wired - Labor 6

Aimed at senior undergraduate and post-graduate students following courses in International Business and Industrial Relations this book examines the labour market effects of multinational business. ……続きを見る

This book begins from the central premise that progressive social change requires collective struggle underpinned by a clear strategy, and that processes of neoliberal globalisation have altered the……続きを見る

Is the EU enlargement the success EU institutions proclaim? Based on fifteen years of fieldwork research across Central and Eastern Europe and on migrants in the UK and Germany, this book provides a……続きを見る

To what extent are people with disabilities fully included in economic, political and social life? People with disabilities have faced a long history of exclusion, stigma and discrimination, but hav……続きを見る

"Organized" and "innovation" are words rarely heard together. But an organized approach to innovation is precisely what America needs today. This book presents a blueprint for coordinating technolog……続きを見る

A framework for anticipating and managing cultural differences at the negotiating table In today's global environment, negotiators who understand cultural differences and negotiation fundamentals ha……続きを見る

In the last decade, nonunion employee representation (NER) has become a much discussed topic in the fields of human resource management, employment relations, and employment/labor law. This book exa……続きを見る

Why should researchers be interested in their feelings and emotions as they carry out research? Emotion is what it is to exist, to be human, and is present in every sphere of our lives. All activiti……続きを見る

Im „Jahrbuch geschlechterbezogene Hochschulforschung“ werden regelmäßig Forschungsergebnisse zur Geschlechter(un)gleichheit an nordrheinwestfälischen Hochschulen veröffentlicht. Diese basieren auf d……続きを見る

Sustaining a healthy and productive work environment for employees with health issues and work disabilities or those returning to work after sick leave may present a challenge to employers. This pub……続きを見る

Describes how new kinds of direct-action labor movements are emerging to reshape American labor activism in the twenty-first century. The American labor movement isn't dead. It's just moving from th……続きを見る

Das vorliegende Buch erklärt mithilfe des Konzepts der emotionalen Qualität einer Politikidee, weshalb die deutsche Bevölkerung die Rente mit 67 stärker ablehnte als andere, ebenso einschneidende Re……続きを見る

Die Evolution von Gesellschaft führt zu unterschiedlichen Differenzierungsformen, die immer auch als Neu-Arrangierung des Verhältnisses gelesen werden kann, welches die Gesellschaft zum Individuum e……続きを見る

Mit welchen Vorstellungen sozialer Ordnung legitimieren Jugendämter ihr Handeln? Patrik Müller-Behme untersucht den Einweisungsdiskurs, auf dessen Grundlage Kinder und Jugendliche in den 1950er bis ……続きを見る

Wie keine andere Beruflichkeit repräsentieren die Ingenieure die (industrielle) Moderne. In Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik standen der enormen zahlenmäßigen Expansion der Berufsgruppe allerdings ……続きを見る

The theory and practice of management accounting should be seen within the context of varieties of global capitalism, to appreciate its role as a 'calculative technology of capitalism' which is prac……続きを見る

Im Feld der Arbeitsbeziehungen existiert eine Vielzahl von Institutionen und Akteuren, die in der Praxis mehr oder weniger eng mit einander verwoben sind. Die sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung hat i……続きを見る

Konstruktivistische Raumvorstellungen prägen in vielen Disziplinen die Beschäftigung mit räumlichen Dimensionen von Identitäten. Auch in der raumbezogenen Identitätsforschung dominiert eine dualisti……続きを見る

Originally published in 1987 Pressure for the Poor looks at the debate surrounding the role of pressure groups in policy making. It closely relates theories of pressure group behaviour with the find……続きを見る

Mit Blick auf die Zukunft der sozialen Sicherung sind derzeit Herausforderungen feststellbar, die wegen ihrer Dynamik als Umbrüche bezeichnet werden können. Dazu gehören u.a. die immensen Anforderun……続きを見る

This open access book analyses the strategies of migration intermediaries from the public and private sectors in Switzerland to select, attract, and retain highly skilled migrants who represent valu……続きを見る

This open access book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society since Liberation in 1949, and why poverty alleviation measu……続きを見る

At a time of growing pressure on health and social care services, this book draws together contributions which highlight contemporary challenges for their management. Providing a range of contributi……続きを見る

In ganz Europa wird die Frage nach der Zukunftsfähigkeit der unterschiedlichen wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Systeme diskutiert. Gesucht wird unter anderem nach innovativen Ideen, die die Leistungsfähigkeit……続きを見る

The editors have chosen substantial extracts to illustrate the major themes and ideas in Beveridge’s writing over a period of more than four decades, ranging from his book Unemployment, published in……続きを見る

Beveridge defined full employment as a state where there are slightly more vacant jobs than there are available workers, or not more than 3% of the total workforce. This book discusses how this goal……続きを見る

This supplementary volume to Beveridge’s important work Voluntary Action sets out some of the important material on which the Report is based, and amplifies it by giving views and statements of fact……続きを見る

It is the author’s contention that an abundance of voluntary action outside the citizen’s home, both individually and collectively, for bettering his own and his fellows’ lives, are the distinguishi……続きを見る

This volume seeks to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces a……続きを見る

The emergence of open unemployment is an unavoidable consequence of postcommunist transition. Some countries-notably in the former Soviet Union-initially slowed economic contraction. But in the long……続きを見る