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  • Gompers in Canada

    A Study in American Continentalism Before the First World War

    by Robert Babcock ...
    Series series Heritage
    Samuel Gompers, the charismatic chief of the American Federation of Labor at the turn of the century, claimed to represent the interests of all workers in North America, but it was not until American corporations began to export jobs to Canada via branch plants that he became concerned with representing Canadian workers. Within a very short time the Canadian labour movement was rationalized into a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography

    Edited by Frank Coulson, Robert Babcock ...
    Series series OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES
    Latin books are among the most numerous surviving artifacts of the Late Antique, Mediaeval, and Renaissance periods in European history; written in a variety of formats and scripts, they preserve the literary, philosophical, scientific, and religious heritage of the West. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography surveys these books, with special emphasis on the variety of scripts in which they ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

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    by Steven Greenhouse ...
    Why, in the world's most affluent nation, are so many corporations squeezing their employees dry? In this fresh, carefully researched book, New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse explores the economic, political, and social trends that are transforming America's workplaces, including the decline of the social contract that created the world's largest middle class and guaranteed job security and ... Read more

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  • Bullying At Work

    How to Confront and Overcome It

    by Andrea Adams ...
    Through personal accounts and revelations, this book explores bullying at work and offers solutions to help overcome this stressful, often isolating experience facing many women and men. Based on three years of research, Andrea Adams plots the destructive forces currently eroding the professional lives of many people. By tracing the psychological origins of bullying at work this book investigates ... Read more

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  • Every Employee's Guide to the Law

    by Lewin G. I Joel II ...
    Covering every aspect of employment from the job interview to post-employment benefits, this invaluable resource focuses on employee rights guaranteed by law and explains how workers can be protected. In language praised for its clarity and accessiblity, this updated edition provides a strong foundation of legal knowledge and advice on wages and hours, health and safety, harassment, invasion of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Future Workplace Experience: 10 Rules For Mastering Disruption in Recruiting and Engaging Employees

    by Jeanne Meister, Kevin J. Mulcahy ...
    Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medal WinnerDISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES. THE GIG ECONOMY. BREADWINNER MOMS. DATA-DRIVEN RECRUITING. PERSONALIZED LEARNING.In a business landscape rocked by constant change and turmoil, companies like Airbnb, Cisco, GE Digital, Google, IBM, and Microsoft are reinventing the future of work. What is it that makes these companies so different? They’re strategic, they’re ... 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

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  • Inventing Equal Opportunity

    by Frank Dobbin ...
    Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts--were the ones who determined what equal opportunity meant in practice, designing changes in how employers hire, promote, and fire workers, and ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • After Civil Rights

    Racial Realism in the New American Workplace

    by John D. Skrentny ...
    A provocative new approach to race in the workplaceWhat role should racial difference play in the American workplace? As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this question, and the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964 seemingly answered it: race must not be a factor in workplace decisions. In After Civil Rights, John Skrentny contends that after decades of mass immigration, many ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Border Cities Powerhouse: 1901-1945

    by Patrick Brode ...
    This is the first comprehensive history of the Border Cities area during its formative period in the first half of the 20th Century. The story of Windsor’s emergence during this period is largely one of confrontation and conflict: a multicultural population, industrial expansion, radical politics, and military production all played their part in the city's early history. ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of the Toronto Typographical Union, 1832-1972

    A Case Study of Foreign Domination

    by Sally Zerker ...
    Series series Heritage
    A meeting of twenty-four journeymen printers at the York Hotel in Toronto in 1832 marked the birth of Canada’s earliest and still continuing labour organization. This case study of the printers of Toronto traces the development of the union which began as the Toronto Typographical Society. Through a close examination of this Canadian local’s relations with its eventual parent organization in the ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • If We Can Win Here

    The New Front Lines of the Labor Movement

    by Fran Quigley ...
    Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement? Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs from backbreaking, low-wage work into careers that allowed workers to buy homes and send their kids to college. Some union activists insist that there is no reason why service-sector workers cannot follow that same path. In If We Can Win Here, Fran Quigley ... Read more

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