Labor category: 1449 books
Nickel and Dimed
On (Not) Getting By in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.
Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part...
Dealing with Darwin
How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2005
Geoffrey Moore is one of the most respected and bestselling names in business books. In his widely quoted Crossing the Chasm, he identified and addressed the greatest challenge facing new ventures. Now he’s back with a book for established businesses that need to learn how to adapt—or suffer the...
The Predictable Surprise
The Unraveling of the U.S. Retirement System
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Social Security is in jeopardy, private pension systems have fallen apart, and workers are trying to save on their own for retirement with the stock market in the worst shape since the Great Depression. In The Predictable Surprise, Sylvester J. Schieber shows that forewarnings of the coming retirement...
by Mark Hatch
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
YOU can create the next breakthrough innovation
A revolution is under way. But it's not about tearing down the old guard. It's about building, it's about creating, it's about breathing life into groundbreaking new ideas. It's called the Maker Movement, and it's changing the world.
Mark Hatch...
by Xavier Baraza Sánchez, Emilio Castejón Vilella, Xavier Guardino Solà
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Según el American Board of Industrial Hygiene, la higiene industrial es la disciplina de la anticipación, la identificación, la evaluación y el control de los riesgos que se originan en el medio ambiente de trabajo con el objetivo de proteger la salud y el bienestar de los trabajadores y salvaguardar...
Employer's Legal Handbook, The
Manage Your Employees & Workplace Effectively
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
All the laws employers need to know!
What do employers need to know about the law? Plenty! Employment laws change often. Staying on top of them is essential to running an efficient, fair workplace—and heading off expensive lawsuits. Use this comprehensive guide to find answers to workplace...
The Indian Textile and Clothing Industry
An Economic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This book examines the textile and clothing Industry of India and its trade scenario from a global perspective. New developments in international policies related to trade and investment and falling barriers to trade worldwide as well as within individual regional communities have transformed the...
by Karen Cheney, Lesley Alderman
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
With computer, fax machines, and other technologies becoming commonplace, more and more people are running businesses from their homes and making a good living in the process. "Money" has been tracking the trend, and, in this new guide, two of the magazine's writers explain how to turn a...
by Roger D. Blair, Francine Lafontaine
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
This 2005 book describes in much detail both how and why franchising works. It also analyses the economic tensions that contribute to conflict in the franchisor-franchisee relationship. The treatment includes a great deal of empirical evidence on franchising, its importance in various segments of...
Industrial Relations in Korea
Diversity and Dynamism of Korean Enterprise Unions from a Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
A key factor in Korea's economic success is the nature of industrial relations in Korean business and industry. Joo-Yeon Jeong presents a comprehensive survey of the current state of industrial relations in Korea. He shows how union membership has changed over recent decades, and how the focus of...
Organizations
A Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
From businesses, public administrations, universities and schools, to hospitals, prisons, political parties, or the military, peoples’ lives are inextricably bound up with organizations from cradle to grave. Yet we receive little training in how - as members, customers, voters, or patients - to...
The Fight for $15
The Right Wage for a Working America
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
“Rolf shows that raising the minimum wage to $15 is both just and necessary, lest the American dream of middle class prosperity turn into a nightmare” (David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist).
Combining history, economics, and commonsense political wisdom, The Fight for...
Finding Time
The Economics of Work-Life Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Employers demand more of employees’ time while leaving the important things in life—health, family—for workers to take care of on their own time and dime. How can workers get ahead while making sure their families don’t fall behind? Heather Boushey shows in detail that economic efficiency and equity do not have to be enemies.
Social Democracy in Capitalist Society (Routledge Revivals)
Working-Class Politics in Britain and Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
First published in 1977. This book considers the nature of industrial society, contemporary capitalism and the impact of political ideas on social structure. These ideas are discussed by reference to the impact of social democracy on the structure of capitalist society in a comparative analysis of...