Learning, training, and development in organizations (Book of the Month)
Learning, training, and development in organizations, edited by Steve W.J. Kozlowski and Eduardo Salas, is Catherwood’s Book of the Month.
This scholarly book in the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology’s (SIOP) Organizational Frontiers series looks at research on enhancing knowledge acquisition and its application in organizations. It concentrates on training, design and delivery given the [...]
Human Rights in Labor and Employment Relations (Book of the Month)
Human Rights in Labor and Employment Relations, by James A. Gross and Lance Compa (eds.), is Catherwood’s Book of the Month.
The concept of human rights at work has advanced significantly in the last decade. The authors of the essays in Human Rights in Labor and Employment Relations focus in various ways on how the promotion [...]
The world of child labor : an historical and regional survey (Book of the Month)
The world of child labor : an historical and regional survey by Hugh D. Hindman (editor) is Catherwood’s Book of the Month.
“The World of Child Labor” details both the current and historical state of child labor in each region of the world, focusing on its causes, consequences, and cures. Child labor remains a problem of [...]
Healing together: the labor-management partnership at Kaiser Permanente (Book of the Month)
Healing together: the labor-management partnership at Kaiser Permanente by Thomas A. Kochan, Adrienne E. Eaton, Robert B. McKersie, Paul S. Adler is Catherwood’s Book of the Month.
Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country. It also happens to have the largest and most complex labor-management partnership ever created in the United States. [...]
Why David Sometimes Wins (Book of the Month)
Why David sometimes wins : leadership, organization, and strategy in the California farm worker movement by Marshall Ganz is Catherwood’s Book of the Month.
On April 10, 1966, a crowd of 10,000 farm workers and supporters gathered at the California state capitol to celebrate victory in one of the most significant strikes in American history-one that [...]
The International Labour Organization and the quest for social justice, 1919-2009 (Book of the Month)
The International Labour Organization and the quest for social justice, 1919-2009 by Gerry Rodgers, Eddy Lee, Lee Swepston, Jasmien Van Daele is Catherwood’s Book of the Month.
This book tells the story of the International Labour Organization (ILO), founded in 1919 in the belief that universal and lasting peace goes hand in hand with social justice. [...]
The State of Working America 2008/2009 (Book of the Month)
The State of Working America 2008/2009 is Catherwood’s Book of the Month. The State of Working America, prepared biennially since 1988 by the Economic Policy Institute, includes a wide variety of data on family incomes, wages, taxes, unemployment, wealth, and poverty-data that enable the authors to closely examine the effect of the economy on the [...]
Why Unions Matter: 10th Anniversary Edition (Book of the Month)
Why Unions Matter by Michael D. Yates is Catherwood’s Book of the Month.
In this new edition of Why Unions Matter, Michael D. Yates shows why unions still matter. Unions mean better pay, benefits, and working conditions for their members; they force employers to treat employees with dignity and respect; and at their best, they provide [...]
New Directions in the Study of Work and Employment: Revitalizing Industrial Relations as an Academic Enterprise (Book of the Month)
New Directions in the Study of Work and Employment: Revitalizing Industrial Relations as an Academic Enterprise, edited by Charles Whalen, is Catherwood Library’s Book of the Month.
From the publisher’s web site, this book “identifies avenues leading to the revitalization of industrial relations as an academic discipline. The contributors, a stellar assemblage of the field’s [...]
The Sage Handbook of Industrial Relations (Book of the Month)
The Sage Handbook of Industrial Relations by Nick A. Bacon, Paul Blyton, Emund Heery, and Jack Fiorito (Eds.) is Catherwood’s Book of the Month.
[From the publisher web site] Over the last two decades, a number of factors have converged to produce a major rethink about the field of Industrial Relations. Globalization, the decline of trade [...]
