Author : David Bright
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0774841664
In a few short decades before the First World War, Calgary was transformed from a frontier outpost into a complex industrial metropolis. With industrialization there emerged a diverse and equally complex working class. David Bright explores the various levels of class formation and class identity in the city to argue that Calgary's reputation as a prewar centre of labour conservatism is in need of revision.
Author : David Bright
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774806978
The cover photo exemplifies the working men of the pre-World War I frontier outpost of Calgary, prior to its transformation into an industrial metropolis. Bright (history, U. of Calgary and Mount Royal College, Calgary) challenges the view of Calgary as a prewar center of labor conservatism, and demonstrates how the labor movement of the 1920s set the stage for Social Credit in failing to meet the challenges of the Great Depression. His analysis is organized into two sections by theme and period: class formation, 1883-1913; and the labor movement, 1913-29. Canadian card order no. C98-910609-8. Paper edition (unseen), $29.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Robert G. Finbow
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 12,34 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780754633372
Assessing the effectiveness of the North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation, this interview-based study examines the operation of the core institutions (the Secretariat and National Administrative Offices) over the past seven years.
Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1788731018
A major rereading of Marx’s critique of political economy Now a classic of Marxian economics, The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this edition, Harvey updates his seminal text with a substantial discussion of the turmoil in world markets today. Delving into concepts such as “fictitious capital” and “uneven geographical development,” Harvey takes the reader step by step through layers of crisis formation, beginning with Marx’s controversial argument concerning the falling rate of profit and closing with a timely foray into the geopolitical and geographical implications of Marx’s work.
Author : Charles F. Sabel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 1982-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521230025
Work and Politics develops a historical and comparative sociology of workplace relations in industrial capitalist societies. Professor Sabel argues that the system of mass production using specialized machines and mostly unskilled workers was the result of the distribution of power and wealth in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Great Britain and the United States, not of an inexorable logic of technological advance. Once in place, this system created the need for workers with systematically different ideas about the acquisition of skill and the desirability of long-term employment. Professor Sabel shows how capitalists have played on naturally existing division in the workforce in order to match workers with diverse ambitions to jobs in different parts of the labor market. But he also demonstrates the limits, different from work group to work group, of these forms of collaboration.
Author : Robert G. Finbow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351146149
Assessing the effectiveness of the North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation (NAALC), this book examines the operation of the core institutions (the Secretariat and National Administrative Offices) over the past seven years. It discusses the main functions of these institutions in hearing public submissions on violations of labour laws and in conducting research and cooperative activities. Based on interview research, the analysis reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the accord to assess its contribution to a common labour relations regime in North America and its impact in creating new transnational communities of actors in government and civil society in the three countries. The NAALC is also compared with the social dimension of the European Union system, and a final assessment is made as to whether the NAALC institutions live up to the promises of their founders and whether these can be a model for labour relations in any future Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreement.
Author : Richard M. Locke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,65 MB
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107031559
This book examines and evaluates various private initiatives to enforce fair labor standards within global supply chains. Using unique data (internal audit reports, and access to more than 120 supply chain factories and 700 interviews in 14 countries) from several major global brands, including NIKE, HP, and the International Labor Organization's Factory Improvement Programme in Vietnam, this book examines both the promise and the limitations of different approaches to actually improve working conditions, wages, and working hours for the millions of workers employed in today's global supply chains. Through a careful, empirically grounded analysis of these programs, this book illustrates the mix of private and public regulation needed to address these complex issues in a global economy.
Author : Wim Dierckxsens
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781856498692
"What is to be done? That is the issue political movements, social thinkers, economists, and governments all over the world must now confront. Without trying to propose specific policies, the author puts forward a highly suggestive set of principles and ideas."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Åsa Gunnarsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 14,99 MB
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 1317137655
Moving beyond the question of whether an area of scholarly investigation can truly be characterized as 'legal', Exploiting the Limits of Law combats the often unhelpful constraints of law's subject-matter and formal processes. Through a process of reflection on the limits of law and repeated efforts to redraw them, this book challenges the general sense of pessimism among feminists and others about the usefulness of law as an instrument of change. The work combines theoretical analysis of the law's boundaries with investigation of the practical settings for changing legal and policy environments. Both the empirical focus of this volume, and its underlying theoretical concern with the limits of the law and its gender implications, render it of interest to legal scholars throughout the world, whether of EU law, feminism, social policy or philosophy.
Author : Silvana Malle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 1990-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349115886
A study of many aspects of employment conditions and the labour force in the Soviet Union. It examines production capacity, job rights under Soviet law and an outline of Soviet wage policy. The information is current as Soviet newspapers and journals were used as research material.
