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Changing Contours of Work

Author : Stephen Sweet
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483358267
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Changing Contours of Work written by Stephen Sweet and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Third Edition of Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy, Stephen Sweet and Peter Meiksins once again provide a rich analysis of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy. Through engaging vignettes and rich data, this text frames the development of jobs and employment opportunities in an international comparative perspective, revealing the historical transformations of work (the “old economy” and the “new economy”) and identifying the profound effects that these changes have had on lives, jobs, and life chances. The text examines the many complexities of race, class, and gender inequalities in the modern-day workplace, and details the consequences of job insecurity and work schedules mismatched to family needs. Throughout the text, strategic recommendations are offered to improve the new economy.

Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy

Author : Stephen Sweet
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412990866
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy written by Stephen Sweet and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the highly-anticipated second edition of Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy, authors Sweet and Meiskins once again provide a rich analysis of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy. Through engaging vignettes and rich data, this text frames the development of jobs and employment opportunities in an international comparative perspective, revealing the historical transformations of work and identifying the profound effects that these changes have had on lives, jobs, and life chances. This text brings into focus the many complexities of class, race, and gender inequalities in the modern-day workplace, as well as details the consequences of job insecurity and work schedules mismatched to family needs. Throughout, strategic recommendations are offered that could help make the new economy work for us all.

Changing Contours of Work

Author : Stephen Sweet
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1544305702
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Changing Contours of Work written by Stephen Sweet and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich analysis of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy. The authors frame the development of jobs in an international comparative perspective, revealing the historical transformations of work and the profound effects these changes have had on lives, jobs, and life chances.

Global Shift, Seventh Edition

Author : Peter Dicken
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462519555
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Global Shift, Seventh Edition written by Peter Dicken and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive text on globalization, this book provides an accessible, jargon-free analysis of how the world economy works and its effects on people and places. Peter Dicken synthesizes the latest ideas and empirical data to blaze a clear path through the thicket of globalization processes and debates. The book highlights the dynamic interactions among transnational corporations, nations, and other key players, and their role in shaping the uneven contours of development. Mapping the changing centers of gravity of the global economy, Dicken presents in-depth case studies of six major industries. Now in full color throughout, the text features 228 figures. Companion websites for students and instructors offer extensive supplemental resources, including author videos, applied case studies with questions, lecture notes with PowerPoint slides, discipline-specific suggested further reading for each chapter, and interactive flashcards. ÿ ÿ New to This Edition: *Every chapter thoroughly revised and updated. *All 228 figures (now in color) are new or redesigned. *Addresses the ongoing fallout from the recent global financial crisis. *Discussions of timely topics: tax avoidance and corporate social responsibility; global problems of unemployment, poverty, and inequality; environmental degradation; the Eurozone crisis; and more. *Enhanced online resources for instructors and students.

Changing Contours of Indian Agriculture

Author : Seema Bathla
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811060142
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Changing Contours of Indian Agriculture written by Seema Bathla and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an extensive study on India’s agricultural and nonfarm sectors, examining prices, investments and policies, and suggesting various essential technological changes. It offers appropriate financial, institutional, and policy frameworks that can help to sustain agricultural growth and augment farmers’ incomes across geographical locations. Further, it addresses agricultural growth and rural poverty reduction through multiple pathways that also tackle varied geographical locations, making it a highly useful guide to understanding the changing contours in agriculture and rural areas across the country and among rural households with various social and economic backgrounds.

Contours of Descent

Author : Robert Pollin
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781844675340
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (753 download)

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Download or read book Contours of Descent written by Robert Pollin and published by Verso. This book was released on 2005-10-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concepts of modernity and modernism are among the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this new, muscular intervention, Pollin explores these notions in a fresh and illuminating manner.

Education and Social Change

Author : John L. Rury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415526906
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Education and Social Change written by John L. Rury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief, interpretive history of American schooling focuses on the evolving relationship between education and social change. Like its predecessors, this new edition investigates the impact of social forces such as industrialization, urbanization, immigration and cultural conflict on the development of schools and other educational institutions. It also examines the various ways that schools have contributed to social change, particularly in enhancing the status and accomplishments of certain social groups and not others. Detailed accounts of the experiences of women and minority groups in American history consider how their lives have been affected by education. Changes in this new edition include the following: A more thorough treatment of key concepts such as globalization, human capital, social capital, and cultural capital. Enhanced attention to issues of diversity throughout. Greater thematic coherence as a result of dividing chapter 6 into two chapters, the first focusing on the postwar period and emphasizing the themes of equity and social justice and the second focusing on human capital in education, highlighting the standards movement, federal policy changes and neo-liberal reform. A revision of several focal point discussions for greater clarity and thematic releance. Update discussions of recent changes in educational politics, finance and policy, especially the troubles presently facing No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

Education and Social Change

Author : John L. Rury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317497368
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Education and Social Change written by John L. Rury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief, interpretive history of American schooling focuses on the evolving relationship between education and social change. Like its predecessors, this new edition adopts a thematic approach, investigating the impact of social forces such as industrialization, urbanization, immigration, globalization, and cultural conflict on the development of schools and other educational institutions. It also examines the various ways that schools have contributed to social change, particularly in enhancing the status and accomplishments of certain social groups and not others. Detailed accounts of the experiences of women and minority groups in American history consider how their lives have been affected by education, while "Focal Point" sections within each chapter allow the reader to hone in on key moments in history and their relevance within the broader scope of American schooling from the colonial era to the present. This new edition has been comprehensively updated and edited for greater readability and clarity. It offers a revised final chapter, updated to include recent change in education politics and policy, in particular the decline of No Child Left Behind and the impact of the Common Core and movements against it. Further additions include enhanced coverage of colonial and early post-colonial American schooling, added materials on persistent issues such as race in education, an updated discussion of the GED program, and a closer look at the role of technology in schools. With its nuanced treatment of both historical and contemporary factors influencing the modern school system, this book remains an excellent resource for investigating and critiquing the social, economic, and cultural development of American education.

Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment

Author : Leah F. Vosko
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135284709
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment written by Leah F. Vosko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precarious employment presents a monumental challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship. The editors argue that these inequalities are evident at the national level across industrialized countries, as well as at the regional level within federal societies, such as Canada, Germany, the United States, and Australia and in the European Union. This book brings together contributions addressing this issue which include case studies exploring the size, nature, and dynamics of precarious employment in different industrialized countries and chapters examining conceptual and methodological challenges in the study of precarious employment in comparative perspective. The collection aims to yield new ways of understanding, conceptualizing, measuring, and responding, via public policy and other means – such as new forms of union organization and community organizing at multiple scales – to the forces driving labour market insecurity.

The Jobless Future

Author : Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452900087
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jobless Future written by Stanley Aronowitz and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jobless Future challenges beliefs in the utopian promise of a knowledge-based, high-technology economy. Reviewing a vast body of encouraging literature about the postindustrial age, Aronowitz and DiFazio conclude that neither theory, history, nor contemporary evidence warrants optimism about a technological economic order. Instead, they demonstrate the shift toward a massive displacement of employees at all levels and a large-scale degradation of the labor force. As they clearly chart a major change in the nature, scope, and amount of paid work, the authors suggest that notions of justice and the good life based on full employment must change radically as well. They close by proposing alternatives to our dying job culture that might help us sustain ourselves and our well-being in a science- and technology-based economic future. One alternative discussed is reducing the workday to fewer hours without reducing pay.

India--Myanmar Relations

Author : Rajiv Bhatia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317399161
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book India--Myanmar Relations written by Rajiv Bhatia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive evaluation of India's multi-faceted relations with Myanmar. It unravels the mysteries of the complex polity of Myanmar as it undergoes transition through democracy after long military rule. Based on meticulous research and understanding, the volume traces the trajectory of India–Myanmar associations from ancient times to the present day, and offers a fascinating story in the backdrop of the region’s geopolitics. An in-depth analysis of ‘India–Myanmar–China Triangle’ brings out the strategic stakes involved. It will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of international relations, peace and conflict studies, defence and strategic studies, politics, South and Southeast Asian studies, as well as policy-makers and political think tanks.

The Color of Opportunity

Author : Ḥayah Shṭayer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226774206
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Color of Opportunity written by Ḥayah Shṭayer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Color of Opportunity, Haya Stier and Marta Tienda ask: How do race and ethnicity limit opportunity in post-civil rights Chicago? In the 1960s, Chicago was a focal point of civil rights activities. But in the 1980s it served as the laboratory for ideas about the emergence and social consequences of concentrated urban poverty; many experts such as William J. Wilson downplayed the significance of race as a cause of concentrated poverty, emphasizing instead structural causes that called for change in employment policy. But in this new study, Stier and Tienda ask about the pervasive poverty, unemployment, and reliance on welfare among blacks and Hispanics in Chicago, wondering if and how the inner city poor differ from the poor in general. The culmination of a six-year collaboration analyzing the Urban Poverty and Family Life Survey of Chicago, The Color of Opportunity is the first major work to compare Chicago's inner city minorities with national populations of like race and ethnicity from a life course perspective. The authors find that blacks, whites, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans living in poor neighborhoods differ in their experiences with early material deprivation and the lifetime disadvantages that accumulate—but they do not differ much from the urban poor in their family formation, welfare participation, or labor force attachment. Stier and Tienda find little evidence for ghetto-specific behavior, but they document the myriad ways color still restricts economic opportunity. The Color of Opportunity stands as a much-needed corrective to increasingly negative views of poor people of color, especially the poor who live in deprived neighborhoods. It makes a key and lasting contribution to ongoing debates about the origins and nature of urban poverty.

The Company They Kept

Author : Lara Putnam
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807862230
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Company They Kept written by Lara Putnam and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-11-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, migrants from Jamaica, Colombia, Barbados, and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, building railroads, digging canals, selling meals, and farming homesteads. On the rain-forested shores of Costa Rica, U.S. entrepreneurs and others established vast banana plantations. Over the next half-century, short-lived export booms drew tens of thousands of migrants to the region. In Port Limon, birthplace of the United Fruit Company, a single building might house a Russian seamstress, a Martinican madam, a Cuban doctor, and a Chinese barkeep--together with stevedores, laundresses, and laborers from across the Caribbean. Tracing the changing contours of gender, kinship, and community in Costa Rica's plantation region, Lara Putnam explores new questions about the work of caring for children and men and how it fit into the export economy, the role of kinship as well as cash in structuring labor, the social networks that shaped migrants' lives, and the impact of ideas about race and sex on the exercise of power. Based on sources that range from handwritten autobiographies to judicial transcripts and addressing topics from intimacy between prostitutes to insults between neighbors, the book illuminates the connections between political economy, popular culture, and everyday life.

Redesigning Work

Author : Lynda Gratton
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262544989
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Redesigning Work written by Lynda Gratton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we make the most of the greatest global shift in the world of work for a century and radically redesign the way we work—forever? Professor Lynda Gratton is the global thought-leader on the future of work. Drawing on thirty years of research into the technological, demographic, cultural, and societal trends that are shaping work and building on what we learned through our experiences of the pandemic, Gratton presents her innovative four-step framework for redesigning work that will help you: Understand your people and what drives performance Reimagine creative new ways to work Model and test these approaches within your organization Act and create to ensure your redesign has lasting benefits Gratton presents real-world case studies that show companies grappling with work challenges. These include the global bank HSBC, which built a multidisciplinary team to understand the employee experience; the Japanese technology company Fujitsu, which reimagined three kinds of “perfect” offices; and the Australian telecommunications company Telstra, which established new roles to coordinate work across the organization. Whether you’re working in a small team or running a multinational, Redesigning Work is the definitive book on how to transform your organization and make hybrid working work for you.

Religion, Community and Development

Author : Gurpreet Mahajan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136704558
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Community and Development written by Gurpreet Mahajan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By making religious community a relevant category for discussing development deficit, the Sachar Committee Report (that was submitted to the Prime Minister of India in 2007) initiated a new political discourse in India. While the liberal secular framework privileged the individual over the community and was more inclined to use the category of class rather than the identity of religion, the Sachar Committee differentiated citizens on the basis of their religious identity. Its conclusions reinforced the necessity of approaching issues of development through the optic of religious community. This volume focuses on this shift in public policy. The articles in this collection examine the nature and implications of this new approach to the Indian social reality. Taking a close look at the findings of the Sachar Committee Report (SCR) they highlight the challenges posed by inter-community comparisons. At another level the articles supplement the debate initiated by the SCR by constructing a profile of religious communities in India so as to factor in their concerns of development into the present discourse and to nuance and modify the simple indicators to which development is often reduced. As most religious communities are themselves engaged in development-related activities the volume also examines some of these initiatives in order to see what development connotes to the members themselves and what receives attention by the community. Students of social sciences and development studies as well as those dealing with issues of marginalization will find this collection an invaluable resource for understanding contemporary India and for undertaking further theoretical and empirical research.

Westward Ha! Around The World In 80 Cliches

Author : S.j. Perelman
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306802294
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Westward Ha! Around The World In 80 Cliches written by S.j. Perelman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1984-08-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Working in America

Author : Amy S Wharton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317248767
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Working in America written by Amy S Wharton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Recession brought rising inequality and changing family economies. New technologies continued to move jobs overseas, including those held by middle-class information workers. The first new edition to capture these historic changes, this book is the leading text in the sociology of work and related research fields. Wharton s readings retain the classics but offer a new spectrum of articles accessible to undergraduate students that focus on the changes that will most affect their lives.New to the fourth edition"