Labor category: 1449 books
Transit States
Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
There are vast swathes of people in economic migration across the Gulf states today. In total, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar form the largest destination for labour migration in the global South. This book studies the impact of this mass migration, and its effect...
by Arthur Burgoyne
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1979
In 1893 Arthur Burgoyne, one of Pittsburgh’s most skilled and sensitive journalists, published Homestead, a complete history of the 1892 Homestead strike and the ensuing conflict between the Carnegie Steel Company and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. Accurate, readable, and...
by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
(A5, 134 P.) - "Secrets of the Prosperity" is a work of financial education, liberating, to the extent that, at the same time addresses historically the catastrophic nature of the processes of socioeconomic exclusion, produced by ethics of imperialist capital, teaches us to create tools to overcome...
by Stephen E. Philion
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This fascinating book is among the first to examine state workers’ protests against privatization in China. Philion discusses how Chinese state enterprise workers have engaged a discourse of ‘workers democracy’ in the process of struggle with the new social relations of work that are engendered...
Employee Performance Handbook, The
Smart Strategies for Coaching Employees
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
AUDIENCE FOR BOOK: Employers, human resources professionals, supervisors and managers, small business owners • New title - the older edition was called: 9781413305616 Progressive Discipline Handbook • Provides strategies and tools for managers to deal with one of the toughest parts of their jobs...
The German Labour Market in the Year 2030
A Strategic View on Demography, Employment and Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
What will be the shape of the German economy and its labour market in 20 years time? Beyond combining qualitative scenarios and mathematical methods in a professional forecast, the report raises the questions how politics, entrepreneurs and the labour force should act in face of demographic change...
by Luca De Biase
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Il lavoro come identità sociale, fatica, percorso obbligato per realizzare le proprie aspirazioni; come espressione di sé e porta di accesso all’indipendenza economica; come punto d’incontro tra la speranza e la paura del futuro. Nella trasformazione tecnologica ed economica di questi anni,...
by J. A. Hobson, A. F. Mummery
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The Physiology of Industry is a remarkable work which set out to challenge contemporary theory surrounding the economics of labour, supply and demand. First published in 1889, Hobson’s first book outlines some of the key areas of his theory of underconsumption. The precise contribution of Mummery,...
Building Capitalism (Routledge Revivals)
Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
First published in 1992, this Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a truly original exploration of the nature of urbanization and capitalism.
Linda Clarke’s vital work argues that:
Urbanization is a product of the social human labour engaged in building as well as a concentration of...
Between Work and Leisure
The Common Ground of Two Separate Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Occupational devotion, as defined by Robert A. Stebbins, is a strong and positive attachment to a form of self-enhancing work, where the sense of achievement is high and the core activity, or set of tasks, is endowed with such intense appeal that the line between work and leisure is virtually erased....
Customer Visits: Building a Better Market Focus
Building a Better Market Focus
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Visits to customers by a cross-functional team of marketers and engineers play an important role in new product development, entry into new markets, and in exploring customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction. The new edition of this widely used professional resource provides step-by-step instructions...
by Andy Danford
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Changing Nature of the Graduate Labour Market
Media, Policy and Political Discourses in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
The assumptions made in the media regarding graduate skills and occupations are no longer valid within the changing educational context. This book traces seven key trends that shape the graduate labour market and reveals that their effects contradict the conceptualisation of the graduate labour market which dominates media and policy discourses.
Work-Life Balance in Times of Recession, Austerity and Beyond
Meeting the Needs of Employees, Organizations and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
This book reflects the enormous interest in work-life balance and current pressing concerns about the impacts of austerity more broadly. It draws on contemporary research and practitioner experiences to explore how work-life balance and related workplace and social policy fare in turbulent economic...