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  • Work-Life Balance in Times of Recession, Austerity and Beyond

    Edited by Suzan Lewis, Deirdre Anderson, Clare Lyonette, Nicola Payne, Stephen Wood ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Employment Relations
    This book reflects the enormous interest in work-life balance and current pressing concerns about the impacts of austerity more broadly. It draws on contemporary research and practitioner experiences to explore how work-life balance and related workplace and social policy fare in turbulent economic times and the implications for employees, employers and wider societies. Authors consider workplace ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Shadow Work

    The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day

    by Craig Lambert ...
    With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, society, and the family. It underpins our finances and our sense of meaning in life. Given the overriding importance of work, we need to recognize a profound transformation in the nature of work that is significantly altering lives: the incoming tidal wave of shadow work ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada:

    by Bob Barnetson ...
    Series series Fabriks: Studies in the Working Class
    Workplace injuries are common avoidable and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts intervening only when necessary to maintain the system's legitimacy. Dr. Bob Barnetson sheds light on this faulty system highlighting the way in which employers create dangerous work environments yet ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Talent Equation: Big Data Lessons for Navigating the Skills Gap and Building a Competitive Workforce

    by Matt Ferguson, Lorin M. Hitt, Prasanna Tambe ...
    "Companies that can unleash the passions and gifts of their people will have a competitive advantage in the landscape of the future--becoming curators instead of keepers of talent. This book gives readers some of the keys to cracking that code."--CARLEEN HAAS, VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF TALENT OFFICER, HUMANAIS YOUR HR DEPARTMENT PREPARED TO FLIP THE BIG DATA SWITCH?At every stage of the employee ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Inventing Equal Opportunity

    by Frank Dobbin ...
    Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts--were the ones who determined what equal opportunity meant in practice, designing changes in how employers hire, promote, and fire workers, and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • After Civil Rights

    Racial Realism in the New American Workplace

    by John D. Skrentny ...
    A provocative new approach to race in the workplaceWhat role should racial difference play in the American workplace? As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this question, and the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964 seemingly answered it: race must not be a factor in workplace decisions. In After Civil Rights, John Skrentny contends that after decades of mass immigration, many ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Playing Against the House

    The Dramatic World of an Undercover Union Organizer

    by James D. Walsh ...
    In the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich’s classic Nickel and Dimed, a talented young journalist goes undercover as a casino labor-union organizer in this rare inside look at the ongoing struggle of hourly-wage service workers to survive in America.“Salting” is a simple concept—get hired at a non-union company, do the job you were hired to do, and, with the help of organizers on the outside, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Language of Global Success

    How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations

    by Tsedal Neeley ...
    For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an in-depth look at a single organization—the high-tech giant Rakuten—in the five years following its English lingua franca mandate. Neeley’s behind ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • The Third Way

    The Promise of Industrial Democracy

    by Dennis Lawrence ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Human Resource Management
    In this book, first published in 1988, the author shows that the movement for industrial democracy has deep roots in British history, and looks at the economic and political potential of industrial democracy as a mechanism to halt 100 years of industrial decline. The author advocates the general adoption of the industrial co-operative form of organisation on two grounds: it provides for authentic ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Workplace Bullying and Harassment

    New Developments in International Law

    by Ellen Pinkos Cobb ...
    Workplace Bullying and Harassment: New Developments in International Law provides a comprehensive tour around the globe, summarizing relevant legislation and key developments in workplace bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, violence, and stress in over 50 countries in Europe, the Asia Pacific region, the Americas region, and the Middle East and Africa. Workplace bullying, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Consent and Control in the Authoritarian Workplace

    Russia and China Compared

    by Martin Krzywdzinski ...
    Today, a large proportion of the world's states are under authoritarian governments. These countries limit participation rights, both in the political sphere and in the workplace. At the same time, they have to generate consent in the workplace in order to ensure social stability and prevent the escalation of conflicts. But how do companies generate consent given that employee voice and interest ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Workplace Flexibility

    Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce

    Edited by Kathleen Christensen, Barbara Schneider ...
    Although today's family has changed, the workplace has not—and the resulting one-size-fits-all workplace has become profoundly mismatched to the needs of an increasingly diverse and varied workforce. As changes in the composition of the workforce exert new demands on employers, considerable attention is being paid to how workplaces can be structured more flexibly to achieve the goals of employers ... Read more

    $20.99 USD