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Hidden America
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 12.99Five hundred feet underground, Jeanne Marie Laskas asked a coal miner named Smitty, ?Do you think it?s weird that people know so little about you?? He replied, ?I don?t think people know too much about the way the whole damn country works.? Hidden America intends to fix that. Like John McPhee and Susan Orlean, Laskas dives deep into her subjects... more...
The Main Street Moment
Nation Books 2012; US$ 15.99In the wake of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and the Supreme Court?s landmark Citizens United decision, politicians are targeting working Americans as never before. As American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Gerald W. McEntee and Secretary-Treasurer Lee Saunders show, efforts to crush... more...
Winning at Collective Bargaining
R&L Education 2012; US$ 35.99Whether you are a novice or a seasoned pro, the information and strategies outlined in this collective bargaining guide will enable you to come to the table and negotiate successfully. Comprehensive in scope, the text begins with an historical overview and discussion of state bargaining laws. more...
Mother Jones
University of New Mexico Press 2011; US$ 21.95The details of the life and work of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones are skillfully told here for those who have not heard her story and those who know it well. more...
Manager-Subordinate Trust in Different Cultures
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 59.95This volume in the Routledge Global Human Resource Management Series is dedicated to analyzing the process of trust development between managers and subordinates in different countries of the main cultures of the world. Behaviors and trust are linked in a process that can reinforce or diminish the trust between the two parties. This book examines... more...
Inside the Workplace
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 34.95Based on the primary analysis of the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS 2004), this is the fifth book in the series which began in 1980, and which is considered to be one of the most authoritative sources of information on employment relations in Great Britain. Interviews were conducted with managers and employee representatives in... more...
Work's Intimacy
Wiley 2013; US$ 19.95This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between the offices and homes of workers in the new "knowledge" economy to provide intimate insight into the personal, family, and wider social tensions emerging in today’s rapidly changing work environment.... more...
The Meaning of Marxism
Haymarket Books 2013; US$ 15.00A lively and accessible introduction to the ideas of Karl Marx, with historical and contemporary examples. more...
Labour Relations and Industrial Performance in Brazil
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 138.00Labour relations had important connections with industrial performance in Greater Sao Paulo, the most important industrial centre in Brazil and Latin America, between 1945 and 1960. This book shows that the predominant industrial practices in terms of wages, working conditions and industrial training kept away activities based on quality and innovation... more...
Understanding Global Slavery
University of California Press 2005; US$ 15.95Although slavery is illegal throughout the world, we learned from Kevin Bales's highly praised exposé, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, that more than twenty-seven million people?in countries from Pakistan to Thailand to the United States--are still trapped in bondage. With this new volume, Bales, the leading authority on modern... more...









