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Comparative Employment Relations: An Introductioin
ISBN: 9780745622927 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This major new textbook provides a concise introduction to employment and industrial relations. Unlike many other textbooks, this adopts a comparative approach, examining the changing nature of employment practices in relation to the processes of globalization, and engaging critically with the literature on Human Resource Management. By taking account of the international dimension of employment relations, this book is at the forefront of new developments in the field.
The thematic approach of Comparative Employment Relations makes it distinctive from the... This major new textbook provides a concise introduction to employment and industrial relations. Unlike many other textbooks, this adopts a comparative...
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306,81 |
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Women Workers and Technological Change in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780748402601 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the traditional stereotyped viewpoint, femininity and technology clash. This negative association between women and technology is one of the features of the sex-typing of jobs. Men are seen as technically competent and creative; women are seen as incompetent, suited only to work with machines that have been made and maintained by men. Men identify themselves with technology, and technology is identified with masculinity. The relationship between technology, technological change and women's work is, however, very complex.
From the traditional stereotyped viewpoint, femininity and technology clash. This negative association between women and technology is one of the feat...
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704,38 |
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Jobs and Economic Development: Strategies and Practice
ISBN: 9780761909149 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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553,79 |
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Organizational Change and Gender Equity: International Perspectives on Fathers and Mothers at the Workplace
ISBN: 9780761910442 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comparing progress in the United Kingdom, United States, Scandinavia and Australia, this book looks at how organizations are changing to help individuals combine work and family roles.
Comparing progress in the United Kingdom, United States, Scandinavia and Australia, this book looks at how organizations are changing to help individu...
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767,54 |
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Organizational Change and Gender Equity: International Perspectives on Fathers and Mothers at the Workplace
ISBN: 9780761910459 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comparing progress in the United Kingdom, United States, Scandinavia and Australia, this book looks at how organizations are changing to help individuals combine work and family roles.
Comparing progress in the United Kingdom, United States, Scandinavia and Australia, this book looks at how organizations are changing to help individu...
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Employment Relations in the United States: Law, Policy, and Practice
ISBN: 9780761926542 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Employment is closely connected to wealth, status, and security and is therefore a subject of interest across a range of academic disciplines. Employment Relations in the United States incorporates a wealth of research material from these different specialties to provide a historical perspective on the American workplace and the evolution of legal policies affecting employment. The analysis follows both a chronological and thematic arrangement, beginning with the importance of management practices, the growth of labor organizations and the impact of collective bargaining on...
Employment is closely connected to wealth, status, and security and is therefore a subject of interest across a range of academic disciplines. |
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Key Concepts in Work
ISBN: 9780761944775 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'This excellent book will encourage students to think about the diverse range and broad character of issues encountered at work. It highlights both enduring dilemmas and emerging issues in contemporary employment. Each concept is carefully explained with engaging examples provided throughout. As such it will help prime students to understand key issues at work and make a first-rate addition to any social science reading list' - Nicolas Bacon, Nottingham University Business School 'This authoritative, comprehensive, up-to-date, and user-friendly reference book will be appreciated greatly by...
'This excellent book will encourage students to think about the diverse range and broad character of issues encountered at work. It highlights both en...
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Understanding European Trade Unionism: Between Market, Class and Society
ISBN: 9780761952206 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'As one would expect, this is a well-crafted, literate and absorbing account of European trade union development. Established scholars and advanced students will enjoy the discussion of theory and cases' - The Journal of Industrial Relations ' A] detailed and fascinating history of trade unions in the three countries Britain, Germany, Italy]...considers how the unions could recover from the intense disarray of recent years' - Labour Research 'Everyone concerned over the construction of a truly social Europe will learn much from this thoughtful and probing study' - Professor Colin Crouch,...
'As one would expect, this is a well-crafted, literate and absorbing account of European trade union development. Established scholars and advanced st...
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Understanding European Trade Unionism: Between Market, Class and Society
ISBN: 9780761952213 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'A very innovative study of trade unionism, .... a brilliant analysis of distinct types to be found within Europe' - "Marino Regini, Universita degli Studi di Milano
"'This book provides a timely insight into organized labour in an increasingly capitalist world.... It provides a scholarly insight that begs reading by policy makers in labour, business and the government' -" Professor Anil Verma, University of Toronto "This engaging and compelling work offers a fresh perspective and demonstrates how inherited traditions can serve as both resources and constraints in responding to the... 'A very innovative study of trade unionism, .... a brilliant analysis of distinct types to be found within Europe' - "Marino Regini, Universita degli ...
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Research in Labor Economics
ISBN: 9780762303120 / Angielski / Twarda / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains 13 new and important never before published chapters covering aspects of the employer-employee relationship. The volume is focused at the academic audience, but is also geared to government and business policy makers worldwide. The chapters use data from the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle-East to answer a number of vital labor market questions. These include: Why has part-time work increased so dramatically in the 15 European Union countries? What changes in retirement behavior will be expected as countries change pension laws? Why do firms often use fixed-term instead...
This volume contains 13 new and important never before published chapters covering aspects of the employer-employee relationship. The volume is focuse...
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707,70 |
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Research in Labor Economics
ISBN: 9780762305841 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work carries seven papers that analyze the effect of government and corporate actions on individuals' labor market behavior and seven others from a November 1996 conference at Cornell University discuss new empirical research on employer training.
This work carries seven papers that analyze the effect of government and corporate actions on individuals' labor market behavior and seven others from...
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808,80 |
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Transportation Labor Issues and Regulatory Reform: Volume 10
ISBN: 9780762308910 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Regulatory reform in the late 1970s and early 1980s vastly transformed the labor market for transportation workers. Most research in this area focuses on the effect of deregulation on the earnings of nonmanagement company workers in airline, trucking and rail. Deregulation of transportation industries, though, has had a broader effect on workers. For instance, deregulation also influences workers' hours worked per week, working conditions, worker safety, and a host of other labor issues. Deregulation might also influence the earnings of managers and self-employed workers in transportation...
Regulatory reform in the late 1970s and early 1980s vastly transformed the labor market for transportation workers. Most research in this area focuses...
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Accounting for Worker Well-Being
ISBN: 9780762311101 / Angielski / Twarda / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume comprises 12 chapters, each accounting for a particular aspect of worker well-being. Among the issues addressed are: employee compensation, job loss, disability, health, gender, education, contract negotiation, and macroeconomic labor policy. The volume provides answers to a number of important questions. For example, why do smaller, newer companies better match CEO pay to profits than old, established corporations? Which demographic groups are most prone to job losses? What does marital status have to do with the glass ceiling? Does retiring from work increase one's mental...
This volume comprises 12 chapters, each accounting for a particular aspect of worker well-being. Among the issues addressed are: employee compensation...
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1031,24 |
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Chinese Workers and Their State: Adjusting to Capitalism
ISBN: 9780765600394 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text examines the most economically critical and politically sensitive issues of China's reform process - labour market development, changing industrial relations, and labour-state and labour-capital conflict. It suggests that a system is emerging in China which is a form of capitalism.
This text examines the most economically critical and politically sensitive issues of China's reform process - labour market development, changing ind...
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Income Inequality in America: An Analysis of Trends: An Analysis of Trends
ISBN: 9780765602336 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is income inequality? How is it measured? Is the middle class really declining? How does it relate to poverty? How long has inequality been rising in the US? Have there been other periods in history when income differences were as large as they are today? What are the causes of growing income and wage inequality? The author addresses these and other conceptual issues in eight carefully reasoned and clearly presented chapters. Concluding with an analysis and comparison of trends in wage inequality in other developed countries, he asks the final speculative question: How much more growth...
What is income inequality? How is it measured? Is the middle class really declining? How does it relate to poverty? How long has inequality been risin...
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704,38 |
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Income Inequality in America: An Analysis of Trends: An Analysis of Trends
ISBN: 9780765602343 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is income inequality? How is it measured? Is the middle class really declining? How does it relate to poverty? How long has inequality been rising in the US? Have there been other periods in history when income differences were as large as they are today? What are the causes of growing income and wage inequality? The author addresses these and other conceptual issues in eight carefully reasoned and clearly presented chapters. Concluding with an analysis and comparison of trends in wage inequality in other developed countries, he asks the final speculative question: How much more growth...
What is income inequality? How is it measured? Is the middle class really declining? How does it relate to poverty? How long has inequality been risin...
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223,41 |
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Laboring for Freedom: New Look at the History of Labor in America
ISBN: 9780765602510 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text examines the concept of freedom in the context of American labour history. Nine essays develop themes in this history which show that liberty of contract and inalienable rights form two contradictory traditions concerning freedom.
This text examines the concept of freedom in the context of American labour history. Nine essays develop themes in this history which show that libert...
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Laboring for Freedom: New Look at the History of Labor in America
ISBN: 9780765602527 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text examines the concept of freedom in the context of American labour history. Nine essays develop themes in this history which show that liberty of contract and inalienable rights form two contradictory traditions concerning freedom.
This text examines the concept of freedom in the context of American labour history. Nine essays develop themes in this history which show that libert...
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Working in the 21st Century: Policies for Economic Growth Through Training, Opportunity and Education: Policies for Economic Growth Through Training,
ISBN: 9780765603043 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyzes the current labour market in the US and concludes that social policy must change to cope with the realities of the new economy. More and better jobs is the underlying theme of this text. It presents an agenda of lifelong learning and recommends specific government educational policies.
Analyzes the current labour market in the US and concludes that social policy must change to cope with the realities of the new economy. More and bett...
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China's Workers Under Assault: Exploitation and Abuse in a Globalizing Economy
ISBN: 9780765603579 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book contains case studies with substantive analysis of Chinese workers in a variety of settings: state enterprises, urban collectives, township and village enterprises, domestic private enterprises, and foreign funded enterprises. The cases include urban workers migrant workers from the countryside, and workers who are sent to work outside of China. The analytical framework for these case studies lays out why labor rights violations have been occurring in China and highlights the contex in which these violations operate and the extent to which these selected cases are not...
This important book contains case studies with substantive analysis of Chinese workers in a variety of settings: state enterprises, urban collectives,...
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