Overqualified Labourer

Overqualified Labourer
Author: Obi Orakwue
Publisher: Obrake Books - (Obrake Cana
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2007-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780978270353

The Culture of the New Capitalism

The Culture of the New Capitalism
Author: Richard Sennett
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780300119923

About the industrial nature of capitalism.

The Oxford Handbook of Skills and Training

The Oxford Handbook of Skills and Training
Author: Chris Warhurst
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 769
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199655367

Skills and workforce development are at the heart of much research on work, employment, and management. But are they so important? To what extent can they make a difference for individuals, organizations, and nations? How are the supply and, more importantly, the utilization of skill, currently evolving? What are the key factors shaping skills trajectories of the future? This Handbook provides an authoritative consideration of issues such as these. It does so by drawing on experts in a wide range of disciplines including sociology, economics, labour/industrial relations, human resource management, education, and geography. The Handbook is relevant for all with an interest in the changing nature - and future - of work, employment, and management. It draws on the latest scholarly insights to shed new light on all the major issues concerning skills and training today. While written primarily by leading scholars in the field, it is equally relevant to policy makers and practitioners responsible for shaping the development of human capability today and into the future.

Back Pain

Back Pain
Author: Andrew J. Haig
Publisher: ACP Press
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2005
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1930513593

Back pain is a complex tangle of social, psychological, physical, and medical factors that frustrates disease-orientated physicians and excites physical medicine and rehabilitation types. For this problem, "diagnosis-treat-cure" is supplanted by rehab strategies to minimize impairment, disability, and handicap. Physical medicine approaches to cure and rehabilitation approaches to quality of life are centerpieces of back pain management. The newest volume in the ACP Key Diseases series, Back Pain presents 40 chapters of vital information divided into five sections: Back Pain Basics; Acute, Subacute, and Chronic Back Pain; and Special Issues, including pregnant and elderly patients, and athletes and younger patients. Clinicians will find this an invaluable resource for successful back pain therapy.

Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics

Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics
Author: Kevin D. Hoover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 941
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521763886

A complete course in applied macroeconomics at the intermediate level that emphasizes the application of economic theory to real-world data and policy.

How May I Help You?

How May I Help You?
Author: Deepak Singh
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2017-02-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0520293304

In a work that is both moving and insightful, Deepak Singh chronicles his downward mobility as an immigrant to a small town in Virginia. Armed with an MBA from India, Singh could only get a minimum wage job in an electronics store in a strip mall. Every day at work he confronted unfamiliar American mores—from strange idioms to deeply entrenched racism to open expressions of sexuality. Story-by-story, Singh offers a portrait of America by an educated, if initially credulous, outsider. Through his unique lens, he learns about his colleagues and their struggles—Ron, a middle-aged African American man, simply trying to keep his job, house, and marriage intact despite health concerns; Jackie, a young African American woman trying to go to school after work; and Cindy, Deepak’s boss, whose matter-of-fact way of dealing with her employees helps Deepak to adapt to both his job and life in the U.S. Candid and evocative, How May I Help You? is a powerful reminder that service and other low-wage workers are complex and inspiring in their dogged efforts to remain afloat. Their rich stories serve as a chance to humanize debates about work, race, and immigration. How May I Help You? is an incisive take on the United States, familiar and strange, from the perspective of someone “fresh off the plane.”

HRM, Technical Workers and the Multinational Corporation

HRM, Technical Workers and the Multinational Corporation
Author: Patrick McGovern
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134667833

This book is the first major in-depth study of the impact of contemporary management practices on a rapidly expanding set of white-collar occupations, namely technical workers. It investigates whether HRM schemes such as employee appraisals and performance related pay have transformed technical work to such an extent that it can no longer be described as a 'service contract'. The book contains detailed examination of the nature of managerial control over employees who, by virtue of their committment, present their employers with problems that are often ignored by prescriptive models of HRM. The empirical evidence features case studies of matched pairs of hi-tech firms in the Irish Republic. The author examines recent debates about the nature of employment and the role of the multinational corporations within the so-called 'Celtic Tiger' Irish economy.

Warren Mundine in Black + White

Warren Mundine in Black + White
Author: Warren Mundine
Publisher: Pantera Press
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2018-07-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1925700003

"One of this country's most important writers on the vexed and sensitive issues of black and white Australia, politics and race" – Caroline Overington."Warren's a fighter... He looked at Lionel Rose – our greatest champion – through the eyes of a boy and learnt the greatest lesson of our lives: stay on your feet." – Stan Grant.One of eleven children in a poor Catholic family, Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO has been on a remarkable journey that could have taken a very different turn for a young boy growing up as second-class citizen in the segregated Australia of the 1950s. From his early life in country NSW, with only one pair of shoes and a single bed shared with three of his brothers, to today where he frequents the highest echelons of power and business, In Black+White is a stirring story of an Indigenous life woven into the very fabric of Australia and its politics.In this honest and unflinching memoir, Mundine talks about his personal hardships from growing up in poverty and facing racism, to his personal battle with depression and suicide. One of the most controversial personalities in today's political spectrum, Mundine also includes surprising insights into key political leaders he has worked with including Malcolm Turnbull, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott, Peta Credlin, Mark Latham, Jenny Macklin, and Sam Dastyari.Included in this updated edition are two new chapters in which Mundine shares his passion for work and empowering those trapped in the welfare cycle. Drawing from personal experience, Mundine believes poverty is not just about money but about deprivation of basic needs like employment, lack of purpose and aspiration, and lack of autonomy and independence.