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  • Industrial Relations in Small Firms

    Small Isn't Beautiful

    by Al Rainnie ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Small Business
    Originally published in 1989, this book analyses the economic and political position of the small firm in the 1980s, and in particular the relationship between small and large firms in an advanced capitalist economy. Focusing on the printing and clothing industries, it examines the industrial relation practices in these two contrasting sectors and shows that apparent industrial relations harmony – ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Australia’s Regional and Industrial Future

    Beyond Militarisation and Green Capitalism

    by Darryn Snell, Mark Dean, Al Rainnie ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Business Management
    This book promotes a critical and analytical view of what the emerging new Cold War and climate change mitigation mean for Australia’s struggling regions and dwindling manufacturing industries. The authors argue that Australia’s push for regional energy and decarbonisation cannot be understood in isolation from an increasingly militarised industrial policy and the challenging Australia, the United ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Globalisation, State and Labour

    Edited by Peter Fairbrother, Al Rainnie ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
    Globalisation, State and Labour combines a new theoretical approach with comparative analysis – ensuring that it will be of vital interest to anyone concerned with the globalization debate, the future of the state, and organized labour.It shows how although the world is undergoing enormous changes involving politics, the economy and society, the position and place of the state, and the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Work, Employment and Transition

    Edited by Al Rainnie, Adrian Smith, Adam Swain ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition
    Since the late 1980s the experiences of work and employment in the former communist world have been profoundly transformed. Work, Employment and Transition brings together a series of essays by leading international scholars which highlights the varied and complex forms that work and employment restructuring are taking in the post-soviet world, and makes important theoretical contributions to our ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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    Myths About Education and Economic Growth

    by Alison Wolf ...
    "Education, education, education" has become an obsession for politicians and the public alike. It is seen as an economic panacea: an engine for growth and prosperity. But is there a link between increased spending on higher eductaion and economicgrowth? Professor Alison Wolf takes a critical look at successive governments' education policy and challenges many of the tenets of received wisdom: ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The New Working Class

    How to Win Hearts, Minds and Votes

    by Claire Ainsley ...
    Recent events such as the Brexit vote and the 2017 general election result highlight the erosion of traditional class identities and the decoupling of class from political identity. The majority of people in the UK still identify as working class, yet no political party today can confidently articulate their interests. So who is now working class and how do political parties gain their support ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Willing Slaves

    How the Overwork Culture is Ruling Our Lives

    by Madeleine Bunting ...
    A hard-hitting exposé of the overwork culture and modern management techniques that seduce millions of people to hand over the best part of their lives to their employer.Work has come to increasingly dominate British national life. ‘Job intensification’ affects every shopfloor, office, classroom and hospital, as a cult of efficiency has driven a missionary magnetism of tighter deadlines and more ... Read more

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  • Science, Technology and Society

    An Introduction

    by Martin Bridgstock, David Burch, John Forge, John Laurent, Ian Lowe ...
    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the human, social and economic aspects of science and technology. It examines a broad range of issues from a variety of perspectives, using examples and experiences from Australia and around the world. The authors present complex issues in an accessible and engaging form. Topics include the responsibilities of scientists, ethical dilemmas and ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • Red Tory

    How Left and Right have Broken Britain and How we can Fix It

    by Phillip Blond ...
    Conventional politics is at a crossroads. Amid recession, depression, poverty, increasing violence and rising inequality, our current politics is exhausted and inadequate. In Red Tory, Phillip Blond argues that only a radical new political settlement can tackle the problems we face.Red Toryism combines economic egalitarianism with social conservatism, calling for an end to the monopolisation of ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Universities, Innovation and the Economy

    by Helen Lawton-Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
    Universities are increasingly expected to be at the heart of networked structures contributing to society in meaningful and measurable ways through research, the teaching and development of experts, and knowledge innovation. While there is nothing new in universities’ links with industry, what is recent is their role as territorial actors. It is government policy in many countries that ... Read more

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  • Greed Is Dead

    Politics After Individualism

    by Paul Collier, John Kay ...
    Two of the UK's leading economists call for an end to extreme individualism as the engine of prosperity'provocative but thought-provoking and nuanced' TelegraphThroughout history, successful societies have created institutions which channel both competition and co-operation to achieve complex goals of general benefit. These institutions make the difference between societies that thrive and those ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Wasted

    How Misunderstanding Young Britain Threatens Our Future

    by Georgia Gould ...
    Young people growing up in Britain today face a narrowing job market, high housing costs and the prospect of a lifetime of hard work with less reward. The ideas of social responsibility that arose after the Second World War are straining under the demands of a globalised world.Too often public debate divides Britain's youth into the 'feral rats' of the London riots and the 'posh boys' of Eton. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD