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Comparison of work attitudes in Japan, UK and USA - examines employees attitudes and management attitudes to absenteeism, work performance, paid leave, etc.; discusses quality circles, the effect of wage payment system, especially measured daywork, cultural factors and social norms; assesses Motivation and job satisfaction; considers young workers attitudes. Graphs, references.
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Monograph comprising a comparison of employment discrimination in the USA and Canada - comments on labour legislation, regulations and jurisprudence prohibiting sex discrimination and racial discrimination, discusses the theoretical background, examines trade union attitudes and management attitudes to unequal opportunity, etc., and includes a literature survey. References and statistical tables.
7) Work and family--allies or enemies?: what happens when business professionals confront life choices
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"Work and Family - Allies or Enemies? offers a fresh new lens for viewing the real struggles that business professionals face in their daily battle to find ways of "getting a life" and "having it all." Based on a pioneering study that surveyed more than 800 business professionals, this volume will help readers understand and deal with the effects of gender, professional culture, and social expectations on the evolving roles of men and women in crafting...
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Drawing on interviews with dismissed IBM executives in Westchester, New York, bakers in a high-tech Boston bakery, a barmaid turned advertising executive, and many others, Sennett explores the disorienting effects of the new capitalism. He reveals the vivid and illuminating contrast between two worlds of work: the vanished world of rigid, hierarchical organizations, where what mattered was a sense of personal character, and the brave new world of...
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"Legitimacy is vital to unions. Without it, they lose political and ideological support, members, and access to funds. Gary Chaison and Barbara Bigelow use the concept of legitmacy as a lens through which to understand the steady decline in union size and influence and to suggest new strategies for union revitalization."
"Chaison and Bigelow relate legitimacy to five case studies: the UPS strike, the organization of clerical workers at Harvard, the...
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Study of the historical development of social security and labour policy in France, 1890-1914 - reviews economic conditions, the emergency of the working class and ideologies of social reform; examines the role of the Radical political party in the reform social movement; comments on early labour legislation with regard to accident insurance, old age benefits, hours of work, labour relations, trade union rights, etc.; considers trade union attitudes...
13) The Teamsters
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Discusses the Teamsters union through profiles of nine men who have been associated with the union in various ways.
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Explores the ways in which American students, employers, and teachers perceive each other and what actions they take to affect the work-entry process. Includes a comparison of the situation in Germany and Japan. Suggests more effective communication between teachers, students and employers, and building upon existing informal networks.
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The story of James and John Stuart Mill is one of the great dramas of the 19th century. In the bitter yet loving struggle of this extraordinarily influential father and son, we can see the genesis of the revolution of Liberal ideas -- about love, sex and women, wealth and work, authority and rebellion--which ushered in the modern age. In this work, the result of more than a decade of research and reflection, psychohistorian Bruce Mazlish reveals the...
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In her remarkable new book, The Time Bind, Arlie Hochschild brings us startling news of the ways in which home is being invaded by the time pressures and efficiencies of work, while the workplace is, for many parents, being transformed into a strange kind of surrogate home. For three years at a Fortune 500 company, she interviewed everyone from top executives to factory hands, sat in on business meetings, followed sales teams onto golf courses, and...
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Essay on psychological aspects of computerization, dehumanizing features of computers and their impact on quality of working life and society, referring mainly to the USA - deals with mental stress and machine phobia, attitudes towards technological change, the industrial robots menace to employment, deterioration of human relations, family life and marriage, military applications, artificial intelligence, etc.; includes literature survey. References....
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