Work It, Girl!: 101 Tips for the Hip Working Chick
ISBN: 9780071409018 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book features nearly one hundred tips that run in length from one to two pages, that will help women of all ages and in all professions laugh off work-related angst with advice on how to handle all types of situations and make work more fun and more productive. The tips are written in a breezy, chatty, appealing style. The order of the book will follow a typical workday - from resolving early-morning hassles to beating midday blahs - and will cover a range of workplace issues, including dealing with stereotypical co-workers found in every office setting, keeping your mind and body in...
This book features nearly one hundred tips that run in length from one to two pages, that will help women of all ages and in all professions laugh off...
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94,02 zł |
America's Competitive Secret: Women Managers
ISBN: 9780195119145 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The United States has a large number of well educated, experienced professional women ready, willing and able to move into the boardrooms and executive suites of corporate America. Together they represent a great, untapped economic resource, a resource no other country in the world can claim. This is America's competitive secret, argues Judy B. Rosener in this refreshingly pragmatic new book for managers who want to improve their bottom line.
A leading expert on women and men at work and a highly sought-after speaker, Rosener argues that not only are men and women different, so are male... The United States has a large number of well educated, experienced professional women ready, willing and able to move into the boardrooms and executiv...
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143,84 zł |
Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace
ISBN: 9780226450445 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "The ethnography of Japan is currently being reshaped by a new generation of Japanologists, and the present work certainly deserves a place in this body of literature. . . . The combination of utility with beauty makes Kondo's book required reading, for those with an interest not only in Japan but also in reflexive anthropology, women's studies, field methods, the anthropology of work, social psychology, Asian Americans, and even modern literature." Paul H. Noguchi, "American Anthropologist"
"Kondo's work is significant because she goes beyond disharmony, insisting on complexity. Kondo... "The ethnography of Japan is currently being reshaped by a new generation of Japanologists, and the present work certainly deserves a place in this bo...
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141,96 zł |
Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920
ISBN: 9780226855684 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Martha Vicinus's subject is the middle-class English woman, the first of her sex who could afford to live on her own earnings 'outside heterosexual domesticity or church governance.' She wanted and needed to work. Meticulous, resonant, original, triumphant, Independent Women tells of the efforts and endurance of this Victorian woman; of her courage and the constraints that she rejected, accepted, and created. . . . The independent women are the 'foremothers' of any women today who seeks significant work, emotionally satisfying friendships, and a morally charged freedom."-from the...
Martha Vicinus's subject is the middle-class English woman, the first of her sex who could afford to live on her own earnings 'outside heterosexual do...
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163,80 zł |
Women and Sustainable Development in Africa
ISBN: 9780275953089 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Sustainable development has traditionally neglected the contributions of women until recently. Government and institutions in developing countries, as well as foreign aid agencies, are just beginning to realize the important roles filled by women as farmers, entrepreneurs, food providers, educators, and role models in developing countries and are attempting to integrate women into nongovernmental organization projects and voluntary organization programs. According to James and his contributors, women should not be just acknowledged, they must be included in the planning, construction,... Sustainable development has traditionally neglected the contributions of women until recently. Government and institutions in developing countries,... |
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382,20 zł |
Women, Ethics and the Workplace
ISBN: 9780275956431 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) As women are entering the workforce in record numbers, there is an urgent need to address the specific ethical problems that working women face. Providing a conceptual framework from which practical issues can be addressed, the authors focus on sexual harassment, comparable worth, leadership, advertising, and working-class women. Theoretical concepts, applied cases, personal narratives, statistical data and charts are all included in this wide ranging treatment of ethics and working women. This is not merely a summary of others' work; it is a book that will frame debates on gender, ethics,... As women are entering the workforce in record numbers, there is an urgent need to address the specific ethical problems that working women face. Pr... |
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300,30 zł |
House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
ISBN: 9780292727571 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The lives of Brazilian working women in the late nineteenth century.
The lives of Brazilian working women in the late nineteenth century.
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103,69 zł |
What It Takes: Speak Up, Step Up, Move Up: A Modern Woman's Guide to Success in Business
ISBN: 9780312349004 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In What It Takes, Amy Henry, a formidable business woman and national star from the original season of The Apprentice, shares her experiences, skills, and in-your-face advice for moving up in today's workplace. Throughout her impressive ten-year business career, Amy has learned how women can succeed by using the strategies men use every day, and by thinking of femininity as an asset, not a liability. * No crying in the boardroom-use the right emotions at work In What It Takes, Amy Henry, a formidable business woman and national star from the original season of The Apprentice, shares her exp... |
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85,43 zł |
The Matriarchs of England's Cooperative Movement: A Study in Gender Politics and Female Leadership, 1883-1921
ISBN: 9780313309953 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Current thinking considers the Women's Cooperative Guild within the English Cooperative Movement to have been an independent and democratically run organization whose leaders built sisterhood across class lines and achieved many benefits for married working-class women. This study of the dynamics of gender within the movement between 1883 and 1921 arrives at different conclusions. Blaszak examines what freedoms of speech and activity women were permitted within the movement, as well as what resources they were given to accomplish their tasks. Ultimately, the parameters set by the men would... Current thinking considers the Women's Cooperative Guild within the English Cooperative Movement to have been an independent and democratically run... |
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404,04 zł |
When Work Doesn't Work Anymore
ISBN: 9780385317986 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Perle McKenna challenges the outdated system of work for professional women, and encourages readers to re-examine work as their sole identities, and, if they are unhappy, to allow room for their Lives. For every worn-out, emotionally depleted female professional who has ever sighed, "there has got to be a better way," here is the revolutionary book by Elizabeth Perle McKenna--herself a former publishing executive--that explores women's relationship with work. For decades, women have succeeded at traditional male jobs, but now, deep in the second stage of...
In this groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Perle McKenna challenges the outdated system of work for professional women, and encourages readers to re-exami...
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81,20 zł |
Women Make the Best Salesmen: Isn't It Time You Started Using Their Secrets?
ISBN: 9780385511636 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A thirty-year-old mother of two, Marion Luna Brem had just been given a death sentence: terminal cancer. She had no job. No health insurance. Her marriage would collapse under the stress of her treatment. And her most pressing concern: How do I pay next month's rent?
Her first major -sale- was landing a job as a car salesman. Within two months she had become salesperson of the month and by the end of her first year, salesperson of the year. Four and a half years after selling her first car, Brem bought her own dealership, and in the next decade went on to open additional dealerships and... A thirty-year-old mother of two, Marion Luna Brem had just been given a death sentence: terminal cancer. She had no job. No health insurance. Her marr...
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64,10 zł |
Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain
ISBN: 9780415085304 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Domestic service is being reinstated by the middle classes. Demand for domestic labour has increased in Britain in recent years. For some, hiring domestic help is nothing new, but for the majority of British households, it is beyond the range of immediate experience. This text sets out to investigate the resurgence of demand for waged domestic labour in Britain during the 1980s and early 1990s, and the consequent growth of a new servant class.
Domestic service is being reinstated by the middle classes. Demand for domestic labour has increased in Britain in recent years. For some, hiring dome...
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596,51 zł |
Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain
ISBN: 9780415085311 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Servicing the Middle Classes investigates the recent rise in demand by middle class families for waged domestic labour and the consequent growth of a new servant' class.
Examining the position of nannies and cleaners, the authors explore the national socio-economic trends which have led to this new phenomenon and the profound changes this reflects in our concepts of motherhood and class and gender relations. Servicing the Middle Classes investigates the recent rise in demand by middle class families for waged domestic labour and the consequent gro...
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191,87 zł |
Women's Employment in Europe: Trends and Prospects
ISBN: 9780415198530 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Women's employment is central to the changing face of European labour markets and social systems. Now, employment and unemployment is at the top of the political agenda at European Union level; women will be a key source of labour supply in the near future and in the next century. This text examines the changes in gender relations in all fifteen member states of the European Union. Looking at women's labour in the 1990s, the book analyzes trends in terms of changes which have taken place in international and national economies, within enterprises, and in the behaviour and aspirations of...
Women's employment is central to the changing face of European labour markets and social systems. Now, employment and unemployment is at the top of th...
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959,60 zł |
Women's Employment in Europe: Trends and Prospects
ISBN: 9780415198547 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Based on extensive original research, this volume examines contemporary patterns of womens employment in Europe in the context of the profound economic, social and cultural changes that have taken place in recent years. It considers the progress made towards equal treatment in the labour market in the light of European Union action programmes, and examines the prospects for womens employment under the fourth action programme. The authors conclude that progress towards equal treatment will only occur when gender issues are fully integrated into the European Commissions employment and labour...
Based on extensive original research, this volume examines contemporary patterns of womens employment in Europe in the context of the profound economi...
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285,23 zł |
Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations
ISBN: 9780415270014 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations considers how organizations operate as spaces in which minds are gendered and men and women constructed. This edited collection brings together four powerful themes that have developed within the field of organizational analysis over the past two decades: organizational culture; the gendering of organizations; post-modernism and organizational analysis; and critical approaches to management. A range of essays by distinguished writers from countries including the UK, USA, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden,...
Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations considers how organizations operate as spaces in which minds are gendered and men and women...
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373,41 zł |
Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States
ISBN: 9780415273916 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book addresses an issue that is particularly timely after years of growing income inequality and draconian decreases in welfare support for single mothers which is likely to work increasing hardship as unemployment rises. The authors deserve credit for making it clear throughout that their concern is not so much with economics, as practised by neoclassical economists, as with political economy. The difference, as they make clear, is that the former takes full cognizance of the importance of social conditions and government policies, not merely market forces, in determining wages. This is...
This book addresses an issue that is particularly timely after years of growing income inequality and draconian decreases in welfare support for singl...
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373,41 zł |
Women with Attitude: Lessons for Career Management
ISBN: 9780415287425 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book answers all the questions you ve ever wanted to ask top-ranking women directors: How did they make it to the top? What do they think of their success? How does it affect their lives? It brings individual stories of accomplishment together with expert research into the emergence of women entrepreneurs, aspects of leadership, and the politics of breaking into the boardroom. Here, nineteen top-achieving businesswomen tell the stories of their career success. A groundbreaking study of women in management, entrepreneurship and the politics of leadership, it includes... This book answers all the questions you ve ever wanted to ask top-ranking women directors: How did they make it to the top? What do they think of t... |
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280,05 zł |
Women in Asian Management
ISBN: 9780415356374 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) According to a recent study by the ILO (2001), women s share of the labour force is increasing worldwide. Today, women s participation rate in the labour force is over 40 per cent of the global workforce. Higher educational levels and falling fertility rates have contributed to this increased participation. There is also some evidence that women in some Asian countries may be less marginalised in their advancement into top managerial positions than their counterparts elsewhere. As women become more educated and qualified for managerial positions, the number of Asian women... According to a recent study by the ILO (2001), women s share of the labour force is increasing worldwide. Today, women s participation rate in the ... |
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700,25 zł |
The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women
ISBN: 9780440508328 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A legacy of leadership for women only. For centuries men have used the lessons of Machiavelli's The Prince to gain and hold power. Today's women, struggling to succeed in a man's world, must learn a crucial lesson of their own: men and women are not equal--and that is a woman's greatest strength. From the wars of intimacy to battles of public life, whether confronting bosses, competitors, or lovers, the greatest power belongs to the woman who dares to use the subtle weapons that are hers alone. This provocative work urges women to claim what they want and deserve,...
A legacy of leadership for women only. For centuries men have used the lessons of Machiavelli's The Prince to gain and hold power. T...
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76,92 zł |