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  • Time, Work and Organization

    by Paul Blyton, John Hassard, Stephen Hill, Ken Starkey ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Human Resource Management
    In this book, first published in 1989, the authors have sought to highlight some of the major themes in the study of time and work within separate but related fields of study. A number of common starting points and issues are examined, alongside the various conclusions which different researchers have drawn together. Working together, the four authors have enriched their individual understanding ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • Playing It Safe

    Crazy Stories from the World of Britain's Health and Safety Regulations

    by Alan Pearce ...
    'Very entertaining.' Jeffrey Podger, chief executive Health & Safety Executive Imagine a world where you wellington boots come with a 24-page instruction manual, or council carers who are prohibited from making tea for OAPs in case they scald themselves on the job. Welcome to Britain in the 21st century, where the Jobsworth now lords it large, issuing edicts of mind-boggling stupidity that ruin ... Read more

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  • Retirement on the Line

    Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory

    by Caitrin Lynch ...
    In an era when people live longer and want (or need) to work past the traditional retirement age, the Vita Needle Company of Needham, Massachusetts, provides inspiration and important lessons about the value of older workers. Vita Needle is a family-owned factory that was founded in 1932 and makes needles, stainless steel tubing and pipes, and custom fabricated parts. As part of its unusual ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • China on Strike

    Narratives of Workers' Resistance

    Edited by Zhongjin Li, Eli Friedman, Hao Ren ...
    China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary, and most underreported labor struggles of our time. China on Strike, the first English-language book of its kind, provides an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers organizing in some of China’s most profitable factories, which supply Apple, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Reviving the Strike

    How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America

    by Joe Burns ...
    If the American labor movement is to rise again, it will not be as a result of electing Democrats, the passage of legislation, or improved methods of union organizing. Rather, workers will need to rediscover the power of the strike. Not the ineffectual strike of today, where employees meekly sit on picket lines waiting for scabs to take their jobs, but the type of strike capable of grinding ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies

    Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age

    by Jacqueline Mazza ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book demonstrates how rethinking and adapting basic employment services into labor intermediation services can help address the many labor market disconnections of developing country economies. It addresses how scarce resources required to escape poverty – good jobs, schools, and training - more often go to the privileged and well-connected than to those who need them most. With jobs now at ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Industrial Societies (Routledge Revivals)

    Crisis and Division in Western Capatalism

    by Richard Scase ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book, first published in 1989, addresses an issue that stood at the centre of sociological concern – the changing character of industrial societies.The authors examine the nature of the industrialization process, in terms of its impact upon and development within both state socialist and capitalist societies. Is ‘industrialism’ a constant phenomenon within both kinds of society, or are ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Transition from Capitalism

    Marxist Perspectives

    Edited by Saeed Rahnema ...
    Through a series of conversations with prominent theorists and leading political activists in different parts of the world, this book explores the causes of the setbacks of both the reformist and revolutionary strategies of the socialist Left. Addressing the larger questions around the agenda(s) of socialism in the era of globalization, the interviewees believe that capitalism is not sustainable ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Building Capitalism (Routledge Revivals)

    Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of Built Environment

    by Linda Clarke ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1992, this Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a truly original exploration of the nature of urbanization and capitalism.Linda Clarke’s vital work argues that:Urbanization is a product of the social human labour engaged in building as well as a concentration of the labour force.The quality of the labour process determines the development of production.Changes to the built ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Fiat

    The Secrets of an Epoch

    by Giorgio Garuzzo ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book is an authentic historical document, supported by extensive analytical information, in which former Fiat top manager Giorgio Garuzzo passionately recounts his experience within Fiat between 1976 and 1996. It is a narrative from the inside that sheds new light on events that have remained cloaked in mystery: the arrival and departure of Carlo De Benedetti, the “march of the forty thousand ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Neo-Liberalism and Austerity

    The Moral Economies of Young People’s Health and Well-being

    Edited by Peter Kelly, Jo Pike ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This collection examines the relationships between a globalising neoliberal capitalism, a post-GFC environment of recession and austerity, and the moral economies of young people’s health and well-being. Contributors explore how in the second decade of the 21st century, many young people in the OECD/EU economies and in the developing economies of Asia, Africa and Central and South America continue ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Politics of Value

    Three Movements to Change How We Think about the Economy

    by Jane L. Collins ...
    The Great Recession not only shook Americans’ economic faith but also prompted powerful critiques of economic institutions. This timely book explores three movements that gathered force after 2008: the rise of the benefit corporation, which requires social responsibility and eschews share price as the best metric for success; the emergence of a new group, Slow Money, that fosters peer-to-peer ... Read more

    $20.19 USD