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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “francesca bettio”
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  • Gender and the European Labour Market

    Edited by Francesca Bettio, Janneke Plantenga, Mark Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the European Economy
    The book presents state of the art research on women’s current position in European labour markets. It combines analysis of the latest trends in employment, occupational segregation, working time, unpaid work, social provisions (especially care provisions) and the impact of the financial crisis, with overall assessment of the actual impact of the European Employment Strategy and the specific ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • High Skill Migration and Recession

    Gendered Perspectives

    Edited by Anna Triandafyllidou, Irina Isaakyan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to this rule. This book explores the complex relationship between gender and high-skill migration, with a special focus on the impact of the current economic crisis on highly skilled women-migrants in Europe. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Chasing the Harvest

    Migrant Workers in California Agriculture

    Edited by Gabriel Thompson ...
    Series series Voice of Witness
    Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United StatesThe Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of California’s migrant farmworkers in the 1930s. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycotts captured the imagination of the United States in the 1960s and ’70s. Yet today, the stories of the more than 800,000 men, women, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Wobblies of the World

    A Global History of the IWW

    Edited by Peter Cole, David Struthers, Kenyon Zimmer ...
    Series series Wildcat
    The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other. Founded in 1905 in Chicago, it rapidly gained members across the world thanks to its revolutionary, internationalist outlook. By using powerful organising methods including direct-action and direct-democracy, it put power in the hands of workers. This philosophy is labeled as ‘revolutionary industrial unionism’ and the members called ... Read more

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  • Employers’ Economics versus Employees’ Economy

    How Adam Smith’s Legacy Obscures Public Investment in the Private Sector

    by John F. M. McDermott ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book argues that economic activity in the public sphere now underwrites private corporations, and rejects rigid adherence to traditional economic theories that no longer apply. Adam Smith's widely used "merchant's model" assumes that most investment is private, when in fact research demonstrates that public investment in the workforce through education and training far outweighs the private ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Strategies for Increasing Productive Employment in Developing Countries with Special Reference to Sierra Leone

    by Dr. Ibrahim B.S. Sesay ...
    This book as pointed out by Professor Singer in his preface discussed divergent development problems facing developing countries. Participants of the seminar from various African countries brought in case studies from their own countries as comparison with the Kenya case study, where the seminar was held. As a result of this comparative study, field trips were organized by the seminar authorities. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Migrant Citizenship from Below

    Family, Domestic Work, and Social Activism in Irregular Migration

    by K. Shinozaki ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Migrant Citizenship from Below explores the dynamic local and transnational lives of Filipina and Filipino migrant domestic workers living in Schönberg, Germany. Shinozaki examines their irregular migrant citizenship status from 'above', which is produced by complex interactions between Germany's welfare, care, and migration regimes and the Philippines' gendered politics of overseas employment. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Labour Economics

    by Stephen W. Smith ...
    In the six years since the appearance of the first edition of Stephen Smith's book, labour economics has become a more firmly entrenched subject on the curriculum. Previously regarded as a subsection within industrial economics, there are now very few universities that do not devote a course to it in its own right. The focus of topics covered withi ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Care Professions and Globalization

    Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

    Edited by A. González, C. Iffland ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume presents an extended reflection on human dependency and the need to 'care' and be 'cared for'. Philosophers, theologians, social theorists, economists, and professional caregivers to discuss the challenges of professional caregiving, analyzing how societies can promote relationships in which individuals can give and receive 'care'. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Egypt's Labor Market Revisited

    Edited by Ragui Assaad ...
    This volume is a follow-up to a 1998 publication by the Economic Research Forum (ERF). Its significance lies in the contributors' reliance on fresh data and solid analytical techniques used to examine a wide spectrum of pertinent issues concerning the labor market in Egypt. The range of topics includes labor supply, employment and unemployment, youth labor market school-to-work transition, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Communities of Practice and Vintage Innovation

    A Strategic Reaction to Technological Change

    by Francesco Schiavone ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book focuses on the notion of “vintage innovation” and its application in various old technology-based communities of practice. Some communities of practice resist and react to technological change by adopting new technological products (“vintage products”) that extend the lifetime of their old, favored products and practices. There are a number of potential reasons for such strategic ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Worker Absenteeism and Sick Pay

    by John Treble, Tim Barmby ...
    Absenteeism is the single most important cause of lost labour time, yet it has received much less scholarly attention than more dramatic forms of industrial disruption, such as strikes. Arguing that any explanation of absence rates must take into account the interests of both employers and employees, this book constructs a model of the markets for absence and sick pay. These are not independent ... Read more

    $56.59 USD