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Hackby Dmitry Samarov
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 18.00Cabdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. And, undoubtedly, taxi drivers have stories to tell—of farcical local politics, of colorful passengers, of changing neighborhoods and clandestine shortcuts. No one knows a city’s streets—and thus its heart—better than its cabdrivers. And from behind the wheel of his taxi, Dmitry Samarov has seen more of Chicago than most Chicagoans will hope to experience in a lifetime. An artist and painter trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Samarov began driving a cab in 1993 to make ends meet, and he’s... more...
Social Approaches to an Industrial Pastby A. Bernard Knapp; Vincent C. Pigott; Eugenia W. Herbert
Routledge 1998; US$ 140.00Social Approaches to an Industrial Past is a pioneering collection which addresses the social context of mining communities. This collection considers social context using ethnographic and ethnohistoric records of various cultures. more...
HRM, Technical Workers and the Multinational Corporationby Patrick McGovern
Routledge 1998; US$ 208.00This book is the first in-depth study of the impact of contemporary management practices on a rapidly expanding set of white-collar occupations, namely technical workers. more...
Working in the Service Sectorby Gerhard Bosch; Steffen Lehndorff
Routledge 2005; US$ 200.00Is more growth in the service sector possible without an expanding manufactoring sector? How great is the need for low-skill, low-paid jobs in the provision of services to households? These and many other questions are addressed in this book. more...
Management, Labour Process and Software Developmentby Rowena Barrett
Routledge 2005; US$ 188.00Research from Australia, Europe, and the UK is used to examine the differences between the image and reality of work in the software development industry and to provide an analysis of software development and developers. more...
Japanese Company in Crisisby Fiona Graham
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 180.00This book examines the attitudes of Japanese employees towards their work, their company and related issues at a time when the established order and established attitudes were under threat. more...
Troubled Watersby Ruth Balint
Allen & Unwin 2002; US$ 19.62The joint-winner of the 2003 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award - a lucid account of Australia's relationship with the Timor Sea, with Indonesian fishermen, with the relationship between those Island people and the Aboriginal communities of north-west Australia. more...
Gender, Work And Tourismby M. Thea Sinclair
Routledge 1996; US$ 59.95Tourism is the world's third largest industry, employing high numbers of women in industrialized and developing countries. Gender, Work and Tourism examines the central role played by women in the tourism industry. It discusses the nature of their work and the ways in which tourism creates tensions between the attitude and conduct of tourists and the beliefs and behavior of local women. By studying a range of tourist destinations across the world, it demonstrates how women have been excluded from some occupations and how their work in others is associated with ideologies of gender and social sexuality. Gender, Work and Tourism examines the segmentation of tourism work in Northern Cyprus, women's and men's work in Bali and the division of... more...
Nine Months at Ground Zeroby Glenn Stout; Charles Vitchers; Robert Gray; Joel Meyerowitz
Simon & Schuster 2006; US$ 13.99Hours after two airplanes hit the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, Charlie Vitchers, a construction superintendent, and Bobby Gray, a crane operator, headed downtown. They knew their skills would be crucial amid the chaos and destruction after the towers fell. What they could not imagine -- and what they would soon discover -- was the enormity of the task at Ground Zero. Four hundred million pounds of steel; 600,000 square feet of broken glass; and 2,700 vertical feet of building had been reduced to a pile of burning debris covering sixteen acres. Charlie, Bobby, and hundreds of other construction workers, many of whom had helped to build the Twin Towers, were the only ones qualified to safely handle the devastation.... more...
Mill Familyby Cathy L. McHugh
Oxford University Press 1988; US$ 125.00Examines the role of the family labour system in the early evolution of the post-bellum Southern cotton textile industry. more...