Labour economics
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Labour economics
Paperback. Examines the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on those who labor in the agricultural fields and maquiladora factories on the border. This title describes harsh conditions of child labor in the Mexicali Valley, the deplorable housing outside factories in cities such as Tijuana, and corporate retaliation faced by union organizers. Num Pages: 348 pages, 24 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; KCF; KCLT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520244726
- ISBN
- 9780520244726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.70
€ 30.99
€ 22.70
Hardcover. There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and though corporate profits have picked up after the Great Recession of 2008, jobs have not. It is possible that jobless recoveries could become a permanent feature of Western economies. Series: Work & Society. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745670270
- ISBN
- 9780745670270
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.02
€ 65.02
Paperback. There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and though corporate profits have picked up after the Great Recession of 2008, jobs have not. It is possible that jobless recoveries could become a permanent feature of Western economies. Series: Work & Society. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745670287
- ISBN
- 9780745670287
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.11
€ 23.11
Hardcover. What are the true consequences of the Employee Free Choice Act? Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures, charts, graphs. BIC Classification: KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Hoover Institution Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817949419
- ISBN
- 9780817949419
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.00
€ 32.00
Paperback. Confronts head-on the myth that organizational giantism leads to economic efficiency and well-being in the modern age. On the contrary, this book demonstrates how bigness undermines our economic productivity and progress, endangers our democratic freedoms, and exacerbates our economic problems and challenges. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC; KCF; KJV; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804749695
- ISBN
- 9780804749695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.14
€ 42.99
€ 38.14
Paperback. Why do truckers accept these conditions and pay? Why can't they achieve what workers did in the past through collective action and union organization? This book looks at what has happened to blue-collar jobs since the trucking industry was deregulated. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; KCF; KNGR; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520278127
- ISBN
- 9780520278127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.41
€ 33.99
€ 24.41
The Aging Workforce. Realities, Myths, and Implications for Organizati...
Hedge, Jerry W.; Borman, Walter C.; Lammlein,...
Hardback. Examines the changing demographics of the workforce, and their impact on the world of work. This work provides a perspective on what we know about issues related to the older worker, thus providing a foundation for confronting the challenges facing the workforce of the future. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCF; KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591473190
- ISBN
- 9781591473190
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.96
€ 29.99
€ 26.96
Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, 30 colour illustrations, 30 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: KCF; KJMV2; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 248 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319455181
- ISBN
- 9783319455181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.45
€ 52.45
Paperback. Explores the dysfunctional state of US high-skilled immigration laws. This title recommends a coherent set of immediate reforms, which should aim to facilitate continuously high and increasingly economically necessary levels of high-skilled immigration to the United States. Series: Policy Analyses in International Economics. Num Pages: 132 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 159 x 9. Weight in Grams: 231.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780881324136
- ISBN
- 9780881324136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.81
€ 20.99
€ 16.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- MX Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780922225
- ISBN
- 9781780922225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.90
€ 14.90
Hardback. This volume deals with the general issues of the causes and consequences of the rise of so-called free labor from slavery and serfdom in Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean over the past four to five centuries, and points to the many complications and paradoxical aspects of this change. Editor(s): Engerman, Stanley L. Series: The Making of Modern Freedom Series. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 1KJ; JHBL; KCF; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804735216
- ISBN
- 9780804735216
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.11
€ 97.11
Paperback. Editor(s): O'Brien, Ruth; Pempel, T. J.; Ravenhill, John. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSJ1; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382. Clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press New York
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0221024
- ISBN
- 9780801473579
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Num Pages: 118 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: KCF; KJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 118
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780903319744
- ISBN
- 9780903319744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.18
€ 10.18
Hardcover. This book analyses the impact of European tax and benefit systems on incentives to create and take up jobs. European policymakers face tough choices as reforms to these systems are costly and recognising and understanding the complex trade-offs involved - a pre-condition to pushing the reform process forward - is the aim of this volume. Editor(s): Buti, Marco; Sestito, Paolo; Wijkander, Hans. Num Pages: 320 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QFE; KCFM; LNTH; LNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 234. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781840645118
- ISBN
- 9781840645118
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.33
€ 145.33
Paperback. Explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest by introducing large factories, contract farming, and foreign migrant labour. Identifying rural areas as centres for modern American industrialism, this study contributes to a re-orientation of labour history from urban factory workers to rural migrant workers. Series: The Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 14 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; HBTB; HBTK; KCF; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252076671
- ISBN
- 9780252076671
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 33.47
€ 34.99
€ 33.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: KCFM; VFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 162. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- LIBERTIES PRESS
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KIN0008749
- ISBN
- 9781905483600
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Essay collection from the Global Labour Column Editor(s): Pons-Vignon, Nicolas; Nkosi, Mbuso. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCF; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745336169
- ISBN
- 9780745336169
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.67€ 81.95
€ 99.67
€ 81.95
Paperback. Essay collection from the Global Labour Column Editor(s): Pons-Vignon, Nicolas; Nkosi, Mbuso. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCF; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745336213
- ISBN
- 9780745336213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.37
€ 40.99
€ 31.37
Hardcover. Selected papers from a conference held in honour of Professor Dale T. Mortensen upon the occasion of his 65th birthday. It includes papers on some of Professor Dale T. Mortensen's current research topics, as well as additional theoretical papers, and micro- and macro-econometric papers. Editor(s): Bunzel, Henning; Christensen, Bent; Neumann, George R.; Robin, Jean-Marc. Series: Contributions to Economic Analysis. Num Pages: 612 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KCF; KCH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1030.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 612
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780444520890
- ISBN
- 9780444520890
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.65
€ 149.65
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745332550
- ISBN
- 9780745332550
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 26.37
€ 40.99
€ 26.37