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  • Handbook of Research on Unemployment and Labor Market Sustainability in the Era of Globalization
    The effective utilization of available resources is a pivotal factor for production levels in modern business environments. However, when resources are limited or in excess, this effects organizational success, as well as the labor market. The Handbook of Research on Unemployment and Labor Market Sustainability in the Era of Globalization is a comprehensive reference source for...
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    321,77 €

  • Britain and America, 1850-1939
    G. E. Mingay / Philip S. Bagwell
    First published in 1970, Britain and America 1850-1939 is a key text for anyone seeking to trace and interpret the development of the two great trans-Atlantic economies. The authors present a comparative survey of the economic development of Britain and America. ...
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    56,62 €

  • Raising Class Consciousness
    Gino Canella
    This book focuses on the unequal power dynamics embedded in technological change. Offering critical and international perspectives on labor and communication, the book demonstrates how the adoption and implementation of technologies are political processes shaped by economic incentives, worker organizing and state intervention. The book reviews how contemporary technologies lik...
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    208,36 €

  • Australia’s Regional and Industrial Future
    Al Rainnie / Darryn Snell / Mark Dean
    This book promotes a critical and analytical view of what the emerging New Cold War and climate change mitigation means for Australia’s struggling regions and dwindling manufacturing industries. ...
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    268,31 €

  • Mastering People, Money, and Business
    PREMRAJ BISHNOI
    Mastering People, Money, and Business is a journey through the psychology of success - how thoughts shape wealth, leadership, and human connection. Drawing from real-life experiences, Premraj Bishnoi shares lessons from his path from a small village in India to building Wakati Pharmacy in Tanzania. This book blends human behaviour, emotional intelligence, and business wisdom to...
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    11,62 €

  • Challenges and Opportunities of International Expatriate Blue Collar Workers
    International expatriate blue-collar workers are crucial in global economies, especially in operational and service sectors. However, they are often shaped by complex challenges and opportunities. These workers often face hurdles like cultural and language barriers, limited legal protections, social isolation, and exploitative working conditions. Many encounter difficulties in ...
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    291,42 €

  • Challenges and Opportunities of International Expatriate Blue Collar Workers
    International expatriate blue-collar workers are crucial in global economies, especially in operational and service sectors. However, they are often shaped by complex challenges and opportunities. These workers often face hurdles like cultural and language barriers, limited legal protections, social isolation, and exploitative working conditions. Many encounter difficulties in ...
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    238,64 €

  • The Wealth Report
    Frank Field
    Originally published in 1983, the contributors to this book focus on a small group of private individuals who own a large part of Britain’s assets. In particular the book examines how new privileges were being created and old ones entrenched and magnified. ...
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    126,33 €

  • The Conscript Army
    Frank Field
    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 the numbers of unemployed. ...
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    126,34 €

  • Intangible Assets, Productivity and Economic Growth
    This book advances our knowledge on intangibles and their role in productivity growth, presenting a unique multi-level perspective. It encompasses micro, meso and macro approaches that build upon firm, industry and country level data and introduces novel layers of analysis. ...
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    75,60 €

  • Gen Z at Work in Central and Eastern Europe
    In an era of rapid transformation in the world of work, Gen Z emerges as a transformative force, reshaping traditional employment models with their distinct preferences and values. This book examines these trends in the context of Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on three countries - Poland, Czechia, and Estonia. ...
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    268,15 €

  • The Economics of Immigration
    Cynthia Bansak / Madeline Zavodny / Nicole Simpson
    The Economics of Immigration provides students with the tools needed to examine the impact of immigration and immigration policies over the past century; to understand the decision to migrate, the impacts of immigration on markets and government budgets, and the consequences of immigration policies in a global context. ...
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    112,67 €

  • The Economics of Immigration
    Cynthia Bansak / Madeline Zavodny / Nicole Simpson
    The Economics of Immigration provides students with the tools needed to examine the impact of immigration and immigration policies over the past century; to understand the decision to migrate, the impacts of immigration on markets and government budgets, and the consequences of immigration policies in a global context. ...
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    266,88 €

  • From Competition to Coexistence
    Huailiang Liang / Peikang Zhang / Xuanyu Chen
    This book uses multi-source data to examine the evolving labour market for college graduates, interpreting the shift in the relationship between humans and automation from competition to coexistence that is reshaping skill demand, education policy, and labour market in China and abroad. ...
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    268,15 €

  • Planning Labour
    Alina-Sandra Cucu
    Impoverished, indebted, and underdeveloped at the close of World War II, Romania underwent dramatic changes as part of its transition to a centrally planned economy. As with the Soviet experience, it pursued a policy of 'primitive socialist accumulation' whereby the state appropriated agricultural surplus and restricted workers’ consumption in support of industrial growth. Focu...
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    47,16 €

  • Construction Safety, Health and Well-being in the COVID-19 era
    This edited book presents a significant and timely contribution to our understanding of a broad range of issues pertaining to COVID-19 and its relationship to occupational safety, health and well-being (OSHW) in the global construction industry. ...
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    99,65 €

  • Measuring Productivity of Labour-Intensive Work Practices in Road Construction in Africa
    Clinton Aigbavboa / Emmanuel Bamfo-Agyei / Wellington Didibhuku Thwala
    This book examines an issue of constant concern in the construction industry, that of productivity. Using data from Ghana and South Africa, it presents research into the productivity of local contractors in these countries whilst examining the predominance of labour-intensive production methods. ...
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    90,08 €

  • Unpacking the Decent Work Agenda in Construction Operations for Developing Countries
    Fidelis Emuze / Gerrit Crafford / Tirivavi Moyo
    This book proposes ways of improving and sustaining construction labour productivity through fulfilling the decent work agenda. ...
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    90,03 €

  • Artists Labour Market, Cultural Policy and Creative Economy
    Anna Karpińska / Dorota Ilczuk / Emilia Cholewicka
    Focusing on artists and creators, this shortform book analyses the labour market in the creative economy in the context of cultural policies. ...
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    38,52 €

  • Auditing The Remittance Lifeline
    Avina Abytaeva
    This book offers the first audit-focused analysis of Kyrgyzstan’s remittance-dependent economy, treating remittances not just as economic inflows but as a critical financial lifeline exposed to systemic risk. Drawing on professional audit experience and real-world disruptions during the Russian sanctions period, it examines how remittance channels operate, where vulnerabilities...
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    173,58 €

  • Hired! Fired! Retired!
    John Henry Weiss
    Work is an inexorable force that controls events we take for granted: when we wake, have lunch, take a vacation; the technology tools we purchase; what kind of home we purchase or rent; and even what time we go to bed. How and where do workers find work-life balance in such an environment? How and where can they find the answer? Hired! Fired! Retired! to the rescue. Moving beyo...
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    19,53 €

  • Hired! Fired! Retired!
    John Henry Weiss
    Work is an inexorable force that controls events we take for granted: when we wake, have lunch, take a vacation; the technology tools we purchase; what kind of home we purchase or rent; and even what time we go to bed. How and where do workers find work-life balance in such an environment? How and where can they find the answer? Hired! Fired! Retired! to the rescue. Moving beyo...
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    27,18 €

  • Regulating Gig Work
    Joellen Riley Munton / Michael Rawling
    Digital revolution demands new approaches to regulating work. The 'Uberisation of work' is not in reality a new phenomenon. It reintroduces the practices of ’on demand’ engagement of labour common prior to the development of continuing employment. ...
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    76,49 €

  • Trade Unions and the British Industrial Relations Crisis
    Peter Ackers
    This book aims to understand the politics and industrial relations of the post-war period in Britain (in which trade unions were central) through the life of a key public intellectual. ...
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    75,94 €

  • Cooperative Firms and the Sustainable Development Goals
    Jae Myong KOH
    With growing economic inequality and threats to the sustainability of human societies, Koh argues that cooperatives can play an important role in promoting decent work and reducing economic inequality in the 21st century, and thus urges policy makers to reignite policy discussions on cooperatives. ...
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    76,18 €

  • The Pragmatics of Precarious Work
    Krzysztof Z. Jankowski
    Drawing on data collected in London’s precarious labour market during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book explores how precarious work is pragmatically engaged with towards the production of simultaneous security and insecurity. ...
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    268,38 €

  • Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
    This book explores a quiet revolution reshaping global capitalism: the rise of employee ownership, worker cooperatives, and profit-sharing enterprises. ...
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    267,60 €

  • The European Digital Economy
    The purpose of this book is to analyse the effectiveness of digital technologies as well as the fundamental factors that contribute to technological progress in the long run. It also examines structural and qualitative shifts in economies and societies. ...
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    82,74 €

  • Contradictions of Democracy, Development and Inequality
    Identity politics has widened representation for the marginalised groups in democracies, while neoliberalism has deepened inequality. This volume finds answers to the paradox of widening representation and worsening inequality especially in India exploring the themes of development and identity in recent times. ...
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    267,85 €

  • High-Income Asia
    Shigesaburo Kabe
    This book focuses on the high-income Asia that experienced fast economic growth and rapid demographic change in recent decades. High-income Asia includes Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong, according to the World Bank’s category classification. These economies enjoyed a brief period of brilliant economic growth but then faced a demographic shift, with the lowes...
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    65,73 €