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Differentielles Management
Springer 2012; US$ 69.99Differentielles Management/Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Dieter Wagner more...
On Strike and on Film
The University of North Carolina Press 2012; US$ 26.95In 1950, Mexican American miners went on strike for fair working conditions in Hanover, New Mexico. When an injunction prohibited miners from picketing, their wives took over the picket lines--an unprecedented act that disrupted mining families but ultimately ensured the strikers' victory in 1952. In On Strike and on Film , Ellen Baker examines the... more...
Implications of the Global Financial Crisis for Financial Reform and Regulation in Asia
Edward Elgar Publishing 2012; US$ 40.00In light of the experience of the global financial crisis, this book develops concrete recommendations for financial sector reform and regulation in Asian economies aimed at preventing the recurrence of systemic financial crises, improving the ability to manage and resolve crises, managing capital flows and promoting the development of Asian bond markets.... more...
Collision Course
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 21.99In August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiveness and hostility to organized labor. As Joseph A. McCartin writes, the strike was the culmination of two decades of escalating conflict between controllers... more...
Workplace Conflict
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 105.00Based on qualitative work in car plants in Argentina, this book offers new insights for an understanding of workers' collective struggles in a radical perspective. Criticizing the use of injustice as the basis of mobilization, it argues that workers' collective resistance should be seen as a function of the development of solidarity. more...
The Women and Men of 1926
University of Wales Press 2010; US$ 70.00Work on the miners' Lock-Out of 1926 tends to focus on the perspective of the National Union of Mineworkers, while nothing has been written which attempts to examine, for example, how miner's wives coped for six months without pay. This book investigates the Lock-Out from the perspective of gender relations. more...
Yearbook of Labour Statistics
ILO Publications 2010; US$ 275.00Since its first edition in 1935-36, the Yearbook of Labour Statistics has established itself as the world's foremost work of statistical reference on labour questions, bringing together in systematic form a mass of data from a vast network of authoritative sources of information in some 190 countries... more...









