Industrial category: 6894 books
Silk Stockings and Socialism
Philadelphia's Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The 1920s Jazz Age is remembered for flappers and speakeasies, not for the success of a declining labor movement. A more complex story was unfolding among the young women and men in the hosiery mills of Kensington, the working-class heart of Philadelphia. Their product was silk stockings, the iconic...
by Ansie Thirion-Fourie DLitt et Phil
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
This book is for Managers, Industrial Psychologists, HR Professionals and Organizational Development Consultants who wish to enhance employees' human potential, competencies and performance which in turn will lead to the improved efficiency of organisations. This will ultimately have a positive effect...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Defines the psychology of human-computer interaction, showing how to span the gap between science & application. Studies the behavior of users in interacting with computer systems.
Real Estate Realities
Accommodating the Investment Needs of Today’s Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Following the success of Real Estate Riches and Building Your Real Estate Riches, which were bestsellers in major bookstores, as well as on the Sunday Times bestsellers’ list for weeks, property expert Ku Swee Yong now offers an updated essential guide to help investors to maximise their investment...
Rights, Not Interests
Resolving Value Clashes under the National Labor Relations Act
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This provocative book by the leading historian of the National Labor Relations Board offers a reexamination of the NLRB and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by applying internationally accepted human rights principles as standards for judgment. These new standards challenge every orthodoxy...
Upgrading China's Information and Communication Technology Industry
State-Firm Strategic Coordination and the Geography of Technological Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This book effectively challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the cluster-innovation relationship and provides convincing evidence to show that the prevailing theoretical models derived from Anglo–American experiences cannot be uncritically applied to Chinese reality. This book introduces a...
by Anthony Sofronas
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
This highly accessible book provides analytical methods and guidelines for solving vibration problems in industrial plants and demonstrates their practical use through case histories from the author's personal experience in the mechanical engineering industry. It takes a simple, analytical approach...
Aesthetics: Quantification and Deconstruction
A Case Study in Motorcycles
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This book addresses a perennial challenge for product planners and designers alike: how to objectively specify and quantify the aesthetics of products. It provides automotive product planners with a framework for the grammar of aesthetics and a tool for quantifying the aesthetics of an intended product....
by John Ridley
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
In plain English, John Ridley guides the reader through Health and Safety legislation and explains how to comply with it in practical terms. The text is clearly laid out, distinguishing between bulleted summaries of legislative requirements and the author's advice and commentary.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
This volume in SIOP's Organizational Frontiers Series is a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary conflict research which aims to place conflict research and theory squarely within the realm of industrial and organizational psychology. This volume brings together and integrates classic and contemporary insight in conflict origins, conflict
Social Psychology at Work (Psychology Revivals)
Essays in honour of Michael Argyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Social psychology has much to offer real world problems, especially in industrial and organizational settings. Originally published in 1995, in Social Psychology at Work leading researchers in their respective fields discuss recent findings and their implications for the commercial world of work.
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The Psychology of Planning in Organizations
Research and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book examines planning as the critical influence on performance at work and in organizations. Bridging theory and practice, it unites cutting-edge research findings from cognitive science, social psychology, industrial and organizational psychology, strategic management, and entrepreneurship,...
The Well-Being of the Labor Force in Colonial Bombay
Discourses and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
This study draws on extensive archival research to explore the social history of industrial labor in colonial India through the lens of well-being. Focusing on the cotton millworkers in Bombay in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book moves beyond trade union politics and examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
This book focuses on value addition to various waste streams, which include industrial waste, agricultural waste, and municipal solid and liquid waste. It addresses the utilization of waste to generate valuable products such as electricity, fuel, fertilizers, and chemicals, while placing special emphasis...