Labor category: 1449 books

How has the recession affected the conduct of human resource management? How have HR departments and managers fared? Have leading firms taken measures to sustain and revive their businesses through innovative HR measures? How have union representation and influence been affected? Is the recession...

Who is today’s white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and other mid-twentieth-century investigations of corporate life and identity. Contemporary jobs are more precarious, casual Friday has become an institution, and telecommuting blurs the...

Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss was a henchman for Murder, Inc., a murder for hire organization that controlled the New York City garment industry in the 1930s. Weiss skipped bail and was apprehended by federal agents in Kansas City, Missouri. He was charged on a narcotics violation and also for the September...

Inability to adapt is the new illiteracy and freelancing is becoming America’s new normal. What 2008 taught America was not just that derivatives are dangerous and the housing market doesn’t rise forever. It also taught us that survival requires juggling and pivoting, two skills that any freelancer...

With talent shortages looming over the next decade, what can companies do to attract and retain the large number of professional women who are forced off the career highway? By documenting the successful efforts of a group of cutting-edge global companies to retain talented women and reintegrate...

Vice President Joseph Biden has blamed tuition increases on the high salaries of college professors, seemingly unaware of the fact that there are now over one million faculty who earn poverty-level wages teaching off the tenure track. The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story entitled "From...

This book, first published in 1982, summarises the history and organisation of the group of co-operatives centred in Mondragon. The study makes an in-depth analysis of its economic aspects, including employment creation and manpower planning, the raising of financial resources and planning of investments,...

Why do women still earn less? What keeps them from achieving success, negotiating a good salary or, simply, assuming authority? Alicia E. Kaufmann, Professor of Sociology and renowned expert in gender issues, examines the familial, social and cultural aspects that condition the full development of...

Les jeunes sortent d’un lycée classique ou professionnel, pourvus ou non d’un diplôme. Ils se retrouvent souvent, dans le monde actuel, totalement désarmés à la recherche d’un emploi. Un climat d’inquiétude et d’insécurité s’instaure autour d’eux, dans leurs groupes et parfois...

La présente documentation pratique expose l’ensemble de la réglementation sur les congés payés : A combien de jours les salariés ont-ils droit ? Comment est calculée l’indemnité de congés payés ? Qui fixe les dates de départ ? Que se passe-t-il en cas de maladie du salarié ou de...

En incarnant une certaine idée du service public, François Bloch-Lainé a marqué toute une génération de hauts fonctionnaires. Ses expériences, ses initiatives, les positions qu'il a prises — et qu'il explique ici — ont fait de lui un prototype (classique ou original ?) des grands commis...

Le théâtre doit être une arme. Le peuple doit prendre la parole. Tous doivent avoir le droit et les moyens de créer. L'émancipation des travailleurs doit être culturelle aussi bien que politique et économique. De cela nous étions convaincus. Musique, théâtre, peinture, écriture, etc., font...

Professions insolites : pour l’argent, pour la gloire, pour le risque, pour le plaisir… ils sont prêts à tout ! Chômeurs, étudiants, salariés ayant besoin d’arrondir leurs revenus ou envie d’exercer un second métier, ils sont à la recherche d’emplois marginaux mais légaux qui inspirent...

This book is about the employment of people with disabilities in the United States and the important role of employer practices. Nearly one in five people report some form of disability, and they are only half as likely to be employed as those without disabilities. With the aging workforce and returning...