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  • Interviewing for the Selection of Staff

    by Edgar Anstey, Edith O. Mercer ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Human Resource Management
    This book, first published in 1956, is intended for those who interview people to assess their suitability for appointment or promotion to a particular position of employment. The authors discuss different methods of interviewing, how to create appropriate questions for the interview, and how to reach conclusions with the answers given. The authors also include a section which gives advice and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • The Refusal of Work

    The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work

    by David Frayne ...
    Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today's work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned to intermittent work and unemployment, is progressively more difficult to tolerate.In this thought ... Read more

    $23.99 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

    $30.99 USD

  • Global Unions, Local Power

    The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing

    by Jamie K. McCallum ...
    News about labor unions is usually pessimistic, focusing on declining membership and failed campaigns. But there are encouraging signs that the labor movement is evolving its strategies to benefit workers in rapidly changing global economic conditions. Global Unions, Local Power tells the story of the most successful and aggressive campaign ever waged by workers across national borders. It begins ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Tomorrow

    by Cyril Dion ...
    Translated by Lisa Davidson ...
    What if highlighting solutions and telling positive stories was the best way to solve the ecological, economic, and social problems our countries are grappling with? In 2012, Cyril Dion learned about a study carried out by twenty-two scientists from around the world that forecasts the extinction of multiple forms of life, and possibly a large part of humanity, by the year 2100. This news barely ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Integrating Varieties of Capitalism and Welfare State Research

    A Unified Typology of Capitalisms

    by Martin Schröder ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Esping-Andersen's welfare regime typology and Hall and Soskice's 'Varieties of Capitalism' typology, into a unified typology of capitalist diversity. The author shows empircally that certain welfare states bundle together with certain production systems. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Man for All Seasons

    The Life and Times of Ken Douglas

    by David Grant ...
    A major biography of Ken Douglas, the most powerful union leader in modern New Zealand history. Ken Douglas was raised in a hardworking, tough-talking, union-focussed Wellington family and got into union politics as a very young working man. Hard-nosed, pragmatic and never scared of a scrap, he rose through the ranks, got deeper into left-wing ideology and activity with his membership of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Death and Life of American Labor

    Toward a New Worker's Movement

    by Stanley Aronowitz ...
    The decline of the American union movement—and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of laborUnion membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he explains how this death ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Reviving the Strike

    How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America

    by Joe Burns ...
    If the American labor movement is to rise again, it will not be as a result of electing Democrats, the passage of legislation, or improved methods of union organizing. Rather, workers will need to rediscover the power of the strike. Not the ineffectual strike of today, where employees meekly sit on picket lines waiting for scabs to take their jobs, but the type of strike capable of grinding ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Labor Divided in the Postwar European Welfare State

    The Netherlands and the United Kingdom

    by Dennie Oude Nijhuis ...
    This book explains how the success of attempts to expand the boundaries of the postwar welfare state in The Netherlands and the United Kingdom depended on organized labor's willingness to support redistribution of risk and income among different groups of workers. By illuminating and explaining differences within and between labor union movements, it traces the historical origins of 'inclusive' ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Precarious Enterprise on the Margins

    Work, Poverty, and Homelessness in the City

    by Jessica Gerrard ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the contemporary conditions of marginal work within the context of persistent unemployment, poverty, and homelessness in wealthy nations. Drawing from research concerning three cities—Melbourne, San Francisco, and London—Jessica Gerrard offers a rich account of one of the most precarious informal forms of work: selling homeless street press (The Big Issue and Street Sheet). ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Management of Permanent Change

    Edited by Horst Albach, Heribert Meffert, Andreas Pinkwart, Ralf Reichwald ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    In the current times of more frequent crises and ever shortening innovation cycles, the management of change has become a crucial task of survival. While it is not a new topic in business research, the developments of the last decade have posed many new challenges for the change management of firms and organizations and have thus also raised many new questions for academic research in business ... Read more

    $49.99 USD