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  • Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal: Issue 6 (January - March 2021)

    by Cendrine Marrouat, David Ellis, Nancy Christopherson, Melinda Coppola, Terry Cox-Joseph, Kaitlyn Davis, John Dorroh, Laura Hart Home, Linda Imbler, Laura Lee, Luisa Kay Reyes, Eduard Schmidt-Zorner, Melanie Simms, Wesley Sims, Susanne Thomas, Diane Vogel Ferri, Emily Martin ...
    In issue 6: Nancy Christopherson, Melinda Coppola, Terry Cox-Joseph, Kaitlyn Davis, John Dorroh, Laura Hart Home, Linda Imbler, Laura Lee, Luisa Kay Reyes, Emily Martin (Children's Poetry Section), Eduard Schmidt-Zorner, Melanie Simms, Wesley Sims, Susanne Thomas, and Diane Vogel Ferri.Plus: Social media tips, useful writing tools, and Haiku-Interview with Camilla Downs. Readers are also ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Value of Industrial Relations

    Contemporary Work and Employment in Britain

    by Jenny Rodriguez, Anne McBride, Guglielmo Meardi, Steve Williams, Tony Dundon, Adrian Wilkinson, Edmund Heery, Gregor Gall, Melanie Simms, Sian Moore, Stefanie Williamson, Kirsty Newsome, Miguel Martinez Lucio, Rob Mackenzie, Jill Rubery, Ruth Dukes, Eleanor Kirk ...
    Series series Understanding Work and Employment Relations
    Published in collaboration with BUIRA, this book provides a critical review of the field of industrial relations (IR) and evaluates its future in the rapidly evolving world of work.Written by key names in IR, the book captures the significant transformations that have taken place within the field over the past decade. It traces the historical development of IR, exploring its ongoing impact on our ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • What Do We Know and What Should We Do About the Future of Work?

    by Melanie Simms ...
    Series series What Do We Know and What Should We Do About
    "An excellent summary of why and how we work." People Management magazineWhat do we know about the current state of work and employment and what does the future of work look like? Professor Melanie Simms provides a far-reaching overview of paid employment in the UK, examining why we work, how we work, and what the future of work will be like with changing demographics and the introduction of ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Union Voices

    Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing

    by Melanie Simms, Jane Holgate, Edmund Heery ...
    In Union Voices, the result of a thirteen-year research project, three industrial relations scholars evaluate how labor unions fared in the political and institutional context created by Great Britain's New Labour government, which was in power from 1997 to 2010. Drawing on extensive empirical evidence, Melanie Simms, Jane Holgate, and Edmund Heery present a multilevel analysis of what organizing ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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  • The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History

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    by Craig Heron ...
    In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron tells the story of Canada's workers from the mid-nineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early twenty-first century.This new edition has been completely updated, including a substantial new ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Anti-Capitalism

    by Ezequiel Adamovsky ...
    Translated by Marie Trigona ...
    In Anti-Capitalism, activist and scholar Ezequiel Adamovsky tells the story of the long-standing effort to build a better world, one without an abusive system at its heart. Backed up by arresting, lucid images from the radical artist group United Illustrators, Adamovsky details the struggle against rising corporate power, as that struggle unfolds in the halls of academia, in the pages of radical ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Precariat Charter

    From Denizens to Citizens

    by Prof. Guy Standing ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Labor and Monopoly Capital

    The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century

    by Harry Braverman ...
    This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital overturned the reigning ideologies of academic sociology.This new edition features an introduction by John Bellamy Foster that sets the work in ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Workforce Planning and Scheduling. Automated Staff Shifts Management and Rostering

    by Isabella Longobardi ...
    Scheduling staff shifts is a difficult task. In organizations that work on Sundays, and/or on public holidays, and/or during night hours, scheduling shifts accurately and efficiently is a time consuming job, and it also exposes employers to the risk of excessive overtime costs and poor distribution of workload among employees.In order to be efficient, anyone who has the task of planning the ... Read more

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  • The Revenge of History

    The Battle for the 21st Century

    by Seumas Milne ...
    From 9/11 to the Arab uprisings and beyond—encompassing the economic crisis, war on terror, rise of China and tide of change in Latin America—The Revenge of History turns the orthodoxies of the past generation on their head.In this coruscating account of the first decade of the twenty-first century, Seumas Milne presents a powerful indictment of a US global and corporate empire in—and its British ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • New Forms of Worker Organization

    The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism

    Edited by Immanuel Ness ...
    Bureaucratic labor unions are under assault. Most unions have surrendered the achievements of the mid-twentieth century, when the working class was a militant force for change throughout the world. Now trade unions seem incapable of defending, let alone advancing, workers’ interests.As unions implode and weaken, workers are independently forming their own unions, drawing on the tradition of ... Read more

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  • The Wages of Relief

    Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929–39

    by Eric Strikwerda ...
    Series series Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
    In the early part of the Dirty Thirties, the Canadian prairie city was a relatively safe haven. Having faced recession before the Great War and then again in the early 1920s, municipalities already had relief apparatuses in place to deal with poverty and unemployment. Until 1933, responsibilty for the care of the urban poor remained with local governments, but when the farms failed that year, and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD