Labour Law in an Era of Globalization: Transformative Practices and Possibilities

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Throughout the industrial world, the discipline of labour law has fallen into deep philosophical and policy crisis, at the same time as new theoretical approaches make it a field of considerable intellectual ferment. Modern labour law evolved in a symbiotic relationship with a postwar institutional and policy agenda, the social, economic, and political underpinnings of which have gradually eroded in the context of accelerating international economic integration and wage-competition, a decline in the capacity of the nation-state to steer economic progress, the ascendancy of fiscal austerity and monetarism over Keynesian/welfare state politics, the appearance of post-industrial production models, the proliferation of contingent employment relationships, the fragmentation of class-based identities and emergence of new social movements, and the significantly increased participation of women in paid work. These developments offer many appealing possibilities - the opportunity, for example, to contest the gender division of labour and re-think the boundaries between immigration and labour policy. But they also hold out quite threatening prospects - including increased unemployment and inequality and the decline of workers' organizations and social participation - in the context of proliferating constraints imposed by international financial pressures on enacting redistributive social and economic policies. New strategies must be developed to meet these challenges. These essays - which are the product of a transnational comparative dialogue among academics and practitioners in labour law and related legal fields, including social security, immigration, trade, and development - identify, analyse, and respond to some of the conceptual and policy challenges posed by globalization.

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Does money blur perspectives for a better life?
Lifting the money veil from our yardsticks of progress, income and wealth, reveals the trade-offs of economic growth. The book presents new indicators of the social, economic and ecological impacts of our lifestyles and production techniques. The indicators help to identify those responsible for these impacts and account for their accountability in terms of environmental and other ("social") costs.
Sustainable development is to bring about long-term prosperity without undermining its natural foundation. For the assessment of the opaque concept we need both, physical impact measures and environmentally modified ("green") indicators of income, capital and output.
Peter Bartelmus opens the dialogue between frequently hostile camps of economists and environmentalists, data producers and users, and scientists and policy makers. Together, they may steer us towards a sustainable future.

Unveiling Wealth: On Money, Quality of Life and Sustainability [A book review from: Ecological Economics]

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Unveiling Wealth: On Money, Quality of Life and Sustainability [A book review from: Ecological Economics]
D.A. Underwood
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Economics, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This book focuses on discussing the issues that a DBA would face in extending existing systems for eBusiness. The book also discusses how DBAs can prepare themselves for the challenge. An example business 'DOeBIZ Corporation' is used to help the reader understand the various issues involved and how an Oracle DBA can deal with them.

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Clear and straighforward.......2001-09-10

I have been hearing about this e-Business stuff and associated acronynms for a while now: B2B, B2C, e-Commerce, EDI, m-Commerce..on and on. No book had so far explained to me what it all means to a DBA like me. This book finally explain in clear and simple terms what all the hoopla is about.

The author uses simple and clear language in explaining the issues that really matter to DBAs....both technical and non-technical aspects of the e-Business environment are covered in this book.

Thank you Meghraj for the wonderful explanation and clearing the myths.

e-Business issues pertaining to DBAs - Finally !!.......2001-08-30

This book is an excellent source of information for Oracle DBAs that work in an e-Business environment. I have read a number of books on e-Business and Oracle but this book does a superb job in showing what e-Business means to an Oracle DBA like me.
I especially liked the chapters on availability and security. Each page in those chapters contains very good stuff. In my company, high availability and security is a must and the techniques shown in the book are a lifesaver. e.g. encryption techniques, implementing redundancy, security loop holes and so on.

Packed with useful information.......2001-08-28

I have been an Oracle DBA for over 10 years now and am in the process of transitioning from a "traditional" DBA to an "internet" DBA. This book has helped me enormously in understanding the various issues and solutions related to using Oracle with the Web. Each chapter of the book is packed with valuable information. The author does a great job in explaining the issues involved in such projects and also provides real-world tips and techniques for achieving availability, scalability, security and performance in e-Businesses using Oracle. I highly recommend this book as a good read and ready reference for Oracle DBAs, Developers and even Project Managers of Web-based projects and e-Business initiatives that make use of Oracle

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Craft Business Basics: How to Start and Operate a Successful Home-Based Craft Business provides the information needed to launch a home-based craft business including working at home, making the business legal, and making a profit A successful career at home can happen and this book will explain how.

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Summer Jobs and Opportunities for Teenagers: A Planning Guide (Lifeworks Guide)
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The one-stop resource for teenagers looking for summer work.

Each spring millions of teenagers-and their parents -start thinking about what they'll do over the summer. Many need to earn money for school or a car, while others want to gain experience through internships, volunteer opportunities, or travel. But finding summer work in a tight job market isn't as easy as it used to be. Teenagers with little or no experience need all the help they can get to find work that meets their needs.

Summer Jobs and Opportunities for Teenagers is the one-stop resource for teenagers thinking about getting work. From figuring out what kind of job or opportunity they want to targeting and applying for a position and managing a paycheck, this book is chock full of useful tools and tips: a work personality quiz, interview and networking advice, and even a handy worksheet for calculating taxes. Complete with a resource list of related Web sites, Summer Jobs and Opportunities for Teenagers is an invaluable step-by-step guide to the job-search process.

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The collegiate class of 2002 that is just entering the job market carries the highest level of student and credit-card debt ever, even considering inflation.

This rising level of debt by our youth has been an historical trend. Today's children can have a greater respect for money, they can learn to appreciate the value of handling it responsibly, and they can gain the knowledge and skills to know what they need and use it as needed, earn what they need through work and investment, and use some to help those less fortunate.

That's a tall order, but financial writer Alan Feigenbaum's book is up to the challenge.

Alan shows how to view children's financial development the same way a parent might view their growth stages - the financial equivalents of, crawling, standing, then walking. Picture book to checkbook, car seat to buying a car, and from safe plastic toys to the safe use of credit-card plastic, A Parent's Guide to Money leads parents through the necessary baby steps on the road to family financial success.

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Good Overall.......2004-03-27

This book was good overall. Unfortunately, I was looking for a lot more information on college planning, so I struck out (only a few pages). Otherwise, it does a good job describing the life cycle of a child's view of money. Recommended for most parents of kids 18 and under.

For parents seeking to instill "financial literacy".......2003-05-17

Collaboratively written by Certified Financial Planner Alan Feigenbaum and his daughter Gibora, A Parent's Guide To Money: Raising Financially Savvy Children is a solidly written and "parenting friendly" guide to teaching children and teenagers the money skills they will need to survive in a world filled with voracious credit card companies, scams and swindles, volatile securities, complicated loan applications, and much more. Presented in easy-to-understand, reader friendly terms, A Parent's Guide To Money masterfully takes the difficulties of communicating properly with young people into account. If you are a parent seeking to instill "financial literacy" and good monetary management practices in your child, then give a careful reading to A Parent's Guide To Money.

Good book.......2003-02-28

A very thorough book with a good amount of ideas for how to ensure your child is savvy about money and prepared to go out into the world to manage their own. Worth the read.

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This impressive book sees the author applying and extending the resource based view of the firm to explain and predict the strategy of corporate diversification.
Technological Resources and the Logic of Corporate Diversification is an original and authoritative book that will be extremely useful to academics and students in such disciplines as business economics, corporate strategy and international business.

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A leading pioneer in the field offers practical applications of this innovative science. Peters describes complex concepts in an easy-to-follow manner for the non-mathematician. He uses fractals, rescaled range analysis and nonlinear dynamical models to explain behavior and understand price movements. These are specific tools employed by chaos scientists to map and measure physical and now, economic phenomena.

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Gets you up and running with chaos theory for time series.......2004-03-23

This book includes a very detailed description of how to apply some chaos theory techniques - primarily R/S analysis - to time series data. With this technique, one can gauge whether a time series is completely random, completely predictive, or a mixture of these.

This book glosses over some conceptual topics such as Efficient Market Theory and the Fractal Market Hypothesis in favor of details to perform a rigorous statistical analysis. These conceptual topics are better covered in Peters' earlier work "Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets".

For the analytically oriented reader, there can be much frustration as equations are often initially presented in sloppy and unusable forms with undefined parameters (hence 4 of 5 stars). However, these are subsequently broken down and presented in a step-by-step manner that will allow most readers to implement his techniques.

Overall, this is an excellent introductory book for the practitioner or economist, not so great for the non-technical reader.

This book is a disappointment.......2002-02-13

As a market analyst for an oil company, I spend considerable effort in trying to find new ways and theories to "decode" the markets and overcome uncertainty. I had hoped Mr. Peters book would offer a model of analysis to test and hopefully use.

Unfortunately, the deeper you get into the "meet and potatoes" of this text, the more disappointing it gets. This book offers nothing. Readers less skilled in the subject matter might attribute this to their shortcomings or lesser math skills. Readers well-versed in this subject matter will easily determine that this text is a waste of time...

Good for newcomers to FMA.......2001-07-05

I have found Mr. Peters book excellent. I am no mathematician and still I found it easy to read. I was interested in learning about fractal market analysis and I found what I needed in this book.

Almost useless.......2000-01-26

In this book, Peters explains general capital market in an interesting way; but when he gets into the Fractals - the main theme of the book, he seems to just pick things up from previous research papers and condenses them. At the end of the day you will be wondering if it is worthwhile to purchase and read the book after all.

On the editing side, I think Wiley could have done better. The math in the book is typeset in a programming language style and you have to give extra effort in order to read them.

The three stars is for being one of the very few works available in this field.

simple as possible intro to fractals and markets.......1999-09-14

The title only indicates part of the true subject matter of this book. The book teaches about fractal analysis of any data set, and uses financial markets as special cases to illustrate the concepts involved in fractal analysis. He begins with a brief, but facinating history of fractals, and you learn the concepts you will need to form your own trading strategies. Mr. Peters demonstrates an easy familiarity with fractals, and this serves to keep the book interesting through its most difficult mathmatical passages.

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Cutting-edge corporations are talking more and more about the emergence of a true worldwide marketplace, and about how it is dramatically reshaping the way they do business. Global Literacies, by psychologist and businessman Robert Rosen, takes this conversation one thought-provoking yet practical step further by comparing the process to a child's gradual mastery of words and ideas. Accordingly, he suggests, businesses venturing onto the global stage first "must learn to read the world's new language" if they really hope to succeed. He combines a worldwide survey of more than 1,000 corporate leaders, in-depth studies of 28 national cultures, and one-on-one interviews with 75 multinational CEOs (such as Leo van Wijk of Royal Dutch Airlines, Canon's Ryuzaburo Kaku, Sir Peter Bonfield of British Telecommunications, and Coca-Cola's M. Douglas Ivester) to show how pacesetters "see global challenges, think with an international mindset, create fresh leadership behaviors and mobilize people in culturally mindful ways." The road to success via literacy that he subsequently develops and explains in this book includes "unlearning our past assumptions," cultivating a "flexible mind" that is comfortable with chaos and change, and discovering how differences among people, companies, and countries affect the institutions we build and the strategies we employ. --Howard Rothman

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Throughout the world, languages differ, but the business questions are the same. In French and Japanese, Hebrew and English, executives are asking, "How can I survive and thrive in the borderless, global marketplace?" For answers, the authors of Global Literacies went straight to the leaders themselves -- the CEOs of thousands of corporations around the globe. Two lessons emerged. First, there are leadership universals that every executive and manager needs to practice in order to be world-class at home and abroad. The second defied conventional wisdom: in the borderless economy, culture doesn't matter less, it matters more. Around the world, business leaders apply their own experiences -- personal, professional, and cultural -- to an ever-expanding world of Dutch colleagues, Brazilian suppliers, Taiwanese manufacturers, and Chinese competitors. These leaders are trying to become globally literate...and Global Literacies is for, and about, them. No one knows this better than CEOs of successful global companies such as Japan's Canon, Sweden's Ericsson, Taiwan's Acer Computers, the U.K.'s British Telecommunications, and U.S.-based Coca-Cola. In Global Literacies, a team of researchers led by Robert Rosen, Ph.D., of Healthy Companies International, and Watson Wyatt Worldwide have produced the first model of international business success based on a wide-ranging landmark study of global leaders and their world-class companies. Global Literacies documents the exclusive results of a worldwide survey of over one thousand senior executives and in-depth interviews with CEOs of seventy-eight companies -- companies representing 3.5 million employees in more than 200 countries, and with more than $725 billion in annual sales. Global Literacies offers compelling new insights and business tools: The Global Leadership Universals Learn the new literacies of business: * Personal Literacy -- understanding and valuing yourself * Social Literacy -- engaging and challenging people * Business Literacy -- focusing and mobilizing your business * Cultural Literacy -- valuing and leveraging cultural difference The Global Success Quotient Learn which are the most globally active, financially successful companies -- and countries -- in the world, understand how they got there, and apply those learnings to your own organization. The Cultures of Twenty-first-Century Business Develop ways to see global challenges and opportunities, think with an international mindset, act with fresh global-centric leadership behaviors, and mobilize world-class companies -- whether you're a multinational giant, a domestic manufacturer, or a local community organization. National Profiles With sophisticated profiles of thirty countries, and survey data from eighteen national cultures -- from the Tolerant Traders of the Netherlands to China's Ancient Modernizers and the Optimistic Entrepreneurs of the United States, Global Literacies is a groundbreaking and fascinating work on the most important issues in the world of business today.

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Your eyes are bigger than your stomach........2002-02-06

This book fails on its ambitious agenda of surveying and mapping out the new landscape the authors refer to as "global literacies", and delivers little at the end.

Boasting a "landmark study of CEOs from 28 countries" on its cover, the book contains less than 10 survey questions from the study, all of which are freebies which offer no additional insight to the quest at hand. For example, one survey question asks, "do your cultural roots influence your thinking?" The question is so poorly designed from a research point of view, the answer doesn't really matter.

The rest of whatever study of CEOs the authors compiled was reduced to regurgitation of current buzz words, "understanding and valuing yourself", "engaging and challenging others", "focusing and mobilizing your organization", "valuing and leveraging cultural differences".

The remaining pages are filled with trivia-type facts on who's who around the world, such as a generic list of major religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

At the end, you should expect to get out of this book what R.R. got out of his visiting 30 countries over a two-year period, traveling 250,000 miles, as he explained to the readers in the intro. That's nearly 350 miles of traveling a day, everyday of the year, and less than a month for every country. You tell me how much cultural immersion and interaction a person can experience out of it.

A Welcomed Global Leadership Primer.......2001-07-23

I happened upon this book and I'm so glad I did! It is a well-written, easy-reference global tool--- much more than just another business book for the shelf. The first-hand stories, study data and format makes it a keeper. Although the study was relatively small, it was globally broad and big enough, with its weighty contributors, to give any leader a good dose of global nourishment to help you forge your own new path. What I like about it most is the straightforward presentation that is free of gobbledegook, so common to many business books. Many leaders across geographies, industries and sectors are trying to find their bearings in the marketplaces, workplaces and communities of the world at this turbulant time of opportunity. This book not only provides stimulating information, but it helps one remember that the solutions we seek are not so complicated. No big surprises. Instead, these times just ask little more of us. Working across cultures and geographies ultimately means working with a new consciousness about others---learning from and thinking more about each other --- and realizing that it is by putting our differences to work that we will open the way for new levels of innovation and a world that benefits all. The book serves as a reminder of how much you already know as a leader that can now be applied to a new set of global problems---as well as, how much you need to learn. I plan to share it with my customers and fellow leaders of change. Thank you for this work!

A Frenchman, an Indian, and a Brazilian Walk into a Bar ý.......2000-04-28

Alvy: "You're, like, New York Jewish Left-Wing Liberal Intellectual Central Park West Brandeis University ... the Socialist Summer Camps and the father with the Ben Shahn drawings, right? And you really, you know, strike-oriented kind of - uh, stop me before I make a complete imbecile of myself."

Allison: "No, that was wonderful. I love being reduced to a cultural stereotype."

[Annie Hall, 1977]

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Everyone talks about globalization, but few do anything about it. As the world contracts, many once-arrogant executives find themselves humbled by their ignorance of the manners, modes, and mores of other nations and cultures. At the same time, accelerated communication has built self-confidence among those leaders who might once have aped the methods of Western business superpowers. Americans, British, French, and a host of the traditionally smug are discovering that they can't just talk at their counterparts to the east and south. They need to understand them, speak their language (figuratively and literally), and learn how to make the borderless economy work.

So argues Robert Rosen and his colleagues in Global Literacies. Using a 1,000-person survey, combined with interviews with 75 CEOs in 28 countries, the authors have developed a model of twenty behaviors and roles for the twenty-first century leader. These competencies - "Chaos Navigator", "authentic flexibility", "Respectful Modernizer", etc. - are here elucidated by example, using extended interview excerpts and admiring descriptions of leaders chosen as competency archetypes. It's a reasonable approach, particularly when complemented by capsule summaries of their leaders' countries and their cultures. If your knowledge of world history, geopolitics, and comparative religions is limited, and if you don't have a World Fact Book near at hand, then you'll find convenient answers in these reports.

But every reporter wants to write editorials, and it's in the oration and polemics that Global Literacies stumbles. As a business topic, literacy is not lite and racy, so the authors try to spice up their book with fortune-cookie truisms....

"Leaders are people, too."

Global Literacies is clearly the work of a motivational speaker, full of sound bites and fury. It also tends towards proof by sweeping assertion. Discussing China's $30 billion Ping An Insurance, for example, the authors state that "the secret of [its] success is its ability to keep one foot in traditional Chinese culture and one foot in the world, constantly learning and modernizing Chinese culture." This may be true, but how could it be proved? How does one measure "learning and modernizing" as a competitive advantage? Must great leaders always have strong cultural roots?

How you respond to Global Literacies will depend in part on where you stand in the classic argument of nature vs. nurture. By overemphasizing "national traits" that predetermine behavior, Rosen and his colleagues have fallen into the classic trap of cultural stereotyping. They argue for example that "we need to combine the egalitarian nature of the Dutch, the change orientation of Americans, the achievement orientation of the Overseas Chinese, and the humility of the Scandinavians." All Scandinavians? Aren't there any supercilious Swedes out there?...

Ultimately Global Literacies informs more than it persuades. Some segments are merely unfortunate; Douglas Ivester, held up as the epitome of communication and "urgent listening", has since been fired as CEO of Coca-Cola for a series of gaffes and mishandled controversies. And it is true that the interweaving of interviews and facts can be instructive, even enlightening. But eventually you begin to wonder whether these cultural depictions are portraits or cartoons. If you're going to travel around the world in 400 pages, be warned that travel may narrow the mind.

Business Book that average people can understand.......2000-04-13

This book is well written and indicates that the author did lots of research and is really interested in our global society. Very well written and stories of CEO's are given in entertaining manner. Very helpful to business people interested in developing global contacts.

Informative and Elegant.......2000-02-12

A close reading of this book reveals an impressive insight in the subject matter and an elegant and crisp style of presentation. I found the book informative, deftly written and useful. It is a must read book for any person wishing to come to some understanding on the gloal economy, for any person engaged in commerce, and for any person who is curious about global cultures.

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