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Consult this handy reference work when you need accurate, up to date information on subjects ranging from the effects of work on children's education to the use of child labor in Eastern Europe.

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In the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "dead ringers" for the more expensive American workers they have replaced. This book chronicles the rise of a workforce for whom mimicry is a job requirement and a passion.

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Using an interdisciplinary approach, this work shows how aspects of job quality are related, and how changes in the quality of work life stem from technological change and transformations in the politico-economic environment. This book concludes by discussing what individuals, firms, unions, and governments can do to counter declining job quality.

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Emile Durkheim's work has traditionally been viewed as a part of sociology removed from economics. Rectifying this perception, this book looks at the contributions made to economic sociology by Durkheim and his followers. It demonstrates the relevance of economic factors to sociology and shows how the Durkheimians inform today's economic systems.

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This annotated bibliography surveys the significant research from the last 20 years about the legal, medical, psychological, social, and economic aspects of the employment of the elderly.

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Employment security is under pressure in public and private sectors because of fluctuating economic conditions and unstable markets.

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Adult Education contradicts the theorists and practitioners who claim that empowering organizations can only be created when those at the top decide to share power. Those people who work in organizations and are trying to improve their understanding of how to reshape the organization into a democratic workplace will find this useful.

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This book treats the New York State bureaucracy as a living laboratory, documenting the ways in which people at work for New York State respond to the unavoidable frustrations of government service.

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Amongst this group is a class-conscious working class, a status-conscious nursing management and a class- and status-conscious mid-level.

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This book is about families who combine home life and income-producing work under the same roof. work characteristics for both business owners and wage workers;

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The author presents us with the first collection of facts on the cultural aspects of food and eating among the Southern Bantu. This analysis considerably enlarges and deepens our conception of early human organization, especially in its economic aspect.

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She places ideas about work in their history and culture and offers new ideas about what work should be, and what role it should play in our lives.

Schleuning distills all of the central questions having to do with work in our time: why do human beings work;

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She places ideas about work in their history and culture and offers new ideas about what work should be, and what role it should play in our lives.

Schleuning distills all of the central questions having to do with work in our time: why do human beings work;

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Analyses the political consequences of social scientific evaluations of recent U.S. employment and training policy. This study shows that even the most technical features of evaluation methodology are objects of a politics of knowledge, and are by no means neutral with regard to the policies themselves.

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Despite calls for a renewal of family values and the proliferation of corporate work-family programs, the goal of achieving a healthy balance between the demands of work and a satisfying family life remains elusive.

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Despite calls for a renewal of family values and the proliferation of corporate work-family programs, the goal of achieving a healthy balance between the demands of work and a satisfying family life remains elusive.

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Lynch condemns the sloppy, fearful thinking that has converted affirmative action into quotas and that has kept social researchers shying away from this explosive topic.

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This work explores developments in the labor markets of five countries--South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines--which have undergone successful economic development during the past quarter of a century.

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Why are so many Australians working more yet struggling to meet their basic needs This account of the plight of low paid workers is a stinging indictment of our society and a threat to our social fabric.

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