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Labour Mobility, Earnings and Unemployment: Selected Papers
ISBN: 9781840641370 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This selection of Creedy's essays sheds light on areas of labour mobility, skilled labour markets and trade unions and wages. Issues discussed include: migration, population ageing and retirement; internal labour markets; and skilled labour markets (chemists and professional scientists).
This selection of Creedy's essays sheds light on areas of labour mobility, skilled labour markets and trade unions and wages. Issues discussed include...
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634,13 |
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Employment Relations and National Culture: Continuity and Change in the Age of Globalisation
ISBN: 9781840642292 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historically, alternative models of the employment relationship have developed across culturally diverse nation states. However, the trend towards globalization incorporates a powerful force towards an international uniformity of employment relations. Underlying the issues addressed in this book is the question of how important cultural differences are and will continue to be.
Historically, alternative models of the employment relationship have developed across culturally diverse nation states. However, the trend towards glo...
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587,73 |
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Human Resources and the Firm in International Perspective
ISBN: 9781852788155 / Angielski / Twarda / 864 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A key element in the development and competitiveness of business rests on the management and enhancement of human resource. This two-volume work aims to avoid the one best way path, offering instead, readings in paternalism and industrial welfare; employee relations and the professionalization of management; Taylorism and flexibility: technological change and the division of labour; industrial training and skills; and labour and politics.
A key element in the development and competitiveness of business rests on the management and enhancement of human resource. This two-volume work aims ...
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2124,07 |
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Young Workers in the Global Economy: Job Challenges in North America, Europe and Japan
ISBN: 9781847204578 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Featuring new findings and fresh insights from an international roster of labor economists, including such eminent authors as Morley Gunderson, Harry Holzer, and Paul Ryan, this book delves into a uniquely wide range of high-profile labor issues affecting youth in the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan - from declining job, wage, and training prospects to workplace health hazards, immigration, union activism, and new policy strategies. This widely accessible introduction to the latest research in the area presents original empirical economic studies in an engaging style.
Featuring new findings and fresh insights from an international roster of labor economists, including such eminent authors as Morley Gunderson, Harry ...
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695,99 |
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The Working Poor in Europe: Employment, Poverty and Globalization
ISBN: 9781847207982 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For a long time in-work poverty was not associated with European welfare states. Recently, the topic has gained relevance as welfare state retrenchment and international competition in globalized economies has put increasing pressures on individuals and families. This book provides explanations as to why in-work poverty is high in certain countries and low in others.
For a long time in-work poverty was not associated with European welfare states. Recently, the topic has gained relevance as welfare state retrenchmen...
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675,37 |
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Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe
ISBN: 9781843764328 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text addresses the role played by institutions in European wage formation with a focus on EMU and institutional change in Labour Markets. Under the general heading there are three broad but distinct themes. The first emphasises the role of institutions in affecting the dispersion of wages across occupation, age, skill, and industry and employment contract categories. The contributors make clear the profound effect that Euopean instiutions can have in influencing, and in most cases compressing, such pay differentials with consequent imlpications for the employment prospects of certain...
This text addresses the role played by institutions in European wage formation with a focus on EMU and institutional change in Labour Markets. Under t...
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598,04 |
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Employment Relations and Hrm in South Korea
ISBN: 9780754613565 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. South Korea is one of the rare countries that has experienced political/industrial democratization and economic development simultaneously in a relatively short period. However, the full story of democratization and development processes displays two faces a positive and negative aspects to the deployment of labour/human resources. This book explains these seemingly contradictory outcomes of Korean employment relations (ER) and human resource management (HRM) based upon a theoretical framework that incorporates logics of environmental constraints and strategies of actors. During three key...
South Korea is one of the rare countries that has experienced political/industrial democratization and economic development simultaneously in a relati...
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195,86 |
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Labour Markets, Gender and Institutional Change: Essays in Honour of Gunther Schmid
ISBN: 9781840648614 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this book have been written by a number of experts in the field of labour market studies to honour the intellectual contribution and lifetime achievement of Gunther Schmid. The multidisciplinary contributions, though not based on a common theoretical framework, are all concerned with transitional labour markets and labour market policy in the new global economic environment. The authors first address contemporary arguments and controversies regarding appropriate institutions for the formation and implementation of labour market and employment policies. They move on to focus on...
The essays in this book have been written by a number of experts in the field of labour market studies to honour the intellectual contribution and lif...
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742,39 |
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Trade, Jobs and Wages
ISBN: 9781858987125 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text examines the influence of trade on jobs and wages in different theoretical settings, including the Ricardian and Heckscher-Ohlin models, as well as models exhibiting imperfect competition and scale economics.
This text examines the influence of trade on jobs and wages in different theoretical settings, including the Ricardian and Heckscher-Ohlin models, as ...
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628,97 |
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Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930
ISBN: 9780226521985 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Starting with Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Meyerowitz uses turn-of-the-century Chicago as a case study to explore both the image and the reality of single women's experiences as they lived apart from their families. In an era when family all but defined American womanhood, these women neither victimized nor liberated created new social ties and subcultures to cope with the conditions of urban life.
"Brilliant. . . . Gracefully written, and mercifully free from the jargon that often plagues social history, this book is a welcome addition to literature in women's, urban, and black... Starting with Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Meyerowitz uses turn-of-the-century Chicago as a case study to explore both the image and the reality of...
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154,67 |
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Women and Technology
ISBN: 9783110143072 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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637,19 |
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Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization : The Labor Process and the Changing Nature of Work in the Global Economy
ISBN: 9780742516618 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization. The contributors explore traditional sectors of the U.S. and world economies - from auto to steel to agriculture - as well as work under new production arrangements, such as third world export processing zones. Many chapters analyze changing dynamics of gender, nationality, and class. The contributors explain why more intensified forms of control by the state and by capital interests are emerging under globalization. Yet they also emphasize new possibilities for labor,...
This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization. The contributors explore traditi...
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230,19 |
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Pioneers of European Integration: Citizenship and Mobility in the EU
ISBN: 9781848446595 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The free movement of EU citizens is the most visible sociological consequence of the remarkable process of European integration that has transformed the continent since the Second World War. Pioneers of European Integration offers the first systematic analysis of the small but symbolically potent number of Europeans who have chosen to live and work as foreigners in another member state of the EU. Based on an original survey of 5000 people moving to and from the EU's five largest countries, the book documents the demographic profile, migration choices, cultural adaptation, social mobility,...
The free movement of EU citizens is the most visible sociological consequence of the remarkable process of European integration that has transformed t...
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634,13 |
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Feminist Economics
ISBN: 9781843765684 / Angielski / Twarda / 2112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lourdes Beneria, Ann Mari May and Diana Strassmann have combined to produce a major new three-volume research collection that demonstrates the breadth and significance of feminist scholarship in economics. This important selection of articles shows how feminist economics has illuminated our understanding of topics such as household decision-making, the care economy, globalization, the feminization of the labour force, macroeconomics, trade, development, and international migration. Many of the essays provide a feminist perspective on policy and social transformation. The editors have provided...
Lourdes Beneria, Ann Mari May and Diana Strassmann have combined to produce a major new three-volume research collection that demonstrates the breadth...
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5155,50 |
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Trade Unions and Workplace Democracy in Africa
ISBN: 9780754649977 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can democracy only survive if it is participatory? Is participatory democracy a prerequisite for sustainable development? Are trade unions the most appropriate body through which such aims can be implemented? These critical questions are tackled in Gerard Kester's book, Trade Unions and Workplace Democracy in Africa, which applies an unparalleled depth of research to these issues as they impact African nations, including: Cape Verde, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Ghana, South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rigorously structured, it sets the background of the research and the underlying...
Can democracy only survive if it is participatory? Is participatory democracy a prerequisite for sustainable development? Are trade unions the most ap...
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710,17 |
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The Comparative Political Economy of Industrial Relations: Local Perspectives on Land-Use Conflicts
ISBN: 9780913447642 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The distinguished contributors to this volume discuss the global marketplace; labor movements and industrial restructuring; international trends in work organization in the auto industry; linkages between economic development strategies, industrial...
The distinguished contributors to this volume discuss the global marketplace; labor movements and industrial restructuring; international trends in wo...
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134,68 |
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Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations in the Commonwealth Caribbean: History, Contemporary Practice and Prospect
ISBN: 9780313283802 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study analyzes the critical factors that have shaped the character of trade unionism in the Commonwealth Caribbean, as well as the major challenges that currently confront trade union practice. Particular emphasis is placed on the sociological foundations of labor law and the role of the state, in addition to the shape and contours of future industrial relations practice in the region. This unique analysis is placed within a theoretical framework that sheds light on the role of trade unions in a peripheral capitalist social formation. This approach exposes the contradictions that... This study analyzes the critical factors that have shaped the character of trade unionism in the Commonwealth Caribbean, as well as the major chall... |
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360,89 |
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The Ethnic Penalty: Immigration, Education and the Labour Market
ISBN: 9781409402114 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Populations of visible ethnic minorities have steadily increased over the past few decades in immigrant-receptive societies. While a complex calculus of push and pull factors has motivated this increase, one of the main impetuses for this migration has been the search for employment, better wages and a higher standard of living. It is therefore not surprising that the educational attainments of the first generation and beyond have achieved convergence with, or exceeded the non-ethnic minority cohort. These outcomes may suggest a greater propensity for visible ethnic minorities to attain...
Populations of visible ethnic minorities have steadily increased over the past few decades in immigrant-receptive societies. While a complex calculus ...
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783,64 |
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Two Languages at Work
ISBN: 9783110150582 / Angielski / Twarda / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists,... CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences car... |
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679,69 |
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Young Disabled People: Aspirations, Choices and Constraints
ISBN: 9780754674221 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent policies and government initiatives in many Western countries have strengthened the expectation that young disabled people have the right to be involved in decisions affecting their futures. Many of the choices that are currently taken out of young disabled people's hands, including those relating to education and future employment, are now being viewed as an opportunity to encourage participation in the decision making process. Sonali Shah uses a comparative study of young disabled students within mainstream and special education to determine the influence these recent policies will...
Recent policies and government initiatives in many Western countries have strengthened the expectation that young disabled people have the right to be...
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734,66 |
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