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Behavioral Economics by Arthur O'Sullivan
RRP: £57.99£54.52The text is designed as the main text for an undergraduate course in Behavioral Economics, which is a growing course for students of economics at the undergraduate level. The presentation is grounded in microeconomics and traditional economic models to... -
Occupational Safety and Health for Technologists, Engineers, and Managers, Global Edition by David L. Goetsch
RRP: £61.99£56.16For all Occupational Safety, Safety and Health Management, and related courses in any safety management, engineering, industrial/manufacturing technology, or other program, in universities, colleges, community colleges, and corporate training settings... -
Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers by Kenneth F. Scheve
£15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881322958Author Kenneth F. ScheveFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson Institute... -
Capitalist Family Values: Gender, Work, and Corporate Culture at Boeing by Polly Reed Myers
£39.58Though best known for aircraft and aerospace technology, Boeing has invested significant time and money in the construction and promotion of its corporate culture. Boeing's leaders, in keeping with the standard of traditional American social norms, began... -
Videogames and Education by Harry J. Brown
RRP: £135.00£117.28Video games challenge our notions of identity, creativity, and moral value, and provide a powerful new avenue for teaching and learning. This book is a rich and provocative guide to the role of interactive media in cultural learning. It searches for... -
Associations and the Chinese State: Contested Spaces: Contested Spaces by Jonathan Unger
RRP: £43.99£38.44What role do Chinese popular associations play in the expansion of civil society and democratization? Under Mao few associations were permitted to exist, while today over 200,000 associations are officially recognized. Are they important foundations of... -
Employment Contracts and Well-Being Among European Workers by Nele de Cuyper
RRP: £84.99£73.85Temporary employment contracts are now commonplace in business. However the move towards such employment structures has a significant, and hitherto little understood impact on 'the psychological contract' between employee and organizations. This book is... -
Employment Relations and HRM in South Korea by Dong-One Kim
RRP: £37.99£33.38South Korea is one of the rare countries that has experienced political/industrial democratization and economic development simultaneously in a relatively short period. However, the full story of democratization and development processes displays two... -
Between Class and Market: Postwar Unionization in the Capitalist Democracies by Bruce Western
£39.12In the United States, less than one worker in five is currently in a labor union, while in Sweden, virtually the entire workforce is unionized. Despite compelling evidence for their positive effects, even the strongest European unions are now in retreat... -
Pensions in the Health and Retirement Study by Alan L. Gustman
£54.88This book presents a careful analysis of pension data collected by the Health and Retirement Study, a unique survey of people over the age of fifty conducted by the University of Michigan for the National Institute on Aging. The authors studied pensions... -
Work and Human Behavior by Walter S. Neff
RRP: £47.99£41.81Work is a many-sided human enterprise that has been written about from a great many different points of view, representing almost every field of knowledge and almost every level of our social structure. Merely to identify these points of view is an... -
Comparable Worth: Social Institutions and Social Change by Paula England
RRP: £43.99£38.44This volume provides a detailed description of the situation of women in employment in the early 1990s and considers how sociological and economic theories of labor markets illuminate the gap in pay between the sexes.Book InformationISBN... -
Work and Leisure in the Middle East: The Common Ground of Two Separate Worlds by Robert A. Stebbins
RRP: £135.00£117.28Community involvement and leisure are rarely mentioned in mass media coverage of the Middle East and North Africa.Yet leisure and community involvement form a part of life in the region, and are becoming increasingly significant as modernization becomes... -
Panorama of a Presidency: How George W. Bush Acquired and Spent His Political Capital: How George W. Bush Acquired and Spent His Political Capital by Steven E. Schier
RRP: £37.99£33.38As the controversial presidency of George W. Bush draws to a close, this work provides the first dispassionate, even-handed assessment of Bush's years in office. Widely respected scholar and author Steven E. Schier goes beyond the perspective of... -
The Good Temp by Vicki Smith
£24.14Temporary agencies place approximately two and a half million people in jobs each day in the United States. Every year, about twelve million people use these placement agencies to find temporary work. Many Americans, even those who desire permanent jobs,... -
Asia-Pacific Security Cooperation: National Interests and Regional Order: National Interests and Regional Order by See Seng Tan
RRP: £135.00£117.28New developments in the Asia Pacific are forcing regional officials to rethink the way they manage security issues. The contributors to this work explore why some forms of security cooperation and institutionalisation in the region have proven more... -
Terrorism and Violence in Southeast Asia: Transnational Challenges to States and Regional Stability: Transnational Challenges to States and Regional Stability by Paul J. Smith
RRP: £43.99£38.44This timely work examines the scale and root causes of terrorism across Southeast Asia, including the role of al-Qaeda's ascendancy in the region. It begins with an overview of the analytical and theoretical framework for discussing the subject... -
Where are Poor People to Live?: Transforming Public Housing Communities: Transforming Public Housing Communities by Larry Bennett
RRP: £43.99£38.44This groundbreaking book shows how major shifts in federal policy are spurring local public housing authorities to demolish their high-rise, low-income developments, and replace them with affordable low-rise, mixed income communities. It focuses on... -
Women and the Labour Market in Japan's Industrialising Economy: The Textile Industry before the Pacific War by Janet Hunter
RRP: £135.00£117.68During the period of industrialisation in Japan from the 1870s to the 1930s, the textile industry was Japan's largest manufacturing industry, and the country's major source of export earnings. It had a predominantly female labour force, drawn mainly from... -
City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York by Joshua B. Freeman
£28.14From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City of New York through their struggles. Starting with artisans and slaves in colonial New York and ranging all the way to twenty-first-century... -
Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart by Adam Reich
£21.80Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce-young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work-Walmartism-in which the... -
Plant Closings: International Context and Social Costs by Dena Targ
RRP: £43.99£38.44PLANT CLOSED--A sign of the times? These two words have had profound meaning for workers in every factory and office across the country. Millions of workers who have already been displaced by closings have had to pick up the pieces of shattered lives and... -
Confronting Dystopia: The New Technological Revolution and the Future of Work by Eva Paus
£26.50In Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income. Focusing on the economic and political implications of AI, digital connectivity, and... -
Trade Unions and Democracy: Strategies and Perspectives by Geoffrey Wood
RRP: £47.99£42.21Trade Unions and Democracy explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. As civil society agents, unions may promote democracy within the wider society, especially in the case of authoritarian regimes or other rigid... -
More Than We Bargained for: An Untold Story of Exploitation & Redemption Among the Men Who Built Modern Canada by John Stefanini
RRP: £19.99£13.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999439538Author John StefaniniFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
Market Investigations: A New Competition Tool for Europe? by Massimo Motta
RRP: £100.00£75.52In many economic sectors - the digital industries being first and foremost - the market power of dominant firms has been steadily increasing and is rarely challenged by competitors. Existing competition laws and regulations have been unable to make... -
Migrant Workers In Singapore: Lives And Labour In A Transient Migration Regime by Brenda S A Yeoh
RRP: £135.00£117.56Initially upheld as a bastion of success in curbing the spread of COVID-19, Singapore eventually found itself home to the highest number of coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia. Over 90% of its cases in 2020 occurred among the 300,000 migrant construction... -
A World Without Work: Story of the Welsh Miners by Eli Ginzberg
RRP: £43.99£38.44Written just before the beginning of World War II, this is an early example of field research into human resources by one of the pioneers in the area. Ginzberg investigates why so many long-term unemployed coal miners in South Wales remained in their... -
Temporary Work, Agencies and Unfree Labour: Insecurity in the New World of Work by Judy Fudge
RRP: £53.99£46.87Unfree labor has not disappeared from advanced capitalist economies. In this sense the debates among and between Marxist and orthodox economic historians about the incompatibility of capitalism and unfree labor are moot: the International Labour... -
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor by Steven Greenhouse
RRP: £19.00£11.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101872796Author Steven GreenhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Pineros: Latino Labour and the Changing Face of Forestry in the Pacific Northwest by Brinda Sarathy
£27.36This book will be of interest to policy-makers and to students andscholars in environmental and forestry studies, Hispanic studies, andlabour studies.Book InformationISBN 9780774821148Author Brinda SarathyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint University... -
Sport and Migration: Borders, Boundaries and Crossings by Joseph Maguire
RRP: £47.99£41.81From Major League Baseball to English soccer's Premier League, all successful contemporary professional sports leagues include a wide diversity of nationalities and ethnicities within their playing and coaching rosters. The international migration of... -
Trade Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific Region by Byoung-Hoon Lee
RRP: £39.99£35.06Recent developments in the world economy, including deindustrialisation and the digital revolution, have led to an increasingly individualistic relationship between workers and employers, which in turn has weakened labour movements and worker... -
Labour Markets and Identity on the Post-Industrial Assembly Line by Anthony Lloyd
RRP: £43.99£38.44As a product of its time, the call centre utilises new developments in telecommunications and information technology to offer cost-efficient delivery systems for customer care. Efficiency, productivity and flexibility are all embodiments of neoliberal... -
The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia by Guian A McKee
RRP: £32.00£31.51Contesting claims that postwar American liberalism retreated from fights against unemployment and economic inequality, The Problem of Jobs reveals that such efforts did not collapse after the New Deal but instead began to flourish at the local, rather... -
The Force of Irony: Power in the Everyday Life of Mexican Tomato Workers by Gabriel Torres
RRP: £35.99£31.69Winner of the 'Casa Chata Award' for the Best Book of 1994 (Spanish edition)In charting the paradoxical effects of power and knowledge on the everyday life of subordinate people, this book offers a major rethinking of domination and the agricultural... -
Continental Crucible: Continental Crucible Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America by Edur Velasco Arregui
£14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552665473Author Edur Velasco ArreguiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Fernwood Publishing Co LtdPublisher Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd -
A Research Agenda for the Gig Economy and Society by Valerio De Stefano
£100.61Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Providing a... -
What We Build with Power: The Fight for Economic Justice in Tech by David Delmar Senties
RRP: £17.00£10.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807006672Author David Delmar SentiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Collective Bargaining in Professional Sports: Player Salaries, Free Agency, Team Ownership, League Organizational Structures and the Power of Commissioners by Scott Bukstein
RRP: £39.99£35.06Collective Bargaining in Professional Sports provides a timely and practical overview of the impact and importance of the collective bargaining process in the business of professional sports in the United States.Book InformationISBN 9781032238371Author...