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  • Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies

    Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy

    by Gideon Kunda, Stephen R. Barley ...
    Over the last several decades, employers have increasingly replaced permanent employees with temporary workers and independent contractors to cut labor costs and enhance flexibility. Although commentators have focused largely on low-wage temporary work, the use of skilled contractors has also grown exponentially, especially in high-technology areas. Yet almost nothing is known about contracting or ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Engineering Culture

    Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation

    by Gideon Kunda ...
    Series series Labor And Social Change
    Engineering Culture is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book—which has been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew—has been revised to bring it up to date. In Engineering Culture, Gideon Kunda offers a critical analysis of an American company's well-known and widely emulated "corporate culture." Kunda ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

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    A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

    by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth Cukier ...
    A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the most dangerous New York City manholes before they explode? And how did Google searches predict the spread of the H1N1 flu outbreak?The key to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • World Class Manufacturing

    by Richard J. Schonberger ...
    In his best-selling book Japanese Manufacturing Techniques, Richard J. Schonberger revolutionized American manufacturing theory and, more important, practice. In that breakthrough book, he revealed that Japanese manufacturing excellence was not culturally bound. Offering the first demystified explanation of the simple techniques that fueled Japan's industrial success, he demonstrated how the same ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Capitalism

    A Structural Genocide

    by Garry Leech ...
    In the wake of the global financial crisis, and ongoing savage government cuts across the world, Garry Leech addresses a pressing and necessary topic: the nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality and structural violence.Drawing on a number of fascinating case studies from across the world - including the forced displacement of farmers in Mexico, farmer suicides ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Designing Reality

    How to Survive and Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution

    by Neil Gershenfeld, Alan Gershenfeld, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld ...
    That's the promise, and peril, of the third digital revolution, where anyone will be able to make (almost) anythingTwo digital revolutions -- computing and communication -- have radically transformed our economy and lives. A third digital revolution is here: fabrication. Today's 3D printers are only the start of a trend, accelerating exponentially, to turn data into objects: Neil Gershenfeld and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Talent Equation: Big Data Lessons for Navigating the Skills Gap and Building a Competitive Workforce

    by Matt Ferguson, Lorin M. Hitt, Prasanna Tambe ...
    "Companies that can unleash the passions and gifts of their people will have a competitive advantage in the landscape of the future--becoming curators instead of keepers of talent. This book gives readers some of the keys to cracking that code."--CARLEEN HAAS, VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF TALENT OFFICER, HUMANAIS YOUR HR DEPARTMENT PREPARED TO FLIP THE BIG DATA SWITCH?At every stage of the employee ... Read more

    $20.79 USD

  • Clothing for Children and Teenagers

    Anthropometry, Sizing and Fit

    by Norsaadah Zakaria ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles
    Clothing for Children and Teenagers: Anthropometry, Sizing and Fit addresses the complexities of developing size specifications for clothing aimed at seven to seventeen year olds. Children and teenagers experience rapid physical growth and alterations in body shape as they develop—changes that pose significant challenges in creating apparel sizing systems. The book begins by introducing the ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • The History of Work

    by R. Donkin ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This sweeping survey of the history of work, from hunter-gatherers to dotcom telecommuters, deftly compresses thousands of years of human evolution into an incisive volume It is a book about work, about the organization and management of work, but it is also a book about people. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Research in Labor Economics

    by Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos ...
    Series Book 36 - Research in Labor Economics
    This volume contains eight new and innovative research articles relevant to researchers and policy makers. Each chapter deals with an aspect of human welfare and is authored by an expert in the field. One deals with how technological change affects the distribution of earnings, two deal with how workers advance through corporate hierarchy, four deal with how incentives motivate workers, and the ... Read more

    $159.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Skills and Training

    Edited by Chris Warhurst, Ken Mayhew, David Finegold, John Buchanan ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Skills and workforce development are at the heart of much research on work, employment, and management. But are they so important? To what extent can they make a difference for individuals, organizations, and nations? How are the supply and, more importantly, the utilization of skill, currently evolving? What are the key factors shaping skills trajectories of the future? This Handbook provides an ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Economics of Knowledge Generation and Distribution

    The Role of Interactions in the System Dynamics of Innovation and Growth

    Edited by Pier Paolo Patrucco ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    Contemporary capitalistic systems have been undergoing profound transformations determined by the transition towards the so-called knowledge based economy, i.e. a competitive system based on the capabilities firms have to create, use and circulate knowledge. These transformations concern both the characteristics of productive and innovative processes, and the resources used in these activities. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD