Labor category: 1449 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
This handbook is an indispensable teaching, research and reference guide for anyone interested in issues of labour and employment. The editors have assembled a top-flight group of authors and the end-product is an encompassing state-of-the-art review of the industrial relations field' - Professor...
Inclusion and Resilience
The Way Forward for Social Safety Nets in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The report aims to meet two broad objectives: (a) enhance knowledge about the current state of existing social safety nets (SSNs) and assess their effectiveness in responding to new and emerging challenges to the poor and vulnerable in the region by bringing together new evidence, data, and country-specific...
The Well-Being of the Elderly in Asia
A Four-Country Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
The past two decades have witnessed rapid social, economic, and demographic change in East and South-East Asia. The older populations in these regions have been increasing faster than in the West, and the proportions of people over sixty will more than double over the next thirty years. Increased...
Language Put to Work
The Making of the Global Call Centre Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
WINNER of The Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize, awarded by the Canadian Communication Association, and the Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies, Book of the Year Award.
This book examines the striking rise of call centres over the past quarter century through the lens of the resistance...
by Greg Patmore, Nikola Balnave
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their ideals of member ownership and democratic practice. Every co-operative member has an equal vote regardless of his or her own personal capital investment. The contemporary significance of co-operatives was highlighted by...
The Politics of Bargaining
Merger Process and British Trade Union Structural Development, 1892-1987
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Golden Aging
Prospects for Healthy, Active, and Prosperous Aging in Europe and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Societies across Europe and Central Asia are aging, but people are not necessarily living longer. This demographic trend-caused by a decrease in fertility rather than improved longevity-presents both challenges and opportunities for governments, the private sector, and individuals alike. Some of the...
Industry-Led Growth
Issues and Facts
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
The book explores, for India and other developing countries, the potential role the organized manufacturing sector could play as an engine of growth. Alongside growth, can this sector generate adequate employment opportunities to facilitate the transfer of labour from the agriculture sector? The...
by Martha Tyler John, Donald G. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
The purpose of this book, first published in 1996, is to explore the dimensions of the changing workforce, and examines the issues faced by non-native workers and their employers. This study aims to explore issues such as culture shock and cultural adaptation in the healthcare, fast food and hotel...
by Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Population ageing is one of the greatest social and economic challenges of the 21st century Europe, since due to longer life expectancy the number of older people (aged 65 or more) is constantly increasing. The publication describes the current demographic situation and on the basis of population...
by Paul Dickson
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
In this book, first published in 1975, the author critically examines the organisation of work, the systems of control, and the patterns of authority in British establishments. By bringing together detailed descriptions of alternative forms of work organisation and management from Norway, Sweden,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
This book includes contributions from a variety of different perspectives on employee turnover. We categorize these myriad papers in terms of history, scope, theory development, and population generalization. Part I thus begins with an article by James Price, a pioneering thinker in the turnover field....
Information in the Labour Market
Job-Worker Matching and Its Implications for Education in Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
This study uses a simple model of information gathering to generate policy recommendations concerning education in Ontario, especially at the post-secondary level. The schools are viewed as helping students discover jobs matched to their abilities, and policy prescriptions are offered from that standpoint.
After...
Feminism, Gender and Universities
Politics, Passion and Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Feminism, Gender and Universities demonstrates the positive and robust impacts that feminism has had on higher education, through the eyes and in the words of the participants in changing political and social processes. Drawing on the ’collective biography’ of leading feminist scholars from around...