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Forced Labour and Migration : Patterns of Movement Within Africa (Signed by one Contributor)

Signed by one of contributors on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty, very slightly foxed page edges and no bumping to corners. 405pp. A collection of papers covering different area of Africa and examining forced labour and labour migration during the 19th and 20th centuries from Senegal to Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa and Namibia.

Life After Work. The Arrival of the Ageless Society

A withering critique of age stereotyping in the modern world based on a study of older men and women. Index. 198 pages. Dust jacket rubbed on surface and browned around edges.

Comment trouver un emploi et se faire embaucher - Tout ce qu'il faut savoir pour convaincre une entreprise que vous lui êtes indispensable.

Harcover in-8, 266 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Bel exemplaire. [BL-9]

L'Approche systemique : Pour gerer l'incertitude et la complexite.

grand in-8°, 168 pages, broché. Bel exemplaire. [MI-26]

Workers' Autonomy : Anarchist Pamphlet No 3

No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked slightly foxed boards and no bumping to corners. 40pp. A discussion of the means needed to further the aims of the proletariat.

Managers as Facilitators: A Practical Guide to Getting Work Done in a Changing Workplace

No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 248pp. A practical effective program to transform managers into skilled facilitators.

Careers for Boys : A Guide to the Choice of a Profession

Previous owner's name and slight foxing to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, slightly dusty page edges and minor rubbing to corners. 256pp. Over eighty professions for the boys of the 1950s. Illustrated with black & white photographs. A scarce book.

Changing Directions: Employment options in Mid-life

library sticker on spine; library stamp on title page and catalogue page; text tight and bright. A practical guide to getting back to work after redundancy or early retirement, aimed at the 40-55 age group, which offers advice on deciding what direction to take, with ideas for how to look for a job, how to retrain, when to consider self-employment, and how to adjust to change Ex-Library

Comment retrouver un job en Belgique. Les techniques de l'outplacement.

in-8°, 294 pp., broche, couv. illustree. Bel exemplaire (pli a la couv.). [DV-16]

Race, Training, and Employment

Lectures on the Industrial Revolution of the Eighteenth Century in England

Previous owner's name/address to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, sunning to part of spine, dusty top of page edges and minor bumping to corners. 282pp. Written after his death, this work comprises very detailed notes from Toynbee for a book he intended to write.

A Handbook of Industrial Relations Practice

Initials to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, bump to top of spine, two page corners folded and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very light creasing to upper and lower edges. 386pp. Practice and law in the staff/employer relationship.

Employment for Disabled People

minor wear along spine, library plate on front inside cover, library stamp on FEP and page block, text clean and tight Ex - Library

Work, Employment, and Unemployment: Perspectives on Work and Society

little creasing on the corners of the cover and on the spine, last owers name on the FEP.

Pitman's Office Desk Book

No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly rubbed unmarked boards and softening to some corners. 281pp. Pitman's standard work with tables and ready reckoner for the working office before the days of calculators and computers.

The Poor Laws : Report from His Majesty's Commissioners for Inquiring into the(ir) Administration and Practical Operation including Supplement No 1

Professionally rebound with original boards, new end papers and spine. Name to title page and that of Professor Peter Townsend on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean slightly tanned slightly wrinkled pages in a very tight binding with roughly trimmed dusty page edges. 362 pages plus Supplement No 1 of 128pp. Official Report on the workings of The Poor Law and the Poor Law Amendment Act which led to the establishment of workhouses. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Townsend's Collection including many of his signed and authored works.

Women's Right to Work

Name on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight pamphlet with slightly foxed unmarked rear cover and no bumping to corners. 20pp. A report on the problems facing women in gaining employment.

The Trucking Pioneers : Book II

No marks or inscriptions. Reading crease to front cover and crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 237pp. Book two of the mini company histories of thirty-five American trucking companies, celebrating 100 years of existence since the first firms were set up in 1890. This volume concentrates mainly on the 1950s and 1960 for the small companies who led the way with trade and transport across North America. Each mini history is accompanied by at least one full-page image of one of their trucks. Extremely scarce in the UK.

The Trucking Pioneers : Book III

Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 211pp. Book three of the mini company histories of thirty-one American trucking companies, celebrating 100 years of existence since the first firms were set up in 1890 - the small companies who led the way with trade and transport across North America. Each mini history is accompanied by at least one full-page image of one of their trucks. Extremely scarce.

The Vanishing Trucking Pioneers

No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, single crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 213pp. Book one of the mini company histories of forty-eight American trucking companies, celebrating 100 years of existence since the first firms were set up in 1890. These were mostly the small companies who led the way with trade and transport across North America. Each mini history is accompanied by at least one full-page image of one of their trucks. Extremely scarce in the UK.

Development from Within : Survival in Rural Africa

Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 284pp. An exploration of the complex social relationships of power in rural Africa from the household to the state and the diverse means by which men and women in rural Africa struggle to survive.

Sabotage in the American Workplace: Anecdotes of Dissatisfaction, Mischief and Revenge

A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 176 pages. Very slight edge wear to cover.

Corporate Therapy and Consulting (Vol. 5 - Mental Health Practice under Managed Care Series)

241 pages including index. Serves as an indispensable guide for translating clinical skills into an organizational setting. "...clearly fills a critical yet unmet need for the growing number of mental health practitioners and trainees who want to base their careers primarily in the corporate arena." - Lenore S. Blum, Ph.D. Northwestern University. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Excellent copy. Book

Speculators and Politicians

223 pages. Signed and inscribed by author upon blank leaf following copyright page. Several black and white photographic plates including portrait of author and, at page 107, an amazing 1929 scene of many dozens of fedora-wearing investors crammed into Solloway, Mills & Company's Vancouver office engaged in what was surely frenetic stock trading. Mr. Solloway argues for a Canadian National Economic Council, a National Stock Exchange, and government control of large financial institutions. In the second part he uses his company, Solloway, Mills and its prosecutions to show that money used in Canadian investment and speculation creates Canadian employment, and that the mistakes of politicians can destroy industry, resulting in unemployment. One plate loose but present. Front free endpaper removed, resulting in the binding being open at that point. Above-average external wear. Binding brittle. A worthy copy of this fascinating work. Book