Capital and Labour in Japan: The Functions of Two Factor Markets
ISBN: 9780415226233 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the working of the capital and labour markets in Japan both theoretically and empirically. The working of the two factor markets - capital and labour - affects the Japanese economy and its firms. Both markets contribute to production, and production is more efficient when these two markets function well. The supply-demand relationships (of labour and capital input) determine the outcome of markets. This book investigates whether or not the function of these markets has been efficient in the past, to enhance the competitive power of the Japanese economy, and what changes...
This book investigates the working of the capital and labour markets in Japan both theoretically and empirically. The working of the two factor market...
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New Unions, New Workplaces: Strategies for Union Revival
ISBN: 9780415260619 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contributes to the debate within the UK and abroad on the reality of workplace unionism in an era of change. Drawing on examples of union renewal, the authors present an historical overview and compare the UK experience with contrasting international examples. They present both qualitative and quantitative research to provide new and comprehensive evidence on trade union strategies.
This volume contributes to the debate within the UK and abroad on the reality of workplace unionism in an era of change. Drawing on examples of union ...
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190,62 zł |
Union Organizing: Campaigning for trade union recognition
ISBN: 9780415267816 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After many years of indifferent decline, trade union membership is now being revitalized; strategies known as union organizing are being used to recruit and re-energize unions around the globe. This book considers exactly how trade unions are working to do this and provides a much-needed evaluation of these rebuilding strategies. By comparing historical and contemporary case studies to assess the impact of various organizing campaigns, this book assesses the progress of unions across Europe and America. It raises key debates about the organizing culture and considers the impact of... After many years of indifferent decline, trade union membership is now being revitalized; strategies known as union organizing are being used to re... |
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Industrial and Labour Market Policy and Performance: Issues and Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415267861 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Industrial issues are often inextricably linked with labour market concerns and policy approaches that attempt to consider production and employment separately are inherently flawed."
This controversial statement sums up the heart of this important book. With contributions from such scholars as Keith Cowling, Malcolm Sawyer and Michael Kitson, Industrial and Labour Market Policy and Performance covers such topics as: * the increasing inequality between rich and poor * the links between innovation, competition and collaboration * education, skills formation and human resource... Industrial issues are often inextricably linked with labour market concerns and policy approaches that attempt to consider production and employment s...
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The Political Economy of European Employment : European Integration and the Transnationalization of the (Un)Employment Question
ISBN: 9780415268721 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text focuses on the emergence of employment policy as a political issue and examines unemployment in Europe in the context of globalization, the implementation of European Monetary Union and the Eastern enlargement of the EU. The authors address the transformation of the global economy over the past decades and consider the theoretical debates surrounding European integration. They analyse how various social and political forces, both national and transnational, have addressed the challenges facing the European economies and how this interplay has influenced the emerging EU social and...
This text focuses on the emergence of employment policy as a political issue and examines unemployment in Europe in the context of globalization, the ...
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677,36 zł |
International Labor Mobility : Unemployment and Increasing Returns to Scale
ISBN: 9780415298254 / Angielski / Twarda / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Migration of workers within and across national boundaries is an important issue in an age of increasing levels of innovation and invention which economizes cost and helps large scale production. This book analyses the implications of migration for the levels of unemployment and distinguishes between unemployment which can be attributed to government policy and that which can be generated by a particular behavior of employers and workers. The discussion also includes the issue of foreign workers' effects on unemployment levels - a salient issue in today's climate. With impressive clarity and...
Migration of workers within and across national boundaries is an important issue in an age of increasing levels of innovation and invention which econ...
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727,52 zł |
Social Democracy and Labour Market Policy : Developments in Britain and Germany
ISBN: 9780415299770 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text offers a comparative analysis of the changes in ideology and policy programmes on economic policy of the British Labour party and the German SPD (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands). Using an historical institutional approach, Knut Roder focuses on labour market policies - particularly labour market policies - and explains the process of policy change. It reveals the labour party's and the SPD's search for an alternative economic policy approach during their long spell in opposition in the 1980s and 1990s, and illuminates how both parties arrived at the current third way / Neue...
This text offers a comparative analysis of the changes in ideology and policy programmes on economic policy of the British Labour party and the German...
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677,36 zł |
Geographies of Labour Market Inequality
ISBN: 9780415300131 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, the local dimensions of the labour market have attracted increasing attention from academic analysts and public policy-makers alike. There is growing realization that there is no such thing as the national labour market, instead a mosaic of local and regional markets that differ in nature, performance and regulation. Geographies of Labour Market Inequality is concerned with these multiple geographies of employment, unemployment, work and incomes, and their implications for public policy.
In recent years, the local dimensions of the labour market have attracted increasing attention from academic analysts and public policy-makers alike. ...
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220,72 zł |
Geographies of Labour Market Inequality
ISBN: 9780415300148 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The local dimensions of the labour market have attracted increasing attention from academic analysts and public policy makers alike. There is growing realization that there is no such thing as the national labour market, but instead a mosaic of local and regional markets that differ in nature, performance and regulation. This title is concerned with these multiple geographies of employment, unemployment, work and incomes, and their implications for public policy. The introduction sets out the case for thinking about the labour market in geographical terms, and discusses some of the challenges...
The local dimensions of the labour market have attracted increasing attention from academic analysts and public policy makers alike. There is growing ...
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150,48 zł |
Economics of Fatigue and Unrest and the Efficiency of Labour in English and American Industry
ISBN: 9780415313803 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of industrial relations and human resource management, contains chapters on: the growth of technical efficiency; the theory of fatigue and unrest; the costs of industrial inefficiency; the loss by staff turnover; the loss by absence; and the loss by industrial accidents and ill-health.
This study of industrial relations and human resource management, contains chapters on: the growth of technical efficiency; the theory of fatigue and ...
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Labour
ISBN: 9780415313810 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Labour focuses on the issues and problems concerning the efficient full employment of labour in a free market economy. The discussion is largely about the conditions (including comparative wages) underlying industrial efficiency and maximum production from various labour resources at least cost. By estimating man-power, analysing the human factor and measuring labour efficiency, the book summarizes contemporary evidence on employment conditions for or against efficiency and the effect upon the incidence of unemployment.
Labour focuses on the issues and problems concerning the efficient full employment of labour in a free market economy. The discussion is largely about...
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285,95 zł |
Industry's Democratic Revolution
ISBN: 9780415313827 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covering the role of trade unions and labour organizations in industrial relations, this text contains case studies from Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and USA.
Covering the role of trade unions and labour organizations in industrial relations, this text contains case studies from Austria, Canada, France, Germ...
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An Introduction to the Study of Industrial Relations
ISBN: 9780415313841 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work gives a comprehensive survey of the field of Industrial Relations, focusing on general principles and problems. Illustrations are drawn from the practices adopted in many parts of the world such as Australia, France, Germany and the USA. Contents include chapters on the following: personnel management; training; methods of wage payment; job evaluation; profit-sharing and co-partnership; trade unionism; employers' organizations; collective bargaining; wage bases; equal opportunities; and conciliation and arbitration.
This work gives a comprehensive survey of the field of Industrial Relations, focusing on general principles and problems. Illustrations are drawn from...
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1053,66 zł |
Unemployment in Asia : Organizational and Institutional Relationships
ISBN: 9780415343183 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the changing nature of unemployment in a range of key Asian countries over the last two decades.
This book examines the changing nature of unemployment in a range of key Asian countries over the last two decades.
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677,36 zł |
Regulating New Forms of Employment: Local Experiments and Social Innovation in Europe
ISBN: 9780415360562 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using a comparative framework, this new volume focuses on how non-standard employment can be regulated in very different social, political and institutional settings. After surveying these new forms of work and the new demands for labour-market regulation, the authors identify possible solutions among local-level actors and provide a detailed analysis of how firms assess the advantages and disadvantages of flexible forms of employment. The authors provide six detailed case studies to examine the successes and failures of experimental approaches and social innovation in various... Using a comparative framework, this new volume focuses on how non-standard employment can be regulated in very different social, political and inst... |
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State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China: The Silence and Collective Action of the Retrenched
ISBN: 9780415368889 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1990s, the Chinese government launched an unprecedented reform of state enterprises, putting tens of millions of people out of work. This empirically rich study calls on comprehensive surveys and interviews, combining quantitative data with qualitative in its examination of the variation in workers' collective action. Cai investigates the difference in interests of and options available to workers that reduce their solidarity, as well as the obstacles that prevent their coordination. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, this book explores the Chinese Government 's policies and... In the 1990s, the Chinese government launched an unprecedented reform of state enterprises, putting tens of millions of people out of work. This em... |
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Race and Economic Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780415371797 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the crucial topic of race relations, this book explores the economic and social environments that play a significant role in determining economic outcomes and why racial disparities persist. With contributions from a range of international contributors including Edward Wolff and Catherine Weinberger, the book compares how various racial groups fare and are affected in different ways by economic and social institution. Themes covered in the book include:
Examining the crucial topic of race relations, this book explores the economic and social environments that play a significant role in determining ... |
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Information and Communications Technologies in Society: E-Living in a Digital Europe
ISBN: 9780415383844 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a growing body of work examining the a ~consequencesa (TM), or more accurately the inter-relationships between information and communications technologies (ICTs) and society at the microsocial (individual, household) level. The vast majority of this work has so far been focused on the US and the subsequent publications have consequently provided predominantly US-centred analyses. This book will re-dress this balance by providing analyses of the situation in Europe and is associated states and placing the analyses in the context of both European and International research and... There is a growing body of work examining the a ~consequencesa (TM), or more accurately the inter-relationships between information and communicati... |
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Involuntary Unemployment
ISBN: 9780415407106 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Great Depression of the 1930s with its dramatic unemployment rates was one of the most striking economic events of the past century. It shook economists' beliefs in the existence of self-adjusting forces and prompted Keynes to write his masterwork, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Involuntary unemployment was the central concept of Keynes' book. However, after having been considered the sine qua non of economics for decades, it has gradually disappeared from textbooks and research. This book recounts and ponders this demise, asking whether the abandonment... The Great Depression of the 1930s with its dramatic unemployment rates was one of the most striking economic events of the past century. It shook e... |
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The Affirmative Action Debates
ISBN: 9780415938679 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributors: Steven M. Cahn, James W. Nickel, J. L. Cowan, Paul W. Taylor, Michael D. Bayles, William A. Nunn III, Alan H. Goldman, Paul Woodruff, Robert A. Shiver, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Robert Simon, George Sher, Robert Amdur, Robert K. Fullinwider, Bernard R. Boxhill, Lisa H. Newton, Anita L. Allen, Celia Wolf-Devine, Sidney Hook, Richaed Waaserstrom, Thomas E. Hill, Jr., John Kekes.
Contributors: Steven M. Cahn, James W. Nickel, J. L. Cowan, Paul W. Taylor, Michael D. Bayles, William A. Nunn III, Alan H. Goldman, Paul Woodruff, Ro...
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190,62 zł |