At a time when so many people are losing their jobs, this book shows the reader how to cope and even prosper with job loss. It covers such topics as what to expect emotionally and how to cope if you're fired or let go; setting up goals and action planning to achieve them; strategies for an effective job search; and others. The book is designed to motivate and inspire people to see job loss as an opportunity to learn, grow and achieve even greater professional success.
Originally published in 1976, this book highlights the problems faced by many inner-city working class communities in 1970s Britain, with particular reference to the Gairbraid housing clearance area of Maryhill, Glasgow. It examines the policy of local authority re-housing. Both the policy and practice of re-housing is carefully analysed and the efficacy of community action illustrated and discussed.
Freedom from Poverty (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
by Daniel P.L. Chong
Human rights advocacy in the West is changing. Before the turn of the century, access to goods such as food, housing, and health care-while essential to human survival-were deemed outside of the human rights sphere. Traditional human rights institutions focused on rights in the political arena that could be defended through legal systems. In Freedom from Poverty, Daniel P. L. Chong examines how today's nongovernmental organizations are modifying human rights practices and reshaping the political...
Unemployment and Labour Market Flexibility
by Reija Lilja, etc., T. Santamak-Vaori, and G Standing
Known to the Police (Crime and Punishment in England, 1850-1922)
by Thomas Holmes
This book will be bought by researchers and graduates students in Artificial Intelligence and management as well as practising managers and consultants interested in the application of IT and information systems in real business environment.
Movilidad Urbana y Pobreza
A Sourcebook for Engaging with Civil Society Organizations in Asian Development Bank Operations
This publication provides guidance on how civil society organizations (CSOs) can be more effectively engaged in Asian Development Bank (ADB) operations to maximize the benefits for its developing member countries. With their unique strengths and specialized knowledge of their communities and constituencies, CSOs have an essential role to play in creating a more prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific. To contribute to this, the publication provides advice, templat...
Storytelling (Arbeits- Und Organisationspsychologische Techniken)
by Karin Thier
Narratives Wissensmanagement - was ist das? Warum war das neu eingefuhrte Projekt ein Erfolg, ein anderes dagegen ein Fehlschlag? Was kann man aus erfolgreichen und weniger erfolgreichen Projekten und Ablaufen lernen? Wie kann ich das im Unternehmen vorhandene Wissen nutzen, um zukunftig Zeit, Muhen und Kosten zu sparen? Das sind wichtige und kostenintensive Fragen des Wissensmanagements. Ein neuer Ansatz dabei ist das Story telling, eine Methode des narrativen, auf Geschichten und Erzahlungen b...
Definitions of Registered Unemployed
Poverty and Welfare in England, 1700–1850 (Manchester Studies in Modern History)
by Steve King
The first comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the literature on poverty, communal welfare systems and alternative welfare strategies. Offers a new perspective on how we should conceptualise poverty and how ordinary families and communities responded to that poverty.. Indicates the need for new directions in the study of poverty and welfare using previously unpublished results form one of the biggest poor law databases in existence.. Argues that welfare historians have paid too little attent...