San Antonio College Library

This new edition of Creating a Flexible Workplace, the winner of the 1990 Society for Human Resource Management's "Best Book of the Year" Award, provides you with the most up-to-date information available on this growing trend. Acknowledged as the definitive guide to the topic, this comprehensive volume gives human resources professionals and line managers everything they need to know to use flexible work options successfully. The second edition supplies...

As the author of The Feminine Mystique and head of the National Organization for Women, Betty Friedan helped spark a movement that revolutionized the fight for equal rights and opportunities for women. Now, in Beyond Gender, Friedan argues that the old solutions no longer work. The time has come, she contends, for women and men to move forward from identity politics and gender-based, single-issue political activism. Without yielding on particular...

Drawing upon a case study of a plant closing in Wisconsin and the results of national labor force surveys showing the displacement of millions of workers each year, this book examines the consequences of the rise in economic instability. Among those consequences are a productivity slowdown, increased disparities in earnings and income, and higher average unemployment. Moore assesses the extent of job loss nationwide, its costs to the individuals directly...

Topics covered include wage subsidies and public employment, changes in modes of pay, employment regulations.