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This book offers a new perspective on the relationship between trade unions and the state and on industrial conflict in the period of 1910-21. Using a range of primary sources, it explores the constraints placed by industrial conflict on both state…

What are trade unions for? Why do trade unions movements vary so? Trade unionism in its various national forms has been the subject of increasing scrutiny during the second half of the twentieth century. Ross Martin’s book is concerned with two…

Working for justice, which includes eleven case studies of recent low wage worker organizing campaigns in Los Angeles, makes the case for a distinctive ‘L.A. Model’ of union and worker centre organising. The organised labour movement in Los…

The decline of the American labor movement has become a subject of some significance. This collection documents and analyzes labor's deterioration, particularly such issues as why union density is relatively low in the U.S., why unions lose…

Part of a series which publishes theoretical, review and empirically based papers on group phenomena. Contributors to the series include not only sociologists but also scholars from other disciplines, such as psychology and organizational behaviour.…

This timely book takes as its starting point 11 monographs from trade union confederations in eight countries (Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States), as well as other sources. From a…

Exploration in the roots of labour struggles and industrial evolution. The text includes key discussions as the role of women in industry, legal interventions in labour conditions, and the progressiveness of employment equality.

Describes and analyzes the results of a study of the American labor movement comparing the working class to the black minority. Begins with the history of slavery and explores its long-term effects of work in mines, steel, stockyards, railroads, and…

Analysts are generally agreed: dramatic changes are unfolding in the character of work, managerial authority, and the employment relationship. However, there is little agreement as to precisely how such changes are reshaping people's working lives,…

Principles of Political Economy considered with a view to their practical application by Thomas Robert Malthus is a foundational economics text. It serves as a historical critique of classical economic theories, famously arguing that investment in…

The two studies on employer’s association in this research paper includes The functions and organization of employers' associations in selected industries by V.G. Munns and A survey of employers' association officials by W.E.J McCarthy.

This book is intended as a brief incursion into the theoretical and practical implementation of trade unions' behavior and government action in the contemporary situation. It is more concerned with raising questions than with answering them but…

Worker's participation: Current Research and Future Trends, volume 16 of research in the sociology of work, offers cutting-edge research on the character and implications of workplace participation. Written by some of the leading scholars in the…

Mr. Wyckoff is now writing, from the notes he took during the second year of his life as a labourer, the narrative of his life as a labourer, the narrative of his experiment while in the west, where he had even more instructive experience, nearly…

Affect and emotion have been recognized as important factors in understanding behavior in organizations, as evidenced by the increasing frequency of special journal issues, themed conferences, and books and articles devoted to the topic. The articles…