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“peter ranis”

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  • Cooperatives Confront Capitalism

    Challenging the Neoliberal Economy

    by Peter Ranis ...
    Cooperatives the world over are successfully developing alternative models of decision-making, employment and operation without the existence of managers, executives and hierarchies.Through case studies spanning the US, Latin America and Europe, including valuable new work on the previously neglected cooperative movement in Cuba, Peter Ranis explores how cooperatives have evolved in response to ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

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  • The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History

    Third Edition

    by Craig Heron ...
    In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron tells the story of Canada's workers from the mid-nineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early twenty-first century.This new edition has been completely updated, including a substantial new ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Global "Body Shopping"

    An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry

    by Xiang Biao ...
    Series series In-Formation
    How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible labor management system--a flexibility widely regarded as the modus operandi of global capitalism today. Global "Body Shopping" explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are ... Read more

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  • Talking about Machines

    An Ethnography of a Modern Job

    by Julian E. Orr ...
    Series series Collection on Technology and Work
    This is a story of how work gets done. It is also a study of how field service technicians talk about their work and how that talk is instrumental in their success. In his innovative ethnography, Julian E. Orr studies the people who repair photocopiers and shares vignettes from their daily lives. He characterizes their work as a continuous highly skilled improvisation within a triangular ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Economics of Rising Inequalities

    Edited by Daniel Cohen, Thomas Piketty, Gilles Saint-Paul ...
    This book is an in-depth discussion of rising inequalities in the western world. It explores the extent to which rising inequalities are the mechanical consequence of changes in economic fundamentals (such as changes in technological or demographic parameters), and to what extent they are the contingent consequences of country-specific and time-specific changes in institutions. Both the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Chinese Business

    Rethinking Guanxi and Trust in Chinese Business Networks

    Edited by Chee-Kiong Tong ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The nature, institutional foundations, and issues surrounding the apparent success of Chinese business networks is examined in this book. Major concepts such as guanxi, xinyong and gangqing, exploring the nature of trust, relationships and sentiments in Chinese business networks, are re-examined. A significant amount of literature has been devoted to the study of Chinese business, and it largely ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows

    Effects on Trade, Remittances, Output, and the Labour Market

    Edited by Andrés Artal-Tur, Francisco Requena-Silvente, Giovanni Peri ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Though globalisation of the world economy is currently a powerful force, people’s international mobility appears to still be very limited. The goal of this book is to improve our knowledge of the true effects of migration flows. It includes contributions by prominent academic researchers analysing the socio-economic impact of migration in a variety of contexts: interconnection of people and trade ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Women's Work in East and West: The Dual Burden of Employment and Family Life

    The Dual Burden of Employment and Family Life

    by Norman Stockman, Norman Bonney, Xuewen Sheng ...
    Unmasking Administrative Evil discusses the overlooked relationship between evil and public affairs, as well as other fields and professions in public life. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Women In Business

    Navigating Career Success

    by V. Holton, F. Dent ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Much has been written about equal opportunity issues but little has been published about how organisations might provide more structure and support to ensure women's progress to the most senior business levels. This book looks at the career experiences of a group of women managers and consider what helps, and what still hinders their progress. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Globalisation, State and Labour

    Edited by Peter Fairbrother, Al Rainnie ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
    Globalisation, State and Labour combines a new theoretical approach with comparative analysis – ensuring that it will be of vital interest to anyone concerned with the globalization debate, the future of the state, and organized labour.It shows how although the world is undergoing enormous changes involving politics, the economy and society, the position and place of the state, and the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Union Contributions to Labor Welfare Policy and Practice

    Past, Present and Future

    Edited by Paul A. Kurzman, R.Paul Maiden ...
    This book focuses on the contributions of organized labor in the development and evolution of workplace human services in America and eight countries around the world. Beginning with an overview of labor-sponsored social service programs, it showcases the achievements by major trade unions in the arena of human services, from inception to present.The textbook concludes with a summary chapter which ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Applied Economics of Labour

    Edited by Mark Taylor ...
    This book provides an introduction and overview to seven applied financial studies on the theme of labour. The studies cover a wide range of topics, from the individual effects of becoming disabled on key aspects of labour market outcomes in Germany, to testing whether there is evidence of compression of morbidity using Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data and analysing the effects of this on ... Read more

    $42.99 USD