Author: Dale Belman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429775067
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The need for a skilled, motivated and effective workforce is fundamental to the creation of the built environment across the world. Known in so many places for a tendency to informal and casual working practices, for the sometimes abusive use of migrant labor, for gendered male employment and for a neglect of the essentials of health and safety, the industry, its managers and its workforce face multiple challenges. This book brings an international lens to address those challenges, looking particularly at the diverse ways in which answers have been found to manage safe and productive employment practices and effective employment relations within the framework of client demands for timely and cost-effective project completions. Whilst context, history and contractual frameworks may all militate against a careful attention to human resource issues this makes them even more deserving of attention. Work and Labor Relations in Construction aims to share understanding of best practice in the industries associated with construction and related activities, recognizing that effective work organization and good standards of employee relations will vary from one location to another. It acknowledges the real difficulties encountered by workers in parts of the developing world and the quest for improvement and awareness of some of the worst hazards and current practices. This book is both critical and analytical in approach and seeks to alert readers to the need for change. Aimed at addressing practical issues within the construction industry from a theoretical and empirical standpoint, it will be of value to those interested in the built environment, employment relations and human resource management.
Work and Labor Relations in the Construction Industry
Author: Dale Belman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429775067
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The need for a skilled, motivated and effective workforce is fundamental to the creation of the built environment across the world. Known in so many places for a tendency to informal and casual working practices, for the sometimes abusive use of migrant labor, for gendered male employment and for a neglect of the essentials of health and safety, the industry, its managers and its workforce face multiple challenges. This book brings an international lens to address those challenges, looking particularly at the diverse ways in which answers have been found to manage safe and productive employment practices and effective employment relations within the framework of client demands for timely and cost-effective project completions. Whilst context, history and contractual frameworks may all militate against a careful attention to human resource issues this makes them even more deserving of attention. Work and Labor Relations in Construction aims to share understanding of best practice in the industries associated with construction and related activities, recognizing that effective work organization and good standards of employee relations will vary from one location to another. It acknowledges the real difficulties encountered by workers in parts of the developing world and the quest for improvement and awareness of some of the worst hazards and current practices. This book is both critical and analytical in approach and seeks to alert readers to the need for change. Aimed at addressing practical issues within the construction industry from a theoretical and empirical standpoint, it will be of value to those interested in the built environment, employment relations and human resource management.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429775067
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The need for a skilled, motivated and effective workforce is fundamental to the creation of the built environment across the world. Known in so many places for a tendency to informal and casual working practices, for the sometimes abusive use of migrant labor, for gendered male employment and for a neglect of the essentials of health and safety, the industry, its managers and its workforce face multiple challenges. This book brings an international lens to address those challenges, looking particularly at the diverse ways in which answers have been found to manage safe and productive employment practices and effective employment relations within the framework of client demands for timely and cost-effective project completions. Whilst context, history and contractual frameworks may all militate against a careful attention to human resource issues this makes them even more deserving of attention. Work and Labor Relations in Construction aims to share understanding of best practice in the industries associated with construction and related activities, recognizing that effective work organization and good standards of employee relations will vary from one location to another. It acknowledges the real difficulties encountered by workers in parts of the developing world and the quest for improvement and awareness of some of the worst hazards and current practices. This book is both critical and analytical in approach and seeks to alert readers to the need for change. Aimed at addressing practical issues within the construction industry from a theoretical and empirical standpoint, it will be of value to those interested in the built environment, employment relations and human resource management.
Developments in Labor Law Affecting the Construction Industry
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
The Economics of the Construction Industry
Author: Gerald Finkel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317457285
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The American construction industry, reponsible for nearly 4% of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, directly employs over five million people and provides millions of additional support jobs in related fields. This book provides an introductory overview of the economic aspects of the industry, including the historical development of building activity from earliest times to modern day market-based construction, including the work of individual artisans to complex construction unions. The book explores current trends in labor force participation; the measurement of industry performance; the determinants of investment; government involvement; competition; wage determination; training; and worker safety.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317457285
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The American construction industry, reponsible for nearly 4% of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, directly employs over five million people and provides millions of additional support jobs in related fields. This book provides an introductory overview of the economic aspects of the industry, including the historical development of building activity from earliest times to modern day market-based construction, including the work of individual artisans to complex construction unions. The book explores current trends in labor force participation; the measurement of industry performance; the determinants of investment; government involvement; competition; wage determination; training; and worker safety.
Employee Relations in the Construction Industry
Author: Susan McGrath-Champ
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The Construction Industry Labor Law Amendments
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collective bargaining
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collective bargaining
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Construction Industry Labor Law Amendments of 1985
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collective bargaining
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collective bargaining
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Under Construction
Author: Marc L. Silver
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438420013
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Under Construction offers a unique examination of organization and work in the construction industry. Synthesizing organizational and labor relations orientations, it develops a comprehensive sociological perspective on work relations in construction. Silver examines the effects of local market conditions, employers' demands, and trade union activities on the daily lives of workers—skilled as well as unskilled. The book also challenges popular myths about construction work and the building trades with analyses of construction sites, hiring practices, and workers' reactions to the conditions of their work. Under Construction powerfully demonstrates the need for new industrial approaches by concluding with a series of practical alternatives to current practices in the industry's housing sector.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438420013
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Under Construction offers a unique examination of organization and work in the construction industry. Synthesizing organizational and labor relations orientations, it develops a comprehensive sociological perspective on work relations in construction. Silver examines the effects of local market conditions, employers' demands, and trade union activities on the daily lives of workers—skilled as well as unskilled. The book also challenges popular myths about construction work and the building trades with analyses of construction sites, hiring practices, and workers' reactions to the conditions of their work. Under Construction powerfully demonstrates the need for new industrial approaches by concluding with a series of practical alternatives to current practices in the industry's housing sector.
A List of Selected Readings in Labor and Industrial Relations
Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Basic Guide to the National Labor Relations Act
Author: United States. National Labor Relations Board. Office of the General Counsel
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Union and Open-shop Construction
Author: Clinton C. Bourdon
Publisher: Free Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher: Free Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description