Industrial relations, health & safety
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Industrial relations, health & safety
Hardback. This social history of China during the first half of the 20th century focuses on the Shanghai labour movement. It draws on abundant sources and studies which have appeared in the People's Republic of China since the early 1980s and which have not been systematically used in Western historiography. Num Pages: 344 pages, 15 half-tones 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; KCF; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720632
- ISBN
- 9780804720632
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.79
€ 148.79
Hardcover. Uses new research to examine performance implications of different employee relations in German firms in the UK, Are they using the liberal institutional system for employee relations in the UK to escape the heavily regulated system in Germany? The authors explore best practice approaches common to the best performing subsidiaries. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; KJK; KJVG; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230006966
- ISBN
- 9780230006966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.69
€ 63.69
The Realities of Partnership at Work (Future of Work)
Upchurch, Martin, Danford, Andy, Richardson, ...
Hardcover. A 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. Series: Future of Work. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMV2; KJVV; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230006973
- ISBN
- 9780230006973
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.52
€ 121.52
Hardcover. Suggesting that an expressive ideology has arisen within the workplace public sphere around the theme of 'competence', this book explores the hegemony of global finance and the fetishism of the new economy, exposing the dilemmas of the competence agenda, and illustrating how competence is played out in the workplace public sphere. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCP; KJB; KNXB2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008731
- ISBN
- 9780230008731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.66
€ 63.66
Hardcover. This study offers a close examination of Marx's dialectical method of analysis through the lens of current debates in cultural studies, political economy, and critical sociology. It seeks to reanimate Marx's theoretical reconstruction of the capitalist formation from the point of view of recent social dynamics within advanced consumer economies. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; JPA; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102392
- ISBN
- 9780230102392
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.97
€ 63.97
Workplace Health and Safety: International Perspectives on Worker Repr...
Walters, David, Nichols, Theo
Hardcover. A cutting edge look at the experience of worker representation in the employment relations of workplace health and safety. Examining the extent to which existing arrangements deliver results, this book reflects on whether the effectiveness of worker representation is eroded or enhanced by current regulatory and organizational constructs. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMV2; KJW; KNXC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230214859
- ISBN
- 9780230214859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
The Challenge of Transition: Trade Unions in Russia, China and Vietnam...
Clarke, Simon, Pringle, Tim
Hardcover. This book explores the transformation of employment relations, the rise of worker protest and the reform of trade union practice to ask how successfully the state-socialist trade unions have adapted to their new role of representing the rights and interests of workers. Series: Non-Governmental Public Action. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FMV; 1FPC; KNXB2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398. Trade Unions in Russia, China and Vietnam. Series: Non-governmental Public Action. 288 pages, 2 black & white tables. This book explores the transformation of employment relations, the rise of worker protest and the reform of trade union practice to ask how successfully the state-socialist trade unions have adapted to their new role of representing the rights and interests of workers. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FMV; 1FPC; KNXB2. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 19. Weight: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230233300
- ISBN
- 9780230233300
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Hardcover. The past decade has seen the emergence of new types of trade union representatives attracting new and more diverse activists; this book explores their motivations and values, drawing upon the voices of the activists themselves and capturing the relationship between work, social identity and class consciousness. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSV; JHBL; JPW; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230244115
- ISBN
- 9780230244115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Hardcover. The first account of the emergence and demise of preventive health care for workers. It explores how trade unions, employers, doctors and the government reconfigured the relationship between health, productivity and the factory over the course of the twentieth century within a broader political, industrial and social context. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBTB; HBTK; KNXC; MBNH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230283718
- ISBN
- 9780230283718
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. The complete story of the devastating BP oil spill of 2010. The author puts forward an objective account of what happened, a documentation of the true costs, not the hyperbolic costs, and an explanation of the science and business of the spill and its remediation. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJG; KJK; KJR; KNXC; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230293588
- ISBN
- 9780230293588
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.45
€ 64.45
Hardcover. One of the major obstacles unions face in building influence in the workplace is the opposition and resistance from those that own those workplaces, namely, the employers. This volume examines the nature of this anti-unionism, and in doing so explains the ways and means by which employers have successfully maintained their right to manage. Editor(s): Gall, Professor Gregor. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJK; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230303348
- ISBN
- 9780230303348
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.28
€ 122.28
Hardcover. Highlights how vulnerable seafarers are as a group of workers and that they are made so by the structure and organisation of their employment and the limits of the maritime regulatory system. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJG; KNGS; KNXC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230573833
- ISBN
- 9780230573833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.28
€ 122.28
Hardcover. The book offers an inquiry into the construction of employment practices in a multinational company across Western and Eastern Europe. In the complex corporate and host-country influences, social interaction between the firm and local actors is presented as the underlying social mechanism through which work practices are constructed. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJW; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579774
- ISBN
- 9780230579774
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.14
€ 64.14
The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and Their Unions. Stories fo...
. Ed(S): Weiner, Lois; Compton, Mary
Paperback. Public education's character is increasingly under assault as privatization of education is advanced. This collection of essays by noted scholars, teacher activists, and teacher's union leaders from around the world fuses insights with background and analysis to make real the goal of quality education for all the world's children. Editor(s): Weiner, Lois; Compton, Mary. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNK; JNT; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606302
- ISBN
- 9780230606302
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.61€ 44.54
€ 50.61
€ 44.54
Hardcover. This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform. Dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre, it saw Chicago police shoot and kill ten demonstrators and beat more than one hundred others as they tried to form a mass picket line at the Republic Steel Plant in South Chicago. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; 3JJ; HBTB; JPHV; KNXB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618213
- ISBN
- 9780230618213
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Paperback. This study offers a comparative analysis of Latin American and Middle Eastern corporatism, by looking at Egypt and Mexico's differing experiences with privatization, showing that how the working class was attached to the regime during the period of state-building shapes leaders' institutional options and capabilities for market reform. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1KLCM; JPFK; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621374
- ISBN
- 9780230621374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.26
€ 63.26
Paperback. Num Pages: 289 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KNXC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306422478
- ISBN
- 9780306422478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.26
€ 63.26
Hardcover. Based on the Symposium on Advances in Building Evaluation: Knowledge, methods, and Applications, held as part of the Tenth Biannual Conference of the International Association for the Study of People, and Their Physical Surroundings, July 5-8, 1988, in Delft, The Netherlands Editor(s): Preiser, Wolfgang F. E. Num Pages: 365 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KNXC; TNKF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 1989th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306433375
- ISBN
- 9780306433375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.12
€ 192.12
Hardback. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: KNXC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306435706
- ISBN
- 9780306435706
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.46
€ 63.46
Hardback. Series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJ; KNXB3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1250.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306444456
- ISBN
- 9780306444456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.57
€ 126.57