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

In a growing and labour-abundant economy like India, industrial relations have special significance, particularly in public sector enterprises whic...

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...

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...

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...