History of American Labor
ISBN: 9780029258507 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Joseph Rayback's history of the American labor movement. The History of American Labor delves into the history of labor in America from the colonial days until the mid-1950's. Rayback's work is considered to be a foundational text for any readers of American labor union history.
Joseph Rayback's history of the American labor movement. The History of American Labor delves into the history of labor in America from the...
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115,48 zł |
Free the Children: A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves That Children Can Change the World
ISBN: 9780060930653 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Here is the dramatic and moving story of one child's transformation from a normal, middle-class kid from the suburbs to an activist, fighting against child labor on the world stage of international human rights. Making headlines around the globe, Graig Keilburger and his organization, Free the Children, which he founded at the age of twelve, have brought unprecedented attention to the worldwide abuse of children's rights. Free the Childrenis a passionate and astounding story and a moving testament to the power that children and young adults have to change the world, as... Here is the dramatic and moving story of one child's transformation from a normal, middle-class kid from the suburbs to an activist, fighting again... |
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77,45 zł |
The Harder We Run: Black Workers Since the Civil War
ISBN: 9780195029413 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Traces the history of the Black working class in America and argues that racism and federal indifference are largely responsible for Black unemployment and poverty.
Traces the history of the Black working class in America and argues that racism and federal indifference are largely responsible for Black unemploymen...
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717,42 zł |
Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America
ISBN: 9780195051896 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The apprentice system in colonial America began as a way for young men to learn valuable trade skills from experienced artisans and mechanics and soon flourished into a fascinating and essential social institution. Benjamin Franklin got his start in life as an apprentice, as did Mark Twain, Horace Greeley, William Dean Howells, William Lloyd Garrison, and many other famous Americans. But the Industrial Revolution brought with it radical changes in the lives of craft apprentices. In this book, W. J. Rorabaugh has woven an intriguing collection of case histories, gleaned from numerous letters,...
The apprentice system in colonial America began as a way for young men to learn valuable trade skills from experienced artisans and mechanics and soon...
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210,97 zł |
Branches Without Roots: Genesis of the Black Working Class in the American South, 1862-1882
ISBN: 9780195055757 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The first comprehensive history of the transition from slavery to sharecropping, this major study draws on thousands of previously untapped sources and statistics to reconstruct the socioeconomic history of the antebellum plantation and the birth of the free black worker. Jaynes thoroughly reexamines the symbiotic nature of the sharecropping system for both planters and workers--how it offered planters a stable work force and offered workers relative freedom, a unified family, and payment for their labor--and analyzes the social and economic effects of sharecropping on the larger social...
The first comprehensive history of the transition from slavery to sharecropping, this major study draws on thousands of previously untapped sources an...
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717,42 zł |
Aspirations and Anxieties: New England Workers and the Mechanized Factory System, 1815-1850
ISBN: 9780195057478 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Aspirations and Anxieties is a working class intellectual history of early factory operatives in antebellum New England. The book focuses on the operatives' perceptions of technological and socio-economic changes in the mechanized workplace. The study uncovers a complex debate over many facets of the factory system--the machines and factory buildings, wages and hours, relations between managers and workers, and the content and character of protest. Finally, the book argues that the roots of this debate lie in the struggle to define the meaning of work itself in a period of profound...
Aspirations and Anxieties is a working class intellectual history of early factory operatives in antebellum New England. The book focuses on ...
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196,17 zł |
Empirical Labor Economics: The Search Approach
ISBN: 9780195059366 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Presenting a complete survey of labor economics from the search point of view, this is the first book to coordinate a vast and scattered literature, making an increasingly important and sophisticated area in modern applied economics readily accessible. Completely comprehensive, Empirical Labor Economics covers not only sequential and random search, but all stochastic models of the labor market, and treats underlying economic theory and econometric methods as needed. It examines structural search models, studies directed at particular policy questions--such as the effect of...
Presenting a complete survey of labor economics from the search point of view, this is the first book to coordinate a vast and scattered literature, m...
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405,87 zł |
Inequality at Work: Hispanics in the U.S. Labor Force
ISBN: 9780195064216 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book provides the first comprehensive economic assessment of the rapidly growing Hispanic American work force. In a wide-ranging analysis of a variety of large computerized data banks, the author presents a host of original findings on postwar trends in Hispanic wages, poverty unemployment rates, and educational attainment. The implications of these findings for current debates on income inequality, discrimination, school dropouts, and the domestic effects of immigration are thoroughly evaluated. Many of the conclusions throw into question widely held views on these issues among the...
This book provides the first comprehensive economic assessment of the rapidly growing Hispanic American work force. In a wide-ranging analysis of a va...
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499,59 zł |
In Labor's Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worker
ISBN: 9780195067910 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) These extended essays by one of the preeminent scholars in U.S. labor history discuss central questions in the field, from the colonial period to the present: What do the first demands for a fixed workday tell us about how early American workers experienced the beginnings of the industrial revolution? Why did American labor politics never manage to break the grip of the two-party system? What was the impact of ideology, career leadership, and ethnicity on the American labor movement? How did American trade unionism cope with the market-drive forces of American capitalism? Why did so great a...
These extended essays by one of the preeminent scholars in U.S. labor history discuss central questions in the field, from the colonial period to the ...
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717,42 zł |
Technology and the Future of Work
ISBN: 9780195071719 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book brings together a set of essays exploring the implications of new technologies in the workplace. The common premise of the contributions is that the effective implementation of automation in manufacturing and engineering operations will typically require a workforce with a higher skill profile. Examining the experience of countries in Europe, Australia, Asia, and the U.S., the book analyzes four themes: the new competencies required for effective implementation of new technologies; how firms can develop these new competencies; the implications of these changes for industrial...
This book brings together a set of essays exploring the implications of new technologies in the workplace. The common premise of the contributions is ...
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647,58 zł |
The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy
ISBN: 9780195089042 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The new international economy is today the single most important factor shaping relations between employers, unions, and governments in the world's advanced industrial societies. While companies compete in global markets with firms around the world, workers remain fixed in each country and are influenced by local customs and institutions. mores. This book explores how globalization affects the contemporary workplace and how workplace policies can make nations more internationally competitive. Unlike other country-by-country treatments of the subject, this analysis compares and contrasts the...
The new international economy is today the single most important factor shaping relations between employers, unions, and governments in the world's ad...
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141,91 zł |
The First Industrial Woman
ISBN: 9780195089820 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Why study women and the industrial revolution? Deborah Valenze's groundbreaking reassessment of this classic problem in European history reminds us that questions of gender and work are at the center of our experience in the modern world.
Too often, the study of industrialization charts an inevitable and largely technological course. Valenze sets aside this approach in order to examine the underlying assumptions about gender and work that informed the transformation of English society, and in turn, our ideas about economic progress. How did England change from an agriculturally based... Why study women and the industrial revolution? Deborah Valenze's groundbreaking reassessment of this classic problem in European history reminds us th...
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717,42 zł |
Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States
ISBN: 9780195157093 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her observations upon the personal experience of individual American women set against the backdrop of American society, Alice Kessler-Harris examines the effects of class, ethnic and racial patterns, changing perceptions of wage work for women, and the relationship between wage-earning and family roles. In the 20th Anniversary Edition of this landmark...
First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social...
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124,65 zł |
In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America
ISBN: 9780195158021 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this volume, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the transformation of some of the United States' most significant social policies. Tracing changing ideals of fairness from the 1920s to the 1970s, she shows how a deeply embedded set of beliefs, or "gendered imagination" shaped seemingly neutral social legislation to limit the freedom and equality of women. Law and custom generally sought to protect women from exploitation, and sometimes from employment itself; but at the same time, they assigned the most important benefits to wage work. Most policy makers (even female ones) assumed from the...
In this volume, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the transformation of some of the United States' most significant social policies. Tracing changing idea...
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87,64 zł |
Does Education Really Help?: Skill, Work, and Inequality
ISBN: 9780195189964 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book challenges the conventional wisdom that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages, that income inequality falls with wider access to schooling, and that the Information Technology revolution will re-ignite worker pay. Indeed, the econometric results provide no evidence that the growth of skills or educational attainment has any statistically significant relation to earnings growth or that greater equality in schooling has led to a decline in income inequality. Results also indicate that computer investment is negatively related to earnings gains and positively...
This book challenges the conventional wisdom that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages, that income inequality falls with wid...
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361,47 zł |
Globalization and Labor Conditions: Working Conditions and Worker Rights in a Global Economy
ISBN: 9780195306002 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book explains how three major mechanisms of globalization international trade, international migration, and the activities of multinational companies have altered working conditions and labor rights around the world during the late 20th century. Drawing on analyses of a database on international labor conditions assembled for this project and a growing research literature on globalization and labor conditions, the book finds that trade, migration, and multinational companies are associated with improvements in world labor conditions.
This book explains how three major mechanisms of globalization international trade, international migration, and the activities of multinational compa...
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356,54 zł |
Dictatorship, Workers, and the City: Labour in Greater Barcelona Since 1939
ISBN: 9780198227403 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This study of the Spanish Labor Movement in Barcelona from 1939 to 1988 explores working-class life and culture, labor relations, and politics during and after the authoritarian regime of Francisco Franco. Using the archives of Franco's secret police, Balfour here presents a unique look into the modus operandi of the dictatorship and its effects on the working class experience.
This study of the Spanish Labor Movement in Barcelona from 1939 to 1988 explores working-class life and culture, labor relations, and politics during ...
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709,24 zł |
European Human Rights Convention in Domestic Law: A Comparative Study
ISBN: 9780198255253 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This is the first investigation of the legal status of the European Human Eights Convention and its influence and authority in domestic courts of all state party to the Convention. Drzemczerski approaches the problem from the standpoint of comparative law, using materials previously unavailable in this continuing debate.
This is the first investigation of the legal status of the European Human Eights Convention and its influence and authority in domestic courts of all ...
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267,74 zł |
Masculinity and the British Organization Man Since 1945
ISBN: 9780198256939 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The post-war period is often regarded as a time when Britain underwent its managerial revolution, the family firm and the "gentleman amateur" giving way to the large bureaucracy and the trained management expert. Yet the conception of modern management as an objective process could hardly be further from the truth. Drawing on detailed life-history interviews with the post-war generation of "organization men," this study argues that despite the rise of professional management, relations between managers continue to function in highly subjective ways. An "emotional economy" flourishes among men...
The post-war period is often regarded as a time when Britain underwent its managerial revolution, the family firm and the "gentleman amateur" giving w...
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450,26 zł |
Constructing Capitalisms: Transforming Business Systems in Central and Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9780198272557 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Bargaining Power examines the balance of power between management and unions, showing why some managementsand some trade unionsare more powerful than others. Bargaining power has long been recognized as central to industrial relations, but no previous work has taken the issue as its central focus.
Using both sociological and economic evidence, the author shows how managements and unions approach negotiations and how they use power to achieve their bargaining objectives. In turn he analyses different perspectives on power, negotiations, the industrial relations context, and human... Bargaining Power examines the balance of power between management and unions, showing why some managementsand some trade unionsare more power...
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696,91 zł |