Gases are the key components in many industrial and domestic activities. The specific demand for gas detection and monitoring has emerged particula...

Indoor air quality and human health are of continuously growing importance. Indoor air quality may be affected by many factors excluding, but not l...

The phrase "child labour" carries negative undertones in today's society. However, only a century ago on the Canadian Prairies, youngsters laboured...

The industrial workplace can be safe and healthy for workers and for the public. It can also be an environmentally sound and reliable operation, re...

In addition to their jobs, workers have obligations (civic, familial, and personal) to fulfil that sometimes requires them to be absent from the wo...

The importance of strong autonomous local unions on the waterfront is central to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union movement. ILWU Loc...

This book examines national levee safety with a focus on recommendations and strategic plan implementations of the National Committee on Levee Safe...

The focus of this outstanding book is the politics, economics and social policy of the UK Labour Government of Tony Blair. There is always a proble...

The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, or AMWU, today a large and complex organisation, can trace its origins to the earliest years of Austral...

Passenger rail systems are vital components of the nation's transportation infrastructure, encompassing rail transit and intercity rail. In the U.S...

This book explores various protective devices utilised in the fields of medicine, automobile and motorcycle safety, and sports. This work gathers t...

Protein research is a frontier field in science. Proteins are widely distributed in plants and animals and are the principal constituents of the pr...

Tens of thousands of foreign nationals travel to the United States each year under the H-2A (agricultural) and H-2B (nonagricultural) visa programs...

Worker, mother trade unionist and activist Zelda D'Aprano shows, in her autobiography, the same spirit she evidenced when chaining herself to the C...