Labor category: 1449 books
Production, Safety and Teamwork in a Deep-Level Mining Workplace
Perspectives from the Rock-Face
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
In almost any industry, the day-to-day lived experiences of workers directly shape production processes. Those experiences are of fundamental importance to a range of managerial concerns including organisational behaviour and human resource management, organisational safety and risk management, production...
Routledge Revivals: The Enemy Within (1986)
Pit Villages and the Miners' Strike of 1984-5
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
First published in 1986, this book challenges the notion that the miners’ strike of 1984-5 was ‘Scargill’s Strike’. It shows some of the ways in which the strike, though nominally directed from above, was determined from below by multitudinous and often contradictory pressures — the lodge,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Since the general acceptance of the field of corporate social responsibility worldwide, corporate entities and those who act for them either as executives or "ordinary" employees are expected to be socially responsible. Being socially responsible has a number of quantifiable and unquantifiable...
by Ngoc Luan Ho Trieu
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
An analysis of survey data of retrenched workers from an Australian car plant.
This report presents results of a statistical analysis of data from the two surveys of retrenched workers from the closure of a large car plant due to structural changes in the manufacturing sector of the economy....
Community Development in an Uncertain World
Vision, Analysis and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
In Community Development in an Uncertain World, Jim Ife draws on the principles of social justice, ecological responsibility and post-Enlightenment and Indigenous perspectives to advance new holistic approaches to community development. The book explores the concept of community development on a local...
Made in the USA
The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
"There is probably no other writer whose books I anticipate with more enthusiasm than Vaclav Smil. He brings remarkable insight to every topic he examines, combining his vast knowledge of science and energy, history and business to address some of the most pressing issues we face today. So I'm pleased...
Achieving Skill Mobility in the ASEAN Economic Community
Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Implications
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Despite clear aspirations by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to create an effective and transparent framework to facilitate movements among skilled professionals within the ASEAN by December 2015, progress has been slow and uneven. This report examines the challenges ASEAN member...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This volume contains empirical analyses of European psychologists and sociologists on the impact of job insecurity on trade union membership, activism and upon the attitudes of individual workers towards unions. Little is currently known about the impact of job insecurity on the union participation...
Career Development
A human resource development perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Career Development: A Human Resource Development Perspective offers a strategic framework that demonstrates the role of career development within the human resource function. It goes beyond conventional interventions and includes key topics such as diversity, work–life balance, and ethics.
Historically,...
Unequal
How America's Courts Undermine Discrimination Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
It is no secret that since the 1980s, American workers have lost power vis-à-vis employers through the well-chronicled steep decline in private sector unionization. American workers have also lost power in other ways. Those alleging employment discrimination have fared increasingly poorly in the...
International Human Resource Management
Contemporary HR Issues in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
International Human Resource Management provides a concise overview of the rich HR landscape in Europe to help students develop cutting-edge people management approaches.
The innovative, multi-disciplinary approach of the book provides a holistic picture of the key issues on the individual,...
All I Want Is a Job!
Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
In All I Want Is a Job!, Mary Gatta puts a human face on workforce development policy. An ethnographic sociologist, Gatta went undercover, posing as a client in a New Jersey One-Stop Career Center. One-Stop Centers, developed as part of the federal Workforce Investment Act, are supposed to be an unemployed...
by Medina, Agustín
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Este es un libro lleno de sentido común. La casi infinita lista de consejos que nos regala su autor demuestra que la creatividad es mucho más un hábito que un don, y que depende tanto más de nuestra voluntad que de la inspiración. Esta es una enseñanza enormemente valiosa para un tiempo que...
by Bernabé Jiménez Padilla
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Conocer y aplicar las medidas de higiene necesarias, para asegurar la calidad de higiene y sanitarias de los productos de panadería y bollería. Conocer los métodos y medidas de control. Aplicar las normas para la seguridad alimentaria. Examinar la problemática sobre medio ambiente originada en...