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Labour economics

Hardback. Why in 2015 are there still large gender differences in economic success? This volume consists of a set of state of the art research articles to answer this question. Focus areas include educational attainment, financial risk management, bargaining power, social mobility, and intergenerational transfers in the US and abroad. Editor(s): Polachek, Solomon W.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. Series: Research in Labor Economics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; KCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 600.
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785601415
ISBN
9781785601415
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.70

Hardback. Focuses on women and households as significant productive units of global production systems and brings gender and social reproduction into the theoretical center of global commodity and value chain analysis. Editor(s): Dunaway, Wilma A. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804787949
ISBN
9780804787949
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.88

Hardback. Through a detailed analysis of macroeconomic changes and individuals' lifetime employment trajectories, this book explains why Japan and Taiwan have experienced different levels of improvement in women's economic status over the last half century. Series: Studies in Social Inequality. Num Pages: 280 pages, 15 tables, 51 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 1FPJ; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804760096
ISBN
9780804760096
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.04

Paperback. The contributors consider a wide range of issues, from an examination of the male/female wage gap that starts when girls are teenagers, to policewomen in Persian Gulf countries, to Latinas' politics, to Aboriginal health care workers, to secretarial work, and to feminist activism in Cuban hip hop. Editor(s): Morrow, Colette; Fredrick, Terri Ann. Series: A Feminist Formations Reader. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1, 1 graphs. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421406350
ISBN
9781421406350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.35

Paperback. This text analyzes scholarship and controversies on the glass ceiling and labour market discrimination in conjunction with the specific labour histories of Asian American ethnic groups. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742503359
ISBN
9780742503359
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.36

Paperback. Explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions. Drawing on field research in southern India and in Australia, and folding an ethnography into a political economy examination, this book offers an analysis of the India-based global labor management practice. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9 halftones. 3 line illus. 1 table. 1 map. BIC Classification: KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691118529
ISBN
9780691118529
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.53

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745327983
ISBN
9780745327983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 30.99

Paperback. This study draws on data and surveys to examine the measurable and the perceived effects of globalization on American workers. It explores whether large relative losses will continue to limit US international economic initiatives and then looks at perceptions of globalization's effects. Num Pages: 150 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFS; KCF; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Peterson Institute
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780881322958
ISBN
9780881322958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.24

Paperback. Examines the economic, political, and social causes and consequences of declining wages in the United States. This title presents a comprehensive analysis of the many factors affecting labor costs and concludes that many of them result from choices made by the states themselves through the laws and policies they enact. Series: American Governance and Public Policy Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589010888
ISBN
9781589010888
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.95

Hardback. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230241992
ISBN
9780230241992
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.52
€ 17.26

Paperback. Tells the story of how the market for temporary professionals operates from the perspective of the contractors who do the work, the managers who employ them, the permanent employees who work beside them, and the staffing agencies who broker deals. This book illustrates how the reality of flexibility often differs substantially from its promise. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 line illus. 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; KCF; KNTX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691127958
ISBN
9780691127958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 37.54

Paperback. A career-spanning collection of writings on labor history by one of the leading figures in the field, showing not only his growth as an historian but the growth of his field as well, exploring the subjects of workers, unions, and politics. Series: The Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252068683
ISBN
9780252068683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 33.59

Paperback. Tells the story of three men - Congressman Harry Davenport, union leader Tom Quinn, and Father Charles Owen Rice - whose lives became intertwined during the anti-Communist witch hunts of the McCarthy Era. This story helps illuminate one of the most repressive periods in American history. Num Pages: 344 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822959663
ISBN
9780822959663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.56

Paperback. This report looks at the impact out-of-school clubs have on parents' ability to work, how parents and their children view out-of-school clubs, how the support for people returning to work helps and how, and whether parents value advice on parenting. Series: IES Reports. Num Pages: 102 pages, 7figs.26tabs. BIC Classification: 1DBKESK; JHBK; JHBL; JNL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 166 x 8. Weight in Grams: 236. A Study for Kent TEC. Series: IES Reports. 102 pages, 7figs.26tabs. This report looks at the impact out-of-school clubs have on parents' ability to work, how parents and their children view out-of-school clubs, how the support for people returning to work helps and how, and whether parents value advice on parenting. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DBKESK; JHBK; JHBL; JNL; KCF. Dimension: 229 x 166 x 8. Weight: 236.
Publisher
Institute for Employment Studies
Number of pages
102
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851842773
ISBN
9781851842773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 5.28

Paperback. Editor(s): Sandidge, Leslie; Irby, Victor. Num Pages: 104 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 7. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
104
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781622579945
ISBN
9781622579945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 99.66
€ 69.24

Hardback. Editor(s): Blancero, Donna Maria; DelCamp, Robert G. Num Pages: 262 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL4; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 182 x 20. Weight in Grams: 674.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
262
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781621004288
ISBN
9781621004288
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 239.20
€ 160.90

Series: Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; KCF; KNXB2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 36. Weight in Grams: 906.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Edition
3 Rev ed
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810861961
ISBN
9780810861961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 235.09

Hardback. When Hitler assumed the German Chancellorship in January 1933, 34 per cent of Germany's work force was unemployed. By 1936, most of the jobless had disappeared from official unemployment statistics. Dan Silverman explores how the Nazis put Germany back to work, and asks: was the recovery genuine? Num Pages: 384 pages, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 671.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674740716
ISBN
9780674740716
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.61
€ 89.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; KCF; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801478970
ISBN
9780801478970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.82

Hardback. The ultimate idea book and business generator for people who want to earn money from home. With an emphasis on how to begin with practically no money at all, this book explains how to turn existing talents, experience and know-how into a profitable business. Num Pages: 346 pages. BIC Classification: KCF; KJVS; WD; WF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 585.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871319982
ISBN
9780871319982
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.41

paperback. This text provides an overview of types of home-based work, arguing that homeworking replicates wider divisions in the labour force. It outlines the advantages and disadvantages, the pay and conditions, and the family situations for women homeworkers. Num Pages: 160 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 9. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803988743
ISBN
9780803988743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 74.60

Paperback. Solving the riddle of America's immigration puzzle, this text seeks to address the question of why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that the modern economy seems to demand. Num Pages: 299 pages, 17 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 68.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
299
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520231627
ISBN
9780520231627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.10

paperback. Exposes the seamy underbelly of higher education - a world where faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates work long hours for fast-food wages. This title assesses the costs of higher education's corporatization on faculty and students at various levels. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 281 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JNK; JNM; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814799758
ISBN
9780814799758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.45

Paperback. A step-by-step guide for 16-24-year-olds on how to choose the right career, get your first job, excel within that job and progress quickly. This book will give you the confidence and techniques to find the job of your dreams, regardless of your qualifications or background. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCFM; VFXC1; VSC; YNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Panoma Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909623880
ISBN
9781909623880
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.71

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