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  • Working Time and Workers' Preferences in Industrialized Countries

    Finding the Balance

    by Jon C. Messenger ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    The gradual reduction in weekly working hours in the first half of the last century, which culminated in the widespread adoption of the 'standard' working week by the 1960s, was grounded in a concern for health and safety and for the preservation of time outside of paid labour.Over the last few decades, however, this progressive standardization of ... Read more

    $67.99 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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  • Revolutionizing Retail

    Workers, Political Action, and Social Change

    by K. Coulter ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    There is a modest but growing body of scholarly literature on experiences of retail work, with only a handful of studies existing on retail organizing. Before Revolutionizing Retail, no scholar had captured or analysed the breadth of political action being pursued in this crucial economic sector.This book was awarded the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies 2015 Book Prize. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Self Help, Inc.

    Makeover Culture in American Life

    by Micki McGee ...
    Why doesn't self-help help? Cultural critic Micki McGee puts forward this paradoxical question as she looks at a world where the market for self-improvement products--books, audiotapes, and extreme makeovers--is exploding, and there seems to be no end in sight. Rather than seeing narcissism at the root of the self-help craze, as others have contended, McGee shows a nation relying on self-help ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Enterprise Engineering

    Sustained Improvement of Organizations

    by Theo Janssen ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book provides a fundamental and practical introduction to Enterprise Engineering, demonstrating how to employ this approach to map the essence of an organization at the core level of internal cooperation. It then explains how, based on these insights, organizations can benefit from opportunities for improvement that would have otherwise gone unnoticed.Further, the book explains how to adapt ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Route to Be a Pilot

    by V.T. ...
    Are you dreaming of flying your own plane, becoming a professional pilot? Be it fighter jet, commercial planes or even helicopter? Well, this ebook can help you. It compiles tons of tips from REAL pilot all over the world, sharing what it truly takes to become a pilot. From training to getting that license and eventually landed yourself a pilot career. Read through this ebook, make notes and start ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • High Skill Migration and Recession

    Gendered Perspectives

    Edited by Anna Triandafyllidou, Irina Isaakyan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to this rule. This book explores the complex relationship between gender and high-skill migration, with a special focus on the impact of the current economic crisis on highly skilled women-migrants in Europe. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Working Poverty in Europe

    Edited by N. Fraser, R. Gutierrez, R. Pena-Casas ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Offering a comparative perspective, this book examines working poverty - those in work who are still classified as 'poor'. It argues that the growth in numbers of working poor in Europe is due to the transition from a Keynesian Welfare State to a 'post-fordist' model of production. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Gendering Israel's Outsourcing

    The Erasure of Employees' Caring Skills

    by Orly Benjamin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents an institutional ethnography of budgeting processes of commissioning contracts within welfare, education, and health ministries as case studies. With the historical surge in the power position of economic globalization organizations and their impact on public sectors’ withdrawal from the role of primary women’s employers, a gap between care worker employees and public sector ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Skillful Performance

    Enacting Capabilities, Knowledge, Competence, and Expertise in Organizations

    Edited by Linda Rouleau, Ann Langley, Haridimos Tsoukas, Jörgen Sandberg ...
    Series series Perspectives on Process Organization Studies
    One of the most intriguing questions since the time of Plato concerns what defines skillful performance in terms of specific capabilities, knowledge, competence, and expertise. As Frederick Taylor famously noted, an answer to that question would enable us to know what to focus on and what to do to improve the performance of individuals, groups, and organizations. Although we have come to know a ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Stratifying Trade Union

    The Case of Ethnic and Gender Inequality in Palestine, 1920-1948

    by Shaul A. Duke ...
    This book examines a basic assumption behind most of the critical, progressive thinking of our times: that trade unions are necessarily tools for solidarity and are integral to a more equal and just society. Shaul A. Duke assesses the trade union's potential to promote equality in ethnically and racially diverse societies by offering an in-depth look into how unions operate; how power flows ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Key Qualifications in Work and Education

    Edited by W.J. Nijhof, J.N. Streumer ...
    In today's rapidly changing world a constant renewal of knowledge and skills in every human endeavour can be observed. The characteristics of workers and the jobs that they perform have been attended by technological, social, and political change on a global scale. New forms of employment have made work more mobile to an extent never experienced before. An increasing proportion of workers no ... Read more

    $89.99 USD