1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450445403321

Autore

Fantasia Rick

Titolo

Hard work [[electronic resource] ] : remaking the American labor movement / / Rick Fantasia, Kim Voss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004

ISBN

9786612763007

1-282-76300-8

1-59734-647-0

0-520-93771-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

VossKim

Disciplina

331.88/0973

Soggetti

Labor movement - United States

Labor unions - Social aspects - United States

Labor unions - United States - Management

Industrial relations - United States

Bureaucracy - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revised and enlarged edition of Des syndicats domestiqués, which was originally written in English, then translated into French and published in Paris by Raisons d'agir, 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Why labor matters: the underside of the "American model" -- An exceptionally hostile terrain -- Bureaucrats, "strongmen," militants, and intellectuals -- Practices and possibilities of social movement unionism.

Sommario/riassunto

This concise overview of the labor movement in the United States focuses on why American workers have failed to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries. Packed with valuable analysis and information, Hard Work explores historical perspectives, examines social and political policies, and brings us inside today's unions, providing an excellent introduction to labor in America. Hard Work begins with a comparison of the very different conditions that prevail for labor in the United States and in Europe. What emerges is a picture of an American labor movement forced to operate on terrain



shaped by powerful corporations, a weak state, and an inhospitable judicial system. What also emerges is a picture of an American worker that has virtually disappeared from the American social imagination. Recently, however, the authors find that a new kind of unionism-one that more closely resembles a social movement-has begun to develop from the shell of the old labor movement. Looking at the cities of Los Angeles and Las Vegas they point to new practices that are being developed by innovative unions to fight corporate domination, practices that may well signal a revival of unionism and the emergence of a new social imagination in the United States.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996466521203316

Autore

Ruzicka Michael

Titolo

Electrorheological Fluids: Modeling and Mathematical Theory [[electronic resource] /] / by Michael Ruzicka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2000

ISBN

3-540-44427-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2000.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 178 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 1748

Classificazione

76W05

76A02

76D03

Disciplina

532.051015118

Soggetti

Fluid mechanics

Fluids

Partial differential equations

Engineering Fluid Dynamics

Fluid- and Aerodynamics

Partial Differential Equations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first book to present a model, based on rational mechanics of electrorheological fluids, that takes into account the complex



interactions between the electromagnetic fields and the moving liquid. Several constitutive relations for the Cauchy stress tensor are discussed. The main part of the book is devoted to a mathematical investigation of a model possessing shear-dependent viscosities, proving the existence and uniqueness of weak and strong solutions for the steady and the unsteady case. The PDS systems investigated possess so-called non-standard growth conditions. Existence results for elliptic systems with non-standard growth conditions and with a nontrivial nonlinear r.h.s. and the first ever results for parabolic systems with a non-standard growth conditions are given for the first time. Written for advanced graduate students, as well as for researchers in the field, the discussion of both the modeling and the mathematics is self-contained.