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The Face of Discrimination: How Race and Gender Impact Work and Home Lives
ISBN: 9780742548077 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Face of Discrimination documents the extent, character, and implications of race and sex discrimination at work and in housing, drawing from a rich body archived discrimination suits themselves. It moves beyond traditional social science research on the topic and grounds the reader in the reality of discrimination as it is played out in the actual jobs, neighborhoods, and lives of real people.
The Face of Discrimination documents the extent, character, and implications of race and sex discrimination at work and in housing, drawing from a ric...
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535,46 |
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The Face of Discrimination: How Race and Gender Impact Work and Home Lives
ISBN: 9780742548084 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Face of Discrimination documents the extent, character, and implications of race and sex discrimination at work and in housing, drawing from a rich body archived discrimination suits themselves. It moves beyond traditional social science research on the topic and grounds the reader in the reality of discrimination as it is played out in the actual jobs, neighborhoods, and lives of real people.
The Face of Discrimination documents the extent, character, and implications of race and sex discrimination at work and in housing, drawing from a ric...
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194,66 |
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Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action: The Pursuit of Racial Equality in an Era of Limits
ISBN: 9780742549975 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Nixon is hardly remembered for his civil rights policies but there is no denying that, more than any other president, he is responsible for affirmative action. Noting Nixon's hostility towards busing, his political allegiances with segregationists, and the hostility of leading civil rights figures at the time, historians and political scientists have avoided explaining why the origins of modern affirmative action lie in the Nixon era. In this enlightening and original new work, Kevin Yuill combines extensive archival research with a careful analysis of the intellectual climate of the...
Richard Nixon is hardly remembered for his civil rights policies but there is no denying that, more than any other president, he is responsible for af...
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Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action: The Pursuit of Racial Equality in an Era of Limits
ISBN: 9780742549982 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Nixon is hardly remembered for his civil rights policies but there is no denying that, more than any other president, he is responsible for affirmative action. Noting Nixon's hostility towards busing, his political allegiances with segregationists, and the hostility of leading civil rights figures at the time, historians and political scientists have avoided explaining why the origins of modern affirmative action lie in the Nixon era. In this enlightening and original new work, Kevin Yuill combines extensive archival research with a careful analysis of the intellectual climate of the...
Richard Nixon is hardly remembered for his civil rights policies but there is no denying that, more than any other president, he is responsible for af...
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243,34 |
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Bread and Work: The Experience of Unemployment 1918-39
ISBN: 9780745314815 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking beyond statistics and economic cycles, Perry investigates the human impact of unemployment from the perspective of those who lived through it, their employers and communities, arguing that the lessons of the 1930s have direct relevance today since the structural problems of industrial capitalism remain inherent.
Looking beyond statistics and economic cycles, Perry investigates the human impact of unemployment from the perspective of those who lived through it,...
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126,48 |
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Ramparts of Resistance: Why Workers Lost Their Power, and How to Get It Back
ISBN: 9780745315294 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ramparts of Resistance examines the experience of British and US workers during the last three decades to offer a broad analysis of the need for a new independent politics of trade unionism. Recent years have seen great changes in the trade union movement, from waves of strikes in the 1970s to a battery of employer and state onslaughts, culminating in the anti-union legislation of the 1980s and 1990s. Looking at grassroots labour struggles, Cohen explores issues of reformism, trade union democracy and the political meaning of ordinary workplace resistance, and puts forward ideas for change....
Ramparts of Resistance examines the experience of British and US workers during the last three decades to offer a broad analysis of the need for a new...
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153,67 |
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The Economic Horror
ISBN: 9780745619941 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Economic Horror is an impassioned book addressed to the dominant political and economic elites in our society. Those in power, Forrester tells us, continue to present employment as the norm - and by doing so make the unemployed feel worthless.
The Economic Horror is an impassioned book addressed to the dominant political and economic elites in our society. Those in power, Forrester te...
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81,93 |
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Building Skills for Black Workers: Preparing for the Future Labor Market
ISBN: 9780761827788 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Building Skills for Black Workers assesses the current gap in education and training between African American and white workers, and explores possible remedies. This multi-author volume begins with an examination of the elementary and secondary education system (K-12) and concludes with an analysis of public and private worker training programs.
Building Skills for Black Workers assesses the current gap in education and training between African American and white workers, and explores possible...
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Building Skills for Black Workers: Preparing for the Future Labor Market
ISBN: 9780761827795 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Building Skills for Black Workers assesses the current gap in education and training between African American and white workers, and explores possible remedies. This multi-author volume begins with an examination of the elementary and secondary education system (K-12) and concludes with an analysis of public and private worker training programs.
Building Skills for Black Workers assesses the current gap in education and training between African American and white workers, and explores possible...
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209,27 |
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Workforce Development Networks: Community-Based Organizations and Regional Alliances
ISBN: 9780761908487 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors explore how the employment market is changing and discuss training, private-public partnerships and job searching in low income areas. Other topics in this book include numerous case studies of workforce development networks in action.
The authors explore how the employment market is changing and discuss training, private-public partnerships and job searching in low income areas. Oth...
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408,89 |
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Jobs and Economic Development: Strategies and Practice
ISBN: 9780761909132 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Job-centred economic development' integrates approaches from the fields of economic development, employment training, social services and community development. This collection of perspectives helps tie those approaches together into a guide for community development and local economic development professionals.
'Job-centred economic development' integrates approaches from the fields of economic development, employment training, social services and community d...
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769,11 |
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Pay and Performance in the NBA
ISBN: 9780762301843 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This supplement focuses on the NBA with particular reference to pay and performance. In-depth analyses of positional pay variations, player negotiations, supply and demand and econometric models of pay and performance seek to give a much clearer picture of why, how and when pay is awarded in the sports industry and particularly in the NBA. The volume concludes with a retrospective of the 1995 All-Star Players.
This supplement focuses on the NBA with particular reference to pay and performance. In-depth analyses of positional pay variations, player negotiatio...
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658,96 |
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Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Institutionalization of Industrial Relations in the Third World
ISBN: 9780762304967 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comparative study of how the current industrial relations systems come to be and of changes in such systems in non-industrialized countries since the 1980s. After an introduction, six essays look at the defusion of the Molotov cocktail in South African industrial relations, colonialism and industrial relations in India, from ostensible voluntaris.
A comparative study of how the current industrial relations systems come to be and of changes in such systems in non-industrialized countries since th...
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978,33 |
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The Economics of Disability
ISBN: 9780762305292 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Three important issues have recently attracted researchers to study the economics of disability. First with the availability of sophisticated "data sets," it has become possible to conduct highly quantative investigations of the relative economic impacts of various types of disabling health problems. Second, the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1991, and the subsequent implementation of its employment provisions, focused national attention on the continuing scarcity of employment opportunities for disabled persons. The tools of analysis that have been developed over the past...
Three important issues have recently attracted researchers to study the economics of disability. First with the availability of sophisticated "data se...
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785,69 |
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Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations
ISBN: 9780762305865 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reflecting the perspectives of disciplines ranging from labor economics to organizational sociology to industrial psychology, the papers included in volume 9 constitute a rich mix of new and unusual research approaches to and findings about important contemporary industrial relations and workplace topics. Among the topics represented in these papers are the evolution of worker attitudes at Mitsubishi Motors, pay satisfaction and skill acquisition under skilled-based pay systems, new payment systems for British telephony personnel, and dual and unilateral employee loyalty. Other papers in this...
Reflecting the perspectives of disciplines ranging from labor economics to organizational sociology to industrial psychology, the papers included in v...
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765,41 |
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New Research on Labor Relations and the Performance of University HR/IR Programs
ISBN: 9780762307500 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents five studies on key dimensions of union-management relations. Topics examined include union representation, financial consequences of unionism, wage determination, workplace innovation and conflict resolution in unionized enterprises in North America. In addition, the volume features four papers that examine university degree programmes in human resource management and industrial relations and, in particular, the extent to which the programmes provide students with the skills and competencies currently in demand by employers.
This volume presents five studies on key dimensions of union-management relations. Topics examined include union representation, financial consequence...
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589,21 |
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Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations
ISBN: 9780762308538 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Continuing to provide forward-thinking industrial relations research, Volume 11 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) features studies of EEOC and FMCS mediation approaches and effectiveness; union organizing, political effectiveness and internal democracy; the effects of broad-based stock option plans on the performance of unionized and non-union companies; and 21st century prospects for a new baby boom generation, employee-driven corporate governance, and global labour markets. These studies offer a variety of disciplinary perspectives, research designs, and analytic methods,...
Continuing to provide forward-thinking industrial relations research, Volume 11 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) features studies ...
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The Sociology of Job Training
ISBN: 9780762308866 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How workers learn how to do their jobs is central to an understanding of the changing nature of work in post-industrial society. The role of job or worker training has, however, been underdeveloped in sociological theories of work and the labor market. By most accounts, the ongoing penetration of information technology into the workplace, a transformed socioeconomic lifecourse, managerial preferences for high performance organizations, and the globalization of labour markets have collectively rendered traditional models of skill acquisition badly outmoded. go well beyond standard accounts of...
How workers learn how to do their jobs is central to an understanding of the changing nature of work in post-industrial society. The role of job or wo...
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The Economics of Skills Obsolescence: Theoretical Innovations and Empirical Applications
ISBN: 9780762309603 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the contents: The economics of skills obsolence: a review (A. de Grip, J. van Loo). - When do skills become obsolete, and when does it matter? (J. Allen, R. van der Velden). - The obsolescence of skill (F. Welch, M. Ureta). - Age effect and schooling vintage effect on earnings profiles inSwitzerland (J. Ramirez). - Technocological change and the returns toexperience (B. Weinberg)
From the contents: The economics of skills obsolence: a review (A. de Grip, J. van Loo). - When do skills become obsolete, and when does it matter? (J...
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897,21 |
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Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations
ISBN: 9780762310289 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains papers dealing with topics such as the effects of company unions on wages, the effects of labour market regulation on hiring standards, coalition bargaining at General Electric, cooperative labour-management partnerships in the steel industry, the union commitment of adjunct faculty, the effects of union political outreach on union members political perceptions, preferences and voting behaviour, reinterpretation of new labour historians differences with old labour historians, and newly discovered lecture notes by industrial relations scholar Sumner Slichter that detail...
This volume contains papers dealing with topics such as the effects of company unions on wages, the effects of labour market regulation on hiring stan...
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816,10 |