Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

Explores activist movements in higher education from around the world, and their connections to broader anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles.

With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions? Aren’t they just for white-haired, middle-aged miners anyway?

The government constantly attacks unions, CEOs devote endless time and resources to undermining them, and many unions themselves are stuck in the past. Despite this, inspiring work is happening all the time, from fast food strikes and climate change campaigning t

Decades of neoliberal authoritarianism have propelled Turkey into crisis. Regime change, economic disaster and Erdogan’s ambition to impose ‘one-man rule’ have shaken the foundations of Turkish political life, but what does this mean for workers?

Moving beyond the headlines and personalities, this book uncovers the real condition of the working class in modern Turkey. Combining field research and in-depth interviews, it offers cutting-edge analyses of workplace strug

Capitalism is a dynamic system, continually adapting itself to exploit workers in new ways. In Britain today, the gig economy is its newest form, expressed through precarious contracts and the supposed atomisation of workers. In this book, Jane Hardy argues that despite capitalism’s best efforts to stop us, we can always find ways to fight it.

Through a range of case studies, from cleaners to university lecturers, Hardy looks at how workers are challenging employers’

'Jane Holgate is a brilliant thinker' - Jane McAlevey

In Arise, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order to regain influence and confront capital. Drawing on two decades of research and organising experience, Holgate examines the structural inertia of today’s unions from a range of perspectives: from strategic choice, leadership and union democracy to politics, tactics and the agency afforded to

Managing Health and Safety in a Small Business is an up-to-date guide, reflecting current concerns about how to identify and manage health and safety risks in a small business, with a broad focus on practical guidance wherever your business is based globally.

It covers all the basic principles of assessing risks without quoting specific regulations that are likely to change depending on your location. With additional checklists and suggestions throughout, it can be used by i

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Acknowledgements
1. Neoliberalism and its discontents
2. Networks, global civil society and global justice networks
3. Global justice networks: operational logics and strategies
4. Global justice networks: geographical dynamics and convergence spaces
5. People’s Global Action (Asia): peasant solidarity as horizontal networking?
6. International Federation for Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers: labour

"This thorough analysis of Korea’s skilled workers from a historical and sociopolitical perspective will attract much attention from students of labor politics in Asia and other newly industrialized economies."—Hagen Koo, author of Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation

Gesundheitsreport 2022

Der jährlich erscheinende Gesundheitsreport analysiert die Daten zur Arbeitsunfähigkeit aller bei der DAK-Gesundheit versicherten Berufstätigen. Er bietet damit einen verlässlichen Überblick über das Krankheitsgeschehen in der Arbeitswelt. Regelmäßig stellt die DAK-Gesundheit dar, welche Krankheiten die größte Rolle gespielt haben, und untersucht geschlechts-, alters-, branchen- und regionalspezifische Besonderheiten.

Mining has played a formative role in the history of Northern Ontario. It has been one of the key generators of wealth in the area since the mid-19th century, and is also responsible for much of the urban development of Ontario’s northland. The twelve papers published here came out of the second annual confernce of Northern Ontario research and development held in 1990. The papers are grouped into four sections, the early years; the era of government intervention; the present and finall