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Traces the increase in interns in businesses from the late twentieth to the early twenty first century and discusses the lack of benefits and legal securities granted to interns in comparison to the profits firms bank by exploiting their roles in the workplace.
Every year, between 1 and 2 million Americans work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand newsrooms, congressional offices, and Hollywood studios, but they also deliver aid...
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The authors of this volume present the outcomes of a major project aimed at empowering girls and young women in 14 developing countries. They discuss the young women's choices in life, set against the backdrop of family building, health, education, employment opportunities and the use of the Internet. They also compare the available statistics with the reality for these girls and young women. In doing so, this book displays two unique features. Firstly,...
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With the onset of the recession in 1990, job security has moved to the forefront of labor market concerns in the United States. During economic downturns, American employers rely heavily on layoffs to cut their work force, much more than do their counterparts in other industrialized nations. The hardships imposed by these layoffs have led many to ask whether U.S. workers can be offered more secure employment without burdening the companies that employ...
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Essays, evaluations of employment creation and training programmes in the USA - examines trends and objectives of employment policies, 1962 to 1980; evaluates subsidy programmes for the unemployed, young workers and minority groups, the supported-work Experiment for the socially disadvantaged (drug abuses, exoffenders, welfare recipients), public service employment, and direct job creation; considers effect on income distribution and full employment;...
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Levine (industrial relations, U. of Maryland) has written a gripping study of the prevalence of child labor in the US today, its laws, risks, and the lack of enforcement of child labor laws. Describing evidence of child labor in several contexts, including sweatshops, agriculture, and industry, Levine focuses on issues that include ineffective and outdated child labor laws, health and safety risks, the role of physicians in treating children, dropout...
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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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This report addresses a number of issues that have surfaced in the debates over the impact of technological change on employment. These issues include the effects of technological change on levels of employment and unemployment within the economy; on the displacement of workers in specific industries or sectors of the economy; on skill requirements; on the welfare of women, minorities, and labor force entrants in a technologically transformed economy;...
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Challenging the prevailing idea that labor markets are governed by universal economic processes, this significant work argues instead that labor markets develop in tandem with social and political institutions, and thus function in locally specific ways. Focusing on the complex social processes that lie at the heart of the labor market, the author offers a provocative new perspective and proposes new ways of conducting research in the area.
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In Illusions of Prosperity, Blau launches a far-reaching assault on the idea that "the market" knows best. Blau writes that while the share of the national income held by the bottom four-fifths of the population (the poor and broad middle class combined) has continued to decline, the top fifth gained 97 percent of the increase in total household income between 1979 and 1994. Blau looks at recent reforms in NAFTA, education, job training, welfare,...
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