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“david weil”

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  • The Fissured Workplace

    by David Weil ...
    In the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, on the list of big business's priorities, sustaining the employer-worker relationship ranks far below building a devoted customer base and delivering value to investors. As David Weil's groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct employers of the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A Stitch in Time

    Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing--Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries

    by Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond, David Weil ...
    The apparel and textile industries have always been at the mercy of rapidly changing styles and fickle customers who want the latest designs while they are still in fashion. The result for these businesses, often forced to forecast sales and order from suppliers with scant information about volatile demand, is a history of stock shortages, high inventories, and costly markdowns. But, as the ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better

    Lessons from the Harvard Home Builder Study

    by Frederick Abernathy, Kermit Baker, Kent Colton, David Weil ...
    Bigger Isn’t Necessarily Better examines the performance and operation of the US homebuilding sector based on a detailed survey of large home builders conducted by the authors in the period of the great building boom of the 2000s. In contrast to the many books that have focused on the financial side of the housing sector prior to the Great Recession, the book examines the operational side of the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Fissured Workplace

    Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It

    by David Weil ...
    For much of the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, as David Weil’s groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct employers of the people responsible for their products, in favor of outsourcing work to small companies that compete fiercely with one another. The result has been declining wages, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • The Inside Counsel Revolution

    Resolving the Partner-Guardian Tension

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