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Labour economics

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Labour economics

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

€ 14.96

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
€ 17.06

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

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

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
€ 24.98

Hardback. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, this book explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; KCF; KNGR; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520278110
ISBN
9780520278110
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.73
€ 72.45

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
€ 38.72

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

€ 23.41

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

€ 66.66

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

€ 31.99
€ 23.09

Hardback. More than peace or money or any other good, the business, government, military, city, and village leaders who can create good jobs will own the future. This title explains why jobs are the global currency for leaders. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Gallup Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9781595620552
ISBN
9781595620552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.35

Paperback. Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252066290
ISBN
9780252066290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.26

Paperback. Editor(s): Turner, Lowell; Wever, Kirsten S. Series: LERA Research Volumes. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: KCF; KCP; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 199. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
ILR Press
Number of pages
275
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1st
SKU
KEX0224632
ISBN
9780913447642
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Offers a critical reading of The Cuba Commission Report, a massive testimony case that investigated the conditions of Chinese contract laborers in Cuba in 1874. From this case, this title traces the emergence of a 'coolie narrative' that forms a counterpart to the 'slave narrative'. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 Tables, 2 Halftones, 2 Figures. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KJ; GTB; JFC; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 417.
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592135820
ISBN
9781592135820
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.09

Paperback. An investigation of the dramatic decline in the proportion of workers represented by a labour union in the USA between 1977 and 1997. It relates this decline to changes in domestic spending, imports, exports, and the intensity in which labour is used for both union and non-union workers. Series: Globalization Balance Sheet S. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCF; KCLT; KCZ; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 6. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The Peterson Institute for International Economics
Edition
y First printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780881323412
ISBN
9780881323412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: KCA; KCF; KCZ; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231179010
ISBN
9780231179010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.81

Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: KCA; KCF; KCZ; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231179003
ISBN
9780231179003
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.13
€ 51.02

Paperback. * This book provides the first intensive study focusing on building cleaners and their global experiences. * Brings together an international group of scholars and experts to investigate different national contexts and examples. * Draws out important commonalities and highlights significant differences in these experiences. Editor(s): Aguiar, Dr. Luis L. M.; Herod, Andrew. Series: Antipode Book Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KCF; KNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405156363
ISBN
9781405156363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.46

Hardcover. Num Pages: 179 pages. BIC Classification: KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
179
Condition
New
SKU
V9781560724315
ISBN
9781560724315
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.64
€ 77.11

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843835851
ISBN
9781843835851
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.17

Paperback. The Economic Horror is an impassioned book addressed to the dominant political and economic elites in our society. Those in power, Forrester tells us, continue to present employment as the norm -- and by doing so make the unemployed feel worthless. Num Pages: 144 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745619941
ISBN
9780745619941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.41

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