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  • Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power

    Gender, Work and Engineering

    by Suzanne Franzway, Judith Gill, Rhonda Sharp, Julie Mills ...
    Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
    Women in the developed world expect to work in the labour force over the course of their lives. On finishing school more girls are entering universities and undertaking professional training for careers than ever before. Males and females enter many high status professions in roughly equal numbers. However, engineering stands out as a profession that remains obstinately male dominated. Despite ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • Banana

    The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

    by Dan Koeppel ...
    A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the world’s most humble fruitTo most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. In others parts of the world, bananas are what keep millions of people alive. But for all its ubiquity, the banana is surprisingly mysterious; nobody knows ... Read more

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  • The Price of Rights

    Regulating International Labor Migration

    by Martin Ruhs ...
    Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both.Examining labor immigration policies in over forty countries, as well ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • We Wanted Workers

    Unraveling the Immigration Narrative

    by George J. Borjas ...
    From "America’s leading immigration economist" (The Wall Street Journal), a refreshingly level-headed exploration of the effects of immigration.We 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 ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

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  • Bread, Freedom, Social Justice

    Workers and the Egyptian Revolution

    by Anne Alexander, Mostafa Bassiouny ...
    Accounts of the Arab Spring often focus on the role of youth coalitions, the use of social media, and the tactics of the Tahrir Square occupation. This authoritative and original book argues that collective action by organised workers played a fundamental role in the Egyptian revolution, which erupted after years of strikes and social protests.Drawing on the authors' decade-long experience of ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The Silver Market Phenomenon

    Marketing and Innovation in the Aging Society

    Edited by Florian Kohlbacher, Cornelius Herstatt ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The current shift in demographics – aging and shrinking populations – in many countries around the world presents a major challenge to companies and societies alike. One particularly essential implication is the emergence and constant growth of the so-called “graying market” or “silver market”, the market segment more or less broadly defined as those people aged 50 and older. Increasing in number ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Mobilizing against Inequality

    Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism

    Edited by Lee H. Adler, Maite Tapia, Lowell Turner ...
    Series series Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectureship and Conference Series
    Among the many challenges that global liberalization has posed for trade unions, the growth of precarious immigrant workforces lacking any collective representation stands out as both a major threat to solidarity and an organizing opportunity. Believing that collective action is critical in the struggle to lift the low wages and working conditions of immigrant workers, the contributors to ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Chinese Birdcage

    How China's Rise Almost Toppled the West

    by Heleen Mees ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book vividly describes how China’s rise in the early 2000s led to rising profits and declining labor income everywhere, ultimately resulting in the global financial crisis. Under Deng Xiaoping’s policy of ‘reform and opening up’ in the 1980s, China quickly became the world’s factory floor...but powerful political leaders envisioned a world in which the market economy would be trapped within ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Change Management and the Human Factor

    Advances, Challenges and Contradictions in Organizational Development

    Edited by Frank E. P. Dievernich, Kim Oliver Tokarski, Jie Gong ...
    Change management and organizational development is unthinkable without people. Human beings form its core as both subjects and objects of change. This volume attempts to cut through to the core of change management, to the people that stand at its heart and focuses on their intrinsic role in change management and organizational development. Topics covered in this volume encompass the human ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • How Asian Women Lead

    Lessons for Global Corporations

    by J. Horan ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    How Asian Women Lead provides a vastly different picture than Western-focused leadership literature, highlighting obstacles Asian women face reaching the top, and looking beneath the corporate surface to show cultural and family perspectives. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Empowering Organizations

    Enabling Platforms and Artefacts

    Edited by Teresina Torre, Alessio Maria Braccini, Riccardo Spinelli ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents a collection of original research papers focusing on the enabling aspects of Information and Communication Technologies. In particular, it focuses on the two topics of digital platforms and digital artefacts, and discusses their role in enabling organizations to achieve specific goals, to exploit innovative value propositions, or to leverage innovative coordination mechanisms. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • International Perspectives on Participation

    Edited by Jaime Ortega ...
    Series Book 15 - Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms
    This volume analyses employee participation in under- researched countries and whose economic institutions differ from the Anglo-American context. Part one of the volume is dedicated to China. In a context in which economic decisions made by companies are closely influenced by the political institutions and practices, the extent to which Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) have the ability to make ... Read more

    $159.09 USD