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The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society by William R. Kerr
RRP: $40.93$35.82The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest. Talented individuals migrate much more frequently than the general population, and the United States has received exceptional inflows of human capital... -
Demanding Work: The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy by Francis Green 9780691134413
RRP: $107.25$96.51Since the early 1980s, a vast number of jobs have been created in the affluent economies of the industrialized world. Many workers are doing more skilled and fulfilling jobs, and getting paid more for their trouble. Yet it is often alleged that the... -
Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique by Eric Allina 9780813932729
RRP: $91.55$88.78Based on documents from a long-lost and unexplored colonial archive, Slavery by Any Other Name tells the story of how Portugal privatised part of its empire to the Mozambique Company. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the company governed... -
The Birth of Solidarity: The History of the French Welfare State by Francois Ewald
RRP: $44.83$39.02Francois Ewald's landmark The Birth of Solidarity-first published in French in 1986, revised in 1996, with the revised edition appearing here in English for the first time-is one of the most important historical and philosophical studies of the rise of... -
Service Automation: Robots and the Future of Work: 2016 Leslie P. Willcocks 9780956414564
$39.00The hype and fear, globally, that surrounds service automation, robots and the future of work need to be punctured by in-depth research. This book, by Professors Leslie Willcocks and Mary Lacity, captures a year's worth of learning about service... -
The Politics of Migrant Labour: Exit, Voice, and Social Reproduction Gabriella Alberti (University of Leeds) 9781529227734
RRP: $165.75$127.45The turnover of labour and its significance for workers and employers has usually been considered at the organizational level as individual exit behaviour, and seldom in relation to the cross-border mobility practices of migrant workers within and... -
The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City by Denys Gorbach 9781805392989
RRP: $208.65$169.40Industrial workers in Ukraine have a complex political lifeworld because their political action aimed at bringing radical social change coexists with a demobilizing stance that condemns all political participation as corrupt. This contradictory attitude... -
Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy by Benjamin Powell
RRP: $52.63$40.83This book provides a comprehensive defense of third-world sweatshops. It explains how these sweatshops provide the best available opportunity to workers and how they play an important role in the process of development that eventually leads to better... -
Work-Place: The Social Regulation of Labor Markets by Jamie Peck
$81.92This book challenges the prevailing idea that labor markets are governed by universal economic processes. The author argues instead that labor markets develop in tandem with social and political institutions, and thus function in locally specific ways... -
American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook by James Boggs 9780853450153
$24.77James Boggs, born in Marion Junction, Alabama in 1919, never dreamed of becoming President or a locomotive engineer. He grew up in a world where the white folks are gentlemen by day and Ku Klux Klanners at night. Marion Junction is in Dallas County where... -
Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China by Eileen M. Otis 9780804776493
RRP: $42.88$37.42Insulated from the dust, noise, and crowds churning outside, China's luxury hotels are staging areas for the new economic and political landscape of the country. These hotels, along with other emerging service businesses, offer an important, new source... -
Immigrants, Markets, and States: The Political Economy of Postwar Europe by James F. Hollifield 9780674444232
RRP: $155.90$123.59This timely study of the recent migration tides explores the political and economic factors that have influenced the rise of immigration in postwar Europe and the United States. It seeks to explain immigration in terms of the globalization of labor... -
The Economics of Education: A Comprehensive Overview by Steve Bradley 9780128153918
RRP: $187.10$177.59The Economics of Education: A Comprehensive Overview, Second Edition, offers a comprehensive and current overview of the field of that is broadly accessible economists, researchers and students. This new edition revises the original 50 authoritative... -
Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work by Alex Rosenblat 9780520298576
RRP: $44.85$35.30Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneurship for the masses through its technology, Uber instead built a new template for employment using... -
Skills and Skilled Work: An Economic and Social Analysis by Francis Green 9780199642854
RRP: $93.58$70.57Skills are frequently in the news and in the public eye in every country. Stories highlight concerns about education and literacy standards, grades, learning by rote, and university students being unprepared for work, as well as debates surrounding... -
The Robots Are Coming: A Human's Survival Guide to Profiting in the Age of Automation by John Pugliano
RRP: $29.23$19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612436692Author John PuglianoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 246g -
Sewing Hope: How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry's Sweatshops by Sarah Adler-Milstein 9780520292925
RRP: $44.85$35.30Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic is the anti-sweatshop. It boasts a living wage three times the legal minimum, high health and safety standards, and... -
The Economics of Discrimination by Gary S. Becker 9780226041162
RRP: $46.80$44.91This second edition of Gary S. Becker's The Economics of Discrimination has been expanded to include three further discussions of the problem and an entirely new introduction which considers the contributions made by others in recent years and some of... -
We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative by George J. Borjas 9780393249019
RRP: $40.93$33.60We are a nation of immigrants, and we have always been concerned about immigration. As early as 1645, the Massachusetts Bay Colony began to prohibit the entry of "paupers." Today, however, the notion that immigration is universally beneficial has become... -
Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank by Sanford M. Jacoby
RRP: $68.25$54.87From award-winning economic historian Sanford M. Jacoby, a fascinating and important study of the labor movement and shareholder capitalismSince the 1970s, American unions have shrunk dramatically, as has their economic clout. Labor in the Age of Finance... -
Think Risk: A Practical Guide to Actively Managing Risk by Shital Thekdi
RRP: $81.88$71.66Risk is the single most prevalent and enduring factor that influences every individual, organization, and society. People often seek protection from negative risk events, but also seek to take advantage of opportunities arising from positive risk events... -
Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market by Richard Layard 9780198284345
RRP: $161.83$130.69This book is concerned with why unemployment is so high and why it fluctuates so wildly. It shows how unemployment affects inflation, and discusses whether full employment can ever be combined with price stability. It asks why some groups have higher... -
Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice by Chrystin Ondersma 9780520391475
RRP: $46.80$39.74An earth-shaking reimagining of household debt that opens up a new path to financial security for all Americans. American households have a debt problem. The problem is not, as often claimed, that Americans recklessly take on too much debt. The problem... -
Employability and Local Labour Markets by Ronald W. McQuaid
RRP: $169.63$147.30The concept of employability has provided a foundation for much current labour market policy. It has also provided a useful framework for analyzing national and urban labour markets and related policies in a variety of different circumstances both for... -
Work in the Future: The Automation Revolution by Robert Skidelsky
RRP: $48.73$39.57This short, accessible book seeks to explore the future of work through the views and opinions of a range of expertise, encompassing economic, historical, technological, ethical and anthropological aspects of the debate. The transition to an automated... -
Leadership and Democracy: History of The National Union of Public Employees: v. 2: 1928-1993 by Stephen Williams 9781907103377
RRP: $58.50$57.51This official history of NUPE covers its years of membership expansion, growing recognition and entry onto the national industrial and political stage. From a position of near obscurity in the 1920s, NUPE grew into one of the most important forces in the... -
Negotiating Globally: How to Negotiate Deals, Resolve Disputes, and Make Decisions Across Cultural Boundaries Jeanne M. Brett (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois) 9781118602614
RRP: $113.10$98.01A framework for anticipating and managing cultural differences at the negotiating table In today's global environment, negotiators who understand cultural differences and negotiation fundamentals have a decided advantage at the bargaining table. This... -
The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations by Jeff Wald 9781642934359
RRP: $50.70$31.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642934359Author Jeff WaldFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 157mm *... -
Exploring Trade Union Identities: Union Identity, Niche Identity and the Problem of Organizing the Unorganized by Bob Smale
RRP: $93.58$72.25The world of work has changed and so have trade unions with mergers, rebrandings and new unions being formed. The question is, how positioned are the unions to organize the unorganized? With more than three quarters of UK workers unrepresented and the... -
The Poor in Western Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by Stuart Woolf
RRP: $81.88$71.66First published in 1986, this book examines poverty and changing attitudes towards the poor and charity across England, France and Italy. It discusses the causes of poverty and the distinctions between the poor and the class-conscious proletariat. Taking... -
The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society by William R. Kerr 9781503605022
RRP: $54.58$40.05The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest. Talented individuals migrate much more frequently than the general population, and the United States has received exceptional inflows of human capital... -
Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy - International Student Edition by Ronald G. Ehrenberg
RRP: $109.18$94.69Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy, now in its fourteenth edition, continues to be the leading text for one-semester courses in labor economics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It offers a thorough overview of the modern theory of... -
Work and Organizational Psychology: An Introduction with Attitude by Christine Doyle
RRP: $93.58$82.31In this unique text, Christine Doyle provides the student with a cutting-edge introduction to the field of work and organizational psychology. The main focus is on recent changes that have occurred in the world of work, incorporating their causes,... -
The Craftsman by Richard Sennett 9780300151190
RRP: $37.05$25.37Craftsmanship, says Richard Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, and good craftsmanship involves developing skills and focusing on the work rather than ourselves. The computer programmer, the doctor, the artist, and... -
Does Immigration Increase Crime?: Migration Policy and the Creation of the Criminal Immigrant by Francesco Fasani 9781108731775
RRP: $52.63$44.46Do migrants lead to an increase of crime rates in their host societies? This highly contentious issue has become a mainstay in the political debate and a lightning rod for the galvanization of populist movements, despite often lacking any empirical... -
Wages, School Quality, and Employment Demand by David Card
$83.36David Card and Alan B. Krueger have made substantial contributions to the field of Labor Economics. Their influential work focuses on policy-relevant issues and spans vast and important topics, including: unemployment, minimum wage, migration,... -
The T and G Story: A History of the Transport and General Workers Union, 1922-2007 by Murray Andrew 9781905007837 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.20$4.95The Transport and General Workers Union was the biggest trade union in Britain for much of the 20th century, with its membership in the late 1970s reaching more than two million. It organised workers across the whole economy - from the docks to the car... -
The T and G Story: A History of the Transport and General Workers Union, 1922-2007 by Murray Andrew 9781905007837
RRP: $31.20$30.40The Transport and General Workers Union was the biggest trade union in Britain for much of the 20th century, with its membership in the late 1970s reaching more than two million. It organised workers across the whole economy - from the docks to the car... -
Sports Agents and Labour Markets: Evidence from World Football Giambattista Rossi (University of East London, UK) 9780815394778
RRP: $89.68$78.25The sports agent has become a highly significant figure in contemporary sport business. The role of the agent is essential to our understanding of labour markets and labour relations in an increasingly globalised sports industry. Drawing on extensive... -
Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone? by David G. Blanchflower 9780691205496
RRP: $33.13$23.79A candid explanation of how the labor market really works and is central to everything-and why it is not as healthy as we thinkRelying on unemployment numbers is a dangerous way to gauge how the labor market is doing. Because of a false sense of optimism...