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"The author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work offers a philosophy for pursuing meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload. History's most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers mastered the art of producing valuable work with staying power. In this book, Cal Newport harnesses the wisdom of these traditional knowledge workers to transform modern jobs. Drawing from research on the habits and mindsets of a varied...
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"For fans of Vikas Swarup and Charles Yu, the story of a starry-eyed cinephile who leaves his rural village in Punjab to pursue his dreams-a formally daring debut novel set against the global migration crisis"--
In a rural village of Punjab, India, a moony young man crouches over his phone in a rapeseed field near his family's cabbage farm. His name is Happy Singh Soni, and he's watching YouTube clips of his favorite film, Bande à Part by Jean-Luc...
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Este libro está enmarcado en el proyecto de investigación Determinación de las implicaciones de la subcontratación o tercerización en el trabajo digno o decente, una investigación interinstitucional desarrollada entre la Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Seccional Medellín, la Fundación Universitaria CEIPA, la Facultad de Contaduría y Administración de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y la Universidad Vasco de Quiroga de México.
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"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
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"Perspektive Jura" ist das Expertenbuch zum Einstieg in juristische Berufe im Öffentlichen Dienst, in Kanzleien und in Unternehmen. In zahlreichen Berufsbildern und Erfahrungsberichten stellen Autor:innen aus der Praxis interessante Tätigkeiten für leistungsstarke Jurist:innen vor. Auch die wichtigsten Fragen rund um Studienplanung, Bewerbung und Karriere werden beantwortet: Wie kann man bereits in Studium und Referendariat die Weichen für die...
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El mundo de las relaciones laborales es cada vez más complejo, y el derecho laboral, en tanto busca regular los posibles conflictos que se dan entre los trabajadores y sus empleadores, debe mantenerse a la par.
El fenómeno de la convencionalización del derecho en el ámbito del sistema interamericano de derechos humanos ha abordado también el tema de los derechos laborales, cada vez con mayor intensidad.
Así, la presente obra aborda, por un lado,...
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Bruce Western is Assistant Professor of Sociology and a faculty associate of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University.
In the United States, less than one worker in five is currently in a labor union, while in Sweden, virtually the entire workforce is unionized. Despite compelling evidence for their positive effects, even the strongest European unions are now in retreat as some policymakers herald the U.S. model of market deregulation....
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La presente obra busca desentrañar las carencias del sistema de inspección del trabajo en el Perú, de cara a convertirse en un sistema de garantía de derechos.
La óptica es principalmente normativa, lo que quiere decir que se busca interpelar aquellas normas jurídicas que regulan a la inspección del trabajo y a la Superintendencia Nacional de Fiscalización Laboral (SUNAFIL), a fin de analizar su idoneidad para crear un sistema potente y fuerte.
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Los regímenes laborales especiales son regulaciones que se elaboran en base a las particularidades de las prestaciones laborales dentro de las actividades económicas sustentadas en el artículo 103 de la Constitución. Sin embargo, su abundancia ha conducido a que un significativo y creciente número de trabajadores asalariados del sector privado se ubiquen dentro de un régimen especial, en vez de concentrarse en el régimen general, lo que ha...
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El artículo 12 del Texto Único Ordenado del Decreto Legislativo N°728, Ley de Productividad y Competitividad Laboral, aprobado por el Decreto Supremo N°003-97-TR, regula los supuestos de suspensión del contrato de trabajo o suspensión de labores, entre los que se encuentra aquel originado por caso fortuito y fuerza mayor.
A fin de poder de contextualizar el uso de este último, el primer capítulo del libro presenta un análisis teórico de...
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Integrantes de áreas administrativas, de recursos humanos, jurídicas, abogados y estudiantes de derecho que estén interesados en conocer de manera fácil y sencilla la Nueva Justicia Laboral en México en Sede Judicial. Resulta BÁSICO incluir en tu biblioteca la presente obra, pues en ella comparto los conocimientos y experiencias vividas en más de 28 años de labor profesional dentro del derecho del trabajo, lo cual se entre mezcla con mi pasión...
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In the 1960s and '70s, Cesar Chavez and farmworker activists joined forces with musicians and artists to create "La Causa," a movement for justice. This documentary explores their alliance through first-person accounts, highlighting the essential role of music and art in building the farmworkers' movement. It combines rare archival footage with interviews, shedding light on key moments in Chavez's life, the emergence of Chicano art, and the use of...
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'Jane Holgate is a brilliant thinker' - Jane McAlevey
In Arise, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order to regain influence and confront capital. Drawing on two decades of research and organising experience, Holgate examines the structural inertia of today's unions from a range of perspectives: from strategic choice, leadership and union democracy to politics, tactics and the agency afforded to rank-and-file...
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"On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning toward tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new,...
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"A picture book biography of American folk artist and labor organizer Ralph Fasanella. When dared to jump, Ralph always took the dare. So begins this loving tribute to a singular artist and his tireless efforts to honor and celebrate immigrant and working-class communities through his paintings."--
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Mary Elizabeth Gallagher is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is also a faculty associate of the Center for Chinese Studies and the Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations.
One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "reform and openness" will lead to political liberalization. This book challenges that assumption and the general relationship...
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Higher education is the site of an ongoing conflict. At the heart of this struggle are the precariously employed faculty 'contingents' who work without basic job security, living wages or benefits. Yet they have the incentive and, if organized, the power to shape the future of higher education.
Power Despite Precarity is part history, part handbook and a wholly indispensable resource in this fight. Joe Berry and Helena Worthen outline the four...
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Of the wave of labor strikes that swept through the South in 1929, the one at the Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, is perhaps the best remembered. In Gastonia 1929 John Salmond provides the first detailed account of the complex events surrounding the strike at the largest textile mill in the Southeast. His compelling narrative unravels the confusing story of the shooting of the town's police chief, the trials of the alleged killers, the unsolved...
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In Re-Union, David Madland explores how labor unions are essential to all workers. Yet, union systems are badly flawed and in need of rapid changes for reform. Madland's multilayered analysis presents a solution-a model to replace the existing firm-based collective bargaining with a larger, industry-scale bargaining method coupled with powerful incentives for union membership.
These changes would represent a remarkable shift from the norm, but would...
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"Winner of the 2005 Labor History Book Prize, Labor History Journal" Chris Howell is Professor of Politics at Oberlin College. He is the author of Regulating Labor: The State and Industrial Relations Reform in Postwar France (Princeton), and numerous articles on British and French industrial relations and labor politics.
The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing...
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