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  • Working the Phones

    Control and Resistance in Call Centres

    Serier serie Wildcat
    *Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017**Winner of the 2016 Labor History Best Book prize*Over a million people in the UK work in call centres, and the phrase has become synonymous with low-paid and high stress work, dictatorial supervisors and an enforced dearth of union organisation. However, rarely does the public have access to the true picture of what goes ... Læs mere

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    Serier serie Very Short Introductions
    Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta describes the lives of two children who live very different lives in different parts of the world: in the Mid-West USA and in Ethiopia. He compares the obstacles facing them, and the ... Læs mere

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  • The Betrayal of Work

    How Low-wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans And Their Families

    af Beth Shulman ...
    Following its publication in hardcover, the critically acclaimed Betrayal of Work became one of the most influential policy books about economic life in America; it was discussed in the pages of Newsweek, Business Week, Fortune, the Washington Post, Newsday, and USA Today, as well as in public policy journals and in broadcast interviews, including a one-on-one with Bill Moyers on PBS's NOW. The ... Læs mere

    122,36 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Buttoned Up

    Clothing, Conformity, and White-Collar Masculinity

    Who is today's white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and other mid-twentieth-century investigations of corporate life and identity. Contemporary jobs are more precarious, casual Friday has become an institution, and telecommuting blurs the divide between workplace and home. Gender expectations have changed, too, with men's bodies ... Læs mere

    177,50 kr.

  • Dangerously Sleepy

    Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness

    Workers in the United States are losing sleep. In the global economy a growing number of employees hold jobs—often more than one at once—with unpredictable hours. Even before the rise of the twenty-four-hour workplace, the relationship between sleep and industry was problematic: sleep is frequently cast as an enemy or a weakness, while constant productivity and flexibility are glorified at the ... Læs mere

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  • Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics

    Foundations and Developments

    af Morris Altman ...
    At a time when both scholars and the public demand explanations and answers to key economic problems that conventional approaches have failed to resolve, this groundbreaking handbook of original works by leading behavioral economists offers the first comprehensive articulation of behavioral economics theory. Borrowing from the findings of psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, legal ... Læs mere

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  • Social Failures of EU Enlargement

    A Case of Workers Voting with their Feet

    Serier serie Routledge Research in Employment Relations
    Is the EU enlargement the success EU institutions proclaim? Based on fifteen years of fieldwork research across Central and Eastern Europe and on migrants in the UK and Germany, this book provides a less glittering answer. The EU has betrayed hopes of social cohesion: social regulations have been forgotten, multinationals use threats of relocations, and workers, left without institutional channels ... Læs mere

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  • Growing Income Inequalities

    Economic Analyses

    Redigeret af J. Hellier, N. Chusseau ...
    Serier serie Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores the widening gap between the wage packets of skilled and unskilled workers that has become a pressing issue for all states in the globalized world economy. Comparing the experiences of more and less developed economies, chapters analyse the underlying causes and key social changes that accompany income inequality. ... Læs mere

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  • Gambling, Work and Leisure (Routledge Revivals)

    A Study Across Three Areas

    Serier serie Routledge Revivals
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  • Full Employment and Social Justice

    Solidarity and Sustainability

    Serier serie Economics and Finance (R0)
    This edited collection investigates how full employment programs can sustain the economy and the environment, promote social justice, and reinvigorate local communities. The contributing authors focus on the formation of institutions to eliminate the opportunity gap for marginalized populations, enact environmentally sustainable methods of production and consumption, and rebuild local economies ... Læs mere

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  • The Political Economy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

    From Theories to Practice

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    This book offers a general theoretical framework for approaching innovation and entrepreneurship, using practical and up-to-date examples to demonstrate three different levels of innovation and entrepreneurship: the macro-level, which concerns the impact of innovation activity on economic growth and production systems; the meso-level, which concerns the relations between firms, research institutes ... Læs mere

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  • The People Factor

    Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service

    Successful businesses have spent the past two decades retooling and rethinking how to manage their people better. Most big companies that have survived and prospered in the 21st century view employees as a vital strategic asset. In comparison, the U.S. federal government is a Stone Age relic, with its top-down bureaucracy, stovepiping of labor and responsibilities, and lack of training and ... Læs mere

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