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Handbook of employment and society : working space
Herod, Andrew (contributor); Rainnie, Al (contributor);  … - 2010
This Handbook deepens and extends the engagement between research concerned with work and employment and labour geography. It links fundamental concepts concerning the politics of place that human geographers have developed in recent years with the world of work
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851009
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Work after globalization : building occupational citizenship
Standing, Guy - 2009
1. Work and labour in great transformations -- 2. Fictitious decommodification : the failure of industrial citizenship -- 3. Labour recommodification in the global transformation -- 4. Inequality, class and the 'precariat' -- 5. Crumbling barriers to decommodification -- 6. Occupational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851023
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A research agenda for work and employment
Procter, Stephen J. (ed.) - 2024
"Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. A Research Agenda for Work and Employment critically...
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Globalisation and social development : European and Southeast Asian evidence
Cuyvers, Ludo (ed.) - 2001
The impact of globalisation on social development is a critical issue for both developed and developing countries. In Globalisation and Social Development, leading experts investigate this from the perspective of European, and more specifically, Southeast Asian economies including Thailand, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474096
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The Elgar companion to digital transformation, artificial intelligence and innovation in the economy, society and democracy
Carayannis, Elias G. (ed.); Grigoroudis, Evangelos (ed.);  … - 2023
"Digital transformation continues to accelerate change in all aspects of modern life. This book examines when, where, how, and why artificial intelligence and digital change can boost innovation and transform the economy, society and democracy. It provides a holistic approach to the promotion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287422
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Handbook of research on artificial intelligence, innovation and entrepreneurship
Carayannis, Elias G. (ed.); Grigoroudis, Evangelos (ed.) - 2023
"The Handbook of Research on Artificial Intelligence, Innovation and Entrepreneurship focuses on theories, policies, practices, and politics of technology innovation and entrepreneurship based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). It examines when, where, how, and why AI triggers, catalyzes, and...
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Higher education in a global society
Johnstone, Donald Bruce (contributor);  … - 2010
force for globalization and a model for adaptation, but nonetheless faces challenges. This volume of essays examines …1. The significance of globalization to American higher education / D. Bruce Johnstone -- 2. The realities of mass …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851622
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The globalization of higher education
King, Roger - 2013
-growing field of the globalization of higher education. They include work by a variety of noted scholars, such as Altbach, Clark and … Globalization, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. -- Braudel, F. (1985), 'The Perspective of the World', in Civilization …, Societies and Education, 8 (1), March, 23-37 -- Peter Scott (1998), 'Massification, Internationalization and Globalization', in …
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Handbook on globalization and higher education
King, Roger (contributor); Naidoo, Rajani (contributor);  … - 2011
Higher education has entered centre-stage in the context of the knowledge economy and has been deployed in the search for economic competitiveness and social development. Against this backdrop, this highly illuminating Handbook explores worldwide convergences and divergences in national higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851202
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Contingent employment in Europe and the United States
Storrie, Donald W. (contributor);  … - 2003
contingent employment in Sweden -- 5. Contingent employment in Spain -- 6. Contingent employment in Germany -- 7. Flexible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850977