Labour economics
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Labour economics
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
€ 91.27
€ 91.27
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
€ 14.84
€ 14.84
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€ 16.91
€ 20.99
€ 16.91
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 394 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JPA; JPF; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691633992
- ISBN
- 9780691633992
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 214.54
€ 214.54
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€ 27.37
€ 29.99
€ 27.37
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€ 24.80
€ 33.99
€ 24.80
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
€ 94.25€ 72.38
€ 94.25
€ 72.38
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
The Bilingual Advantage. Language, Literacy and the US Labor Market.
. Ed(S): Callahan, Rebecca M.; Gandara, Patri...
Hardback. Using novel methodological approaches and new data, The Bilingual Advantage draws together researchers from education, economics, sociology, anthropology and linguistics to examine the economic and employment benefits of bilingualism in the US labor market, countering past research that shows no such benefits exist. Editor(s): Callahan, Rebecca M.; Gandara, Patricia C. Series: Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFDM; KCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783092420
- ISBN
- 9781783092420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.82
€ 170.82
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
€ 34.00
€ 34.00
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
€ 23.47
€ 23.47
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
€ 66.09
€ 66.09
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€ 23.06
€ 31.99
€ 23.06
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€ 23.22
€ 27.99
€ 23.22
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€ 24.07
€ 25.99
€ 24.07
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
€ 4.99
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€ 17.78
€ 23.99
€ 17.78
The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market. The R...
O'Neill, June E.; O'Neill, Dave M.
Hardback. The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market provides historical background on employment discrimination and wage discrepancies in the United States and on government efforts to address employment discrimination Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; KCFM; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- AEI Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780844772448
- ISBN
- 9780844772448
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.95€ 87.45
€ 102.95
€ 87.45
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€ 18.64
€ 24.99
€ 18.64
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
€ 64.80€ 50.50
€ 64.80
€ 50.50