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Towards Healthy Cities: Comparing Conditions for Change
This book explores the conditions needed to make public and private investments in healthy cities effective. It argues that three conditions are essential: citizen empowerment, corporate responsibility and a coordinated improvement of urban health. The ...more |
Alexander Otgaar &
Jeroen Klijs |
4 Nov 2012 |
$99.95 |
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Working People in Alberta
A political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta. ...more |
Alvin Finkel |
11 Apr 2012 |
$41.95 |
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Policy Simulations in the European Union
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Amedeo Fossati |
19 May 2013 |
$130.00 |
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Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry
Based on official Chinese sources as well as intensive interviews with Hong Kong residents formerly employed in mainland factories, Andrew Walder's neo-traditional image of communist society in China will be of interest not only to those concerned with ...more |
Andrew G. Walder |
15 Apr 2013 |
$31.95 |
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Inclusive States: Social Policy and Structural Inequalities
The heterogeneity of social structures and cultural identities in many developing countries, together with traditional hierarchies, rivalries, and deep-seated biases, has perpetuated inequities. Inclusive States: Social Policy and Structural Inequalities ...more |
Anis A. Dani |
22 Feb 2010 |
$30.00 |
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Missing Links in Labour Geography
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Ann C. Bergene |
7 Jun 2010 |
$124.95 |
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Contesting Citizenship
Irregular migrants complicate the boundaries of citizenship and stretch the parameters of political belonging. Comprised of refugees, asylum seekers, "illegal" labor migrants, and stateless persons, this group of migrants occupies new sovereign spaces ...more |
Anne McNevin |
20 May 2011 |
$39.99 |
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The Case against the Davis-Bacon Act: Fifty-Four Reasons for Repeal
The Davis-Bacon Act is a United States federal law that established the requirement that prevailing wages must be paid on public works projects. In this book, Armand J. Thieblot argues that the law was passed under false pretenses and based on flawed |
Armand J. Thieblot |
21 Nov 2012 |
$49.95 |
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Organize! Building from the Local for Global Justice
Penned by a diverse range of activists, academics, lawyers, artists, and researchers, this book weaves a rich and varied tapestry of strategies for bringing about change in an era of unprecedented economic, social, and ecological crisis. From community-based ...more |
Aziz Choudry |
5 May 2012 |
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High-Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market
Recent U.S. immigration reform proposals have focused almost exclusively on regulating the population of low-skilled foreign workers. High-Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market contends that policymakers should focus more on attracting immigrants ...more |
Barry Chiswick |
11 Apr 2012 |
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High-Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market
Recent U.S. immigration reform proposals have focused almost exclusively on regulating the population of low-skilled foreign workers. High-Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market contends that policymakers should focus more on attracting immigrants ...more |
Barry R. Chiswick |
17 Mar 2011 |
$49.99 |
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EU Labour Migration since Enlargement: Trends, Impacts and Policies
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Béla Galgóczi |
12 May 2012 |
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The Coal Question: Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
The coal industry has always occupied a symbolic place in British economic and political life, inspiring debates and arousing passions throughout the last two centuries. This account of the economics of coal, first published in 1990, is unique in its |
Ben Fine |
29 Apr 2013 |
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Formal and Informal Work
Informal work - family care, voluntary work, and undeclared or unregulated work - is a critical form of labor in today's economy, yet it remains underanalyzed and examined. This volume develops a comprehensive conceptual framework of informal work and ...more |
Birgit Pfau-Effinger |
15 May 2012 |
$113.00 |
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Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada
Workplace injuries are common, avoidable, and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts, intervening only when necessary to maintain the standard ...more |
Bob Barnetson |
14 Apr 2012 |
$24.95 |
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Women, Work And Sexual Politics In Eighteenth-Century England
A reassessment of women's experience of work in 18th-century England, and the effects it had on industrialization and other economic, social and technological changes. It also examines how this influenced marriage and relations between the sexes. ...more |
Bridget Hill |
25 Apr 2013 |
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Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation
Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation takes Ireland as a paradigmatic case of social transformation, exploring the reasons for which emigration was so quickly replaced by immigration, along with the social, political, cultural and economic ...more |
Bryan Fanning |
27 Apr 2011 |
$114.95 |
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Labor's Civil War in California: The NUHW Healthcare Workers' Rebellion
A clear analysis of tactics and politics, this thorough account examines the dispute between the United Healthcare Workers (UHW) union in California and its "parent" organization the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-one of the most important ...more |
Cal Winslow |
18 May 2010 |
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Shadow Mothers
Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the "shadow mothers" they hire. Cameron Lynne Macdonald ...more |
Cameron Lynne Macdonald |
30 Dec 2010 |
$24.95 |
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Child of the Sit-Downs
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Carlton Jackson |
18 Mar 2010 |
$39.00 |
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