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Clothing serves as a system of signs that helps to order social interaction by identifying and locating individuals and groups within society.

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Was our country's economic success before the Crash of '08 built on false pretenses In an attempt to set the record straight, Conard presents a fascinating new case for how the economy really works, why the U.S. has outperformed other countries, what caused the financial crisis, and what improvements might better protect our economy.

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Housework and domestic service have become popular topics within the scholarly community. She systematically examines the psychology and nature of domestic work, union rejection of domestic laborers, employers' opposition to organization, and the frequent disagreements among the domestics themselves.

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The present volume considers a wide range of policy questions, analyzed by a variey of experts in the field, and is organized in four parts: a brief introduction considering the current policy climate for unions; and, finally, political strategy and democratic politics.

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This is a broad assessment of the institutional health of the 28 major national unions in the United States.

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Unionism in the United States was quite successful during and after World War II, especially during the "golden years" of American capitalism (1947-73) as workers' wages increased quite dramatically in a number of industries. This book outlines major changes which helps unions and enables US labor movement to regain some of its strength.

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This unique volume provides a survey of U.S. business history in a chronological framework.

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This pioneering work provides an index to over 1,700 biographies of prominent U.S. entrepreneurs, innovators and company executives published in over 120 biographical collected works which are identified, examined, and indexed here.

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An analysis of the complex economic relationship between the United States and Latin America during the 1980s and into the 1990s. The essays demonstrate how the latent tensions among sometimes conflicting US policy goals have been exacerbated by the economic crises of Latin America in the 1980s.

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United States Service Industries Handbook is designed to bring together the wealth of information on federal data sources for services, to analyze some of the characteristics of these industries, and to inquire into some of the problems of a service-oriented economy.

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This book reviews the long history of U.S. shipping policy, and explains the present challenges (including the increasing use of open register arrangements).

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Examines the "quiet revolution" unfolding in Latin America and its likely consequences for US trade and investment with and within the region, where leaders are extricating their economies from debt-laden stagnation by pursuing far-reaching stabilisation and liberalisation reform programmes.

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This volume, which grew out of a study conducted by the East-West Center, analyzes the friction in telecommunications trade between the United States and Japan and the consequent imposition of the Super 301 clause on Japan.

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Unlock Your Leadership: Secrets & Straight Answers on Standing Out, Moving Up, and Getting Ahead as the Leader You Really Are is an essential resource for early or mid-career professionals who want to attract and accelerate leadership opportunities at work.

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Examines business opportunities in the eight sectors with the highest potential returns on private investment in Africa - the same sectors that will foster economic growth and diversification, job creation, and improved welfare. The book's analysis is based on case studies that identify specific opportunities for investment and growth.

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Japan today is caught up in chronic economic crisis, its financial system wracked by record-breaking bankruptcies and its companies hobbled by bad balance sheets, overproduction, and weak consumer demand.

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Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations uses the tools of economics, political science, and law to explain how top-down institutions have shackled reservation economies and why bottom-up institutions are necessary to unlock the human, physical, and natural capital of Native Americans.

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Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations uses the tools of economics, political science, and law to explain how top-down institutions have shackled reservation economies and why bottom-up institutions are necessary to unlock the human, physical, and natural capital of Native Americans.

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Focusing on the garment industry in 7 world cities, this book tackles the relationship between the development of immigrant entrepreneurship and the shift to global, post-industrial urban economies. The interconnections among immigrant entrepreneurs, social networks, market conditions and regulatory matters are explored in a comparative way.

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Focusing on the garment industry in 7 world cities, this book tackles the relationship between the development of immigrant entrepreneurship and the shift to global, post-industrial urban economies. The interconnections among immigrant entrepreneurs, social networks, market conditions and regulatory matters are explored in a comparative way.

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Intangibles are harder to measure, harder to quantify, often more difficult to manage, evaluate, and account for than tangible assets. There is no common language for sharing information about intangible sources of value, and the language used tends to be descriptive rather than quantitative and concrete.