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What Do Unions Do? A Twenty-year Perspective

What Do Unions Do? A Twenty-year Perspective

One of the best-known and most-quoted books ever written on labor unions is What Do Unions Do? by Richard Freeman and James Medoff. Published in 1984 the book proved to be a landmark because it provided the most comprehensive and statistically sophisticated empirical portrait of the economic and socio-political effects of unions and a provocative conclusion that unions are on balance beneficial for the economy and society. The present volume represents a twentieth-anniversary retrospective and evaluation of What Do Unions Do? The objectives are threefold: to evaluate and critique the theory evidence and conclusions of Freeman and Medoff; to provide a comprehensive update of the theoretical and empirical literature on unions since the publication of their book; and to offer a balanced assessment and critique of the effects of unions on the economy and society. Toward this end internationally recognized representatives of labor and management cover the gamut of subjects related to unions. Topics covered include the economic theory of unions; the history of economic thought on unions; the effect of unions on wages benefits capital investment productivity income inequality dispute resolution and job satisfaction; the performance of unions in an international perspective; the reasons for the decline of unions; and the future of unions. The volume concludes with a chapter by Richard Freeman in which he assesses the arguments and evidence presented in the other chapters and presents his evaluation of how What Do Unions Do? stands up in the light of twenty years of additional experience and research. This highly readable volume is a state-of-the-art survey by internationally recognized experts on the effects and future of labor unions. It will be the benchmark for years to come. | What Do Unions Do? A Twenty-year Perspective

GBP 130.00
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Place Policy and Politics Do Localities Matter?

Place Policy and Politics Do Localities Matter?

The past ten years have seen local government in the UK facing two major challenges: to survive in the face of Thatcher government hostility and to adapt to enormously powerful forces of economic restructuring which have also been encouraged by government policies. The key aspects of these changing fortunes of British towns explored in this important new book is the ability of individual localities to exercise any control over their own growth and decline. Place Policy and Politics examines local political initiatives seeking to influence economic and social development in seven sharply contrasting localities ranging from the outer council estates of Merseyside to the boom towns of Cheltenham and Swindon. Throughout their analysis the contributors drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines address the vital questions in the debate over local policy initiatives including: To what extent are localities able to harness trends in the national and international economy to provide jobs and a better standard of living for their inhabitants? Why do local authorities vary in their capacity to initiate economic policy? To what extent do national urban and other policies inhibit or encourage their efforts? How might central government modify its policies to facilitate the prospering of localities? | Place Policy and Politics Do Localities Matter?

GBP 175.00
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How Do We Tell The Workers? The Socioeconomic Foundations Of Work And Vocational Education

How Do We Tell The Workers? The Socioeconomic Foundations Of Work And Vocational Education

This book analyzes the ways that workers are ?educated ? via a variety of institutions to fit into the contemporary labor-unfriendly economic system. As he examines the history and purposes of vocational education Kincheloe illustrates the manner in which this education shapes the politics of the era. How Do We Tell the Workers? is important read | How Do We Tell The Workers? The Socioeconomic Foundations Of Work And Vocational Education

GBP 130.00
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53 Interesting Things to do in your Lectures Tips and strategies for really effective lectures and presentations

53 Interesting Things to do in your Lectures Tips and strategies for really effective lectures and presentations

Lectures remain a staple form of teaching in higher and professional education yet presenting doesn't come naturally to most of us. 53 Interesting Things to do in your Lectures provides practical suggestions each tried and tested for developing really effective lectures and presentations across all disciplines. The authors cover the full presentation process from structuring the lecture to use of illustrations and technology techniques to attract and sustain student attention active learning strategies and dealing with questions. Whether you're new to lecturing and training and keen to develop good presentation technique or more experienced and looking to expand your repertoire 53 Interesting Things to do in your Lectures is a handy guide to keep on your desk. | 53 Interesting Things to do in your Lectures Tips and strategies for really effective lectures and presentations

GBP 110.00
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Bahlabelelelani – Why Do They Sing? Gender and Power in Contemporary Women’s Songs

Bahlabelelelani – Why Do They Sing? Gender and Power in Contemporary Women’s Songs

Indigenous societies steeped in patriarchy have various channels through which they deal with abusive characteristics of relations in some of these communities. One such route is through songs which sanction women to voice that which bound by societal expectations they would not commonly be able to say. This book focuses on the nature of women’s contemporary songs in the rural community of Zwelibomvu near Pinetown in KwaZulu-Natal. It aims to answer the question ‘Bahlabelelelani – Why do they sing?’ drawing on several discourses of gender and power to examine the content and purposes of the songs. Restricted by custom women resort to allusive languages such as found in ukushoza a song genre that includes poetic elements and solo dance songs. The songs when read in conjunction with the interviews and focus group discussions present a complex picture of women’s lives in contemporary rural KwaZulu-Natal and they offer their commentary on what it means to be a woman in this society. | Bahlabelelelani – Why Do They Sing? Gender and Power in Contemporary Women’s Songs

GBP 130.00
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Behavior Modification What It Is and How To Do It

Behavior Modification What It Is and How To Do It

Behavior Modification: What It Is and How to Do It is a comprehensive practical presentation of the principles of behavior modification and guidelines for their application. Appropriate for university students and for the general reader it teaches forms of behavior modification ranging from helping children learn necessary life skills to training pets to solving personal behavior problems. It teaches practical how-to skills including: discerning long-term effects; designing implementing and evaluating behavioral programs; interpreting behavioral episodes; observing and recording behaviors; and recognizing instances of reinforcement extinction and punishment. Behavior Modification is ideal for courses in Behavior Modification Applied Behavior Analysis Behavior Therapy the Psychology of Learning and related areas; and for students and practitioners of various helping professions (such as clinical psychology counselling education medicine nursing occupational therapy physiotherapy psychiatric nursing psychiatry social work speech therapy and sport psychology) who are concerned directly with enhancing various forms of behavior development. The material is presented in an interesting readable format that assumes no prior knowledge of behavior modification or psychology. Specific cases and examples clarify issues and make the principles real. Guidelines throughout provide a ready source to use as a reference in applying the principles. Online resources including an instructor’s manual are available at www. routledge. com/9780815366546. | Behavior Modification What It Is and How To Do It

GBP 130.00
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Addictions From an Attachment Perspective Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours?

Addictions From an Attachment Perspective Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours?

This outstanding book is an important collection of papers from the 2013 John Bowlby Memorial Conference by accomplished clinicians from different modalities who share their experience of working with people with different kinds of addiction. The papers bring together an in-depth understanding that addictions are a response to and hold the pain of broken attachments and are best treated within healthy interpersonal relationships. For a long time the person with an addiction has been seen as the problem with society being able to live in denial of the causes. These papers open up innovative and effective ways of working with people troubled by addiction from an attachment-informed perspective. Contributors: Cara Crossan Richard Gill Lynn Greenwood Bob Johnson Liz Karter Edward Khantzian Arlene Vetere Kate White Jason Wright | Addictions From an Attachment Perspective Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours?

GBP 130.00
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From Playtext to Performance on the Early Modern Stage How Did They Do It?

From Playtext to Performance on the Early Modern Stage How Did They Do It?

This book reconsiders the evidence for what we know (or think we know) about early modern performance conditions. This study encourages a new recognition and treatment of certain aspects of the plays as evidence – and demonstrates the significance of the implications of that new information. This book is also an assessment of the competing narratives about the processes involved in early modern performance: about the status of manuscript playbooks about the parts that players memorized about the functions of the bookkeeper about casting about prompting and about rehearsal practices. Leslie Thomson investigates the bases for the interdependent beliefs that an early modern player relied only on his part to prepare for a performance that rehearsal was minimal and that a bookkeeper compensated for these circumstances by prompting any player who was out of his part. By focusing on often ignored (or downplayed) requirements and challenges of early modern play texts Thomson provides evidence for answers that will foster a more nuanced and thorough understanding of original performance practices. That will in turn influence how we read study and edit the plays. This exploration will be of great interest to theatre and performance researchers graduate students teachers of early modern drama at the undergraduate and graduate levels performers directors editors. | From Playtext to Performance on the Early Modern Stage How Did They Do It?

GBP 130.00
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Value-Creating Education Teachers’ Perceptions and Practice

Value-Creating Education Teachers’ Perceptions and Practice

Offering a pivotal reference point and a wide range of global perspectives of teaching experiences on value-creating education (VCE) this book is a timely spotlight on contemporary issues of globalisation that many educational institutions around the world may encounter. It contributes to the originality of constructing new knowledge in the field of VCE a forward-looking framework and an ethical and educational imperative that can be understood in different ways from diverse theoretical orientations. The chapters written by experienced international educators explore the following questions: How do educators understand the role of VCE? What pedagogical approaches to VCE do educators employ in their classes? How do educators support the values and knowledge of VCE in all curricular areas? What do educators see as the key essential values and knowledge that students should develop through VCE? It offers valuable insights and applied pedagogical practices for postgraduate students researchers educational policy makers curriculum developers and decision-makers in higher education institutions and non-governmental organizations (e. g. UNESCO OXFAM). | Value-Creating Education Teachers’ Perceptions and Practice

GBP 130.00
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Studying Law at University Everything you need to know

Studying Law at University Everything you need to know

Do you want to do well in Law from day one?Law is a challenging and competitive subject to study at university. You need to become familiar with its peculiar language and complicated practices as quickly as possible if you want to do well. Drawing on the experiences of hundreds of students Studying Law at University demystifies your law course. With reliable tips and practical suggestions it shows you how to: understand key legal concepts; read cases; take useful notes; become an active learner; manage your time; write law essays; sit law exams. Updated to take into account the increasing use of the internet this second edition of Studying Law at University tells you everything you need to know to get good marks and enjoy your studies. | Studying Law at University Everything you need to know

GBP 130.00
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Leadership for Older Adults Aging With Purpose And Passion

Leadership for Older Adults Aging With Purpose And Passion

This study tells the tale of two retirement organizations that reflect common leadership issues throughout the western world issues that are emerging in many developing countries and have yet to be experienced in others. Wherever rapid population ageing is coupled with a view of old people as useless and a burden challenging questions arise: how do we develop the resources and leadership potential of our ageing population? How do we turn old age from an expensive wasteland into a fertile period of growth and development? | Leadership for Older Adults Aging With Purpose And Passion

GBP 175.00
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Shaping Teaching Practice in Malaysia A System's View

Shaping Teaching Practice in Malaysia A System's View

What teachers do in the classroom is one of the most significant school-based factors in shaping student learning. Yet the classroom is often referred to as a black box because there's so little we know about what actually happens there. This book provides insights into the black box by describing and then comparing classroom practices in Malaysia’s national public school system and that of a unique subsystem situated within it. Through analysis of hundreds of hours of classroom video data as well as interviews this book goes on to identify and discuss the forces that shape teachers' classroom practices from across the ecological system. What emerged were nuanced insights into how tightly and loosely coupled forces within the centralized Malaysian national system shaped these teachers’ classroom practices which are illustrated in multiple case studies. Additionally this volume uncovers micro disruptions to some tightly coupled forces within the system that could begin to change teachers’ thinking about their classroom practice. These insights will be of interest to international and comparative education researchers education policymakers and education professionals as well as anyone who has ever asked the question Why do teachers do what they do in their classrooms? | Shaping Teaching Practice in Malaysia A System's View

GBP 130.00
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Eighty Thousand Adolescents A Study of Young People in the City of Birmingham by the Staff and Students of Westhill Training College

Eighty Thousand Adolescents A Study of Young People in the City of Birmingham by the Staff and Students of Westhill Training College

Eighty Thousand Adolescents originally published in 1950 illustrated by maps photographs and diagrams describes and interprets the results of a study of the young people of Birmingham. This study was made by the staff and students of Westhill Training College under the direction of Bryan Reed Youth Tutor. Visits were paid to some hundreds of youth organizations and answers to a series of questions were given by over a thousand young people both ‘attached’ and ‘unattached’. Some of the questions to which the investigators set out to find answers were: In what kind of homes are young people growing up? How do they earn their living? How many take advantage of opportunities for further education? How do they spend their leisure? – and their pocket money? What do they read? What are their emotional intellectual spiritual and social needs? and how far do Education Authorities Clubs Churches etc. meets these needs? In his summing-up Mr. Reed calls attention to the need for imaginative and instructed leadership for a sense of purpose in the Youth Service and for the integration of this Service in the wider life of the community. Today it is a fascinating look back at adolescent life in post-war Britain. | Eighty Thousand Adolescents A Study of Young People in the City of Birmingham by the Staff and Students of Westhill Training College

GBP 90.00
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Agency Change and Learning Accounts of Internal Change Agents

Agency Change and Learning Accounts of Internal Change Agents

Despite the plethora of books on change there appears a notable gap in the field; rarely is the authentic and candid voice of change agents heard. How often do academics or practitioners candidly state what they actually do when they are faced with managing change in their own organisations or when they are called on in a consultancy capacity? In this new book the editors bring together a diverse group of contributors who have worked as Internal Change Agents in organizations to divulge what they really do and think about change. The authors draw on their own research work involving change agents and their change interventions and include current reflections on the post-Covid world of work and the change required for achieving change interventions successfully. Each contribution offers perspectives from real change programmes in both the public and private sector offering a unique opportunity to move beyond theory and understand change in practice. The book offers valuable insights for academics and students of organisational change and behaviour leadership and organisational development. | Agency Change and Learning Accounts of Internal Change Agents

GBP 130.00
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Sex Now Talk Later

Sex Now Talk Later

Sex matters. It is a crucial part of whom we are and what to do. So why do we police what is 'normal' and what is 'bizarre'? As the author argues in this insightful book whenever we disapprove of others or ourselves in this way we close our eyes to a deeper understanding of human nature. As a psychiatrist she has also worked inside prisons with sex offenders so she is familiar with the extremes of 'oddity'. Here she uses a psychoanalytic framework with humour insight and clarity to explore why we disapprove and what we lose when we do. She presents us with a series of interwoven vignettes drawn from clinical work and life experiences which have led her to these conclusions. The author argues in this book that as human beings we have a responsibility to develop a much more enquiring and open mind and to feel privileged rather than disgusted when we have access to primitive fantasies that shine light into the dark corners of minds not considered 'normal'. | Sex Now Talk Later

GBP 130.00
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Minority Churches as Media Settlers Negotiating Deep Mediatization

Minority Churches as Media Settlers Negotiating Deep Mediatization

How do minority Christian churches adapt to and negotiate with the changes brought about by deep mediatization? How do they use their media to present themselves to their followers and the general public? This book aims to answer these questions by investigating how minority organizations of two different Christian traditions in the UK and Poland – the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Orthodox Churches – use their own media to position themselves in their social religious and political environments. Based on the analyses of media practices media content and interview material the study develops the new concept of media settlers which pertains to religious organizations that use their media to fulfill their own aims: expand assert their authority and maintain their communities. They do so through five key media practices which can be defined as strategies: acknowledgment authorization omission replication of content and mass-mediatization of digital media. This book is of particular interest to scholars of religion and mediatization mainly sociologists graduate students and qualitative researchers working with discourse analysis. It is an insightful read for anyone interested in the Seventh-day Adventist and Orthodox Churches nowadays. | Minority Churches as Media Settlers Negotiating Deep Mediatization

GBP 120.00
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Racism Violence Betrayals and New Imaginaries Feminist Voices

Racism Violence Betrayals and New Imaginaries Feminist Voices

This anthology consists of academic essays creative non-fiction poetry and short stories on race and racism by black women from South Africa and Brazil. Through these different genres the book engages with the complexities of race in social political economic institutional and personal spaces. Concerned with social justice human rights and freedom these writings spotlight the amalgamation of racial gender and class subjectivities and how these are marked un-marked re-marked and re-made on bodies. The book connects globally and locally to social and political phenomena in the modern-day world. The contributors interrogate their political and personal worlds revealing layered intersecting ways of being that were essentially centred by colonial histories but not defined in totality by coloniality and oppression. In speaking to the proximity of these experiences they reflect and narrate the past contemplate the present and imagine the future. This curated anthology asks questions centred around freedom. What does freedom mean? When do we have it and when do we not? Most importantly how do we get it? Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa. | Racism Violence Betrayals and New Imaginaries Feminist Voices

GBP 130.00
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The Experimental Approach to Free Will Freedom in the Laboratory

The Experimental Approach to Free Will Freedom in the Laboratory

Recently psychologists and neurobiologists have conducted experiments taken to show that human beings do not have free will. Many including a number of philosophers assume that even if science has not decided the free will question yet it is just a matter of time. In The Experimental Approach to Free Will Katherin A. Rogers accomplishes several tasks. First canvasing the literature critical of these recent experiments (or of conclusions drawn from them) and adding new criticisms of her own she shows why these experiments should not undermine belief in human freedom – even robust libertarian freedom. Indeed many of the experiments do not even connect with any philosophical understanding of free will. Through this discussion she generates a long list of problems – ethical as well as practical – facing the attempt to study free will experimentally. With these problems highlighted she shows that even in the distant future supposing the brain sciences to have advanced far beyond where they are today it will likely be impossible to settle the question of free will experimentally. She concludes that since philosophy has not and science cannot settle the question of free will it is more reasonable to suppose that humans do indeed have freedom. Brings together and adds to criticisms of recent experiments (or conclusions drawn from them) which supposedly show that human beings do not have free will Analyzes recent experiments supposedly related to human freedom through the lens of a philosophically informed portrait of a robust libertarian free choice Develops a long list of problems – both practical and ethical – facing the experimental study of human freedom Proposes a thought experiment set in a distant future of advanced brain science to show that it is likely impossible for science ever to settle the question of free will. | The Experimental Approach to Free Will Freedom in the Laboratory

GBP 130.00
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Interpreting Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit Expositions and Critique of Contemporary Readings

Interpreting Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit Expositions and Critique of Contemporary Readings

This book focuses on the interpretations of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit that have proved influential over the past decades. Current readers of Hegel’s Phenomenology face an abundance of interpretive literature devoted to this difficult text and confront a plethora of different philosophical presuppositions research strategies and hermeneutic efforts. To enable a better orientation within the interpretative landscape the essays in this volume summarize contextualize and critically comment on the issues and currents in contemporary Phenomenology scholarship. There is a common set of three questions that each of the contributions seeks to answer: (1) What kind of text is The Phenomenology of Spirit? (2) What do the different strategies of interpretation conceptually bring to the text? (3) How do different interpreters justify their verdict on whether the Phenomenology is still a viable project? | Interpreting Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit Expositions and Critique of Contemporary Readings

GBP 130.00
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