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Cambridge University Press How Migrant Labor is Changing Rural China Cambridge Modern China Series
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Cambridge University Press The Social Costs of Underemployment
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Cambridge University Press Strategy and Organization
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Cambridge University Press Designing Inclusion
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Cambridge University Press Monetary Policy Fiscal Policies and Labour Markets
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Cambridge University Press The Economics of SelfEmployment and Entrepreneurship
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Cambridge University Press Sectoral Systems of Innovation
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Cambridge University Press Macrojustice
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Cambridge University Press The Economic Implications of Aging Societies
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Cambridge University Press Knowledge Accumulation and Industry Evolution
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Cambridge University Press The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany
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Cambridge University Press Gender Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain
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Cambridge University Press Organised Capital
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Cambridge University Press British Unemployment 1919 1939
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Cambridge University Press Faith and Money How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty
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Cambridge University Press The Cultural Value of Work
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Cambridge University Press Mighty Microeconomics
Book SynopsisBased on a best-selling Japanese text that sold more than 65,000 copies, the book is written in a chatty, colloquial style without compromising the rigor of explaining microeconomic theories. Interspersed with illuminating real-life examples, the book encourages readers to think like an economist with insights on social justice and philosophy.Trade Review'Mighty Microeconomics combines precise arguments, compelling applications, and deep reflection on the problems of the modern age. It takes students on an unforgettable intellectual journey to make them better citizens who can understand and participate in the choices we must make to create a better world.' Paul Milgrom, Leonard and Shirley Ely Professor of Economics, Stanford University'This is one of the best introductions to modern microeconomics. By going through page by page with pen and paper at hand, readers will begin to understand how the activities of selfish and near-sighted people will be spontaneously organized into the social division of labor - a wonder of the 'invisible hand.' Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Harold H Helm '20 Professor of Economics and Banking, Princeton University'This book provides a self-contained journey from the very basics of economic thinking to the standard graduate-course fare, remaining mathematically rigorous but readily accessible throughout. Those who have never studied economics, those whose life's work is economic research, and everyone in between will find this book valuable.' Larry Samuelson, A. Douglas Melamed Professor of Economics, Yale University'This book gives a great overview of the core ideas in microeconomics. It is ideal as supplementary reading for an undergraduate class, or for self-study by anyone who is interested in seeing what formal microeconomics theory is about.' Drew Fudenberg, Paul A Samuelson Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology'Written in a lucid style, Mighty Microeconomics guides complete beginners to an advanced level, advanced enough to be a prudent and well-reserved theorist, through clear, precise, and thoughtful yet plain expositions.' Takashi Hayashi, Professor of Economics, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsPart I. Price Theory: Merits and Limitations of the Market Mechanism: 1. Theory of Consumer Behavior; 2. The Theory of Firm Behavior; 3. Market Equilibrium; 4. Market Failures; 5. Monopolies; Part II. Game Theory and Economics of Information: 6. Simultaneous-Move Games and Nash Equilibrium; 7. Dynamic Games and Credible Strategies; 8. Insurance and Moral Hazard; 9. Adverse Selection and Signaling; 10. Last but not Least – Let's Talk about Social Justice and Philosophy; Appendix A. Essential Mathematical Concepts: All You Need to Know to Read this Book; Appendix B. Constrained Maximization Problems and the Method of Lagrange Multiplier; Appendix C. Compensating Variation and Equivalent Variation; Appendix D. A Step-by-Step Guide to Proving the Second Welfare Theorem.
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Cambridge University Press Unequal Democracies
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Cambridge University Press Modelling Scientific Communities
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Cambridge University Press Monopsony in Labor Markets
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Cambridge University Press Monopsony in Labor Markets
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Cambridge University Press The Marginal Cost of Public Funds
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Cambridge University Press The Public Pension Crisis
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisOver the last fifty years in the United States, unions have been in deep decline, while income and wealth inequality have grown. In this timely work, editors Richard Bales and Charlotte Garden - with a roster of thirty-five leading labor scholars - analyze these trends and show how they are linked. Designed to appeal to those being introduced to the field as well as experts seeking new insights, this book demonstrates how federal labor law is failing today''s workers and disempowering unions; how union jobs pay better than nonunion jobs and help to increase the wages of even nonunion workers; and how, when union jobs vanish, the wage premium also vanishes. At the same time, the book offers a range of solutions, from the radical, such as a complete overhaul of federal labor law, to the incremental, including reforms that could be undertaken by federal agencies on their own.Trade Review'Charlotte Garden and Rick Bales have brought together an impressive group of experts to provide a comprehensive look at how our labor laws could and should be strengthened to give workers more collective bargaining power. This book is a valuable contribution to the public debate around a critically important issue at a critically important time.' Lynn Rhineheart, Economic Policy Institute, and former general counsel, AFL-CIO'At a time of increasing income inequality and declining union power, this much-needed volume provides many smart and provocative ideas on how to overhaul our nation's labor laws in order to strengthen unions, increase worker power, and, most important, lift America's more than 150 million workers. In this book, a who's who of labor experts provide one thoughtful essay after another on many of the key issues that unions and workers face today.' Steven Greenhouse, long-time labor journalist and author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor'In a year of teacher strikes for the public good, private-sector flight attendants standing strong on behalf of locked-out federal workers, and New York state farmworkers just winning a century-long struggle for collective bargaining rights, this book is exceptionally timely and relevant. Richard Bates and Charlotte Garden have chosen an outstanding group of scholars who are refreshingly forward-looking while still being grounded in the daily reality faced by workers and unions.' Kate Bronfenbrenner, Cornell University'The Cambridge Handbook of US Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century is an important resource. It provides a range of opinion and is rich in thought-provoking ideas. It should soon be on the bookshelves of practitioners, scholars, policy makers, and activists - indeed, anyone interested in labor law and policy, worker rights and activism, unions and employers, collective bargaining, economic fairness, and democracy.' Wilma B. Liebman, former chairman, National Labor Relations Board, and professor, author, and advisor on labor law and workplace policy'The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century represents a highly valuable tool for both the scholars and the practicing lawyers to address practical issues and de lege ferenda policies surveying a wide range of topics in a synthetic and clear way, whose analysis is frequently neglected or underestimated by most.' Prof. Dr Andrea Borroni, Contemporary Labour Law Review'The Handbook of US Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century performs several valuable roles: it is a primer on the current state of the organized labor movement and on the economic, political, social, and cultural consequences of its weakness … In assembling such a large and diverse group of contributors, the Handbook can realistically claim to represent the best of what is on offer in addressing all of these crucial topics for discussion and action.' Christopher Tomlins, Law & Social InquiryTable of ContentsList of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. Union trends Richard Bales; 2. The consequences of union decline Jake Rosenfeld; Part II. Labor Law Is Out of Date: 3. Yesterday's labor law and today's challenges Cynthia Estlund; 4. The National Labor Relations Board in the twenty-first century William B. Gould, IV; 5. Beyond the race to the bottom: reforming labor law preemption to allow state experimentation Charlotte Garden; 6. Union rights for all: towards sectoral bargaining in the United States Kate Andrias; 7. Public sector innovations: valuing voice Ann C. Hodges and Martin H. Malin; 8. Combatting union monopoly power: the contrast between pre- and post-new deal legal regimes Richard A. Epstein; 9. The case for repealing the firm exemption to antitrust (a modest proposal; or, a response to Professor Epstein) Sanjukta Paul; 10. Make labor organizing a civil right Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Marvit; Part III. The 'Fissured' Workplace: 11. Some problems with NLRA coverage: independent contractors and joint employers Joseph Slater; 12. Reinventing employers Jeffrey Hirsch; 13. The problem of 'misclassification' or how to define who is an 'employee' under protective legislation in the information age Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt; 14. Rupture and invention: the changing nature of work and the implications for social policy Katherine V. W. Stone; 15. Contemplating new categories of workers: technology and the fissured workplace Miriam A. Cherry; 16. Balancing flexibility and rigidity: do unions make sense in the on-demand economy? Seth Oranburg and Liya Palagashvili; Part IV. Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship: 17. Tactical mismatch in union organizing drives Charlotte Garden; 18. The power of place Michael M. Oswalt; 19. Assembly and collective rights Marion Crain; 20. Leveraging secondary activity within and outside legal boundaries Anne Marie Lofaso; 21. Captive audience meetings: the right not to attend Paul M. Secunda; Part V. Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract: 22. Obtaining a first contract after winning recognition David Rosenfeld; 23. Advancing global labor standards: potential and limits of international labor law for worker-rights advocacy in the United States Lance Compa; 24. Organizing for workplace rights when immigration law discourages it Leticia M. Saucedo; 25. The central role of the right to strike Julius Getman; 26. Organizational power for workers within the firm Matthew T. Bodie; 27. Returning members-only collective bargaining to the American workplace: how to restore labor's countervailing power Charles J. Morris: Part VI. Unions, Civil Society, and Culture: 28. Can labor law reform encourage robust economic democracy? Brishen Rogers; 29. Union security for the twenty-first century Catherine L. Fisk; 30. Union membership and the Ghent system Matthew Dimick; 31. Principled hope: labor law reform from an alt-labor perspective Cesar F. Rosado Marzan; 32. Politically engaged unionism: the culinary workers union in Las Vegas Ruben J. Garcia; 33. Union commitment to racial diversity Michael Z. Green; 34. The economics of minimum wage regulations Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde; 35. The role of labor research and education in the labor movement of the twenty-first century: the UCLA Labor Center and the CLEAN Carwash Campaign Victor Narro; Index.
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HarperCollins Fixer
Book SynopsisA New York Times Editors’ Choice book from the author of the award-winning Tap Out - “a gritty, insightful debut” (Washington Post) - Edgar Kunz’s second poetry collection propels the reader across the shifting terrain of late-capitalist America. Temp jobs, conspiracy theories, squatters, talk therapy, urban gardening, the robot revolution: this collection fixes its eye on the strangeness of labor, through poems that are searching, keen, and wry. The virtuosic central sequence explores the untimely death of the poet’s estranged father, a handyman and addict, and the brothers left to sort through the detritus of a life long lost to them. Through lyrical, darkly humorous vignettes, Kunz asks what it costs to build a home and a love that not only lasts but sustains.
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe The Maker Movement Manifesto Rules for Innovation
Book SynopsisYOU can create the next breakthrough innovationA revolution is under way. But it's not about tearing down the old guard. It's about building, it's about creating, it's about breathing life into groundbreaking newideas. It's called the Maker Movement, and it's changing the world.Mark Hatch has been at the forefront of the Maker Movement since it began. A cofounder of TechShop--the first, largest, and most popular makerspace--Hatch has seen it all. Average people pay a small fee for access toadvanced tools--everything from laser cutters and milling machines to 3D printers and AutoCAD software. All they have to bring is their creativity and some positive energy.Prototypes of new products that would have cost $100,000 in the past have been made in his shop for $1,000.The Maker Movement is where all the next great inventions and innovations are happening--and you can play a part in it.The Maker Movement Manifesto takes you deep into the movement. HatcTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viiMaker Movement Manifesto (Short Version) 1Introduction 31. Maker Movement Manifesto 112. Free Innovation! 333. Communities of Practice 514. Knowledge, Learning, Control, and Intelligence 695. Fueling Innovation 916. Democratization of Tools and Information 1117. Rise of the Pro-Am 1298. Distributed and Flexible Manufacturing 1479. Accelerating Innovation 16710. Changing through Participation 185Conclusion 199Notes 205Index 207
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The University of Chicago Press Studies of Labor Market Intermediation NBER
Book SynopsisThe diversity of labor market intermediaries encompasses criminal records providers, public employment offices, labor unions, and centralized medical residency matches. This work analyzes how these third-party actors intercede where workers and firms meet, thereby aiding, impeding, and, in some cases, exploiting the matching process.
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University of Chicago Press From Parent To Child Intrahousehold Allocations
Book SynopsisHow do parents allocate human capital among their children? The analyses in this text explore these questions by developing and testing a model in which the earnings of children with different genetic endowments respond differently to investments in human capital.
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University of Chicago Press The Analysis of Firms and Employees Quantitative
Book SynopsisExamines the relationships between human resource practices and productivity, changing ownership and production methods, and expanding trade patterns and firm competitiveness.
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University of Chicago Press Mexican Immigration to the United States NBER
Book SynopsisFrom debates on Capitol Hill to the popular media, Mexican immigrants are the subject of widespread controversy. This volume provides a historical context for Mexican immigration to the United States and reports findings on an immigrant influx. It is intended for those concerned about social conditions and economic opportunities in both countries.
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The University of Chicago Press Immigration the Work Force Economic Consequences
Book SynopsisSince the 1970s, the striking increase in immigration to the United States has been accompanied by a marked change in the composition of the immigrant community, with a much higher percentage of foreign-born workers coming from Latin America and Asia and a dramatically lower percentage from Europe. This timely study is unique in presenting new data sets on the labor force, wage rates, and demographic conditions of both the U.S. and source-area economies through the 1980s. The contributors analyze the economic effects of immigration on the United States and selected source areas, with a focus on Puerto Rico and El Salvador. They examine the education and job performance of foreign-born workers; assimilation, fertility, and wage rates; and the impact of remittances by immigrants to family members on the overall gross domestic product of source areas. A revealing and original examination of a topic of growing importance, this book will stand as a guide for further research on immigration Table of ContentsIntroduction and Summary, George J. Borjas and Richard B. Freeman 1 National Origin and the Skills of Immigrants in the Postwar Period George J. Borjas 2 Out-Migration and Return Migration of Puerto Ricans Fernando A. Ramos 3 The Assimilation of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market Robert J. LaLonde and Robert H. Topel 4 The Fertility of Immigrant Women: Evidence from High-Fertility Source Countries Francine D. Blau 5 Mass Emigration, Remittances, and Economic Adjustment: The Case of El Salvador in the Late 1980s Edward Funkhouser 6 When the Minimum Wage Really Bites: The Effect of the U.S.-Level Minimum on Puerto Rico Alida J. Castillo-Freeman and Richard B. Freeman 7 On the Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Trade George J. Borjas, Richard B. Freeman, and Lawrence F. Katz 8 The Effect of Immigrant Arrivals on Migratory Patterns of Native Workers Randall K. Filer
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University of Chicago Press Social Security Programs and Retirement around
Book SynopsisMany countries have social security systems that are financially unsustainable. This title offers a comparative analysis from twelve countries and examines the issue of age in the labor force. It also analyzes the relationship between incentives to retire and the proportion of older persons in the workforce.
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The University of Chicago Press Trade Employment in Developing Countries V 3
Book SynopsisThe NBER project on alternative trade strategies and employment analyzed the extent to which employment and income distribution are affected by the choice of trade strategies and by the interaction of trade policies with domestic policies and market distortions. This book, the third and final volume to come from that project, brings together the theory underlying the trade strategies-employment relation and the empirical evidence emanating from the project.
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University of Chicago Press Targeting Investments in Children Fighting
Book SynopsisA substantial number of American children experience poverty, and there are numerous programs designed to alleviate or even eliminate poverty. This book tackles the problem of evaluating these programs by examining them using a common metric: their impact on earnings in adulthood.
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The University of Chicago Press Women Adrift Independent Wage Earners in Chicago
Book SynopsisStarting with Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Meyerowitz uses turn-of-the-century Chicago as a case study to explore both the image and the reality of single women's experiences as they lived apart from their families. In an era when family all but defined American womanhood, these womenneither victimized nor liberatedcreated new social ties and subcultures to cope with the conditions of urban life. Brilliant. . . . Gracefully written, and mercifully free from the jargon that often plagues social history, this book is a welcome addition to literature in women's, urban, and black history.Ann Schofield, American Historical ReviewMeyerowitz provides a splendid portrait of her subjects. . . . She deserves praise for her demographic spadework, sensitive analysis, and engaging style. This is a valuable and rewarding book.Nancy Woloch, Journal of American History A state-of-the-art product of the new women's history. . . . Meyerowitz's work is an extremely useful contribution, a corrective to over-c
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The University of Chicago Press Workers At Risk Voices from the Workplace
Book SynopsisWorkers at Risk is a powerful and moving documentary of workers routinely exposed to toxic chemicals. Products and services we all depend onglass bottles, computers, processed foods and fresh flowers, dry cleaning, medicines, even sculpture and silkscreened toysare produced by workers in constant contact with more than 63,000 commercial chemicals. For many of them, the risk of death is a way of life. More than seventy of them speak here of their jobs, their health, and the difficult choices they face in coming to grips with the responsibilities, risks, fears, and satisfactions of their work. Some struggle for information and acknowledgment of their health risks; others struggle to put out of their minds the dangers they know too well. Through extensive interviews, the authors have captured in these voices that double bind of the chemical worker: If I had known that it would be that lethal, that it could give me or one of my children cancer, I would have refused to work. But it's a matt
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The University of Chicago Press Bitter Choices Paper BlueCollar Women in and out
Book SynopsisEllen Israel Rosen presents a compelling portrait of married women who work on New England's assembly lines while they also maintain their homes and marriages. With skill and sympathy, she documents the reasons these women work; their experiences on the job, in the union, and at home; the sources of their job satisfaction; and their management of the double day. The major issue for this segment of the labor force, Rosen suggests, is not whether to work, but the availability and quality of jobs. Rosen argues that deindustrializationplant closings and job displacementconfronts blue-collar women factory workers with a bitter choice between work at lower and lower wages or no work at all. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from interviews with more than two hundred such women factory workers, Rosen traces the ways in which women who do unskilled factory work have gained in self-esteem as well as financial stability from holding paid jobs. Throughout, Rosen explores the relationsh
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The University of Chicago Press Investment in Womens Human Capital Phoenix
Book SynopsisThis text explores the nature of human capital distributions to women and their effect on outcomes within the family. Sections cover: the experiences of high-income countries; health; education; household structure and labour markets; and measurement issues in low-income countries.Table of ContentsIntroduction by T. Paul Schultz I: Overview and Experience of High-Income Countries 1: Investments in the Schooling and Health of Women and Men: Quantities and Returns T. Paul Schultz 2: Obstacles to Advancement of Women during Development Ester Boserup 3: The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Function in Economic Development and Economic History Claudia Goldin 4: Public Policies and Women's Labor Force Participation: A Comparison of Sweden, West Germany and the Netherlands Siv Gustafsson II: Labor Markets, Uncertainty, and Family Behavior 5: Women, Insurance Capital, and Economic Development in Rural India Mark R. Rosenzweig 6: Information, Learning, and Wage Rates in Low-Income Rural Areas Andrew D. Foster, Mark R. Rosenzweig. III: Health 7: Gender and Life-Cycle Differentials in the Patterns and Determinants of Adult Health John Strauss, Paul J. Gertler, Omar Rahman, Kristin Fox. 8: Quality of Medical Care and Choice of Medical Treatment in Kenya: An Empirical Analysis Germano Mwabu, Martha Ainsworth, Andrew Nyamete. IV: Education 9: Daughters, Education, and Family Budgets: Taiwan Experiences William L. Parish, Robert J. Willis. 10: Gender Differences in the Returns to Schooling and in School Enrollment Rates in Indonesia Anil B. Deolalikar 11: Educational Investments and Returns for Women and Men in Cote d'Ivoire Wim P. M. Vijverberg V: Household Structure and Labor Markets in Brazil 12: Poverty among Female-Headed Households in Brazil Ricardo Barros, Louise Fox, Rosane Mendonca. 13: Gender Differences in Brazilian Labor Markets Ricardo Barros, Lauro Ramos, Eleonora Santos. References Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Work and the Gift
Book SynopsisUltimately, Shershow joins other contemporary thinkers in envisioning a community of unworking, grounded neither in ideals of production and progress, nor in an ethic of liberal generosity, but simply in our fundamental being-in-common.
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MO - University of Illinois Press Working for Democracy American Workers from the
Book SynopsisTrade Review@BUHLE\Working for Democracy@"Contains fourteen short chapters by well-known historians of the American working class, American women, Afro-Americans, or anti-capitalist movements... They stretch over two full centuries, describing and analyzing some of the most important moments in our history." -- Herbert G. Gutman, from the foreward.
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MO - University of Illinois Press Tin Men
Book SynopsisPresenting an exploration of tin men and their creators, this work contains interviews with craftspeople, gallery owners, collectors, and Sheet Metal Workers' International Association officials, linking tinsmith artistry to issues of craft education, union traditions, labour history, and social class.Trade Review"Tin Men opens a new chapter in material culture studies and folk art research. Connoisseurs may collect and venerate their favorite tin-man pieces, but Archie Green reclaims all these objects for the trade." Julia Ardery, author of The Temptation :Edgar Tolson and the Genesis of Twentieth-Century Folk Art
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MIT Press Ltd The Sharing Economy MIT Press The End of
Book Synopsis“An insightful guide to the forces shaping our economy” that explores the far-ranging implications of the shift to crowd-based capitalism—with case studies on Uber, Airbnb, and others (Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google)Sharing isn’t new. Giving someone a ride, having a guest in your spare room, running errands for someone, participating in a supper club—these are not revolutionary concepts. What is new, in the “sharing economy,” is that you are not helping a friend for free; you are providing these services to a stranger for money. In this book, Arun Sundararajan, an expert on the sharing economy, explains the transition to what he describes as “crowd-based capitalism”—a new way of organizing economic activity that may supplant the traditional corporate-centered model. As peer-to-peer commercial exchange blurs the lines between the personal and the professional, how will the economy, government regulation, w
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Ghost Work How to Stop Silicon Valley from
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The University of Michigan Press Languages of Labor and Gender
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The University of Michigan Press Harvesting Coffee Bargaining Wages
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PRH Grupo Editorial Sálvese quien pueda The Robots Are Coming
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Harper Business The Good Jobs Strategy How the Smartest Companies
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Johns Hopkins University Press Aging and Work
Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary, comprehensive assessment of the state of aging and work addresses a wide range of topics relevant to academic researchers and practitioners, government and industry leaders, and workers and managers in the public and private sectors.Trade ReviewA comprehensive, well-written volume addressing the numerous issues created by the interface of an aging workforce with the array of economic, global, information and technology-driven changes occurring in society. The conclusion provides an excellent summary of the volume and an outline of needed future directions for research and policy changes. This insightful volume will be of particular interest to researchers and practitioners concerned about the complex issues surrounding work and an aging population. Choice 2010Table of ContentsList of ContributorsForeword, by Richard Suzman Acknowledgments Introduction: Emerging Challenges for Organizations and Older Workers in the Twenty-first Century Part I: Employment Patterns and DemographicsChapter 1. Institutional and Individual Responses to Structural Lag: The Changing Patterns of Work at Older AgesChapter 2. Caregiving and Employment Chapter 3. Aging and Work: An International PerspectivePart II: Implications of an Aging WorkforceChapter 4. The Politics of Work and Aging: Public Policy for the New EldersChapter 5. Implications of an Aging Workforce: An Industry PerspectivePart III: The Changing Nature of JobsChapter 6. Trends in Job Demands and the Implications for Older Workers Chapter 7. Telework and Older WorkersChapter 8. Collaborative Work: What's Age Got to Do with It? Chapter 9. The Issues and Opportunities of Entrepreneurship after Age 50 Part IV: Work Performance IssuesChapter 10. Managers' Attitudes toward Older Workers: A Review of the Evidence Chapter 11. Work and Older Adults: Motivation and Performance Chapter 12. Skill Acquisition in Older Adults: Psychological Mechanisms Chapter 13. Preparing Organizations and Workers for Current and Future Employment: Training and Retraining Chapter 14. Age and Performance Measures of Knowledge-Based Work: A Cognitive PerspectivePart V: Workplace and Ergonomic IssuesChapter 15. Ergonomic Design of Workplaces for the Aging Population Chapter 16. Safety and Health Issues for an Aging WorkforceChapter 17. Work Organization and Health in an Aging Workforce: Observations from the NIOSH Quality of Life Survey Chapter 18. Health Promotion and Wellness Programs for Older Workers Conclusion. Synthesis and Future Directions Index
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