Labor category: 1449 books

A badly charred Frank Kierdorf entered St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital in Pontiac, Michigan in the early morning hours of Monday, August 4, 1958. Burned over 85% of his body, the wounded man lived for nearly four days. During this time he maintained a story that he'd been abducted by captors who took...

Joe Profaci was head of a large empire that centered on olive oil importation. He had briefly become involved in bootlegging in the late 1920s before he was rounded up with other mobsters in a Cleveland hotel in 1928. His Mafia baronage included loan sharking and jukebox rackets. Before the early...

Babe Triscaro was a pugilist who won a Gold Gloves boxing title as a flyweight in 1931. He became an important figure in the Teamsters Union, rising to the second ranking position in the state of Ohio. My e-book discusses Babe's contraband venture, specifically his attempted sale of military...

En un continuo proceso de cambio, los entornos social, económico y político presionan a las empresas para la adopción de comportamientos voluntarios con los que satisfacer las demandas. En estos momentos sobre las empresas recae un amplio abanico de responsabilidades que van más allá de las obligaciones...

¿Qué pasaría si las máquinas hablaran? ¿Qué nos contarían? ¿Qué pensaríamos si nos dijeran que llevan haciéndolo desde el siglo pasado? El lenguaje de las máquinas no es como el de las personas, pero se puede aprender. Las máquinas se expresan a través de los datos que las personas a...

Todos alguna vez hemos visto a un grupo de niños jugar al fútbol. Todos van a la vez detrás del balón y todos se apelotonan en grupo allá donde va, miran al suelo y dan patadas sin parar. Si lo comparamos con el fútbol profesional, vemos que cada jugador toma una posición en el terreno de juego...

Cada disciplina científica dispone de una jerga específica que a veces resulta incomprensible para los no iniciados en la materia, y el mundo de las finanzas no es una excepción. Sin embargo, ningún texto ha abordado de forma sistemática el estudio del lenguaje financiero. En esta obra se tratan...

If you are looking for a job, or already have a job and need a drastic career change, this is the book for you. Bill Works, Job Strategist, outlines ways where you can find a job, but not just any one. He identifies steps you can take that will enable job seekers to find a job that will make them...

This is a great guidebook for anyone who wants to become a waiter, or for waiters who aspire to move up in the industry. Covers basic aspects of table service, the types of service offered in fine dining venues, best practices for formal dining occasions, and much more. There is an additional section...

Transnational trade union action has expanded significantly over the last few decades and has taken a variety of shapes and trajectories. This book is concerned with understanding the spatial extension of trade union action, and in particular the development of new forms of collective mobilization,...

Accessible and amusing in style, Humour, Work and Organization explores the critical, subversive and ambivalent character of humour, work and comedy as it relates to organizations and organized work. It examines the various individual, organizational, social and cultural means through which humour...

Este Manual es el más adecuado para impartir la UF0801 "Entrenamiento de habilidades laborales" de los Certificados de Profesionalidad, y cumple fielmente con los contenidos del Real Decreto. Puede solicitar gratuitamente las soluciones a todas las actividades y un examen final con...

¿Qué es y cómo funciona el marketing? ¿Cuáles son las mejores estrategias que permiten encontrar a los clientes y afianzarlos? ¿Cómo hay que estudiar a la competencia, convirtiéndose en líder del mercado? Este libro reúne todos los conocimientos necesarios para responder a todas y...

**“[An] essential book… it is required reading as we seriously engage one of the most important debates of our time.”—Sherry Turkle, author of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age From drones to Mars rovers—an exploration of the most innovative use of robots...