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“andrew beath”

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  • International Migration and Development in East Asia and the Pacific

    by Ahmad Ahsan, Manolo Abella, Andrew Beath, Yukon Huang, Manjula Luthria, Trang Van Nguyen ...
    The East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region has an international emigrant population of more than 21 million people who remitted US$112 billion to their home countries in 2013. The region also hosts more than 7 million migrant workers, mostly from other Asian countries. These migrant workers account for 20 percent or more of the labor force in economies such as Malaysia and Singapore and thus play a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Employee Rights & Employer Wrongs - Canada

    How to Identify Employee Abuse and Stand Up For Yourself

    by Suzanne Kleinberg ...
    THE BOOK YOUR BOSS AND HR DEPARTMENT DON’T WANT YOU TO READChances are you don’t understand the majority of the terminology in your employment contract. So how would you know when your boss is overstepping their rights – or what to do about it?With 49% of North American employees affected by workplace bullying, Employee Rights and Employer Wrongs, the preeminent new book from renowned career coach ... Read more

    $7.36 USD

  • Out of Poverty

    Sweatshops in the Global Economy

    by Benjamin Powell ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
    This book provides a comprehensive defense of third-world sweatshops. It explains how these sweatshops provide the best available opportunity to workers and how they play an important role in the process of development that eventually leads to better wages and working conditions. Using economic theory, the author argues that much of what the anti-sweatshop movement has agitated for would actually ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Offshoring of American Jobs

    What Response from U.S. Economic Policy?

    by Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Alan S. Blinder ...
    Series series Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy at Harvard University
    Two leading economists discuss a range of issues relating to the “offshoring” of American jobs, from free trade to unemployment levels.It is no surprise that many fearful American workers see the call center operator in Bangalore or the factory worker in Guangzhou as a threat to their jobs. The emergence of China and India (along with other, smaller developing countries) as economic powers has ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Good Temp

    by Vicki Smith, Esther B. Neuwirth ...
    Temporary agencies place approximately two and a half million people in jobs each day in the United States. Every year, about twelve million people use these placement agencies to find temporary work. Many Americans, even those who desire permanent jobs, decide to enter the labor market through the portal of temporary agencies. Compared with the post-World War II era, when it was a marginal labor ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Only in Australia

    The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism

    Edited by William Coleman ...
    This edited volume is about the Australian difference and how Australia's economic and social policy has diverged from the approach of other countries. Australia seems to be following a 'special path' of its own that it laid down more than a century ago. Australia's distinctive bent is manifested in a tightly regulated labour market; a heavy reliance on means testing and income taxation; a ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Knowledge, Scale and Transactions in the Theory of the Firm

    by Mario Morroni ...
    Firms in market economies vary enormously in size, nature and competitiveness. In this important contribution to the literature on the theory of the firm, Mario Morroni provides a fresh analytical framework which improves our understanding of the causes of this diversity in organisational design and performance. The relations between internal and external basic conditions, decision-making ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Employing Bureaucracy

    Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in the 20th Century, Revised Edition

    by Sanford M. Jacoby ...
    Series series Organization and Management Series
    Deftly blending social and business history with economic analysis, Employing Bureaucracy shows how the American workplace shifted from a market-oriented system to a bureaucratic one over the course of the 20th century. Jacoby explains how an unstable, haphazard employment relationship evolved into one that was more enduring, equitable, and career-oriented. This revised edition presents a new ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Anthropology of Elites

    Power, Culture, and the Complexities of Distinction

    Edited by J. Abbink, T. Salverda ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Offering insightful anthropological-historical contributions to the understanding of elites worldwide, this book helps us grasp their ways of life and role in times of contested global inequalities. Case studies include the Polish gentry, the white former colonial elite of Mauritius, professional elites, and transnational (financial) elites. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Working Time and Employment (Routledge Revivals)

    by Bob Hart ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1987, this Routledge Revival reissues the first systematic and integrated analysis of working time and employment, reaching to the core elements of a vital area of labour economics. It offers both a comprehensive analysis of the impact of workweek reductions on employment and hours as well as a thorough coverage of part-time employment, temporary lay-offs, short-time working, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Profit-sharing and Industrial Co-partnership in British Industry, 1880-1920

    Class Conflict or Class Collaboration?

    by Jihang Park ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Employee Ownership and Economic Democracy
    In this title, first published in 1987, the author discusses the economic and industrial circumstances in Britain under which profit-sharing and co-partnership came into being. He explores the merits and drawbacks of the system as both advocates and opponents saw them, the motivations of employers in introducing profit-sharing schemes, and the implementing of such notable schemes as that of Lever ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Private Equity in Poland

    Winning Leadership in Emerging Markets

    by D. Klonowski ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Private Equity in Poland focuses on the private equity industry and emerging markets in Poland. Poland represents the most developed private equity industry in Central and Eastern Europe and is one of the most developed emerging markets worldwide ... Read more

    $49.49 USD