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Generic Inference
Wiley 2011; US$ 115.00This book provides a rigorous algebraic study of the most popular inference formalisms with a special focus on their wide application area, showing that all these tasks can be performed by a single generic inference algorithm. Written by the leading international authority on the topic, it includes an algebraic perspective (study of the valuation algebra... more...
Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011; US$ 124.95This volume contains seven distinctive papers that explore important aspects of contemporary employment relationships. As a set, these papers are in keeping with the traditions of AILR which are to offer global perspectives on employment relationships, draw knowledge from wherever it is forthcoming and relevant, represent a mix of disciplinary perspectives,... more...
Factory Girls
Pan Macmillan UK 2010; US$ 18.03China has more than 114 million migrant workers, which represents the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie Chang tells the story of two such workers: two young women who she befriends over the course of three years. Interspersing their account of life and migration with the story of her own family?s migrations, Chang paints... more...
Changing the Industrial Geography in Asia
World Bank Publications 2010; US$ 14.99A great burst of globalization brought the 20th century to a close, creating upheaval in the world economy from roughly 1995 to 2008. And now a second upheaveal is in the offing following the severe financial crisis that plunged the global economy into recession in 2008-09. The first upheaval witnessed a massive migration of manufacturing and certain... more...
Workplace Reform in the Healthcare Industry
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 132.00This book focuses on the relationship between health sector and industrial relations reforms and the impact these have had on employment relations in Australia since 1990. The book adds to the international literature on New Public Management with a distinctively Australian focus and synthesizes the impact of health sector and industrial relations... more...
Anti-Capitalism
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 14.95In Anti-Capitalism, activist and scholar Ezequiel Adamovsky tells the story of the long-standing effort to build a better world, one without an abusive system at its heart. Backed up by arresting, lucid images from the radical artist group United Illustrators, Adamovsky details the struggle against rising corporate power, as that struggle unfolds in... more...
Unions in a Contrary World
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 34.00This book explains the decline in trade union participation, looking at both macro and micro levels. more...
Working Conditions Laws Report 2010
ILO Publications 2010; US$ 15.00In 2008, the report Working Conditions Laws 2006-2007: A global review (ILO, 2008) was first published, which drew on the information contained in TRAVAIL's database.In view of the interest it generated, we have decided to issue an update of that report. The present edition offers a succinct and easy-to-read review of national legal developments... more...
ILO Summit on the Global Jobs Crisis
ILO Publications 2010; US$ 32.00The ILO Summit on the Global Jobs Crisis was held on 15-17 June 2009 in Geneva, in response to the financial crisis and its grave impact on global unemployment, poverty and inequality. Addressed by Heads of State and Government, Vice-Presidents, Ministers and leaders of workers' and employers' organizations from around the world, the Summit... more...
International Journal of Labour Research Volume 2, No. 1
ILO Publications 2010; US$ 42.00The International Journal of Labour Reseach provides an overview of recent research on labour and social policies from trade union researchers and academic around the world. The journal is multidisciplinary and of interest to trade union researchers, labour ministries and academics of all relevant disciplines worldwide - industrial relations, sociology,... more...









