Product Description: No bachelors degree? As people like Bill Gates, Rachael Ray, and Matt Drudge have shown, it is no problem. Discover the 300 jobs with the best pay, fastest growth, and most openings no four year degree required. The author has taken massive data from the Department of Labor s Occupational Information Network database and other sources and turned it into a useful , interesting resource for workers who want good jobs and career advancement without four years in college...read more

Product Description: Presents details of pay, responsibilities, training and skill required, working conditions, and outlook for three hundred jobs that do not require a college degree.

In just two steps, "300 Best Jobs without a Four-Year Degree" helps the non-college grad quickly and easily narrow their career options and learn more about jobs of interest. Step One: Readers browse a variety of "best jobs" lists. Step Two: Readers learn more about the jobs of interest by looking up their descriptions. Features more than 50 "best jobs" lists, including best pay, fastest growth, most openings, best part-time, best for self-employment, and more.

Cattle has been big business in Australia for well over a century and earns substantial export dollars. Yet the contribution that Aboriginal people have made to this key sector of the Australian economy has not been widely recognised. This book uncovers the central role of Aboriginal labour in the Queensland cattle industry. It looks at a broad period, from Aboriginal land use at the time of first contact, resistance to white settlers and rapid absorption of Aboriginal people into the pastoral economy. The book also considers the impact of the introduction of equal pay rates in the 1970s and land management in the 1990s. Dawn May shows that the use of Aboriginal labour was a complex process involving a high degree of state intervention. Her book is an important economic and social history of the cattle industry in Queensland, but the pressing issue of native title makes the book highly relevant throughout post-Mabo Australia. (view table of contents)

Offers job descriptions and career planning information for people who choose not to pursue a college degree.

Offers job descriptions and career planning information for people who choose not to pursue a college degree. (view table of contents)

Offers job descriptions and career planning information for people who choose not to pursue a college degree. (view table of contents)

Offers job descriptions and career planning information (view table of contents)

Product Description: Not all great jobs require four years of college. In fact, projections show that up to 75% of future skilled jobs will not require a four-year degree. Mike Farr has complied these jobs--with job descriptions, market projections, job search techniques, and more--into a valuable resource guide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Assessment methods can largely determine what and how students learn, so it is vital that our assessment methods are appropriate to our true educational purposes. This book examines the issues underlying assessment procedures, such as truth, fairness, trust, humanity and social justice and goes on to consider the five key dimensions of assessment:* why assess?* what to assess?* how to assess?* How to interpret?* How to respond?Having guided us through the many conceptual and terminological traps, the book ends constructively with seventeen proposals for making assessment work in the best interests of our students...read more

Product Description: This study of canal construction workers between 1780-1860 challenges labor history's focus on skilled craftsmen. Canalers were unskilled workers, often members of despised social groups such as Irish immigrants and African-American slaves...read more

Product Description: The introduction of the concepts of continuous-time optimization and stochastic process that have enabled financial economists to integrate both dynamics and uncertainty into the study of optimal intertemporal allocations of resources, portfolio selection, and the dynamic behaviour of security prices represents one of the great advances in economic theory of this generation...read more

The introduction of the concepts of continuous-time optimization and stochastic process that have enabled financial economists to integrate both dynamics and uncertainty into the study of optimal intertemporal allocations of resources, portfolio selection, and the dynamic behaviour of security prices represents one of the great advances in economic theory of this generation. The ramifications of these concepts have been felt not only in the realm of academic economics but in the practice of investment banking, money management, and arbitrage trading. Economic theorists and finance practitioners alike turn to the work of Robert C. Merton as the seedbed for the theory of continuous-time finance theory. In this book, Merton provides an overview and synthesis of finance theory from the perspective of continuous-time analysis that covers individual financial choice, corporate finance, financial intermediation, capital markets, and selected topics on the interface between private and public finance. The volume is built around Merton's most prominent papers, which he has brought up to date with postscripts, and newly written chapters on recent developments in portfolio theory, option and other derivative security pricing, financial intermediation, capital asset pricing, and general equilibrium analysis. Paul Samuelson. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The American economy is in danger of leaving its low-skilled workers behind. In the last two decades, the wages and employment levels of the least educated and experienced workers have fallen disastrously. Where willing workers once found ready employment at reasonable wages, our computerized, service-oriented economy demands workers who can read and write, master technology, deal with customers, and much else...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book addresses the ways employers in American industries use race, gender, ethnicity, and institutions of the state and the church to manipulate workers’ networks and communities, and ultimately, to control the supplies and characteristics of their labor...read more

Product Description: This is a classic work in the fields of Women's Studies and Sociology. On its 10th Anniversary, it is still a vital and moving study of the lives of immigrant domestic workers, and is constantly cited in the research. Romero's new introduction will offer a fresh look at the material, including more recent events, proving that the issues discussed in the book are still very relevant to today's world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In an attempt to understand the lives of Americans earning near-minimum wages, the author works as a waitress in Florida, a cleaning woman in Maine, and a sales clerk in Minnesota.

Product Description: In this analysis of lower-class life in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868), Gary Leupp vividly portrays the emergence of an urban proletariat during a time of extraordinary economic change. With the rapid increase in commercial activity, products previously restricted to use by the elite became commodities for mass consumption...read more

Product Description: The only annually updated guide to summer jobs available for students and young people taking a gap year or travel break. Now in its 42nd edition, Summer Jobs Worldwide 2011 covers both paid and unpaid job opportunities in Europe and around the world, from crewing yachts in the Canaries and picking strawberries in Denmark to teaching in Japan...read more

Offers job descriptions and career planning tips for people who choose not to pursue a college degree, including information about working conditions, training, qualifications, job outlook, and salary for one hundred such jobs.

Product Description: Many jobs without a four-year degree are growing. Explore 100 careers that don t require a bachelor s degree, assess which ones match your skills, and get the job you want quickly with this authoritative resource. In one time-saving volume, job seekers and students find everything they need to research careers; learn about pay, outlook through 2018, education, and skills for the 100 jobs; match their personal skills to the jobs; and take seven steps to land a good job in less time...read more

Product Description: Offers job descriptions and career planning tips for people who choose not to pursue a college degree, including information about working conditions, training, qualifications, job outlook, and salary for one hundred such jobs.