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The Life in Labor Podcast explores the Unions in Central Ohio who are affiliated with the Central Ohio Labor Council. Learn the truth about labor Unions from their members. Life in Labor, hosted by Nikki Yemi and Jay Walther, is the flagship show where rank and file Union Members share their stories. Join us for each episode to hear what real union members in Central Ohio have to say. Learn more about what the Central Ohio Labor council does including how you can get involved, upcoming events, and much more by visiting our website at https://columbusaflcio.org/ . The Executive Director of the ...

Women In Labour, is a freewheeling, no-holds-barred, comedy podcast that explores taboo topics related to women, work, family, power and everything in between. Hosted by comedian, Aditi Mittal and filmmaker, Christina MacGillivray, Women In Labour asks questions like, ‘Why do women do the most unpaid work in the world?’, ‘What's stopping us from finding our inner boss?’, ‘Why do we preface our work emails with “I was just wondering...”?’ And the big one: ’What’s keeping us away from India's workplaces?’

Based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions, here is a notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves, using theatrical performance as a framework. This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others...

"Justices’ 4-4 Tie Gives Unions Win in Labor Lawsuit" is from the March 29, 2016, U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Adam Liptak and narrated by Kristi Burns.

After decades of off-shoring, downsizing, shuttered factories, and stranded blue collar workers, the United States is on the edge of an industrial renaissance. This is news that would have seemed beyond improbable even a decade ago, but companies like Motorola Mobility, Apple, BMW, Bosch, and Volkswagen are opening plants and committing millions of dollars to build new products here.

Are taxi drivers in today's era of the ride-hail app performing care work akin to domestic and household labor? Drawing on interviews with drivers, labor organizers, and members of licensing commissions, as well as case law and other published resources, Spent Behind the Wheel is a must for listeners interested in critical studies of technological change and the gig economy, showing how drivers' capacities are drained for the benefit of riders, corporations, and the maintenance of the racial state.

"Labour Party in Britain Faces Its Worst Crisis in Decades" is from the July 28, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Stephen Castle and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Brought to you by Penguin. Get In is the definitive behind-the-scenes account of Labour’s brutal reinvention and dramatic return to power under Keir Starmer. From electoral wipeout in 2019 to landslide victory in 2024 and on into Labour’s first hundred days in government, Get In is a...

"Trump’s Labor Pick Rejects Increases in Minimum Wage" is from the December 8, 2016 United States section of The New York Times. It was written by Noam Scheiber and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"As Unions Protest Labor Laws, Garbage, and Resentment, Pile up in France" is from the June 11, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Adam Nossiter and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Powerful and accessible, A History of America in Ten Strikes challenges all of our contemporary assumptions around labor, unions, and American workers. In this brilliant book, labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers’ strikes in American labor history that everyone needs to know about (and then provides an annotated list of the 150 most important moments in American labor history in the appendix).

Machines are substituting for more types of human labor than ever before. This means that the real winners of the future will be neither the providers of cheap labor nor the owners of ordinary capital, but rather those who can innovate and create new products, services, and business models.

Apple orchards in bucolic Washington state. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where female workers have suffered brutal sexual assault and shocking harassment at the hands of their employers, often with little or no official recourse. In this harrowing yet often inspiring tale, investigative journalist Bernice Yeung exposes the epidemic of sexual violence levied against women farmworkers, domestic workers, and janitorial workers and charts their quest for justice in the workplace.

Women have made up roughly half of the college-educated workforce for years, and before the onset of the economic crisis of 2020, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the labor force was the lowest on record. But women remain underrepresented in positions of power and status. The endurance of these inequalities begs the question: Why haven't we made more progress? Ammerman and Groysberg focus on the pervasive organizational obstacles and managerial actions that create gender imbalance.

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence...

Revolting Indolence makes a case for laziness as an aesthetic-political strategy for countering the oppressive logics of cisheteronormative racial capitalism. Focusing on ways in which queer and trans Latinx people demonstrate the unwillingness of their participation in "productivist" ethics and allied respectability politics, Marcos Gonsalez argues that slacking off, lounging, daydreaming, and partying are liberatory practices.

Juliane Rosiers Buch bietet einen tiefgehenden Einblick in die Veränderungen der modernen Arbeitswelt und dekonstruiert traditionelle Vorstellungen von Jobsicherheit. Es zeigt, warum klassische Karrierewege und Arbeitsmodelle nicht mehr funktionieren und bietet stattdessen konkrete Strategien, wie man in Zeiten von Unsicherheit und Flexibilität langfristig (Job-)Sicherheit aufbauen kann. Rosier ermutigt Leser:innen, alte Denkmuster zu hinterfragen, Mythen zu entlarven und sich mit Eigeninitiative, Weitsicht und Resilienz die eigene krisensichere Karriere aufzubauen.

Jamie Merisotis, author of the award-winning 2016 book America Needs Talent, argues that people will coexist with smart machines by learning, earning, and serving others over their lifetimes. But Merisotis asserts large-scale change is necessary to develop and hone the knowledge, skills, and abilities that render us uniquely human. These qualities include compassion, critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and interpersonal communication.

Millions of Black South African workers struggled against apartheid to redeem employment and production from a history of abuse, insecurity, and racial despotism. Almost two decades later, however, the prospects of a dignified life of wage-earning work remain unattainable for most South Africans. Through extensive archival and ethnographic research, Franco Barchiesi documents and interrogates this important dilemma in the country's democratic transition.

Join Dr. Veronica “Vero” Pimentel, a practicing OB-GYN, vaccine expert, and pandemic mom, as she dives into the world of maternal and postpartum health. In each episode, Vero leads insightful conversations with health care professionals and experts to explore the latest trends, challenges, and breakthroughs in maternal immunization, emerging issues, and beyond. This Resource was supported by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a part of a ...