Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
A SOCIEDADE DOS RICOS SEM DINHEIRO
Ideologia, Hegemonia Capitalista & O Mito do Sucesso Escolar
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 23, 2014
(A5, 142 Páginas) - Foram e, ainda hoje – alvorecer do séc. XXI – são muitos aqueles que, conduzidos pelas ideias político-econômicas do pensamento Marxista, preconizaram e preconizam o “fim do capitalismo”.
Ou seja, preconizaram e preconizam que, seguindo-se um processo dinâmico...
Disability Management and Workplace Integration
International Research Findings
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Disability Management is perceived and understood to be an important approach to reducing the negative impact, for workers and the company, of absence due to illness and accidents, and to assisting those with disabilities to enter or re-enter the workplace. Disability Management has already become...
Psychological Effects of Catastrophic Disasters
Group Approaches to Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
A thorough, user-friendly guide of basic knowledge and group interventions for psychological trauma from terrorist attacks and other catastrophic disasters
There is relatively little literature on the psychological trauma caused by catastrophic disasters, including terrorist attacks and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
“Generation” has become a central concept of cultural, historical and social studies. This book analyses how this concept is currently used and how it relates to memory and constructions of historical meaning from educational, historical, legal and political perspectives. Attempts to compare different...
A New Right for Democracy and Development in Europe
The European Citizens Initiative (ECI)
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This volume analyses the problems and instruments of European citizens’ political participation and focuses in particular on the «European Citizens’ Initiative» (ECI) right. Introduced by the Lisbon Treaty, the ECI enables European citizens to propose legislative measures to the Commission by...
The Meritocracy Trap
How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy
It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal – that...
Undoing Work, Rethinking Community
A Critique of the Social Function of Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A. Chamberlain argues that paid work and the civic duty to perform it substantially undermines freedom and justice. Chamberlain believes that to seize back...
Our Unions, Our Selves
The Rise of Feminist Labor Unions in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
In Our Unions, Our Selves, Anne Zacharias-Walsh provides an in-depth look at the rise of women-only unions in Japan, an organizational analysis of the challenges these new unions face in practice, and a firsthand account of the ambitious, occasionally contentious, and ultimately successful international...
Improving Air Safety through Organizational Learning
Consequences of a Technology-led Model
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The key theme of this book is organizational learning and its consequences for the field of aviation safety. Air safety rates have been improving for a long time, demonstrating the effects of a good learning model at work. However, the pace of improvement has almost come to a standstill. Why is this?...
Gueorgui Valentinovitch Plekhanov
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Partez à la découverte de Gueorgui Valentinovitch Plekhanov avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
L'importance historique de Georges Plekhanov vient de ce qu'il fut le véritable introducteur du marxisme en Russie. Après avoir adhéré à l'idéologie populiste, il fonda, dans son exil genevois,...
Penser le travail avec Karl Marx
Comprendre le monde
Language: French
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Un ouvrage à vocation didactique pour découvrir ou redécouvrir la pensée de Karl Marx
Dans une économie obsédée par le rendement du capital et la finance, peut-on ignorer les critiques que Marx fit du capitalisme, et dont la plupart conservent une troublante validité ? Il met le travail...
Economics for the Rest of Us
Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
“Vivid case studies . . . Adler’s frustration with wrongheaded economic thinking is as entertaining as it is thought provoking.” —Publishers Weekly
Why do so many contemporary economists consider food subsidies in starving countries, rent control in rich cities, and health insurance...
The Caring Self
The Work Experiences of Home Care Aides
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were approximately 1.7 million home health aides and personal and home care aides in the United States as of 2008. These home care aides are rapidly becoming the backbone of America’s system of long-term care, and their numbers continue to grow....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This book explores the changing nature of social movements and economic elites in post-Second World War Europe. In the years following 1945, Europe faced diverse challenges connected by the overriding question of how the reconstruction of the continent should proceed. For the Central Powers, the implementation...