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Strategies of Multinational Corporations and Social Regulations
European and Asian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
This contributed volume seeks to provide a unique window on the globalization process by analyzing the dynamics of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Europe and Asia, as well as its influence on the renewal of public policies and regulations, both transnational and local. It discusses the link between...
Political Development and Democratic Theory: Rethinking Comparative Politics
Rethinking Comparative Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Most comparativists have assumed that democratization is best understood by looking at regimes in the transition and consolidation phases of democracy without really considering the essence of democracy - liberal rights and democratic virtues. Democracy is seen as a mechanistic process without considering...
Le travail
Histoire d’une idéologie
Language: French
Release Date: February 20, 2018
L'auteur dresse un panorama synthétique et complet des liens complexes que nous entretenons avec le travail.
Ce livre s’intéresse à sa naissance en tant que phénomène économique et social et souligne le lien historique existant entre le travail et les rapports d’exploitation, depuis...
Academic Life and Labour in the New University
Hope and Other Choices
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
What does it mean to be an academic today? What kinds of experiences do students have, and how are they affected by what they learn? Why do so many students and their teachers feel like frauds? Can we learn to teach and research in ways that foster hope and deflate pretension? Academic Life and Labour...
by Alain Deneault
Language: French
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: October 8, 2015
« Rangez ces ouvrages compliqués, les livres comptables feront l’affaire. Ne soyez ni fier, ni spirituel, ni même à l’aise, vous risqueriez de paraître arrogant. Atténuez vos passions, elles font peur. Surtout, aucune “bonne idée”, la déchiqueteuse en est pleine. Ce regard perçant...
Labour and Social Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe
Europeanization and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Over a quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall and 10 years after their accession to the European Union (EU), Central and Eastern Europe Countries (CEECs) still show marked differences with the rest of Europe in the fields of labour, work and industrial relations. This book presents...
Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy
The Social Effort Bargain
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Robert LaJeunesse looks beyond the 20th century arguments for shortening the work week. He writes a careful, convincing critique of traditional full employment policies in advocacy of an alternative macroeconomic paradigm. With an emphasis on greater socioeconomic participation, the author proposes...
Doing Women's Studies
Employment Opportunities, Personal Impacts and Social Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
With the expansion of the EU in 2004 and its inclusion now of 25 European countries, the movement of workers across the Continent will affect the employment opportunities of women. But as this up-to-date investigation across nine countries shows, there remain significant differences amongst specific...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
This book focuses on China’s urban development. In China, the process of allowing more rural migrants to become registered city residents in urban areas remains stagnant despite its importance to the Chinese government and the existence of a national consensus about it. Cities can compulsorily purchase...
Telecommuting
Modelling the Employer's and the Employee's Decision-Making Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Telecommuting has been regarded as a powerful tool to reduce traffic congestion, pollution and energy consumption. It also supposed to improve lifestyle quality and job satisfaction by providing employees with flexible schedules with which to address their work load and personal requirements whilst...
Health Care in America: Separate and Unequal
Separate and Unequal
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The American health care system is a unique mix of public and private programs that critics argue has produced a two-tier system - one for the rich and the other for the poor - that delivers dramatically unequal care and leaves millions of Americans seriously underinsured or with no coverage at all....
Gender Equality and Work-Life Balance
Glass Handcuffs and Working Men in the U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Pressure to achieve work-life "balance" has recently become a significant part of the cultural fabric of working life in United States. A very few privileged employees tout their ability to find balance between their careers and the rest of their lives, but most employees face considerable...
by Julia Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Filled with practical tools and guidelines, this book addresses an essential competence for public managers - incorporating governance and law in public administration. It links democratic constitutional values to administrative decision making and practices by stressing how public law authorizes,...
Interrogating Inclusive Growth
Poverty and Inequality in India
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The high growth performance of the Indian economy since the launch of economic reforms in the early 1990s has been much lauded. But how much of this growth has made its way to the poor?
In a radical assessment of ‘inclusive growth’, this book probes the impact of neo-liberal policies on...