Labor category: 1449 books
Trade and Employment in Developing Countries, Volume 1
Individual Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
This first book of a three-volume study examines the way trade policies in developing countries affect the level and composition of employment. There is special emphasis on the effects of import substitution policies that attempt to make a country self-sufficient by producing local substitutes for...
Uberland
How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneurship for the masses through its technology, Uber instead built a new template for employment using algorithms and Internet platforms. Upending our understanding...
by Steven Greenhouse
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Why, in the world's most affluent nation, are so many corporations squeezing their employees dry? In this fresh, carefully researched book, New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse explores the economic, political, and social trends that are transforming America's workplaces, including the decline...
Shadowbosses
Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
SHADOWBOSSES reads like an organized crime novel, but it's actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political process. This compelling and insightful book exposes how unions have organized federal, state, and local government employees without their...
Average Is Over
Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Renowned economist and author of Big Business Tyler Cowen brings a groundbreaking analysis of capitalism, the job market, and the growing gap between the one percent and minimum wage workers in this follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation.
The United States continues...
by George J. Borjas
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
From “America’s leading immigration economist” (The Wall Street Journal), a refreshingly level-headed exploration of the effects of immigration.
We are a nation of immigrants, and we have always been concerned about immigration. As early as 1645, the Massachusetts Bay Colony began to...
The Wealth of Humans
Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
None of us has ever lived through a genuine industrial revolution. Until now.
Digital technology is transforming every corner of the economy, fundamentally altering the way things are done, who does them, and what they earn for their efforts. In The Wealth of Humans, Economist editor Ryan Avent...
Developer Hegemony
The Future of Labor
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
It’s been said that software is eating the planet. The modern economy—the world itself—relies on technology. Demand for the people who can produce it far outweighs the supply. So why do developers occupy largely subordinate roles in the corporate structure?
Developer Hegemony explores...
Youth and the Crisis (Open Access)
Unemployment, education and health in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The recent recession has led to an ongoing crisis in the youth labour market in Europe. This timely book deals with a number of areas related to the context, choices and experiences of young people, the consequences of which resonate throughout their lives. The focus of the contributions to this volume...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Ted C. Fishman in his book “China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However...
China on Strike
Narratives of Workers' Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary, and most underreported labor struggles of our time. China on Strike, the first English-language book of its kind, provides an intimate and revealing window into...
Future Jobs: Solving the Employment and Skills Crisis
Solving the Employment and Skills Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
A pervasive disconnect exists between the job/career culture and the present economic reality in America. This book offers powerful strategies for stemming the employment crisis and proposes comprehensive solutions for businesses, government, and job seekers alike.
• Explains how the current...
Up in the Air
How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging Their Employees
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"And you thought the passengers were mad. Airline employees are fed up, too-with pay cuts, increased workloads and management's miserly ways, which leave workers to explain to often-enraged passengers why flying has become such a miserable experience."—New York Times, December 22, 2007When both...
by Thomas Tramble, Wilma Tramble
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2007
A hub of transportation and industry since the mid-19th century, West Oakland is today a vital commercial conduit and an inimitably distinct and diverse community within the Greater Oaklandmetropolitan area. The catalyst that transformed this neighborhood from a transcontinental rail terminal into a...