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"An insider's look at how the rise of 'fast fashion' obstructs ethical shopping and fuels the abuse and neglect of garment workers"--

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This book tells the story of the ACTU's 'Your Rights at Work' campaign against Work Choices, the largest, most expensive and most sophisticated political campaign ever mounted in Australia, and one with a decisive impact on the 2007 federal election.

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Garment workers, caught in the snare of a sweating system of labor in which wages and work loads were inversely related, organized unions to mount strikes during the busy season in the hope of securing higher wages, only to see them whither in the midst of slack periods.

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This study examines the development and implications of the wide continuous hot strip mill, a technological innovation that transformed the steel industry starting in the 1920s. It changed the profitability of companies, the number and skills of their employees, and the nature, scale, and location of their operations.

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Shows that rural America can be revived by uniting the interests of both farm and non-farm populations through value-added enterprises. Specific attention is paid to the role of New Generation Co-operatives as a form of value-added agriculture which has helped some rural communities to prosper.

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Provides evidence on the comparability of financial ratios across several manufacturing and retail industries, assessing the similarity or dissimilarity of ratios among industry taxonomies, or groups of ratios.

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This book explains the fundamental principles involved in hazardous materials management. Integrated throughout the text are definitions of numerous technical and legal terms involved in hazardous materials management, as perceived by the professional community and involved regulatory agencies.

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As a historical barometer reflecting the extent of change in an industry, the language of particular crafts and industries brings together the social and cultural background of the participants, and the dynamic of the activity or work.

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Alexander traces the history of organised labour across all the countries of the English-speaking Caribbean. He also examines international affiliations of trades unions in the West Indies.

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America's most beloved columnist shares 40 years of advice through letters to her only child, published here for the first time. In this witty, wise, and intensely personal collection of letters to her daughter Margo, Ann Landers delivers her own unintentional memoir.

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A Literature Guide to the Hospitality Industry is an annotated bibliography of materials with the common theme of hospitality. The citations of the Literature Guide provide current information for each title, including author, title, place of publication, publisher, and date of publication.

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Represents an original look at the biotechnology research in the wake of the mapping of the human genome. Presenting a series of interviews with various key players in Celera Diagnostics, this title opens a window on the complexity of corporate scientific innovation.

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Your guide to solid legal know-how specific to fashion industry business operations.

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Associates new technologies, economic pressure, and social and political developments as the driving stimulus inducing a change that was a process of gradual evolution rather than programmed revolution in national telecommunications policies.

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Traces the invention and evolution of socialist trade, the progressive constriction of private trade, and the development of consumer habits from the 1917 revolution to Stalin's death in 1953. This book places trade and consumption in the context of debilitating economic crises.

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According to Chermesh, the Israeli industrial relations system has developed as a state within a state, having, by the mid-1980s, gained a high level of autonomy and detachment from political and economic constraints.

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The author uses a mixed-method approach to contend that organizational and subordinate factors either increase or decrease the presence of abusive supervision and that abusive supervision adversely affects government employees. A mixed-method approach is also used to argue that problems concerning the abusive supervision reporting process exists.