Labor category: 1449 books
Capital erótico
El poder de fascinar a los demás
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 26, 2012
El primer intento de definir y entender un tipo de capital humano que todos conocemos pero nadie había estudiado hasta ahora: el capital erótico.
¿Por qué hay gente que parece llevar vidas de ensueño? Son personas atractivas, pero también animadas, amigables y carismáticas. Los demás...
Learning to Labour
How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book which has now established itself as a classic study of working class boys describes how Paul Willis followed a group of 'lads' as they passed through the last two years of school and into work. The book explains that for 'the lads' it is their own culture which blocks teaching and prevents...
by José Enrique Suárez y Toriello
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Proceso de Cambio es un libro que describe la primer experiencia que tuve en el trabajo de desarrollo comunitario. Es un libro que se me ocurrió escribir hace 38 años y tuve la fortuna de guardarlo por lo que hoy tengo la oportunidad de reescribirlo. Verán en él y a través de él que aun y cuando...
Age Works
What Corporate America Must Do to Survive the Gray
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
In ten years, the massive baby-boom generation will begin to reach retirement age, but few companies have paid attention to the fact that there are not enough younger workers to replace them. The challenge to corporate America, as Beverly Goldberg argues in Age Works, is to reinvent the workplace...
Temp
How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
**Named a "Triumph" of 2018 by New York Times Book Critics
Shortlisted for the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award
The untold history of the surprising origins of the "gig economy" --how deliberate decisions made by consultants and CEOs in the 50s and 60s upended the stability...
Cómo ser una persona influyente
Manual para el comunicador total
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Una forma sencilla, amena y muy práctica de conocer los recursos que tenemos a nuestro alcance para lograr una buena gestión de la información, convencer, ser influyente y convertirse en un comunicador total.
Cómo ser una persona influyente es un libro...
Fast Food Nation
The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2001
New York Times Bestseller
“Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts . . . Fast Food Nation points the way but, to resurrect an old fast food slogan, the choice is yours.”—Los Angeles Times
In 2001, Fast Food Nation was published to critical...
Seguridad y salud en el trabajo
Conceptos básicos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 28, 2017
La seguridad y salud en el trabajo, llamada salud ocupacional antes de la Ley 1562 de 2012, nació de la observación y de su aplicación comenzó la prevención de los fenómenos o acontecimientos no explicados y que causaban lesiones o muertes. Posteriormente, con el advenimiento y desarrollo de...
Saving Capitalism
For the Many, Not the Few
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date—a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it.
Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of...
La semana laboral de 4 horas
No hace falta trabajar más
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Olvídate del trasnochado concepto de jubilación y deja de aplazar tu vida: no hace falta esperar, existen demasiadas razones para no hacerlo. Si tu sueño es dejar de depender de un sueldo, viajar por el mundo a todo tren, ingresar más de 10.000 euros al mes o, simplemente, vivir más y trabajar menos, este libro es la brújula que necesitas.
by Robert B. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened...
White Working Class
Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
"I recommend a book by Professor Williams, it is really worth a read, it's called White Working Class." -- Vice President Joe Biden on Pod Save America
An Amazon Best Business and Leadership book of 2017
Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white...
by Barry Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
An eye-opening, groundbreaking tour of the purpose of work in our lives, showing how work operates in our culture and how you can find your own path to happiness in the workplace.
Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor Barry Schwartz proves that the answer is surprising,...
Banana
The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007
A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the world’s most humble fruit
To most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. In others parts of the world, bananas are what...