Where Are The Workers

Author : Robert Forrant,Mary Anne Trasciatti
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252053382

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Where Are the Workers? by Robert Forrant,Mary Anne Trasciatti Pdf

The labor movement in the United States is a bulwark of democracy and a driving force for social and economic equality. Yet its stories remain largely unknown to Americans. Robert Forrant and Mary Anne Trasciatti edit a collection of essays focused on nationwide efforts to propel the history of labor and working people into mainstream narratives of US history. In Part One, the contributors concentrate on ways to collect and interpret worker-oriented history for public consumption. Part Two moves from National Park sites to murals to examine the writing and visual representation of labor history. Together, the essayists explore how place-based labor history initiatives promote understanding of past struggles, create awareness of present challenges, and support efforts to build power, expand democracy, and achieve justice for working people. A wide-ranging blueprint for change, Where Are the Workers? shows how working-class perspectives can expand our historical memory and inform and inspire contemporary activism. Contributors: Jim Beauchesne, Rebekah Bryer, Rebecca Bush, Conor Casey, Rachel Donaldson, Kathleen Flynn, Elijah Gaddis, Susan Grabski, Amanda Kay Gustin, Karen Lane, Rob Linné, Erik Loomis, Tom MacMillan, Lou Martin, Scott McLaughlin, Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Karen Sieber, and Katrina Windon

Author : Leon Fink,Joseph A. McCartin,Joan Sangster
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252095979

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Workers in Hard Times by Leon Fink,Joseph A. McCartin,Joan Sangster Pdf

Seeking to historicize today's "Great Recession," this volume of essays uses examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to situate the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace. Contributors argue that factors such as race, sex, and state intervention have mediated both the effect of economic depressions on workers' lives and workers' responses to those depressions. Further, the direction of influence between politics and economic upheaval, as well as between workers and the welfare state, has often shifted with time, location, and circumstance. These principles inform a concluding examination of today's "Great Recession": its historical distinctiveness, its connection to neoliberalism, and its attendant expressions of worker status and agency around the world. Ultimately, the essays in this volume push us toward a rethinking of the relationship between capital and labor, the waged and unwaged, and the employed and jobless. Contributors are Sven Beckert, Sean Cadigan, Leon Fink, Alvin Finkel, Wendy Goldman, Gaetan Heroux, Joseph A. McCartin, David Montgomery, Edward Montgomery, Melanie Nolan, Bryan D. Palmer, Scott Reynolds Nelson, Joan Sangster, Judith Stein, Hilary Wainright, and Lu Zhang.

Author : Phil Jones
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839760464

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Work Without the Worker by Phil Jones Pdf

An accessible analysis of the new forms of work whose seismic changes will increasingly determine the future of capitalism Automation and the decline in industrial employment have lead to rising fears of a workless future. But what happens when your work itself is the thing that will make your job obsolete? In the past few years, online crowdworking platforms - like Amazon's Mechanical Turk and Clickworker - have become an increasingly important source of work, particularly for those in the Global South. Here, small tasks are assigned to people online, and are often used to train algorithms to spot patterns, patterns through machine learning those same algorithms will then be able to spot more effectively than humans. Used for everything from the mechanics of self-driving cars to Google image search, this is an increasingly powerful part of the digital ecomomy. But what happens to work when it makes itself obsolete. In this stimulating work that blends political economy, studies of contemporary work, and speculations on the future of capitalism, Phil Jones looks at what this often murky and hidden form of labour looks like, and what it says about the state of global capitalism.

Author : United States. Interdepartmental Workers' Compensation Task Force
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Workers' compensation
ISBN : UIUC:30112104405722

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Research Report of the Interdepartmental Workers' Compensation Task Force by United States. Interdepartmental Workers' Compensation Task Force Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Communism
ISBN : LOC:00186822444

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Subversive Influence in the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, Pittsburgh and Erie, Pa by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : David Durbin,Philip S. Borba
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780585325309

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Workers’ Compensation Insurance: Claim Costs, Prices, and Regulation by David Durbin,Philip S. Borba Pdf

The articles in this volume were first presented at the Seventh and Eighth Conferences on Economic Issues in Workers' Compensation sponsored by the National Council on Compensation Insurance. A principal objective of the Conference series has been for workers' compensation insurance researchers to apply state-of-the-art research methodologies to policy questions of interest to the workers' compensation insurance community. This community is a rather diverse group--it includes employers, insurers, injured workers, regulators, and legislators, as well as those who service or represent these groups (e.g., physicians, rehabilitation specialists, labor unions). Despite this diversity and the variety of agendas, the Conference series continues to address many important policy questions. Readers familiar with the Conference series and the four previously published volumes should notice an evolution in terms of the topics addressed in this volume. In the earlier conferences, the topics were more often concerned with the underlying causes of the tremendous increase in workers' compensation benefit payments. In the present volume, h- ever, only four of the fourteen chapters directly concern workers' c- pensation insurance benefits, while the other ten concern the pricing of workers compensation insurance. This is not to suggest that workers' compensation cost increases have abated. In 1989, workers' compensation incurred losses exceeded $45 billion to continue the annual double-digit cost increases. Two explanations can be offered for the somewhat altered focus of this volume. First, despite the continued increase in prices, the financial results for the workers' compensation insurance line continue to be poor.

Author : Jörg Gertel,Sarah Ruth Sippel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781134655571

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Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture by Jörg Gertel,Sarah Ruth Sippel Pdf

Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of fresh fruit and vegetables in the Mediterranean regions of south and west Europe. Much of this depends on migrating workers for seasonal labour, including from Eastern Europe, North Africa and Latin America. This book is the first to address global agro-migration complexes across the region. It is argued that both intensive agricultural production and related working conditions are highly dynamic. Regional patterns have developed from small-scale family farming to become an industrialized part of the global agri-food system, which increasingly depends on seasonal labour. Simultaneously, consumer demand for year-round supply has caused relocations of the industry within Europe; areas of intensive greenhouse production have moved further south and even into North Africa. The authors investigate this Mediterranean agri-food system that transcends borders and is largely constituted by invisible seasonal work. By revealing the story of food commodities loaded with implications of private profit seeking, exploitation, exclusion and multiple insecurities, the book unmasks the hidden costs of fresh food provisioning. Three case study areas are considered in detail: the French region of Provence, a traditional centre of fresh fruit and vegetable cultivation; the Spanish Almería region where intensive production has, accelerated dramatically since the 1970s; and Morocco where counter-seasonal production has recently been expanding. The book also includes commentaries that refer to complemetary insights on US-Mexico, Philippines-Canada and South Pacific mobilities.

Author : Marshall Wilson Reavis III, phD.
Publisher : Price World Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781619843752

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Insurance: Workers Compensation & Employers Liability by Marshall Wilson Reavis III, phD. Pdf

Workers Compensation is a necessity for nearly every business. In this easy to read and understand Workers Compensation Insurance is covered along with Employers Liability Insurance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050155691

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106-2 Hearing: The Ergonomics Rule: OSHA's Interference With State Workers' Compensation, S. Hrg. 106-529, April 27, 2000 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lynn M. Shore,Jacqueline A-M. Coyle-Shapiro,Lois E. Tetrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136493270

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The Employee-Organization Relationship by Lynn M. Shore,Jacqueline A-M. Coyle-Shapiro,Lois E. Tetrick Pdf

"Employee-organization relationship" is an overarching term that describes the relationship between the employee and the organization. It encompasses psychological contracts, perceived organizational support, and the employment relationship. Remarkable progress has been made in the last 30 years in the study of EOR. This volume, by a stellar list of international contributors, offers perspectives on EOR that will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and graduate students in IO psychology, business and human resource management.

Author : Marcelo Badaró Mattos
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785336300

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Laborers and Enslaved Workers by Marcelo Badaró Mattos Pdf

From the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro was home to the largest urban population of enslaved workers anywhere in the Americas. It was also the site of an incipient working-class consciousness that expressed itself across seemingly distinct social categories. In this volume, Marcelo Badaró Mattos demonstrates that these two historical phenomena cannot be understood in isolation. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources, Badaró Mattos reveals the diverse labor arrangements and associative life of Rio’s working class, from which emerged the many strategies that workers both free and unfree pursued in their struggles against oppression.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Select Subcommittee on Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Age and employment
ISBN : CORNELL:31924001669906

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Employment Problems of Older Workers by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Select Subcommittee on Labor Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Manpower, Compensation, and Health and Safety
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1498 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Workers' compensation
ISBN : LOC:00186243250

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National Workers' Compensation Act of 1975 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Manpower, Compensation, and Health and Safety Pdf

Author : Janice Ruth Fine
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801472571

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Worker Centers by Janice Ruth Fine Pdf

As national policy is debated, a locally based grassroots movement is taking the initiative to assist millions of immigrants in the American workforce facing poor pay, bad working conditions, and few prospects to advance to better jobs. Fine takes a comprehensive look at the rising phenomenon of worker centers, fast-growing institutions that improve the lives of immigrant workers through service advocacy and organizing.—from publisher information.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Occupational diseases
ISBN : UOM:39015082036859

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Proceedings of the Interdepartmental Workers' Compensation Task Force Conference on Occupational Diseases and Workers' Compensation, 1976 by Anonim Pdf