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Investment in Women's Human Capital
ISBN: 9780226740881 / Angielski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How are human capital investments allocated between women and men? What are the returns to investments in women's nutrition, health care, education, mobility, and training? In thirteen wide-ranging and innovative empirical analyses, "Investment in Women's Human Capital" explores the nature of human capital distributions to women and their effect on outcomes within the family.
Section I considers the experiences of high-income countries, examining the limitations of industrialization for the advancement of women; returns to secondary education for women; and state control of women's... How are human capital investments allocated between women and men? What are the returns to investments in women's nutrition, health care, education, m...
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213,78 zł |
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What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do: Black Professional Women Workers During the Jim Crow Era
ISBN: 9780226751207 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stephanie J. Shaw takes us into the inner world of American black professional women during the Jim Crow era. This is a story of struggle and empowerment, of the strength of a group of women who worked against daunting odds to improve the world for themselves and their people. Shaw's remarkable research into the lives of social workers, librarians, nurses, and teachers from the 1870s through the 1950s allows us to hear these women's voices for the first time. The women tell us, in their own words, about their families, their values, their expectations. We learn of the forces and factors that...
Stephanie J. Shaw takes us into the inner world of American black professional women during the Jim Crow era. This is a story of struggle and empowerm...
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197,75 zł |
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Perspectives on Work, Employment and Society in Japan
ISBN: 9780230002005 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents diverse perspectives on how work and employment are developing in a rapidly changing, contemporary Japan. Using macro- and micro-level data, the authors show both how the Japanese employment system is evolving as well as how the meanings that individual Japanese attach to their work and employment are developing.
This book presents diverse perspectives on how work and employment are developing in a rapidly changing, contemporary Japan. Using macro- and micro-le...
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537,24 zł |
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Gender Pay Differentials: Cross-National Evidence from Micro-Data
ISBN: 9780230004719 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pay inequalities between women and men are a key issue for labour market policy. This book provides new evidence on the magnitude and sources of these pay inequalities in European countries and New Zealand on the basis of micro data. Particular attention is devoted to job access and workplace practices, promotions and wage growth, sectoral affiliation and rent-sharing, and unobserved heterogeneity and dynamics.
Pay inequalities between women and men are a key issue for labour market policy. This book provides new evidence on the magnitude and sources of these...
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383,73 zł |
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Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers
ISBN: 9780231068024 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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588,64 zł |
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Labor and the State in Egypt: Workers, Unions, and Economic Restructuring
ISBN: 9780231106931 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Surveys the relationships of workers and trade unions to the state in Egypt, bringing to light the often overlooked effect of workers' collective actions in shaping public policy.
Surveys the relationships of workers and trade unions to the state in Egypt, bringing to light the often overlooked effect of workers' collective acti...
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171,02 zł |
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Work and the Workplace: A Resource for Innovative Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9780231111676 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than twenty years Sheila H. Akabas and Paul A. Kurzman have written extensively about workers and work organizations, and given leadership to the occupational social welfare movement worldwide. Recognized as leaders in their field, Akabas and Kurzman offer an invaluable and comprehensive look at the innovative ways in which management, labor organizations, government, and social workers can better respond to the needs of workers, their families, and communities. The authors consider the social, psychological, and economic conditions in the world of work; the domino impact of...
For more than twenty years Sheila H. Akabas and Paul A. Kurzman have written extensively about workers and work organizations, and given leadership to...
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226,98 zł |
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The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics
ISBN: 9780231130707 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1995, promising a more active political presence for unions, John Sweeney was elected president of the AFL-CIO. Labor would develop a "new voice," one that could not be ignored or taken for granted by Democratic and Republican politicians. However, by the summer of 2005 opposition to Sweeney's leadership threatened to divide the labor movement. In The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics, Peter L. Francia discusses the effects of Sweeney's controversial tenure as president and assesses labor's influence on American political elections and legislation. Drawing on...
In 1995, promising a more active political presence for unions, John Sweeney was elected president of the AFL-CIO. Labor would develop a "new voice," ...
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331,36 zł |
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The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 1: The Making of a Union Leader, 1850-86 Volume 1
ISBN: 9780252011375 / Angielski / Twarda / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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431,57 zł |
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The Many and Few: A Chronicle of the Dynamic Auto Workers
ISBN: 9780252011993 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,34 zł |
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Working for Democracy: American Workers from the Revolution to the Present
ISBN: 9780252012211 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by some of our nation's top social historians, Working for Democracy is the first book to examine the politics of American workers from the Revolution to the present in terms of broad struggles for power in society at large
Written by some of our nation's top social historians, Working for Democracy is the first book to examine the politics of American workers from the Re...
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86,27 zł |
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Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics
ISBN: 9780252012563 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,34 zł |
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Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During World War II
ISBN: 9780252013577 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,04 zł |
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The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 4: A National Labor Movement Takes Shape, 1895-98 Volume 4
ISBN: 9780252017681 / Angielski / Twarda / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fourth volume of the Samuel Gompers Papers begins just after the close of the AFL's 1894 Denver convention. Covering a significant four-year period in the history of the United States-from the depths of economic depression to the Spanish-American War- this volume of the Samuel Gompers Papers explores the AFL's continued growth as an institution, illuminates the fierce struggle for power that accompanied that growth, and documents Samuel Gompers' role as leader of the federation.
This fourth volume of the Samuel Gompers Papers begins just after the close of the AFL's 1894 Denver convention. Covering a significant four-year peri...
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431,57 zł |
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The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 7: The American Federation of Labor Under Siege, 1906-9 Volume 7
ISBN: 9780252023804 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking around him in 1906, Samuel Gompers saw a labor movement beset by opponents who, he said, represent neither conscience nor humanity, but rather greed and avarice. This installment in the multivolume documentary history of the nation's premier labor leader spotlights a pivotal period in the AFL's development.
Looking around him in 1906, Samuel Gompers saw a labor movement beset by opponents who, he said, represent neither conscience nor humanity, but rather...
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431,57 zł |
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The Politics of Minimum Wage
ISBN: 9780252025457 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tracing the history of the minimum wage and exposing its contradictions as a political issue. Citing overwhelming public support for the minimum wage as evidence of an enduring civic consciousness and humanitarianism, Waltman advocates recasting the discussion in terms of a political economy of citizenship.
Tracing the history of the minimum wage and exposing its contradictions as a political issue. Citing overwhelming public support for the minimum wage ...
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111,65 zł |
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Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism
ISBN: 9780252026607 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not all workers' needs were served by the union. Focusing on the steel works at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, a linchpin of the old Carnegie Steel Company empire and then of U.S. Steel, James D. Rose demonstrates the pivotal role played by a nonunion form of employee representation usually dismissed as a flimsy front for management interests. The early New Deal set in motion two versions of workplace representation that battled for supremacy: company-sponsored employee representation plans (ERPs) and independent trade unionism. At Duquesne, the cause of the unskilled, hourly workers, mostly eastern...
Not all workers' needs were served by the union. Focusing on the steel works at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, a linchpin of the old Carnegie Steel Company e...
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228,48 zł |
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The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol.9: Vol. 9: The American Federation of Labor at the Height of Progressivism, 1913-17 Volume 9
ISBN: 9780252027550 / Angielski / Twarda / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1913 and 1917, the American Federation of Labor launched a wide-ranging campaign to organize women workers, expanded the Labor Forward Movement to organize the unorganized, tested new methods of reaching unskilled workers, and welcomed new unions into the fold. In this ninth volume of documentary history of the nation's premier labor leader, we learn of Gompers' successful efforts to secure passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act and the La Follette Seamen's Act, which underscored his effectiveness as a labor lobbyist. His growing stature in Washington led to meetings with President...
Between 1913 and 1917, the American Federation of Labor launched a wide-ranging campaign to organize women workers, expanded the Labor Forward Movemen...
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431,57 zł |
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The Revival of Labor Liberalism
ISBN: 9780252032325 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Revival of Labor Liberalism is a careful analysis of the twentieth-century decline of unions and liberals and the important efforts to revive their political fortunes. The break in the labor-liberal coalition in the late 1960s paved the way for an ascendant Republican Party and linked business and conservative interests bent on revising earlier policies implemented by the New Deal and the Great Society. Divided by politics and new social movements in the late 1960s, unions and liberals united in several new political organizations between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s in order to rebuild...
The Revival of Labor Liberalism is a careful analysis of the twentieth-century decline of unions and liberals and the important efforts to revive thei...
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198,01 zł |
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The Shadow of Slavery Peonage in the South, 1901-1969
ISBN: 9780252061462 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Shadow of Slavery argues that peonage has been an important and continuing theme in the history of postbellum southern labor. Few historians have incorporated involuntary servitude into their works, while those who have are divided over the importance of the subject and how it fits into the broader themes of southern labor history.
The Shadow of Slavery argues that peonage has been an important and continuing theme in the history of postbellum southern labor. Few historians have ...
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142,12 zł |
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