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  • Reflections in Rhyme

    Capturing the Rhythms of Life

    Reflections in Rhyme: Capturing the Rhythms of Life is a heartfelt blend of memoir and poetry that chronicles one woman's journey through faith, family, love, loss, and resilience.Drawing from more than seven decades of lived experience, Frances V. Holton weaves personal stories with lyrical verse to celebrate heritage, spirituality, and the enduring power of God's grace.From childhood memories ... Read more

    $4.99 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

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    Series series Fabriks: Studies in the Working Class
    Workplace injuries are common avoidable and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts intervening only when necessary to maintain the system's legitimacy. Dr. Bob Barnetson sheds light on this faulty system highlighting the way in which employers create dangerous work environments yet ... Read more

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  • Fundamentals of Shiftwork Scheduling, 3rd Edition: Fixing Stupid

    Shiftwork, Fatigue and Safety, #2

    Series Book 2 - Shiftwork, Fatigue and Safety
    This book is for shiftwork schedulers and for teams involved in fatigue risk management systems (FRMS) for 24/7 operations. The book covers shift lengths from four to 24 hours, and numbers of crews from one to five. Shift plan examples include 4-, 6-, 8- 12- and 24-hour shift lengths, split-crew plans, a plan for part-time workers, and eight-plus-twelve-hour shift length combination plans. The ... Read more

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  • Masculinities in Transition

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data which compares men as they move across and between public and domestic spaces, it explores the implications of this for the nature of contemporary masculinity. ... Read more

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  • Inventing Equal Opportunity

    by Frank Dobbin ...
    Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts--were the ones who determined what equal opportunity meant in practice, designing changes in how employers hire, promote, and fire workers, and ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • The History of Work

    by R. Donkin ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This sweeping survey of the history of work, from hunter-gatherers to dotcom telecommuters, deftly compresses thousands of years of human evolution into an incisive volume It is a book about work, about the organization and management of work, but it is also a book about people. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Migrants, Work and Social Integration

    Women’s Labour in the Turkish Ethnic Economy

    by S. Dedeoglu ...
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    Exploring recent contemporary debates on gender and migration, this book scrutinizes the relationship between women's work in ethnic economies and social integration, arguing that women in Britain zigzag their way to social integration. ... Read more

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  • Playing Against the House

    The Dramatic World of an Undercover Union Organizer

    In the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich’s classic Nickel and Dimed, a talented young journalist goes undercover as a casino labor-union organizer in this rare inside look at the ongoing struggle of hourly-wage service workers to survive in America.“Salting” is a simple concept—get hired at a non-union company, do the job you were hired to do, and, with the help of organizers on the outside, ... Read more

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  • Networks, Work, and Inequality

    Edited by Steve McDonald ...
    Series Book 24 - Research in the Sociology of Work
    The importance of social relationships at work has long been recognized in the social sciences. Interest in this topic has been renewed through scholarly and popular discussions of social capital as well as recent innovations in network data collection and analysis. These developments have allowed researchers to ask a variety of new questions about the role of networks in the world of work and a ... Read more

    $159.09 USD

  • Contesting the Corporation

    Struggle, Power and Resistance in Organizations

    In an age when large corporations dominate the economic and political landscape, it is tempting to think that their power goes largely unchecked. Originally published in 2007, Contesting the Corporation counters this view by showing that today's corporations are driven by political struggle, power plays and attempts to resist control. Building on a wide range of theoretical sources, Fleming and ... Read more

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  • Advancing Workplace Mediation Through Integration of Theory and Practice

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book compares the unique features of workplace mediation to other contexts of mediation, as well as the specific competences each situation requires of the mediator. It covers many important issues related to workplace mediation and discusses interventions by managers, such as conflict coaching and informal mediation. It proposes a new model to assess the effectiveness of mediation, and ... Read more

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