(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Sep-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781839768552)
How surveillance and new management technologies are changing the nature of work, and how workers are fighting for more control over their workplaces-- How technologies of organization are redrawing the lines of class struggle...Loe edasi...
This book brings together distinguished scholars who analyze the recent resurgence of inflation from the point of view of conflict among social classes over the appropriate distribution of income.For the better part of the past four decades...Loe edasi...
This book explores the prospects of a global labour law system. Global labour law is understood as a still non-coherent set ofnorms that at different levels and with different legal effectiveness regulate legal labour relations, promote respec...Loe edasi...
The Handbook for the Future of Work offers a timely and critical analysis of the transformative forces shaping work and employment in the 21st century....Loe edasi...
This Handbook presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of the relationship between labour and the built environment, with their connections to human settlements. It synergises these critical focus areas in innovative ways.....Loe edasi...
This book advances scholarship on the infrastructural turn in migration studies by foregrounding the underexplored role of migration brokers from receiving countries and catering to foreign professionals. While existing research has predominantly fo...Loe edasi...
This open access book presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the study of well-being at work. Written by experts from various disciplines, it integrates organizational behavior, sociology, economics, economic history, and entrepreneurship to p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781049804361)
The Dominion of Shoppers is a vivid survey of Canadian consumption over the last four centuries, stretching from the early fur trade to recent online shopping. It examines the business, social, and cultural dynamics of the long history of Canadian c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789819827749)
In this book, a key assumption in most contemporary management writing is challenged viz. that work is ubiquitous. With rapid technological evolution in focus, the author explores how it has brought human beings to the threshold of being liberated f...Loe edasi...
This book extends the literature on multidimensional poverty and economic deprivation by providing insights into the well-being of the US population. Written for policymakers, researchers, economists, and others studying poverty, this resource docum...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198896074)
What did work mean to Shakespeare? And what does it mean to work in Shakespeares plays? Work was a quintessential part of early modern society, as it is today. But the meanings attached to different forms of work were changing in important ways duri...Loe edasi...
Offering an accessible and wide-ranging account of how Shakespeare engaged with the working world around him, this book demonstrates that we can come to a richer understanding of Shakespeares dramatic output and cultural legacy if we attend to how...Loe edasi...
This book provides a rigorous analysis of the factors underlying the Philippines’ relative economic stagnation compared with its Southeast Asian neighbours, despite sustained optimistic government rhetoric. This book provides a rigo...Loe edasi...
This book provides a rigorous analysis of the factors underlying the Philippines’ relative economic stagnation compared with its Southeast Asian neighbours, despite sustained optimistic government rhetoric. This book provides a rigo...Loe edasi...
The Danish Economy in the Twentieth Century (1987) shows how Denmark was less severely affected by the Depression of the 1930s and the two world wars than other countries in Europe and how it maintained its position by the skilful exploitation of it...Loe edasi...
Planning and Productivity in Sweden (1976) examines the success of Swedens economy and working arrangements, detailing how a resource-poor nation came to achieve such high living standards. The growth in prosperity was no accident, but involved cons...Loe edasi...
Social Surveys (1949) examines a host of fact-finding studies, dealing mainly with working class poverty, and the associated nature and problems. To describe the structure of a community demands a study of the people who compose it, and the environm...Loe edasi...
Economic Integration in East and West (1976) explores the logic of economic integration to form free trade areas and common markets, and applies the findings to the European Economic Community and Comecon, and to third countries and the world econom...Loe edasi...
Industrial Action (1976), written by an experienced active trade unionist, brings valuable real-world examples to an examination of the many facets of trade union organising. It looks at the organising of the workforce, recruitment of new members, w...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1977, this book was written at a time when unemployment figures in Britain were at their highest since the Depression of the 1930s, with 1.5 million people out of work. The book argues that official figures underestimated t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252089084)
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, communities in the Downriver region of the Detroit River have forged an enduring claim to the well-being of waterways that are central to where they live, work, and play. Lisa M. Fine examines...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252046940)
This exploration of an industrial suburb south of Detroit takes seriously the connections to place and the natural world among the working-class people who lived, worked, and played in the region. After a consideration of this type of analysis a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978844094)
The New York City subway system stretches over 800 miles and carries millions of riders every day. While many have written about this legendary public transit system, a century of published books says little about the subway as a workplace. Older bo...Loe edasi...
Miguel Angel Santos, José Morales-Arilla, Zinedine Partipilo Cornielles
Sari: Elements in the Economics of Emerging Markets
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009704304)
The Element examines the claim that US economic sanctions on Venezuela constituted collective punishment of the population, contributing to economic collapse and humanitarian crisis. It shows that the bulk of the economic devastation occurred befo...Loe edasi...
The Element examines the claim that US economic sanctions on Venezuela constituted collective punishment of the population, contributing to economic collapse and humanitarian crisis. It shows that the bulk of the economic devastation occurred befo...Loe edasi...
In this book, the Glasgow University Meda Group bring their innovative and forensic three-dimensional methodological approach to understanding the role of media in shaping Britains cost of living crisis. In the context of neoliberal austerity, welf...Loe edasi...
First published in 1982, The French Economy by J.R. Hough explores Frances remarkable economic growth from post-war devastation to the 1970s, despite challenges like the oil crises. The book provides an in-depth analysis of France’s indust...Loe edasi...
Hilary Cottam, author of mind-shifting Radical Help (New York Times), now turns a revolutionary eye to the subject of the future of work...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781804295663)
How capitalism steals our time and our labour, and how we can fight back.An extra 15 minutes work here, another 20 minutes there: wage theft has been described as a silent epidemic blighting the global workforce. And it’s on the rise....Loe edasi...
This book explores the legal landscape of noncompetition agreements, both past and present, as a means of safeguarding trade secrets in business law. It will be of interest to researchers in the field of business law, trade law, and employment law...Loe edasi...
This volume examines the three pillars of Japanese management—lifetime employment, seniority-based wages and promotions, and enterprise unions—from the viewpoint of both Japanese and non-Japanese scholars. Multiple chapters revolve around the them...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517912956)
This book recreates twenty days in April 1970 when a then-illegal strike by Minneapoliss public school teachers marked a singular moment of cultural upheaval-and forever changed the citys politics, labor law, educational climate, and the right to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517913441)
The complex and dramatic history of an illegal teachers’ strike that forever altered labor relations and Minnesota politics When viewed from our turbulent times, the Minneapolis of fifty years ago might seem serene, but Minneapol...Loe edasi...
Katherine Lippel, Barbara Neis, Maxine Visotzky-Charlebois, Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: AU Press, ISBN-13: 9781771994675)
Exposes the hidden risks faced by Canada’s mobile workers and calls for stronger protections and fair access to compensation. Canada’s mobile workforce keeps the economy moving—but at what cost to safety and health? This timely and rev...Loe edasi...
This book brings together distinguished scholars who analyze the recent resurgence of inflation from the point of view of conflict among social classes over the appropriate distribution of income.For the better part of the past four decades...Loe edasi...
This book explores the prospects of a global labour law system. Global labour law is understood as a still non-coherent set ofnorms that at different levels and with different legal effectiveness regulate legal labour relations, promote respec...Loe edasi...
The Handbook for the Future of Work offers a timely and critical analysis of the transformative forces shaping work and employment in the 21st century....Loe edasi...
This Handbook presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of the relationship between labour and the built environment, with their connections to human settlements. It synergises these critical focus areas in innovative ways.....Loe edasi...
This book advances scholarship on the infrastructural turn in migration studies by foregrounding the underexplored role of migration brokers from receiving countries and catering to foreign professionals. While existing research has predominantly fo...Loe edasi...
This open access book presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the study of well-being at work. Written by experts from various disciplines, it integrates organizational behavior, sociology, economics, economic history, and entrepreneurship to p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781049804361)
The Dominion of Shoppers is a vivid survey of Canadian consumption over the last four centuries, stretching from the early fur trade to recent online shopping. It examines the business, social, and cultural dynamics of the long history of Canadian c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781035331680)
This informative Handbook evaluates how labour mobility in different forms can help us understand processes of uneven regional development. It examines the motivations and restrictions of labour mobility, including how its patterns can influence fir...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789819827749)
In this book, a key assumption in most contemporary management writing is challenged viz. that work is ubiquitous. With rapid technological evolution in focus, the author explores how it has brought human beings to the threshold of being liberated f...Loe edasi...
This book extends the literature on multidimensional poverty and economic deprivation by providing insights into the well-being of the US population. Written for policymakers, researchers, economists, and others studying poverty, this resource docum...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198896074)
What did work mean to Shakespeare? And what does it mean to work in Shakespeares plays? Work was a quintessential part of early modern society, as it is today. But the meanings attached to different forms of work were changing in important ways duri...Loe edasi...
Offering an accessible and wide-ranging account of how Shakespeare engaged with the working world around him, this book demonstrates that we can come to a richer understanding of Shakespeares dramatic output and cultural legacy if we attend to how...Loe edasi...
In the tradition of bestselling classics such as Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed and Benjamin Lorr’s The Secret Life of Groceries comes a character-driven exploration of the modern supermarket, unpacking what works and what doe...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978839304)
Health care workers are burned out. Health care leaders know that workers are burned out, but do not yet have the right tools to fix the problem. Called to Care? argues that we can mitigate burnout by examining what is most meaningful about...Loe edasi...
Health care workers want their jobs to be meaningful and are most likely to find meaning when they connect to the work and make progress on something that matters. Unfortunately, their workplaces create obstacles to meaningful experiences, produci...Loe edasi...
This book provides a rigorous analysis of the factors underlying the Philippines’ relative economic stagnation compared with its Southeast Asian neighbours, despite sustained optimistic government rhetoric. This book provides a rigo...Loe edasi...
