Uses a psychoanalytic approach to examine Cooper's novels and the emotional life that shaped them

Product Description: These proceedings of the 66th NAA Annual Meeting feature speakers from both the United States and Canada. Highlights include a Distinguished Speaker address by Elizabeth MacPherson, Chair, Canada Industrial Relations Board; and a keynote address by the Rt...read more

Product Description: These proceedings of the 64th NAA Annual Meeting are the authoritative and essential reference for understanding significant developments in labor and employment arbitration. The papers collected in this volume were written by experts in the field, including former NLRB Chairman Wilma Liebman, who authored the chapter, "Enduring Values and Persistent Problems: American Labor Law Today"; Vincent A...read more

Product Description: This book explains how collective bargaining has changed in important and lasting ways over the past decade. We are now seeing a new and powerful strain of the concession bargaining that traces its roots back to the early 1980s.  The collective bargaining of the past decade can be characterized as ultra-concession bargaining because it is an intense and self-perpetuating deviation from earlier concession bargaining...read more

Product Description: This book examines the ways in which collective bargaining addresses a variety of workplace concerns in the context of today's global economy. Globalization can contribute to growth and development, but as the recent financial crisis demonstrated, it also puts employment, earnings and labour standards at risk...read more

Product Description: Providing an unparalleled source of information about labor and employment arbitration for reference by students, academicians, advocates, and neutrals, the proceedings of the 63rd NAA Annual Meeting offers presentations including Lessons Learned in Arbitration and Within the Academy: 50 Years After the Steelworkers Trilogy; Are the Parties Being Served? Ensuring a Just Process Through Effective Communication...read more

Product Description: Participation in the global economy can contribute to growth and development, but as the recent financial crisis demonstrated, such participation can also threaten employment, wages, and labor standards. This volume examines the role that collective bargaining plays in ensuring that participation in the global economy is balanced, fair, and just...read more

Product Description: Arbitration 2009: Due Process in the Workplace . The premiere resource for practitioners in the field of arbitration, Arbitration 2009: Due Process in the Workplace continues the NAA's tradition of producing the most timely and enduring examination of labor and employment relations topics, where diversity of opinion and research stimulate a rethinking of old paradigms and serve as a catalyst for advancing practice in the field...read more

Product Description: Complete your professional library with these definitive volumes on arbitration theory and practice--from the most respected minds in the profession.

Product Description: The writing of this book is based on: 1. earlier experience writing textbooks for biology students with a university-level background in biology and biochemistry with many (>200) ?gures in these books (in Hungarian), 2. and on the necessity to present university lectures as power point presentations to catch the interest of s- dents...read more

Product Description: Arbitration 2007: Workplace Justice for a Changing Environment. The Proceedings of the 60th NAA Annual Meeting examines non-union ADR systems, sex in the workplace, issues posed by bullying and mobbing, how to reduce the cost of dispute resolution processes, a large empirical study of how and why arbitrators decide discipline and discharge cases, and more...read more

This book examines theories of firm-level human capital investment with respect to topics in labor demand, macroeconomics (especially connected to unemployment), and firm-union bargaining. It covers a wide range of related policy issues, including the worksharing versus layoff debate, wage-tenure profiles, taxation and the choice between pure wages and profit sharing compensation, and the role of specific investment in the Japanese firm versus the traditional (United States) neoclassical firm.

Authored by a well-respected team in labor relations, this text covers key topics in industrial relations and collective bargaining using a unique conceptual framework based on the three levels of industrial relations activity (strategic, functional, and workplace). Formerly a graduate-level book, it has been completely rewritten for undergraduates. Two extensive, class-tested mock-bargaining exercises are included. International and comparative labor relations are both integrated throughout and receive full chapter treatment. The text extensively discusses recent reorganizations in the process and outcome of bargaining, including detailed treatment of the participatory process.

Product Description: Text for students of English as a second language.

Product Description: In the early summer of 2005, an international expert meeting was convened in The Hague to share and compare national experiences with conciliation and mediation as methods for resolving collective labor disputes. Both the European Union and the Council of Europe have committed themselves to promoting these methods which aim to assist disputants in finding creative, negotiated solutions, while preserving their long-standing relationships...read more

Product Description: This is the first study of the emerging phenomenon of sex workers, asserting that they are entitled to workers' rights. Drawing on examples from Australia, Britain, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, New Zealand and the USA the book analyzes the contexts for this struggle and the opportunities and challenges facing these unionization projects...read more

Product Description: What better way to spend your vacation than cozying up with the latest collection of sudoku? New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz brings you Vacation Sudoku– 150 sudoku puzzles, ranging in difficulty from easy to challenging...read more