Workers – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

Ran Liu

Urban Village Redevelopment in Beijing, China

The book provides a multi-stage assessment of the changing housing opportunities of migrant workers in the three stages of Beijing's urban village development (emergence, erasure and preservation). The vo…

Eric Coates (1886-1957)

The Definitive Eric Coates - Eric Coates conducts his own Compositions

Sigurd Rascher, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Light Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, Eric Coates and his Concert Orch…

Peter L Twohig

The Labour of Care

The Labour of Care is the first national, comparative history of health care work. In this book, historian Peter L. Twohig analyses the responses of governments, employers, professional groups, training p…

Eileen Yuk-Ha Tsang

Unlocking the Red Closet

An inside look at the lives of gay male and transgender sex workers in China In Unlocking the Red Closet , Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang takes us to an upscale gay bar in the port city of Tianjin in Northeastern Ch…

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

The Trafficker Next Door

"Kaya mo ba?" Can you take it? An instructor asks this of a group of migrant workers in the Philippines, as they prepare for domestic work in wealthier countries. Can you take the grueling work?…

Michael Lynn

The Psychology of Tipping

Consumers around the world often give voluntary sums of money (called tips) to service providers after those workers have served them. There are no good measures of how much is tipped worldwide, but total…

Technology and Work in Services

Automation in industrial sectors is already a well-developed topic in management, economics, and sociology literature. By contrast, this short contributed volume sheds new lights on the process of automat…

Siyuan Yin

Contesting Inequalities

After four decades of market reform, China has developed a fast-growing, prosperous economy--the second largest in the world. Despite this prosperity, social inequality has persisted and expanded, particu…

Aaron Goings

Red Harbor

Brings to life Grays Harbor's fiery legacy of class conflictIn the early decades of the twentieth century, Grays Harbor was the Lumber Capital of the World. While thousands of lumber and maritime workers …

The Electric Family

Terra Circus (Limited-Edition)

1996 von Tom »The Perc« Redecker anlässlich eines geplanten Auftritts im Rahmen des Burg-Herzberg-Festivals ursprünglich als reines (einmaliges) Live-Projekt ins Leben gerufen, entwickelte sich The Electr…

Siyuan Yin

Contesting Inequalities

After four decades of market reform, China has developed a fast-growing, prosperous economy--the second largest in the world. Despite this prosperity, social inequality has persisted and expanded, particu…

Amanda Preston, Lisa Schelbe

Foster Parent Collaboration

Foster Parent Collaboration: A Guide for Social Workers and Other Professionals presents information about the crises in the foster care system and identified a strategy for meaningful change--social work…

Shaun Richman

We Always Had a Union

"One of New York City's most powerful unions, the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, AFL-CIO, represents almost 40,000 workers. Shaun Richman's history places the labor organization within the context …

Drew Sarich

Wishes & Wonders

Der bekannte Musical-Star DREW SARICH (»Rocky«, »Tanz Der Vampire«, »Der Glöckner Von Notre-Dame«) wusste bereits auf seinen beiden Vorgängeralben mit seiner markanten Stimme und ausgefeilten Arrangements…

Di Di

Divine Meets Digital

What role does religion play in the tech industry? Based on nearly one hundred interviews, Divine Meets Digitaluncovers the ways tech workers engage with religion and make sense of their work through reli…

Sufjan Stevens

Illinois

Product Information Following the 2003 collection of songs for his home state, "Michigan," Stevens presents an emphatic answer to the question: Can a songwriter express the spirit of a state he's never …

Di Di

Divine Meets Digital

What role does religion play in the tech industry? Based on nearly one hundred interviews, Divine Meets Digitaluncovers the ways tech workers engage with religion and make sense of their work through reli…

Joe Barrett

A Fight for Justice

In April 2006, 42 Latin Americans landed in Vancouver to excavate tunnels for the Canada Line Skytrain. They thought they'd won the lottery with promised wages far above what they would earn at home. But …

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