Employment & unemployment books

1251 books were found.

Work Orientations: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings

Work Orientations: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical...

Author: Bengt Furåker ,  Kristina Håkansson
ISBN: 9780815383291
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Work Orientations: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings offers up-to-date research on people’s commitment...  Read More >>

Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy

Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work...

Author: Jeremias Prassl (Associate Professor and Fellow of Magdalen College, Associate Professor and Fellow of Magdalen College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198797029
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Is crowdsourcing the future of work? This book offers a lively and critical account of the gig economy: its promises...  Read More >>

Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe: Activating the Unemployed

Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe:...

Author: Rik van Berkel ,  Dorte Caswell
ISBN: 9780367371883
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Pioneering the provision of scholarly reflections on theoretical and policy relevance of studying frontline practices,...  Read More >>

Lectures in Macroeconomics: A Capitalist Economy Without Unemployment

Lectures in Macroeconomics: A Capitalist Economy Without...

Author: Kazimierz Łaski ,  Jerzy Osiatyński (Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences; Member of Monetary Policy Council, National Bank of Poland)
ISBN: 9780198842118
Format: Hardback
$98.95

This translation of Kazimierz /Laski's final work brings up to date fundamental concepts to give a picture of the...  Read More >>

Global Education Monitoring Report 2019: Migration, Displacement and Education – Building Bridges, not Walls

Global Education Monitoring Report 2019: Migration,...

Author: United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO
ISBN: 9789231002830
Format: Paperback
$86.00

Examines the education impact of migration and displacement across all population movements: within and across borders,...  Read More >>

Higher Education and the Future of Graduate Employability: A Connectedness Learning Approach

Higher Education and the Future of Graduate Employability:...

Author: Ruth Bridgstock ,  Neil Tippett
ISBN: 9781788972604
Format: Hardback
$285.00

Starting from the premise that learning and career development happen naturally and optimally through collaboration...  Read More >>

Inclusion and Exclusion: Unemployment and Non-standard Employment in Europe

Inclusion and Exclusion: Unemployment and Non-standard...

Author: Jens Lind ,  Iver Hornemann Møller
ISBN: 9781138320543
Format: Hardback
$210.00

Published in 1999, this text is influenced by two sets of theories, namely regulation theories and theories on social...  Read More >>

The Subjective Experience of Joblessness in Poland

The Subjective Experience of Joblessness in Poland

Author: Irina Tomescu-Dubrow ,  Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow
ISBN: 9783030136468
Format: Hardback
$116.41

It does so by combining qualitative and quantitative data from a special project conducted in Poland after the Great...  Read More >>

Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work

Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the...

Author: Sarah Kessler
ISBN: 9781847941749
Format: Paperback
$29.99

"The first in-depth account of life working in the gig economy - longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of...  Read More >>

Getting Away from It All: Vacations and Identity

Getting Away from It All: Vacations and Identity

Author: Karen Stein
ISBN: 9781439918753
Format: Paperback
$92.27

"""Vacations allow us to assess our values and aspirations while we remove ourselves from the everyday grind. Stein...  Read More >>

Debating Unemployment Policy: Political Communication and the Labour Market in Western Europe

Debating Unemployment Policy: Political Communication...

Author: Laurent Bernhard (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland) ,  Flavia Fossati (Universität Wien, Austria)
ISBN: 9781108497510
Format: Hardback
$274.28

This study of the policy debates surrounding unemployment in Western Europe after the outbreak of the Great Recession...  Read More >>

Getting Away from It All: Vacations and Identity

Getting Away from It All: Vacations and Identity

Author: Karen Stein
ISBN: 9781439918746
Format: Hardback
$262.68

"""Vacations allow us to assess our values and aspirations while we remove ourselves from the everyday grind. Stein...  Read More >>

Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)

Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and...

Author: Elizabeth Anderson
ISBN: 9780691192246
Format: Paperback
$34.99

"""In this book, Elizabeth Anderson examines why, despite all this, we continue to talk as if free markets make...  Read More >>

Good Jobs for Inclusive Growth in Central Asia and the South Caucasus: Regional Report

Good Jobs for Inclusive Growth in Central Asia and the...

Author: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9789292615109
Format: Paperback
$59.38

Reviews economic performance in the region and discusses prospects through 2030, introducing two growth scenarios...  Read More >>

Industrial Unemployment in Germany 1873-1913

Industrial Unemployment in Germany 1873-1913

Author: Linda A. Heilman
ISBN: 9781138729544
Format: Paperback
$120.00

Originally published in 1991 this book provides a multi-faceted analysis of German unemployment between 1873 and...  Read More >>

SMEs and Economic Integration in Southeast Asia

SMEs and Economic Integration in Southeast Asia

Author: Cassey Lee ,  Dionisus Narjoko
ISBN: 9789814818780
Format: Paperback
$111.13

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for about 97-99% of total enterprises and 60-80% of total employment...  Read More >>

The Work Cure: Critical essays on work and wellness

The Work Cure: Critical essays on work and wellness...

Author: David Frayne
ISBN: 9781910919439
Format: Paperback
$56.90

This collection of essays presents a powerful critique of the contemporary discourse of work as a moral necessity,...  Read More >>

Unions and Employment in a Market Economy: Strategy, Influence and Power in Contemporary Britain

Unions and Employment in a Market Economy: Strategy,...

Author: Andrew Brady (Unite the Union, Scotland, UK)
ISBN: 9781138489875
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book will evidence how trade unions were able to offset environmental constraints through a progressive focus...  Read More >>

The Informal Economy

The Informal Economy

Author: Prof. Colin C. Williams (University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9781911116318
Format: Paperback
$59.49

An authoritative introduction to economic activity and income outside of government regulation, taxation and observation....  Read More >>

Plunkett's Companion to The Almanac of American Employers 2019

Plunkett's Companion to The Almanac of American Employers...

Author: Jack W. Plunkett
ISBN: 9781628314885
Format: Paperback
$537.00

This mid-size firms companion book covers employers of all types from 100 to 2,500 employees in size (while the...  Read More >>

The Informal Economy

The Informal Economy

Author: Prof. Colin C. Williams (University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9781911116301
Format: Hardback
$194.06

An authoritative introduction to economic activity and income outside of government regulation, taxation and observation....  Read More >>

Negotiating Early Job Insecurity: Well-being, Scarring and Resilience of European Youth

Negotiating Early Job Insecurity: Well-being, Scarring...

Author: Bjørn Hvinden ,  Jacqueline O’Reilly
ISBN: 9781788118781
Format: Hardback
$266.00

Offering new knowledge and insights into European job markets, this book explores how young men and women experience...  Read More >>

Youth Unemployment and Job Insecurity in Europe: Problems, Risk Factors and Policies

Youth Unemployment and Job Insecurity in Europe: Problems,...

Author: Bjørn Hvinden ,  Christer Hyggen
ISBN: 9781788118880
Format: Hardback
$275.50

Providing original insights into the factors causing early job insecurity in European countries, this book examines...  Read More >>

Job Coaches for Adults with Disabilities: A Practical Guide

Job Coaches for Adults with Disabilities: A Practical...

Author: Karola Dillenburger ,  Ewa Matuska
ISBN: 9781785925467
Format: Paperback
$51.99

For new and experienced job coaches, and those considering job coaching as a career, this practice-focused guide...  Read More >>

World development report 2019: the changing nature of work

World development report 2019: the changing nature of...

Author: World Bank
ISBN: 9781464813429
Format: Hardback
$125.49

Work is constantly reshaped by technological progress. New ways of production are adopted, markets expand, and societies...  Read More >>

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