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Télécharger le livre :  Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat
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Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat


Ruth Milkman


Immigration has been a contentious issue for decades, but in the twenty-first century it has moved to center stage, propelled by an immigrant threat narrative that blames foreign-born workers, and especially the undocumented, for the collapsing living standards of...

Parution : 2020-05-19
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
J'achète
18,99
Télécharger le livre :  Guanxi, How China Works
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Guanxi, How China Works


Yanjie Bian


How do social relations, or guanxi, matter in China today and how can this distinctive form of personal connection be better understood? In Guanxi:How China Works, Yanjie Bian analyzes the forms, dynamics, and impacts of guanxi relations in reform-era China, and shows...

Parution : 2019-03-04
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
Collection : China Today
J'achète
19,08
Télécharger le livre :  Precarious Lives
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Precarious Lives


Arne L. Kalleberg


Employment relations in advanced, post-industrial democracies have become increasingly insecure and uncertain as the risks associated with work are being shifted from employers and governments to workers. Arne L. Kalleberg examines the impact of the liberalization of...

Parution : 2018-07-04
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
J'achète
22,14
Télécharger le livre :  Global Labour Studies
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Global Labour Studies


Sébastien Rioux , Marcus Taylor


From the rise of fully automated factories to the creation of new migrant workforces, the world of work, employment and production is rapidly changing. By reshaping the global distribution of wealth, jobs and opportunities, these processes are unleashing profound social...

Parution : 2017-11-27
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Work & Society
J'achète
26,38
Télécharger le livre :  Race and Work
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Race and Work


Karyn Loscocco


This book provides a reasoned, unflinching description of how race and paid work are linked in U.S. society. It offers readers the rich conceptual and empirical foundation needed to understand key issues surrounding both race and work. Loscocco trace current patterns to...

Parution : 2017-11-10
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Work & Society
J'achète
19,10
Télécharger le livre :  The Causes of Structural Unemployment
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The Causes of Structural Unemployment


Thomas Janoski , David Luke , Christopher Oliver


There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and though corporate profits have picked up after the Great Recession of 2008, jobs have not. It is possible that “jobless...

Parution : 2014-06-27
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Work & Society
J'achète
19,10
Télécharger le livre :  Institutions and the Economy
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Institutions and the Economy


Francesco Duina


Institutions are central to economic life. They have a major impact on consumer preferences, the actions and processes of firms, levels of wealth and poverty in countries, the growth of international trade, and much more. Indeed, none of the preconditions for economic...

Parution : 2013-08-27
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Economy and Society
J'achète
19,10
Télécharger le livre :  Work Time
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Work Time


Cynthia L. Negrey


Work Time is a sociological overview of a complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and life yet often goes without critical examination. Cynthia Negrey examines work time past and present, exploring structural economic change and the ...

Parution : 2013-04-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Work & Society
J'achète
20,26

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