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  • Honneth and Everyday Intercultural (Mis)Recognition

    Work, Marginalisation and Integration

    by Bona Anna ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book conducts a critical investigation into everyday intercultural recognition and misrecognition in the domain of paid work, utilising social philosopher Axel Honneth’s recognition theory as its theoretical foundation. In so doing, it also reveals the sophistication and productivity of Honneth's recognition model for multiculturalism scholarship.Honneth and Everyday Intercultural (Mis ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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  • Building China

    Informal Work and the New Precariat

    by Sarah Swider ...
    Roughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass migration of peasants moving into the cities, and construction workers account for almost half of them. In Building China, Sarah Swider draws on her research in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai between 2004 and 2012, including living in an enclave, working on construction jobsites, and interviews with eighty-three migrants, managers, ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Phone Clones

    Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy

    by Kiran Mirchandani ...
    Transnational customer service workers are an emerging touchstone of globalization given their location at the intersecting borders of identity, class, nation, and production. Unlike outsourced manufacturing jobs, call center work requires voice-to-voice conversation with distant customers; part of the product being exchanged in these interactions is a responsive, caring, connected self. In Phone ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Hidden Heads of Households

    Child Labor in Urban Northeast Brazil

    by Mary Lorena Kenny ...
    In the cities of Northeast Brazil where 50 per cent of the population lives in poverty, children play a key role in the local economy—in their households, in formal jobs, and in the thriving informal sector (washing cars, shining shoes, scavenging for recyclables, etc.). Why children migrate to the city, how they negotiate their existence, and why they stay are just some of the questions addressed ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Labour

    A Heterodox Approach

    by Jean Vercherand ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Labour: A Heterodox Approach provides a theoretical reconstruction of the labour and job market by examining it in a rich historical context. It explores the fundamental implications of the theories of consumption and growth and aims at solving the difficulties raised by the dominant economic theories (neoclassical, Keynesian, supply side) by taking into account the dimension of the historical ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Counterintelligence

    by Rodney Carlisle ...
    From references to secret agents in The Art of War in 400 B.C.E. to the Bush administration's ongoing War on Terrorism, espionage has always been an essential part of state security policies. This illustrated encyclopedia traces the fascinating stories of spies, intelligence, and counterintelligence throughout history, both internationally and in the United States. Written specifically for ... Read more

    $285.00 USD

  • The Korean Labour Market after the 1997 Economic Crisis

    Edited by Joonmo Cho, Richard B. Freeman, Jaeho Keum, Sunwoong Kim ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    For economists, policy-makers, and historians who want to learn how the Korean labor market dealt with the 1997 financial crisis and how this informed future policies, this volume provides a succinct summary of what Korean experts know and how they view the problems the country must overcome to continue on its road to the top rungs of economic success. The book is filled with institutional detail ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Industrial and Labor Economics

    Issues in Developing and Transition Countries

    by Saibal Kar, Debabrata Datta ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is an attempt to capture and analyze several idiosyncratic features of industry and labor in the developing world. Available books and graduate-level texts in labor economics largely discuss industrial and labor market situations prevalent in developed countries, where well-defined institutional arrangements and regulations create a very different scope of analysis. The patterns of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Prison Labor in the United States

    An Economic Analysis

    by Asatar Bair ...
    Series series New Political Economy
    This book is the only comprehensive analysis of contemporary prison labor in the United States. In it, the author makes the provocative claim that prison labor is best understood as a form of slavery, in which the labor-power of each inmate (though not their person) is owned by the Department of Corrections, and this enslavement is used to extract surplus labor from the inmates, for which no ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Informal Economy

    Seasonal Work, Street Selling and Sex Work

    by Dominique Boels ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book examines the nature and regulation of the informal economy by means of a collective case study in a highly regulated Western country. The book, situated at the intersection of criminology and sociology, investigates the relation between formal, informal and criminal work in three urban and rural labour markets (seasonal work, street trade and sex work) alongside the impact of state ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Border Cities Powerhouse: 1901-1945

    by Patrick Brode ...
    This is the first comprehensive history of the Border Cities area during its formative period in the first half of the 20th Century. The story of Windsor’s emergence during this period is largely one of confrontation and conflict: a multicultural population, industrial expansion, radical politics, and military production all played their part in the city's early history. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Advancing Workplace Mediation Through Integration of Theory and Practice

    Edited by Katalien Bollen, Martin Euwema, Lourdes Munduate ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book compares the unique features of workplace mediation to other contexts of mediation, as well as the specific competences each situation requires of the mediator. It covers many important issues related to workplace mediation and discusses interventions by managers, such as conflict coaching and informal mediation. It proposes a new model to assess the effectiveness of mediation, and ... Read more

    $116.09 USD