Product Description: In this two-volume set, the editors present seminal articles by leading SSA scholars describing the development of SSA Theory and its wider application. The first volume offers an introduction to SSA theory and covers the historical context, the founding documents of the approach, subsequent theoretical and empirical developments, the relationship between SSA theory and related approaches, and an introduction to the work of Bowles, Gordon and Weisskopf on the rise and demise of the postwar SSA...read more

Product Description: Die Versicherungsbranche sieht sich mit verstärktem Wettbewerb, erhöhtem Kostendruck, steigender Komplexität betrieblicher Prozesse, den Auswirkungen der Globalisierung und anspruchsvolleren Kunden konfrontiert. Dar|ber hinaus trägt auch die Finanzmarktkrise dazu bei, dass die sog...read more

Product Description: Starting in the 1990s, San Francisco launched a series of bold but relatively unknown public policy experiments to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers. Since then, scholars have documented the effects of those policies on compensation, productivity, job creation, and health coverage...read more

Product Description: Starting in the 1990s, San Francisco launched a series of bold but relatively unknown public policy experiments to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers. Since then, scholars have documented the effects of those policies on compensation, productivity, job creation, and health coverage...read more

Product Description: Lange Zeit wurde das Marketing in der deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft vernachlässigt. Inzwischen erlangt es (im Sinne einer Ausrichtung aller betrieblichen Bereiche auf den Markt und seine Anforderungen) auch in Versicherungsunternehmen eine wachsende Bedeutung...read more

Product Description: For this insightful collection, Professor Reich has selected some of the most significant published articles on labor mobility and segmented markets. The book investigates the development of this important field from the pioneering papers on labor market segmentation analysis of the 1970s, through the early debates to the later theoretical models and econometric evidence...read more

Product Description: In Work and Pay in the United States and Japan, authors Clair Brown, Yoshifumi Nakata, Michael Reich, and Lloyd Ulman provide an integrated and detailed analysis of the components of firm human resources systems in the US and Japan...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book offers an ideal introduction to the social structure of accumulation (SSA) approach to the analysis of capitalist economies and societies. This approach seeks to explain the fortunes of economies in terms of the influence of political and economic institutions, and has proved to be a powerful tool for understanding economic success and failure...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Enormous progress has been made in global health conditions during the past several decades, yet chronic hunger and illness persist in poor countries. The authors analyze the potential of international cooperation to improve health in poor countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This paperback book of readings, to which 60 people (mostly social scientists) have contributed, constitutes a massive indictment of the contemporary American economic system. It is cast in Marxian teminology but stripped of some of Marx's turgidity and excess verbiage...read more

Product Description: Segmented Work, Divided Workers presents a restatement and expansion of the theory of labor segmentation by three of its founding scholars. The authors argue that divisions with the US working class are rooted in a segmentation of jobs since World War II...read more

Product Description: In an investigation of the effects of racism on the American economy, Michael Reich evaluates the leading economic theories of racial inequality and presents the new theory that discrimination against blacks increases inequality of income among whites...read more