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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

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  • The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History

    Third Edition

    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

  • Shadow Work

    The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day

    by Craig Lambert ...
    With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, society, and the family. It underpins our finances and our sense of meaning in life. Given the overriding importance of work, we need to recognize a profound transformation in the nature of work that is significantly altering lives: the incoming tidal wave of shadow work ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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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

    $2.99 USD

  • The Talent Equation: Big Data Lessons for Navigating the Skills Gap and Building a Competitive Workforce

    by Matt Ferguson, Lorin M. Hitt, Prasanna Tambe ...
    "Companies that can unleash the passions and gifts of their people will have a competitive advantage in the landscape of the future--becoming curators instead of keepers of talent. This book gives readers some of the keys to cracking that code."--CARLEEN HAAS, VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF TALENT OFFICER, HUMANAIS YOUR HR DEPARTMENT PREPARED TO FLIP THE BIG DATA SWITCH?At every stage of the employee ... Read more

    $20.79 USD

  • 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

  • Playing Against the House

    The Dramatic World of an Undercover Union Organizer

    by James D. Walsh ...
    In the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich’s classic Nickel and Dimed, a talented young journalist goes undercover as a casino labor-union organizer in this rare inside look at the ongoing struggle of hourly-wage service workers to survive in America.“Salting” is a simple concept—get hired at a non-union company, do the job you were hired to do, and, with the help of organizers on the outside, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Language of Global Success

    How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations

    by Tsedal Neeley ...
    For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an in-depth look at a single organization—the high-tech giant Rakuten—in the five years following its English lingua franca mandate. Neeley’s behind ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Third Way

    The Promise of Industrial Democracy

    by Dennis Lawrence ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Human Resource Management
    In this book, first published in 1988, the author shows that the movement for industrial democracy has deep roots in British history, and looks at the economic and political potential of industrial democracy as a mechanism to halt 100 years of industrial decline. The author advocates the general adoption of the industrial co-operative form of organisation on two grounds: it provides for authentic ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • International Trade Unionism (Routledge Revivals)

    by Charles Levinson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    As Secretary General of the ICF and previously Assistant General Secretary of the IMF, Charles Levinson played an important part in developing the countervailing labour response to the multinational corporations. His earlier work, Capital, Inflation and the Multinationals (Routledge Revivals, 2013) displayed the force of his insight into the dynamics of modern economics and technology. First ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine

    Rival Images of a New World in 1930s Vancouver

    by Todd McCallum ...
    Series series Fabriks: Studies in the Working Class
    In the early years of the Great Depression, thousands of unemployed homeless transients settled into Vancouver’s “hobo jungle.” The jungle operated as a distinct community, in which goods were exchanged and shared directly, without benefit of currency. The organization of life was immediate and consensual, conducted in the absence of capital accumulation. But as the transients moved from the ... Read more

    $21.59 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

    $17.99 USD