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  • Playing Against the House

    The Dramatic World of an Undercover Union Organizer

    by James D. Walsh ...
    In the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich’s classic Nickel and Dimed, a talented young journalist goes undercover as a casino labor-union organizer in this rare inside look at the ongoing struggle of hourly-wage service workers to survive in America.“Salting” is a simple concept—get hired at a non-union company, do the job you were hired to do, and, with the help of organizers on the outside, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Nickel and Dimed

    On (Not) Getting By in America

    by Barbara Ehrenreich ...
    The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of EvictedMillions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Raw Deal

    How the "Uber Economy" and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers

    by Steven Hill ...
    "What's going to happen to my job?"That's what an increasing number of anxious Americans are asking themselves.The US workforce, which has been one of the most productive and wealthiest in the world, is undergoing an alarming transformation. Increasing numbers of workers find themselves on shaky ground, turned into freelancers, temps and contractors. Even many full-time and professional jobs are ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Economy of Ireland

    National and Sectoral Policy Issues

    Edited by John W. O'Hagan, Carol Newman ...
    An essential book for students of economics as well as economists and policymakers. The twelfth edition of this enduring and popular book surveys all major changes in the Irish economy in the past fifteen years, with particular emphasis on the last five years. In this new edition, the authors examine: - The broad historical context to a study of the Irish economy. - Ireland's hard landing, ... Read more

    $29.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bullying At Work

    How to Confront and Overcome It

    by Andrea Adams ...
    Through personal accounts and revelations, this book explores bullying at work and offers solutions to help overcome this stressful, often isolating experience facing many women and men. Based on three years of research, Andrea Adams plots the destructive forces currently eroding the professional lives of many people. By tracing the psychological origins of bullying at work this book investigates ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Offshoring of American Jobs

    What Response from U.S. Economic Policy?

    by Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Alan S. Blinder ...
    Series series Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy at Harvard University
    Two leading economists discuss a range of issues relating to the “offshoring” of American jobs, from free trade to unemployment levels.It is no surprise that many fearful American workers see the call center operator in Bangalore or the factory worker in Guangzhou as a threat to their jobs. The emergence of China and India (along with other, smaller developing countries) as economic powers has ... Read more

    $15.99 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

  • Economics and Demography (Routledge Revivals)

    by Ian Bowen ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1976, Economics and Demography discusses how the world population doubled in the thirty years prior to its publication, and considers the economic implications of this demographic transformation.Professor Bowen, with many years’ experience of research into the economic and statistical aspects of population and world development, provides a survey of the population of the world, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Immigration Economics

    by George J. Borjas ...
    Millions of people—nearly 3 percent of the world’s population—no longer live in the country where they were born. Every day, migrants enter not only the United States but also developed countries without much of a history of immigration. Some of these nations have switched in a short span of time from being the source of immigrants to being a destination for them. International migration is today ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Gompers in Canada

    A Study in American Continentalism Before the First World War

    by Robert Babcock ...
    Series series Heritage
    Samuel Gompers, the charismatic chief of the American Federation of Labor at the turn of the century, claimed to represent the interests of all workers in North America, but it was not until American corporations began to export jobs to Canada via branch plants that he became concerned with representing Canadian workers. Within a very short time the Canadian labour movement was rationalized into a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Toronto Typographical Union, 1832-1972

    A Case Study of Foreign Domination

    by Sally Zerker ...
    Series series Heritage
    A meeting of twenty-four journeymen printers at the York Hotel in Toronto in 1832 marked the birth of Canada’s earliest and still continuing labour organization. This case study of the printers of Toronto traces the development of the union which began as the Toronto Typographical Society. Through a close examination of this Canadian local’s relations with its eventual parent organization in the ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • Global America

    Understanding Global and Economic Trends and How To Ensure Competitiveness

    by John Manzella ...
    John Manzella, recognized author, speaker and global business consultant, shares his inside perspective on the complex challenges that face America in the domestic and global arena. Get a glimpse of which events cause powerful chain reactions and how they will ultimately impact and shape our future, including new destructive technologies, the rise of China, worsening skills deficit, economic ... Read more

    $0.99 USD