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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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When James Brennan has to cancel his dream summer vacation and make some money for grad school, the only job he can get is at Adventureland, a tacky amusement park where the games are rigged and the rides make you hurl. But it's where he meets Em, and his rollercoaster ride to nowhere turns into the best summer ever.
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"Perspektive Jura" ist das Expertenbuch zum Einstieg in juristische Berufe im Öffentlichen Dienst, in Kanzleien und in Unternehmen. In zahlreichen Berufsbildern und Erfahrungsberichten stellen Autor:innen aus der Praxis interessante Tätigkeiten für leistungsstarke Jurist:innen vor. Auch die wichtigsten Fragen rund um Studienplanung, Bewerbung und Karriere werden beantwortet: Wie kann man bereits in Studium und Referendariat die Weichen für die...
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La presente obra busca desentrañar las carencias del sistema de inspección del trabajo en el Perú, de cara a convertirse en un sistema de garantía de derechos.
La óptica es principalmente normativa, lo que quiere decir que se busca interpelar aquellas normas jurídicas que regulan a la inspección del trabajo y a la Superintendencia Nacional de Fiscalización Laboral (SUNAFIL), a fin de analizar su idoneidad para crear un sistema potente y fuerte.
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Los regímenes laborales especiales son regulaciones que se elaboran en base a las particularidades de las prestaciones laborales dentro de las actividades económicas sustentadas en el artículo 103 de la Constitución. Sin embargo, su abundancia ha conducido a que un significativo y creciente número de trabajadores asalariados del sector privado se ubiquen dentro de un régimen especial, en vez de concentrarse en el régimen general, lo que ha...
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El artículo 12 del Texto Único Ordenado del Decreto Legislativo N°728, Ley de Productividad y Competitividad Laboral, aprobado por el Decreto Supremo N°003-97-TR, regula los supuestos de suspensión del contrato de trabajo o suspensión de labores, entre los que se encuentra aquel originado por caso fortuito y fuerza mayor.
A fin de poder de contextualizar el uso de este último, el primer capítulo del libro presenta un análisis teórico de...
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Este libro está enmarcado en el proyecto de investigación Determinación de las implicaciones de la subcontratación o tercerización en el trabajo digno o decente, una investigación interinstitucional desarrollada entre la Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Seccional Medellín, la Fundación Universitaria CEIPA, la Facultad de Contaduría y Administración de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y la Universidad Vasco de Quiroga de México.
Esta...
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"Co-Winner of the 2010 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association" "Co-Winner of the 2010 J. David Greenstone Award in the Politics and History section by the American Political Science Association" "Winner of the 2010 Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity and Politics section of the American Political Science Association" "Winner of the 2008 President's Book Award, Social Science History Association" Anthony S. Chen is associate...
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Since 1943, the lives of Brazilian working people and their employers have been governed by the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT). Seen as the end of an exclusively repressive approach, the CLT was long hailed as one of the world's most advanced bodies of social legislation. In Drowning in Laws, John D. French examines the juridical origins of the CLT and the role it played in the cultural and political formation of the Brazilian working class.Focusing...
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Starting in the early 1900s, many thousands of native Filipinos were conscripted as laborers in American West Coast agricultural fields and Alaska salmon canneries. There, they found themselves confined to exploitative low-wage jobs in racially segregated workplaces as well as subjected to vigilante violence and other forms of ethnic persecution. In time, though, Filipino workers formed political organizations and affiliated with labor unions to...
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Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with their employers. The English model was adopted, modified, and reinvented in more than a thousand colonial statutes and ordinances regulating the recruitment,...
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The Job Search: How to Find the Perfect Job and Land the Interview is the essential guide for anyone looking for a new job. This book covers everything you need to know to find and land your dream job, from writing a resume and cover letter to acing the interview.The book begins by helping you identify your ideal job and target companies. It then shows you how to write a resume and cover letter that will make you stand out from the competition. The...
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First published in 1998, The Lexicon of Labor found a large and appreciative following among readers who were grateful to have the vibrant, powerful language of the labor movement captured in a lively single volume. This long-awaited revised and updated edition includes dozens of new terms and developments that will introduce a new generation to the labor lexicon.
From Frederick Douglass to César Chávez, from the Haymarket Riots in 1886 to the...
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"A sweeping, addictive story of bravery and sacrifice…Authentic period detail creates a suspenseful, chilling atmosphere in this grand historical novel." -Susan Wiggs, #1 New York Times bestselling authors
"Fast-paced, suspenseful, and intriguing... Super enjoyable" -Elizabeth George, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"Had me guessing and turning pages right up to the final, shocking reveal-which I never saw coming. A perfect summer read!"-Charlie...
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Unionizing the Ivory Tower chronicles how a thousand low-paid custodians, cooks, and gardeners succeeded in organizing a union at Cornell University. Al Davidoff, the Cornell student leader who became a custodian and the union's first president, tells the extraordinary story of these ordinary workers with passion, sensitivity, and wit.
His memoir reveals how they took on the dominant power in the community, built a strong organization, and waged...
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Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labor--labor that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon--Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of al labor agreements punishable by imprisonment. By the eighteenth century, traditional legal restrictions no longer applied to many kinds of colonial workers, but it was not until the nineteenth century that indentured...
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