Author : Claudia Bernardi, Viola Franziska Müller, Biljana Stojić, Vilhelm Vilhelmsson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 38,33 MB
Release : 2023-05-13
Category :
ISBN : 3111137686
Author : Michael Mann
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 1973-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521087018
This book tells the story of the complete move in 1965/1966 of Alfred Bird and Sons Limited from central Birmingham to Banbury, in which a large proportion of the labour force was successfully transferred. Focusing on the relocation decision made by individual employees, the author also contributed to many varied areas of debate.
Author : Martin Schnitzer
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Labor mobility
ISBN :
Author : Kate S. Thompson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 100085552X
This book examines the psychological pressures faced by workers who migrate for short periods, exploring what it means to work in high-stress environments, often on time-limited contracts and with low levels of support; and how best to protect this kind of key worker. The text addresses three central questions. First, how we can think about the experiences of workers on the move? Second, what forms of support given by who, and when, provide the best staff care? Finally, how can appropriate and timely staff support by organisations influence the lives of workers on the move? The authors, all psychological therapists and many former international workers, offer recommendations for workers in humanitarian aid, the mission sector, international contracting and seafaring, among others, taking into account the changing world of work, and the impact on this of the Covid-19 pandemic. Psychological Support for Workers on the Move provides essential guidance to organisations posting personnel internationally, to psychological and wellbeing therapists working with them, and to individual workers themselves
Author : Martin Ruhs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0191624306
Are migrant workers needed to 'do the jobs that locals will not do' or are they simply a more exploitable labour force? Do they have a better 'work ethic' or are they less able to complain? Is migrant labour the solution to 'skills shortages' or actually part of the problem? This book provides a comprehensive framework for analysing the demand for migrant workers in high-income countries. It demonstrates how a wide range of government policies, often unrelated to migration, contribute to creating a growing demand for migrant labour. This demand can persist even during economic downturns. The book includes quantitative and qualitative analyses of the changing role of migrants in the UK economy. The empirical chapters include in-depth examinations of the nature of staff shortages and the use of migrant workers in six sectors: health; social care; hospitality; food production; construction; and financial services. The book' s conceptual framework and empirical findings are of importance to academic and policy debates about labour immigration in all high-income countries. The final chapter presents a comparative analysis of research and policy approaches to assessing labour shortages in the UK and the US. It examines the potential lessons of the UK's Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) for current debates about labour shortages and immigration reform in the US. The book will be of significant interest to policy-makers, stakeholders, academics and students.
Author : Richard Kazis
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780877667056
This book describes the challenges facing the country's working poor, drawing lessons from practice and policy to recommend approaches for helping low-wage workers advance to better-paying jobs. Part I overviews the low-wage workforce and the employers who hire them, and Part II summarizes the evidence on strategies to improve workers' skills, supplement their wages, and provide greater support. Part III focuses on challenges encountered by groups such as women and immigrants, and Part IV assesses the potential contributions of community colleges, employers, and unions. Much of this material originated at a May 2000 conference held in Washington, DC. The editors are affiliated with Jobs for the Future. c. Book News Inc.
Author : O'SULLIVAN
Publisher : McGraw Hill
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 32,52 MB
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0077147901
Ebook: Urban Economics
Author : Kate Meagher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315436477
This book addresses the question of whether greater inclusion in the global economy offers a solution to rising unemployment and poverty in contemporary Africa. The authors trace the connection between global demographic change and new mechanisms of economic inclusion via global value chains, digital networks, labour migration, and corporate engagement with the bottom of the pyramid, challenging the claim that African workers have become functionally irrelevant to the global economy. They expose the shift of global demand for African workers from formal to increasingly informalised labour arrangements, mediated by social enterprises, labour brokers, graduate entrepreneurs and grassroots associations. Focusing on global employment connections initiated from above and from below, the authors examine whether global labour linkages increase or reduce problems of vulnerable and unstable working conditions within African countries, and considers the economic and political conditions needed for African workers to capture the gains of inclusion in the global economy. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.
Author : Government Publishing Office
Publisher : Labor Department
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781601758224
This statistical supplement to the Occupational Outlook Handbook provides data to support the information presented in the Handbook. Researchers can compare over 500 occupations on factors such as employment changes, job openings, earnings, unemployment rates, and training requirements.
Author : Anisa Santoso
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315512432
ASEAN (The Association of Southeast Asian Nations) has made slow progress in defining a regional policy for the protection of migrant workers. This book examines the normative structures within the institutions at play at both state and regional level of ASEAN, which influence the making of a migrant workers' protection policy.The author puts forward a novel alternative policy analysis tool – the Two Level State and Regional Analysis – that enables satisfactory explanation for policy-making cases, whereby normative institutional structures are involved and social policies are considered. The author argues that the formulation of a working coherent migrant workers protection policy has not been achieved because of the presence of normative institutional structures with ideas unsupportive to the protection of migrant workers, which results in a slow institutionalisation process. Although the migrant workers in question are their citizens, and migrant sending countries are supposed to have more supportive normative structures for workers protection, the author finds that when examined closesly, institutions in both migrant sending and receiving countries tend to have normative structures that are against workers protection. These arguments drive the analytical questions of the book to inquire about the forms of the normative structures involved and their influence in the relevant institutions. A unique contribution to the study of ASEAN and migration in Southeast Asia, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of Social Policy, Migration Studies and Asian Studies, in particular Southeast Asian Studies.
