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“martha anker”

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  • Living Wages Around the World

    Manual for Measurement

    by Richard Anker, Martha Anker ...
    This manual describes a new methodology to measure a decent but basic standard of living in different countries and how much workers need to earn to afford this, making it possible for researchers to estimate comparable living wages around the world and determine gaps between living wages and prevailing wages, even in countries with limited secondary data. ... Read more

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    Human Capital and the Making of Millennials

    by Malcolm Harris ...
    In Kids These Days, early Wall Street occupier Malcolm Harris gets real about why the Millennial generation has been wrongly stereotyped, and dares us to confront and take charge of the consequences now that we are grown up.Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and immature. We've gotten so used to sloppy generational analysis filled with dumb clichés about young ... Read more

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  • The Science and Art of Branding

    by Giep Franzen, Sandra E. Moriarty ...
    This innovative work provides a state-of-the-art overview of current thinking about the development of brand strategy. Unlike other books on branding, it approaches successful brand strategy from both the producer and consumer perspectives. "The Science and Art of Branding" makes clear distinctions among the producer's intentions, external brand realities, and consumer's brand perceptions - and ... Read more

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  • Tomorrow

    by Cyril Dion ...
    Translated by Lisa Davidson ...
    What if highlighting solutions and telling positive stories was the best way to solve the ecological, economic, and social problems our countries are grappling with? In 2012, Cyril Dion learned about a study carried out by twenty-two scientists from around the world that forecasts the extinction of multiple forms of life, and possibly a large part of humanity, by the year 2100. This news barely ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Phone Clones

    Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy

    by Kiran Mirchandani ...
    Transnational customer service workers are an emerging touchstone of globalization given their location at the intersecting borders of identity, class, nation, and production. Unlike outsourced manufacturing jobs, call center work requires voice-to-voice conversation with distant customers; part of the product being exchanged in these interactions is a responsive, caring, connected self. In Phone ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Financial Inclusion of the Marginalised

    Street Vendors in the Urban Economy

    by Sharit K. Bhowmik, Debdulal Saha ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is the product of a study conducted by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Ministry of Urban Housing and Poverty Alleviation (MoHUPA). Its objective is to highlight some of the problems faced by street vendors in conducting their daily business and to examine how financial institutions, especially those in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Trade Unions and Workplace Training

    Issues and International Perspectives

    Edited by Richard Cooney, Mark Stuart ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Employment Relations
    Trade Unions and Workplace Training examines the changing role of trade unions in the provision of vocational education, workplace training and skill development. It reflects upon: the role that unions have played in the reform of vocational education and training systems; the nature of union involvement in consultative mechanisms at a national and industry level; the nature of union involvement ... Read more

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  • Gender Equality and Work-Life Balance

    Glass Handcuffs and Working Men in the U.S.

    by Sarah Blithe ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Employment Relations
    Pressure to achieve work-life "balance" has recently become a significant part of the cultural fabric of working life in United States. A very few privileged employees tout their ability to find balance between their careers and the rest of their lives, but most employees face considerable organizational and economic constraints which hamper their ability to maintain a reasonable "balance" between ... Read more

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  • Central and East European Migrants' Contributions to Social Protection

    by S. Maatsch ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In 2001 Germany and Austria became the last EU states to lift transnational controls restricting access to their labour markets for citizens of ex-communist countries. This book challenges anti-immigration discourses to show that given the high percentage of skilled immigrants, it is the sending rather than the receiving countries who lose out. ... Read more

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  • Social Democracy in Capitalist Society (Routledge Revivals)

    Working-Class Politics in Britain and Sweden

    by Richard Scase ...
    First published in 1977. This book considers the nature of industrial society, contemporary capitalism and the impact of political ideas on social structure. These ideas are discussed by reference to the impact of social democracy on the structure of capitalist society in a comparative analysis of Britain and Sweden — including an interview survey of industrial workers socio-political attitudes. ... Read more

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  • If We Can Win Here

    The New Front Lines of the Labor Movement

    by Fran Quigley ...
    Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement? Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs from backbreaking, low-wage work into careers that allowed workers to buy homes and send their kids to college. Some union activists insist that there is no reason why service-sector workers cannot follow that same path. In If We Can Win Here, Fran Quigley ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Expats and the Labor Force

    The Story of the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

    by G. Naufal, I. Genc ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    An investigation into the labor force in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries primarily focusing on labor migration and remittances. The GCC countries have the highest share of foreign labor in the world. The authors examine the multidimensional aspects of such a large foreign population. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD