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Petroleum Industry Regulation Within Stable States
ISBN: 9780754642527 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the challenges facing stable democratic states in dealing with oil companies in order to secure general welfare gains. Political stability means that such states should be able to take a longer term perspective. The principal topic considered is petroleum industry regulation but the insights extend to other non-renewable natural resources. A particular issue addressed is the question of tax competition between producing countries. Within the context of company/government relations the book considers such current topics as the challenges of dealing with merged companies and...
This book addresses the challenges facing stable democratic states in dealing with oil companies in order to secure general welfare gains. Political s...
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710,17 |
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Changing Working Life and the Appeal of the Extreme Right
ISBN: 9780754649151 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the interplay of the recent transformation of working life and the growing appeal of political right-wing populism and extremism in Europe. It explores the individual and collective reactions and the strategies people develop in order to come to terms with socio-economic change. It raises the question of whether, and to what extent, changes in the employment system and in working life contribute to making people receptive to xenophobia, nationalism and racism. Based on an eight country study using both quantitative and qualitative research methods, this volume makes a...
This book investigates the interplay of the recent transformation of working life and the growing appeal of political right-wing populism and extremis...
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440,75 |
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Empowering Migrant Women: Why Agency and Rights are not Enough
ISBN: 9780754675327 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on insights from Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong, this volume breaks through the polarized thinking and migration-centric policy action on the protection of migrant women domestic workers from abuse to link migrants' rights and victimization with livelihood, migration and development. The book contextualizes agency and rights in the workers' capability to secure a livelihood in the global political economy and is instrumental in making the problem of migrant women workers' empowerment both a migration and development agenda. The volume is essential reading...
Based on insights from Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong, this volume breaks through the polarized thinking and migration-c...
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710,17 |
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EU Labour Migration since Enlargement: Trends, Impacts and Policies
ISBN: 9780754676843 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most important consequences of EU enlargement in May 2004 was to extend the principle of the free movement of labour to the citizens of the central and eastern European new member states. In this book a team of labour economists and migration experts sheds light on the dimensions, characteristics and impacts of cross-border labour migration in selected sending (Hungary, Latvia and Poland) and receiving (Austria, Germany, Sweden and the UK) countries. Separate contributions detail the policy responses by governments, employers and trade unions in these countries to the challenges...
One of the most important consequences of EU enlargement in May 2004 was to extend the principle of the free movement of labour to the citizens of the...
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710,17 |
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Micropolitics and Canadian Business: Paper, Steel, and the Airlines
ISBN: 9781551115702 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Micropolitics and Canadian Business explores the internal structure of industry politics in contemporary Canada. This "micropolitics" approach offers a revealing set of conceptual tools and models that illuminate the politics of everyday business at the industry, firm, and policy issue levels. It builds wider contexts in which the concrete particulars of business-government relations can be explored and understood in a systematic fashion. The approach developed is a comparative one. The book examines three industries--paper, steel, and airlines--carefully chosen to represent... Micropolitics and Canadian Business explores the internal structure of industry politics in contemporary Canada. This "micropolitics" approa... |
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161,63 |
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Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector: Is There a Funding Crisis?
ISBN: 9781848447585 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While retiree health plans are a dying benefit in the private sector, all US states and many local governments extend health insurance coverage to their retired employees. This book is the first to thoroughly examine public sector health insurance plans. Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector provides a detailed description of the current plans offered and compares how they vary across states. Health insurance is an important component of compensation in the public sector as it helps governments attract and retain quality workers and encourages timely retirement for career employees....
While retiree health plans are a dying benefit in the private sector, all US states and many local governments extend health insurance coverage to the...
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520,71 |
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Older Workers in a Globalizing World: An International Comparison of Retirement and Late-career Patterns in Western Industrialized Countries
ISBN: 9781848448179 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely book investigates the growth of the early retirement trend and its varying spread among different groups of older workers in fourteen modern societies. It argues for a differentiated political approach to reverse early retirement, which relies on both pension and employability policies for older workers. Examining the early retirement trend virtually all modern societies have been faced with since the onset of the globalization process in the 1970s and 1980s, this book provides a thorough analysis of older workers' late careers and their retirement transitions, as well as...
This timely book investigates the growth of the early retirement trend and its varying spread among different groups of older workers in fourteen mode...
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639,28 |
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Labour Standards and International Competitiveness: A Comparative Analysis of Developing and Industrialized Countries
ISBN: 9781858989495 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work assesses the impact of labour standards on the competitiveness of firms through a comparison of developing and industrialized countries. It shows how lack of labour code standards in developing countries leads to industrialized countries justifying protectionist policies.
This work assesses the impact of labour standards on the competitiveness of firms through a comparison of developing and industrialized countries. It ...
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520,71 |
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Foreign Firms, Technological Capabilities and Economic Performance: Evidence from Africa, Asia and Latin America
ISBN: 9781843769866 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using an adapted and simplified version of the technology capability framework, Rasiah (Asia Europe Institute, U. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) examines exports, productivity and technological capabilities by comparing foreign and local firms in a variety of industries in seven countries at varying stages of development--Brazil, Costa Rica, In
Using an adapted and simplified version of the technology capability framework, Rasiah (Asia Europe Institute, U. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) e...
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546,48 |
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Aid, Power, and Privatization: The Politics of Telecommunication Reform in Central America
ISBN: 9781845421748 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comparative study of the telecommunication reform process in three Central American countries - Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras - focusing on the roles of the local private sector and international financial institutions. By addressing the following questions, the book aims to understand the potential for the emergence of an autonomous and inclusive regulatory state: What has been the main driving force behind the wave of privatizations in Latin America? What has been the role of the international financial institutions (IFIs)? What kind of state emerges after...
This book provides a comparative study of the telecommunication reform process in three Central American countries - Costa Rica, Guatemala and Hondura...
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546,48 |
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The Life Cycle of Corporate Governance
ISBN: 9781845422141 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique collection of new, previously unpublished chapters examines corporate governance and the various life cycle stages of firms and organizations. The role of the corporate governance life cycle in different industrial and institutional contexts is identified and reviewed, and crucial governance issues relating to the transition between stages are considered. This book will extend our understanding of governance issues beyond the narrow confines of economics and finance perspectives to embrace both learning and knowledge dimensions as well as contextual issues.
This unique collection of new, previously unpublished chapters examines corporate governance and the various life cycle stages of firms and organizati...
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757,86 |
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Employment of Women in Chinese Cultures: Half the Sky
ISBN: 9781845422936 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the employment lives of Chinese women living under different government systems at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the contributors to this volume present an overview of factors affecting the employment status of women. The volume includes chapters on the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore - nations that have common Chinese cultural experiences but very different economic systems and government structures. Policies and laws vary widely in Chinese societies from the egalitarian, socialist provisions of The People's Republic of China to the...
Examining the employment lives of Chinese women living under different government systems at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the contributo...
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546,48 |
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Ageing Labour Forces: Promises and Prospects
ISBN: 9781845424251 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This provocative book considers the changing status of older workers, the evolution of public policy on age and work and the behaviour of employers. It attempts to answer the critical question: in an ageing society, can older workers look forward to the prospect of longer working lives with choice and security and make successful transitions to retirement?
This provocative book considers the changing status of older workers, the evolution of public policy on age and work and the behaviour of employers. I...
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546,48 |
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Employment, Labor Unions and Wages: The Collected Essays of Orley Ashenfelter
ISBN: 9781858981284 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first of three volumes containing the economic papers of Orley Ashenfelter. In this volume he covers the highlights of his professional life.
This is the first of three volumes containing the economic papers of Orley Ashenfelter. In this volume he covers the highlights of his professional li...
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799,10 |
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Conflict and Change in the Russian Industrial Enterprise
ISBN: 9781858983400 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work focuses on the new kinds of conflict that arise in the transition to a market economy.
This work focuses on the new kinds of conflict that arise in the transition to a market economy.
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634,13 |
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Women's Employment and Homemaking Careers: A Lifespan Perspective
ISBN: 9781847203540 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chronicling the lives of working women, this title examines the 25 years following college and compares the lifestyle choices of career women, homemakers, part time employees and entrepreneurs.
Chronicling the lives of working women, this title examines the 25 years following college and compares the lifestyle choices of career women, homemak...
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520,71 |
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Growing the Virtual Workplace: The Integrative Value Proposition for Telework
ISBN: 9781847203892 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Employees, organizations and society alike should grow the virtual workplace, as the multiple, tangible benefits of telework for each of these three stakeholders largely outweigh the costs. To help stakeholders benefit from the virtual workplace, the authors analyze four key issues: telework adoption, implementation, tracking and impacts. They develop the comprehensive EOS framework to examine both the interaction among employees, organizations and society, and the linkages among telework impacts, tracking, implementation and adoption. Unique features of the book include an integrative...
Employees, organizations and society alike should grow the virtual workplace, as the multiple, tangible benefits of telework for each of these three s...
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598,04 |
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New Directions in the Study of Work and Employment: Revitalizing Industrial Relations as an Academic Enterprise
ISBN: 9781847204523 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Whalen's book identifies avenues leading to the revitalization of industrial relations as an academic discipline. The contributors, a stellar assemblage of the field's leading scholars, demonstrate there is much work to be done: the scope and intellectual content of industrial relations need to be reconsidered; academic and social institutions must be reshaped; and new conceptual and practical issues demand attention.
Charles Whalen's book identifies avenues leading to the revitalization of industrial relations as an academic discipline. The contributors, a stellar ...
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572,26 |
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Women and Employment: Changing Lives and New Challenges
ISBN: 9781847202499 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How is women's employment shaped by family and domestic responsibilities? This book, written by leading experts in the field, examines twenty-five years of change in women's employment and addresses the challenges facing women today. The authors offer an innovative analysis of how global changes including new migration processes, educational expansion, transnational labour markets, technological advances and the global economy affect women's labour market experiences. They tackle issues relevant for future change, including gender inequalities and ethnic diversities, and confront contentious...
How is women's employment shaped by family and domestic responsibilities? This book, written by leading experts in the field, examines twenty-five yea...
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742,39 |
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Work-family Balance, Gender and Policy
ISBN: 9781848442115 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book looks at the three main components of work-family policy packages - childcare services, flexible working patterns and entitlements to leave from work in order to care - across EU15 Member States, with comparative reference to the US. It also provides an in-depth examination of developments in the UK. Variations in national priorities, policy instruments, established policy orientations and the context for policy making in terms of employment patterns, fertility behaviour and attitudes towards work and care are highlighted.
This important book looks at the three main components of work-family policy packages - childcare services, flexible working patterns and entitlements...
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561,95 |
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