The Fast-Paced, Disorienting World of the Flight Attendant
Containing lively portraits of flight attendants, both current and retired, this book shows the intimate, illuminating, funny, and sometimes dangerous behind-the-scenes stories of daily life for the flight attendant.
The Charitable Choice provision of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act - buttressed by President Bush's Faith-Based Initiative of 2000 - encouraged religious organizations, including congregations, to bid on government contracts to provide social services. This title looks at the evidence for and against faith-based initiatives.
The Charitable Choice provision of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act - buttressed by President Bush's Faith-Based Initiative of 2000 - encouraged religious organizations, including congregations, to bid on government contracts to provide social services. This title looks at the evidence for and against faith-based initiatives.
Examines client assessment of the programs, their progress in developing attitudes and resources important for finding self-supporting employment, and their experience in finding actual employment. This title concludes with three sets of concrete recommendations for public policymakers, social service program managers, and researchers.
Examines client assessment of the programs, their progress in developing attitudes and resources important for finding self-supporting employment, and their experience in finding actual employment. This title concludes with three sets of concrete recommendations for public policymakers, social service program managers, and researchers.
Reviews, summarizes, and integrates a diverse literature on the topic of retirement. Organized around three phases of the retirement process - pre-retirement, retirement decision-making, and post-retirement - the chapters examine economic, sociological, gerontological, and psychological theory and research.
Are there 'power-crazed, difficult people' in your life? Written by a psychology author, this title presents a study in organisational psychology and reveals the personalities behind the facades of 'power freaks'.
Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers' Union
This account of the formation of United Auto Workers Union shows how the gains workers made were not easy or inevitable, but required strategic and tactical sophistication as well as concerted action. An oral history is included.
The contributors to this collection of essays explore the diverse and complex ways in which migrant women in a variety of occupational and social categories experience international relocation.
The contributors to this collection of essays explore the diverse and complex ways in which migrant women in a variety of occupational and social categories experience international relocation.
This text seeks to construct a conception of the labour market, which is sensitive to the variability in labour market experiences and processes, taking account of the tensions between the global economy and the local organization of labour markets.
Highlights the Economic Performance Insurance (EPI) plan to tackle the New Deal's unsolved problems. This book explains that the indignity and physical suffering of the jobless themselves do not have to continue, job discrimination can be combated, and our national income will rise as "non-production" declines.
Is the decline of the American labor movement symptomatic of a terminal condition? This title presents an incisive analysis of the American labor movement and a manifesto for how this crucial institution can be revitalized.
