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  • Young Adult Women, Work and Family

    Living a Contradiction

    by Maureen Padfield, Ian Procter ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
    This text is an exploration of the interplay between employment and domestic relations within a specific group of young women, which includes single working women without children and working mothers. It is based on actual experiences, as related in interviews, and uses longitudianl data to chart the experience of young adult women living a contradiction between work and family. The text also ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • Average Is Over

    Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    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 to mint more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever. Yet, since the great recession, three ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Bread, Freedom, Social Justice

    Workers and the Egyptian Revolution

    by Anne Alexander, Mostafa Bassiouny ...
    Accounts of the Arab Spring often focus on the role of youth coalitions, the use of social media, and the tactics of the Tahrir Square occupation. This authoritative and original book argues that collective action by organised workers played a fundamental role in the Egyptian revolution, which erupted after years of strikes and social protests.Drawing on the authors' decade-long experience of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Job Creation In Latin America And The Caribbean: Recent Trends And Policy Challenges

    by Pages Carmen; Pierre Gaelle; Scarpetta Stefano ...
    This book analyzes recent labor market trends in Latin American countries and the factors that underlie the failure to create more and more productive and rewarding jobs, a failure with substantial political and social costs. The authors analyze how growth and job creation in the region's economies compare with other emerging countries, the impact of job creation and destruction on productivity ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Managing the Margins

    Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment

    by Leah F. Vosko ...
    This book explores the precarious margins of contemporary labour markets. Over the last few decades, there has been much discussion of a shift from full-time permanent jobs to higher levels of part-time and temporary employment and self-employment. Despite such attention, regulatory approaches have not adapted accordingly. Instead, in the absence of genuine alternatives, old regulatory models are ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Understanding the Crisis in Greece

    From Boom to Bust

    by M. Mitsopoulos ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    As the tensions in the Greek economy take centre stage in the international headlines, this book examines the failed policies and political corruption that have bankrupted the nation. The authors comment on recent bailouts and haircuts and explore the uncertain future of Greece in the Eurozone. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Modern Labour Economics

    by Peter Sloane, Paul Latreille, Nigel O'Leary ...
    Labour economics as a discipline has changed dramatically in recent years. Gone are the days of a "job for life". These days, firms and employees are part of a less regulated, more fluid, and more international labour market. Knowledge, training, human resource development and human capital are all major factors on the contemporary scene.This new textbook is the first properly international ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions

    Allan Flanders and British Industrial Relations Reform

    by John Kelly ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Employment Relations
    Allan Flanders was one of the leading British industrial relations academics and his ideas exerted a major influence on government labor policy in the 1960s and 1970s. But as well as being an Oxford academic with a strong interest in theory and labor reform, he was also a lifelong political activist. Originally trained in German revolutionary ethical socialism in the early 1930s, he was the ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Strategy and Organization

    Realizing Strategic Management

    by Loizos Heracleous ...
    Examining some of the new and emerging issues in strategic management, Loizos Heracleous offers a fresh approach to the established ideas of strategy. Beginning with the historical development of the strategy field, including the influence of industrial organisation and the resource-based view, he develops a new perspective labelled an 'organisational action' view of strategy. This approach is ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Lost in Transition

    Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan

    by Mary C. Brinton ...
    Lost in Transition tells the story of the 'lost generation' that came of age in Japan's deep economic recession in the 1990s. The book argues that Japan is in the midst of profound changes that have had an especially strong impact on the young generation. The country's renowned 'permanent employment system' has unraveled for young workers, only to be replaced by temporary and insecure forms of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • International Trade, Wage Inequality and the Developing Economy

    A General Equilibrium Approach

    by Sugata Marjit, Rajat Acharyya ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book deals with the impact that international trade is likely to have on the skilled-unskilled wage gap in a typical developing economy. This is the first theoretical monograph on this particular issue which has already generated substantial debate and voluminous work for the developed countries. A unique feature of this work is that it tries to explain the possibility of rising inequality ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Incompetency and Competency Training

    Improving Executive Skills in Sensemaking, Framing Issues, and Making Choices

    by Rouxelle de Villiers, Roger Marshall, Arch Woodside ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book covers theory and practice of competency and incompetency training. ‘Incompetency training’ includes formal and informal instruction that consciously (purposively) or unconsciously imparts knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behavior (including procedures) that are useless, inaccurate, misleading, and/or will lower performance outcomes of the trainee versus no training or training using ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD