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Text contains historical proceedings of the Edinburgh police force in relation to their established policies.
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.
Adam Shaw had everything: A pretty wife, three smart kids, a great job, a big house. There was just one problem: he liked to drink. A lot. Piece by piece, his secure world disintegrates. By the time he has lost everything that gave meaning to his life it is too late. In his struggle to regain his life Adam must solve the devil's own dilemma: he finds he cannot trust the only organization that can help him back to sanity. Adam's death-struggle infects everyone around him: Gordon, the mysterious stranger who becomes his closest friend; Jackie, the compassionate woman who shows him the way back, and then leaves him; Scott, the young scientist who saves his life at sea; and Leslie, the beautiful nurse with whom he falls in love, but who refuses to accept him until he can sober up. Follow Adam into the abyss, and then back up into the sunlight. You won't be able to set this book down.
This book features original research underpinned with theory drawn from economics, organization theory, history and social psychology. The authors deliver a comprehensive analysis of trade unions’ prospects in the new millennium as well as case studies which deal with topical issues such as: the reasons for the loss of five million members in the 1980s and 1990s the way in which unions’ own structures inhibit their revitalization the apparent failure of unions to thrive in the benign times since 1997 the extent to which use of the internet will permit unions to break with their tradition of organizing by occupation or industry the prospects for real social partnership at national level the way in which high performance workplaces in the US give voice to workers without unions. Written by some of the leading scholars in the area, this book gives an insight into union prospects for the future and has important policy implications for all parties concerned with industrial relations, unions, employers and governments.
Vols. for 1837-52 include the Companion to the Almanac, or Year-book of general information.