Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization: The Labor Process and the Changing Nature of Work in the Global Economy

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This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization. The contributors explore traditional sectors of the U.S. and world economies--from auto to steel to agriculture--as well as work under new production arrangements, such as third world export processing zones. They explain why more intensified forms of control by the state and by capital interests are emerging under globalization. Yet they also emphasize new possibilities for labor, including new forms of organizing and power sharing in a rapidly changing economy. Visit our website for sample chapters!

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On-line communities work for the same reasons traditional communities work-because of the relationships members form, the information they gather, and the entertainment they view. All provide immediate value and comfort. Poor Richard's Building Online Communities shows how anyone with Internet access can create an on-line community and describes the many advantages. For business, Web communities provide tightly targeted audiences for higher ad rates, more efficient merchandising, excellent word-of-mouth publicity, and customer loyalty. On-line communities can also be used to promote a special interest group or help an organization communicate with its members. This book explains how to create a place on the Web where customers, members, or friends can post announcements, view photos, have discussions, make recommendations, post events, share thoughts, and meet others with similar interests or questions. Such communities are perfect for Scout groups, professional associations, sports clubs, schools, fraternities and sororities, families spread around the globe, and any other group of two or more people who want to share information and experiences.

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Good book for non-profits and small organizations.......2001-03-08

As someone new working in the world of online communities, I found this book to be a great resource. It provides not only technical tips but also gets at the larger social issues of how to manage communities, help them grow, deal with problems, etc. Good overview of lots of topics with links and references of where to go to get more information.

Focuses on inexpensive methods of achieving.......2001-02-22

Create a web community for a business or family using the power of the Internet and this 'Poor Richard's' guide, which focuses on inexpensive methods of achieving such a goal. From locating and participating in mailing lists to joining web-based communities for business and pleasure, this imparts the basics of understanding how such groups function.

Information, AJdvice and Good Leads.......2001-01-16

As a Community Director for a website that talks to/with huge numbers of consumers daily, I found this book really, really helpful. It outlined several different approaches to the Community challenges without espousing one way only. This is great because not every site has the same needs for a their community. The links to other helpful sources alone were well worth the price of the book. All the advice and information was useable, applicable--nothing was so radical or off-beat that we could not relate. It is now on my desk as a reference tool as we build and rebuild our Community porton of our website.

An excellant hard copy resource.......2000-12-21

Community building is a fast growing concern, both on the Internet and off. Margaret Levine Young and John Levine's Poor Richard's Building Online Communities is a valuable treasure of knowledge to a vast assortment of Internet related communities.

I found it a difficult book 'to read' simply because the material is only relevant to the specific job (or focus) at hand. I think that its greatest value would be found in troubleshooting and dealing with various services or utilities that are, or will be outdated if they are not already.

There is also a wealth of more important, timeless information such as the purposes behind building online communities and the various manner of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour for each type of community.

I don't wish to belittle the value of the book, or all the information and insight that it does provide. There is information here that is unlikely to appear in any other books on community building, such as the one by Amy Jo Kim's. If you can afford to...Building Online Communities completes or enhances a community building library.

I'm one of the authors, and here's what we had in mind!.......2000-11-10

John and I have written a lot of books "For Dummies," including "The Internet For Dummies," and we have been involved in online communities for years. The topic has become glitzy of late, but we want people to know that you don't have to be a big company or have a large budget to be able to create and run online communities for your friends, co-hobbyists, family, or customers.

"Poor Richard's Building Online Community" is intended for individuals or small organizations that want to use the Internet to host discussions. Does your church want to run Bible study classes online? Would you like to discuss your hobby or favorite books with others who share your interests? Does your company need a way to get your sales managers together for online meetings? Would the teachers in your school district benefit from an online way to share schedules and ideas? You can set up online communities for groups like these at little or no cost.

The book gives step-by-step instructions for joining or creating communities in the form of mailing lists, newgroups, and Web-based message boards and chat rooms. We also give advice about how to set and enforce rules for participation, so your community is a pleasant and useful experience for its members.

For more information about the book, take a look at its Web site at http://community.gurus.com/. And thanks for your interest!

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Covers the federal, state, and local regulations imposed on small business. This concise friendly up-to-the minute book details each step.

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A wonderful primer on starting a business with contact information for locating startup funds if necessary........2007-02-12

This is a valuable book (resource) for budding entrepreneurs. It seems to try to cover all the bases for starting a small business, but it can't do them all well in the space available between its covers. The book is only 288 pages long. If you are in the planning stages of starting a small business, then I highly recommend you get a copy of this book. Read it, study it, and outline it. There are helpful checklists to help you grasp the subjects. You will come up with a plethora of keywords and terms that you will want to google to find Web pages giving more detailed (and maybe more current) information.

I am a SCORE counselor (Senior Corps of Retired Executives) who typically does face-to-face counseling sessions three nights a month. It would really be neat if my clients would read this book BEFORE they came to their session with me because they would pretty much be "educated customers" ready to ask educated questions. Our sessions would be so much more beneficial.

My favorite chapters were:

1. Initial business concerns
2. Your business' structure
3. Business start-up details
5. Sources of business assistance (SCORE is mentioned here)
7. Your smart business plan (and a good sample plan is included)
8. Obtaining the financing you need

The book is weak when it comes to how the Internet can be used in corresponding, hiring, and marketing. But this is just one example of how googling keywords and concepts found in the book will make the book more complete. Don't treat the book as authoritative on the law. It isn't. Nor was it ever intended to be. It is light on tax information as it relates to small business.

I was particularly impressed with the material presented in Chapter 2: Choice of Legal Entity. That subject is sorely ignored in most small business books, and it is critically important. It is a subject I regularly must spend a great deal of time discussing at my SCORE sessions. This book does a pretty good job on the topic.

Chapters 4 and 9 through 12 are easy to find fault with. The topic of each could fill a book. But having these topics covered definitely will help a budding entrepreneur know some of the issues they raise.

I would have liked the book more if Chapter 6 (marketing) had been less superficial. When I read it I got the impression that the author was more a public relations expert than a marketing expert. I generally categorize public relations as a subset of marketing. Marketing includes advertising, public relations, and a whole host of other promotion techniques. I did not get this message when I read the book. I also would have liked the book better if the Internet, email, and Web sites had been discussed more. But there are many books on those subjects. Therefore, I can't complain too much about the limited discussion of computers.

When you read this book it may feel a little like it was produced on an assembly line. Maybe it was? There are 51 versions of this book sold; one for each state and the District of Columbia. Content is king, and this book has it. 5 stars!

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How to Start a Business in Kansas City
Elizabeth R. Hoyt
Manufacturer: Pembroke Press
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Binding: Hardcover

New Business Enterprises | Small Business & Entrepreneurship | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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Great Career Booster.......2003-07-31

I had to write a resume for a business communication class at UTSA, but since I was interviewing for a job I read ahead and without instruction made a kick-butt resume that helped me land a great job.

It also has good tips for all aspects of building a career and the steps to take along the way whether you're a collge student, a homemaker re-entering the job force, or changing careers after a tenured position.

Thanks Ms. Johnston for the help.

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Career Adventure, The: Your Guide To Personal Assessment, Career Exploration, And Decision Making
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Consumer Insight: How to Use Data and Market Research to Get Closer to Your Customer (Market Research in Practice Series)

Manufacturer: Kogan Page
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While the long-term gains from liberalization are generally accepted, liberalizing economies are, nevertheless, likely to face short to medium term adjustment costs. Yet most developing countries do not have well-developed social safety nets to address these problems. This book gauges the possible development implications of the current WTO trade negotiations by examining the various proposals and assessing their likely economic impact. Eight country studies examine the experiences of a number of countries at different levels of development and across various regions to ascertain the impact of their trade reforms and the factors contributing to the outcomes.

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Review of the Book.......2007-03-31

The Book Coping with Trade Reforms: A Developing -Country Perspective on the WTO Industrial Tariff Negotiations is a significant and fascinating contribution to the existing literature on International Trade. It outlays the various issues and the current state of play of trade liberalization negotiations. The book gives an overall view of the negotiations particularly focusing on the existing trade barriers and the different tariff reduction proposals and mechanisms. It analyzes the immediate impacts the proposed liberalization policies might have on export revenue, change in imports, government revenues and the welfare changes particularly for developing countries. The book also addresses the issue of the economic adjusting cost that countries have to incur while adapting to these trade liberalization policies. The book points out the main gainers and losers in international trade with the implementation of the proposed liberalization policies. The book in overall is a credible attempt to reply to the many questions or dilemmas looming around the future of international trade and can be considered as a good policy outliner to countries, particularly developing countries, involved in the current round of trade negotiations.

Development Strategies Reconsidered: A New Synthesis (World Policy Perspectives, No 5)

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International Development Policies: Perspectives for Industrial Countries

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In this survey of the field of international development policies, Sidney Dell challenges conventional wisdom and provides a rationale for a more cooperative and constructive approach to world development. Assessing the management of the global economy by the major economic powers and the policies that caused the world economy to lose momentum in the 1970s and 1980s, Dell directs his study to industrial countries which must, he claims, take responsibility for creating an environment favorable to Third World development.
Tracing the fundamental changes of the last forty years in international development policies toward the Third World, Dell details the transformation from a policy of collective responsibility on the part of the international community to the current status, in which the commitment of governments of industrial countries to Third World development is greatly diluted. He examines the growing conflicts in world trade and analyzes the failure of the international economic community to develop a long-run strategy for dealing with the world debt crisis.
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The Political Economy of Telecommunications Reform in Developing Countries: Privatization and Liberalization in Comparative Perspective

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