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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

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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

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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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  • 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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  • 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 Rise and Fall of the Toronto Typographical Union, 1832-1972

    A Case Study of Foreign Domination

    by Sally Zerker ...
    Series series Heritage
    A meeting of twenty-four journeymen printers at the York Hotel in Toronto in 1832 marked the birth of Canada’s earliest and still continuing labour organization. This case study of the printers of Toronto traces the development of the union which began as the Toronto Typographical Society. Through a close examination of this Canadian local’s relations with its eventual parent organization in the ... Read more

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  • Know Your Rights

    Employment and Family Rights

    by Andrew McCann ...
    Know Your Rights: Employment and Family brings together the most up-to-date information on: Family law, including the Civil Partnership Act, from marriage to divorce; adoption to guardianship; sale of the family home to wills and inheritance; domestic violence to custody. The rights of the employee and the employer, including terms of employment, notice periods, redundancy, unfair dismissal, ... Read more

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  • Easy Living

    The Rise of the Home Office

    by Elizabeth A Patton ...
    How did Americans come to believe that working at home is feasible, productive, and desirable? Easy Living examines how the idea of working within the home was constructed and disseminated in popular culture and mass media during the twentieth century. Through the analysis of national magazines and newspapers, television and film, and marketing and advertising materials from the housing, ... Read more

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  • China's Rural Labor Migration And Its Economic Development

    by Xiaoguang Liu ...
    Series Book 20 - Series On Chinese Economics Research
    The continuous migration of rural labor to cities has changed the fundamental characteristics of China's labor market, profoundly affected the country's investments, savings, technological progress and economic cycle fluctuation, and more importantly, the rapid development of non-agricultural industries. Though the significant changes in China's labor market has played a vital role in the country ... Read more

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  • International Migration and Development in East Asia and the Pacific

    by Ahmad Ahsan, Manolo Abella, Andrew Beath, Yukon Huang, Manjula Luthria, Trang Van Nguyen ...
    The East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region has an international emigrant population of more than 21 million people who remitted US$112 billion to their home countries in 2013. The region also hosts more than 7 million migrant workers, mostly from other Asian countries. These migrant workers account for 20 percent or more of the labor force in economies such as Malaysia and Singapore and thus play a ... Read more

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  • SECRETS OF THE PROSPERITY

    by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA ...
    (A5, 134 P.) - "Secrets of the Prosperity" is a work of financial education, liberating, to the extent that, at the same time addresses historically the catastrophic nature of the processes of socioeconomic exclusion, produced by ethics of imperialist capital, teaches us to create tools to  overcome it without, however, contribute to the increase of the same exclusion.  In other words, while many ... Read more

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  • Labour Economics And Public Policy: Managing The Labour Markets For Competitiveness

    by Soon Beng Chew ...
    This book serves as a textbook on labour economics and public policy in labour markets.It also shows how Singapore has been successful in establishing a world class labour market. One attribute of such a labour market is the high purchasing power of wages for the average worker for essentials such as housing, healthcare, quality education for children and retirement consumption, which motivates ... Read more

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  • Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Deon Filmer, Louise Fox ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    High fertility and declining mortality rates have led to a very young population in most Sub-Saharan African countries. The region?s labor force is expected to increase by 11 million people per year over the next 10 years. Most of this increase will be new entrants seeking their first job. While the younger generation is better educated than their parents, they often lack the means to translate ... Read more

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  • Sourcebook on the Foundations of Social Protection Delivery Systems

    Edited by Kathy Lindert, Tina George Karippacheril, Inés Rodríguez Caillava, Nishikawa Chávez ...
    The Sourcebook on the Foundations of Social Protection Delivery Systems synthesizes real-world experiences and lessons learned of social protection delivery systems from around the globe. It takes a broad view of social protection, covering various intended populations such as poor or low-income families, unemployed workers, persons with disabilities, and individuals facing social risks. It ... Read more

    PHP1,734.19

  • The Writers

    A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild

    by Miranda J. Banks ...
    The Writers is the only comprehensive qualitative analysis of the history of writers and writing in the film, television, and streaming media industries in America. Featuring in-depth interviews with over fifty writers—including Mel Brooks, Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, and Frank Pierson—The Writers delivers a compelling, behind-the-scenes look at the role and rights of writers in Hollywood and New ... Read more

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  • Writing Labour

    Stone Quarry Workers in Delhi

    by Mohammad Talib ...
    In most globalizing economies, workers engaged in the informal sector occupy the lowest rungs of society. This book examines one such group—stone quarry workers located beyond the expanding rim of south Delhi and beneath the radar of effective law and policy. Drawing upon extensive case studies and personal narratives of this labouring class, Talib focuses on their inner world and interprets their ... Read more

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  • World Development Report 2014

    Risk and Opportunity - Managing Risk for Development

    by World Bank ...
    Series series World Development Report
    The last 25 years have witnessed unprecedented changes around the world—many of them for the better. In all continents, numerous countries have embarked on a path of international integration, economic reform, technological modernization, and democratic participation. As result, economies that had been stagnant for decades are growing, people who had suffered deprivation for generations are ... Read more

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