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Product Description: The assumptions made in the media regarding graduate skills and occupations are no longer valid within the changing educational context. This book traces seven key trends that shape the graduate labour market and reveals that their effects contradict the conceptualisation of the graduate labour market which dominates media and policy discourses...read more

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9781137479068 | Palgrave Pivot, September 23, 2014, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: The assumptions made in the media regarding graduate skills and occupations are no longer valid within the changing educational context.

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By Carole Thornley (editor)

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9780415267861 | Routledge, July 1, 2003, cover price $160.00

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9781138811348 | Routledge, May 21, 2015, cover price $54.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203986721 | Routledge, February 24, 2003, cover price $160.00

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Product Description: This book's broad-ranging and compelling narrative uses literary analysis to examine how identities are influenced within organisations by corporate communication and how they are resisted and challenged by writing coming from other lifestyles...read more

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9780719085222 | Manchester Univ Pr, April 9, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This book's broad-ranging and compelling narrative uses literary analysis to examine how identities are influenced within organisations by corporate communication and how they are resisted and challenged by writing coming from other lifestyles.

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Product Description: Over the last fifteen years, the deregulation of Britain's labor market has led to economic growth, employment opportunities, and a more diverse workforce: the "fat years". However, now as Britain faces its lean years with job cuts, rising unemployment, income insecurity, and related social strains, how can and should the government and key labor market policy makers ensure the labor market provides job opportunities and reasonable levels of social justice? The fundamental changes that have occurred in labor market institutions mean that 'solutions' of previous decades no longer work...read more
By David Marsden (editor)

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9780199605439 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 25, 2011, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Over the last fifteen years, the deregulation of Britain's labor market has led to economic growth, employment opportunities, and a more diverse workforce: the "fat years".

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9780199605446 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 25, 2011, cover price $44.95

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Product Description: International competition and skills shortages caused by technological advancement have raised entirely new issues for workers, not least how responsibility is increasingly being transferred to them. This book looks at how workers are expected to survive unstable job market conditions in three locations: the UK, Singapore, and South Korea...read more

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9780230517943 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 28, 2010, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: International competition and skills shortages caused by technological advancement have raised entirely new issues for workers, not least how responsibility is increasingly being transferred to them.

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9781405107853 | Blackwell Pub, January 23, 2006, cover price $95.95

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9781405107846 | Blackwell Pub, January 23, 2006, cover price $44.95

Miscellaneous:

9781405152259 | Blackwell Pub, December 3, 2008, cover price $42.95

Miscellaneous:

9780470795873 | Onl edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, July 15, 2008), cover price $110.00

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Product Description: Leading experts examine, for the first time, the impact of New Labour policies on the labour market over the past 5 years. Looking behind the 'good news' implied by the lowest headline unemployment rates since the 1970s and by a low and stable rate of inflation, it will examine the impact of policies such as the minimum wage, the New Deal, Working Family Tax Credit scheme, policies on lone parents, and changes in the education system...read more
By Paul Gregg (editor) and Jonathan Wadsworth (editor)

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9781403916297 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 3, 2004, cover price $185.00 | About this edition: Leading experts examine, for the first time, the impact of New Labour policies on the labor market over the past five years.

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9781403916303 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 3, 2004, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Leading experts examine, for the first time, the impact of New Labour policies on the labour market over the past 5 years.

By Edmund Heery (editor) and John Salmon (editor)

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9780415186704 | Routledge, May 1, 2000, cover price $235.00

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9780415186711 | Routledge, May 1, 2000, cover price $68.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203446485 | Routledge, May 3, 2002, cover price $60.95

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Product Description: This volume examines the multiple connections between education, broadly defined, and work, through an analysis of the literature on the transition from school to work, on vocational training and on the labour market. It shows that concepts such as skill, unemployment rates, young people and the transition from school to work are socially constructed and are thought about in ways which are nationally specific...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Annette Jobert (editor), Catherine Marry (editor), Helen Rainbird (editor) and Lucie Tanguy (editor)

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9780415153331 | Routledge, October 1, 1997, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: This volume examines the multiple connections between education, broadly defined, and work, through an analysis of the literature on the transition from school to work, on vocational training and on the labour market.

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9780117017887 | The Stationery Office/Tso, February 1, 1997, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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9781857282016 | Ucl Pr Ltd, June 1, 1995, cover price $160.00

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9781857282023 | Routledge, June 1, 1995, cover price $65.95 | About this edition: First published in 1995.

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Product Description: This book analyzes the crucial features of unionized labor markets in industrialized countries, with particular emphasis on Britain and the United States. The techniques used by economists to model unionized labor markets are carefully explained...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780521464673 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1995, cover price $134.99 | About this edition: This book analyzes the crucial features of unionized labor markets in industrialized countries, with particular emphasis on Britain and the United States.

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9780521468398 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1995, cover price $54.99

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Product Description: The frenzied pace of industrial restructuring and the emergence of new employment policies have focused attention on the role of employers in determining the quantity and quality of employment. Drawing on important new data, the authors test, modify, and challenge many of the current determinants of employer policy and how these influence employment structures and individual employment opportunities...read more
By Jill Rubery (editor) and Frank Wilkinson (editor)

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9780198278948 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 24, 1994, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: The frenzied pace of industrial restructuring and the emergence of new employment policies have focused attention on the role of employers in determining the quantity and quality of employment.

By Ray Barrell (editor)

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9780521461603 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1994, cover price $59.95

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9780521468251 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $54.99

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Product Description: From a fashionable fad of the 80s, "flexibility" is now at the centre of the debate on the nature of contemporary restructuring. On the one hand, there are those who view flexibility as the key to management and union discontentment...read more
By Anna Ollert (editor)

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9780631177968 | Blackwell Pub, April 1, 1994, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: From a fashionable fad of the 80s, "flexibility" is now at the centre of the debate on the nature of contemporary restructuring.

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Product Description: This book examines the organization of domestic life in the context of recent economic change. The author argues that relationships within the household can only be understood with reference to the social and economic environment in which it is located...read more

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9780745604411 | Polity Pr, January 1, 1992, cover price $57.95 | About this edition: This book examines the organization of domestic life in the context of recent economic change.

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9780745604428 | Polity Pr, January 1, 1990, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This book examines the organization of domestic life in the context of recent economic change.

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Product Description: The fall in the proportion of older workers in paid employment has been a major social trend over the past two decades in most industrialized countries. The trend has been especially marked among men and in Britain, for example, half the men aged 60-64 and a third aged 55-59 are no longer in paid work...read more

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9780335099313 | Open Univ Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $113.00 | About this edition: The fall in the proportion of older workers in paid employment has been a major social trend over the past two decades in most industrialized countries.

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9780335099306 | Open Univ Pr, October 1, 1991, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: The fall in the proportion of older workers in paid employment has been a major social trend over the past two decades in most industrialized countries.

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9780201544244 | Addison-Wesley, July 1, 1991, cover price $26.53
9780201544305 | Addison-Wesley, July 1, 1991, cover price $26.53

Product Description: Whatever else the 1980s may have done, they have set a new agenda for sociologists of work and labour markets. The essays in this book indicate the key tasks that must be addressed in tackling that agenda. First, to generate an accurate picture of what has actually occurred, far too little is known about what the implications of the changes have been...read more

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9781850007999 | Falmer Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Whatever else the 1980s may have done, they have set a new agenda for sociologists of work and labour markets.

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Product Description: This book represents an advance in our knowledge of the labour market. For the first time it combines the analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data to produce an explanation of the main changes which have transformed the labour market during the recession...read more

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9780333451700 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 1, 1990, cover price $219.00 | About this edition: This book represents an advance in our knowledge of the labour market.

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