The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century

by Richard Bales
The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
Author: Richard Bales
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2019-12-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108428835
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Over the last fifty years in the United States, unions have been in deep decline, while income and wealth inequality have grown. In this timely work, editors Richard Bales and Charlotte Garden - with a roster of thirty-five leading labor scholars - analyze these trends and show how they are linked. Designed to appeal to those being introduced to the field as well as experts seeking new insights, this book demonstrates how federal labor law is failing today's workers and disempowering unions; how union jobs pay better than nonunion jobs and help to increase the wages of even nonunion workers; and how, when union jobs vanish, the wage premium also vanishes. At the same time, the book offers a range of solutions, from the radical, such as a complete overhaul of federal labor law, to the incremental, including reforms that could be undertaken by federal agencies on their own.

The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy

by Angela B. Cornell
The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy
Author: Angela B. Cornell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2022-01-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108879632
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We are currently witnessing some of the greatest challenges to democratic regimes since the 1930s, with democratic institutions losing ground in numerous countries throughout the world. At the same time organized labor has been under assault worldwide, with steep declines in union density rates. In this timely handbook, scholars in law, political science, history, and sociology explore the role of organized labor and the working class in the historical construction of democracy. They analyze recent patterns of democratic erosion, examining its relationship to the political weakening of organized labor and, in several cases, the political alliances forged by workers in contexts of nationalist or populist political mobilization. The volume breaks new ground in providing cross-regional perspectives on labor and democracy in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Beyond academia, this volume is essential reading for policymakers and practitioners concerned with the relationship between labor and democracy.

The Cambridge Handbook of the Changing Nature of Work

by Brian J. Hoffman
The Cambridge Handbook of the Changing Nature of Work
Author: Brian J. Hoffman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 643
Release: 2020-04-23
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1108417639
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This handbook provides an overview of the research on the changing nature of work and workers by marshalling interdisciplinary research to summarize the empirical evidence and provide documentation of what has actually changed. Connections are explored between the changing nature of work and macro-level trends in technological change, income inequality, global labor markets, labor unions, organizational forms, and skill polarization, among others. This edited volume also reviews evidence for changes in workers, including generational change (or lack thereof), that has accumulated across domains. Based on documented changes in work and worker behavior, the handbook derives implications for a range of management functions, such as selection, performance management, leadership, workplace ethics, and employee well-being. This evaluation of the extent of changes and their impact gives guidance on what best practices should be put in place to harness these developments to achieve success.

The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights

by Andreas von Arnauld
The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
Author: Andreas von Arnauld
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 939
Release: 2020-01-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108751172
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The book provides in-depth insight to scholars, practitioners, and activists dealing with human rights, their expansion, and the emergence of 'new' human rights. Whereas legal theory tends to neglect the development of concrete individual rights, monographs on 'new' rights often deal with structural matters only in passing and the issue of 'new' human rights has received only cursory attention in literature. By bringing together a large number of emergent human rights, analysed by renowned human rights experts from around the world, and combining the analyses with theoretical approaches, this book fills this lacuna. The comprehensive and dialectic approach, which enables insights from individual rights to overarching theory and vice versa, will ensure knowledge growth for generalists and specialists alike. The volume goes beyond a purely legal analysis by observing the contestation, rhetorics, the struggle for recognition of 'new' human rights, thus speaking to human rights professionals beyond the legal sphere.

The American Political Economy

by Jacob S. Hacker
The American Political Economy
Author: Jacob S. Hacker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2021-11-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316516369
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Drawing together leading scholars, the book provides a revealing new map of the US political economy in cross-national perspective.

Entrepreneurial Identity in US Book Publishing in the Twenty-First Century

by Rachel Noorda
Entrepreneurial Identity in US Book Publishing in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Rachel Noorda
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2021-09-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108877796
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Entrepreneurship underpins many roles within the publishing industry, from freelancing to bookselling. Entrepreneurs are shaped by the contexts in which their entrepreneurship is situated (social, political, economic, and national). Additionally, entrepreneurship is integral to occupational identity for book publishing entrepreneurs. This Element examines entrepreneurship through the lens of identity and narrative based on interview data with book publishing entrepreneurs in the US Book publishing entrepreneurship narratives of independence, culture over commerce, accidental profession, place, risk, (in)stability, busyness, and freedom are examined in this Element.

The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy

by Angela B. Cornell
The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy
Author: Angela B. Cornell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2022-01-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108839886
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Social scientists and legal scholars from different disciplines and perspectives explore the intersection of labor and democracy.

Firms as Political Entities

by Isabelle Ferreras
Firms as Political Entities
Author: Isabelle Ferreras
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2017-10-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108415946
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Aimed at political sciences students and teachers, Ferreras presents the new idea of 'economic bicameralism' to redefine firms as political entities.