Product Description: Originally published in 1979, this reader presents an industrialist view of the labour market and economics as they stood at the time in the United States. The essays collated aim to answer macroeconomic questions on this topic as well as exploring issues related closely to employment and inflation...read more

The innovation strategies of some of the economy's most dynamic sectors are examined through a series of case studies of new product development, giving managers and designers the concepts and tools to keep new products flowing.

Product Description: The American labor market faces many deep-rooted problems, including persistence of a large low-wage sector, worsening inequality in earnings, employees' lack of voice in the workplace, and the need of employers to maximize flexibility if they are to survive in an increasingly competitive market...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In order to address contemporary issues, industrial relations as a field of study will have to take an increasingly international and comparative dimension. Accordingly, this text looks at the critical role that employment relations play in firm performance and industry competitiveness worldwide...read more

Product Description: The Reagan and Bush years have left us with a troublesome dilemma: how to balance our budget deficit against our social deficit. This book takes up the urgent question of how, in a time of economic crisis and constraint, we can meet the pent-up demand for spending on our nation's neglected poor, infirm, and disadvantaged, old and young...read more

Two MacArthur Prize fellows argue that current international economic problems presage an entirely new system of industrial production, one characterized by flexible, customized specialization and by the application of new technologies (view table of contents)

Product Description: Birds of Passage presents an unorthodox analysis of migration ion to urban industrial societies from underdeveloped rual areas. It argues that such migrations are a continuing feature of industrial societies and that they are generated by forces inherent in the nature of industrial economies...read more

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