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1. Migrant Politics and Mobilisation: Exclusion, Engagements, Incorporation

   By Davide Pero

   Edited by John Solomos

   In recent years immigration and the integration of migrants and minorities have become politicised in public and policy debates in Britain, the rest of Europe and the United States. In such debates, migrants are commonly treated as objects of politics and spoken in terms of management, national...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-58403-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Retirement, Work and Pensions in Ageing Korea

   Edited by Jae-Jin Yang, Thomas Klassen

   Even among the four Asian tigers, with their economic miracles during the past several decades that allowed them to join the ranks of the developed nations, South Korea is extraordinary. As significant as its economic progress, from a dirt poor and devastated nation in the 1960s, is South Korea’s...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-55172-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Economic Justice, Labor and Community Practice

   Edited by Louise Simmons, Scott Harding

   Facing economic upheaval and growing inequality, people in local communities are fighting for economic justice. Coalitions from labor, grassroots community organizations, the faith community, immigrant communities and other progressive forces are emerging across the U.S. and Canada and winning...

   September 2009 | 978-0-415-55975-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. The Handbook of European Welfare Systems

   Edited by Klaus Schubert, Simon Hegelich, Ursula Bazant

   This book provides the first comprehensive information and detailed data on the welfare systems of all twenty-seven EU member states and offers the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research. The introductory chapter summarizes the actual debate about...

   June 2009 | 978-0-415-48275-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Women, Employment and Organizations

   By Judith Glover, Gill Kirton

   This book brings together the latest European and North American research on a series of key topics in the field of women's employment. Drawing on published and easily accessible statistics, it sets the topics in the appropriate policy contexts and systematically appraises them from the viewpoint...

   2006 | 978-0-415-32839-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation

   Edited by Ching Kwan Lee

   After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global economy. Its immense labour force accounts for some twenty-nine per cent of the world's total labour pool but all too little is known about Chinese labour...

   2006 | 978-0-415-77000-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Facing Up to the Constancy of Organizational Change: Further Insights and Approaches to Solutions: A Special Issue of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

   Edited by Doris Fay, Harald Lührmann

   The game goes on. The pressure on organizations for continuous change, in order to adapt to shifts in market structure, to deregulation or legal initiatives and to quickly grasp evolving opportunities has not reduced on the contrary, it has increased with progressing globalization and competition....

   2004 | 978-1-84169-974-5 | Paperback (Psychology Press)
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   Work and Organizational Psychology: An Introduction with Attitude

   By Christine Doyle

   In this unique text, Christine Doyle provides the student with a cutting-edge introduction to the field of work and organizational psychology. The main focus is on recent changes that have occurred in the world of work, incorporating their causes, consequences, proposed solutions to the associated...

   2002 | 978-0-415-20872-7 | Paperback (Routledge)