Bennett-Alexander and Hartman's "Employment Law for Business, 5/e" addresses law and employment decisions from a managerial perspective. It is intended to instruct students on how to manage effectively and efficiently with full comprehension of the legal ramifications of their decisions. Students are shown how to analyze employment law facts using ...
Gerda Klein has expanded her story, originally published in 1957, to include a description of her new life in the United States. She recounts in detailed prose the nostalgic story of her home and family--none of whom survived the war--in prewar Bielitz, Poland, and her three-year imprisonment in German work camps and the 1000-mile winter march. It ...
John Steinbeck lived and worked with a group of migrant workers in California, from whom he drew the material for his great Dust Bowl saga of a wandering Okie family, the Joads. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel awakened the American reading public to the plight of migrant workers and made Steinbeck famous worldwide. One of the most popular novels ...
In this study of America's minimum wage workers, the author explains how she went under cover several times, taking on different low-wage positions, to determine how adults who lack higher education survive. After working at Wal-Mart and as a waitress, she concluded that the working poor should be afforded more health care, housing assistance, and ...
In this thought-provoking book, a distinguished public intellectual explores the work of craftsmen past and present and challenges ideas about what constitutes good work in today's world.
Award-winning journalist David Batstone reveals the story of a new generation of 21st century abolitionists and their heroic campaign to put an end to human bondage. In his accessible and inspiring book "Not For Sale", Batstone carefully weaves the narratives of activists and those in bondage in a way that not only raises awareness of the modern ...
Richard Bolles's classic WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE is a popular, highly respected guide for job seekers. Its sound yet innovative approach is based on finding out who you are and what you want to do--after which your job search will be more focused and have a greater chance of success. It is, nonetheless, a supremely practical guide, by a man ...
Historian David Von Drehle revisits the March 25, 1911, Triangle shirtwaist fire in New York City, in which 146 workers who were locked in a sweatshop were killed. The public was horrified, and the event became a force for significant change in labor laws and caused a realignment in NYC politics. The author examines the event and its aftermath, ...
Drawing on extensive interviews with dozens of porters and their descendants, Tye reconstructs the complicated world of the Pullman porter and the vital cultural, political, and economic roles they played as forerunners of the modern black middle class.
In this, the only English translation authorised by Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn, ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH stands as a classic of contemporary literature. It is an unforgettable portrait of the world of Stalin's forced work camps, and remains one of the most extraordinary literary documents of its time. It confirmed Solzhenitzyn's stature ...
A guide for those who wish to help a woman have a positive childbirth experience. It provides information about: techniques and medications for easing labor pain; tests and treatments of the fetus and newborn; strategies to help labor progress; medical procedures; and, how to best help the mother during the early postpartum period.
In a remarkable pairing, two renowned social critics offer a groundbreaking anthology that examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide.
A national treasure, radio legend Studs Terkel first made his name in his home town of Chicago, conducting tens of thousands of radio interviews over several decades. (He even interviewed Bob Dylan in the early '60s.) In WORKING, Terkel lets the tape roll as people talk about their jobs--an oral history approach which, though he did not invent it, ...
Retaining good human capital is one of the secrets to any successful business. LOVE 'EM OR LOSE 'EM offers a 26-chapter guide to keeping the right people around, offering up case studies of Deloitte & Touche and DuPont and their ways of ensuring they don't lose their best and brightest to the competition.
The author replaces the traditional punitive approach to discipline with an affirmative one that makes employees personally responsible for their actions. The book explores ways to build superior performance and help managers prepare and conduct better coaching sessions. Packed with dialogs and specific guidance, it shows readers how to avoid ...
"Labor Relations: Striking a Balance, First Edition", by John Budd presents labor relations as a system for striking a balance between the employment relationship goals of efficiency, equity, and voice, and between the rights of labor and management. Budd's "Labor Relations" broadens the narrow process focus of existing labor relations texts by ...
The Gulag entered the world's historical consciousness in 1972, with the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic history of the Soviet camps, "The Gulag Archipelago." Applebaum has undertaken a fully documented history of the Soviet camp system, from its origins in the Russian Revolution to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Two 16 page ...
Based on four years of research in over a dozen countries across the globe, journalist Skinner provides a shocking expos of the inner workings of the modern-day slave trade. Maps.
The third edition of International Human Rights in Context continues to bring sophisticated and thought-provoking analysis to the study of human rights within its wider social and cultural context. This widely acclaimed interdisciplinary coursebook presents a diverse range of carefully edited primary and secondary materials alongside extensive ...
Drawing on interviews with dismissed IBM executives in New York, bakers in a Boston bakery, a barmaid turned advertising executive, and countless other workers, Sennett studies the effects of the new capitalism throughout the world.
Escape the cube. Ditch the commute. Itas not just a dream anymore. Many people already spend 12 hours a day getting to work, working, getting home from work. Hereas some good news: thanks to advances in technology, acceptance of outsourcing, the trend towards corporate flextime, and other factors, working from home is easier than ever. "Good ...
For undergraduate- or graduate-level courses in Labor Relations, Collective Bargaining, or Public Sector Labor Relations. The seventh edition continues to provide students with a realistic picture of actual collective bargaining and labor relations situations drawn from the authors' considerable experiences. Sections of actual labor agreements as ...
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