BNA Workplace Immigration Report
BNA’s Workplace Immigration Report is now available from any ILR building. Access is provided by the Catherwood Library from the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. and is limited to subscribers.
Workplace Immigration Report provides original reporting on workplace immigration news developments, federal and state legislation and regulations, and immigration enforcement actions in various industries. It also [...]
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 [...]
The Office (Season 5) is here! – DVD
The Office (Season 5) is now available on DVD from the Catherwood Library. Ask for it by call# (PN1992.77 .O34 2009) at the Circulation Desk to check it out.
And, yes, Season 5 also has its very own Wikipedia page, but don’t look at it, if you want to be surprised.
Annual Review of Economics (new!)
The non-profit publisher Annual Reviews, which may be more well-known for its review articles of scientific primary research, has released 3 new titles as part of an Economics collection: Annual Review of Economics; Annual Review of Resource Economics; and the forthcoming Annual Review of Financial Economics.
The current issue of Annual Review of Economics includes ILR-relevant [...]
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 [...]
Directory of U. S. Labor Organizations, 2009 Edition
BNA Books, a division of specialized news and information publisher BNA, has issued the Directory of U.S. Labor Organizations, 2009 Edition. Find it in the Catherwood Library.
[from publisher site] “Published annually, the Directory is a favored tool for reference and research, allowing for quick access to information on and analysis of:
membership and earnings [...]
H-2 worker (DVD)
H-2 Worker, a film directed by Stephanie Black, “reveals the systematic exploitation of Caribbean laborers by the Florida sugar industry from World War II through the 1990s. Each year more than 10,000 foreign workers were granted temporary guest worker (’H-2′) visas to spend six brutal months cutting sugar cane near Lake Okeechobee.”
“Originally released in 1990, [...]
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 [...]
