Posts Tagged ‘Labor’

The price of free software: Labor, ethics, and context in distance education

April 9th, 2010

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This digital document is a journal article from Computers and Composition, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The use, development, and dissemination of open-source software (OSS) appears to be more in line with the liberatory, collaborative, epistemological ideals of institutions… More >>

The price of free software: Labor, ethics, and context in distance education

Globalization, Technology and Issues of Labor Market in Asia and Singapore

March 26th, 2010

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This book studies the impact of globalization and technological changes in the labor market in Asia, with particular reference to Singapore. It covers issues related to labor market matching, employment linkages between manufacturing and services, impact of technological changes on labor demand, aging workforce, immigrant workers, training and manpower development, and the wage gap in an open economy. It also discusses policy issues related to the labor market in As… More >>

Globalization, Technology and Issues of Labor Market in Asia and Singapore

Cyberunion: Empowering Labor Through Computer Technology

March 22nd, 2010

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Key players in organized labour in the USA and abroad are busy modernizing their communications and making creative and effective use of computers and other technology. The author of this book argues that the road to CyberUnion has begun and that those unions are ensuring a future strength…. More >>

Cyberunion: Empowering Labor Through Computer Technology

INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis

March 20th, 2010

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This book is designed for human resources managers and directors of personnel who are concerned with labor productivity. It gives benchmarks and gap analyses used to gauge a company’s performance vis–vis firms competing firms in the same sector, at the global level. In particular, this report covers INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY, RENO, USA. With the globalization of markets, greater foreign competition, and the reduction of entry barriers, it becomes all the mor… More >>

INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis