The Book Company: New Products - Labor & Industrial Relations

Decision Making in Complex Environments

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:49:05 +0000

Many complex systems in civil and military operations are highly automated with the intention of supporting human performance in difficult cognitive tasks involving information processing. The complex systems can involve teams or individuals working on real-time tasks where a number of constraints..

Price: $249.99

Arab Manpower (RLE Economy of Middle East) (The Crisis of Development)

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:23:00 +0000

The Arab world increasingly falls into two divisions, the capital-poor and the capital-rich countries (where capital means, in essence, oil). In the capital-rich countries shortage of labour is the chief constraint on growth. In the capital-poor countries analysis of the labour market is equall..

Price: $233.99

They Don't Own Us (Coal, Kentucky, and the Past and Future of American Workers)

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:11:48 +0000

Whiting Award–winning historian Grace Elizabeth Hale investigates the violent Brookside coal strike in Harlan County, Kentucky, revealing the dramatic, uplifting story behind one of the most significant labor struggles of the twentieth century and how more than fifty years later it continues..

Price: $30.00

Security Culture (A How-to Guide for Improving Security Culture and Dealing with People Risk in Your Organisation)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:51:38 +0000

Security Culture starts from the premise that, even with good technical tools and security processes, an organisation is still vulnerable without a strong culture and a resilient set of behaviours in relation to people risk. Hilary Walton combines her research and her unique work portfolio to pro..
Price: $189.99

Democratic Socialism in Britain, Vol. 7 (Classic Texts in Economic and Political Thought, 1825-1952)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:09:13 +0000

The texts in this collection demonstrate both the diversity and continuity in British theories of democratic socialism
Price: $110.99

Work Under Capitalism

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:46:44 +0000

Work Under Capitalism synthesizes recent institutionalist and Marxist ideas about the organization of production, situating production within a social context. This books analysis sheds new light on persisting inequalities by race and gender in the labour market.
Price: $233.99

Risky Rewards (How Company Bonuses Affect Safety)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 02:07:10 +0000

Risky Rewards engages with this debate, particularly in the context of the present and potential role of incentives to manage major accident risk in hazardous industries.
Price: $140.99

The EU's Government of Industries (Markets, Institutions and Politics)

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:22:24 +0000

Based upon original research on four manufactured or processed goods industries (cars, wine, pharmaceuticals and aquaculture), and driven by theory that is constructivist, institutionalist and sociological, this book sets out to analyse just what Europe governs, by whom and why. In doing so, it..
Price: $233.99

European Labour Relations (Volume I - Common Features)

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:21:11 +0000

This title was first published in 2001. With the increasing economic, political and social integration in Europe, there has been a fundamental change in labour and industrial relations. Not only in the Japanese and American challenges in the triad competition under the slogan of ’Lean Management’ ..
Price: $140.99

The Challenge of Labour in China (Strikes and the Changing Labour Regime in Global Factories)

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:52:05 +0000

China’s economic success has been founded partly on relatively cheap labour, especially in export industries. In recent year, however, there has been growing concern about wages and labour standards in China. This book examines how wages are bargained, fought over and determined in China, explo..
Price: $233.99