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Factory Girls
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Leslie T. Chang |
An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.China has 130 million migrant workers--the largest migra… |
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Work and Pay in Japan
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Robert A Hart |
This book provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese labour market institutions and practices with respect to employment issues and labour payments. It contains extensive discussion of the effects… |
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Outsourcing America
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Ron Hira |
Publisher description: Outsourcing America reveals how much outsourcing is taking place, what its impact is and will be, and what can be done about the loss of jobs. The book shows how outsourcing is… |
OL16028792W |
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Women and employment
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Heather Joshi,Shirley Dex,Jacqueline L. Scott |
How is women's employment shaped by family and domestic responsibilities? This title, written by leading experts in the field, examines 25 years of change in women's employment and addresses the chal… |
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Patterns of economic change by state and area
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Mary Meghan Ryan |
"This publication presents data on personal income, employment, and gross domestic product for the United States as a whole, and also by region, state, and metropolitan statistical area (MSA). In add… |
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Down and out in the new economy
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Ilana Gershon |
Finding a job used to be simple. You'd show up at an office and ask for an application. A friend would mention a job in their department. Or you'd see an ad in a newspaper and send in your cover lett… |
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Stories employers tell
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Philip I. Moss,Chris Tilly |
"Is the United States justified in seeing itself as a meritocracy, where stark inequalities in pay and employment reflect differences in skills, education, and effort? Or does racial discrimination s… |
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Working in America
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Paul Osterman,Thomas A. Kochan,Michael J. Piore,Richard M. Locke |
"The American labor market faces many deep-rooted problems, including persistence of a large low-wage sector, worsening inequality in earnings, employees' lack of voice in the workplace, and the need… |
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Skill and occupational change
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Rose, Michael,Jill Rubery,Roger Penn |
In this major new book leading sociologists, economists, and social psychologists present their highly original research into changes in jobs in Britain in the 1980s. Combining large-scale sample sur… |
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OSH in figures
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Marthe Verjans,Veronique De Broeck,Lieven Eeckelaert |
Includes statistics. |
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Lifelong learning
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Lorenz Lassnigg |
"The research presented in this volume evaluates and demonstrates the potential of the TLM framework for better understanding the multifaceted relationships between education and employment, and to w… |
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The Economics of the Trade Union
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Alison L. Booth |
This book analyses the crucial features of unionised labour markets. The models in the book refer to labour contracts between unions and management, but the method of analysis is also applicable to n… |
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