Tag: Labour

Free Download The Labour Party’s Political Thought: A History By Geoffrey Foote
1997 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0333669444 | PDF | 20 MB
‘an extremely welcome and useful book…the best available text in the field.’ – Gregory Claeys, Albion ‘A comprehensive encyclopaedia of the ideology of the British Labour Movement…What emerges is by far the clearest account I have ever read of its strengths and weaknesses.’ – Tony Benn, MP This book provides a synoptic and accessible history of the development of political ideas within the Labour Party. It traces the complex relationship between power and political thought and illustrates how Labour’s political ideas have been shaped and formed by the Labour Party’s political experience. It presents ‘labourism’ or trade union politics as a clear theory and stresses its importance in understanding the different phases in the party’s history, arguing that it constitutes the bedrock of the party’s thought and that its crisis has caused the recent changes in party ideology.

Free Download Labour of the Stitch: The Making and Remaking of Fashionable Georgian Dress
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009507494 | 90 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB
The making of fashionable women’s dress in Georgian England necessitated an inordinate amount of manual labour. From the mantuamakers and seamstresses who wrought lengths of silk and linen into garments, to the artists and engravers who disseminated and immortalised the resulting outfits in print and on paper, Georgian garments were the products of many busy hands. This Element centres the sartorial hand as a point of connection across the trades which generated fashionable dress in the eighteenth century. Crucially, it engages with recreation methodologies to explore how the agency and skill of the stitching hand can inform understandings of craft, industry, gender, and labour in the eighteenth century. The labour of stitching, along with printmaking, drawing, and painting, composed a comprehensive culture of making and manual labour which, together, constructed eighteenth-century cultures of fashionable dress.

Free Download Adrián Todolí-Signes, "Labour Law and Economic Policy: How Employment Rights Improve the Economy"
English | ISBN: 1509973885 | 2024 | 208 pages | EPUB, PDF | 771 KB + 4 MB
This book studies labour institutions from an economic perspective to justify their existence and the advantages that they bring to innovation, efficiency, productivity, and economic growth.

Free Download Invisible Labour in Modern Science
by Jenny Bangham, XanChacko
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1538159953 | 355 Pages | True PDF | 4.5 MB

Free Download Answers to the Labour Question: Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880-1945
by Gary Mucciaroni
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1487551495 | 323 Pages | True PDF | 19.2 MB

Free Download Gary Mucciaroni, "Answers to the Labour Question: Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880-1945 "
English | ISBN: 1487551495 | 2024 | 322 pages | EPUB | 1063 KB
Since the mid-nineteenth century, public officials, reformers, journalists, and other elites have referred to "the labour question." The labour question was rooted in the system of wage labour that spread throughout much of Europe and its colonies and produced contending classes as industrialization unfolded. Answers to the Labour Question explores how the liberal state responded to workers’ demands that employers recognize trade unions as their legitimate representatives in their struggle for compensation and control over the workplace.

Free Download Omar AlShehabi, "Transit States: Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf"
English | ISBN: 0745335225 | 2015 | 272 pages | EPUB | 1080 KB
The states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar) form the largest destination for labour migration in the global South. In all of these states, however, the majority of the working population is composed of temporary, migrant workers with no citizenship rights.

Free Download Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14
by Ralph Darlington
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0745339034 | 393 Pages | PDF | 8.1 MB

Free Download Labour Law Reforms in India: All in the Name of Jobs By Anamitra Roychowdhury
2018 | 314 Pages | ISBN: 1351058851 | PDF | 2 MB
Labour market flexibility is one of the most closely debated public policy issues in India. This book provides a theoretical framework to understand the subject, and empirically examines to what extent India’s ‘jobless growth’ may be attributed to labour laws. There is a pervasive view that the country’s low manufacturing base and inability to generate jobs is primarily due to rigid labour laws. Therefore, job creation is sought to be boosted by reforming labour laws. However, the book argues that if labour laws are made flexible, then there are adverse consequences for workers: dismantled job security weakens workers’ bargaining power, incapacitates trade union movement, skews class distribution of output, dilutes workers’ rights, and renders them vulnerable. The book: identifies and critically examines the theory underlying the labour market flexibility (LMF) argument employs innovative empirical methods to test the LMF argument offers an overview of the organised labour market in India comprehensively discusses the proposed/instituted labour law reforms in the country contextualises the LMF argument in a macroeconomic setting discusses the political economy of labour law reforms in India. This book will interest scholars and researchers in economics, development studies, and public policy as well as economists, policymakers, and teachers of human resource management.

Free Download Labour Law Reforms in India: All in the Name of Jobs By Anamitra Roychowdhury
2018 | 314 Pages | ISBN: 1351058851 | PDF | 2 MB
Labour market flexibility is one of the most closely debated public policy issues in India. This book provides a theoretical framework to understand the subject, and empirically examines to what extent India’s ‘jobless growth’ may be attributed to labour laws. There is a pervasive view that the country’s low manufacturing base and inability to generate jobs is primarily due to rigid labour laws. Therefore, job creation is sought to be boosted by reforming labour laws. However, the book argues that if labour laws are made flexible, then there are adverse consequences for workers: dismantled job security weakens workers’ bargaining power, incapacitates trade union movement, skews class distribution of output, dilutes workers’ rights, and renders them vulnerable. The book: identifies and critically examines the theory underlying the labour market flexibility (LMF) argument employs innovative empirical methods to test the LMF argument offers an overview of the organised labour market in India comprehensively discusses the proposed/instituted labour law reforms in the country contextualises the LMF argument in a macroeconomic setting discusses the political economy of labour law reforms in India. This book will interest scholars and researchers in economics, development studies, and public policy as well as economists, policymakers, and teachers of human resource management.