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International Trade, Wage Inequality and the Developing Economy: A General Equilibrium Approach (Contributions to Economics,)
by Sugata Marjit  Publisher Comments This book deals with the impact that international trade is likely to have on the skilled-unskilled wage gap in a typical developing economy. This is the first theoretical monograph on this particular issue which has already generated substantial debate...
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Knowledge Inequality & Growth in the Ne
by Richard Nahuis Book News Annotation In contrast to earlier technological innovations, the proliferation of information and communication technology (ICT) has not produced significant economic growth and has coincided with an apparent increase in wage inequality. In this study, Nahius...
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Sex Discrimination in the Workplace
by Faye J. Crosby Publisher Comments Sex Discrimination in the Workplace is an interdisciplinary volume that examines the various approaches to the study of sex discrimination and explores solutions and interventions....
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Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World
by Swasti Mitter Publisher Comments This anthology contains essays written by thirteen leading scholars who analyze the ways the introduction of information technology affects the nature of paid work for women in the third world. Highlighting the difference in the interests and needs of...
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Women in Non-Traditional Occupations: Challenging Men
by Barbara Bagilhole Publisher Comments This book examines common issues and concepts concerning women in non-traditional, male dominated occupations. It explores the question of whether these women are the agents of change or are instead changed themselves. It provides a statistical...
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The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance
by Taylor E. Dark Publisher Comments Although labor unions have faced a decline in membership in recent decades, they have not necessarily lost political clout. The Unions and the Democrats illuminates the inner dynamics of labor's relationship to the American political system over the past...
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An Introduction to Collective Bargaining & Industrial Relations
by Harry Charles Katz Publisher Comments Authored by a well-respected team in labor relations, this text covers key topics in industrial relations and collective bargaining using a unique conceptual framework based on the three levels of industrial relations activity (strategic, functional, and...
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Japanese Management & Labour in Transition
by Mari Sako Publisher Comments Recent economic trends are changing forever the face of Japanese industrial relations; "Japanese Management and Labour" explores these changes. Authors Mari Sako and Hiroko Sato examine the responses of both Japanese management and labour, and that of...
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Guide to the Teaching of Collective Bargaining
by Tore Nyman Publisher Comments Trade Union Functions and Services: An instructional aid for worker students This guide, aimed at trade union educators, is about the teaching of collective bargaining. From the methods and techniques described, the trainer can put together a tailor-made...
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Wage Labor and Guilds in Medieval Europe (91 Edition)
by Steven A. Epstein Publisher Comments Epstein takes a fresh look at the organization of labor in medieval towns and emphasizes the predominance of a wage system within them. He offers illuminating comment on a wide range of subjects-- on guilds and guild organization, on women and Jews in...
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Wage Dispersion: Why Are Similar Workers Paid Differently? (Zeuthem Lecture Book)
by Dale Mortensen Publisher Comments A theoretical and empirical examination of wage differentials finds that traditional theories of competition do not explain why workers with identical skills are paid differently....
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Child Labour in Britain, 1750-1870 (Social History in Perspective)
by Peter Kirby Publisher Comments Peter Kirby's analytical survey of child labor during the industrial revolution asserts that the concentration by some historians and social commentators upon small numbers of industrially-employed children has diverted attention from the important role...
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Civil Rights Unionism : Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-twentieth Century South (03 Edition)
by Robert Rodgers Korstad Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-522) and index....
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From the Ashes of the Old : American Labor and America's Future (98 Edition)
by Stanley Aronowitz Publisher Comments Noted labor expert Stanley Aronowitz provides a definitive assessment of the last twenty-five years of labor history. He argues that unions have historically been important defenders of economic justice and that they remain so, even in today's booming...
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Union Wage Bargaining and Economic Growth
by Jorg Lingens Publisher Comments Unemployment is still the most pressing economic problem in Europe. It is consensus among most economists that the major fraction of the unemployment problem is not caused by short term business cycle factors, but is caused by structural problems. Thus...
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The Farmworkers' Journey
by Ann Aurelia Lopez Publisher Comments Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives a rare insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. Over the course of ten years, Ann...
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Fast Food, Fast Talk : Service Work and the Routinization of Everyday Life (93 Edition)
by Robin Leidner Publisher Comments Attending Hamburger University, Robin Leidner observes how McDonald's trains the managers of its fast-food restaurants to standardize every aspect of service and product. Learning how to sell life insurance at a large midwestern firm, she is coached on...
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Bridgeport's Socialist New Deal, 1915-36
by Cecelia Bucki Publisher Comments On November 7, 1933, the Socialist Party of Bridgeport, Connecticut, won a stunning victory in the municipal election, garnering 48 percent of the votes cast in a three-way race and putting Jasper McLevy in the mayor's seat. Probing the factors that...
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Minimum Wages in Central & Eastern Europe: From Protection to Destitution
by Guy Standing Publisher Comments Since the late 1980s, incomes have fallen sharply in most countries of Central and Eastern Europe, while unemployment and poverty rates have risen dramatically. In most countries during that period, the statutory minimum wage has been supposed to be an...
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Women and Workplace Discrimination: Overcoming Barriers to Gender Equality
by Raymond F. Gregory Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-223) and index....
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