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Reducing Unemployment - A Case for Government Deregulation (Hardcover, New): Garry K. Ottosen, Douglas N. Thompson Reducing Unemployment - A Case for Government Deregulation (Hardcover, New)
Garry K. Ottosen, Douglas N. Thompson
R2,215 Discovery Miles 22 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Unemployment costs the United States at least $400 billion per year in lost output. This number does not begin to add up the total costs of unemployment that include many serious social problems like increased divorce and crime rates. If unemployment costs so much, why don't we simply pump up demand and push the unemployment rate down? The answer lies in the relationship between inflation and unemployment: we simply cannot push unemployment below the rate that is compatable with stable inflation.

Must we, then, just live with unemployment? No. But to understand how we can reduce unemployment, we must understand the nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU). What determines the level of the NAIRU? Has that level increased? Can we reduce the current NAIRU? These are important questions addressed in "Reducing Unemployment" Ottosen and Thompson argue that the NAIRU has increased significantly over the past 30 years. Many blame structural unemployment for that increase. Others have argued that increases in social welfare programs and payments are to blame. But hardly anyone has examined the effects of increasing government regulations on the NAIRU. "Reducing Unemployment" remedies this oversight, and also looks at the effects of unionization and productivity on the NAIRU. The authors conclude that the United States does not have to tolerate a high unemployment rate, for the NAIRU can be reduced through appropriate government deregulation.

Work and Rewards - Redefining Our Work-Life Reality (Hardcover): William Roth Work and Rewards - Redefining Our Work-Life Reality (Hardcover)
William Roth
R2,767 Discovery Miles 27 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This innovative book examines the nature of work and reward, and the place each has in today's society. The author examines why so many people feel trapped in the workplace today, and develops a framework that can be used to improve life both in and out of the workplace. The author states that the current definition of work today is sacrifice' and the reward is frequently money. He argues that employees also need access to such things as truth, good, beauty, and power. Concentration on the work ethic will give way to the development ethic which minimizes sacrifice and maximizes development through the use of technology and the restructuring of our value system. This illuminating book provides an interesting perspective on business for undergraduate business students, MBA students, and those directly involved in the business world.

"Work and RewardS" begins with an examination of the work world as it stands today. The author explores the possibilities for change in technology, the nature of work, reward systems, balance, and success. Finally, the book introduces a new framework for work and life.

Working for Oil - Comparative Social Histories of Labor in the Global Oil Industry (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Touraj Atabaki,... Working for Oil - Comparative Social Histories of Labor in the Global Oil Industry (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Touraj Atabaki, Elisabetta Bini, Kaveh Ehsani
R3,691 Discovery Miles 36 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume examines the social history of oil workers and investigates how labor relations have shaped the global oil industry during the twentieth century and today. It brings together the work of scholars from a range of disciplines, approaching the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of oil. The contributors analyze a number of key oil producing regions, including the Americas, the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Europe and Africa.

Intersectionality Narratives in the Classroom - "Outsider Teachers" and Teaching Others (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Sara Makris Intersectionality Narratives in the Classroom - "Outsider Teachers" and Teaching Others (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Sara Makris
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book portrays the experiences of self-described "outsider" or "other" teachers-teachers whose identities set them apart from their students based upon combinations of race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, ability status, religion, or other identity characteristics. The teachers profiled bring experiences of social isolation and difference into the classroom and demonstrate perspectives and habits of mind that inform a nuanced approach to interaction with students.

Human Rights and European Politics - The Legal Political Status of Workers in the European Community (Hardcover): Fritz... Human Rights and European Politics - The Legal Political Status of Workers in the European Community (Hardcover)
Fritz Fabricius
R4,916 Discovery Miles 49 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The free movement of labour will be one of the key elements of the Single Market soon to be implemented, One would therefore expect that efforts would have been made to harmonize social policies, especially on the legal status of workers. But the existing EC Treaty contains no provision and the Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers of 1989 fails to fill the gap. The Charter delegates the socio-political responsibility in almost all points to the member states. Yet the constitutions of most refer to general human rights only. The author here stresses the importance of economic and social human rights which, like human rights in general, have their roots in the Enlightenment, especially in the works of Montesquieu, Adam Smith and Kant.

Poverty and the Production of World Politics - Unprotected Workers in the Global Political Economy (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): M.... Poverty and the Production of World Politics - Unprotected Workers in the Global Political Economy (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
M. Davies; Magnus Ryner
R2,894 Discovery Miles 28 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Global poverty is a central concern for world politics, yet we lack and adequate conception of the ways the "global poor" affect contemporary world order. This book examines the proposition, inspired by the work of Robert W. Cox and Jeffrey Harrod, that such a conception must be based on an analysis of how the "global poor" take part in power relations as" unprotected workers." It examines the ways in which production and power relations constitute world politics, and the chapters shed light on the politics of production in the Third World, migration, prostitution, the "clash of civilizations" and union internationalism.

The Global Economic Mismatch - High Technology and Low Pay (Hardcover, New): Henry B. Schechter The Global Economic Mismatch - High Technology and Low Pay (Hardcover, New)
Henry B. Schechter
R2,778 Discovery Miles 27 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this study, labor economist Henry Schechter concludes that there is a need for greater international prohibitions and for keeping open channels for collective bargaining for higher wages. He presents an analysis of recent changes in the United States and elsewhere, highlighting the spread of automated production technology to lesser developed, low-wage areas of the world, which leads to global demand-supply imbalances and downward pressure on wages. This circumstance, he charges, is aggravated as multinational corporations affiliate with one another, lessening competition and increasing monopolistic influences worldwide. This work will be of interest to the scholars and policymakers in academia, government, business, and the labor movement concerned with fiscal and labor economic policies.

Culture and Immigration in Context - An Ethnography of Romanian Migrant Workers in London (Hardcover): D. Briggs, D. Dobre Culture and Immigration in Context - An Ethnography of Romanian Migrant Workers in London (Hardcover)
D. Briggs, D. Dobre
R1,842 Discovery Miles 18 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Based on ethnographic data, this revealing study presents a humane and realistic account of Romanian economic migrants and their life in the UK, providing a more balanced picture of the way new immigrant groups are depicted and popularly perceived.

Art and the Challenge of Markets Volume 2 - From Commodification of Art to Artistic Critiques of Capitalism (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Art and the Challenge of Markets Volume 2 - From Commodification of Art to Artistic Critiques of Capitalism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Victoria Alexander, Samuli Hagg, Simo Hayrynen, Erkki Sevanen
R3,391 Discovery Miles 33 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Art and the Challenge of Markets Volumes 1 & 2 examine the politics of art and culture in light of the profound changes that have taken place in the world order since the 1980s and 1990s. The contributors explore how in these two decades, the neoliberal or market-based model of capitalism started to spread from the economic realm to other areas of society. As a result, many aspects of contemporary Western societies increasingly function in the same way as the private enterprise sector under traditional market capitalism. This second volume analyses the relationships of art with contemporary capitalist economies and instrumentalist cultural policies, and examines several varieties of capitalist-critical and alternative art forms that exist in today's art worlds. It also addresses the vexed issues of art controversies and censorship. The chapters cover issues such as the culturalization of the economy, aesthetics and anti-aesthetics, the societal benefits of works of art, art's responsibility to society, "artivism", activist arts as protest and capitalism-critical works, and controversies over nudity in art, as well as considering the marketisation of emerging visual arts worlds in East Asia. The book ends with the a concluding chapter suggesting that even in today's marketized and commercialized environments, art will find a way. Both volumes provide students and scholars across a range of disciplines with an incisive, comparative overview of the politics of art and culture and national, international and transnational art worlds in contemporary capitalism.

Toward a Future Beyond Employment (Hardcover): M. Cangul Toward a Future Beyond Employment (Hardcover)
M. Cangul
R2,377 R1,930 Discovery Miles 19 300 Save R447 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Toward a Future Beyond Employment proposes that as poor nations move to the emerging stage and as emerging economies become advanced, advanced economies are transitioning to a stage of their own, to a type of post-employment economy where society works less, consumes less, but instead has more time.

Citizenship and Social Policy - From Post-War Development to Permanent Crisis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Nikos Kourachanis Citizenship and Social Policy - From Post-War Development to Permanent Crisis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Nikos Kourachanis
R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book highlights the parallel transformations of the concepts of citizenship and the welfare state, and their dependence on the dominant political ideology, from the post-war period to the present. Kourachanis presents the welfare state as an integral part of the capitalist state and consequently, suggests that any structural changes to the capitalist state will have major impacts on the texture and content of the restructuring of the welfare state. The research compares different formulations of citizenship and the welfare state, reflecting on social citizenship and the post-war (or Keynesian) welfare state, as well as welfare provision under neoliberalism. The research will be vital reading for academics, researchers and students of social and public policy, political and humanitarian studies, as well as policy makers and members of labour unions and activists.

The Value of Time and Leisure in a World of Work (Hardcover): Mitchell R. Haney, David A Kline The Value of Time and Leisure in a World of Work (Hardcover)
Mitchell R. Haney, David A Kline; Contributions by Kevin Aho, Robert Audi, Peter A. French, …
R3,664 R2,579 Discovery Miles 25 790 Save R1,085 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

It is a platitude that most people, as they say, 'work to live' rather than 'live to work.' And in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, work weeks have expanded and the divide between work time and personal time has significantly blurred due to innovations in such things as electronic communications. Concerns over the value of work in our lives, as well as with the balance or use of time between work and leisure, confront most people in contemporary society. Discussions over the values of time, leisure, and work are directly related to the time-honored question of what makes a life good. And this question is of particular interest to philosophers, especially ethicists. In this volume, leading scholars address a range of value considerations related to peoples' thoughts and practices around time utilization, leisure, and work with masterful insight. In addressing various practical issues, these scholars demonstrate the timeless relevance and practical import of Philosophy to human lived experience.

The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract - Working and Living in Contingency (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Lisa Adkins, Maryanne Dever The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract - Working and Living in Contingency (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Lisa Adkins, Maryanne Dever
R3,813 Discovery Miles 38 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times. Contingency creates a sexual contract in which attachments to work, mothering, entrepreneurship and investor subjectivity are the new regulatory ideals for women over a range of working arrangements, and across classed and raced dimensions.

Making a Living, Making a Difference - Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society (Hardcover): Maria Agren Making a Living, Making a Difference - Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society (Hardcover)
Maria Agren
R3,986 Discovery Miles 39 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What do people do all day? What did women and men do to make a living in early modern Europe, and what did their work mean? As this book shows, the meanings depended both on the worker and on the context. With an innovative analytic method that is yoked to a specially-built database of source materials, this book revises many received opinions about the history of gender and work in Europe. The applied verb-oriented method finds the 'work verbs' that appear incidentally in a wide variety of early modern sources and then analyzes the context in which they appear. By tying information technologies and computer-assisted analysis to the analytic powers - both quantitative and qualitative - of professional historians, the method gets much closer to a participatory observation of the micro-patterns of early modern life than was once believed possible. It directly addresses a number of broad problems often debated by historians of gender and early modern Europe. First, it discusses the problem of assessing more accurately the incidence, character and division of work. Second, it analyzes the configurations of work and human difference. Third, it deals with the extent to which work practices created notions of difference - gender difference but also other forms of difference - and, conversely, to what extent work practices contributed to notions of sameness and gender convergence. Finally, it studies the impact of processes of change. Drawing on sources from Sweden, the authors show the importance of multiple employment, the openness of early modern households, the significance of marriage and marital status, the gendered nature of specific tasks, and the ways in which state formation and commercialization were entangled in people's everyday lives.

Media and Culture in the U.S. Jewish Labor Movement - Sweating for Democracy in the Interwar Era (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017):... Media and Culture in the U.S. Jewish Labor Movement - Sweating for Democracy in the Interwar Era (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Brian Dolber
R3,179 Discovery Miles 31 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the Jewish Left's innovative strategies in maintaining newspapers, radio stations, and educational activities during a moment of crisis in global democracy. In the wake of the First World War, as immigrant workers and radical organizations came under attack, leaders within largely Jewish unions and political parties determined to keep their tradition of social unionism alive. By adapting to an emerging media environment dependent on advertising, turn-of-the-century Yiddish socialism morphed into a new political identity compatible with American liberalism and an expanding consumer society. Through this process, the Jewish working class secured a place within the New Deal coalition they helped to produce. Using a wide array of archival sources, Brian Dolber demonstrates the importance of cultural activity in movement politics, and the need for thoughtful debate about how to structure alternative media in moments of political, economic, and technological change.

The Legitimation Crisis of Neoliberalism - The State, Will-Formation, and Resistance (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Alessandro... The Legitimation Crisis of Neoliberalism - The State, Will-Formation, and Resistance (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Alessandro Bonanno
R3,186 Discovery Miles 31 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book proposes a theory of the legitimation crisis of neoliberalism. Through analyses of the legitimation crisis of regulated capitalism and the characteristics and theories of neoliberalism, the author contends that neoliberalism is affected by crises of system and social integration. The crisis of system integration refers to the inability of market mechanisms to address problems of capital accumulation and social stability. The crisis of social integration refers to the unmet promises of economic growth and social well-being. While attempts to address these crises are carried out through state intervention, crisis resolutions are inadequate due to the limits of the free market system and current state forms. Alessandro Bonanno contends that, as ideological and material forms of legitimation are inadequate, and processes of capital accumulation are sluggish and resistance weak, change is necessary. He outlines how this change will be controlled by corporate actors, minimally address the demands of subordinate groups, and marginally alter existing conditions.

The Relational Fabric of Community (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Kenneth C. Bessant The Relational Fabric of Community (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Kenneth C. Bessant
R2,876 Discovery Miles 28 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Theoretical and philosophical work on community has yielded multifold definitions and analytical frameworks. Kenneth C. Bessant reflects on the inherent complexity and diversity of this deeply intersubjective aspect of lived social experience. He explores the relational underpinnings of early and more contemporary approaches to the study of community, with a particular emphasis on their core assumptions, concepts, and tenets. Each of these perspectives offers a relatively distinct interpretation of community, while also revealing the intrinsically relational fabric of its perpetual emergence, dynamism, and transformation. The 'being-with' of relational social existence is the fundamental basis upon which all conceptions of community are built, and this is the epicenter around which the book revolves. Community is born of, exists within, and brings forth social relations. It is a living expression of relational willing, thinking, and acting.

Toleration - Group Governance in a Chinese Third Line Enterprise (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Chao Chen Toleration - Group Governance in a Chinese Third Line Enterprise (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Chao Chen
R3,341 Discovery Miles 33 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book uncovers the mysterious social and political structures of China's "Third Front," the large state-sponsored development of inland China during the late Maoist period. This movement gave birth to a few important industrial bases such as Panzhihua and Liupanshui and had significant impact on megacities such as Lanzhou, Wuhan, and Chongqing. Yet, this is scarcely known to the West and even the younger generation of Chinese. Chen explores the ways that new industrial structures and hierarchies were created and operated, using political and sociological methodologies to understand what is distinctive in the history of the Chinese corporation. This book will be of immense interest to political scientists, sociologists, China scholars, and researchers of alternative economic structures.

Work/Life City Limits - Comparative Household Perspectives (Hardcover, New): H. Jarvis Work/Life City Limits - Comparative Household Perspectives (Hardcover, New)
H. Jarvis
R1,535 Discovery Miles 15 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book demonstrates how local contexts of urbanization and cultures of work are intimately meshed together. Each chapter explores a discrete dimension of the way people organize their working lives in post-industrial cities, taking close account of the social and environmental impact of this balancing act. The book features cross-national and inter-city comparative household level research, highlighting significant contradictions underpinning the nature of production, consumer expectation, work-life balance and urban environmental quality.

Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2012 (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Santo Banerjee, Sefika Sule Ercetin Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2012 (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Santo Banerjee, Sefika Sule Ercetin
R5,691 Discovery Miles 56 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

These proceedings from the 2012 symposium on "Chaos, complexity and leadership" reflect current research results from all branches of Chaos, Complex Systems and their applications in Management. Included are the diverse results in the fields of applied nonlinear methods, modeling of data and simulations, as well as theoretical achievements of Chaos and Complex Systems. Also highlighted are Leadership and Management applications of Chaos and Complexity Theory.

Globalizing Social Rights - The International Labour Organization and Beyond (Hardcover): Skott, J. Droux Globalizing Social Rights - The International Labour Organization and Beyond (Hardcover)
Skott, J. Droux
R3,600 Discovery Miles 36 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Focusing on the ILO, this volume explores its role as creator of international social networks and facilitator of exchange between various national and international actors since its establishment in 1919. It emphasizes the role played by the ILO in the international circulation of ideas, expertise and practices that foster the emergence and shaping of international social models, and examines the impact of its methods and models on national and local societies. By analysing the case of the ILO, the authors rethink the influence of international organizations in the shaping of the contemporary world and the emergence of a global civil society.

This collection brings together a variety of new scholarship by a group of highly qualified and internationally renowned scholars and supplemented by a set of young researchers entering the field of global history and the history of international organizations.

Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life - International Perspectives (Hardcover): Maria Kontos, Glenda Tibe Bonifacio Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life - International Perspectives (Hardcover)
Maria Kontos, Glenda Tibe Bonifacio
R3,097 R2,134 Discovery Miles 21 340 Save R963 (31%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life of migrant live-in domestic and care workers in Argentina, Canada, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Norway, the Philippines, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, and Ukraine.

Designing Technology, Work, Organizations and Vice Versa (Hardcover): Attila Bruni Designing Technology, Work, Organizations and Vice Versa (Hardcover)
Attila Bruni
R1,650 Discovery Miles 16 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Transitions from Education to Work in Europe - The Integration of Youth into EU Labour Markets (Hardcover, New): Walter Muller,... Transitions from Education to Work in Europe - The Integration of Youth into EU Labour Markets (Hardcover, New)
Walter Muller, Markus Gangl
R6,499 Discovery Miles 64 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Based on new empirical evidence, this book provides a comparative analysis of the transition from school to work across the European Union. It examines the negative impacts of the recent employment turbulences on school leavers' integration into the labour market, as well as identifying the individual, social, and economic factors that facilitate smooth transitions.

Generations and Work (Hardcover): E. Bolland, C. Lopez, Carlos Lopes Generations and Work (Hardcover)
E. Bolland, C. Lopez, Carlos Lopes
R3,520 Discovery Miles 35 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Based on an extensive national survey of workers and four separate industry-specific surveys, Generations and Work will examine and provide answers to the most common issues and problems of multi generational work by assessing differences and commonalities between and among generations.

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