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Free Download Human Resources Labour Law – Disputes to Dismissals
Published 9/2024
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Disputes, Disciplinaries and Dismissals

Free Download Human Resources Labour Law – CCMA
Published 9/2024
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Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration

Free Download Miko Flohr, "Valuing Labour in Greco-roman Antiquity "
English | ISBN: 9004694838 | 2024 | 440 pages | PDF | 95 MB
A reevaluation of ancient people’s attitudes to labor. From Plato’s ideas about the meaning of work to Roman scupltors’ commemoration of their labors, this volume addresses both philosophical and working people’s own understanding of what it meant to work in the ancient world.

Free Download Laurie Ellinghausen, "Ships of State: Literature and the Seaman’s Labour in Proto-Imperial Britain"
English | ISBN: 1487529473 | 2024 | 216 pages | EPUB, PDF | 518 KB + 4 MB
The ideological roots of the British Empire have been widely discussed in early modern studies, as have maritime settings in the period’s imaginative writing. However, these perspectives have not adequately accounted for how literature’s evolving representations of the common British seaman shaped the early stages of public discourse about Britain’s imperial endeavours. Filling that gap in scholarship, Ships of State argues that literary representations of seaborne labour play a distinct and crucial role in the early formation of British imperial attitudes.

Free Download Francis William Soutter, "Recollections of a Labour Pioneer"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 113832891X | EPUB | pages: 238 | 0.4 mb
First published in 1923. This autobiographical study by Francis William Soutter, an English Radical activist and an advocate for independent labour representation in Parliament, will be of interest to anyone interested in political and social history. This title examines Soutter’s background, his fight for labour representation, and provides an extensive overview of his political activity.

Free Download Leda Papastefanaki, "Labour History in the Semi-periphery: Southern Europe, 19th-20th centuries"
English | ISBN: 3110614286 | 2020 | 386 pages | PDF | 27 MB
This collective volume aims at studying a variety of labour history themes in Southern Europe, and investigating the transformations of labour and labour relations that these areas underwent in the 19th and the 20th centuries. The subjects studied include industrial labour relations in Southern Europe; labour on the sea and in the shipyards of the Mediterranean; small enterprises and small land ownership in relation to labour; formal and informal labour; the tendencytowards independent work and the role of culture; forms of labour management (from paternalistic policies to the provision of welfare capitalism); the importance of the institutional framework and the wider political context; and women’s labour and gender relations.

Free Download Adrian Smith, James Harrison, "Free Trade Agreements and Global Labour Governance"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367542307, 0367202069 | EPUB | pages: 190 | 1.1 mb
Exploring the contentious relationship between trade and labour, this book looks at the impact of the EU’s ‘new generation’ free trade agreements on workers. Drawing upon extensive original research, including over 200 interviews with key actors across the EU and its trading partners, it considers the effectiveness of the trade-labour linkage in an era of global value chains.

Free Download Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI by Mark Graham, James Muldoon, Callum Cant
English | July 18th, 2024 | ISBN: 1837261814 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 3.10 MB
Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions that labour under often appalling conditions to make AI possible. Feeding the Machine presents an urgent, riveting investigation of the intricate network of organisations that maintain this exploitative system, revealing the untold truth of AI.

Free Download Coerced Labour, Forced Displacement, and the Soviet Gulag, 1880s-1930s (Social History of Punishment and Labour Coercion) by Zhanna Popova
English | July 8, 2024 | ISBN: 9048560357 | True PDF | 252 pages | 1.6 MB
The Gulag remains one of the key symbols of twentieth-century mass political violence. Thanks to recent archive-based investigations, we now understand the scope of the system, variations between different camp complexes, and modalities of the use of forced labour of convicts. At the same time, the work of historicizing the Gulag and systematically evaluating its position within the global history of repression is still to be done.

Free Download Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) by James Steinhoff
English | June 22, 2021 | ISBN: 3030716880, 3030716910 | True EPUB | 266 pages | 0.8 MB
This book argues that Marxist theory is essential for understanding the contemporary industrialization of the form of artificial intelligence (AI) called machine learning. It includes a political economic history of AI, tracking how it went from a fringe research interest for a handful of scientists in the 1950s to a centerpiece of cybernetic capital fifty years later. It also includes a political economic study of the scale, scope and dynamics of the contemporary AI industry as well as a labour process analysis of commercial machine learning software production, based on interviews with workers and management in AI companies around the world, ranging from tiny startups to giant technology firms.