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Traces the background and development of worekrs' clashes with the Chinese Communist Party through mass campaigns such as the 1956-7 Hundred Flowers movement, the Cultural Revolution, the April Fifth movement of 1976, Democracy Wall and the 1989 Democracy Movement.

Discusses issues of worker rights and labor standards, considering moral questions and class relations and interests, and examines the practices of the International Labor Organization, the interaction between labor law and U.S. foreign policy, and the activities of labor-based nongovernmental organizations in creating worker rights and enforcing labor standards.--(Source of description unspecified.)

"Budd proposes a fresh set of objectives for modern democracies - efficiency, equity, and voice - and supports this new triad with an intellectual framework for analyzing employment institutions and practices. In the process, he draws on scholarship from industrial relations, law, political science, moral philosophy, theology, psychology, sociology, and economics and advances debates over free markets, globalization, human rights, and ethics. He applies...

Comprises ten papers which explore the changing role and function of central labour councils (CLCs). Examines the opportunities and constraints faced by the labour movement in attempting to revitalize these bodies and presents case studies which illustrate different aspects of CLC activity at the local level.

This volume chronicles the past development of labor arbitration, analyzes the paths it is now following, and suggests what the future may hold under changing conditions.

Focuses on practical approaches for improving labour standards in a more integrated global economy. Examines both what is has been achieved and what more needs to be done to ensure that steady and tangible progress towards universal respect for core labour standards is made. While concluding that the ILO should have primary responsibility for labour standards, also suggests that WTO should consider how to address egregious and willful violations of...

"Nelson Mandela once said, "human rights have become the focal point of international relations." This has certainly become true in American relations with the People's Republic of China. Since the early 1980s, and particularly since 1989, by means of vigorous monitoring and the strict maintenance of standards, United Nations human rights organizations have encouraged China to move away from its insistence on the principle of noninterference, to take...

Journalist Alex Harney shows how China is able to offer such amazingly low prices to the rest of the world. What she has discovered is a brutal world in which intense pricing pressure from Western companies combines with corruption and a lack of transparency to exact an unseen toll in human misery and environmental damage. Despite a decade of monitoring, foreign businessmen all too often have no idea of the conditions under which goods they buy are...

Codes of Conduct probes the psychological and social processes by which companies and their managers respond to a wide array of ethical dilemmas, from risk and safety management to the treatment of employees. What leads companies to ignore safety problems with their products? How do individual employees become part of company wrongdoing? How do negative stereotypes affect hiring and promotion? Contributors to this volume employ a wide range of case...

This practical guide for persons with both a full-time job and family responsibilities provides advice for easing the burden of conflicting demands--including how to get help from employers, family, public officials, and unions.--From publisher description.