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This article summarizes a review of the book The Supervisor's Guidebook: Evidence‐Based Strategies for Promoting Work Quality and Enjoyment Among Human Service Staff (2nd edition) by Reid, Parsons, and Green. We describe the book's organization and content. In addition, strengths and areas for improvement are noted. The book provides rich, relevant content to guide supervisory practices within a participative, evidence‐based approach that could be applied in various human service settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

These often involve third-party certification of supplier firms' factory premises, which allows lead firms plausible deniability, given their ability to play off competing supplier firms against each other (134). The supplier firms will go to great lengths to reconcile demands for better labor conditions with their need for lower labor costs, just as they do with the contradictory demands of quality assurance and flexibility forced upon them by the lead firms, often resulting in waste (127). By conducting extended interviews with the managers of these companies, she gains insights regarding the pressures placed upon such firms by their oligopsonistic customers, in addition to how their labor processes are managed and their workers super-exploited. The imperialist chain, or "supra-national GVC governance structure", works to ensure that supplier margins are as tight as practically possible, making such waste an unwelcome reminder of supplier firms' precarity. [Extracted from the article]

Her call is particularly focussed upon young workers at the bottom end of the labour market to get organised and move from being individualised competitors to collectively minded union collaborators - and to then rejuvenate unions and stop them from dying out as the more unionised, older workers retire. Holgate, Jane Arise: Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence, London: Pluto Press, 2021; 272 pp.: ISBN 074534402X, £16.99 Hardy, Jane Nothing to Lose but Our Chains: Work and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Britain, London: Pluto Press, 2021; 272 pp.: 9780745341040, £19.99 Livingston, Eve Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions, London: Pluto Press, 2021; 160 pp.: ISBN 0745341624, £9.99 With the cost-of-living crisis in full swing, it would not be illogical to foresee potential for unions to become resurgent again. [Extracted from the article]

This argumentation is thought-provoking when compared to debates in the West, where in contrast IR research highlighted unions' failures to organize migrants workers because of their blindness towards migrant intersectional forms of oppression ([1]). From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia. [Extracted from the article]

But this approach borders on the circular: on the one hand Camic insists that Veblen was an insider; on the other he only looks at the works he did in the period he was an insider and which look like inside jobs. Camic, Charles Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. And they are important to Camic too, but his focus is on The I Theory of the Leisure Class i ([11]) and his review essays up to 1909, which are used largely to demonstrate that Veblen was an insider engaged with the major economic topics of the day in an insiderish way and with the approval of insiders, and to a small extent I The Theory of Business Enterprise i ([12]). Camic's Veblen is chatty, attuned to the hierarchy of American economics, friendly, and wired, with a high end pedigree including many of the big names in American elite academia - quite unlike the somewhat aloof and awkward figure, contemptuous of academic hierarchy, we have come to know through dozens of contemporary sources. [Extracted from the article]

Where and how can we determine that class struggle has resulted in a provisional "armistice" in favour of labour, if the latter has been achieved through a re-composition of capital - via new legal arrangements and acceptance of a profit oriented labour process - and, thus, is still forced to sell its labour power at its value if it wants to reproduce itself in the "world market"? Ovetz, Robert Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle, London: Pluto Press, 2020; 288 pp.: ISBN: 9780745340869, £19.99 Unruly, zealous and creative are the class struggles presented in this recalcitrant book. It is through and only through class struggle that capital and labour transform and "consolidate nodes of class power" while, and in falling short from social revolution, their inherent antagonism prevails. [Extracted from the article]

They also suggest a means for addressing the serious workplace issues and mistreatment that the prison workers urged Hatton to highlight, or the ways in which college athletes and graduate student workers are already organizing for more rights. Hatton's central argument is that employers' coercive power is seen most clearly in their relationship toward workers who are not always understood as "rights-bearing" workers deserving of employment rights at work. Hatton's central argument is that employers' coercive power is seen most clearly in their relationship towards workers who are not always understood as "rights-bearing" workers deserving of employment rights at work. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry," by Jason Schreier, is presented.

In February 1996, the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist launched an armed rebellion in Nepal, a landlocked country surrounded by China and India. Consequently, anthropological analyses of the Maoist revolution in empowering Nepal's marginalized communities have become a recurring theme in Nepal studies. Shadowing freed Kamaiyas working at a brick kiln factory, Hoffmann illustrates the ways in which the Maoist movement altered labor regimes in the region. [Extracted from the article]

Professor Blackett does not gloss over the challenges in treating domestic work like any other work while addressing the specificity of the domestic work in the private home. Professor Blackett's book, I Everyday Transgressions, i tackles this invisibility head on and provides a much-needed conceptual framing that lays bare the inequities faced by domestic workers and the transnational movement for change. We cannot simply apply industrial workplace models to the domestic work relationship but at the same time, domestic workers must be treated as any other worker. [Extracted from the article]

There's a brilliant moment - one of many - in Seb Franklin's new book, that turns the cyberlibertarian term "digital native" inside out. As Franklin luminously demonstrates, in this way capitalism appears systemic and inevitable, its value operating abstractly or separately from its material or analog sources. The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value: Seb Franklin, 2021 Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, Electronic Mediations 61 280 pp., ISBN 10 1517907152, £20.99 (pbk). [Extracted from the article]

First is Andreas's claim that Mao was self-contradictory or indecisive and that this caused great problems not just for the Party but for the industrial working class as he moved from one meddling intervention to another. Andreas argues on page 10 that "I will examine the evolution of industrial relations in China from 1949 to the present", rather than engaging with debates over industrial relations. This explains Mao's relationship with the urban working class and his focus on political over economic interests and on mobilizing the working class against a stultifying Party structure. [Extracted from the article]

From this perspective, I A Field in Flux i offers readers like myself, who have come of age lauding these hugely influential works in industrial relations, a rare opportunity to peek behind the curtain to reveal how they were developed. As I read Bob's stories, I was struck by how similar my own experiences in industrial relations were to those described in the book, even though my journey began two generations later. A second is to document Bob's own journey within the field, which interweaves travels through the elite industrial relations institutions in the United States with an intimate account of Bob's involvement in some of the most challenging political and industrial relations-related moments facing this country. [Extracted from the article]

Chapter 10 ties many elements of the previous chapters together by way of considering how multiple and disparate features defining current and future work trends might be regulated within workplaces. The Realities and Futures of Work by Peetz, David Acton: Australian National University Press, 2019 Investigations and imaginings of the future of work encompass multiple contemporary perspectives related to current trends, and future projections, of where the world is heading in relation to technological, cultural, economic, mobility and other macro-trends. In chapters 1 and 2 Peetz provides a detailed account of the historical macro-trends that have influenced work as we know it today, delineating concepts of globalisation, financialisation and neoliberalism to explain the bigger picture. [Extracted from the article]

On the one hand, these cases could be construed as somewhat particular because there are so few seasonal agricultural workers laboring under collective bargaining agreements and because of the small number of workers in these campaigns (10,790). Also relevant is the question: Can the labor movement leverage power by organizing segments of precarious workers in isolation from workers with more power and stable employment? In particular, companies can switch to employing non-SAWP migrants laboring under a highly deregulated migrant labor stream in addition to non-union workers at other companies (including SAWP workers) and Canadian citizens (84-7). [Extracted from the article]

Homestead Steel Mill - The Final Ten Years: USWA Local 1397 and the Fight for Union Democracy By Stout, Mike. Unfortunately, Stout's career as a crane operator and then highly skilled union grievance handler was cut short by the collapse of the steel industry and closure of Homestead Works in the late 1980s. During my own stint as a Pittsburgh-based volunteer for Ed Sadlowski's campaign for the USW presidency in 1976-1977, I met some of the Homestead workers profiled in Stout's book. [Extracted from the article]

Hence, this book adds to the growing body of tourism experiences research by examining how tourism organizations can market experiences to attract the experienced tourist. This book presents relevant literature and deals with different aspects of tourism experience. Part VI labelled "Emerging avenues of tourism experience and co-creation" includes nine chapters and discusses recent and future developments and issues in tourism experience. [Extracted from the article]

In this sense, the different cases studied in the book express experiences of workers' organization I in, outside of i , and I against i established trade unions. The question of the legacy of trade unions would be better formulated by differentiating the concrete trade unions existing nowadays, and their leaders, with trade unions as a form of workers' organization in capitalism. If traditional trade unions are in crisis, labor movement needs to rethink unions' structures and strategy in order to be equipped to address precariousness. [Extracted from the article]

Book Reviews: Anthony Adamthwaite: Britain, France and Europe, 1945-1975. There is a clear view of British policy myopia as well as of delusions about global platforms on the part of both Britain and France. By Adamthwaite, Anthony. [Extracted from the article]