After Lean Production
ISBN: 9780801484131 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This book has two main strengths. First, its approach gives a sense of the texture and variety of the implementation of lean production, the forces that shape it in practice, and the alternatives that may be available. Second, the book's international focus provides a wealth of fascinating material concerning the influence of national conditions on the shaping of production practices." Harley Shaiken, author of Work Transformed: Automation and Labor in the Computer AgeNearly every country that produces cars views the automobile industry as strategically important because of its direct...
"This book has two main strengths. First, its approach gives a sense of the texture and variety of the implementation of lean production, the forces t...
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192,29 zł |
Organizing to Win
ISBN: 9780801484469 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a time when the American labor movement is mobilizing for a major resurgence through new organizing, here, at last, is a book about research on union organizing strategies. Previous studies have focused on factors contributing to union decline, devoting little attention to the organizing process itself. The twenty chapters in this volume dramatically increase understanding of the range and effectiveness of new organizing strategies and their potential contribution to the revitalization of the labor movement.The introduction defines the context of the current organizing climate. Major...
At a time when the American labor movement is mobilizing for a major resurgence through new organizing, here, at last, is a book about research on uni...
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114,28 zł |
The Labor of Development
ISBN: 9780801486241 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The state of Kerala in southern India is notable for the ways in which lower-class mobilization and state intervention have combined to create one of the most successful cases of social and redistributive development in the Third World. In contrast to predictions that labor militancy in developing countries threatens to overload fledgling democratic institutions and derail economic growth, The Labor of Development shows that the political and economic inclusion of industrial and agricultural workers in Kerala set the stage for a democratically negotiated capitalist transformation.
When... The state of Kerala in southern India is notable for the ways in which lower-class mobilization and state intervention have combined to create one of ...
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Converging Divergences
ISBN: 9780801488115 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring recent changes in employment practices in seven industrialized countries (Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the United States) and in two essential industries (automobile and telecommunications), Harry C. Katz and Owen...
Exploring recent changes in employment practices in seven industrialized countries (Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the United ...
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135,07 zł |
Crossing the Great Divide
ISBN: 9780801488122 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1990s were years of turmoil and transformation in American work experiences and employment relationships. Trends including the growth of contingent labor, the erosion of the stable employment contract, the restructuring of jobs and companies, and...
The 1990s were years of turmoil and transformation in American work experiences and employment relationships. Trends including the growth of contingen...
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145,47 zł |
Values at Work: Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragón
ISBN: 9780801488160 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Values at Work is an analysis of organizational dynamics with wide-ranging implications in an age of market globalization. It looks at the challenges businesses face to maintain people-oriented work systems while remaining successful in the larger economy. George Cheney revisits the famous Mondragon worker-owned-and-governed cooperatives in the Basque Country of Spain to examine how that collection of innovative and democratic businesses is responding to the broad trend of "marketization." The Mondragon cooperatives are changing in important ways as a direct result of both... Values at Work is an analysis of organizational dynamics with wide-ranging implications in an age of market globalization. It looks at the... |
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The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries
ISBN: 9780801837364 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York roofer requests payment in cash. A Bogota car mechanic sets up -shop- on a quiet side street. Four Mexican immigrants assemble semiconductors in a San Diego home. A Leningrad doctor sells needed medicine to a desperate patient. All are part of a growing worldwide phenomenon that is widely known but little understood. The informal or underground economy is thriving today, not only in the Third World countries where it was first reported and studied but also in Eastern Europe and the developed nations of the West. The Informal Economy is the first book to bring... A New York roofer requests payment in cash. A Bogota car mechanic sets up -shop- on a quiet side street. Four Mexican immigrants assemble semicondu... |
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Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate Over Technological Unemployment 1929-1981
ISBN: 9780801869136 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Americans today often associate scientific and technological change with progress and personal well-being. Yet underneath our confident assumptions lie serious questions. In Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? Amy Sue Bix locates the origins of this confusion in the Great Depression, when social and economic crisis forced many Americans to re-examine ideas about science, technology, and progress. Growing fear of -technological unemployment---the idea that increasing mechanization displaced human workers--prompted widespread talk about the meaning of progress in the new Machine Age. In... Americans today often associate scientific and technological change with progress and personal well-being. Yet underneath our confident assumptions... |
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Diversity in Organizations: New Perspectives for a Changing Workplace
ISBN: 9780803955493 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PLEASE UPDATE SAGE UK AND SAGE INDIA ADDRESSES ON IMPRINT PAGE.
PLEASE UPDATE SAGE UK AND SAGE INDIA ADDRESSES ON IMPRINT PAGE.
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Women and Men in Organizations: Sex and Gender Issues at Work
ISBN: 9780805812671 / Angielski / Twarda / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The gender and racial composition of the American workforce is rapidly changing. As more women in particular enter the workforce and as they enter jobs that have traditionally been dominated by men, issues related to sex and gender in work settings have become increasingly important and complex. Research addressing sex and gender in the workplace is conducted in several distinct disciplines, ranging from psychology and sociology to management and economics. Further, books on gender at work often reflect either a more traditional management perspective or a more recent feminist perspective;...
The gender and racial composition of the American workforce is rapidly changing. As more women in particular enter the workforce and as they enter job...
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519,70 zł |
Women and Men in Organizations: Sex and Gender Issues at Work
ISBN: 9780805812688 / Angielski / Miękka / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work addresses issues of sex and gender in work and should be of interest to psychologists, sociologists, managers, and economists. It brings together the traditional management perspective with the recent feminist perspective.
This work addresses issues of sex and gender in work and should be of interest to psychologists, sociologists, managers, and economists. It brings tog...
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The Complete Guide To Outplacement Counseling
ISBN: 9780805816488 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text focuses on the process of assisting employees who have lost their jobs to develop career plans and to find new employment. Topics include: the theoretical basis of outplacement counselling; the relation between outplacement and psychotherapy; and the supervision of practitioners.
This text focuses on the process of assisting employees who have lost their jobs to develop career plans and to find new employment. Topics include: t...
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103,89 zł |
Common Stock Newspaper Abbreviations and Trading Symbols, Supplement One
ISBN: 9780810824195 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than 2,400 changes and new listings that have occurred since the compilation of Jarrell's original volume.
More than 2,400 changes and new listings that have occurred since the compilation of Jarrell's original volume.
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From The Finca To The Maquila : Labor And Capitalist Development In Central America
ISBN: 9780813338910 / Angielski / Miękka / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The oligarchic crises in Central America has provoked a variety of responses at different levels during the last decades. The development of new agroexports in the 1950s, the import substitution industrialization of the 1960s, and the current opening up of trade along with the development of new tradables sectors under the influence of globalization, represent attempts to modernize the region's economies. The same has occurred at the political level with the current democratization processes that have meant competitive elections taking place in all the countries. It is at the social level...
The oligarchic crises in Central America has provoked a variety of responses at different levels during the last decades. The development of new agroe...
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Part-Time Employment for the Low-Income Elderly: Experiences from the Field
ISBN: 9780815319764 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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A New Labor Movement for the New Century
ISBN: 9780815324737 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leaders and activists associated with the mainstream American Federation of Labor after the election of reformer John Sweeney as president in 1995 offer their plans and visions for the labor movement. In 13 original essays they cover democracy, ideology, and change; organizing the unorganized; diver
Leaders and activists associated with the mainstream American Federation of Labor after the election of reformer John Sweeney as president in 1995 off...
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192,23 zł |
Labor Markets and Integrating National Economies
ISBN: 9780815722571 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides a wide-ranging discussion of how labour-market institutions and policies influence the mechanisms of economic integration and how economic integration, in turn is likely to influence key features of labour markets. It offers both an analysis of the issues and a wealth of comparative market data.
This text provides a wide-ranging discussion of how labour-market institutions and policies influence the mechanisms of economic integration and how e...
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82,01 zł |
Labor Market Flexibility in Thirteen Latin American Countries and the United States
ISBN: 9780821344897 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Once again, the quick capacity to overcome economic difficulties in 1995 was insufficient to mark improvements on the labor field.' -- ILO-Latin America, Editorial, Labor Outlook 1996 For the first time, this volume compares labor market flexibility across countries in Latin America and the United States. The study uses two performance variables, a price variable measured by real wages and a quantity variable measured alternatively by either employment or unemployment. This paper looks into the structural relationship between output and these variables across 13 countries in Latin America...
'Once again, the quick capacity to overcome economic difficulties in 1995 was insufficient to mark improvements on the labor field.' -- ILO-Latin Amer...
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103,67 zł |
Inclusive States: Social Policy and Structural Inequalities
ISBN: 9780821369999 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The heterogeneity of social structures and cultural identities in many developing countries, together with traditional hierarchies, rivalries, and deep-seated biases, has perpetuated inequities. Inclusive States: Social Policy and Structural Inequalities examines the role of the state and society in addressing structural inequalities and identifies a set of policy recommendations to redress them. This book defines structural inequality as a condition arising from unequal status attributed to a category of people in relation to others, a relationship perpetuated and reinforced by unequal...
The heterogeneity of social structures and cultural identities in many developing countries, together with traditional hierarchies, rivalries, and dee...
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141,96 zł |
Internal Labor Mobility in Central Europe and the Baltic Region
ISBN: 9780821370902 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Large regional disparities in labor market indicators exist in Central Europe and the Baltic region. Such disparities appear to be persistent over time indicating, in part, a lack of flexibility in the prevailing adjustment mechanisms. Internal labor mobility is often seen as an important instrument to reduce adjustment costs when other mechanisms fail. Drawing from a variety of data sources and utilizing a common empirical framework and estimation strategy, this study identifies patterns and statistical profiles of geographical mobility. It finds internal migration to be generalily low and...
Large regional disparities in labor market indicators exist in Central Europe and the Baltic region. Such disparities appear to be persistent over tim...
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70,84 zł |