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1	The End of Work more books like this by Jeremy Rifkin, Robert L Heilbroner (Foreword by) add to wishlist Esteemed economist, philosopher, and activist Jeremy Rifkin addresses what could be the most important issue facing our global economy--the wholesale loss of jobs to new technologies. With a foreword by Robert L. Heilbroner, The End of Work provides a provocative analysis of the worldwide unemployment crisis, fresh alternatives to formal work, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The New American Workplace more books like this by James O'Toole, Edward E Lawler, III, Patrick Cullen (Read by) add to wishlist Thirty years ago, the bestselling "letter to the government" "Work in America" sounded an alarm about worker dissatisfaction and the effects on the nation as a whole. Now, this groundbreaking work illuminates the new critical issues--from worker demands to the new ethical rules to the revolution in culture at work. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.77! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America more books like this by Byron Dorgan add to wishlist One of the most vocal Democrats in the Senate passionately argues that free trade is not free, and that outsourcing, offshoring, and greedy mega-corporations are destroying America's economy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The New Basics: Education and the Future of Work in the Telematic Age more books like this by David D Thornburg add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent more books like this by Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D., Robert Morison, Tamara J Erickson add to wishlist Unprecedented shifts in the age distribution and diversity of the global labour pool are underway. Within the decade, as the massive boomer generation begins to retire and fewer skilled workers are available to replace them, companies in industrialised markets will face a labour shortage and brain drain of dramatic proportions. Ken Dychtwald, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power more books like this by Shoshana Zuboff add to wishlist In 1978 the author set out to research into the effects of the emerging new technology on workers and their workplaces, the results of which are presented in this book. Zuboff interviewed people at every level of a variety of organizations engaged in disparate forms of work. The approach was intended to combine participant observations with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The American Occupational Structure more books like this by Peter Michael Blau, Otis Dudley Duncan add to wishlist This book is the classic source of empirical information on the patterns of occupational achievement in American society. Based on an unusually comprehensive set of data, it is renowned for its pioneering methods of statistical analysis as well as for its far-reaching conclusions about social stratification and occupational mobility in the United ... see all copies from $3.10! new only from $10.76! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Job Shock: Four New Principles Transforming Our Work & Business more books like this by Harry S Dent, Jr. add to wishlist From the author of The Great Boom Ahead comes the latest prediction of jobs in the '90s. Dent describes the brave new world of work--a world where technologies empower the individual and bring exciting opportunities. His predictions are supplemented by tools for individual success. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Race to the Bottom: Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade Are Sinking American Living Standards more books like this by Alan Tonelson add to wishlist A leading economic journalist explains why Washington's responses to globalization have created a global worker surplus that undermines both American workers and those in developing nations.. As evidenced by the WTO riots in Seattle in December 1999, there is a volatile debate among Americans over how the new world economy affects our standards ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change more books like this by Dr. Cynthia Cockburn add to wishlist 'Cockburn has managed that most difficult of tasks: to produce a book on an important social issue which is theoretically interesteing, factually informative and well written' New Society see all copies from $4.12! new only from $23.24! \| SVS
11 view cover	Who's Not Working and Why: Employment, Cognitive Skills, Wages, and the Changing U.S. Labor Market more books like this by Frederic L Pryor, David L Schaffer add to wishlist Presenting a radically different view of the operations of the labor market, Professors Pryor and Schaffer explain the growing inequality in wages over the last quarter century and how those with the least education are being squeezed out of the labor market. Why have wages in those jobs requiring extra-high cognitive skills risen while all other ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Working Hard & Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America more books like this by Margaret K Nelson, Joan Smith add to wishlist The economic recovery of the 1990s brought with it a surge of new jobs, but the prospects for most working Americans improved little. Family income rose only slightly and the period witnessed a significant degradation of the quality of work as well as in what people could expect from their waged employment. This book takes a look inside the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Maidens, Meal, and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Community more books like this by Claude Meillassoux add to wishlist For over twenty years, Claude Meillassoux has been concerned with the study of the different modes of production which existed in Africa prior to colonisation, and the ways in which they responded to colonisation. In this book Professor Meillassoux draws both on his extensive fieldwork in Africa and on the anthropological literature to provide a ... see all copies from $3.98! new only from $4.45! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Corporate Governance and Labour Management: An International Comparison more books like this by Howard Gospel (Editor), Andrew Pendleton (Editor) add to wishlist This book is about the relationship between corporate governance regimes and labour management. It examines how finance and governance influence employment relationships, work organization, and industrial relations by means of a comparative analysis of Anglo-American, European, and Japanese economies. The starting point is the distinction widely ... see all copies from $27.44! new only from $45.69! \| SVS
15 view cover	Occupational Outlook Handbook more books like this by US Department of Labor add to wishlist The OOH is the most widely respected and used career reference available. It features well-written, interesting descriptions for nearly 270 major jobs in the U.S. and summary information on additional jobs. For each job, the book discusses the nature of the work, working conditions, job outlook, training and education needed, earnings, related ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.61! \| SVS
16 view cover	Americas Top 300 Jobs: A Complete Career Handbook more books like this by U S Dept of Labor add to wishlist Based on extensive market research from the U.S. Department of Labor, this classic job information resource offers easy-to-read descriptions regarding job skills, education requirements, advancement opportunities, and salary data. Also contains a special section on growth projections for the 500 largest jobs through the year 2005. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Down and Out: Labouring Under Global Capitalism more books like this by Prof. Jan Breman, Arvind Das, Ravi Agarwal (Photographer) add to wishlist The tide of globalization and privatization that is sweeping across the globe often is often bad news for laborers, and their voices are little heard in the public discourse. This collection of fieldwork and photographs seeks to correct this imbalance. It presents snapshots from the lives of laborers in the Sarat region of India, showing workers ... see all copies from $16.31! new only from $16.31!
18 view cover	Towards a Labour Market in China more books like this by John Knight, Lina Song add to wishlist Combining remarkable economic transition and dynamic growth, China may well have the most fascinating economy in the world. Over the period of economic reform China has moved from an administered labour system towards the creation of a labour market. The scale of this transformation, involving new economic incentives, vast labour migration, ... see all copies from $4.77! new only from $18.09! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era more books like this by Jeremy Rifkin add to wishlist Global unemployment has now reached its highest level since the great depression of the 1930s. Technologies which have brought miraculous improvements in efficiency and productivity have also slashed the numbers employed in manufacturing and agriculture, while the service sector is quite unable to take up the slack. While a tiny elite of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Diverging Pathways: Social Structure and Career Deflections more books like this by Alan C Kerckhoff add to wishlist Diverging Pathways follows the careers of a British birth cohort into early adulthood, presenting a detailed picture of the family backgrounds and the school and early labour force achievements of the cohort. The study portrays how the social arrangements of society's institutions deflect people's achievement patterns. Different kinds of schools, ... see all copies from $20.19! new only from $46.30! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Working for Democracy: American Workers from the Revolution to the Present more books like this by Paul Buhle (Photographer), Alan Dawley (Photographer) add to wishlist Written by some of our nation's top social historians, Working for Democracy is the first book to examine the politics of American workers from the Revolution to the present in terms of broad struggles for power in society at large see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Responsive Workplace: Employers and a Changing Labor Force more books like this by Professor Sheila B Kamerman add to wishlist The authors examine innovations in the workplace as well as enduring concerns--fringe benefits, day care and other services, and employers' policies at the workplace. And, they assess employers' adequacy in assisting parents of young children to manage simultaneously their work and family roles. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.20! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Mismanagement of Talent: Employability and Jobs in the Knowledge Economy more books like this by Philip Brown, Anthony Hesketh, Phillip Brown add to wishlist The knowledge economy conjures a world of smart people, in smart jobs, doing smart things, in smart ways, for smart money, a world increasingly open to all rather than a few. Glossy corporate brochures present a future in challenging, exciting and financially rewarding jobs for the winners in the competition for fast track management appointments. ... see all copies from $45.47! new only from $45.47! \| SVS
24 view cover	The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work more books like this by Professor Stanley Aronowitz, William Difazio add to wishlist The Jobless Future challenges beliefs in the utopian promise of a knowledge-based, high-technology economy. Reviewing a vast body of encouraging literature about the postindustrial age, Aronowitz and DiFazio conclude that neither theory, history, nor contemporary evidence warrants optimism about a technological economic order. Instead, they ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.90! \| first editions
25 view cover	Work and Industry, Structures, Markets, and Processes more books like this by Arne L Kalleberg, Ivar Berg add to wishlist see all copies from $14.32! new only from $48.00! \| SVS

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