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American girls collection volume 2
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61 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
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When nine-year-old Nellie begins to attend school, Samantha determines to help her with her schoolwork and learns a great deal herself about what it is like to be a poor child and work in a factory.
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288 pages ; 22 cm
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"For decades, intractable social and economic problems have been eating away at the social fabric of the United States. The crisis is now so deep it's threatening democracy. Income inequality has reached epic proportions, resulting in a lopsided political system that bestows tax breaks on the rich while the rest of the country has been economically abandoned. There's a single, obvious solution to these problems, one with a long, successful history,...
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"This book tells business owners, managers, and supervisors everything they need to know about how to identify difficult employees, how to manage them during the employment relationship, and how to terminate them in a way that reduces the company's legal risk of a wrongful termination lawsuit. It will give them the confidence to deal with problem employees directly and make the tough decision to terminate when it's clear that the situation isn't improving....
48) Gordo: stories
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226 pages ; 21 cm
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"His first-ever collection of stories, Jaime Cortez's Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California, in the 1970s. A young boy named Gordo fights back tears underneath a wrestler's mask as he is forced to fight other boys and grow into his father's expectations of manhood. As he comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, poverty, and discovers the wrenching divides between documented and undocumented immigrants. Fat Cookie, high schooler...
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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.
Esta...
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¿En qué momento un problema se vuelve finalmente visible en la esfera pública, en la agenda de los políticos y los medios? ¿Debe mediar un acontecimiento desgraciado o trágico para que esto suceda? Entre las cuestiones preocupantes que han permanecido largo tiempo fuera de la discusión, la tercerización laboral es sin duda una de las más persistentes. Este libro se propone contribuir al análisis de esta problemática, atendiendo a sus orígenes,...
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A compilation of pertinent and updated "black letter" laws that are part of the official Philippine bar examination coverage and corresponding sections of laws that have been subject of previous bar examination questions. There are also certain important laws which, while not expressly included in the exam coverage, are not specifically excluded either. The Anvil Law Books series is the result of the authors' aim to help bar hopefuls in their journey...
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vii, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers -- General Motors, General Electric, Kodak, and Coca-Cola -- he shows how big businesses once took responsibility for providing their workers and retirees with an array of social benefits. At the height of the post-World War II economy, these companies also...
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492 pages ; 23 cm
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A comprehensive guide to the major legal issues facing employers, from hiring to firing (and everything in between). In Nolo's plain-English style, this bestseller cuts through the legalese to provide all the information business owners and managers need to know to avoid legal problems and treat employees fairly.
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Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment which occurs when people work together as a community. Like Kingsolver's award-winning novels, Holding the Line is a beautifully written book grounded on the strength of its characters. Hundreds of...
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Employers have long turned to behavioral science for guidance on making their organizations more effective. Labor scholar Paul F. Clark believes union leaders should also take advantage of the valuable discoveries made in this field, and he offers a straightforward account of how they can do so.
Much of the behavioral science research relevant to unions relies on complex statistical analyses and is disseminated through scholarly journals. This...
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An Introduction to Labor Law is a useful primer that explains the basic principles of the federal law regulating the relationship of employers to labor unions. In this updated third edition, which features a new introduction, Michael Evan Gold discusses the law that applies to union organizing and representation elections, the duty to bargain in good faith, economic weapons such as strikes and lockouts, and the enforcement of collective bargaining...
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371 pages ; 25 cm
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"Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband. Unable to cope with her grief, she turns to drugs, and quickly forms an addiction. One day she disappears without a trace. Unbeknownst to eleven-year-old Eddie, now left behind in a panic-stricken search for her, Darlene has been lured away with false promises of a good job and a rosy life. A shady company...
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