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  • Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder

    Creating Value by Investing in Your Workforce

    by Jody Heymann ...
    Most managers assume that surviving, especially in recessions, requires slashing wages, benefits, and other workforce expenses. And lowest-skilled workers are often viewed as the most expendable.In Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder, Jody Heymann overturns these assumptions. Drawing from thousands of interviews with employees from front line to C-suite at companies around the world, Heymann shows ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forgotten Families

    Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy

    by Jody Heymann ...
    In the last half-century, radical changes have rippled through the workplace and the home from Boston to Bombay. In the face of rapid globalization, these changes affect us all, and we can no longer confine ourselves to addressing working and social conditions within our own borders without simultaneously addressing them on a global scale. Based on over a thousand in-depth interviews and survey ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Widening Gap

    by Jody Heymann ...
    This hard-hitting book draws on the first systematic national research on how the need to meet family obligations is affecting working Americans of all social classes and ethnic groups. What happens when kids get sick? When an elderly parent is hospitalized? How do poor families cope with work-family demands? Jody Heymann's research points to a widening gap between working families and the health ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Healthier Societies

    From Analysis to Action

    Edited by Jody Heymann, Clyde Hertzman, Morris L. Barer, Robert G. Evans ...
    Extensive research has shown that social factors are as important as biological ones in determining health, and their impact is enormous in both adults and children. The challenge of changing public policies and programs remains. Healthier Societies: From Analysis to Action addresses the fundamental questions which will lead the way toward countries investing seriously in improving social ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Global Inequalities at Work

    Work's Impact on the Health of Individuals, Families, and Societies

    Edited by Jody Heymann ...
    A map of the relationship between work and health that is truly global--both geographically and in its coverage of the impact of work on the health of individuals, families, and societies, has not previously been drawn. Global Inequalities at Work is the first book to fill in the map. Drawing from studies done around the world, it critically examines the many ways in which work is affecting health ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Children's Chances

    by Jody Heymann ...
    Children’s Chances urges a shift from focusing on survival to targeting children’s full and healthy development. Drawing on comparative data on policies in 190 countries designed to combat poverty, discrimination, child labor, illiteracy, and child marriage, Heymann and McNeill tell what works to ensure equal opportunities for all children. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Disability and Equity at Work

    by Jody Heymann, Michael Ashley Stein, Gonzalo Moreno ...
    Despite international and national guarantees of equal rights, there remains a great deal to be done to achieve global employment equality for individuals with disabilities. In OECD countries, the employment rate of persons with disabilities was just over 40%, compared to 75% for persons without a disability; in many low- and middle-income countries, the employment rates are even lower. There are ... Read more

    $88.19 USD

  • Ensuring a Sustainable Future

    Making Progress on Environment and Equity

    Edited by Jody Heymann, Magda Barrera ...
    There is very little argument that the world is facing severe environmental challenges. Ongoing air and water pollution, increasing energy consumption, and the depletion of natural resources have all placed considerable stress on the capacity of our environment to support the present quality of human life in a sustainable manner. Ensuring a Sustainable Future does what few previous works have: it ... Read more

    $88.19 USD

  • Taking Parenting Public

    The Case for a New Social Movement

    by Enola G. Aird, Allan C. Carlson, David Elkind, S Jody Heymann, Wade F. Horn, Bernice Kanner, Raymond Seidelman, Theda Skocpol, Peter Winn0, Edward Wolff1, Ruth A. Wooden2, William A. Galston3, Juliet B. Schor4, Ruy Teixeira5, Cornel West6 ...
    Taking Parenting Public makes a compelling case that parenting has become dangerously undervalued in America today. It calls for a new investment-both personal and public-into the work of raising children and argues that we are all "stockholders" in the next generation. With a foreword by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West, Taking Parenting Public crosses boundaries to bring together thinkers from ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Making Equal Rights Real

    Taking Effective Action to Overcome Global Challenges

    Edited by Jody Heymann, Adele Cassola ...
    Making Equal Rights Real brings together leaders from around the world who have been working effectively to increase equal economic and social rights, ranging from rights in the workplace to property ownership and education. The contributors tell the detailed stories of effective approaches to implementing equal rights for racial and ethnic minorities in North America, women in Africa, children in ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Trade and Health

    Seeking Common Ground

    by Chantal Blouin, Jody Heymann, Nick Drager ...
    Seeking improved health and increased income have long been common goals. Those who make the case that free trade will help everyone argue that the growth from increased trade will be shared and will improve people's lives. But they have not answered the fundamental question of how to formulate trade policy to simultaneously achieve growth and benefit health. Trade and Health answers this question ... Read more

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    'The world has entered the urban millennium. Nearly half the world's people are now city dwellers, and the rapid increase in urban population is expected to continue, mainly in developing countries. This historic transition is being further propelled by the powerful forces of globalization. The central challenge for the international community is clear: to make both urbanization and globalization ... Read more

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