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Trade policy and gender equality
With a range of interdisciplinary contributions and national and regional case studies, this collection offers a systematic, up-to-date evaluation of the debate relating to international trade law, policy, and gender equality. It analyses recent trade negotiations and agreements through a gender lens. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
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- 9781009363716
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- xxvii, 402 pages
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- 343.08 BAH t
Corporate memory : records and information management in the knowledge age
Corporate memory' is the body of information that an organization needs to keep for re-use. It is the active and historical information that an organization has that is worth sharing, managing and preserving to enable it to function effectively. This book is aimed at records managers and archivists, who are responsible for maintaining and managing information within an organization. It describe…
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- 32
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- 9783598440113
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- xi, 156 p
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- 658.4038 KEN c
Collective bargaining and the gig economy : a traditional tool for new busine…
This open access book investigates the role of collective bargaining in the gig economy. Despite the variety of situations covered by the term “gig economy”, collective agreements for employees and non-employees are being concluded in various countries, either at company or at branch level. Offline workers such as riders, food deliverers, drivers or providers of cleaning services are slowly…
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- 7
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- 9781509956210
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- xvi, 320p.
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- 344.40189 COL m
COVID-19, THE GLOBAL SOUTH AND THE PANDEMICS DEVELOPMENT IMPACT
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines the unique implications of the pandemic in the Global South. With international contributors from a variety of disciplines, it investigates the pandemic’s effects on development, medicine, gender (in)equality and human rights among other issues. The book’s assessment offers a discourse on the ways in which the…
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- 9781529225655
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- xv, 224p.
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- 362.1962414091724 COV m
The economics of gender in China : women, work, and the glass ceiling
China's rapid socio-economic development has achieved remarkable equalizing conditions between men and women in the aspects of health, education and labor force participation, but the glass ceiling phenomenon has become more prominent. The book develops a cross-disciplinary paradigm, with economics at its core, to better understand gender in China and women in management in the Chinese business…
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- 9781003307563
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- xi, 229p.
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- Routledge studies in gender and economics
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- 331.40951 SUN t
Well-being and mental health in the gig economy : policy perspectives on prec…
"A response is needed to the numerous issues spurred by the expansion of the gig economy, where flexible patterns of employment prevail in contrast to permanent jobs. In this context of the exponential growth of the digital economy and underlying business models the largest nationwide study of its kind into the impact of the working conditions in the UK music industry ‘Can Music Make You Sick…
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- -
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- 9781911534891
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- 39 p.
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- 650.14 ROB w
Women's choices in Europe : influence of gender on education, occupational ca…
The options women have to shape their lives have dramatically increased in the last decades, and this is true for all European countries. Changes in their societies with respect to women’s rights have been fundamental, amongst other things as a result of the women’s movement, which caused one of the greatest social revolutions of the 20th century. But considering the different starting poin…
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- 9783830977438
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- vi, 229 p. : ill
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- 305.4094 QUA w
Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers' integration in European labour markets…
This open access book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a range of European countries (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK), in the framework of EU laws and policies, have a beneficial or negative impact on the effective capacity of these countries to integrate migrants, refugees a…
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- 9783030672843
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- xi, 258p. : ill.
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- 331.62094 MIG m
Female employment and gender gaps in China
This open access book investigates female employment and the gender gap in the labor market and households during China’s economic transition period. It provides the reader with academic evidence for understanding the mechanism of female labor force participation, the determinants of the gender gap in the labor market, and the impact of policy transformation on women’s wages and employment …
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- 9789813369047
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- xix, 180p. : ill.
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- -
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- 331.40951 MA f
Canada's labour market training system
How does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and governments and economists to investigate the ways in which labour power is produced and reproduced in Canadian society. After sifting through the facts and interpretations of social scientists and go…
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- 9781771992428
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 190 pages).
- Series Title
- Open paths to enriched learning
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- 331.120971 BAR c
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