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  • The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics

    Volume 2: Policies and Practices

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    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    A popular myth about the travails of Africa holds that the continent's long history of poor economic performance reflects the inability of its leaders and policymakers to fulfill the long list of preconditions to be met before sustained growth can be achieved. These conditions are said to vary from the necessary quantity and quality of physical and human capital to the appropriate institutions and ... Leer más

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  • The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History

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    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 ... Leer más

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  • Dangerously Sleepy

    Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness

    Workers in the United States are losing sleep. In the global economy a growing number of employees hold jobs—often more than one at once—with unpredictable hours. Even before the rise of the twenty-four-hour workplace, the relationship between sleep and industry was problematic: sleep is frequently cast as an enemy or a weakness, while constant productivity and flexibility are glorified at the ... Leer más

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  • Employment in the Lean Years:Policy and Prospects for the Next Decade

    Policy and Prospects for the Next Decade

    Edición de David Marsden ...
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  • Much More Than a Game

    Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921

    To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams--and those who play on them--our national pastime is much more than a game. In this book, Robert Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921. His comprehensive, readable account details the many battles between owners and players that irrevocably altered the business of baseball.During what ... Leer más

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  • Rediscovering Collective Bargaining

    Australia's Fair Work Act in International Perspective

    Edición de Breen Creighton, Anthony Forsyth ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
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  • Sports Agents and Labour Markets

    Evidence from World Football

    Series series Routledge Research in Sport Business and Management
    The sports agent has become a highly significant figure in contemporary sport business. The role of the agent is essential to our understanding of labour markets and labour relations in an increasingly globalised sports industry. Drawing on extensive empirical research into football around the world, this book explains what agents do, how their role has changed, and why this is important for ... Leer más

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  • The Death and Life of American Labor

    Toward a New Worker's Movement

    The decline of the American union movement—and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of laborUnion membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he explains how this death ... Leer más

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  • The Story of an African Working Class

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    de Jeff Crisp ...
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  • History of American Foreign Policy, Volume 2

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    First Published in 2017. Now thoroughly updated, this respected text provides a clear, concise, and affordable narrative and analytical history of American foreign policy from the revolutionary period to the present. This is Volume II and is from 1895. The historiographical essays at the end of each chapter have been revised to reflect the most recent scholarship. The History of American Foreign ... Leer más

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    Marschak, Sharpe, Black, Scholes and Merton

    de C. Read ...
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  • Pakistan

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    Recent writings on Pakistan have tended to focus on the role of the Pakistan Army, the nuclear programme, terrorism, Pak-Afghan and Pak-US relations and, of course, Indo-Pak relations. Pakistan: Courting the Abyss goes beyond sensationalist headlines and current crises like terrorism and tensions with India, to the deeper malaise that afflicts the nation. The book examines issues like identity, ... Leer más

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