"The main thesis of the book is that the welfare state cannot have a sustainable future, given the overburdened state budget, unless it is managed by a strategic planning process. The book deals, moreover, with the new emergence of a nonprofit private sector that feeds a kind of…
Monograph on the crisis of mineral resources - analyses the historical context and current trends, examines the supply and demand domination through multinational enterprises, government policies and employment issues, includes case studies concerning petroleum resources, nickel…
"Globalization is characterized by persistent poverty and growing inequality. Conventional wisdom has it that this global poverty is residual: as globalization deepens, the poor will be lifted out of destitution. The policies of the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO echo this beli…
Historical study of race relations between African Black minority groups and White society in the UK from 1555 to 1945 - examines social implications, political aspects and legal aspects of forced labour and its subsequent abolition, and covers immigration, racial discrimination…
"Images of children starving because of environmental destruction have become an integral part of the way that Africa is perceived in the north. That is a typical signpost to the lie of the land. This book questions the reasoning behind such images." "How do environmental orthod…
Integrado perspectivas disciplinarias como la psicología, la sociología, el derecho, la administración y la historia, agrupa reflexiones vinculadas con procesos psicosociales asociados a la flexibilidad laboral contemporánea. Intentando comprender las vivencias de las personas e…
Contains 14 papers which discuss industrial labour and its management. Examines the influence of caste and social class in recruitment and the position of women industrial workers.
¿Cual seria el mejor trabajo para mi? La idea generalizada es que hay que dedicarse a aquello que realmente nos apasiona ... Sin embargo, puede no ser una buena idea. Cal Newport ha escrito este libro para desmontar esa falsa creencia; su reveladora conclusion es que lo importan…
En esta obra se presenta un manual de ejercicios eminentemente prácticos, que sirva de acompañamiento a una obra clásica como es Economía Laboral, de McConnell, Brue y Macpherson. Esta obra viene a llenar un hueco importante en el material educativo existente en el área de econo…
Explores the Netherland's recovery from the severe unemployment crisis in the early 1980s to record job growth in the 1990s. Distinguishes three policy changes to explain the "miracle": the wage restraints since the early 1980s; the reform of the social security system ten years…