Marcia E. Facey
ISBN13: 9781604977431
Date: 28-Jan-11
The increasing prevalence of contingent work has prompted concerns about its health implications for contingent workers.The research reported in this book casts light on the discrepant health-related findings by examining contingent work from the perspective of workers, through an exploration of how they experience and understand this form of work and how these experiences and understandings might affect health. The study revealed a strong discursive aspect to workers’ experience, and these discourses are the focus of this book.
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The Changing Role and Composition of the Board of Directors
Olivier P. Roche
ISBN13: 9781604976281
Date: 28-Aug-09
Corporate governance issues are at the center of the current financial meltdown. This research delivers valuable insights on directors’ motivations to join a board and on the meaning of two key directors’ selection criteria (i.e., required board experience and independence). Anyone interested in corporate governance and research in this field would benefit from the theoretical framework developed in this book.
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John Traphagan
ISBN13: 9781621965022
Date: 20-Mar-20
"A very engaging and thoughtful work that will be of great interest to Japan scholars and to any social scientists with a concern for conditions of life in contemporary rural regions in many of the advanced industrial societies ... an impressive book." —William Kelly, Professor of Anthropology and Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, Yale University
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A Men’s Studies Curriculum
Christopher P. Mason
ISBN13: 9781934043301
Date: 18-Jan-07
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title!
A much-needed guide for Men' Studies and Education collections on assisting late-adolescent boys’ transition into manhood.
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