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Young, Educated & Broke

An Introduction to America's New Poor

by Jamie Borromeo
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014

Jamie Borromeo is a Millennial (those born between the years 1980-2000) with a uniquely illuminating perspective on her generation and its interaction with the business, political, and social spheres.  "Young, Educated, and Broke", a travel journal memoir, is the intertwined journey in self-exploration...
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by Andrea Veltman
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016

This book examines the importance of work in human well-being, addressing several related philosophical questions about work and arguing on the whole that meaningful work is central in human flourishing. Work impacts flourishing not only in developing and exercising human capabilities but also in...
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An Encyclopedia of Swearing

The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English-speaking World

by Geoffrey Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015

This is the only encyclopedia and social history of swearing and foul language in the English-speaking world. It covers the various social dynamics that generate swearing, foul language, and insults in the entire range of the English language. While the emphasis is on American and British English,...
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Working to Rule: The Damaging Economics of UK Employment Regulation

The Damaging Economics of UK Employment Regulation

by J. R. Shackleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017

Employment regulation has been growing rapidly. This has not exclusively, or even mainly, come from the European Union. Recent UK governments have added such significant new measures as the National Living Wage, workplace pensions and the Apprenticeship Levy. The costs of such regulation are frequently...
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Intercultural Interactions in the Multicultural Workplace

Traditional and Positive Organizational Scholarship

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016

This volume explores the work environment in multinational corporations. To do so, it integrates studies on the organizational sciences, cross-cultural management, positive psychology and sociology within a single comprehensive framework. Twenty-two authors from six countries identify the challenges...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010

Regional trade agreements have expanded exponentially over the past decade, and have become a significant, if controversial, factor in the expanse of economic globalization. Social Regionalism in the Global Economy attempts to take a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to addressing labour regulation...
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Individualism and Inequality

The Future of Work and Politics

by Ralph Fevre
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016

A belief in individual self-determination powered the development of universal human rights and inspired social movements from anti-slavery to socialism and feminism. At the same time, every attempt to embed individualism in systems of education and employment has eventually led to increased social inequality....
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Customer Service

Empowerment and Entrapment

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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2001

Customer service is at the centre of many recent changes in work and organisations and is often celebrated as being of benefit to all. This book explores the real nature of customer service from different critical perspectives drawing on a wide range of sectors internationally.A provocative and insightful work aimed at students of organisations and management as well as thoughtful practitioners.
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The New Deal's Forest Army

How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked

by Benjamin F. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018

Propelled by the unprecedented poverty of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established an array of massive public works programs designed to provide direct relief to America’s poor and unemployed. The New Deal’s most tangible legacy may be the Civilian Conservation Corps’s...
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How Leaders Mobilize Workers

Social Democracy, Revolution, and Moderate Syndicalism

by Konstantin Vössing
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017

This book explains why leaders choose social democracy, revolution, or moderate syndicalism to mobilize workers, and why it matters. In some countries, leaders have responded effectively to their political environment, while others have made ill-fitting choices. Vössing explains not only why leaders...
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by Michael Quinlan
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017

This is a book on how and why workers come together. Almost coincident with its inception, worker organisation is a central and enduring element of capitalism. In the 19th and 20th centuries’ mobilisation by workers played a substantial role in reshaping critical elements of these societies in Europe,...
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A Sociology of the Total Organization

Atomistic Unity in the French Foreign Legion

by Mikaela Sundberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016

Examining the organization of everyday life inside the regiments of the French Foreign Legion, this book takes its theoretical point of departure in the notion of the voluntary total organization; that is to say, an institution that constitutes a geographically delimited place of residence and work...
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Panorama of a Presidency: How George W. Bush Acquired and Spent His Political Capital

How George W. Bush Acquired and Spent His Political Capital

by Steven E Schier
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014

As the controversial presidency of George W. Bush draws to a close, this work provides the first dispassionate, even-handed assessment of Bush's years in office. Widely respected scholar and author Steven E. Schier goes beyond the perspective of contemporary political commentary, and draws on wide-ranging...
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Migrant Workers in Russia

Global Challenges of the Shadow Economy in Societal Transformation

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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

Russia has a very large pool of economic migrants, up to 25% of the workforce according to some estimates. Although many migrants, many from former Soviet countries which are now independent, entered Russia legally, they frequently face bureaucratic obstacles to legal employment and Russian citizenship,...
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