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contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; PART 1 Introduction; 1 Refining varieties of unions and labour … labour market and employment relationships in Japan; 9 Malaysian trade unions in the twenty-first century: failed … representation to worker empowerment: the case of Singapore; 12 Labour unions and worker representation in South Korea …
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use labour as our lens in this volume. The resulting micro-spatial history of labour addresses the management and … recruitment of labour, its voluntary and coerced spatial mobility, its political perception and representation and the workers …Preface by Anne Gerritsen and Christian G. De Vito -- 1. Micro-Spatial Histories of Labour: Towards a New Global …
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The labor movement is weak and divided. Some think that it is dying. But Julius Getman, a preeminent labor scholar, demonstrates through examination of recent developments that a resurgent labor movement is possible. He proposes new models for organizing and innovating techniques to strengthen...
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Contents: Part I: The changing context -- 1. Understanding the future of work / Adrian Wilkinson and Michael Barry -- Part II: Changing practices -- 2. Work 'or' employment in the 21st century: its impact on the employment relationship / Chris Brewster and Peter Holland -- 3. Unpaid work...
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"Forming and defending unions in the United States has always been a Herculean task. Employers have a long history of fighting vigorously to bust strikes and prevent workers from organizing- and, ultimately to dis-organize unions. The government, including politicians, local officials, and the...
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This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic organizational change. As Boeing transformed itself, workers and managers contended with repeated downsizing, shifting corporate culture, new roles...
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. OVERVIEW -- 2. THE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN LABOR -- 3. THE EXTENT AND CAUSES OF THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT -- 4. THE NEED FOR LABOR UNIONS TO ORGANIZE TRADITIONALLY NONUNION PERSONNEL -- 5. ENHANCING ORGANIZED LABOR'S...
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