In Abusive Supervision in Government Agencies, Caillier uses both quantitative and qualitative survey data, a mixed-method approach, to argue that certain organizational norms and subordinate factors either increase or decrease the presence of abusive supervision in agencies and that when employees experience abusive supervision, their well-being ......
Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era
Ronald Schatz tells the story of the team of young economists and lawyers whom George W. Taylor recruited to the National War Labor Board to resolve union-management conflicts during the Second World War.
Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era
Ronald Schatz tells the story of the team of young economists and lawyers whom George W. Taylor recruited to the National War Labor Board to resolve union-management conflicts during the Second World War.
Presents a series of urgently needed reforms of both labour and anti-trust laws to improve outcomes for American workers. These include higher wages, safer workplaces, increased ability to report labour violations, greater mobility, more opportunities for workers to build power, and overall better labour protections.
A Leader's Guide for Finding and Keeping Your Best People
This step-by-step road map guides leaders and HR professionals through the employment lifecycle from acquisition to retention to closure. Decision makers at any supervisory level will finally have the tools needed to get it right every time they expand their teams, develop potential, or end an employee relationship.
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.
The 1939 Supreme Court decision Hague v. CIO was a constitutional milestone that strengthened the right of Americans, including labor organizers, to assemble and speak in public places. Donald W. Rogers eschews the prevailing view of the case as a morality play pitting Jersey City, New Jersey, political boss Frank Hague against the ......
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.
The 1939 Supreme Court decision Hague v. CIO was a constitutional milestone that strengthened the right of Americans, including labor organizers, to assemble and speak in public places. Donald W. Rogers eschews the prevailing view of the case as a morality play pitting Jersey City, New Jersey, political boss Frank Hague against the ......
Seeking to historicize today's Great Recession, this collection of essays uses examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to situate the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace.
A Critical Inquiry into Normative Institutional Analysis
Offers a critical framework built on the epistemology of Frankfurt School scholars identifying the normative assumptions omnipresent in current causal and explanatory empirical studies
Race, Gender, and Unionism in the Ports of Southern California
Drawing on in-depth interviews, archived oral histories, and ethnographic observation, this book highlights the struggle of a key group of Black and women longshore workers who fought against and struggled with racism and sexism in the ports of Southern California.
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.
This fully updated manual provides a base for training in values-based practice with adults; topics include promoting dignity, working in partnership, rights and risks, language sensitivity and workplace culture.
This fully updated manual provides a basis for the training of staff and managers to recognise, respond to and prevent bullying and harassment - still major problems in the contemporary workplace.
This fully updated manual offers a complete overview of theory and practice in the effective supervision of staff; topics include setting the context, giving feedback, managing poor performance and mediation.
