioners, and policy makers to work and employment …
Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation
Australia 1851-1880
Häftad, 2022
712 kr
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Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851-1880 provides a new perspective on how and why workers organise, and what shapes that organisation.The author’s 2018 Origins of Worker Mobilisation examined the beginning of worker organisation, arguing inequality at work, and regulatory …
Regulation and Management of Workplace Health and Safety
Historical and Emerging Trends
Av Peter Sheldon, Sarah Gregson m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
663 kr
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The book provides a collection of cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work, workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety. Featuring research from Australia, Europe and North America, the chapters traverse important historical examples and place …
Crossing Boundaries
Work and Industrial Relations in Perspective
Häftad, 2022
877 kr
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This book provides thoughtful insights into the development in work, organisations and employment relations in the last 50 years. In a semi-autobiographical approach, the author reflects on important contributions by other scholars, practitioners, and policy makers to work and employment …
Wildfire and Power
Policy and Practice
Av Peter Fairbrother, Meagan Tyler
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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This book brings together perspectives from sociology, political science, gender studies, and history to produce new ways of analysing wildfire preparedness and policy in Australia. Drawing on data from hundreds of interviews with residents, volunteers and emergency services professionals living …
Transnational Management and Globalised Workers
Nurses Beyond Human Resources
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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There are 60 million health care workers globally and most of this workforce consists of nurses, as they are key providers of primary health care. Historically, the global nurse occupation has been predominately female and segregated along gendered, racialised and classed hierarchies. In the last …
Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation
Australia 1851-1880
Inbunden, 2020
2512 kr
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Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851-1880 provides a new perspective on how and why workers organise, and what shapes that organisation.The author’s 2018 Origins of Worker Mobilisation examined the beginning of worker organisation, arguing inequality at work, and regulatory …
Origins of Worker Mobilisation
Australia 1788-1850
Häftad, 2019
712 kr
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This is a book on how and why workers come together. Almost coincident with its inception, worker organisation is a central and enduring element of capitalism. In the 19th and 20th centuries’ mobilisation by workers played a substantial role in reshaping critical elements of these societies in …
Employment Relations in the Health Service
Av Stephen Bach
Inbunden, 2004
2586 kr
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Employment relations within the health sector have undergone radical reform over recent years. This book is an important new study that examines the responses of managers and workers to these different reforms, at both national and local level.Bringing together analyses of both employment relations …
Globalisation, State and Labour
Av Peter Fairbrother, Al Rainnie
Inbunden, 2005
2586 kr
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Globalisation, State and Labour combines a new theoretical approach with comparative analysis – ensuring that it will be of vital interest to anyone concerned with the globalization debate, the future of the state, and organized labour.It shows how although the world is undergoing enormous changes …
Sexualities, Work and Organizations
Av James Ward
Inbunden, 2007
2586 kr
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Sexuality is arguably the most under-researched of all diversity areas in work organizations. This book brings together and relates stories of minority sexual identity from six organizations drawn from three different industry sectors: the Emergency Services, the Civil Service and the Banking …
Industrial Relations in Education
Transforming the School Workforce
Av Bob Carter, Howard Stevenson
Inbunden, 2009
2441 kr
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All phases of education from pre-school to post-compulsory, in virtually all parts of the world, have experienced unprecedented reform and restructuring in recent years. Restructuring has largely been driven by a global agenda that has promoted the development of human capital as the key to …
Unions and Globalisation
Governments, Management, and the State at Work
Av Peter Fairbrother, John O'Brien m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2744 kr
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In recent decades, trade unions have suffered major reversals and experienced declining memberships. Transnational corporations and state-owned multi-nationals have increasingly implemented deteriorating terms and conditions of employment, with vulnerable and insecure job contracts. In this …
Vocational Training
International Perspectives
Av Gerhard Bosch, Jean Charest
Inbunden, 2009
2979 kr
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The last decade has given rise to a strong public discourse in most highly industrialized economies about the importance of a skilled workforce as a key response to the competitive dynamic fostered by economic globalisation. The challenge for different training regimes is twofold: attracting young …
Social Regionalism in the Global Economy
Av Adelle Blackett, Christian Lévesque
Inbunden, 2010
2586 kr
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Regional trade agreements have expanded exponentially over the past decade, and have become a significant, if controversial, factor in the expanse of economic globalization. Social Regionalism in the Global Economy attempts to take a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to addressing labour regulation …
Rediscovering Collective Bargaining
Australia's Fair Work Act in International Perspective
Av Breen Creighton, Anthony Forsyth
Inbunden, 2012
2311 kr
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This book examines countries that have tried, with varying degrees of success, to use legislative strategies to encourage and support collective bargaining, including Australia’s Fair Work Act. It is the first major study of the operation and impact of the new collective bargaining framework …
Temporary Work, Agencies and Unfree Labour
Insecurity in the New World of Work
Inbunden, 2013
2512 kr
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Unfree labor has not disappeared from advanced capitalist economies. In this sense the debates among and between Marxist and orthodox economic historians about the incompatibility of capitalism and unfree labor are moot: the International Labour Organisation has identified forced, coerced, and …
Sexualities, Work and Organizations
Av James Ward
Häftad, 2012
772 kr
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Sexuality is arguably the most under-researched of all diversity areas in work organizations. This book brings together and relates stories of minority sexual identity from six organizations drawn from three different industry sectors: the Emergency Services, the Civil Service and the Banking …
Transnational Trade Unionism
Building Union Power
Av Peter Fairbrother, Christian Lévesque m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2512 kr
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Transnational trade union action has expanded significantly over the last few decades and has taken a variety of shapes and trajectories. This book is concerned with understanding the spatial extension of trade union action, and in particular the development of new forms of collective mobilization, …
Privatization of Public Services
Impacts for Employment, Working Conditions, and Service Quality in Europe
Av Christoph Hermann, Jörg Flecker
Inbunden, 2012
2512 kr
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Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic restructuring processes in recent years in connection with liberalization and privatization. While evaluations of the successes of public services have focused on prices and efficiency, much less attention has been paid to the impacts of …
Global Tourism and Informal Labour Relations
The Small Scale Syndrome at Work
Inbunden, 1997
2133 kr
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The worldwide expansion of the tourism industry creates many encounters between global agents and local forces, yet the host-guest interaction is rarely considered from the point of view of the experience of work. This study documents and discusses such a global-local encounter, based on fieldwork …
Women, Work and Trade Unions
Av Anne Munro
Inbunden, 1999
2744 kr
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This study focuses on working-class women, catering and cleaning workers, and the way their interests were presented in trade unions. It argues that there is an institutional bias within trade unions which precludes the full representation of women's interests. Based on empirical research into two …
Young Adult Women, Work and Family
Living a Contradiction
Av Maureen Padfield, Ian Procter
Inbunden, 1998
2133 kr
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This text is an exploration of the interplay between employment and domestic relations within a specific group of young women, which includes single working women without children and working mothers. It is based on actual experiences, as related in interviews, and uses longitudianl data to chart …
Restructuring in the Service Industries
Management Reform and Workplace Relations in the UK Service Sector
Inbunden, 2000
1567 kr
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Restructuring in the Service Industries: Management Reform and Workplace Relations in the UK Service Sector. An examination of the complex process of transformation in work organization, technology and labour and product markets that has occurred. The analysis moves between a broad appreciation of …
Paying for the Piper
Capital and Labour in Britain's Offshore Oil Industry
Av Charles Woolfson, John Foster m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
2197 kr
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This book is an appraisal of current offshore industrial relations, and safety regulations instituted after the 1988 Alpha disaster in the North Sea. This text discusses the oil industry's attempts to contain subsequent, unwelcome regulatory interference, and examines the fraught history of trade …
History of Work and Labour Relations in the Royal Dockyards
Av Ann Day, Kenneth Lunn
Inbunden, 1999
1521 kr
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Focusing on the work and labour history of shipyard workers in the Royal Dockyards, this text examines the question of state employment and the specific characteristics of that pattern of industrial relations. It encompasses discussions of the nature of work and resistance to forms of authority. …
Paying for the Piper
Capital and Labour in Britain's Offshore Oil Industry
Av Charles Woolfson, John Foster m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
1492 kr
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This book is an appraisal of current offshore industrial relations, and safety regulations instituted after the 1988 Alpha disaster in the North Sea. This text discusses the oil industry's attempts to contain subsequent, unwelcome regulatory interference, and examines the fraught history of trade …
State and 'Globalization'
Comparative Studies of Labour and Capital in National Economies
Inbunden, 1999
1567 kr
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This collection of country studies explores changing relationships between the state, employers and labour in an increasingly internationalized world economy. It covers ten countries and examines the tensions and contradictions caused by neo-liberal market agendas. The authors express concern at …
