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  • Africa's Informal Workers

    Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa

    by Gunilla Andrae, Björn Beckman, Alison Brown, Ebbe Prag, Ignasio Malizani Jimu, Michal Lyons, Owusu Boampong, Karen Tranberg Hansen, David Jordhus-Lier, Doctor Winnie Mitullah, Kate Meagher, Wilma Nchito, Suzanne Scheld ...
    Series series Africa Now
    Africa's Informal Workers is a vigorous examination of the informalization and casualization of work, which is changing livelihoods in Africa and beyond.Gathering cases from nine countries and cities across sub-Saharan Africa, and from a range of sectors, this volume goes beyond the usual focus on household 'coping strategies' and individual agency, addressing the growing number of collective ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • Progress Without People

    New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance

    by David F. Noble ...
    A provocative discussion of the role of technology and its accompanying rhetoric of limitless progress in the concomitant rise of joblessness and unemployment. ... Read more

    $13.69 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

  • Assessing Social Impact of Social Enterprises

    Does One Size Really Fit All?

    by Cecilia Grieco ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book explores the diversity of Social Impact Assessment (SIA) models and outlines a self-assessment on models to support social entrepreneurs. The chapters trace the concept and origins of social entrepreneurship and elicits current implementation of SIA models by social enterprises. The comprehensive review of over seventy five SIA models will be especially useful for social entrepreneurs ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Finding Time

    The Economics of Work-Life Conflict

    by Heather Boushey ...
    Employers today are demanding more and more of employees’ time. And from campaign barbecues to the blogosphere, workers across the United States are raising the same worried question: How can I get ahead at my job while making sure my family doesn’t fall behind?Heather Boushey argues that resolving work-life conflicts is as vital for individuals and families as it is essential for realizing the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Feminism, Gender and Universities

    Politics, Passion and Pedagogies

    by Miriam E. David ...
    Feminism, Gender and Universities demonstrates the positive and robust impacts that feminism has had on higher education, through the eyes and in the words of the participants in changing political and social processes. Drawing on the ’collective biography’ of leading feminist scholars from around the world and current evidence relating to gender equality in education, this book employs methods ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Thirty Years of Economic Policy

    Inspiration for Debate

    Edited by Charles Wyplosz ...
    Over the last 30 years, Economic Policy has strived to produce policy relevant and rigorous analyses of the economic challenges of the time. A number of articles have been highly influential, shaping thinking among academic economists and policymakers. This volume brings together key historic articles that still resonate today. It provides academics with important research markers, and also ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Enterprise as an Instrument of Civilization

    An Anthropological Approach to Business Administration

    Edited by Hirochika Nakamaki, Koichiro Hioki, Izumi Mitsui, Yoshiyuki Takeuchi ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    In this book, the functions and dynamics of enterprises are explained with the use of anthropological methods. The chapters are based on anthropological research that has continued mainly as an inter-university research project, which is named Keiei Jinruigaku, of the National Museum of Ethnology (Japan) since 1993. These studies have a twofold aim: to clarify that enterprises are not only actors ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Creating Conditions for Promising Collaboration

    Alliances, Networks, Chains, Strategic Partnerships

    by Edwin Kaats, Wilfrid Opheij ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This publication focuses on the conditions for promising collaboration. Collaboration is becoming a dominant instrument in today's economy and society and manifests itself in many shapes and forms. It is a challenging instrument which still isn't very well understood and poses the business community in front of a number of challenging dilemma's. We position collaboration as a multidisciplinary ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Derailed Organizational Interventions for Stress and Well-Being

    Confessions of Failure and Solutions for Success

    Edited by Maria Karanika-Murray, Caroline Biron ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Providing an overview of researchers' and practitioners’ “confessions” on the fascinating phenomenon of failed or derailed organizational health and well-being interventions and contextualizing these confessions is the aim of this innovative volume. Organizational intervention failures, paradoxes and unexpected consequences can offer a lot of rich and extremely useful practical lessons on ... Read more

    $98.09 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

  • Changing Forms of Employment

    Organizations, Skills and Gender

    Edited by Rosemary Crompton, Duncan Gallie, Kate Purcell ...
    During the last two decades there has been widespread evidence of change in specific aspects of employing organizations, employment and employment related institutions.Changing Forms of Employment looks at the underlying trends which generate pressures towards a fundamental reshaping of social institutions in three ways: changes in the organization of production, particularly those associated with ... Read more

    $33.99 USD