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Product Description: How can we reduce unemployment? As this insightful and counterintuitive book shows, the surprising answer is inefficiency. Some of the most labor-intensive sectors of the economy, the author notes, are also the most inefficient. But this inefficiency is functional—rather than impairing the economy, it bolsters employment and fosters economic growth...read more

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9781633880405 | Prometheus Books, June 9, 2015, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: How can we reduce unemployment?

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Product Description: At the end of the twentieth century, with the economy booming and unemployment at historic lows, the American economy was a job-producing marvel. The first decade of the twenty-first century was entirely different as the worst economy in seventy years, the Great Recession, crushed the lives of tens of millions of workers and their families, forestalled careers, scrapped hopes for a college education, delayed retirements, and foreclosed family homes...read more

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9781442219656 | 1 edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 28, 2013), cover price $50.00

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9781442232419 | Updated edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, August 6, 2014), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: At the end of the twentieth century, with the economy booming and unemployment at historic lows, the American economy was a job-producing marvel.

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By Michael Sherraden (editor)

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9780199988488 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 15, 2014), cover price $53.00

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9781612052496 | Paradigm Pub, August 31, 2012, cover price $165.95

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9781612052502 | Paradigm Pub, August 31, 2012, cover price $24.95

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By Frederic A. Forbes (editor)

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9781619426436 | Nova Science Pub Inc, October 30, 2012, cover price $95.00

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Product Description: The Decline of American Capitalism. By Lewis Corey

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9780405041167 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1972, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Publisher: New York, Covici, Friede Subjects: Capitalism Consumption (Economics) Unemployed -- United States Communism -- United States 1917- Industrial organization Consumption (Economics) -- United States United States -- Economic conditions 1918-1945 Notes: This is an OCR reprint.

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9781507729663 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 3, 2015, cover price $29.98 | About this edition: The Decline of American Capitalism.
9781616407629 | Cosimo Inc, December 31, 2012, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Originally published in 1934 at the height of the Great Depression, Corey's The Decline of American Capitalism is an in-depth critique of the American government.
9781481092180 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 26, 2012, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: This volume contains a treatise on the ins and outs, the cons and the decline of capitalism in the United States.
9781475167092 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 7, 2012, cover price $30.97 | About this edition: Louis Corey was born Louis C.

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By Victor Irby (editor)

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9781622579945 | Nova Science Pub Inc, January 31, 2013, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Book by

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Product Description: Offshoring, also known as offshore outsourcing, is the term now being used to describe a practice among companies located in the United States of contracting with businesses beyond U.S. borders to perform services that would otherwise have been provided by in-house employees in white-collar occupations...read more
By Jonathan S. Krekl (editor)

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9781608760640 | Nova Science Pub Inc, December 1, 2011, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Offshoring, also known as offshore outsourcing, is the term now being used to describe a practice among companies located in the United States of contracting with businesses beyond U.

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Product Description: Provides an introduction to the interconnections between homelessness, poverty and unemployment. This book includes various populations, such as homeless youth and families, the elderly and individuals who have experienced traumatic events as these populations are most effected in terms of homelessness and poverty...read more
By Sanna J. Thompson (editor)

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9781613249253 | Nova Science Pub Inc, March 30, 2012, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Provides an introduction to the interconnections between homelessness, poverty and unemployment.

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9781612092669, titled "U.S. Economic Recovery and Stimulus Measures:: Issues, Options, and Impacts" | Nova Science Pub Inc, April 1, 2011, cover price $170.00

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Product Description: Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications...read more
By David Haugen (editor) and Susan Musser (editor)

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9780737752489 | Greenhaven Pr, January 28, 2011, cover price $33.80 | About this edition: Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications.

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9780737752472 | 1 edition (Greenhaven Pr, January 28, 2011), cover price $48.80 | About this edition: Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications.

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Product Description: The Current Controversies series examines today's most important social and political issues; each volume presents a diverse selection of primary and secondary sources representing all sides of the debate in question.; ; Each anthology is composed of a wide spectrum of sources written by many of the foremost authorities in their respective fields...read more
By Debra A. Miller (editor)

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9780737751840 | Greenhaven Pr, January 28, 2011, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: The Current Controversies series examines today's most important social and political issues; each volume presents a diverse selection of primary and secondary sources representing all sides of the debate in question.

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9780737751833 | 1 edition (Greenhaven Pr, January 28, 2011), cover price $46.40 | About this edition: The Current Controversies series examines today's most important social and political issues; each volume presents a diverse selection of primary and secondary sources representing all sides of the debate in question.

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Product Description: The recession that began in the United States in December 2007 has been one of the deepest and longest since World War II. One feature that distinguishes the recent recession from its post-war predecessors is the historically high percentage of unemployed persons without jobs for more than six months (the long-term unemployed)...read more
By Daniel A. Garcia (editor)

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9781617615085 | Nova Science Pub Inc, January 1, 2011, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: The recession that began in the United States in December 2007 has been one of the deepest and longest since World War II.

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By Jacob S. Mlakar (editor)

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9781611227628 | Nova Science Pub Inc, January 1, 2011, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Book by

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Product Description: Laid Off, Laid Low provides a sobering portrait of the ailing American labor system and the social and political consequences of increasing job insecurity. It proves that the health of the labor market is not a transitory issue brought low by the factors of recession, but a serious concern reflecting deep structural problems in American society...read more

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9780231146043 | 1 edition (Columbia Univ Pr, November 30, 2008), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Laid Off, Laid Low provides a sobering portrait of the ailing American labor system and the social and political consequences of increasing job insecurity.

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9780231146050, titled "Laid Off Laid Low: Political and Economic Consequences of Employment Insecurity" | Columbia Univ Pr, November 30, 2008, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Laid Off, Laid Low provides a sobering portrait of the ailing American labor system and the social and political consequences of increasing job insecurity.

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Product Description: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW - Why you are slipping or may slip into poverty soon - Why you work for a low wage and have trouble paying bills - Why you are losing the value of your home - Why you are losing the value of your securities - Why you cannot make it on your monthly social security check - Why politicians want to privatize social security - Why we are in a recession and possibly heading for a depression - Why you and your heirs will be paying off government debt for years - Why your children have a huge school loan debt to pay - Why prices have skyrocketed for almost everything - Why we may be living in a corporate kingdom - Why our freedom may be at stak...read more

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9781434993533 | Rosedog Pr, November 5, 2008, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW - Why you are slipping or may slip into poverty soon - Why you work for a low wage and have trouble paying bills - Why you are losing the value of your home - Why you are losing the value of your securities - Why you cannot make it on your monthly social security check - Why politicians want to privatize social security - Why we are in a recession and possibly heading for a depression - Why you and your heirs will be paying off government debt for years - Why your children have a huge school loan debt to pay - Why prices have skyrocketed for almost everything - Why we may be living in a corporate kingdom - Why our freedom may be at stake

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By Rebecca M. Blank (editor), Sheldon H. Danziger (editor) and Robert F. Schoeni (editor)

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9780871540751 | Russell Sage Foundation, December 30, 2006, cover price $49.95

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9780871540645 | Russell Sage Foundation, October 31, 2008, cover price $24.95

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Examines the growing corporate trend of moving American jobs to cheap labor markets overseas, discussing the impact of lost jobs on American workers and communities and pointing out government complicity in the practice. Reprint. 12,000 first printing.

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9780446577441 | Grand Central Pub, August 18, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Examines the growing corporate trend of moving American jobs to cheap labor markets overseas, discussing the impact of lost jobs on American workers and communities and pointing out government complicity in the practice.

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9780446695091 | Business Plus, May 11, 2006, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Examines the growing corporate trend of moving American jobs to cheap labor markets overseas, discussing the impact of lost jobs on American workers and communities and pointing out government complicity in the practice.
9780446694803 | Hachette Book Group USA, August 28, 2004, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Renowned business journalist and CNN anchor Dobbs takes aim at the executives and politicians who profit by exporting U.

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Product Description: You're Fired! Those are the two words every employee dreads. But what does it really mean to be let go, and more important, what can you do to turn this situation into an opportunity for future success? Fired, Laid-Off or Forced Out takes the fear out of the possibility of losing your job and replaces it with specific guidelines any worker can use to protect his or her rights...read more

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9781572484597 | Sphinx Pub, February 1, 2005, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: You're Fired!
9781223013992 | Sphinx Pub, February 1, 2005, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: You're Fired!

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Product Description: The book begins by reminiscing about the growth of American prosperity, but then quickly moves into exploring why the American Dream is now in decline. The book explains that our present recession may not be a typical recession from which we normally rebound, but may be more deeply rooted in government policies, albeit with good intentions, that have led our country's citizens into trouble...read more

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9780975320716 | Kenamar Pub, July 30, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The book begins by reminiscing about the growth of American prosperity, but then quickly moves into exploring why the American Dream is now in decline.

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Product Description: Nearing age sixty, Bruce Moody lost his job. He'd always been able to find work, but not now. Days became weeks, weeks became months. Facing homelessness, Moody decided to make panhandling his job. At first he saw only himself and his dilemma...read more

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9780786262403 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 1, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Nearing age sixty, Bruce Moody lost his job.
9781590030318 | Red Wheel/Weiser, May 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When Bruce Moody was almost 60, he got fired.

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Product Description: Fallback Position, Preparing a Contingency Plan for the Worst Case Scenario provides career and personal tools for anyone who can be fired or laid off so a job loss will be less devastating to them or their family. Those tools include analyzing what is important on the job and off, what you do not want from work, what you do want from your work, how to negotiate severance, how to protect yourself from defamation, how to handle health insurance, and how to negotiate for you and your familys well-being...read more

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9780972977616 | Exurba Pub, November 30, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Fallback Position, Preparing a Contingency Plan for the Worst Case Scenario provides career and personal tools for anyone who can be fired or laid off so a job loss will be less devastating to them or their family.

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Product Description: Book by Dahlstrom, Harry

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9780940712805 | Reissue edition (Dahlstrom & Co, June 1, 2002), cover price $5.00 | About this edition: Book by Dahlstrom, Harry

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