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Nickel and Dimed

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest 2001

by Barbara Ehrenreich

Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.

Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages....


Sport and Migration

by Joseph Maguire & Mark Falcous

In this dazzling collection of papers, leading international sport studies scholars chart the patterns, policies and personal experiences of labour migration within and around sport, and in doing so cast important...


Equity and Excellence in Education

by Kris Van den Branden & Piet VanAvermaet

Taking an international perspective, this volume explores numerous issues - gender, socio-economic and linguistic background, teachers' expectations, pedagogical approaches, parental support, educational policies...


60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Nashville: Including Clarksville, Columbia, Gallatin, and Murfreesboro

by Steve Early

Nashville may be the capital of country music, but it’s also home to some splendid hiking trails. This guide offers trekkers of all ages and fitness levels a variety of day hikes throughout middle Tennessee,...


Age Works: What Corporate America Must Do to Survive the Gray

by Beverly Goldberg

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.


Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

by Matthew B. Crawford

A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands

Called "the sleeper hit of the publishing season" (The Boston Globe), Shop Class as Soulcraft...


Independence and the Death of Employment

by Ken Phillips

Occasionally a book will shake people's ideas and Ken Phillips shakes them often by exposing concepts you may not even realize you hold. Every day, when you 'go to work', you are involved in legal and human...


Jobs for Shared Prosperity: Time for Action in the Middle East and North Africa

by Roberta Gatti

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, when thousands of young women and men fought for the opportunity to realize their aspirations and potential, the question of jobs continues to be crucial in the Middle East...


The Self as Enterprise: Foucault and the Spirit of 21st Century Capitalism

by Peter Kelly

The way large numbers of people in the developed economies sell their time, skills and efforts in the 21st Century world of paid work is damaging to their health, well-being and relationships. They are required...


Recession at Work: HRM in the Irish Crisis

by Bill Roche, Paul Teague & Anne Coughlan

How has the recession affected the conduct of human resource management? How have HR departments and managers fared? Have leading firms taken measures to sustain and revive their businesses through innovative...


Labour Market Economics

by D Sapsford

First published in 1981, Labour Market Economics develops the basic economic theory of introductory courses within the context of labour market analysis and applies it both to particular features and special...


Management, Labour Process and Software Development: Reality Bites

by Rowena Barrett

This revealing book is about software development, the developers themselves, and how their work is organized and managed. The latest original research from Australia, Europe, and the UK is used to examine the...


Reshaping the North American Automobile Industry: Restructuring, Corporatism and Union Democracy in Mexico

by John P. Tuman

This work examines the responses of unions and workers to regional integration and restructuring in the automobile industry in North and Central America. The focus is on the automobile industry in Mexico, which,...


Poverty in Plenty (Routledge Revivals): The Ethics of Income

by J. A. Hobson

First published in 1931, this Routledge Revivals title reissues J.A Hobson's analysis of financial distribution in the early years of Twentieth Century Britain. The book focuses on the moral questions that he...


Gender and the European Labour Market

by Francesca Bettio, Janneke Plantenga & Mark Smith

The book presents state of the art research on women's current position in European labour markets. It combines analysis of the latest trends in employment, occupational segregation, working time, unpaid work,...


The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice

by Morton Deutsch, Peter T. Coleman & Eric C. Marcus

The Handbook of Conflict Resolution, Second Edition is written for both the seasoned professional and the student who wants to deepen their understanding of the processes involved in conflicts and their knowledge...


Minimum Wages, Pay Equity, and Comparative Industrial Relations

by Damian Grimshaw

With growing concern about the conditions facing low wage workers and new challenges to traditional forms of labor market protection, this book offers a timely analysis of the purpose and effectiveness of minimum...


Negotiating Globally: How to Negotiate Deals, Resolve Disputes, and Make Decisions Across Cultural Boundaries

by Jeanne M. Brett

When it was first published in 2001, Negotiating Globally quickly became the basic reference for managers who needed to learn how to negotiate successfully across boundaries of national culture. This thoroughly...


World Development Report 2013: Jobs

by World Bank

Jobs provide higher earnings and better benefits as countries grow, but they are also a driver of development. Poverty falls as people work their way out of hardship and as jobs empowering women lead to greater...


The Economics of Unemployment

by J. A. Hobson

First published in 1922, Hobson's study of the depression and resulting unemployment in the aftermath of the First World War is a far-sighted analysis which looks beyond the consequences of the war itself, at...