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Industrial Relations Between Command & Market: A Comparative Analysis of Eastern Europe & China
ISBN: 9781560724032 / Angielski / Twarda / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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522,94 |
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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN THE NEW EUROPE
ISBN: 9781845426149 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents an evidence-based assessment of the impact of EU enlargement on industrial relations and social standards in old and new EU Member States. It combines chapters which give an overview of the process of enlargement/integration and comparative socio-economic data at EU and national level, with chapters that present an in-depth analysis of the impact of European integration on national industrial relations. These in-depth analyses cover both a number of old EU Member States in Western Europe and new Member States in Central and Eastern Europe. The book combines supranational...
This book presents an evidence-based assessment of the impact of EU enlargement on industrial relations and social standards in old and new EU Member ...
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576,24 |
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Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies
ISBN: 9780521280587 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Birds of Passage presents an unorthodox analysis of migration ion to urban industrial societies from underdeveloped rual areas.
Birds of Passage presents an unorthodox analysis of migration ion to urban industrial societies from underdeveloped rual areas.
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244,88 |
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Farmers vs. Wage Earners: Organized Labor in Kansas, 1860-1960
ISBN: 9780803220812 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While predominantly agrarian, Kansas has a surprisingly rich heritage of labor history and played an active role in the major labor strife of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Farmers vs. Wage Earners is a survey of the organized labor movement in the Sunflower State, which reflected in a microcosm the evolution of attitudes toward labor in the United States. R. Alton Lee emphasizes the social and political developments of labor in Kansas and what it was like to work in the mines, the oil fields, and the factories that created the modern industrial world. He vividly describes...
While predominantly agrarian, Kansas has a surprisingly rich heritage of labor history and played an active role in the major labor strife of the late...
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97,70 |
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The Origins and Evolution of the Field of Industrial Relations in the United States
ISBN: 9780875461922 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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122,15 |
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Time Pioneers
ISBN: 9780745610764 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book the authors examine the relations between work and time and explore the possibilities of developing new and more flexible working patterns.
In this book the authors examine the relations between work and time and explore the possibilities of developing new and more flexible working pattern...
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349,38 |
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Youth Unemployment and Social Exclusion in Europe: A Comparative Study
ISBN: 9781861343680 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important new book presents the findings of the first comparative study of unemployed youth in Europe using a large and original data set. It addresses some of the key questions around the issue including: How do young people cope with unemployment? Does unemployment lead to social exclusion of young people, implying a withdrawal from society, financial deprivation and social isolation?. vbTab]Drawing on a research sample of over 17000 young unemployed people in ten European countries, the book examines how different welfare strategies and labour market policies in different countries...
This important new book presents the findings of the first comparative study of unemployed youth in Europe using a large and original data set. It add...
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221,18 |
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New Policies for Older Workers
ISBN: 9781861344632 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Policy makers in most industrialized countries are developing policies aimed at extending working life and promoting the benefits of employing older workers. Published in association with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, this report reviews developments in Australia, Finland, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands and the US. It offers a critical appraisal of current policies and highlights the fragmentation of these policies and the limited evidence for their effectiveness. It also shows how other countries are tackling age and employment issues.
Policy makers in most industrialized countries are developing policies aimed at extending working life and promoting the benefits of employing older w...
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97,70 |
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Employment Transitions of Older Workers: The Role of Flexible Employment in Maintaining Labour Market Participation and Promoting Job Quality
ISBN: 9781861344755 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The experience of an abrupt and often premature departure from work can leave individuals feeling disoriented and can prevent their valuable economic potential from being tapped. This report, published in association with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, explores the possibilities of more flexible forms of work that bridge the gap between a steady career job and retirement. It examines such jobs in the wider context of the types of transition that are being made by people retiring early and makes recommendations for future retirement policy in the UK.
The experience of an abrupt and often premature departure from work can leave individuals feeling disoriented and can prevent their valuable economic ...
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97,70 |
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Past It at 40?: A Grassroots View of Ageism and Discrimination in Employment
ISBN: 9781861344847 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do so many 'older' people who want to work find it difficult to do so? Why are employers reluctant to employ them? Is it purely the effect of discrimination and ageist attitudes? Or are there some other reasons? What can and should be done to achieve change for the better in the future?Past it at 40? provides answers to these questions. It explores, in detail, the experiences of people over 40 trying to enter the labour market, including: people who have been made redundant; the long-term unemployed; women returners; people with disabilities; and people still in a job but needing new...
Why do so many 'older' people who want to work find it difficult to do so? Why are employers reluctant to employ them? Is it purely the effect of disc...
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114,29 |
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Organisations, Careers and Caring
ISBN: 9781861345004 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the increase in mothers' employment both the government and many employers are promoting flexible working policies to improve work-life 'balance'. This report considers the effects of these changes on the lives of both women and men. It examines three employment sectors in detail - banking, grocery retail and local authorities.Drawing on the views of employees themselves, the report: . vbTab]assesses the impact of employment breaks and part-time working on the careers of women and men;. vbTab]evaluates the effectiveness of work-life balance policies;. vbTab]explores organisational...
With the increase in mothers' employment both the government and many employers are promoting flexible working policies to improve work-life 'balance'...
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97,70 |
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Happy Retirement?: The Impact of Employers' Policies and Practice on the Process of Retirement
ISBN: 9781861345844 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Any attempt by governments to stem the tide of early retirement will need to focus as much on employers' management of human resources as on the impacts of social policy. This report focuses on this previously neglected area: employers' policies and practice as a dynamic force in retirement decisions. Drawing on data from a series of organisational case studies that situate the individual's decisions and experience in the context of employers' age management policies, the report examines how the retirement process is currently managed in a range of organisations; identifies barriers to...
Any attempt by governments to stem the tide of early retirement will need to focus as much on employers' management of human resources as on the impac...
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97,70 |
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The Opportunities of a Lifetime: Model Lifetime Analysis of Current British Social Policy
ISBN: 9781861346513 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report uses a revolutionary new research tool, LOIS (the Lifetime Opportunity and Incentives Simulation programme), to assess the impact of current government social policy on our lives from cradle to grave. The strengths and weaknesses of the British benefit, pension and taxation systems are analysed in terms of how well they meet, or are likely to meet, the needs of individuals throughout their lifetimes. Specific government promises, such as those to end child and pensioner poverty and to reward those who work, are also reassessed in this context.The opportunities of a lifetime is...
This report uses a revolutionary new research tool, LOIS (the Lifetime Opportunity and Incentives Simulation programme), to assess the impact of curre...
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113,14 |
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Beyond the Apartheid Workplace : Studies in Transition
ISBN: 9781869140656 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Has the apartheid workplace changed over the past ten years of democracy in South Africa? In order to answer this question, the contributors of this book studied seventeen different workplaces, including BMW, a state hospital, footwear sweatshops and the wine farming industry. The editors broaden the definition of work to cover studies of the informal economy, including street traders, homeworkers and small rural enterprises. Beyond the Apartheid Workplace shows how South Africa's triple transition-towards political democracy, economic liberalization and post-colonial transformation-has...
Has the apartheid workplace changed over the past ten years of democracy in South Africa? In order to answer this question, the contributors of this b...
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156,41 |
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The Realities of Partnership at Work
ISBN: 9780230006973 / Angielski / Twarda / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A definitive study of partnership at work in the UK, with extensive surveys and interviews in organizations from the finance, NHS and local government sectors. The authors challenge conventional assumptions about the mutual interest associated with partnership, and find evidence of work intensification where partnership has been introduced.
A definitive study of partnership at work in the UK, with extensive surveys and interviews in organizations from the finance, NHS and local government...
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403,47 |
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Class, Power and Ideology in Ghana: The Railwaymen of Sekondi
ISBN: 9780521100168 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although there is a growing body of literature on the process and potential political consequences of class-formation in Africa, there are virtually no detailed studies of the political attitudes and behaviour of African industrial workers. First published in 1978, this study analyses the political history and sociology of one particular group - the railway workers of Ghana's third city, Sekondi-Takoradi, who are renowned for their leading role in the Ghanaian nationalist movement and for their sustained opposition to the elitism and authoritarianism of post-Independence governments. In...
Although there is a growing body of literature on the process and potential political consequences of class-formation in Africa, there are virtually n...
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204,11 |
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Sex Discrimination in the Workplace: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
ISBN: 9781405134491 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sex Discrimination in the Workplace is an interdisciplinary volume that examines the various approaches to the study of sex discrimination and explores solutions and interventions. With riveting first-hand accounts from plaintiffs, lawyers and expert witnesses who have mounted battles against discriminatory employers, it is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to gain a better understanding of precisely what sex discrimination is and what can be done to combat it.
Sex Discrimination in the Workplace is an interdisciplinary volume that examines the various approaches to the study of sex discrimination and explore...
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534,83 |
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Child Labor and Education in Latin America: An Economic Perspective
ISBN: 9780230614598 / Angielski / Twarda / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the facts concerning child labour in Latin America, how it varies over time; across countries; and in comparison to other areas of the world. It aims to improve the understanding of root causes and consequences of persistent child labour and to contribute to the policy debate.
This book examines the facts concerning child labour in Latin America, how it varies over time; across countries; and in comparison to other areas of ...
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201,72 |
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Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics
ISBN: 9780252034367 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this innovative grassroots to global study, Kathleen Mapes explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest by introducing large factories, contract farming, and foreign migrant labor. Identifying rural areas as centers for modern American industrialism, Mapes contributes to an ongoing reorientation of labor history from urban factory workers to rural migrant workers. She engages with a full range of individuals, including Midwestern family farmers, industrialists, Eastern European and Mexican immigrants, child laborers, rural reformers, Washington politicos, and colonial...
In this innovative grassroots to global study, Kathleen Mapes explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest by introducing large ...
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508,33 |
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Gendered Trajectories: Women, Work, and Social Change in Japan and Taiwan
ISBN: 9780804760096 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gendered Trajectories explores why industrial societies vary in the pace at which they reduce gender inequality and compares changes in women's employment opportunities in Japan and Taiwan over the last half-century. Japan has undergone much less improvement in women's economic status than Taiwan, despite its more advanced economy and greater welfare provisions. The difference is particularly puzzling because the two countries share many institutional practices and values. Drawing on historical trends, survey statistics, and personal interviews with people in both countries, Yu shows...
Gendered Trajectories explores why industrial societies vary in the pace at which they reduce gender inequality and compares changes in women's...
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283,49 |
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