Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism
Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of American life such as work, freedom, the market, and the state.
Perspectives and Implications for Relationships in New Era Organizations
In Twenty-First Century Workplace Challenges, Edna Rabenu examines shifting psychological relationships in the workplace. Rabenu debates a plethora of issues pertinent to employees, workers, managers, and organizations, offering timely recommendations on how organizations should respond to new developments.
Written from the author's own experience of transitioning within a major US corporation, this book prepares transgender people with everything they need to know to successfully transition in the workplace. The first guide of its kind, it offers all the practical advice and support trans people need to be able to balance their career ambitions ......
The Total Worker Health program targets policies, programs, and practices that address worker safety and health in the physical and organisational work environment, as well as outside the workplace. Chapters in this book cover organisational approaches for program implementation, and offer examples of applications for diverse worker populations.
A Reader Exploring Resilience to Workplace Stress in Health and Social C
The Restorative Resilience Model of Supervision reader will introduce anyone with supervisory responsibilities to restorative resilience and give them an in-depth understanding of the approach, allowing them to begin using its methods with those they work with.
Total Quality Assurance System for Human Services and Education
This practical book presents the research-validated Periodic Service Review (PSR) to improve staff training and supervision and to translate principles of effective management into concrete practices and procedures.
Do you have all of the prospects you need? Few of us do! Bob Burg has learned the secrets of effective prospecting, and now he offers his proven, time-tested techniques to you! In this powerful guide, he shows beginners and pros alike how to gather qualified candidates efficiently and painlessly. With The Last Prospecting Guide You'll Ever Need ......
Looking past today's headlines, political scientist and cultural observer Darrell West argues that society needs to rethink the concept of jobs, reconfigure the social contract, move toward a system of lifetime learning, and develop a new kind of politics that can deal with economic dislocations.
The well-documented gap between men's and women's earnings has aroused intense debate over the concept of comparable worth. Henry J. Aaron and Cameran M. Lougy review the conditions that have sparked the debate and unravel the implications of comparable worth for employers in public and private sectors, for labour union agendas and ......
