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Bodies of work
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Edward Steven Slavishak |
By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel, glass, and coal was fueled by machine technolog… |
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The Individual in the Changing Working Life
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Katharina Naswall |
Working life has been the subject of great change in recent years with contemporary conditions generally providing increased opportunities and autonomy for individuals. But these benefits can coincid… |
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Corporate social strategy
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Bryan Husted |
"Can good-will be good business? Firms are increasingly called upon to address matters such as poverty and human rights violations. The demand for corporate social responsibility (CSR) is directed ma… |
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Commodify your dissent
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Editors - Thomas Frank, Matt Weiland |
A series of essays on consumerism, corporations and marketing in the culture of late twentieth-century America. Targets of these snarky and often smart "salvos" include malls, exurbs, business books… |
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Scarcity
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Sendhil Mullainathan |
An examination of how scarcity--and our flawed responses to it--shapes our lives, our society, and our culture. |
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Butterfly economics
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Paul Ormerod |
"Paul Ormerod, renowned as the thinking person's economist, tears up conventional wisdom and explains why the economy is so much more than the sum of its parts. Taking in the latest scientific, socia… |
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The Future of Industrial Man
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Peter F. Drucker |
"The Future of Industrial Man is the only book by Peter Drucker in which he systematically develops a basic social theory. He presents the requirements for any society to be functioning and legitimat… |
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Black America, body beautiful
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Eric J. Bailey |
"In this book, medical anthropologist Eric Bailey introduces and explains the self-acceptance and body image satisfaction of African Americans, and traces how that has spurred changes in industry. Hi… |
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Organizational cultures
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Diana C. Pheysey |
This concise new introductory text provides succinct analysis of organizational cultures and the types of change they can set in motion. 'Culture' is used in an original way to make sense of central … |
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Class and Community
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Alan Dawley |
"Dawley reflects on labor and class issues, poverty and progress, and the contours of urban history in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, during the rise of industrialism in the early nineteenth centur… |
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The human side of enterprise
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Douglas McGregor |
The text deals with policies and practices in the management of human resources in business and industrial organization, examining them in the light of current social science knowledge about human na… |
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The role of business in fostering peaceful societies
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Timothy L. Fort |
This book offers a fresh approach to understanding responsible business practice. Global protests against multinational companies often give the misleading impression that the interests of multinatio… |
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