Labor category: 1449 books
Towards Better Work
Understanding Labour in Apparel Global Value Chains
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Globalization of production has created opportunities and challenges for developing country producers and workers. This volume provides solutions-oriented approaches for promoting improved working conditions and labour rights in the apparel industry.
by Charles Levinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
As Secretary General of the ICF and previously Assistant General Secretary of the IMF, Charles Levinson played an important part in developing the countervailing labour response to the multinational corporations. His earlier work, Capital, Inflation and the Multinationals (Routledge Revivals, 2013)...
On Being At Work
The Social Construction of the Employee
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Inspired by the work of the philosopher Judith Butler, influenced by Marx’s theory of alienation and intrigued by theories of death, this book develops an anti-methodological approach to studying working lives. Distinctions are drawn between labour (the tasks we do in our jobs) and work (self-making...
Organizations and Working Time Standards
A Comparison of Negotiations in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Collective bargaining between employers and trade unions has profoundly changed working conditions in companies around the globe. But why do we start work at the age of 10, 16, 18 or 24? Why do we work 6, 8, 10 or more hours a day? These questions are becoming increasingly pertinent as working norms...
Labour Force Mobility in the Australian Resources Industry
Socio-Economic and Regional Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
This book addresses the socio-economic impacts of rapid economic development due to a global mining boom. It reviews the efforts taken by communities, governments and companies in Australia to deliver enduring benefits while minimising the negative consequences of rapid growth. In particular, the...
World Development Report 2014
Risk and Opportunity - Managing Risk for Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The last 25 years have witnessed unprecedented changes around the world—many of them for the better. In all continents, numerous countries have embarked on a path of international integration, economic reform, technological modernization, and democratic participation. As result, economies that had...
The Spanish Economy
A General Equilibrium Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
This book examines the pattern of growth of the Spanish economy in the last few decades, and studies the causes of its labour productivity, and the special features characterising business cycles in Spain.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
The use of matching contributions to enhance the participation and level of savings in pensions system has now been in use for nearly three decades in a number of high income countries. Increasingly, countries across the full range of economic development are looking to the design as a means of addressing...
Expatriate Managers
The Paradoxes of Living and Working Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Since the 1990s, economic and cultural globalization has propelled the transnational mobility of managers and fueled cross-border careers. Some scholars have argued for the emergence of a new global business elite with cosmopolitan mind-sets and homogeneous lifestyles, while others have highlighted...
Falling Behind
How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them,...
Pay
Why People Earn What They Earn and What You Can Do Now to Make More
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Billions of people throughout the world are paid for their work. This book was written to explain why they earn what they earn and, in doing so, to help readers understand how they can earn more in both the short and long run. It describes wages, wage differences across groups, wage inequality, how...
by STEFAN GEORG
Language: German
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Der Text gibt Ihnen einen Überblick über die Inhalte des beliebten Studiengangs Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen. Dazu wird erklärt, was eigentlich Bachelor- und Masterstudiengänge sind. Außerdem wird ein Einblick in die Berufsmöglichkeiten und den Arbeitsmarkt von Wirtschaftsingenieuren gegeben. Besonders...
Monopsonistic Labour Markets and the Gender Pay Gap
Theory and Empirical Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This book investigates models of spatial and dynamic monopsony and their application to the persistent empirical regularity of the gender pay gap.
The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract
Working and Living in Contingency
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times. Contingency creates a sexual contract in which attachments to work, mothering, entrepreneurship and investor subjectivity are the new regulatory ideals for women over a range of working arrangements, and across classed and raced dimensions.