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The Challenge of Transition
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00This book explores the transformation of employment relations, the rise of worker protest and the reform of trade union practice to ask how successfully the state-socialist trade unions have adapted to their new role of representing the rights and interests of workers. more...
Illegal People
Beacon Press 2008; US$ 18.00For two decades veteran photojournalist David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. In Illegal People Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people in Latin America and Asia, driving them to migrate. At the same time, U.S. immigration policy makes the labor... more...
Managing People at Work
SAGE India 2010; US$ 69.95Tremendous changes in global and national economic environments have led to transformations in employment relations and human resource management systems in India. As an emerging economy, studying the employment systems in India assumes unprecedented importance for governments and corporations alike. This book examines the changes in employment relations... more...
ASEAN Industries and the Challenge from China
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 95.00This book explores the impact of the rise of China on South East Asia, addressing the consequences for some of Asia's key economic sectors, including educational services, bio-technology, financial services, and the food industry, among others. more...
Shakedown
Ivan R. Dee 2010; US$ 22.50As their infatuation with President Obama fades, millions of Americans anxiously ask, Is this the change we were waiting for? The current administration represents change, for sure, Steven Malanga argues - a momentous transformation of the fundamental structure of American politics. A self-interested coalition of public-sector unions and government-financed... more...
Can the World Be Governed?
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2008; US$ 44.95In this book, leading international relations experts and practitioners examine through theory and case study the prospect for successful multilateral management of the global economy and international security. In the theory section contributors tackle the big questions: Why is there an apparent rising tide of calls for reform of current multilateral... more...
Labor Migration from China to Japan
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 125.00Chinese students are the largest international student population in the world, and Japan attracts more of them than any other country. Since the mid-1980s when China opened the door to let private citizens out and Japan began to let more foreigners in, over 300 thousand Chinese have arrived in Japan as students. Student migrants are the most visible,... more...
The Labour Revolution (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95First published in English in 1924 this ambitious work, by the famous Marxist theoretician Karl Kautsky, aims to provide nothing less than an "exposition of the methods to introduce socialism" amongst the capitalist economies of Europe in the post-World War One era. Looking back on the experiences of the German socialist movement and looking forwards... more...
Generic Inference
Wiley 2011; US$ 115.00This book provides a rigorous algebraic study of the most popular inference formalisms with a special focus on their wide application area, showing that all these tasks can be performed by a single generic inference algorithm. Written by the leading international authority on the topic, it includes an algebraic perspective (study of the valuation algebra... more...
Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011; US$ 124.95This volume contains seven distinctive papers that explore important aspects of contemporary employment relationships. As a set, these papers are in keeping with the traditions of AILR which are to offer global perspectives on employment relationships, draw knowledge from wherever it is forthcoming and relevant, represent a mix of disciplinary perspectives,... more...









