The Best Labor Business & Money Books 2024

1. A Journey into the Heroic Environment: 8 Principles That Lead to Greater Productivity, Quality, Job Satisfaction, and P rofits [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. A Journey Into The Heroic Environment has changed hundreds of thousands of lives. In this book we unlock the secret to creating peace and fairness in any organization. The size of a company does not matter in the slightest. Industry, ethnicity, or religion does not matter. What matters is the knowledge that we are all in the People Business. That is the message of this book. The book itself is a simple story of two strangers' encounter on a train that leads us on a compelling journey into the fascinating, creative, and stimulating new Shared Values work environment. Shared Values has since become a buzz phrase around the world; now we all need to practice these principles. Every week the press and media uncover yet another company, organization, or individual who has turned his or her back on the concepts inherent in Shared Values.Now a modern business classic A Journey Into the Heroic Environment helps us all attain what we REALLY want in our work environment

A Journey into the Heroic Environment: 8 Principles That Lead to Greater Productivity, Quality, Job Satisfaction, and P rofits, Used [Paperback]

2. The Uneasy alliance: Managing the productivity-technology dilemma (Research colloquium / Harvard Business School) [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The Uneasy alliance: Managing the productivity-technology dilemma (Research colloquium / Harvard Business School) by Christopher Lorenz; Robert H. Hayes

The Uneasy alliance: Managing the productivity-technology dilemma (Research colloquium / Harvard Business School), Used [Hardcover]

3. Work And Other Occupational Hazards (Humorous Quote & Cartoon Books) [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. A gift of laughter for anyone who has to work for a livingHere are the funniest comments and cartoons about work by Scott Adams, Dennis Miller, Woody Allen, Ronald Reagan, Mark Twain, Ann Landers, Robert Frost, W.C. Fields, Rita Rudner, Muhammad Ali, and many other folks who've been punched by a clock.

Work and Other Occupational Hazards, Used [Paperback]

4. Shifting Fortunes: The Rise and Decline of American Labor, from the 1820s to the Present, Used [Paperback]

How and why have American labor unions grown in the century and a half since the industrial revolution? In this concise and illuminating history of the labor movement, Daniel Nelson traces the ebb and flow of union activity since the early nineteenth century. Rejecting an emphasis on individual leadership or the uniqueness of American "conditions," he instead looks to three factors to explain labor's record: the role of the autonomous worker, the threat of employer reprisals, and the influence of external forces such as government policy. His chief concern is to describe and document the historical experience, especially the erratically rising level of union membership from the close of the nineteenth century to the 1960s, and the reversal of that phenomenon in recent decades. Mr. Nelson devotes special attention to miners' unions in the years up to the 1950s, to government policy in the New Deal years and after, and to the development of sophisticated anti-union employer strategies in recent years. The strength of Shifting Fortunes lies not only in the scope of its coverage but in its evenhanded portrayal of employer-worker relations.

Shifting Fortunes : The Rise and Decline of American Labor, from the 1820s to the Present, Used [Paperback]

5. America Needs Talent: Attracting, Educating & Deploying the 21st-Century Workforce, Used [Hardcover]

With falling wages and rising inequality, persistent unemployment, failing schools, and broken cities, have America's best days come and gone? In America Needs Talent , Jamie Merisotis, a globally recognized leader in philanthropy, higher education, and public policy, explains why talent is needed to usher in a new era of innovation and success, and why deliberate choices must be made by government, the private sector, education, and individuals to grow talent in America. What if you paid for education based on what you actually learned, instead of the time you spent in class? What if your visa application was processed as if you were an asset to our nation's growing talent pool, instead of by Homeland Security? Merisotis proposes bold ideas to successfully deploy the world's most talented people--from rethinking higher education to transforming immigration laws, revitalizing urban hubs, and encouraging private sector innovation. The outlook may be gloomy now, but it doesn't need to be. The second American Century can happen--by developing and deploying the next thinkers, makers, and risk takers who will power America's knowledge economy in the 21st century.

America Needs Talent : Attracting, Educating and Deploying the 21st-Century Workforce, Used [Hardcover]

6. On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the Charleston 5 [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Visit the book website Longshoremen stand at the nexus of the global economy, handling nearly every cargo container that enters or leaves any country. Even in the face of cargo "containerization" in the 70s and 80s, a development that decimated longshore unions, they have managed to win contracts that provide health benefits and high wages. On the Global Waterfront tells the story of how longshoremen in South Carolina confronted attempts to wipe out the state's most powerful black organization. When a Danish shipping company began to shift their transportation to a nonunion firm in 1999, Local 1422 in Charleston, South Carolina, mobilized to protect their hard-won rights. What followed culminated in a protest in which 660 riot police were deployed against fifty dockworkers, a group that grew to 150 before the night was over. Four black and one white longshoreman -- subsequently known as the Charleston 5 -- were held for twenty months under house arrest on trumped-up felony charges of inciting a riot. Within the politically conservative, racially charged, and intensely religious climate of the South, the unassuming local union president, Ken Riley -- supported behind the scenes by a militant AFL-CIO staffer -- crafted an international, grassroots campaign in defense of the arrested longshoremen. From Australia to Europe to Korea to the entire west coast of the United States, longshoremen threatened to shut down ports jeopardizing billions of dollars in trade per day. Their ultimate success vaulted Riley, and his reform-minded coworkers, to higher leadership in a notoriously corrupt union, and laid the foundation for successful rebuffs in ports around the world. On the Global Waterfront explores in detail a local conflict and in the process exposes the powers that rule the United States and the global economy. This compelling narrative of a local struggle, a transformed union leader, and a newly energized international worker movement highlights the resounding importance of the international labor movement that is not only still vital, but still capable of stopping global commerce on a dime.

On the Global Waterfront : The Fight to Free the Charleston 5, Used [Paperback]

7. Paying for Productivity: A Look at the Evidence [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Will higher pay provide an incentive for better work? Can productivity be increased by changing the way workers are compensated? In response to the urgent need to improve productivity performance in American industry, leading economists examine alternative compensation schemes to assess their efficiency in raising productivity.

Paying for Productivity: A Look at the Evidence, Used [Paperback]

8. Motion and time study: Improving productivity (Prentice-Hall international series in industrial and systems engineering) [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. For one semester courses in Work Design, Motion Time study, or Work Measurement.This time-honored classic provides a systematic, practical, and scientifically correct treatment of present-day motion and time study.

Motion and time study: Improving productivity (Prentice-Hall international series in industrial and systems engineering), Used [Hardcover]

9. Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to the Internet through the lens of their political, technological, and historical making. Internet users currently create most of the content that makes up the web: they search, link, tweet, and post updates-leaving their "deep" data exposed. Meanwhile, governments listen in, and big corporations track, analyze, and predict users' interests and habits. This unique collection of essays provides a wide-ranging account of the dark side of the Internet. It claims that the divide between leisure time and work has vanished so that every aspect of life drives the digital economy. The book reveals the anatomy of playbor (play/labor), the lure of exploitation and the potential for empowerment. Ultimately, the 14 thought-provoking chapters in this volume ask how users can politicize their troubled complicity, create public alternatives to the centralized social web, and thrive online. Contributors: Mark Andrejevic, Ayhan Aytes, Michel Bauwens, Jonathan Beller, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Sean Cubitt, Jodi Dean, Abigail De Kosnik, Julian Dibbell, Christian Fuchs, Lisa Nakamura, Andrew Ross, Ned Rossiter, Trebor Scholz, Tizania Terranova, McKenzie Wark, and Soenke Zehle

Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory, Used [Paperback]

10. Overturn Turnover: Way Some Employees Leave, Why Some Employees Stay & Ways to Keep the Ones You Want to Stay [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. A licensed psychologist who was chief executive of a workforce of more than 12,000 employees, Dr. Paul R. Ahr focuses his 30 years of experience on the problem of employee turnover.

Overturn Turnover : Way Some Employees Leave, Why Some Employees Stay and Ways to Keep the Ones You Want to Stay, Used [Paperback]