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“beverly goldberg”

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  • Age Works

    What Corporate America Must Do to Survive the Gray

    by Beverly Goldberg ...
    In ten years, the massive baby-boom generation will begin to reach retirement age, but few companies have paid attention to the fact that there are not enough younger workers to replace them. The challenge to corporate America, as Beverly Goldberg argues in Age Works, is to reinvent the workplace to make it better fit the needs of all employees, especially the older workers it must retain in order ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Nickel and Dimed

    On (Not) Getting By in America

    by Barbara Ehrenreich ...
    The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of EvictedMillions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Self-Help, Inc.

    Makeover Culture in American Life

    by Micki McGee ...
    Why doesn't self-help help? Cultural critic Micki McGee puts forward this paradoxical question as she looks at a world where the market for self-improvement products--books, audiotapes, and extreme makeovers--is exploding, and there seems to be no end in sight. Rather than seeing narcissism at the root of the self-help craze, as others have contended, McGee shows a nation relying on self-help ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Transnational Trade Unionism

    Building Union Power

    Edited by Peter Fairbrother, Christian Lévesque, Marc-Antonin Hennebert ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
    Transnational trade union action has expanded significantly over the last few decades and has taken a variety of shapes and trajectories. This book is concerned with understanding the spatial extension of trade union action, and in particular the development of new forms of collective mobilization, network-building, and forms of regulation that bridge local and transnational issues.Through the ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives

    Bringing Workplace Law and Public Policy Into Focus

    by Stephen F. Befort, John W. Budd ...
    The global financial crisis and recession have placed great strains on the free market ideology that has emphasized economic objectives and unregulated markets. The balance of economic and noneconomic goals is under the microscope in every sector of the economy. It is time to re-think the objectives of the employment relationship and the underlying assumptions of how that relationship operates ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Multimodality, Meaning, and Institutions

    Edited by Markus A. Höllerer, Thibault Daudigeos, Dennis Jancsary ...
    Series Book 54 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
    The insight that institutions, and the communicative practices that create, sustain, and challenge them, are multimodal accomplishments has garnered increasing attention from scholars in organization and management research over the last decade. Traditional understanding of social knowledge and meaning as being constituted primarily through verbal discourse has been challenged and extended by work ... Read more

    $156.09 CAD

  • Challenges to European Welfare Systems

    Edited by Klaus Schubert, Paloma de Villota, Johanna Kuhlmann ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides the first comprehensive analyses of the challenges all European welfare systems have been facing since 2007, combining in-depth country-based studies and comparative chapters. It focuses on: 1) the economic and financial crisis, 2) demographic change, and 3) the balance between avoiding risks and opening up opportunities in social policy. The results show that European welfare ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • Job Skills and Minority Youth

    New Program Directions

    by Barton J. Hirsch ...
    Minority youth unemployment is an enduring economic and social concern. This book evaluates two new initiatives for minority high school students that seek to cultivate marketable job skills. The first is an after-school program that provides experiences similar to apprenticeships, and the second emphasizes new approaches to improving job interview performance. The evaluation research has several ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • Gendering Israel's Outsourcing

    The Erasure of Employees' Caring Skills

    by Orly Benjamin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents an institutional ethnography of budgeting processes of commissioning contracts within welfare, education, and health ministries as case studies. With the historical surge in the power position of economic globalization organizations and their impact on public sectors’ withdrawal from the role of primary women’s employers, a gap between care worker employees and public sector ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • The Corporation as Family

    The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930

    by Nikki Mandell ...
    Series series The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. Series on Business, Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy
    The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable growth of corporate welfare programs in American industry. By the mid-1920s, 80 percent of the nation’s largest companies — firms including DuPont, International Harvester, and Metropolitan Life Insurance — engaged in some form of welfare work. Programs were implemented to achieve goals that ranged from improving basic workplace ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Inequality

    Causes and Consequences

    Edited by Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Lorenzo Cappellari ...
    Series Book 43 - Research in Labor Economics
    Inequality has been rising in many countries over the last decades and the process seems to have accelerated with the Great Recession. Not only is income distribution more unequal today than 40 years ago, but also its transmission through generations has increased. In other words, many countries no longer experience upward economic mobility as was prevalent in the past. Research in Labor Economics ... Read more

    $178.09 CAD

  • The State of Working America

    by Lawrence Mishel, Josh Bivens, Elise Gould, Heidi Shierholz ...
    Series series Economic Policy Institute
    From Reviews of Previous Editions—"The State of Working America remains unrivaled as the most-trusted source for a comprehensive understanding of how working Americans and their families are faring in today's economy."—Robert B. Reich"It is the inequality of wealth, argue the authors, rather than new technology (as some would have it), that is responsible for the failure of America's workplace to ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD