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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Women and the American labor movement	Philip Sheldon Foner	An account of the efforts of women to improve their working conditions, often in the face of hostility from employers and the public and the indifference of the male-dominated trade unions, discussin…	OL10418087W
Unorganized labour	L. Mishra	In the Indian context.	OL1043280W
Rānī Durgāvatī aura unakā śāsanakāla	Kalpanā Jāyasavāla	Study of the life and works of Durgāvatī, Queen of the Gonds, b. 16th century from Gondwana Region, India.	OL1047623W
Equality policies for older people	National Economic and Social Forum.	v, 78 p. : 30 cm	OL11627803W
Philippine labor and the economy	Jorge V. Sibal	The book is prescribed a must reading for all students and practitioners of Industrial Relations in the Philippines. The author, Prof. Jorge V. Sibal comprehensively discusses the theoretical foundat…	OL12007606W
TECHNOLOGY AND THE DECLINE IN DEMAND FOR UNSKILLED LABOUR: A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE US AND EUR…	Mark Sanders,Mark Sanders	xiv, 245 p. : 24 cm	OL13640062W
The people factor	Linda J. Bilmes	"Presents a blueprint for reinvigorating the public sector based on 'The People Factor.' Shows why the U.S. personnel system needs reform, revealing the high price of inaction. Lays out specific step…	OL13657011W
Plays of people at work	L. E. McCullough	A collection of twelve plays in which Janice, Steve, Paula, and Burton investigate a variety of occupations, including newspaper reporter, robotics engineer, and crime lab technician.	OL14926341W
Crucible of freedom	Eric Leif Davin	Working people created a new America in the 1930s and 1940s which was a fundamental departure from the feudalistic and hierarchical America which existed before. In the process, class politics re-def…	OL15026823W
Work and Pay in Japan	Robert A Hart	This book provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese labour market institutions and practices with respect to employment issues and labour payments. It contains extensive discussion of the effects…	OL15183726W
Through My Eyes	Beverley Williams Leeper	A collection of poetry by Columbia, SC native and wife of a retired army veteran, Beverley Williams Leeper was educated in the public schools of Richland County. She received an Associate of Applied …	OL15411096W
AMÉRICA LATINA. Capital, trabajo y agricultura en el umbral del tercer milenio.	Irma Lorena Acosta Reveles	Síntesis de la obra Con la convicción de que los asalariados de la agricultura no ha sido un problema de investigación atendido con suficiencia por la Sociología Rural, y por ser un tema que con fre…	OL15437411W
Brickyards to graveyards	Villia Jefremovas	"Brickyards to Graveyards examines how the overidealized picture of Rwanda as the darling of the world community in the 1980s was shattered amidst the genocide that occurred a decade later. The brick…	OL15829596W
Labor rising	Richard A. Greenwald,Richard Greenwald,Daniel Katz	"When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker threatened the collective bargaining rights of the state's public-sector employees in early 2011, the huge protests that erupted in response put the labor moveme…	OL16499049W
Migration and new media	Mirca Madianou	"The way in which families maintain long distance communication when they are separated because of migration has been revolutionised by the emergence of a variety of internet- and mobile phone-based …	OL16540345W
Colonial jobs	Verna Fisher	Provides information about the jobs people had during colonial times in America, how they learned the skills they needed, how jobs were chosen, and how modern work compares with that of the colonists.	OL16629102W
Manager-subordinate trust in different cultures	Pablo Cardona,Michael Morley	"This volume in the Routledge Global Human Resource Management Series is dedicated to analyzing the process of trust development between managers and subordinates in different countries of the main c…	OL16664717W
Ciencia y Tecnología en el Mundo del trabajo	Alvaro Muñoz,Julio Roberto Gómez Esguerra,José Hernando Ruiz Restrepo	El documento que a continuación se presenta constituye una serie de ensayos que se utilizaron como herramienta de apoyo al programa de capacitación que el SENA en convenio con la CGTD adelantó con un…	OL16807593W
Research on energy issues in China	Jiang, Zemin	China's rapid economic expansion raises questions internally and externally about how it will acquire the energy it needs to sustain growth. Currently it is the largest producer and consumer of coal;…	OL16928842W
The encyclopedia of strikes in American history	Immanuel Ness,Aaron Brenner,Benjamin Day	This book is a collection of historical research on strikes in America comprised of two types of essays, those focused on an industry or economic sector and those focused on a theme. This approach pr…	OL17092497W