Labor category: 1449 books
Unfinished Work
The Struggle to Build an Aging American Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
The era of the aging worker is here. The forces driving the first decades of the 21st century -- globalization, technology, societal aging, and jarring economic instability -- have made later retirement a necessity for many, but those who choose to stay in the workforce are frustrated by a job market...
by Emanuela di Gropello, Prateek Tandon, Shahid Yusuf
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
This book assesses whether East Asian higher education is providing research and innovation for growth and delivering its graduates with the skills necessary for productivity in the labor market. It also seeks to determine how higher education systems could be improved in order to deliver these outcomes....
Civil Rights Unionism
Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO. These workers confronted a system of racial capitalism that consigned...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli aka Paul Kelly was a notorious gang leader in New York City beginning in the 1890s. The son of Italian immigrants he legally changed his name to Paul Kelly when he became involved in political and labor issues that concerned the Irish population of the city. Kelly propped...
Confronting Dystopia
The New Technological Revolution and the Future of Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
In Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income. Focusing on the economic and political implications of AI, digital connectivity, and robotics for both the Global North and the Global...
Unified We Are a Force
How Faith and Labor Can Overcome America’s Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The American dream of "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" is no longer possible, if it ever was. Most of us live paycheck-to-paycheck, and inequality has become one of the greatest problems facing our country. Working people and people of faith have the power to change this-but only...
Working Knowledge
Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Skilled workers of the early nineteenth century enjoyed a degree of professional independence because workplace knowledge and technical skill were their "property," or at least their attribute. In most sectors of today's economy, however, it is a foundational and widely accepted truth that...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Prostitution bears the unique title of being both the "world's oldest profession" and one of the least understood occupations. Unlike most of the crime and family literature, prostitution appears to have all the features of traditional markets: prices, supply and demand considerations, variety...
Labor Markets and Multinational Enterprises in Puerto Rico
Foreign Direct Investment Influences and Sustainable Growth
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
This book expresses the reasons to embark on a production management system and begin a journey to a better social and economic life in Puerto Rico. Among the population of Puerto Rico there is a simultaneous presence of a high rate of unemployment and a well-educated workforce. How has this happened?...
Retiring Men
Manhood, Labor, and Growing Old in America, 1900-1960
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
As life spans expanded dramatically in the United States after 1900, and employers increasingly demanded the speed and stamina of youth in the workplace, men struggled to sustain identities as workers, breadwinners, and patriarchs—the core ideals of twentieth-century masculinity. Longer life threatened...
by World Bank World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Jobs provide higher earnings and better benefits as countries grow, but they are also a driver of development. Poverty falls as people work their way out of hardship and as jobs empowering women lead to greater investments in children. Efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do, as...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
South Asia has created nearly 800,000 jobs per month during the last decade. Robust economic growth in large parts of the region has created better jobs -- those that pay higher wages for wage workers and reduce poverty for the self-employed, the largest segment of the region’s employed. Going forward,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Over the past decade, a growing body of academic literature on the economics of road cycling has been amassed. This book is the first volume to bring together a majority of the academic research and knowledge on the economics and management of professional road cycling. Each chapter treats a particular...
The Economics of the National Football League
The State of the Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2011
This book lays down a marker as to the state of economists’ understanding of the National Football League (NFL) by assembling sophisticated, critical surveys of by leading sports economists on major topics associated with the league. The book is divided into four parts. The first three chapters...