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This volume provides an in-depth, qualitative exploration of familial entrepreneurship as an innovative employment model......more
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This book is the first of its kind to investigate the ongoing significance of industrial craft in deindustrialising plac......more
In Fighting Deindustrialisation, Andy Clark outlines and examines one of the most significant and under-researched perio......more
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Originally published in 1973, this book was designed as a concise and usable guide to those aspects of the law which par......more
Originally published in 1976, Democracy and Government in European Trade Unions is a detailed and practical examination ......more
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Originally published in 1952, Trade Unions quickly became a classic and went through 7 editions. It is a brief yet compr......more
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Originally published in 1994, this volume analyses the relationship between political parties and trade unions in Poland......more
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Helen Shiller recounts her independent path of resistance: from the student anti-war movement of the 1960s to a Black Pa......more
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This book brings together the expertise of economists, legal scholars, political scientists, and sociologists in order t......more
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Winner of the 2022 Philip Taft Labor History Book Prize Often cast as villains in the Northwest’s environmental battles,......more
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First published in 1985 Industrial Relations in Europe examines the development of trade unions and their relations with......more
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
The Shelf2Life Women’s Studies Collection is a unique set of titles that examine the struggles and achievements of women......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more