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In recent years, and to varying degrees, there has been a marked
trend towards decentralisation of labour market regulation in many
European countries. The authors of this book seek to assess the
impact of social partnership and social protection on the
macroeconomic performance of nine member states of the European
Union - namely Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the
Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the UK. They compare the performance
outcomes of these countries with the USA over the last twenty years
and find that, in broad terms, the countries that perform 'best'
are those that have adapted and decentralised their systems of
social partnership and protection. The authors also analyse the
changing nature of social partnership and protection within the
European Union (EU). They examine recent developments in EU social
policy, particularly its shift towards employment promotion through
the national action plans on employment that each member state is
now required to introduce. These reinforce social partnership but
also impose new challenges for governments, employers and unions to
meet. Central amongst these challenges is the need to ensure that
social partnership is as inclusive as possible. The authors
conclude that the EU requires more social partnership if ever
closer union, including monetary union, is to succeed and that
employment promotion programmes must be pursued by the EU as a
whole.
We all have to work to pay the bills – but what influence do we
really have over our pay and working conditions? The emergence of
the global economy, digital technologies, mass migration, gig work
and zero hours contracts have thrust this question to the forefront
of HRM. So how can we keep the ‘human’ in human resource
management faced by these pressures? This book adopts a critical
approach to today’s major workplace challenges. It turns
traditional HRM on its head by placing workers’ perspectives
towards the workplace alongside those of managers to create an HRM
textbook for the 21st century. Written by two experienced and
research-active authors, the book: • locates control of labour
costs and productivity at the heart of HRM policy and practice; •
covers key issues that are overlooked in many textbooks, including
conflict and resistance, the ‘new’ unitarism, migration and the
challenges of Artificial Intelligence; • adopts a critical
approach that will appeal more to students who don’t wish to
become traditional managers; • includes current examples and case
studies from the international world of work and business that will
bring the subject to life. This is a comprehensive one-stop
resource for students and lecturers alike.
We all have to work to pay the bills - but what influence do we
really have over our pay and working conditions? The emergence of
the global economy, digital technologies, mass migration, gig work
and zero hours contracts have thrust this question to the forefront
of HRM. So how can we keep the 'human' in human resource management
faced by these pressures? This book adopts a critical approach to
today's major workplace challenges. It turns traditional HRM on its
head by placing workers' perspectives towards the workplace
alongside those of managers to create an HRM textbook for the 21st
century. Written by two experienced and research-active authors,
the book: * locates control of labour costs and productivity at the
heart of HRM policy and practice; * covers key issues that are
overlooked in many textbooks, including conflict and resistance,
the 'new' unitarism, migration and the challenges of Artificial
Intelligence; * adopts a critical approach that will appeal more to
students who don't wish to become traditional managers; * includes
current examples and case studies from the international world of
work and business that will bring the subject to life. This is a
comprehensive one-stop resource for students and lecturers alike.
Growing interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) has
focused attention on the relationship between businesses and key
stakeholders, such as NGOs and local communities. Curiously,
however, commentators on CSR rarely discuss the role of trade
unions, while commentators on employment relations seldom engage
with CSR. This situation is all the more remarkable since unions
are a critically important social actor and have traditionally
played a prominent role in defending the interests of one key
stakeholder in the company, the employee. Written by dedicated
experts in their field, this book addresses a key gap in the
literature on both CSR and employment relations, namely trade union
policies towards CSR, as well as union engagement with particular
CSR initiatives and the challenges they face in doing so. The
research covers eleven European countries which, when taken
together, constitute a representative sample of industrial
relations structures across the continent. This book will be
essential reading for scholars, students and practitioners of
international business, employment relations, public policy and
CSR. Its foreword is written by Philippe Pochet and Maria Jepsen,
Directors of the European Trade Union Institute in Brussels.
Title first published in 2003. Contributors from a wide range of
European countries illustrate the validity of four propositions
about employee participation: that different forms of employee
participation mutually reinforce each other; that major shifts in
employment relations require innovative approaches to
participation; that appropriate conditions (including the provision
of training and support) are required for the spread of
participation; and that trade unions remain a crucial foundation
for the promotion of participation.
As a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century
America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American
cultural scene for more than three decades. Beginning in the 1920s
his was a powerful journalistic voice for social change and human
rights, and Jews Without Money -- the author's only novel -- is a
passionate record of the times. First published in 1930, this
fictionalized autobiography offered an unusually candid look at the
thieves, gangsters, and ordinary citizens who struggled against
brutal odds in lower East Side Manhattan. Like Henry Roth's Call It
Sleep and Abraham Cahan's The Rise and Fall of David Levinsky, Jews
Without Money is a literary landmark of the Jewish experience.
Michael Gold (1893-1967) was born in New York City, where later he
wrote for radical journals and newspapers such as New Masses and
The Liberator. Jews Without Money has been translated in more than
fourteen countries, including Germany, where the novel was employed
against Nazi propaganda.
Title first published in 2003. Contributors from a wide range of
European countries illustrate the validity of four propositions
about employee participation: that different forms of employee
participation mutually reinforce each other; that major shifts in
employment relations require innovative approaches to
participation; that appropriate conditions (including the provision
of training and support) are required for the spread of
participation; and that trade unions remain a crucial foundation
for the promotion of participation.
Growing interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) has
focused attention on the relationship between businesses and key
stakeholders, such as NGOs and local communities. Curiously,
however, commentators on CSR rarely discuss the role of trade
unions, while commentators on employment relations seldom engage
with CSR. This situation is all the more remarkable since unions
are a critically important social actor and have traditionally
played a prominent role in defending the interests of one key
stakeholder in the company, the employee.
Written by dedicated experts in their field, this book addresses
a key gap in the literature on both CSR and employment relations,
namely trade union policies towards CSR, as well as union
engagement with particular CSR initiatives and the challenges they
face in doing so. The research covers eleven European countries
which, when taken together, constitute a representative sample of
industrial relations structures across the continent.
This book will be essential reading for scholars, students and
practitioners of international business, employment relations,
public policy and CSR. Its foreword is written by Philippe Pochet
and Maria Jepsen, Directors of the European Trade Union Institute
in Brussels.
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Provides insight into the therapy process, and talks about coping
with feelings, questions, fears, and insecurities, medications and
their side effects, and negotiating plans for payment.
Berklee GuideThe definitive text used for the time-honored Chord
Scales course at Berklee College of Music, this book concentrates
on scoring for every possible ensemble combination and teaches
performers and arrangers how to add color, character and
sophistication to chord voicings. Topics covered include: selecting
appropriate harmonic tensions, understanding jazz harmony,
overcoming harmonic ambiguity, experimenting with unusual
combinations and non-traditional alignments, and many more. The
accompanying CD includes performance examples of several different
arranging techniques.A no-nonsense, meat and potatoes source of
basic and not-so-basic information about everything relating to
jazz writing covers several courses worth of information. Kenny
WernerPianist, Composer and Author of Effortless Mastery
Blackmail, sexual harassment, murder . . . and a missing dog:
eccentric, eco-obsessed L.A. private eye Charlie Waldo is on the
case in this quirky, fast-paced mystery. Paying a harsh
self-imposed penance for a terrible misstep on a case, former LAPD
superstar detective Charlie Waldo lives a life of punishing
minimalism deep within the woods, making a near religion of his
commitment to owning no more than One Hundred Things. At least,
he's trying to. His PI girlfriend Lorena keeps drawing him back to
civilization - even though every time he compromises on his
principles, something goes wrong. And unfortunately for Waldo, all
roads lead straight back to L.A. When old adversary Don Q
strongarms him into investigating the seemingly mundane death of a
vagrant, Lorena agrees he can work under her PI license on one
condition: he help with a high-maintenance celebrity client, wildly
popular courtroom TV star Judge Ida Mudge, whose new mega-deal
makes her a perfect target for blackmail. Reopening the coldest of
cases, a decades-old fraternity death, Waldo begins to wonder if
the judge is, in fact, a murderer - and if he'll stay alive long
enough to find out. Pay or Play is the third in the Charlie Waldo
series, following Last Looks and Below the Line. Last Looks was
turned into a major motion picture, starring Charlie Hunnam as the
offbeat private investigator.
Making Out in Thai is a fun, accessible and thorough Thai phrase
book and guide to the Thai language as it's really spoken. Dichan
long nai tua khun! Ca phop kan iik muearai?--(I'm crazy about you!
When can I see you again?) Answer this correctly in Thai and you
may be going on a hot date. Incorrectly, and you could be hurting
someone's feelings or getting a slap! Thai classes and textbooks
tend to spend a lot of time rehearsing for the same fictitious
scenarios but chances are while in Thailand you will spend a lot
more time trying to make new friends or start new
romances--something you may not be prepared for. If you are a
student, businessman or tourist traveling to Thailand and would
like to have an authentic and meaningful experience, the key is
being able to speak like a local. This friendly and easy-to-use
Thai phrasebook makes this possible. Making Out in Thai has been
revised and redesigned to act as a guide to modern colloquial Thai
for use in everyday informal interactions--giving access to the
sort of catchy Thai expressions that aren't covered in traditional
language materials. As well as the Romanized forms, each expression
is given in authentic Thai script (akson thai), so that in the case
of difficulties the book can be shown to the person the user is
trying to communicate with. This Thai phrasebook includes: A guide
to pronouncing Thai words correctly. Explanations of basic Thai
grammar, such as, word order and polite vs. impolite forms. A guide
to male and female usage. Romanized forms of words and phrases with
tonal markings. Complete translations including Thai script (akson
thai). Useful and interesting notes on Thai language and culture.
Lots of colorful, fun and useful expressions not covered in other
phrasebooks. Titles in this unique series of bestselling phrase
books include: Making Out in Chinese, Making Out in Indonesian,
Making Out in Thai, Making Out in Korean, Making Out in Hindi,
Making Out in Japanese, Making Out in Vietnamese, Making Out in
Burmese, Making Out in Tagalog, Making Out in Hindi, Making Out in
Arabic, Making Out in English, More Making Out in Korean, and More
Making Out in Japanese.
This important new volume deals with issues, spanning the entire
spectrum of family life, including relationships between parents
and children, marriage, divorce, sibling rivalry, sexuality,
infertility, and family abuse.
During the 1990s, Emerging Europe and Central Asia (ECA) chose a
model of rapid financial development emphasizing bank credit
expansion often funded by foreign capital. Although boosting
financial inclusion of firms and households, the model was
accompanied by lower efficiency and increased financial
vulnerability. After two waves of crises, in the late 1990s and
after 2008, ECA's banking systems again face major stress. The
crises and stresses have eroded trust in banks and job creation in
credit-dependent firms. ECA's shallow and illiquid capital markets
offer no additional support. Stagnating income growth, particularly
of middle- to lower-income earners, has led to increasing
dissatisfaction with low productivity growth and limited
opportunities. This frustration provides the impetus for reshaping
financial policies. A healthy and balanced financial sector could
strengthen structural adjustment in ECA's eastern, oil-dependent
economies and innovation in its western countries. Risks and
Returns: Managing Financial Trade-Offs for Inclusive Growth in
Europe and Central Asia argues for reaching beyond increasing
access to credit. ECA countries must build integrated financial
systems, enabling prudent financial inclusion in a region
significantly lagging in the use of saving products. Striking the
right balance across all dimensions of financial development
(stability, efficiency, inclusion, and overall depth) is crucial
for achieving and sustaining inclusive growth. Redesigning
financial policy involves addressing trade-offs often overlooked in
the past. Too much credit and imprudent financial inclusion have
led to banking crises. Overly stringent regulation to foster
financial stability has hindered inclusion and efficiency gains.
Both shortfalls have had negative consequences for shared
prosperity. Risks and Returns discusses tools and approaches to
help policy makers achieve balanced financial development.
Blackmail, sexual harassment, murder . . . and a missing dog:
eccentric, eco-obsessed LA private eye Charlie Waldo is on the case
in this quirky, fast-paced mystery. Paying a harsh self-imposed
penance for a terrible misstep on a case, former LAPD superstar
detective Charlie Waldo lives a life of punishing minimalism deep
within the woods, making a near religion of his commitment to
owning no more than One Hundred Things. At least, he's trying to.
His PI girlfriend Lorena keeps drawing him back to civilization -
even though every time he compromises on his principles, something
goes wrong. And unfortunately for Waldo, all roads lead straight
back to LA. When old adversary Don Q strongarms him into
investigating the seemingly mundane death of a vagrant, Lorena
agrees he can work under her PI license on one condition: he help
with a high-maintenance celebrity client, wildly popular courtroom
TV star Judge Ida Mudge, whose new mega-deal makes her a perfect
target for blackmail. Reopening the coldest of cases, a decades-old
fraternity death, Waldo begins to wonder if the judge is, in fact,
a murderer - and if he'll stay alive long enough to find out. Pay
or Play is the third in the Charlie Waldo series, following Last
Looks and Below the Line. Last Looks was turned into a major motion
picture, starring Charlie Hunnam as the offbeat private
investigator.
The Amazon Basin's rivers, estuaries and tributaries are home to as
many as 1000 species of catfish. In this work, two scientists offer
a natural history of the Amazon giant catfish and its central place
as a source of food and income within the ecology and economy of
the Amazon Basin. While focusing primarily on two species of giant
catfish - known locally as Dourada and Piramutaba - the authors
also present illustrated accounts of 13 distinct large fish. Their
research yields strong statistical data and field observations that
illustrate the catfishes' extensive migratory range and presents
solid evidence of animal species requiring or using a large part of
the basin for their ecological needs. This text also proposes
techniques for the careful management of this resource to ensure
its survival for future generations. This study should be a useful
reference for marine and conservation biologists in the field,
ecologists, resource management professionals and development
workers.
Blackmail, sexual harassment, murder . . . and a missing dog:
eccentric, eco-obsessed LA private eye Charlie Waldo is on the case
in this quirky, fast-paced mystery. Paying a harsh self-imposed
penance for a terrible misstep on a case, former LAPD superstar
detective Charlie Waldo lives a life of punishing minimalism deep
within the woods, making a near religion of his commitment to
owning no more than One Hundred Things. At least, he's trying to.
His PI girlfriend Lorena keeps drawing him back to civilization -
even though every time he compromises on his principles, something
goes wrong. And unfortunately for Waldo, all roads lead straight
back to LA. When old adversary Don Q strongarms him into
investigating the seemingly mundane death of a vagrant, Lorena
agrees he can work under her PI license on one condition: he help
with a high-maintenance celebrity client, wildly popular courtroom
TV star Judge Ida Mudge, whose new mega-deal makes her a perfect
target for blackmail. Reopening the coldest of cases, a decades-old
fraternity death, Waldo begins to wonder if the judge is, in fact,
a murderer - and if he'll stay alive long enough to find out. Pay
or Play is the third in the Charlie Waldo series, following Last
Looks and Below the Line. Last Looks was turned into a major motion
picture, starring Charlie Hunnam as the offbeat private
investigator.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1980.
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