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1	Through the Brick Wall: How to Job-Hunt in a Tight Market more books like this by Kate Wendleton add to wishlist Here is a unique, business-oriented approach to job hunting which provides the reader with step-by-step instructions in finding a new and/or improved position. Wendleton explains why the "tried and true" techniques no longer work and includes up-to-the-minute job-hunting techniques and astute lessons on how to turn interviews into offers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.40! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World more books like this by Bhaskar Chakravorti add to wishlist Innovation's encounter with the market results in a game of both high risk and high stakes. Often its outcome defies common sense: superior new products flop, unlikely ideas become runaway hits, and - despite rapid technological advances and intense interconnectedness - change happens at a snail's pace. What really happens during this encounter? ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.23! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Health Care Job Explosion!: High Growth Health Care Careers and Job Locator more books like this by Dennis V Damp add to wishlist This book offers a distinct advantage over other books of this type. It is two books in one - a comprehensive Career Guide plus a dynamic Job Finder. First, it presents comprehensive health care occupational descriptions and then provides resources to locate job announcements, job hotlines, job fairs, placement services, directories, associations, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.98! \| SVS
4	Nursing Staff in Hospital and Nursing Homes more books like this by Institute of Medicine, Inst Med, Committee on the Adequacy of Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes add to wishlist Hospitals and nursing homes are responding to changes in the health care system by modifying staffing levels and the mix of nursing personnel. But do these changes endanger the quality of patient care? Do nursing staff suffer increased rates of injury, illness, or stress because of changing workplace demands? These questions are addressed in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00!
5	Women, Work and Computing more books like this by Ruth Woodfield add to wishlist Although few dispute the computer's place as a pivotal twentieth century artefact, little agreement has emerged over whether the changes it has precipitated are generally positive or negative in nature, or whether we should be contemplating our future association with the computer more with enthusiasm or trepidation. Specifically with regard to ... see all copies from $2.65! new only from $2.65! \| first editions
6	New Rules for a New Economy: Employment and Opportunity in Postindustrial America more books like this by Stephen A Herzenberg, Howard Wial, John A Alic add to wishlist Three quarters of the American workforce is now employed in services, a substantial portion in low-paying, dead-end jobs. Can the service economy do as well by the American worker as the old manufacturing economy? Can the widely shared prosperity that accompanied steady increases in productivity and performance in manufacturing be replicated in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
7	High Skills: Globalization, Competitiveness, and Skill Formation more books like this by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, Andy Green add to wishlist Economic globalization has led to intense debates about the competitiveness of nations. Prosperity, social justice, and welfare are now seen to depend on the creation of a 'high skilled' workforce. This international consensus around high skills has led recent American presidents to claim themselves 'education presidents' and in Britain, Tony ... see all copies from $30.15! new only from $46.46! \| SVS
8	The Public Use of Private Interest more books like this by Charles L Schultze add to wishlist According to conventional wisdom, government may intervene when private markets fail to provide goods and services that society values. This view has led to the passage of much legislation and the creation of a host of agencies that have attempted, by exquisitely detailed regulations, to compel legislatively defined behavior in a broad range of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The End of Economic Man: An Introduction to Humanistic Economics more books like this by George P. Brockway add to wishlist Establishes an economics in which men and women are not ceramic spheres subject only to cold, mathematical forecasts, but free human beings who are responsible for their actions and can find in this critical supposition the foundations of mores, morals, and morale. see all copies from $3.95! new only from $5.95! \| first editions
10	The New Law of Demand and Supply: The Revolutionary New Demand Strategy for Faster Growth and Higher Profits more books like this by Richard Kash, Rick Kash add to wishlist The author, founder, and CEO of The Cambridge Group overturns the traditional supply-side approach to business. He argues for an opposite approach--one which, he contends, many of today's most successful businesses are already using. The core of the book is a six-step demand strategy on how to implement a demand-first approach--from focusing on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.85! \| first editions
11 view cover	Prospects for Faculty in the Arts and Sciences: A Study of Factors Affecting Demand and Supply, 1987 to 2012 more books like this by William G Bowen, Julie A Sosa add to wishlist This thought-provoking study of academic job markets over the next quarter century uses rigorous analysis to project substantial excess demand for faculty starting in the 1997-2002 period. Particularly severe imbalances are projected in the humanities and social sciences. Contrary to popular impressions, however, these projected shortages are not ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.61! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Work in the New Economy: Flexible Labor Markets in Silicon Valley more books like this by Chris Benner, Manuel Castells (Preface by) add to wishlist The rise of the information economy is dramatically transforming work and employment conditions around the globe. Who does the work, how it is done, and the results it produces for individuals and their families, for organizations and for society, is undergoing fundamental change. This book contributes to our understanding of the transformation of ... see all copies from $8.80! new only from $8.88! \| first editions
13 view cover	Industrial Restruc Job SEC more books like this by Susan N Houseman add to wishlist In what ways does empirical economics contribute to our understanding of important social issues? Richard Freeman addresses these questions in lively essays on the jobs and wages of college graduates, discrimination and inner-city youth, homelessness, unionism, and the difference between U.S. labor market institutions and those of other developed ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Services and Metropolitan Development: International Perspectives more books like this by Peter Daniels add to wishlist The dynamics of national and international urban systems, as well as individual metropolitan areas, are closely connected with the decisions and actions of firms and institutions in the service sector. Services and Metropolitan Development explores the processes guiding both the development and the spatial impacts of services on the urban system ... see all copies from $25.23! new only from $185.98! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Tyranny of the Market: Why You Can't Always Get What You Want more books like this by Joel Waldfogel add to wishlist Economists have long counseled reliance on markets rather than on government to decide a wide range of questions, in part because allocation through voting can give rise to a "tyranny of the majority." Markets, by contrast, are believed to make products available to suit any individual, regardless of what others want. But the argument is not ... see all copies from $14.86! new only from $20.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan more books like this by Ken C Kawashima add to wishlist Korean workers in Japan constituted imperial Japan's largest colonial labour force in the 1920s and 1930s. Caught between the Scylla of agricultural destitution in Korea and the Charybdis of industrial depression in Japan, migrant Korean peasants arrived on Japanese soil amid extreme forms of precariousness in the labour and housing markets. For ... see all copies from $15.95! new only from $23.95! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Death of Demand: Finding Growth in a Saturated Global Economy more books like this by Tom Osenton add to wishlist In today's world, there are more TVs than viewers. More phone numbers than talkers. More homes than households. More cars than drivers. Consumers have gorged themselves...and they're pulling away from the table. Demand is dead. What's more, it'll stay dead, for many years to come--and everyone had better get used to it. In The Death of Demand, Tom ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| SVS
18 view cover	The Boundaries of EC Competition Law: The Scope of Article 81 more books like this by Okeoghene Odudu add to wishlist This monograph addresses two problems surrounding the interpretation and application of Article 81 of the EC Treaty - what is competition and how does Article 81 ensure that competition is protected. After over 40 years of application and a period of modernisation, decentralisation, and reflection, it is possible to understand Article 81 and what ... see all copies from $10.09! new only from $10.62! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Peace Dividend Ceacontributions to Economic Analysis Volume 235 more books like this by Nils Petter Gleditsch, O Bjerkholt (Editor), Å Cappelen (Editor) add to wishlist The papers collected in this volume demonstrate how different kinds of analytical approach can be used to anticipate the economic repercussions of systematic reduction of military spending. This volume will be of interest to economists; scholars in peace studies, international relations and such like; and officials of national governments and ... see all copies from $53.05! new only from $168.48! \| SVS
20 view cover	Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality more books like this by Dale Ballou add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $47.97! \| first editions
21 view cover	Recruitment, Retention, and Retirement in Higher Education: Building and Managing the Faculty of the Future more books like this by TIAA-CREF Institute add to wishlist Attracting and retaining faculty is essential to maintaining productivity at institutions of higher education. They are at a critical juncture as they attempt to achieve their teaching goals. This volume examines some of the most pressing employment and compensation issues confronting academic administrators. see all copies from $48.12! new only from $60.12!
22 view cover	Work in the New Economy more books like this by Chris Benner add to wishlist The rise of the information economy is dramatically transforming work and employment conditions around the globe. Who does the work, how it is done, and the results it produces for individuals and their families, for organizations and for society, is undergoing fundamental change. This book contributes to our understanding of the transformation of ... see all copies from $36.01! new only from $98.21!
23 view cover	High-Tech Industries, Employment and Global Competitiveness more books like this by Hashim S R, S R Hashim (Editor), N S Siddharthan (Editor) add to wishlist The process of development in recent times has been characteristically marked by the expanding reach of multinational enterprises, flows of foreign direct investment, unprecedented growth of information and communication technologies (ICT) and knowledge-based industries, and infusion of ICT across the entire spectrum of industries and activities. ... see all copies from $19.20! new only from $19.20! \| first editions \| SVS
24	Economic Challenges in Higher Education more books like this by Charles T Clotfelter, Professor Malcolm Getz, Ronald G Ehrenberg add to wishlist The last two decades have been a turbulent period for American higher education, with profound demographic shifts, gyrating salaries, and marked changes in the economy. While enrollments rose about 50% in that period, sharp increases in tuition and fees at colleges and universities provoke accusations of inefficiency, even outright institutional ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $66.00! \| first editions
25 view cover	The Limits to Satisfaction: An Essay on the Problem of Needs and Commodities more books like this by William Leiss add to wishlist At a time when the supply of resources is a problem, William Leiss analyses demand and consumption. Why do we need so much? Does the ability to choose from such a wide range of commodities give us more satisfaction? Why do we accept being pushed into buying products about which we know little because they promise to give us a particular ... see all copies from $2.54! new only from $20.57! \| first editions

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