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  • Japanese Management Techniques and British Workers

    by Andy Danford ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
    Analyzing the impact of Japanese-style management techniques such as lean production, teamworking, kaizen (continuous improvement) and business unionism of factory workers, this text investigates different facets of the organization of the labour process and employment relations within 15 Japanese transplants in South Wales. There is an emphasis on the impact of the restructuring of workplace ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • New Unions, New Workplaces

    Strategies for Union Revival

    by Andy Danford, Mike Richardson, Martin Upchurch ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Employment Relations
    This book makes a major contribution to the debate within the UK and abroad on the reality of workplace unionism in an era of change. Drawing on examples of union renewal, the authors present an historical overview, and compare the UK experience with contrasting international examples. It presents both qualitative and quantitative research to provide new and comprehensive evidence on trade union ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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    Edited by Edmund Heery, Jack Fiorito, Paul Blyton, Nicolas A Bacon ...
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  • Wealth of Nations

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    An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. By reflecting ... Read more

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  • The Big Squeeze

    by Steven Greenhouse ...
    Why, in the world's most affluent nation, are so many corporations squeezing their employees dry? In this fresh, carefully researched book, New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse explores the economic, political, and social trends that are transforming America's workplaces, including the decline of the social contract that created the world's largest middle class and guaranteed job security and ... Read more

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  • Down and Dirty Pictures

    Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Fil

    by Peter Biskind ...
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  • Trade Unions in Renewal

    A Comparative Study

    Edited by Peter Fairbrother, Charlotte Yates ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
    This comprehensive survey of continuity and change in trade unions looks at five primarily English-speaking countries: the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The authors consider the recent re-examination by trade union movements of the basis of union organization and activity in the face of a harsher economic and political climate. One of the impetuses for this re-examination has ... Read more

    $147.02 CAD

  • Employment Relations in the Health Service

    by Stephen Bach ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
    Employment relations within the health sector have undergone radical reform over recent years. This book is an important new study that examines the responses of managers and workers to these different reforms, at both national and local level.Bringing together analyses of both employment relations and public sector management, the book focuses on understanding why certain initiatives have been ... Read more

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  • The Economics of Rising Inequalities

    Edited by Daniel Cohen, Thomas Piketty, Gilles Saint-Paul ...
    This book is an in-depth discussion of rising inequalities in the western world. It explores the extent to which rising inequalities are the mechanical consequence of changes in economic fundamentals (such as changes in technological or demographic parameters), and to what extent they are the contingent consequences of country-specific and time-specific changes in institutions. Both the ... Read more

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  • Rediscovering Collective Bargaining

    Australia's Fair Work Act in International Perspective

    Edited by Breen Creighton, Anthony Forsyth ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
    This book examines countries that have tried, with varying degrees of success, to use legislative strategies to encourage and support collective bargaining, including Australia’s Fair Work Act. It is the first major study of the operation and impact of the new collective bargaining framework introduced under the Fair Work Act, combining theoretical and practical perspectives. In addition, a number ... Read more

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  • The Redistribution Recession

    How Labor Market Distortions Contracted the Economy

    by Casey B. Mulligan ...
    Redistribution, or subsidies and regulations intended to help the poor, unemployed, and financially distressed, have changed in many ways since the onset of the recent financial crisis. The unemployed, for instance, can collect benefits longer and can receive bonuses, health subsidies, and tax deductions, and millions more people have became eligible for food stamps. Economist Casey B. Mulligan ... Read more

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  • Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions

    Allan Flanders and British Industrial Relations Reform

    by John Kelly ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Employment Relations
    Allan Flanders was one of the leading British industrial relations academics and his ideas exerted a major influence on government labor policy in the 1960s and 1970s. But as well as being an Oxford academic with a strong interest in theory and labor reform, he was also a lifelong political activist. Originally trained in German revolutionary ethical socialism in the early 1930s, he was the ... Read more

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