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  • Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Deon Filmer, Louise Fox ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    High fertility and declining mortality rates have led to a very young population in most Sub-Saharan African countries. The region's labor force is expected to increase by 11 million people per year over the next 10 years. Most of this increase will be new entrants seeking their first job. While the younger generation is better educated than their parents, they often lack the means to translate ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Deon Filmer, Louise Fox ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    High fertility and declining mortality rates have led to a very young population in most Sub-Saharan African countries. The region?s labor force is expected to increase by 11 million people per year over the next 10 years. Most of this increase will be new entrants seeking their first job. While the younger generation is better educated than their parents, they often lack the means to translate ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    The New Dangerous Class

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    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.This book presents the Precariat – an emerging class, comprising the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives.Guy Standing argues that this class is producing instabilities in ... Read more

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  • Buttoned Up

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    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 ... Read more

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  • Struggle in a Time of Crisis

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    This is a collection of essays by an array of contributors from the Global Labour Column, which highlights and examines class struggle as the core of resistance against capitalism today.It provides insights into the dynamics of neoliberalism and its persistence and stimulates debates about the continued impact of the economic crisis, focusing on labour as both a victim and a crucial social force ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Failures of EU Enlargement

    A Case of Workers Voting with their Feet

    by Guglielmo Meardi ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

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  • Gay Men’s Working Lives, Retirement and Old Age

    by Peter Robinson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the working lives, retirement plans, and old age experiences of three generations of gay men born 1924–86. It draws on data collected from interviews with 82 men in Australia, England, New Zealand, and USA. The first half of the book concentrates on the men’s working lives, while the second half of the book explores the interviewees’ concerns about old age and retirement. The ... Read more

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  • The Voice from China

    An CHEN on International Economic Law

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    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    In short, the 24 selected and representative articles written in English by the author over the past 30-odd years, mainly published in international leading journals and now collected and compiled in this monograph, could be deemed the products of international academic debates. They record, reflect and embody the author’s personal views on a number of contemporary basic issues in international ... Read more

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  • Knowledge, Scale and Transactions in the Theory of the Firm

    by Mario Morroni ...
    Firms in market economies vary enormously in size, nature and competitiveness. In this important contribution to the literature on the theory of the firm, Mario Morroni provides a fresh analytical framework which improves our understanding of the causes of this diversity in organisational design and performance. The relations between internal and external basic conditions, decision-making ... Read more

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  • Managerial and Professional Staff Grading

    by Joan Doulton, David Hay ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Human Resource Management
    This title, first published in 1962, explains a system of job evaluation suitable for managerial and professional posts, and calls for a radical rethinking of the essential requirements for senior jobs. With a focus on the British Broadcasting Company as well as other organisations, the authors examine commercial and industrial concerns in regards to their workforce and staff diversity. This title ... Read more

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    by Virginia L. DuRivage ...
    While much attention has been focused on the rise of the modern Chinese nation, little or none has been directed at the emergence of "citizenry". This book examines thinkers from the period 1890-1920 in modern China, and shows how China might forge a modern society with a political citizenry. ... Read more

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