Looking at the uses and abuses of high-talent manpower in the United States, Dael Wolfle analyzes the ways in which this country produces, distributes, and utilizes its vital human resources.
This thought-provoking study of academic job markets over the next quarter century uses rigorous analysis to project substantial excess demand for faculty starting in the 1997-2002 period.
Der Klimawandel und die Wohnungsnot prägen die Stadtentwicklungspolitik auf internationaler, europäischer, nationaler und kommunaler Ebene wie kaum ein anderes Themenpaar.
Der Klimawandel und die Wohnungsnot prägen die Stadtentwicklungspolitik auf internationaler, europäischer, nationaler und kommunaler Ebene wie kaum ein anderes Themenpaar.
In studying the impact of industry on class organization, social scientists have assumed that the effects of technological advance increase with time and that, as technology molds, dehumanizes, and alienates workers, the pressure mounts to change the system through political action.
Although observers of the Pakistani economy are well aware that a small number of family groups, popularly called "e;the twenty-two families,"e; dominates the industrial structure of the country, the actual effects of this concentration of economic power on income distribution and on other areas of widespread social and political concern arc less well understood.
This study explains how businessmen in the German iron and steel industry managed their enterprises, dealt with their customers, and acted in their relations with state and society during a period of war, revolution, and economic crisis.
More than seventy years since the Bolsheviks came to power, there is still no comprehensive study of workers' activism in history's first successful workers' revolution.
El turismo es uno de los sectores con mayor importancia en la economia espanola desde la decada de los cincuenta y ha contribuido en buena medida desde entonces al crecimiento y la modernizacion economica del pais.
To mark the 20th anniversary of Kenneth Williams' death, a beautiful coffee table book celebrating his life, including never-before-seen photographs, sketches and personal testimony from Williams' closest friends, for the very first time.
Through careful consideration of the mutually plausible yet conflicting arguments on both sides of the issue, Alan Goldman attempts to derive a morally consistent position on the justice (or injustice) of reverse discrimination.
A collection of 120 fish and shellfish dishes, all made using accessible yet sustainable fish - from salmon and trout to bream and bass to mussels and crayfish.
Jane Collins explores a phenomenon of growing importance in developing nations--the labor scarcity that emerges as farmers in Latin America and elsewhere are forced by economic necessity to seek seasonal work away from their home communities.
Gary Gereffi first explains how foreign corporations took over the flourishing Mexican steroid industry in the 1950s and 1960s and thwarted the country's later attempts to establish a more equitable distribution of industry benefits.
The recent prominence of global tectonics has been as spectacular as it has been promissory of ramifications throughout established geological thought.
Eric Schiff analyzes two countries, widely known for their sophisticated industrial development, that are unique in having had no national patent protection for appreciable periods in their recent history.
During the past eight decades French vineyards, wineries, and wine marketing efforts have undergone such profound changes--from technological, scientific, economic, and commercial standpoints--that the transformation is revolutionary for an industry dating back thousands of years.
Eric Davis challenges classic theories of dependency and imperialism and explains the history of the Bank Misr by interrelating world market forces, Egyptian class structure, and the Egyptian nationalist movement and state apparatus.
In 2001, Kenneth Deffeyes made a grim prediction: world oil production would reach a peak within the next decade--and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it.
While most standard economic models of international trade assume full employment, Carl Davidson and Steven Matusz have argued over the past two decades that this reliance on full-employment modeling is misleading and ill-equipped to tackle many important trade-related questions.
For fifty years, Britain made the best toy cars in the world, expertly shrinking every kind of reallife vehicle and producing them in their countless, die-cast millions.
Was passiert, wenn ein hochgiftiges Insektizid, das eigentlich zur Bekämpfung von Flöhen bei Hunden und Katzen gedacht ist, heimlich und illegal in europäischen Legehennenbetrieben versprüht wird?
The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for EveryoneMicrosoft's CEO tells the inside story of the company's continuing transformation, while tracing his own journey from a childhood in India to leading some of the most significant changes of the digital era.
Few observers of Mexico and Brazil in the 1930s, or South Korea and Taiwan in the mid-1950s, would have predicted that these nations would become economic "e;miracles"e; several decades later.
The Japan Teachers' Union, which represents 500,000 elementary and lower secondary school teachers, is an important interest group in Japanese politics.
In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike.
'A powerful voice for things that matter' JAMES REBANKS'Absolutely brilliant' JEREMY CLARKSON'A must-read' JAMIE OLIVERThe first female president of the National Farmers Union in its 109-year history tells the story of how she fought tooth and nail for British farms through some of the country's most tumultuous years and what we need to do next.
The rise of Hollywood's data and algorithm specialists and their growing influence on creative decisionsIn Hollywood today, thousands of data specialists work for streaming video platforms, playing a role not just in distribution and marketing but also in decisions about content and production.
