"Drawing on data from a Europe wide project, together with existing data on equality and diversity initiatives, this book explores the work of trade unions in supporting equality and anti-discrimination policies across Europe and, in particular, the processes and collaborations …
Being laid off can be a traumatic event. The unemployed worry about how they will pay their bills and find a new job. In the American economy's boom-and-bust business cycle since the 1980s, repeated layoffs have become part of working life. In A company of one, Carrie M. Lane fi…
First published in 1930 this analysis of Germany's emerging salaried class reveals how, in a very short period, the masses embraced Nazism. They eschewed the old society that previously sought pleasure in a range of social distractions.
Pressures associated with globalisation of markets, exacerbated by the 'credit crunch', have placed pressure on many nation states to make their labour markets more 'flexible'. In so doing, many states have sought to reduce labour standards and to diminish the influence of trade…
In der vorliegenden Untersuchung werden Menschen beschrieben, die in ihrer Mehrheit zu den sogenannt "kleinen Leuten" zählen. Dabei geht es um ganz unterschiedliche Dinge: um ihre Biographie und ihren Alltag, um ihre Vorlieben und Wünsche wie um ihre Sichtweise von sich und der …