The Leading eBooks Store Online

for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...

New to eBooks.com?

Learn more
Browse our categories
  • Bestsellers - This Week
  • Foreign Language Study
  • Pets
  • Bestsellers - Last 6 months
  • Games
  • Philosophy
  • Archaeology
  • Gardening
  • Photography
  • Architecture
  • Graphic Books
  • Poetry
  • Art
  • Health & Fitness
  • Political Science
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • History
  • Psychology & Psychiatry
  • Body Mind & Spirit
  • House & Home
  • Reference
  • Business & Economics
  • Humor
  • Religion
  • Children's & Young Adult Fiction
  • Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Romance
  • Computers
  • Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Science
  • Crafts & Hobbies
  • Law
  • Science Fiction
  • Current Events
  • Literary Collections
  • Self-Help
  • Drama
  • Literary Criticism
  • Sex
  • Education
  • Literary Fiction
  • Social Science
  • The Environment
  • Mathematics
  • Sports & Recreation
  • Family & Relationships
  • Media
  • Study Aids
  • Fantasy
  • Medical
  • Technology
  • Fiction
  • Music
  • Transportation
  • Folklore & Mythology
  • Nature
  • Travel
  • Food and Wine
  • Performing Arts
  • True Crime
  • Foreign Language Books

Most popular at the top

  • Fehlzeiten-Report 2006by Bernhard Badura; Henner Schellschmidt; Christian Vetter

    Springer 2007; US$ 47.99

    Der "Fehlzeiten-Report" wird vom Wissenschaftlichen Institut der AOK (WIdO) in Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Bielefeld herausgegeben. Jedes Jahr informiert er umfassend über die aktuelle Krankenstandsentwicklung in der deutschen Wirtschaft. Detailliert beleuchtet er das Arbeitsunfähigkeitsgeschehen einzelner Branchen und der wichtigsten Berufsgruppen.... more...

  • Flexible Organizations and the New Working Lifeby Egil J. Skorstad; Helge Ramsdal

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 114.95

    What are we actually talking about when we talk of flexibility in organizational settings? Do flexible forms of organization lead to varied, challenging and autonomous work or do they have a negative impact on working conditions? These questions are confronted by a group of specialist authors, who discuss the concept of flexibility in relation to employment... more...

  • The Flexible Workplaceby Christine Avery; Diane Zabel

    ABC-CLIO 2000; US$ 155.00

    Flextime, telecommuting, compressed work week, job sharing, downshifting, and hot desking—these terms are infiltrating our vocabulary at an increasing rate, keeping pace with change in the workplace. Although there is a large body of literature on the changing nature of work and workplace flexibility, there is no handbook that synthesizes the... more...

  • Half A Jobby Chris Tilly

    Temple University Press 2010; US$ 31.95

    An up-to-date and in-depth analysis of a disquieting trend in the U.S. labor market more...

  • Labor's Timeby Jonathan Cutler

    Temple University Press 2008; US$ 27.95

    The movement for a shorter workweek that once defined the labor movement in the United States was largely displaced by the new corporatist structure of organized labor in the post-New Deal era. Labor's Time examines the changes that occurred within organized labor and traces their influence on the decline of the shorter hours movement. Focusing... more...

  • Non-standard Employment under Globalizationby Koichi Usami

    Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 110.00

    Expansion of non-standard employment under globalization is widely observed in all of the newly industrializing countries. This book explores the deregulation of labour markets, social protection for nonstandard workers, and social security reforms in accordance with the transformation of employment. more...

  • Work Without Endby Benjamin Hunnicutt

    Temple University Press 2010; US$ 25.95

    "An extraordinarily informative scholarly history of the debate over working hours from 1920 to 1940." --New York Times Book Review For more than a century preceding the Great Depression, work hours were steadily reduced. Intellectuals, labor leaders, politicians, and workers saw this reduction in work as authentic progress and the resulting... more...

  • Reducing Workweeksby Fred Best

    Temple University Press 2010; US$ 69.50

    Economic and human impact of reduced workweeks on employers, employees, governments, and the economy more...

  • Nightshift NYCby Russell Leigh Sharman; Cheryl Harris Sharman; Corey Hayes

    University of California Press 2008; US$ 30.00

    New York is the city that never sleeps. This luminous book peels back the cover of darkness over the city as it hums along in the night, revealing a hidden world populated by the thousands of women and men who work and live the nightshift. Written with beauty and grace, Nightshift NYC weaves together cultural critique, vivid reportage, and arresting... more...

  • Work Smarter: Live Betterby Cyril Peupion

    Port Campbell Press 2011; US$ 14.99

    Most people have never been taught how to work. We are committed to our job and want to be good at what we do. We are neither lazy nor unwilling. But we do not always work effectively - we work hard but not always smart. To increase performance many people believe they need to do more. We spend less time with our loved ones, neglect our health and... more...