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  • Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America

    by Guillermo Cruces, Gary S. Fields, David Jaume, Mariana Viollaz ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in Latin America in the 2000s. Our analysis answers the following ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

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  • Hard Time

    Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada

    by Ted McCoy ...
    Prisons have always existed in a climate of crisis. The penitentiary emerged in the early decades of the nineteenth century as an enlightened alternative to brute punishment, one that would focus on rehabilitation and the inculcation of mainstream social values. Central to this goal was physical labour. The penitentiary was constructed according to a plan that would harness the energies of the ... Read more

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  • The Dynamics of Conflict

    A Guide to Engagement and Intervention

    by Bernard S. Mayer ...
    The Dynamics of ConflictWhen it was published in 2000, Bernie Mayer’s The Dynamics of Conflict Resolution quickly became one of the seminal works in the conflict resolution field. The book bridged the gap between abstract theoretical approaches and practical handbooks and became an immensely valuable and accessible resource for experienced and novice practitioners, as well as for professors and ... Read more

    $55.00 USD

  • Chickenizing Farms and Food

    How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers

    by Ellen K. Silbergeld ...
    A frightening look at the meat industry’s cost to public health, worker safety, and the future of medicine—as well as the potential for agricultural reform.Over the past century, new farming methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures have radically transformed agriculture around the globe, often at the expense of human health. In Chickenizing Farms and Food, Ellen K. Silbergeld ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Immigration Economics

    by George J. Borjas ...
    Millions of people—nearly 3 percent of the world’s population—no longer live in the country where they were born. Every day, migrants enter not only the United States but also developed countries without much of a history of immigration. Some of these nations have switched in a short span of time from being the source of immigrants to being a destination for them. International migration is today ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • After Civil Rights

    Racial Realism in the New American Workplace

    by John D. Skrentny ...
    A provocative new approach to race in the workplaceWhat role should racial difference play in the American workplace? As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this question, and the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964 seemingly answered it: race must not be a factor in workplace decisions. In After Civil Rights, John Skrentny contends that after decades of mass immigration, many ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Triple Murder In The Blue Hour Saloon Al Capone and Union Racketeering

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Al Capone moved into union racketeering in 1920s, one of many Mafia bosses who did so. Three Capone surrogates were murdered in cold blood in the Blue Hour Saloon on April 20, 1930. A single assassin was responsible for all three deaths. The murders represented a rupture in the peace agreement in the Chicago underworld of 1930. It was also a bonafide challenge to Capone's hegemony as boss of ... Read more

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  • Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health

    by Dawn R. Norris ...
    Our jobs are often a big part of our identities, and when we are fired, we can feel confused, hurt, and powerless—at sea in terms of who we are. Drawing on extensive, real-life interviews, Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health shines a light on the experiences of unemployed, middle-class professional men and women, showing how job loss can affect both identity and mental health.Sociologist Dawn R. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Language of Global Success

    How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations

    by Tsedal Neeley ...
    For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an in-depth look at a single organization—the high-tech giant Rakuten—in the five years following its English lingua franca mandate. Neeley’s behind ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • How to Hire, Train and Keep the Best employees for Your Small Business

    by Dianna Podmoroff ...
    Ask any manager today and they will say their biggest concern is the competition for talent, good employees. The business costs and impact of employee turnover can be grouped into four major categories: costs resulting from a person leaving, hiring costs, training costs, and lost productivity costs. The estimated cost to replace an employee is at least 150 percent of the person's base salary. As ... Read more

    $12.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Customers at Work

    New Perspectives on Interactive Service Work

    Edited by W. Dunkel, F. Kleemann ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Explores the ongoing transformation of service relationships, focusing on the incorporation of the customer's active contribution to virtually all aspects and stages of the production process. This volume illuminates social relations and interaction between customers and service providers as well as between the users of web-based services. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Precarious Work

    Edited by Arne L. Kalleberg, Steven P. Vallas ...
    Series Book 31 - Research in the Sociology of Work
    This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life.In the past quarter century, the nature of paid employment has undergone a dramatic change due to globalization, rapid ... Read more

    $45.99 USD