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  • Cooperatives at Work
    George Cheney / Matt Noyes
    Cooperatives at Work presents a range of success stories in employee ownership and worker cooperative enterprise, showcasing how such firms can embody important and highly contested ideals of democracy, equity, and social transformation. ...
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    37,42 €

  • Good Jobs for Inclusive Growth in Central Asia and the South Caucasus
    Asian Development Bank
    This study explores prospects for inclusive growth in the Central Asia and the South Caucasus region and highlights the central role played by the creation of good jobs. The study reviews economic performance in the region and discusses prospects through 2030, introducing two growth scenarios related to the adoption of structural reforms for creating good jobs and inclusive gro...
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    33,70 €

  • Labour Economics
    Dr. Samwel Nyagucha Oresi / DrSamwel Nyagucha Oresi
    The author, Dr. Samwel Nyagucha Oresi, is an Economist by profession with a bias in Labour Economics and a special interest in Human Resource Management. The liking of HRM is as a result of majoring in Labour Economics. He was born on 21st October 1966 and went to school while still very young. At the age of 4 he was in class 1 at Nyambera DOK (Kisii-Kenya). He later went to Ki...
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    19,10 €

  • The Rise of Precarious Employment in Europe
    Ilias Livanos / Orestis Papadopoulos
    This book examines precarious employment in Europe through the economic crisis. It draws on two main sources: theories of how the financial and debt crisis coupled with labour market reforms to exacerbate precarity in the workforce; and data from the European Labour Force Survey from 2005-12, capturing various aspects of precarious employment. ...
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    98,54 €

  • The Overworked Consumer
    Christopher K Andrews / Christopher K. Andrews / Christopher KAndrews
    The Overworked Consumer examines how the growing use of self-service technology in the U.S. economy has contributed to Americans’ feelings of busyness and overwork by asking them to perform a variety of tasks in work-like settings for free. Focusing on the adoption of self-checkout lanes in the retail food industry, the book describes how self-service technology is changing the...
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    122,36 €

  • Gendering Struggles Against Informal and Precarious Work
    This volume examines how gender shapes the varying and intersecting dynamics of informal/precarious worker struggles in two gender-typed sectors - domestic work and construction. Drawing upon cases across the global North and South, it explores how gender is intertwined into collective organizing efforts, why gender is addressed and to what end. ...
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    184,53 €

  • Employment, Hours, and Earnings 2018
    Mary Meghan Ryan
    Bernan Press proudly presents the 13th edition of Employment, Hours, and Earnings: States and Areas, 2018. A special addition to Bernan Press’s Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics: Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data, this reference is a consolidated wealth of employment information, providing monthly and annual data on hours worked and earnings made ...
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    167,95 €

  • Institutional Change and Rural Industrialization in China
    Feizhou Zhou
    This book explores the development of the putting-out system in hand-woven textile industries in late Qing Dynasty and China's Republican Period. In classic sociology theory, the putting-out system in handcraft production was regarded as traditional and inefficient. In the context of Republican China, it was believed that this kind of household-based production system would...
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    81,55 €

  • The Rocky Mountain Revolution
    Stewart H. Holbrook / Stewart HHolbrook
    Harry Orchard, professional killer, rolled up a record in the days when the mine owners and the labor unions waged what was virtually civil war. That Orchard outlived the Western Federation of Miners and that he held one of the top records for length of terms a life prisoner-all this is unimportant compared to the story of his role as hatchet man for the top guys who managed to...
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    18,21 €

  • The Economics of Entrepreneurship
    Simon C. Parker / Simon CParker
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    184,93 €

  • Of Bushmen and Work
    Dafe Otobo
    This book contains the 9th Inaugural Lecture Series 2018 of the University of Lagos, Nigeria, delivered by Dafe Otobo on 4 July 2018. According to Professor Otobo, “this is a small part in the on-going attempt at placing state policies, organisational, managerial and workers practices in Nigeria, if not Africa and elsewhere, into truer perspective.” Aside from updating trade un...
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    43,77 €

  • The Annotated Works of Henry George
    This is the first fully annotated edition of Social Problems (1883) and The Condition of Labor (1891), two important works by one of America’s most popular social economists. Social Problems grew out of a series of articles Henry George (1839-1897) published in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper titled, 'Problems of Our Times.' In his passionate, journalistic style, George de...
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    149,08 €

  • Transitions through the Labor Market
    This volume contains seven original and innovative articles which analyze labor market transitions, how individuals progress from school to work, choose a particular occupation, move up the job ladder, and finally withdraw from the workforce to retirement. Investigations are done by race and gender; and social implications are examined. ...
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    199,14 €

  • Income and Wages in the South
    Clarence Heer
    Incomes and wages in the South once were considerably below the average obtained in other parts of the country. However, the new industry of the South is part of a larger economy, and the comparative level of southern wages has accordingly become a matter of nation-wide concern. This volume presents briefly the available statistical evidence concerning the relationship of wages...
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    77,53 €

  • The Creativity Hoax
    George Morgan / Pariece Nelligan
    We often hear that creativity is the key to economic regeneration in the west, yet those who pursue creative skills/ambitions typically experience low incomes and poor career prospects. ’The Creativity Hoax’ argues that the ’call to creativity’ is designed to make workers more labile, agile and mobile, ready to shelve their ambitions and transfer their skills towards the opport...
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    57,63 €

  • Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics 2018
    Mary Meghan Ryan
    The Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics: Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data continues and enhances the Bureau of Labor Statistics's (BLS) discontinued publication, Labor Statistics. It brings authoritative data from the BLS and other government agencies together into a convenient, single-volume source of labor data. ...
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    256,14 €

  • Recruiting Basics 101
    Farshad Asl
    Finding the perfect candidate to join your organization can be an extremely time-consuming and stressful process. Recruiting in today's job market requires professional expertise, diligence, and tech-savvy utilizing social media.Farshad Asl is a renowned financial expert, bestselling author, and social entrepreneur. He specifically wrote this book for busy individuals seeki...
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    4,83 €

  • Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work
    With a growing prominence of sophisticated econometric research in the field of New Economics of Participation (NEP), it is of particular value to learn about real-world examples of participatory and labor-managed firms in the advanced market economies through extensive case studies. In this volume, the authors present such case studies. ...
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    199,52 €

  • The Economics of Entrepreneurship
    Simon C. Parker
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    57,41 €

  • International and Interregional Migration
    Francisco L Rivera-Batiz
    Global and regional migration flows have exploded in the last few decades. Written by renowned migration expert, Francisco L Rivera-Batiz, this book provides a collection of articles offering a comprehensive overview of the economic analysis of migration flows and the associated policy issues. A rich discussion of the various theoretical approaches and empirical evidence availa...
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    188,48 €

  • Cecilia, Or Memories of an Heiress
    Fanny Burney / Finland. Statistiska Byrån / FinlandStatistiska Byrån
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    21,65 €

  • Maurice Sugar
    Christopher H. Johnson
    It was Maurice Sugar, labor activist and lawyer for the United Auto Workers, who played a key role in guiding the newly-formed union through the treacherous legal terrain obstructing its development in the 1930s. He orchestrated the injunction hearings on the Dodge Main strike and defended the legality of the sit-down tactic. As the UAW's General Council, he wrote the union...
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    34,15 €

  • Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, 2017
    Volume 24 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains eight papers highlighting important aspects of the employment relationship. The papers deal with such themes as shifts in workplace voice, justice, negotiation and conflict resolution in contemporary workplaces. ...
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    199,41 €

  • International Labor Conventions
    Conley Hall Dillon
    In this study of the development of international legislation by the International Labor Organization, the author emphasizes the primary importance of a flexible process in making, interpreting, and revising labor conventions. The lack of an international body for interpretation has limited uniform application, but decisions made by permanent units offer a working medium for al...
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    60,94 €

  • The Creativity Hoax
    George Morgan / Pariece Nelligan
    We often hear that creativity is the key to economic regeneration in the west, yet those who pursue creative skills/ambitions typically experience low incomes and poor career prospects. ’The Creativity Hoax’ argues that the ’call to creativity’ is designed to make workers more labile, agile and mobile, ready to shelve their ambitions and transfer their skills towards the opport...
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    165,90 €

  • Precarious Work
    This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life. ...
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    244,05 €

  • Africana Social Stratification
    This study seeks to critically examine the field and function of social stratification, with emphasis on Africana phenomena. Phrased another way, this edited volume attempts to study and focus on who gets what and why, with regard to resources and structural application of support. The John Henrik Clarke query is who made this arrangement of leadership in America. Moreover, ser...
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    122,44 €

  • Production, Safety and Teamwork in a Deep-Level Mining Workplace
    Professor Sizwe Timothy Phakathi
    The book highlights the day-to-day lived experience of miners’ work and organisational practices that shape the day-to-day running of the production process in a deep-level mining workplace. ...
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    168,90 €

  • Social Reproduction Theory
    Tithi Bhattacharya
    This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. While many Marxists tend to focus on the productive economy, this book focuses on issues such as child care, health care, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality, all of which are central to understand...
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    31,54 €

  • Introducing a New Economics
    Jack Reardon / Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi / Molly Scott Cato
    Introducing a New Economics is a groundbreaking textbook that heralds a revolution in the teaching of economics. Students and lecturers alike are rejecting the narrow curricula and lack of intellectual diversity that characterise the mainstream. They demand that the real world should be brought back into the classroom, insisting that this is the only way to confront the current...
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    70,34 €