Wednesday, April 11, 2012

[IWS] Cornell University Press-NEW BOOKS in LABOR STUDIES [April 2012]

 

 

IWS Documented News Service

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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach

School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies

Cornell University

16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky

New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau

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Cornell University Press – New books in LABOR STUDIES

 

[Use discount code CAU6 to receive a 20% discount off the book's list price]

 

 

Retirement on the Line:  Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory
Caitrin Lynch

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100134860&utm_source=9&utm_medium=CornellUniversityPressemail&utm_campaign=Labor%20Studies%20-%20April%202012


In Retirement on the Line, Caitrin Lynch explores what Vita Needle's commitment to an elderly workforce means for the employer, the workers, the community, and society more generally.
2012,
Paperback $21.95 

 

With God on Our Side: The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital
Adam D. Reich

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100527900&utm_source=9&utm_medium=CornellUniversityPressemail&utm_campaign=Labor%20Studies%20-%20April%202012


In With God on Our Side, Adam D. Reich tells the story of a five-year campaign to unionize Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, a Catholic hospital in California.
2012
, Hardcover $26.00 

 

Phone Clones: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy
Kiran Mirchandani

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100220590&utm_source=9&utm_medium=CornellUniversityPressemail&utm_campaign=Labor%20Studies%20-%20April%202012


Kiran Mirchandani explores the experiences of the men and women who work in Indian call centers through one hundred interviews with workers in Bangalore, Delhi, and Pune.
2012,
Paperback $23.95 

 

Reforming Asian Labor Systems: Economic Tensions and Worker Dissent
Frederic C. Deyo

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100596510&utm_source=9&utm_medium=CornellUniversityPressemail&utm_campaign=Labor%20Studies%20-%20April%202012


Frederic C. Deyo examines the implications of post-1980s market-oriented economic reform for labor systems in China, South Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand.
2012
, Paperback $24.95 

 

 

First, Do Less Harm: Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety
Ross Koppel, Suzanne Gordon

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100383500&utm_source=9&utm_medium=CornellUniversityPressemail&utm_campaign=Labor%20Studies%20-%20April%202012


In First, Do Less Harm, twelve health care professionals and researchers plus two former patients look at patient safety from a variety of perspectives, finding many of the proposed solutions to be inadequate or impractical.
2012,
Hardcover $29.95 

 

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