tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post5008728265909438761..comments2023-08-16T12:07:22.995+00:00Comments on The Daily (Maybe): Meme: your nearest bookJim Jeppshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-31713446006511908202008-02-28T20:46:00.000+00:002008-02-28T20:46:00.000+00:00Is this some sort of trick?I have now looked at th...Is this some sort of trick?<BR/><BR/>I have now looked at three books and none of them run to a sixth sentence on page 123. And no, they are not Rupert Annuals.<BR/><BR/>I give up.weggishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04651722712995395981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-25886579200337322932008-02-27T20:12:00.000+00:002008-02-27T20:12:00.000+00:00"At the same time, employment and labour unrest in..."At the same time, employment and labour unrest in services has been growing worldwide and will likely continue to grow in the future. Because of the heterogeneity of services, the impact of the rise of service employment on workers' overall average bargaining power is not easy to summarize. On the other hand, we have argued that some of the most rapidly expanding service industries (eg. aviation) endow their workers with considerably bargaining power, while others (e.g. the education industry and producer services) are far more impervious to spatial fixes(geograpical relocation) than most manufacturing industries"<BR/><BR/>Beverley Silver, Forces of Labor (one of the more clear-headed and concise books on economics I've read)JS.Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08402019478997760884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-63442006782416103362008-02-27T15:53:00.000+00:002008-02-27T15:53:00.000+00:00'Ferguson changed his mind about retiring and it r...'Ferguson changed his mind about retiring and it remains to be seen whether he will be allowed to stay on in some capacity after his retirement and whether he will have a say in the choice of his successor. What is certainly true is that in this age of too few great managers for too many jobs, those few managers are increasingly able to control their own working lives. THe elite band can decide when and if they want to move on, and the timing of that move.'<BR/><BR/>The 90 Minute Manager (David Bolchover and Chris Brady)Matt Sellwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03065263755893515703noreply@blogger.com