Authors:
Paperback, 376 pages
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication Date: 2006-06-28


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    "Challenging the Chip" is the first comprehensive examination of the impacts of electronics manufacturing on workers and local environments around the world. The essays in this volume contribute to a collaborative international discourse of citizens, workers, health professionals, academics, labour leaders, environmental activists, and others with the common goal of developing alternative visions for the regulation and sustainable development of manufacturing, assembly/disassembly, and waste disposal in the global electronics industry. Contributors from Asia, North America, Europe, and Latin America provide multidimensional perspectives on the science and the politics of environmental and social justice, documenting the efforts of community and labour activists, government agencies, and others in introducing more sustainable systems of production to one of the world's largest manufacturing industries....

Authors: William R. Daniels.
Hardcover, 258 pages
Publisher: ACT Publishing
Publication Date: 1995-09-01


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    Who are the real managers at work? Most people are surprised by the research proving it is not the people holding the job description of manager. With flatter organizations becoming the norm in business and demanding more speed and flexibility, everyone must have the skill to manage themselves alone or in teams.

Breakthrough Performance is especially for the real managers – the ones who are on the front lines – and how they can radically improve and sustain their performance. It starts with establishing an organizational structure in which, through resources, expectations and feedback, people doing the job work smarter and performance is significantly better. The book also explains how work can be more meaningful, and how coaching can propel people into breakthrough performance. An organization with workers who have the power and ability to self-manage will be prepared to meet the changing needs of its customers....

Authors: Lloyd G. Reynolds. Stanley H. Masters. Colletta H. Moser.
Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Publication Date: 1997-08-23
Edition: 11

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This is a classic exploration of how labor markets are influenced by economic forces and the legal and institutional framework as well as an analysis of their interaction. Combining the strengths of early and later traditions of labor economics, this book makes use of both practical and theoretical recent literature as it illustrates how collective bargaining works and how it changes as the economic and legal environments also change. The eleventh edition of Labor Economics and Labor Relations has been revised to include new chapters on policies to combat labor-market discrimination, the Japanese and German systems of industrial relations, and internal labor markets, as well as a new half chapter on the increasing inequality in earnings. It also presents important new information on welfare reform, minimum wage legislation, unemployment insurance, education reform, and immigration. An essential reference book for any professional or tradesman seeking a deeper understanding of the relationship between labor and management.

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Authors: Francis Green.
Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 2007-07-23


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Since the early 1980s, a vast number of jobs have been created in the affluent economies of the industrialized world. Many workers are doing more skilled and fulfilling jobs, and getting paid more for their trouble. Yet it is often alleged that the quality of work life has deteriorated, with a substantial and rising proportion of jobs providing low wages and little security, or requiring unusually hard and stressful effort.

In this unique and authoritative formal account of changing job quality, economist Francis Green highlights contrasting trends, using quantitative indicators drawn from public opinion surveys and administrative data. In most affluent countries average pay levels have risen along with economic growth, a major exception being the United States. Skill requirements have increased, potentially meaning a more fulfilling time at work. Set against these beneficial trends, however, are increases in inequality, a strong intensification of work effort, diminished job satisfaction, and less employee influence over daily work tasks. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Demanding Work shows how aspects of job quality are related, and how changes in the quality of work life stem from technological change and transformations in the politico-economic environment. The book concludes by discussing what individuals, firms, unions, and governments can do to counter declining job quality.

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Authors: Alison L. Booth.
Paperback, 312 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1995-01-27


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    This book analyzes the crucial features of unionized labor markets in industrialized countries, with particular emphasis on Britain and the United States. The techniques used by economists to model unionized labor markets are carefully explained. The connection between theoretical modeling and empirical testing of the theories is also emphasized. The book is directed to undergraduate economics students studying labor economics and to masters students in economics or industrial relations, but it is also accessible to general readers with a quantitative background....

Authors: Dale W. Tomich.
Paperback, 226 pages
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication Date: 2003-12-28


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    This thoughtful book explores the contested relationship between slavery and capitalism. Tracing slavery's integral role in the formation of a capitalist world economy, Dale W. Tomich reinterprets the development of the world economy through the prism of slavery. Through a sustained critique of Marxism, world-systems theory, and new economic history, the author develops an original conceptual framework for answering theoretical and historical questions about the nexus between slavery and the world economy....

Authors:
Paperback, 360 pages
Publisher: South End Press
Publication Date: 1999-07-01

Authors: Marc Miller.
Hardcover, 248 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication Date: 1988-05-01

Authors: Brian D. Smedley and Adrienne Y. Stith. Institute of Medicine. Lois Colburn. Association of American Medical Colleges. Clyde H. Evans. Association of Academic Health Centers. Brian D. Smedley. Adrienne Y. Stith.
Paperback, 366 pages
Publisher: National Academies Press
Publication Date: 2001-09-15
Edition: 1

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    Summary of the Symposium on Diversity in Health Professions in honor of Herbert W. Nickens, M.D., held March 16-17, 2001. Softcover. ...

Authors: Bruce E. Kaufman.
Hardcover, 376 pages
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Date: 2008-09


Reviews :

    Human resource departments are key components in the people management system of nearly every medium-to-large organization in the industrial world. They provide a wide range of essential services relating to employees, including recruitment, compensation, benefits, training, and labor relations. A century ago, however, before the concept of human resource management had been invented, the supervision and care of employees at even the largest companies were conducted without written policies or formal planning, and often in harsh, arbitrary, and counterproductive ways. How did companies such as United States Steel manage a workforce of 160,000 employees at dozens of plants without a specialized personnel or industrial relations department? What led some of these organizations to introduce human resources practices at the end of the nineteenth century? How were the earliest personnel departments structured and what were their responsibilities? And how did the theory and implementation of human resources management evolve, both within industry and as an academic field of research and teaching?

In Managing the Human Factor, Bruce E. Kaufman chronicles the origins and early development of human resource management (HRM) in the United States from the 1870s, when the Labor Problem emerged as the nation's primary domestic policy concern, to 1933 and the start of the New Deal. Through new archival research, an extensive review and synthesis of the historical and contemporary literatures, and case studies illustrating best (and worst) practices during this period, Kaufman identifies the fourteen ideas, events, and movements that led to the creation of specialized HRM departments in the late 1910s, as well as their further growth and development into strategic business units in the welfare capitalism period of the 1920s. The research presented in this book not only uncovers many new aspects of the early development of personnel and industrial relations but also challenges central parts of the contemporary interpretation of the concept and evolution of HRM. Rich with insights on both the present and past of human resource management, Managing the Human Factor will be widely regarded as the definitive account of the early history of employee management in American companies and a must-read for all those interested in the indispensable function of managing people in organizations....