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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “felix behling”
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  • Welfare Beyond the Welfare State

    The Employment Relationship in Britain and Germany

    by Felix Behling ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines employee welfare in British and German companies from the 19th century through to the present day. Tracing the history of employee welfare, this comparative study reveals new issues beyond the dominant focus on the welfare state, showing that companies are an integral part of welfare systems with surprisingly few differences between the UK and Germany. Maintaining that employee ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Changing Worlds and Workplaces of Capitalism

    Edited by Felix Behling, Eoin Flaherty, Seán Ó Riain, Rossella Ciccia ...
    Series series International Political Economy Series
    The contributors investigate how the large scale structures of capitalism and the local social relations of workplaces and organizations shape each other. They argue for a new integration of political economy and the sociology of work and organizations. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

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  • The Precariat

    The New Dangerous Class

    by Prof. Guy Standing ...
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  • Urban Flow

    Bike Messengers and the City

    by Jeffrey L. Kidder ...
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  • James Connolly, A Full Life

    A Biography of Ireland's Renowned Trade Unionist and Leader of the 1916 Easter Rising

    by Donal Nevin ...
    'Hasn't it been a full life, Lillie, and isn't this a good end?', were James Connolly's last words to his wife in Dublin Castle in the early hours of 12 May 1916 just before his execution for his part in leading the Easter Rising. James Connolly, the son of Irish immigrants, was born in Edinburgh. The first fourteen years of his life were spent in Edinburgh and the next seven years in the King's ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Energy

    Edited by Klaus D. John, Dirk Rübbelke ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
    Rising fuel prices during recent years and the threat of global warming have reinforced public and scientific interest in the issue of sustainable energy, with the term sustainability understood as having economic, environmental and social dimensions.Renewable energy is seen as an effective means to address several problems simultaneously, including climate change, exploitation of non-renewable ... Read more

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  • The Thought of Work

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  • China-ASEAN Environment Outlook 1 (CAEO-1)

    Towards Green Development

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the status and progress of China-ASEAN green development and examines the common development issues in China and ASEAN Member States (AMSs). It also explores development trends within the framework of global and regional environmental governance and discusses the approaches towards green development in China and AMSs, offering its own definition of ... Read more

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