“rubery jill”

The rapid pace of industrial restructuring and the emergence of new employment policies have focused attention on the role of employers in determining the quantity and quality of employment. This book draws on important new data from the ESRC's Social Change and Economic Life Initiative to test, mod... More

"The Organization of Employment" explores the diversity in the organization of employment among advanced industrial societies. In particular, it focuses on the implications of distinctive employment systems for international competitiveness, organizational performance, and social divisions and consi... More

This book examines the far-reaching changes in gender relations in all fifteen member states of the European Union. Looking at women's labor in the 1990s, the book analyzes trends in terms of changes which have taken place in international and national economies, within enterprises, and in the behav... More

This book looks at how large organizations have managed and adapted to changing conditions of employment shaped by the recent economic and political environment. Additional data are presented based on evidence from other significant actors such as agency employment firms and trade unions. The book a... More

This major new book examines the way in which employment is managed across organizational boundaries. It analyses how public-private partnerships, franchises, agencies and other forms of inter-firm contractual relations impact on work and employment and the experiences of those working in these incr... More

This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date study of the contribution of women and men to changing European economic activity patterns covering all fifteen members states. Based on the work of the European Commission's network of experts on women's employment, it draws on both national and Europe... More

If you thought Wall Street was cut-throat, wait till to you meet the Kelly bag-toting, Chanel-wearing, Bugaboo-pushing mothers of New York's Upper East Side…   When Hannah's husband Josh gets offered a job at an investment bank, she's happy to abandon their cozy West Coast life for the bri... More

Nursery rhymes have come to us from many lands. They have been told by mothers and fathers and grandparents and aunts and uncles and friends. In the United States, the rhymes are called Mother Goose Rhymes. In England, they might be called melodies. In many other parts of the world, they are called ... More