The ILO launches its annual report "World of Work Report 2012: Better Jobs for a Better Economy". The new study examines the performance of different countries since the start of the global crisis through the prism of the quantity and quality of jobs

Jiyeoun Song focuses on South Korea and Japan, which have advanced labor market reform and confronted the rapid rise of a split in labor markets between protected regular workers and underprotected and underpaid nonregular workers.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Shaping Myself, Shaping History -- Chapter 1. Writing and Rewriting Labor's Narrative -- Chapter 2. Supply-Chain Tourist -- or, How Globalization Has Transformed the Labor Question -- Chapter 3. Historians...

In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. Using this event as a springboard, Zaragosa Vargas embarks on the first full-scale history of the Mexican-American labor movement in...

Within an organization, the responsibilities for environment, health, and safety are often under the direction of the same executive team in an organization. This new book shows how to measure the success of all types of programs and projects involving environment initiatives, health related...

Intro -- contents -- illustrations -- tables -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- Houston's Working Class and the Origins of Organized Labor in the Bayou City -- How It All Began -- Labor at Hughes Tool, 1929-1934 -- Industrial Democracy Comes to the Monarchy of Hughes Street -- Jim Crow...

Public Services Inspection in the UK provides a detailed account of the changing role of inspection in public services management. It outlines the continuing debates about providing inspection that encourages not only accountability but also effective service provision and best practice....