Labor category: 1449 books
Contesting the New South Order
The 1914-1915 Strike at Atlanta's Fulton Mills
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In May 1914, workers walked off their jobs at Atlanta's Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, launching a lengthy strike that was at the heart of the American Federation of Labor's first major attempt to organize southern workers in over a decade. In its celebrity, the Fulton Mills strike was the regional...
by Cynthia Bansak, Nicole B. Simpson, Madeline Zavodny
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Economics of Immigration provides students with the tools needed to examine the economic impact of immigration and immigration policies over the past century. Students will develop an understanding of why and how people migrate across borders and will learn how to analyze the economic causes and effects...
Wanted and Welcome?
Policies for Highly Skilled Immigrants in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
This book considers the origins, performance and diffusion of national immigration policies targeting highly skilled immigrants. Unlike asylum seekers and immigrants admitted under family reunification streams, highly skilled immigrants are typically cast as “wanted and welcome” as a consequence...
by Dr. Ibrahim B.S. Sesay
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
This book as pointed out by Professor Singer in his preface discussed divergent development problems facing developing countries. Participants of the seminar from various African countries brought in case studies from their own countries as comparison with the Kenya case study, where the seminar was...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Globalization and unemployment are two phenomena which are amongst the most widely discussed subjects in the economic debate today. Often, globalization is regarded as being responsible for the increase in unemployment, particularly in unskilled labor. This book deals with the correlation between...
Latinos and the Economy
Integration and Impact in Schools, Labor Markets, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
At 15.4 percent of the population, Latinos are the largest minority group in the United States. They are a growing presence in all sectors of the economy, play an increasingly important role in government and politics, and are influential across a wide range of cultural domains. Despite the growing...
The Youth Experience Gap
Explaining National Differences in the School-to-Work Transition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
“The education to work transition of young people is key to a successful work-life and to fight youth unemployment. The book provides an impressive outline of the facts and convincing insights of the potential causes. This offers a large and broader audience help to adjust properly to achieve a...
Evolving Work
Employing Self and Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
The idea of Self and the authenticity of particular identities have been rapidly dissolving in the acids of post-modern globalizing capitalism. The hegemony of patterns of work, wage-labor and the operation of labor markets in the American West (and European North) has ridden rough-shod over distinctive...
by Karma Peters
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
THE DAYS OF LIFETIME EMPLOYMENT ARE LONG GONE, BUT A NEW PARADIGM CAN SOW HOPE IN THE HEARTS OF MILLIONS OF JOB SEEKERS.
This book sheds light on that new paradigm.
In 2013, management theorist Andrew McAfee gave a brilliant TED talk about what future jobs will look like, expounding...
International and Interregional Migration
Theory and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Global and regional migration flows have exploded in the last few decades. Written by renowned migration expert, Francisco L Rivera-Batiz, this book provides a collection of articles offering a comprehensive overview of the economic analysis of migration flows and the associated policy issues. A rich...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Research in Labor Economics 44 takes another in-depth and focussed look at Inequality. This time however it is tied in with well-being of the workforce. Research in Labor Economics volume 44 contains new and innovative research on the causes and consequences of inequality and well-being of the work force.
Handbook of the Economics of International Migration
The Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
The economic literature on international migration interests policymakers as well as academics throughout the social sciences. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late...
Capitalist Family Values
Gender, Work, and Corporate Culture at Boeing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Though best known for aircraft and aerospace technology, Boeing has invested significant time and money in the construction and promotion of its corporate culture. Boeing’s leaders, in keeping with the standard of traditional American social norms, began to promote a workplace culture of a white,...
The Work-Family Interface
Spillover, Complications, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
Family researchers have long recognized the interconnected nature of work and family. Around the globe, there is a clear recognition that the paid labor experiences of individuals will affect their families and familial relationships, often in unanticipated ways. Likewise, family relationships and...