M.E.S - Labor 1

O pensamento revolucionário se destaca por sua capacidade de sair do "lugar-comum". Nas abordagens sociológicas atuais voltadas à transformação social, é comum afirmar a necessidade de não hierarqui……続きを見る

This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A. Chamberlain argues that paid work and the civic du……続きを見る

In High Tech and High Touch**, James E. Coverdill and William Finlay invite readers into the dynamic world of headhunters, personnel professionals who acquire talent for businesses and other organiz……続きを見る

Le changement technologique est un phénomène à multiples facettes. Il couvre toute une gamme d’aspects, des facteurs techniques les plus pointus jusqu’aux changements les plus radicaux de machines e……続きを見る

_______________ 'A fascinating exploration that challenges our basic assumptions of what work means' - Yuval Noah Harari 'There is eminently underlinable stuff on most pages ... Fascinating' - The T……続きを見る

One of the best-known and most-quoted books ever written on labor unions is What Do Unions Do? by Richard Freeman and James Medoff. Published in 1984, the book proved to be a landmark because it pro……続きを見る

Originally published in 1980, this book examines a range of Government attitudes to their workers arguing that these provide the touchstone for all civil justice. The book looks at the United Nation……続きを見る

A fresh look at the boom in entrepreneurship and start-ups – and how it's changing the world of work. Does it feel like everyone you know is thinking about starting a business? That's because they a……続きを見る

"Ballagh's monograph shows conscientious labor, good judgment, and a fair degree of skill in the arrangement of the matter." - Virginia Magazine of History, 1895 Full justice has not yet been done t……続きを見る

Successful businesses have spent the past two decades retooling and rethinking how to manage their people better. Most big companies that have survived and prospered in the 21st century view employe……続きを見る

Retirement shouldn’t be just for the rich: “Finally, a practical plan to address Americans’ lack of adequate retirement savings.”ーMichael Bloomberg Everyone deserves to be able to retire with digni……続きを見る

“Bessen sets out to refute the arguments of . . . techno-pessimists, relying on economic analysis and on a fresh reading of history” (The Wall Street Journal). Technology is constantly changing our ……続きを見る

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the links between migration and remittances. The role of remittances in influencing migration decision is explored in relation to economic developm……続きを見る

O Facilities Management (FM) está presente em todas as corporações de alto desempenho. O principal objetivo do FM é estimular e organizar a produtividade, entregar serviços com excelência, diminuir ……続きを見る

The decline of the U.S. textile and apparel industries between the 1940s and 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the twenty-first century's potent economic populism in America. James C. Benton looks……続きを見る

This book offers a unique grounded analysis of recent crises and transformations in academic work. It charts international and Australia-based efforts to overcome academic fragmentation and precarit……続きを見る

The gradual reduction in weekly working hours in the first half of the last century, which culminated in the widespread adoption of the 'standard' working week by the 1960s, was grounded in a concer……続きを見る

This book is for shiftwork schedulers and for teams involved in fatigue risk management systems (FRMS) for 24/7 operations. The book covers shift lengths from four to 24 hours, and numbers of crews ……続きを見る

Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not b……続きを見る

During the 1980s and 1990s, European economies went through a period of slowing economic growth and high unemployment, what some economists described as “secular decline.” On the other side of the A……続きを見る

¿Qué hará competitivo al profesional latinoamericano en el futuro? Académicas de cuatro países de América Latina --Chile, Colombia, Ecuador y el Perú-- abordan la tarea de identificar el perfil de c……続きを見る

Throughout the last decade, the ‘gig economy’ has emerged as one of the most significant developments in the world of work. As a novel, hyper-flexible form of labour, gig work features a uniquely fr……続きを見る

Starting in 1952, the United States Navy and Coast Guard actively recruited Filipino men to serve as stewards--domestic servants for officers. Oral histories and detailed archival research inform P.……続きを見る

This is the first scholarly analysis that examines the development and achievements of the American community development movement. Community development is now a multi-billion industry in the US. H……続きを見る

In this distinctive new history of the origins of the Spanish Civil War, James Simpson and Juan Carmona tackle the highly-debated issue of why it was that Spain's democratic Second Republic failed. ……続きを見る

In Abusive Supervision in Government Agencies, Caillier uses both quantitative and qualitative survey data, a mixed-method approach, to argue that certain organizational norms and subordinate factor……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

This book analyzes and elucidates the view that the purpose of the liberal arts is to offer leadership training and guidelines for success. This professional or managerial tradition of the liberal a……続きを見る

The world is at the crossroads of social change, in the vortex of forces that are bringing about a different world, a post-neoliberal state. This groundbreaking book lays out an analysis of the dyna……続きを見る

Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics distills and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision-makers to make better informed policy decisions. Wri……続きを見る