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Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 24.00This book examines informal workers' alternative social movements in India. more...
Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95One of the most remarkable aspects of South Korea?s transition from impoverished post-colonial nation to fully-fledged industrialized democracy has been the growth of its independent and dynamic labour movement. Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation examines current trends and transformations within the Korean labour movement since the 1990s.... more...
Emotional Labor in the 21st Century
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 73.95This book reviews, integrates, and synthesizes research on emotional labor and emotion regulation conducted over the past 30 years. The concept of emotional labor was first proposed by Dr. Arlie Russell Hochschild (1983), who defined it as "the management of feeling to create a publicly observable facial and bodily display" (p. 7) for a wage. A basic... more...
Labor Divided in the Postwar European Welfare State
Cambridge University Press 2013; Not AvailableThis book looks at the success of attempts to expand the boundaries of the postwar welfare state in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. more...
Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 114.95Volume 16 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) highlights important and interesting aspects of industrial and labor relations. Such issues include alternative approaches to establishing an ownership culture, accounting for union collective action through resource acquisition and mobilization, union avoidance through double-breasting,... more...
The Evolution of the Modern Workplace
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 43.00An authoritative account of how the workplace has changed, and why it has changed, for both workers and employers. more...
Assembling Flowers and Cultivating Homes
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2006; US$ 28.99This ethnographic study explores the links between agro-industrial employment in the context of economic adjustment programs and the individual experience of employment and economic change at the household level. Author Greta Friedemann-Sánchez's challenges the current academic consensus that transnational assembly line industries reinforce patriarchal... more...
The Realities of Partnership at Work
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 105.00A definitive study of partnership at work in the UK, with extensive surveys and interviews in organizations from the finance, NHS and local government sectors. The authors challenge conventional assumptions about the mutual interest associated with partnership, and find evidence of work intensification where partnership has been introduced. more...
Equal Opportunities and Ethnic Inequality in European Labour Markets
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 34.50An international comparative study on scientific research on the employment situation of migrants and ethnic minorities in European countries more...
Police Union Power, Politics, and Confrontation in the 21st Century
Charles C Thomas 2008; US$ 54.95This all new book brings new perspectives and ideas for police labor leaders to succeed in these challenging times; and includes major revisions and updates of the 1997 book Police Association Power, Politics, and Confrontation, including a title change. The book is an expansive and comprehensive text on police unions, encompassing the vast and intricate... more...









