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Опубликовано на портале: 29-11-2007
Ronald Philip Dore, Mari Sako
Изд-во: Routledge, 1998, cерия "Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies", 224 с.
Japan is regarded as a world leader in the field of education and training for improved economic performance. Yet success in Japan is often achieved by going against what is regarded as ideal practice elsewhere. This book offers the most comprehensive review available in English, fully updated from the first edition, of the many facets of Japanese vocational education and training. It covers the system from primary education through to in-job training offered by companies and provides a detailed study of current practice. This gives equal emphasis to formal training in explicitly vocational courses and informal training in factories, shops and offices.
The authors are also concerned to analyse the difference between substantive 'person-changing' training and mere 'ability-labelling'. They raise important issues such as: to what extent does the need to package skills to provide convenient qualifications distort the actual training given? How efficient is it to rely on professional trainers to certify the acquisition of skills, rather than run separate testing systems? In Japanese companies the authors have discovered that pride in doing the job well is often the strongest motivation, and that much company training is carried out by colleagues.



Опубликовано на портале: 08-10-2007
Peter A. Hall, David Soskice
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001
What are the most important differences among national economies? Is globalization
forcing nations to converge on an Anglo-American model? What explains national differences
in social and economic policy? This pathbreaking work outlines a new approach to
these questions. It highlights the role of business in national economies and shows
that there is more than one path to economic success.




Опубликовано на портале: 20-12-2006
Paul Marginson, Keith Sisson
New-York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 384 с.
This book comprehensively analyzes the impact of continuing European integration
on industrial relations institutions and outcomes. It organizes an immensely rich
body of theoretical and empirical material to sustain its core argument that the
governance of industrial relations is increasingly multi-level. Cross-national influences
are shown to mix with national ones and involve the European sector and company,
as well as Community, levels. Competing tendencies towards 'Europeanization', 'Americanization'
and 'Re-nationalization' are identified. The approach is multi-disciplinary and truly
cross-national. It deals with both the theory and practice of industrial relations
in contemporary Europe.



Work and Politics [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 02-02-2007
Charles F. Sabel
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, cерия "Cambridge Studies in Modern Political Economies", 320 с.
Work and Politics develops a historical and comparative sociology of workplace relations in industrial capitalist societies. Professor Sabel argues that the system of mass production using specialized machines and mostly unskilled workers was the result of the distribution of power and wealth in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Great Britain and the United States, not of an inexorable logic of technological advance. Once in place, this system created the need for workers with systematically different ideas about the acquisition of skill and the desirability of long-term employment. Professor Sabel shows how capitalists have played on naturally existing division in the workforce in order to match workers with diverse ambitions to jobs in different parts of the labor market. But he also demonstrates the limits, different from work group to work group, of these forms of collaboration.



Опубликовано на портале: 22-12-2006
Mari Sako
Oxford: Open University Press, 2006, 320 с.
All firms wrestle with restructuring, involving consolidation of mergers and acquisitions
on the one hand, and fragmentation through outsourcing and spin-offs on the other.
Through an in-depth investigation into the organizational strategies of Japanese
corporate management and union leaders in Japan, Mari Sako explores the issue of
'organizational boundaries' that arises from such restructuring.
Examining the strategy and structure of both businesses and trade unions, the book
draws upon empirical evidence drawn from interviews conducted at Toyota and Matsushita
and their respective unions. It examines their respective strategies in coping with
organizational boundaries against the backdrop of changing labour markets, and, in
the process, challenges widely held notions about Japanese corporate and union structures.
Mari Sako goes on to explore the implications of these relationships in other advanced
industrial countries for corporate restructuring, jobs, and labour market flexibility.


Опубликовано на портале: 22-12-2006
Vivien A. Schmidt
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 372 с.
In this path-breaking book, the author argues that European countries' political-economic
policies, practices, and discourses have changed profoundly in response to globalization
and Europeanization, but they have not converged. Although national policies may
now be more similar, especially where they follow from common European policies,
they are not the same. National practices, although moving in the same general direction
toward greater market orientation, continue to be differentiable into not just one
or even two but three varieties of capitalism. And national discourses that generate
and legitimate changes in policies and practices not only remain distinct, they matter.
The book is a tour de force which combines sophisticated theoretical insights and
innovative methods to show that European countries generally, but in particular Britain,
France, and Germany (for which the book provides lengthy case studies), have had
very different experiences of economic adjustment, and will continue to do so into
the future.



Опубликовано на портале: 16-11-2007
Joseph Alois Schumpeter
Москва: Экономика, 1995, 540 с.
Впервые становится достоянием российского читателя одна из наиболее известных работ крупнейшего западного экономиста. В книге Й. Шумпетер предпринял попытку непредвзятого, объективного анализа возможностей, заложенных в противостоящих социальных системах.
Для студентов экономических и социологических факультетов, аспирантов.



Опубликовано на портале: 16-11-2007
Joseph Alois Schumpeter
Москва: ЭКСМО, 2007, cерия "Антология экономической мысли", 864 с.
Книга включает два из наиболее известных произведений выдающегося экономиста первой
половины XX века Йозефа Алоиза Шумпетера (1883-1950) "Теория экономического развития" и "Капитализм, социализм и демократия" и переводы двух его статей, ранее недоступных
отечественному читателю. Йозеф Шумпетер вошел в историю экономической науки как глубокий исследователь теоретических проблем предпринимательства и эволюции социально-экономических систем, историк и методолог экономической теории. Его широкое эволюционноевидение социально-экономических процессов до сих пор оказывает влияние на современную экономическую мысль.
Для преподавателей и студентов экономических и социологических факультетов, аспирантов и исследователей в области общественных наук, а также всех интересующихся наследием классиков экономической науки.



Опубликовано на портале: 19-01-2007
Ernesto Screpanti
London: Routledge, 2001, cерия "Frontiers of Political Economy Series", 320 с.
This book presents a radical institutional approach to the analysis of capitalism. Ernesto Screpanti puts forward a number of provocative arguments that expose common ground in both neoclassical and Marxist orthodoxies. It will appeal to a broad audience of social scientists including advanced students and professionals with an interest in politics and economics.


Опубликовано на портале: 15-05-2007
Werner Sombart
Изд-во: Айрис-пресс, 2004, cерия "Человек и мир", 624 с.
Чем порождается дух предпринимательства, являющийся движущей силой современного капитализма? В одинаковой ли степени наделены им разные народы? Как религия влияет на экономику? Ответы на эти вопросы, ставшие вновь актуальными для России в конце XX века дает в своей книге "Буржуа" знаменитый немецкий социолог Вернер Зомбарт. Книга печатается по русскому изданию 1924 года.
В монографии "Буржуа" автор приходит к выводу о выдающейся роли евреев в развитии современного капитализма, признает их родоначальниками таких спекулятивно-финансовых механизмов управления экономикой, как ценные бумаги, банки и биржи. Роли евреев в развитии экономики он посвятил специальную работу "Евреи и хозяйственная жизнь" которая в составе данного сборника переиздается впервые с 1912 года.


Опубликовано на портале: 15-05-2007
Werner Sombart
Изд-во: Владимир Даль, 2005, 640 с.
В издание входят работы Зомбарта, написанные в 1910-е гг.


Опубликовано на портале: 12-11-2007
Brian Steensland
Изд-во: Princeton University Press, 2007, 330 с.
Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich
industrial democracies. The Failed Welfare Revolution shows us that things might
have turned out differently. During the 1960s and 1970s, policymakers in three presidential
administrations tried to replace the nation's existing welfare system with a revolutionary
program to guarantee Americans basic economic security. Surprisingly from today's
vantage point, guaranteed income plans received broad bipartisan support in the 1960s.
One proposal, President Nixon's Family Assistance Plan, nearly passed into law in
the 1970s, and President Carter advanced a similar bill a few years later. The failure
of these proposals marked the federal government's last direct effort to alleviate
poverty among the least advantaged and, ironically, sowed the seeds of conservative
welfare reform strategies under President Reagan and beyond.
This episode has largely vanished from America's collective memory. Here, Brian Steensland
tells the whole story for the first time--from why such an unlikely policy idea first
developed to the factors that sealed its fate. His account, based on extensive original
research in presidential archives, draws on mainstream social science perspectives
that emphasize the influence of powerful stakeholder groups and policymaking institutions.
But Steensland also shows that some of the most potent obstacles to guaranteed income
plans were cultural. Most centrally, by challenging Americans' longstanding distinction
between the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor, the plans threatened the nation's
cultural, political, and economic status quo.



Опубликовано на портале: 14-08-2007
Adam Szirmai
Изд-во: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 744 с.
Why are poor countries poor and rich countries rich? How are wealth and poverty
related to changes in nutrition, health, life expectancy, education, population growth
and politics? This modern, non-technical introduction to development studies explores
the dynamics of socio-economic development and stagnation in developing countries.
Taking a quantitative and comparative approach to contemporary debates within their
broader context, Szirmai examines historical, institutional, demographic, sociological,
political and cultural factors. Key chapters focus on economic growth, technological
change, industrialisation, agricultural development, and consider social dimensions
such as population growth, health and education. Each chapter contains comparative
statistics on trends from a sample of twenty-nine developing countries. This rich
statistical database allows students to strengthen their understanding of comparative
development experiences. Assuming no prior knowledge of economics the book is suited
for use in inter-disciplinary development studies programmes as well as economics
courses, and will also interest practitioners pursuing careers in developing countries.
A multidisciplinary approach drawing on a wide range of disciplines including economics,
history, sociology, anthropology, demography and political science. Easily accessible
for students with no prior knowledge of the field; it also exposes more advanced
students to the latest state of ongoing theoretical and empirical debates on developmen.
Rich statistical analysis of data from twenty-nine developing countries includes
75 tables with comparative time series on development indicators.


