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  • Trash!

    A Garbageman's Story

    by Simon Pare-Poupart ...
    Translated by Pablo Strauss ...
    **“Raffish and spirited . . . a nonconformist cri de coeur . . . Usually, comparisons to Bourdain are fatuous. This time it’s accurate . . . It’s been a long time since I’ve read so good and rowdy a memoir about blue-collar work.” — Dwight Garner, The New York TimesAN INDIE BESTSELLERA Montreal garbageman's sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to "stop imagining ... Read more

    PHP553.99

  • AI Superpowers

    China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

    by Kai-Fu Lee ...
    THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER"Kai-Fu Lee believes China will be the next tech-innovation superpower and in AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, he explains why. Taiwan-born Lee is perfectly positioned for the task."—New York MagazineIn this thought-provoking book, Lee argues powerfully that because of the unprecedented developments in ... Read more

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  • The 4 Day Week

    How the Flexible Work Revolution Can Increase Productivity, Profitability and Well-being, and Create a Sustainable Future

    by Andrew Barnes ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2021In The 4 Day Week, entrepreneur and business innovator Andrew Barnes makes the case for the four-day work week as the answer to many of the ills of the 21st-century global economy.Barnes conducted an experiment in his own business, the New Zealand trust company Perpetual Guardian, and asked his staff to design a four-day week that would permit them to ... Read more

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  • Remote Work Revolution

    Succeeding from Anywhere

    by Tsedal Neeley ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR“I often talk about the importance of trust when it comes to work: the trust of your employees and building trust with your customers. This book provides a blueprint for how to build and maintain that trust and connection in a digital environment.” —Eric S. Yuan, founder and CEO of ZoomHarvard Business School professor and ... Read more

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  • The Cycle of Leadership

    How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win

    by Noel M. Tichy ...
    In The Leadership Engine, Noel Tichy showed how great companies strive to create leaders at all levels of the organization, and how those leaders actively develop future generations of leaders.In this new book, he takes the theme further, showing how great companies and their leaders develop their business knowledge into ⳥achable points of view,⟳pend a great portion of their time giving their ... Read more

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  • The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

    by John Maynard Keynes ...
    The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money is Keynes' masterpiece published right after the Great Depression. It sought to bring about a revolution, commonly referred to as the "Keynesian Revolution", in the way economists thought - especially challenging the proposition that a market economy tends naturally to restore itself to full employment on its own. Regarded widely as the ... Read more

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  • CAPITAL (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Vol. 1-3: Complete Edition - Including The Communist Manifesto, Wage-Labour and Capital, & Wages, Price and Profit

    by Karl Marx, Daphne Ulwick ...
    Translated by Frederick Engels, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Eleanor Marx ...
    Capital is Karl Marx's monumental critique of political economy, a rigorous investigation into the capitalist mode of production, commodity exchange, surplus value, accumulation, and crisis. Written in a dense yet often dramatic prose, it combines philosophy, history, economics, and literary irony. Situated within nineteenth-century industrial capitalism and classical political economy, the work ... Read more

    PHP119.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Capital (Das Kapital)

    Enriched edition. Vol. 1-3: Complete Edition - Including The Communist Manifesto, Wage-Labour and Capital, & Wages, Price and Profit

    by Karl Marx, Joel Foster ...
    Translated by Frederick Engels, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Eleanor Marx ...
    Karl Marx's 'Capital' (Das Kapital) is a seminal work of political economy that delves into the complex relationship between labor, value, and capital in capitalist societies. Written in a comprehensive and analytical style, Marx explores the ways in which capitalism exploits the proletariat for the benefit of the bourgeoisie, highlighting the inherent contradictions within the system. Drawing ... Read more

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  • The Study of Organizations (RLE: Organizations)

    by David Dunkerley ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Organizations
    In this introduction for undergraduate students, the author surveys the development of the study of organizations from an historical point of view. He studies organizations within the framework of the main schools of thought, looks into the various levels of analysis involved, and considers the influence of the environment on the organization, particularly that of technology and of other ... Read more

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  • The Work of Communication

    Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism

    by Timothy Kuhn, Karen L Ashcraft, Francois Cooren ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism revolves around a two-part question: "What have work and organization become under contemporary capitalism—and how should organization studies approach them?" Changes in the texture of capitalism, heralded by social and organizational theorists alike, increasingly focus attention on ... Read more

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  • Six-Week Startup

    A step-by-step program for starting your business, making money, and achieving your goals!

    by Rhonda Abrams ...
    Written for anyone who has an idea for a business, but doesn’t know how to go about starting it, Six-Week Start-Up 4th Ed. takes readers from idea to “open-for-business.” This unique book provides in-depth coverage on business concept clarification, goal definition, money matters, market research, sales, marketing, government requirements, hiring employees, and more. Designed to keep readers on ... Read more

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  • Capital: The Process of Capitalist Production (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Critique of Political Economy, Surplus Value, Labor Exploitation, and Industrial Capitalism

    by Karl Marx, Daphne Ulwick ...
    Translated by Frederick Engels, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling ...
    Capital: The Process of Capitalist Production is Marx's monumental critique of political economy and the first volume of his analysis of capitalism's inner laws. Moving from the commodity and money to surplus value, machinery, accumulation, and primitive accumulation, the book combines rigorous economic argument, historical inquiry, philosophical dialectic, and biting literary satire. Written ... Read more

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  • Milking in the Shadows

    Migrants and Mobility in America’s Dairyland

    by Julie C. Keller ...
    Series series Inequality at Work: Perspectives on Race, Gender, Class, and Labor
    Migrant workers live in a transnational world that spans the boundaries of nation-states. Yet for undocumented workers, this world is complicated by inflexible immigration policies and the ever-present threat of enforcement. Workers labeled as “illegals” wrestle with restrictive immigration policies, evading border patrol and local police as they risk their lives to achieve economic stability for ... Read more

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  • Nursing the Nation

    Building the Nurse Labor Force

    by Jean C. Whelan ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
    Modern health care cannot exist without professional nurses. Throughout the twentieth century, there was seldom a sustained period when the supply of nurses was equal to demand. Nursing the Nation offers a historical analysis of the relationship between the development of nurse employment arrangements with patients and institutions and the appearance of nurse shortages from 1890 to 1950. The ... Read more

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  • Youth In Africa's Labor Market :

    by Garcia Marito H.; Fares Jean ...
    The authors examine the challenges facing Africa's youth in their transition from school to working life, and propose a strategy for meeting these challenges. Topics covered include the effect of education on employment and income, broadening employment opportunities, and enhancing youth capabilities. Labor is the most abundant asset of poor households in Africa. Developing this asset is therefore ... Read more

    PHP418.79

  • Inequality and the Labor Market

    The Case for Greater Competition

    Edited by Sharon Block, Benjamin H. Harris ...
    Exploring a new agenda to improve outcomes for American workersAs the United States continues to struggle with the impact of the devastating COVID-19 recession, policymakers have an opportunity to redress the competition problems in our labor markets. Making the right policy choices, however, requires a deep understanding of long-term, multidimensional problems. That will be solved only by looking ... Read more

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  • Information in the Labour Market

    Job-Worker Matching and Its Implications for Education in Ontario

    by James Davies, Glenn MacDonald ...
    Series series Heritage
    This study uses a simple model of information gathering to generate policy recommendations concerning education in Ontario, especially at the post-secondary level. The schools are viewed as helping students discover jobs matched to their abilities, and policy prescriptions are offered from that standpoint.After examining earlier economic models of education – seeing it in terms of human capital ... Read more

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  • Western capitalism in transition

    Global processes, local challenges

    Edited by Alberta Andreotti, David Benassi, Yuri Kazepov ...
    Since its emergence at the end of the seventeenth century, industrial capitalism as a specific form of social organisation has set recurrent challenges to its own persistence, and until today, it has proved to be successful to develop new ways of accumulation based on its capacity of adaptation. Is this process of transition now accelerating or reaching an end point? This book is a critical ... Read more

    PHP1,281.79

  • Man Out

    Men on the Sidelines of American Life

    by Andrew L. Yarrow ...
    The story of men who are hurting—and hurting America by their absenceMan Out describes the millions of men on the sidelines of life in the United States. Many of them have been pushed out of the mainstream because of an economy and society where the odds are stacked against them; others have chosen to be on the outskirts of twenty-first-century America. These men are disconnected from work, ... Read more

    PHP1,186.79

  • How Machines Changed Cultures : Industrial Revolution for Kids - History for Kids | Timelines of History for Kids | 6th Grade Social Studies

    by Baby Professor ...
    Read about the industrial revolution but without getting bored with all the details. This history book for kids effectively covers the major events from the early 1700s to the1900s. The choice of words have been updated specifically for sixth graders. There are images too for longer attention span. Grab a copy today. ... Read more

    PHP240.42

  • The ABC of the projectariat

    Living and working in a precarious art world

    by Kuba Szreder, Poppy Bowers ...
    Series series Whitworth Manuals
    The ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking on and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of contemporary art. It works as both a critical analysis and a practical handbook, speaking to and about the vast cohort of artistic freelancers worldwide. In an accessible ABC format, the book strikes a unique balance between the practical and the ... Read more

    PHP682.09

  • Top Dogs and Fat Cats: The Debate on High Pay

    The Debate on High Pay

    Edited by J. R. Shackleton ...
    Top pay has risen much faster than average pay in the past 20 years. Today there's widespread public concern about the apparent excesses of some pay deals in the corporate sector - although people are more forgiving of the rewards to entrepreneurs, entertainers and sports stars. This collection of essays puts various aspects of this debate under the spotlight. It looks at the role of shareholders ... Read more

    PHP596.89

  • Comment Réussir son entretien d'embauche

    avec Sérénité

    by Stéphane SYMENOUH ...
    Ce livre est fait pour vous, car il s'adresse à toutes les personnes en recherche d'emploi donc aux chômeurs, aux personnes à l'écoute du marché, aux étudiants, aux stagiaires, aux personnes en veille ou celles qui souhaitent préparer une reconversion professionnelle. Un entretien d'embauche se prépare toujours en amont et avec planification solide étape par étape, ce que vous découvrirez tout au ... Read more

    PHP289.29

  • Back to Work

    Growing with Jobs in Europe and Central Asia

    by Omar S. Arias, Carolina Sánchez-Páramo, María E. Dávalos, Indhira Santos, Erwin R. Tiongson, Carola Gruen, Natasha de Andrade Falcão, Gady Saiovici, Cesar A. Cancho ...
    Series series Europe and Central Asia Reports
    Over the last decade, significant global and regional forces including changes in technology, trade patterns, and business practices, with a steady shift in value added production and employment toward knowledge-intensive activities and services such as finance, the hospitality industry, and the retail trade, have been affecting the production and occupational structures of most developed ... Read more

    PHP1,079.39