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1	The Ten-Year Nap more books like this by Meg Wolitzer add to wishlist From the bestselling author of "The Wife" and "The Position" comes a feverishly smart novel about female ambition, money, class, motherhood, and marriage--and what happens in one community when a group of educated women chooses not to work. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities more books like this by Mascur Olson, Mancur Olson, Jr. add to wishlist The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many periods of history and many parts of the world. see all copies from $7.74! new only from $16.40! \| SVS
3	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 $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Healing the Wounds: Overcoming the Trauma of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized Organizations more books like this by David M Noer add to wishlist Help your downsized workforce bounce back Layoffs make the business pages, even the front pages, of our newspapers with frightening regularity. And massive downsizing continues to reshape the face of American business. But what about those who remain behind Healing the Wounds provides an antidote to the widespread malaise on the American business ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	State of Working America more books like this by Lawrence Mishel, David M Frankel, Paula Voos (Editor) add to wishlist This work provides a comprehensive portrait of how the US standard of living has changed during recent years, as compared to the whole period since World War II. The study presents statistics that are compiled from government and private data sources. Using the evidence, the authors analyze trends in income, wages, jobs, wealth, poverty and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Joy of Not Working more books like this by Ernie J Zelinski add to wishlist This is a practical guide for people who want to add to the quality and experience of their life away from the workplace. Containing exercises, cartoons and quotations, this book argues that people place too much importance on work, rather than simply enjoying themselves. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.79! \| SVS
7	When You Lose Your Job more books like this by Cliff Hakim add to wishlist Holding back the tidal waves of global competition and socioeconomic change has been impossible, even for the "blue chips". The result - redundancy; millions out of work. Executives, managers, and staff from all industries and professionals across the country are being forced to deal with job loss and rethink their careers. The most successful are ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.07! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Understanding the Unemployed: The Psychological Effects of Unemployment more books like this by John Hayes add to wishlist see all copies from $6.40! first editions
9	The Natural Survival of Work: Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Growing Economy more books like this by Pierre Cahuc, Andra(c) Zylberberg, Professor William McCuaig (Translator) add to wishlist How to manage the unemployment that occurs in the process of the continuous job destruction and creation responsible for growth in today's economies: what recent economic research tells us about wages, incentives to work, and education. Every working day in the United States, 90,000 jobs disappear - and an equal number are created. This discovery ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $9.24! \| SVS
10	Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy more books like this by Michael Yates add to wishlist The economic boom of the 1990s created huge wealth for the bosses, but benefited workers hardly at all. At the same time, the bosses were able to take the political initiative and even the moral high ground, while workers were often divided against each other. This new book by leading labor analyst Michael D. Yates seeks to explain how this ... see all copies from $5.85! new only from $12.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Magic City: Unemployment in a Working-Class Community more books like this by Gregory Pappas add to wishlist see all copies from $6.45! new only from $14.50! \| first editions \| SVS
12	What I Believe more books like this by Norma Fox Mazer add to wishlist A dramatic change in fortune sends Vicky Marnet's family from an untroubled suburban life to a cramped city apartment, transforming the teen's life and outlook for the worse. Written in verse format, with journal entries, various poem styles, and e-mails, Vicky's story chronicles her father's job loss and subsequent breakdown and desertion. In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Job Shift more books like this by William Bridges, Ph.D. add to wishlist The source of Fortune s widely discussed cover story The End of the Job, Job Shift breaks open our traditional work world. For all employees, executives, and entrepreneurs it reveals the new employment realities and uncovers new opportunities. Read Job Shift to understand how to generate secure work for yourself next yearand how well think about ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.70! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Save Your Job, Save Our Country: Why NAFTA Must Be Stopped--Now! more books like this by Ross Perot, Jr., H Ross Perot add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss more books like this by Martha I Finney add to wishlist Been laid off? Fired? Pushed out? See it coming? This book will help you get back on your feet, develop a plan of action, and find your next great job! Real answers from real experts: What to do first!and what never to doHow to cope with the havoc, trauma, and angerHow to protect your professional reputationHow to keep your options openKnow ... see all copies* from $11.85! new only from $11.85! \| SVS
16 view cover	Jobshift: How to Prosper in a Workplace Without Jobs more books like this by William Bridges, Ph.D. add to wishlist What is disappearing today is not just a certain number of jobs, or jobs in certain industries, or jobs in some parts of the UK - or even jobs in the West as a whole. What is disappearing is the very thing itself: the job. In fact, many organizations are today well along the path towards being "de-jobbed". People will have to learn new ways to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.02! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Insider-Outsider Theory of Employment and Unemployment more books like this by Assar Lindbeck add to wishlist This book provides an accessible, balanced account of the insider-outsider theory of labor market activity. It focuses on how "insiders" (incumbent employees whose jobs are protected by various labor turnover costs) get market power, what they do with that power, and how their activities see all copies from $12.00! new only from $25.66! \| first editions
18 view cover	Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market more books like this by Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell, Richard Jackman add to wishlist This book is concerned with why unemployment is so high and why it fluctuates so wildly. It shows how unemployment affects inflation, and discusses whether full employment can ever be combined with price stability. It asks why some groups have higher unemployment rates than others. The book thus surveys in a clear, textbook fashion the main ... see all copies from $8.98! new only from $67.59! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Age Works: What Corporate America Must Do to Survive the Graying of the Workforce more books like this by Beverly Goldberg add to wishlist Goldberg issues a wake-up call for American business, stating that companies must convince disillusioned older employees to stay at work longer in order to maintain competitiveness in the coming millennium. Charts & graphs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Share Economy: Conquering Stagflation more books like this by Martin L Weitzman add to wishlist Martin L. Weitzman, one of America's leading economic theorists, has hit upon a central feature of our economic life as the cause of staflaction: the standard practice of paying workers a fixed wage, regardless of whether a company is doing well or poorly. Weitzman shows why an alternative labor payment system, in which a significant number of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.65! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Economic Horror more books like this by Viviane Forrester add to wishlist Why do we continue to value employment and economic success above all other things in life, when both are becoming increasingly hard to achieve for an ever-growing part of our population? Why are governments constantly fudging their figures to play down the unemployment statistics, when laying off workers is an accepted mode of management? More ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.99! \| first editions
22 view cover	Post-Work more books like this by Professor Stanley Aronowitz (Editor), Jonathan Cutler (Editor) add to wishlist The computer and the age of digital technology came with the promise of quality of life improvements for all; but, unfortunately, people seem to be working more for less. In Post-Work Stanley Aronowitz and Jonathan Cutler have collected essays from a variety of scholars to discuss the future of work. The introduction provides the framework for a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	Unemployment in the New Europe more books like this by Nancy Bermeo (Editor), Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist The movement for European integration has yielded a European Union of fifteen states with a unified monetary system that will eventually embrace over 370 million people. If current trends continue, an average of one in ten of these people will be unemployed. Not surprisingly, the European public ranks joblessness among its primary political ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $5.14! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Underemployment Equilibria: Essays in Theory, Econometrics and Policy more books like this by Jacques H Dreze add to wishlist This book is a selection of Jacques Dreze's work over the last decade on the topics of lasting unemployment, stagflation and unused capacity. At the theoretical level, the author has contributed to the formulation and analysis of general equilibrium models which allow for price rigidities and excess supply and lend themselves to econometric ... see all copies from $3.45! new only from $60.02! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Progress Without People: In Defense of Luddism more books like this by David F Noble, Stan Weir (Foreword by) add to wishlist Is there anything in common between the age of automation now upon us and the first industrial revolution long ago (circa 1790-1840)? Yes. Both surged ahead with technical progress and production, and eliminated jobs without jobs for the workers. Both claimed that technological progress was inevitable and would automatically put things right. In ... see all copies from $10.50! new only from $99.00!

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