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Author: Myra Strober Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262034387 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 249
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It is 1970. Strober has just been told by the chairman of Berkeley's economics department that she can never get tenure. Driving home afterward she realizes the truth: she is being denied a regular faculty position because she is a mother. Angry, she also finds her life's work: to study and fight sexism, in the workplace, in academia, and at home. Strober's memoir captures the spirit of a revolution lived fully, from her Brooklyn childhood to her Stanford seminar on women and work. Strober's interest in women and work began when she saw her mother's frustration at the limitations of her position as a secretary. Her consciousness of the unfairness of the usual distribution of household chores came when she unsuccessfully asked her husband for help with housework. Later, when a group of conservative white male professors sputtered at the idea of government-subsidized child care, Strober made the case for its economic benefits. In the 1970s, the term "sexual harassment" had not yet been coined. Occupational segregation, quantifying the value of work in the home, and the cost of discrimination were new ideas.
Author: Myra Strober Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262034387 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 249
Book Description
It is 1970. Strober has just been told by the chairman of Berkeley's economics department that she can never get tenure. Driving home afterward she realizes the truth: she is being denied a regular faculty position because she is a mother. Angry, she also finds her life's work: to study and fight sexism, in the workplace, in academia, and at home. Strober's memoir captures the spirit of a revolution lived fully, from her Brooklyn childhood to her Stanford seminar on women and work. Strober's interest in women and work began when she saw her mother's frustration at the limitations of her position as a secretary. Her consciousness of the unfairness of the usual distribution of household chores came when she unsuccessfully asked her husband for help with housework. Later, when a group of conservative white male professors sputtered at the idea of government-subsidized child care, Strober made the case for its economic benefits. In the 1970s, the term "sexual harassment" had not yet been coined. Occupational segregation, quantifying the value of work in the home, and the cost of discrimination were new ideas.
Author: Jon Carleton Messenger Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1782540881 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 321
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'Work sharing' is a labour market instrument devised to distribute a reduced volume of work to the same (or similar) number of workers over a diminished period of working time in order to avoid redundancies. This fascinating and timely study presents the concept and history of work sharing and explores the complexities and trade-offs involved in its use as both a strategy for preserving jobs and a policy for increasing employment. The expert contributors examine the resurgence in the use of work sharing as a job preservation strategy via country case studies of work-sharing programmes implemented across the globe during the Great Recession of 20082009. These studies clearly illustrate that work sharing has been successful as a crisis-response measure in a number of countries. Lessons learned and their implications are presented alongside prescriptions on how to design permanent work-sharing policies that would provide appropriate incentives to generate positive effects for employment and promote a sustainable and job-rich economic recovery. This enlightening book will prove invaluable to academics, researchers, students and policymakers in the fields of labour economics, public sector economics and social policy.
Author: Douglas L. Kruse Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226056961 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 433
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The historical relationship between capital and labor has evolved in the past few decades. One particularly noteworthy development is the rise of shared capitalism, a system in which workers have become partial owners of their firms and thus, in effect, both employees and stockholders. Profit sharing arrangements and gain-sharing bonuses, which tie compensation directly to a firm’s performance, also reflect this new attitude toward labor. Shared Capitalism at Work analyzes the effects of this trend on workers and firms. The contributors focus on four main areas: the fraction of firms that participate in shared capitalism programs in the United States and abroad, the factors that enable these firms to overcome classic free rider and risk problems, the effect of shared capitalism on firm performance, and the impact of shared capitalism on worker well-being. This volume provides essential studies for understanding the increasingly important role of shared capitalism in the modern workplace.
Author: Fred Best Publisher: Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 232
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Monograph on issues and employment policy options in using work sharing as a means of reducing unemployment in the USA - discusses economic implications and efficacy in employment creation, and examines alternative policies, including subsidyzed worktime reductions such as early retirement, sabbatical leave and short time working, and imposed worktime limitations such as underemployment and restricted overtime as well as time-income trade-offs (tax incentives, fringe benefits). References.
Author: Austin Kleon Publisher: Workman Publishing Company ISBN: 0761181369 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 225
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In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey—getting known. Show Your Work! is about why generosity trumps genius. It’s about getting findable, about using the network instead of wasting time “networking.” It’s not self-promotion, it’s self-discovery—let others into your process, then let them steal from you. Filled with illustrations, quotes, stories, and examples, Show Your Work! offers ten transformative rules for being open, generous, brave, productive. In chapters such as You Don’t Have to Be a Genius; Share Something Small Every Day; and Stick Around, Kleon creates a user’s manual for embracing the communal nature of creativity— what he calls the “ecology of talent.” From broader life lessons about work (you can’t find your voice if you don’t use it) to the etiquette of sharing—and the dangers of oversharing—to the practicalities of Internet life (build a good domain name; give credit when credit is due), it’s an inspiring manifesto for succeeding as any kind of artist or entrepreneur in the digital age.
Author: United States. Office of Personnel Management. Family-Friendly Workplace Advocacy Office Publisher: ISBN: Category : Civil service positions Languages : en Pages : 24
Author: Maureen E. McCarthy Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 304
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Case studies of work sharing through the rearrangement of working time in various industries in the USA - covers compressed working week, reduced hours of work, part time employment, Job Sharing, extended paid leave, sabbatical leave, flexible retirement and short time working; looks at obstacles, employment creation effects, impact on personnel management, shared work unemployment benefit in California, etc. Bibliography pp. 271 to 277 and references.
Author: Noah Meltz Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 104
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Feasibility study of introducing work sharing and Job Sharing in Canada - using an econometric model and empirical evidence, examines advantages and disadvantages of work sharing (reduced hours of work to prevent layoff and unemployment) and Job Sharing (conversion of full- time jobs into permanent part time employment to suit employee preferences), esp. Economic implications, labour costs, labour productivity, labour supply and labour demand, labour policy issues, etc. Bibliography pp. 89 and 90, graphs and statistical tables.
Author: Myra Strober
Author: Myra Strober
Author: Jon Carleton Messenger
Author: Douglas L. Kruse
Author: Julie Batz
Author: Fred Best
Author: Austin Kleon
Author: United States. Office of Personnel Management. Family-Friendly Workplace Advocacy Office
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Author: Maureen E. McCarthy
Author: Noah Meltz