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Working in the Service Sector
A Tale from Different Worlds
Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
The rise to prominence of the service sector - heralded over half a century ago as the great hope for the twenty-first century - has come to fruition. In many cases, employment in the service sector now outnumbers that in manufacturing sectors, and it is accepted that in all developed countries,...
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Vocational Training
International Perspectives
Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
The last decade has given rise to a strong public discourse in most highly industrialized economies about the importance of a skilled workforce as a key response to the competitive dynamic fostered by economic globalisation. The challenge for different training regimes is twofold: attracting young...
Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge
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Building Chaos
An International Comparison of Deregulation in the Construction Industry
Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
This collection draws on international comparisons from the main industrialized countries in a key field - the construction industry. One only has to walk around almost any major city in the industrialized economies of the world to see how well the construction industry is doing and this study is a...
Published November 6th 2002 by Routledge