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Engineering (R0) eBook Series

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  • PAL Driven Organizational Learning: Theory and Practices

    A Light on Learning Journey of Organizations

    Edited by Kong Bieng Chuah, Kris M. Y. Law ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Presenting an innovative concept and approach for organization management, this book serves to document an organization’s journey towards the ultimate goal of learning organization. This book also shares the experience on how a OL framework built on established learning theories, could be used effectively, overcoming many of the barriers in a real industrial setting. Utilizing a ready-to-use tool ... Read more

    $106.29 CAD

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  • The Thought of Work

    by John W. Budd ...
    John W. Budd's The Thought of Work provides a much needed and highly eloquent statement of the meanings and orientations to work across time and nations. It is essential reading for students of work from senior scholars to beginning undergraduates.— Randy Hodson, Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences The Ohio State University and past editor ― American Sociological ReviewBy ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Employment in the Lean Years:Policy and Prospects for the Next Decade

    Policy and Prospects for the Next Decade

    Edited by David Marsden ...
    Over the last fifteen years, the deregulation of Britain's labour market has led to economic growth, employment opportunities, and a more diverse workforce: the 'fat years'. However, now as Britain faces its lean years with job cuts, rising unemployment, income insecurity, and related social strains, how can and should the government and key labour market policy makers ensure the labour market ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Capital Accumulation and Women's Labor in Asian Economies

    by Peter Custers ...
    The global impact of Asian production of the wage goods consumed in North America and Europe is only now being recognized, and is far from being understood. Asian women, most only recently urbanized and in the waged work force, are at the center of a process of intensive labor for minimal wages that has upended the entire global economy. First published in 1997, this prescient study is the best ... Read more

    $26.19 CAD

  • The Good Temp

    by Vicki Smith, Esther B. Neuwirth ...
    Temporary agencies place approximately two and a half million people in jobs each day in the United States. Every year, about twelve million people use these placement agencies to find temporary work. Many Americans, even those who desire permanent jobs, decide to enter the labor market through the portal of temporary agencies. Compared with the post-World War II era, when it was a marginal labor ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • All I Want Is a Job!

    Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System

    by Mary Gatta ...
    In All I Want Is a Job!, Mary Gatta puts a human face on workforce development policy. An ethnographic sociologist, Gatta went undercover, posing as a client in a New Jersey One-Stop Career Center. One-Stop Centers, developed as part of the federal Workforce Investment Act, are supposed to be an unemployed worker's go-to resource on the way to re-employment. But, how well do these centers function ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Stretching the Sociological Imagination

    Essays in Honour of John Eldridge

    Edited by Andrew Smith, Matt Dawson, Bridget Fowler, David Miller ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection calls for renewed attention to the concept of the sociological imagination, allowing social scientists to link private issues to public troubles. Inspired by the eminent Glasgow-based sociologist, John Eldridge, it re-engages with the concept and shows how it can be applied to analyzing society today. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Vulnerability and Long-term Care in Europe

    An Economic Perspective

    by Agar Brugiavini, Ludovico Carrino, Cristina Elisa Orso, Giacomo Pasini ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    On average, people in Europe are living longer, and are in better health. Despite this, however, a significant degree of health inequality is emerging among different socioeconomic groups. Assessment-of-need procedures and eligibility rules define the target population in ‘need-of-care’, and represent a compulsory gateway for olderadults in order to receive home-care benefits, either in-kind or in ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD

  • Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy

    The Social Effort Bargain

    by Robert LaJeunesse ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Robert LaJeunesse looks beyond the 20th century arguments for shortening the work week. He writes a careful, convincing critique of traditional full employment policies in advocacy of an alternative macroeconomic paradigm. With an emphasis on greater socioeconomic participation, the author proposes a policy of work time regulation that is not only appropriate for a 21st century post-industrial ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • EU Labor Market Policy

    Ideas, Thought Communities and Policy Change

    by A. Schellinger ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The EU's 'social dimension' today is a product of the ideology of the 1990s. Its employment field is directed to increase the employability of workers and the adaptability of labor market regimes. The book argues that this social-liberal approach is best explained with a set of ideas strategically advanced by 'thought communities' in the policy process. It traces the success of this new approach ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Technology Differences over Space and Time

    by Francesco Caselli ...
    Series series CREI Lectures in Macroeconomics
    Technology Differences over Space and Time looks at how countries use their productive resources—such as workers, skills, equipment and structures, and natural resources. Francesco Caselli develops methods to assess the efficiency with which productive inputs are used, and how these efficiencies vary across countries and over time.Caselli finds that richer countries use skilled workers relatively ... Read more

    $69.29 CAD

  • Human Resource Management in the Hotel and Catering Industry

    by M. J. Boella ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Human Resource Management
    This book, first published in 1987, gives valuable insights into the characteristics of employment in the hotel and catering industry and useful guidance on personal techniques. It deals with fundamental issues, such as personnel policy, as well as with practical techniques.Human Resource Management in the Hotel and Catering Industry has been written as an introductory text to human resource ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD