By Robert Fitzgerald
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1988, this book examines company provision of welfare in the century preceding the Second World War, a period of enormous change in the structure and organisation of British industry and management. The creation of large-scale, corporate companies increased the need for ...
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By John Oxenham
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1984, this book investigates the validity of educational qualifications: how they are determined, what justifications exist for them and how they change. It examines the assumption linking education and productivity and explores the belief that the ways in which scholastic ...
By James Fry
September 18, 2024
Zambia is one African country which has evolved from being a classic example of a colonial economy to become an independent state with a large export enclave. The economy has had to face structural problems that have at one time or another, characterised other African economies. This study ...
By H. Powys Greenwood
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1936 during the Great Depression this book analyses the efforts of the British Government to relieve the rampant unemployment in the most distressed areas and discusses why these efforts were ineffective. The book put forward a number of proposals to help ease unemployment ...
By Bikas C. Sanyal
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1987, this book focusses on the relationship between higher education and employment and is based on 21 national case studies. The countries discussed are Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Egypt, Germany, Malaysia, Pakistan, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Philippines, ...
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By Rob Fiddy
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1983, this book promotes understanding of the provision for the young unemployed in Britain in the 1980s, both in policy and practice, through a series of research-based papers. Various strategies are analyzed which were available to policy makers. The place of black youth ...
By D I Mackay, David Boddy, J. Brack, J. A. Diack, N. Jones
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1971, this wide-ranging study illuminates many crucial wage and employment issues by examining the operation of local labour markets and by testing labour market theory against the observed behaviour of employers and employees in different labour market environments. It is ...
By Chris Moore, J.J. Richardson, Jeremy Moon
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1989, this study provides an informed and critical analysis of local partnerships between the private and public sectors in response to the unemployment problems. Until this book was published, there had been little objective analysis of the workings of the local partnership...
By Hilda R. Kahn
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1964, at a time of much public unease regarding redundancy, this book contains the results of a comprehensive survey, inspired by a suggestion of the then Minister of Labour that the mass redundancies in the Midlands motor industry of 1956 merited a full-scale investigation....
By Various Authors
September 18, 2024
Originally published between 1923 and 1989, the 21 volumes in this set examine the politics, economics, sociology and psychology of (un)employment during the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries, including during the periods of recession in the 1930s and 1980s. The volumes: · Provide information ...
By Ian Hodge, Martin Whitby
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1981, the main thesis of this book is that rural labour markets are at the core of the problem of rural depopulation in development countries. Therefore, the success or failure of policies seeking to moderate the process of population decline is linked to the policy maker’s ...
By Hilda R. Kahn
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1964, at a time of much public unease regarding redundancy, this book contains the results of a comprehensive survey, inspired by a suggestion of the then Minister of Labour that the mass redundancies in the Midlands motor industry of 1956 merited a full-scale investigation....