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“jake rosenfeld”

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  • You’re Paid What You’re Worth

    And Other Myths of the Modern Economy

    by Jake Rosenfeld ...
    “This is the book to throw at your human resources director—not literally, of course—when any attempt is being made to bamboozle you about how decisions on pay have been made…It is a closely argued, thoroughly researched treatise on how we got here and how pay could be both fairer and more effective as a reward.”—Stefan Stern, Financial World“A flat-out revelation of a book by one of the nation’s ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • What Unions No Longer Do

    by Jake Rosenfeld ...
    From workers’ wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post–World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fraction now is close to one in ten, and just one in twenty in the private sector—the lowest in a century. The only thing big about Big Labor today is the scope of its problems. While many studies have ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

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    Nursing Reconsidered

    Edited by Sioban Nelson, Suzanne Gordon ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    "Nursing, everyone believes, is the caring profession. Texts on caring line the walls of nursing schools and student shelves. Indeed, the discipline of nursing is often known as the 'caring science.' Because of their caring reputation, nurses top the polls as the most-trustworthy professionals. Yet, in spite of what seems to be an endless outpouring of public support, in almost every country in ... Read more

    $18.99 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

  • The Robots are Coming

    A Human's Survival Guide to Profiting in the Age of Automation

    by John Pugliano ...
    A practical guide to surviving—and even thriving—in the new economy where nearly any job can be automated with artificial intelligence.Let's face it: robots are coming for your job. Regardless of your profession, degree or experience, there is no escaping the automated future. However, you can take steps today that will guarantee you not only survive, but thrive in this new economy.The Robots Are ... Read more

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  • Only in Australia

    The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism

    Edited by William Coleman ...
    This edited volume is about the Australian difference and how Australia's economic and social policy has diverged from the approach of other countries. Australia seems to be following a 'special path' of its own that it laid down more than a century ago. Australia's distinctive bent is manifested in a tightly regulated labour market; a heavy reliance on means testing and income taxation; a ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Decoding Modern Consumer Societies

    Edited by H. Berghoff, U. Spiekermann ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Drawing on a wide range of studies of Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa, the contributions gathered here consider how political history, business history, the history of science, cultural history, gender history, intellectual history, anthropology, and even environmental history can help us decode modern consumer societies. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • History of American Foreign Policy, Volume 2

    From 1895

    by Jerald A Combs ...
    First Published in 2017. Now thoroughly updated, this respected text provides a clear, concise, and affordable narrative and analytical history of American foreign policy from the revolutionary period to the present. This is Volume II and is from 1895. The historiographical essays at the end of each chapter have been revised to reflect the most recent scholarship. The History of American Foreign ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Learning from the Slums for the Development of Emerging Cities

    Edited by Jean-Claude Bolay, Yves Pedrazzini, Jérôme Chenal ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book deals with slums as a specific question and a central focus in urban planning. It radically reverses the official version of the history of world cities as narrated during decades: slums are not at the margin of the contemporary process of urbanization; they are an integral part of it. Taking slums as its central focus and regarding them as symptomatic of the ongoing transformations of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Rewarding People

    The Skill of Responding Positively

    by David Dickson, Christine Saunders, Maurice Stringer ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Human Resource Management
    People's behaviour can be rewarding to others through what they say or do: it may be no more than an appreciative smile, a sympathetic touch or a word of praise, but the impact can be highly significant. This book, first published in 1993, explores these social rewards and their relevance to the practice of people in the interpersonal professions.While much of its content is relevant to everyday ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Contested Learning in Welfare Work

    A Study of Mind, Political Economy, and the Labour Process

    by Peter H. Sawchuk ...
    Series series Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
    Drawing on the field of cultural historical psychology and the sociologies of skill and labour process, Contested Learning in Welfare Work offers a detailed account of the learning lives of state welfare workers in Canada as they cope, accommodate, resist and flounder in times of heightened austerity. Documented through in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis, Peter Sawchuk shows how the ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • The Sweat of Their Brow: A History of Work in Latin America

    A History of Work in Latin America

    by David McCreery ...
    Throughout Latin America's history the world of work has been linked to race, class, and gender within the larger framework of changing social, political, and economic circumstances both in the region and abroad. In this compelling narrative, David McCreery situates the work experience in Latin America's broader history. Rather than organizing the coverage by forms of work, he proceeds ... Read more

    $55.99 USD