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paperback. In this title, Hakim presents a multi-disciplinary theory for explaining and predicting current and future patterns of women's choice between employment and family work. Preference theory is developed specifically to explain women's behaviour and choices. Num Pages: 356 pages, numerous tables and 1 figure. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBK; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199242108
- ISBN
- 9780199242108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 88.96
€ 88.96
Hardback. At the beginning of the 20th century, American reformers saw vocational education as a promising way to cure many of the nation's economic and social ills. These essays address the question of whether the ensuing educational reforms had any effect on the problems they were supposed to solve. Editor(s): Kantor, Harvey A.; Tyack, David. Num Pages: 380 pages, 1 graph. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804711210
- ISBN
- 9780804711210
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.18
€ 107.18
Paperback. Work Time is a sociological overview of a complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and life yet often goes without critical examination. Series: Work & Society. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHBL; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745654263
- ISBN
- 9780745654263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.69
€ 23.69
Hardcover. Work Time is a sociological overview of a complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and life yet often goes without critical examination. Series: Work & Society. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745654256
- ISBN
- 9780745654256
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.59
€ 63.59
Hardcover. This book contributes to our understanding of the transformation of work in the information economy, through a detailed examination of labour markets in Silicon Valley. It provides an original and insightful analysis of flexible labour. Series: Information Age Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, 43 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JHBL; KCF; KNDH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631232490
- ISBN
- 9780631232490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.66
€ 127.66
Paperback. Takes a look at the innovative ways in which management, labor organizations, government, and social workers can better respond to the needs of workers, their families, and communities. This book considers the social, psychological, and economic conditions in the world of work; and, the domino impact of unemployment upon individuals. Series: Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: JHBL; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231111676
- ISBN
- 9780231111676
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.40
€ 48.40
Paperback. This book provides a lively and accessible introduction to key new areas in the contemporary study of work. While traditional accounts of work have tended to focus upon male manual workers in factories, recent developments have shifted the notions of what counts as work, what work is, and where it takes place. Num Pages: 368 pages, 46. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 172 x 26. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745622231
- ISBN
- 9780745622231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.32
€ 27.32
Hardback. This book provides a lively and accessible introduction to key new areas in the contemporary study of work. While traditional accounts of work have tended to focus upon male manual workers in factories, recent developments have shifted the notions of what counts as work, what work is, and where it takes place. Num Pages: 368 pages, 46. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 252 x 173 x 30. Weight in Grams: 786.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745622224
- ISBN
- 9780745622224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.95
€ 75.95
Paperback. This book is one of the most successful examples in the Africanist literature of placing structures in time. It presents a detailed description of the politics of production in Maale during 1975 against a completed past of Imperial Ethiopian history and an uncertain future of revolutionary socialism. Num Pages: 176 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; JHBL; JHM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231100472
- ISBN
- 9780231100472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.55
€ 51.55
Hardback. Thirty years of economic change have fundamentally altered the nature of organizations and work in China. This volume brings together the research by many of the top scholars studying these issues and provides a glimpse into the state of thinking on organizations and work at the start of the fourth decade of transition. Editor(s): Keister, Lisa. Series: Research in the Sociology of Work. Num Pages: 454 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 796.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848557307
- ISBN
- 9781848557307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.44
€ 126.44
Paperback. Globalization, economic development and changes in social environments have put the relationships between work, leisure, social structure and quality of life under the spotlight. This book brings together chapters from international experts in a range of disciplines concerned with work, leisure and well-being to discuss key, topical issues. Editor(s): Haworth, John T.; Veal, Anthony J. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFR; JHBL; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415250580
- ISBN
- 9780415250580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.70
€ 23.70
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784416300
- ISBN
- 9781784416300
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.84
€ 150.84
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230. . Clean copy in dust wrapper. DW showing some light shelf wear. Previous owner's name to ffep. Remains a very good copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0010685
- ISBN
- 9781853961069
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Editor(s): Randow, Lauren S. Num Pages: 118 pages, tables, charts, illus. BIC Classification: JFFG; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 118
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611224634
- ISBN
- 9781611224634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.48€ 90.52
€ 133.48
€ 90.52
Paperback. A reassessment of women's experience of work in 18th-century England, and the effects it had on industrialization and other economic, social and technological changes. It also examines how this influenced marriage and relations between the sexes. Series: Women's and Gender History. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBL; KCF; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781857282139
- ISBN
- 9781857282139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.47
€ 53.47
Paperback. This is a collection of essays on topics related to the economics of gender and the family. The essays apply traditional economic theory to non-traditional topics, while also stretching and bending neoclassical economic thought to provide a better model of economic interactions. Editor(s): Moe, Prof Karine (Macalester College USA). Num Pages: 256 pages, 16. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBK; KCA; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 14. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631225775
- ISBN
- 9780631225775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.54
€ 63.54
Hardback. This is a collection of essays on topics related to the economics of gender and the family. The essays apply traditional economic theory to non-traditional topics, while also stretching and bending neoclassical economic thought to provide a better model of economic interactions. Editor(s): Moe, Prof Karine (Macalester College USA). Num Pages: 256 pages, 16. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBK; KCA; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 256 x 185 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631225768
- ISBN
- 9780631225768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.69
€ 139.69
Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JFSP31; JHBL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 253 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442215504
- ISBN
- 9781442215504
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.63
€ 71.63
Paperback. Combining firsthand accounts of five differently situated Portuguese women, who describe their lives in a rural fishing community on the north coast of Portugal with cultural and economic analysis, this work radically departs from the picture of women as sexual beings that prevails in the anthropological literature on Europe and the Mediterranean. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSP; JFSJ1; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 28.
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691028620
- ISBN
- 9780691028620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 36.40
€ 51.99
€ 36.40
"Women of Privilege" traces the decline of a once-privileged Hudson River Valley family whose neighbors were Vanderbilts, Delanos, and Roosevelts. Based on diaries and journals, and written by a family descendant, it combines biography and memoir with social history. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BM; JFSC; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Academy Chicago Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780897336802
- ISBN
- 9780897336802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.48
€ 36.99
€ 31.48
Hardcover. Editor(s): Ganesamurthy, V. S. Num Pages: 174 pages, tables. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- New Century Publications India
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788177081862
- ISBN
- 9788177081862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 28.00
€ 42.99
€ 28.00
Hardcover. A compelling inquiry into the remaking of gender and sexuality in post-Mubarak Egypt Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFSJ1; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 150. .
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774167478
- ISBN
- 9789774167478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 40.61
€ 42.99
€ 40.61
Hardcover. Part of an annual series which brings together studies of issues in the former USSR and Eastern Europe, this title covers both domestic and international developments. It bridges the gap between specialist research and journalistic accounts. Editor(s): Wejnert, Barbara; Spencer, Metta; Drakulic, Slobodan. Series: Research in the Soviet Europe. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; JFSJ1; JHBC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781559384322
- ISBN
- 9781559384322
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.70
€ 110.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFSJ1; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812215274
- ISBN
- 9780812215274
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.45
€ 37.45