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The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
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...
Kitchens
The Culture of Restaurant Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life. A new preface updates this riveting...
End Unemployment Now
How to Eliminate Joblessness, Debt, and Poverty Despite Congress
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The year 2010 marked when the National Bureau of Economic Research declared an end to the Great Recession. The economy had shed over six million jobs in 2008 and 2009, but few had been recalled to work by 2010. Today, government policies have yet to make a significant dent in unemployment. In End...
by Bob Barnetson
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
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...
The Betrayal of Work
How Low-wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans And Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Following its publication in hardcover, the critically acclaimed Betrayal of Work became one of the most influential policy books about economic life in America; it was discussed in the pages of Newsweek, Business Week, Fortune, the Washington Post, Newsday, and USA Today, as well as in public policy...
Trade Unions and Arab Revolutions
The Tunisian Case of UGTT
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book traces the role of the UGTT (the Tunisian General Labour Union) during Tunisia’s 2011 revolution and the transition period that ensued – Tunisia being the Arab country where trade unionism was the strongest and most influential in shaping the outcomes of the uprising. The UGTT; From...
The Social Economy
Working Alternatives in a Globalizing Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Critically examining economic developments within the last sixty years, this book argues that a crisis in global social reproduction is altering existing understandings of work, labour and the economy.
The author of this original volume, Hasmet M. Uluorta, contends that the crisis in the global...
Shadow Work
The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, society, and the family. It underpins our finances and our sense of meaning in life. Given the overriding importance of work, we need to recognize a profound transformation...
Military Recruiting
The recruiting process of governmental institutions using the European example of the German Federal Armed Forces and its transformation from a conscript army to a professional army (Recruitment and Employer branding in the Public sphere)
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The study on "Military Recruiting" explores the complexities of military recruitment and presents them in a global economic science context. It is not only a primary scientific study on employer attractiveness of state institutions on the example of the German Federal Armed Forces, offering...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
The analysis of the various components of human work is the most important approach to a systematic study of people at work. This approach is aimed at the examination of individual activities with respect to the role they play in the conflict of humanitarian, economic, and technical aspects of work....
Come Scrivere un Libro. Tecniche Narrative e Strategie Stilistiche per Ideare, Scrivere e Pubblicare la Tua Opera. (Ebook Italiano- Anteprima Gratis)
Tecniche Narrative e Strategie Stilistiche per Ideare, Scrivere e Pubblicare la Tua Opera
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Scrivere un Libro - Programma di Come Scrivere un Libro
Tecniche Narrative e Strategie Stilistiche per Ideare, Scrivere e Pubblicare la Tua Opera
COME PIANIFICARE E STRUTTURARE IDEE E STORIE
Come trasformare l'idea di partenza in una vera e propria storia.
Come creare un incipit a effetto per...
by Giuseppe Amico
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Questo libro prende in analisi alcune delle nuove professioni della rete e cerca di sondare le modalità e le strategie per intraprendere – ci si auspica con successo - una di queste attività online.
I principali temi proposti in questo Manuale sono:
- Come ricevere le informazioni
-...
by Giuseppe Amico
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Questa breve Guida vi aiuterà a capire se la vostra attuale professione riesce a gratificarvi fino al punto di farvi crescere dal punto di vista finanziario e personale o se, viceversa, è giunto il momento di cambiare lavoro.
Quelle contenute in questo Manuale, sono regole di buon senso ma anche...
African Successes, Volume II
Human Capital
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2016
Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet...