Labour economics
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Labour economics
Hardback. Focuses on women and households as significant productive units of global production systems and brings gender and social reproduction into the theoretical center of global commodity and value chain analysis. Editor(s): Dunaway, Wilma A. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804787949
- ISBN
- 9780804787949
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.02
€ 154.02
Hardback. Through a detailed analysis of macroeconomic changes and individuals' lifetime employment trajectories, this book explains why Japan and Taiwan have experienced different levels of improvement in women's economic status over the last half century. Series: Studies in Social Inequality. Num Pages: 280 pages, 15 tables, 51 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 1FPJ; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804760096
- ISBN
- 9780804760096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.58
€ 78.58
Paperback. The contributors consider a wide range of issues, from an examination of the male/female wage gap that starts when girls are teenagers, to policewomen in Persian Gulf countries, to Latinas' politics, to Aboriginal health care workers, to secretarial work, and to feminist activism in Cuban hip hop. Editor(s): Morrow, Colette; Fredrick, Terri Ann. Series: A Feminist Formations Reader. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1, 1 graphs. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421406350
- ISBN
- 9781421406350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 37.30
€ 42.99
€ 37.30
Paperback. This text analyzes scholarship and controversies on the glass ceiling and labour market discrimination in conjunction with the specific labour histories of Asian American ethnic groups. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742503359
- ISBN
- 9780742503359
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.11
€ 61.11
Paperback. Explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions. Drawing on field research in southern India and in Australia, and folding an ethnography into a political economy examination, this book offers an analysis of the India-based global labor management practice. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9 halftones. 3 line illus. 1 table. 1 map. BIC Classification: KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691118529
- ISBN
- 9780691118529
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.59
€ 53.59
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745327983
- ISBN
- 9780745327983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.42
€ 50.42
Paperback. This study draws on data and surveys to examine the measurable and the perceived effects of globalization on American workers. It explores whether large relative losses will continue to limit US international economic initiatives and then looks at perceptions of globalization's effects. Num Pages: 150 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFS; KCF; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Peterson Institute
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780881322958
- ISBN
- 9780881322958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.68
€ 34.68
Paperback. Examines the economic, political, and social causes and consequences of declining wages in the United States. This title presents a comprehensive analysis of the many factors affecting labor costs and concludes that many of them result from choices made by the states themselves through the laws and policies they enact. Series: American Governance and Public Policy Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589010888
- ISBN
- 9781589010888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.02
€ 72.02
Hardcover. This book deals with maritime workers, seafarers, and merchant shipping in the Indian subcontinent during the colonial period. It provides a detailed account of the social and individual lives of Indian seafarers; development of shipping industry; and economic life in the subcontinent. Num Pages: 320 pages, 22 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; JFFS; KCF; KCZ; KNGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 26. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198078845
- ISBN
- 9780198078845
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.69
€ 79.69
Hardback. Exposing the corporate structures behind exploitative migrant labour programs Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 chart, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSC; KCF; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252036279
- ISBN
- 9780252036279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.13
€ 134.13
Paperback. Exposing the corporate structures behind exploitative migrant labour programs Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 chart, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSC; KCF; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252078170
- ISBN
- 9780252078170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.95
€ 36.95
Paperback. Tells the story of how the market for temporary professionals operates from the perspective of the contractors who do the work, the managers who employ them, the permanent employees who work beside them, and the staffing agencies who broker deals. This book illustrates how the reality of flexibility often differs substantially from its promise. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 line illus. 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; KCF; KNTX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691127958
- ISBN
- 9780691127958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. An analysis of how US businesses use part-time employment, and why they are using it more and more. Examining the nature and purposes of the different types of part-time employment, this work explores the roots of part-time jobs in the organization of work, and the inadequacies of the public policies on part-time employment. Num Pages: 240 pages, 18 tables, 15 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; JPQB; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566393829
- ISBN
- 9781566393829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.85
€ 37.85
Paperback. A career-spanning collection of writings on labor history by one of the leading figures in the field, showing not only his growth as an historian but the growth of his field as well, exploring the subjects of workers, unions, and politics. Series: The Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252068683
- ISBN
- 9780252068683
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.74
€ 34.99
€ 31.74
Paperback. Tells the story of three men - Congressman Harry Davenport, union leader Tom Quinn, and Father Charles Owen Rice - whose lives became intertwined during the anti-Communist witch hunts of the McCarthy Era. This story helps illuminate one of the most repressive periods in American history. Num Pages: 344 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822959663
- ISBN
- 9780822959663
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.05
€ 67.05
Hardcover. A close ethnographic study of how culture, power, gender, and institutions affect labor exchanges Series: Linking Levels of Analysis S. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 605.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472110186
- ISBN
- 9780472110186
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.58
€ 117.58
Paperback. Editor(s): Sandidge, Leslie; Irby, Victor. Num Pages: 104 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 7. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781622579945
- ISBN
- 9781622579945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 100.63€ 69.92
€ 100.63
€ 69.92
Hardback. Editor(s): Blancero, Donna Maria; DelCamp, Robert G. Num Pages: 262 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL4; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 182 x 20. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781621004288
- ISBN
- 9781621004288
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 241.52€ 163.05
€ 241.52
€ 163.05
Series: Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; KCF; KNXB2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 36. Weight in Grams: 906.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Edition
- 3 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810861961
- ISBN
- 9780810861961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 237.28
€ 237.28
Hardback. When Hitler assumed the German Chancellorship in January 1933, 34 per cent of Germany's work force was unemployed. By 1936, most of the jobless had disappeared from official unemployment statistics. Dan Silverman explores how the Nazis put Germany back to work, and asks: was the recovery genuine? Num Pages: 384 pages, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 671.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674740716
- ISBN
- 9780674740716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.04
€ 137.04