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Sustainability of construction materials
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ISBN: 9781439801307 9781845695842 1845695844 1439801304 9781845693497 1845693493 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge, UK Boca Raton, FL

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Until recently, much of the development of building materials has predominantly focused on producing cheaper, stronger and more durable construction materials. More recently attention has been given to the environmental issues in manufacturing, using, disposing and recycling of construction materials. Sustainability of construction materials brings together a wealth of recent research on the subject.The first part of the book gives a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the sustainability of the following building materials: aggregates; timber, wood and bamboo; vegetable fibres; maso

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Building design --- Building materials. Building technology --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- bouwmaterialen --- Building materials. --- Sustainable construction. --- Sustainable buildings. --- Ecologically sustainable buildings --- Environmentally sustainable buildings --- Green buildings (Green technology) --- Buildings --- Sustainable development --- Green construction --- Building --- Sustainable engineering --- Architectural materials --- Architecture --- Building supplies --- Construction materials --- Structural materials --- Materials --- Building materials --- Sustainable buildings --- Sustainable construction --- 69.059.1 --- 691.175 --- 691.1 --- 691.322 --- 691.3 --- 691.504 --- 691.54 --- 691.6 --- 691.7 --- 691 --- 691 Building materials. Building components --- Building materials. Building components --- 691.7 Metallic building materials --- Metallic building materials --- 691.6 Glass. Window glass. Plate glass. Enamel etc. --- Glass. Window glass. Plate glass. Enamel etc. --- 691.54 Cements. Pozzolanic materials --- Cements. Pozzolanic materials --- 691.504 Building materials and the environment. Sustainable building materials --- Building materials and the environment. Sustainable building materials --- 691.3 Artificial stone. Concrete. Various agglomerates --- Artificial stone. Concrete. Various agglomerates --- 691.322 Aggregates (including lightweight aggregates). Breeze. Clinker. Slag. Pumice. Concrete aggregates in general --- Aggregates (including lightweight aggregates). Breeze. Clinker. Slag. Pumice. Concrete aggregates in general --- 691.1 Materials of organic origin --- Materials of organic origin --- 691.175 Plastics --- Plastics --- 69.059.1 Maintenance in general. Inspection. Cleaning --- Maintenance in general. Inspection. Cleaning --- Sustainable engineering. --- Environmental aspects.


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States' gains, labor's losses : China, France, and Mexico choose global liaisons, 1980 - 2000.
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ISBN: 0801447771 0801462568 9780801462566 9780801447778 Year: 2009 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell university press

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In this explicitly comparative work, Dorothy J. Solinger examines the effects of global markets on the domestic politics of major states. In the late 1970's, leaders around the world faced a need both to continue productive investment and to cut labor costs to compete internationally in a changed world market. To accommodate forces seemingly beyond their control, they often opted to reduce social protections and benefits that citizens had come to expect, in the process recalibrating their established political-economic coalitions. For countries whose governance was built on a coalition between workers and the state, the political conundrum was particularly intense. States' Gains, Labor's Losses concentrates on three countries-China, France, and Mexico-where revolution-inspired political compacts between labor and the state had to be renegotiated. In all three cases, choices to forge a deepened dependence on international capital markets required the ruling parties to fire large numbers of workers and cut social benefits while attempting not to provoke widespread social unrest or even full-scale revolt among their supporters. China, France, and Mexico also shared strong legacies of protectionism and state intervention in the economy, so the decision of each to join a supranational economic organization (France and the EU, China and the GATT/WTO, Mexico and NAFTA) in the hope of alleviating crises of capital shortage involved submission to a new set of liberal economic rules that further compromised their sociopolitical compacts. Examining a fundamental question about the dynamics of globalization and worker protest through an innovative comparative perspective, States' Gains, Labor's Losses emphasizes the growing tensions and new compromises between the working class and their political leaders in the face of intense international economic pressures.


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Human Resource Economics and Public Policy : Essays in Honor of Vernon M. Birggs Jr
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ISBN: 144163598X 9781441635983 9780880994453 0880994452 9780880993593 0880993596 9780880993616 0880993618 Year: 2009 Publisher: Kalamazoo : W.E. Upjohn Institute,

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This book pays tribute to Vernon M. Briggs Jr. and his enduring mark on the study of human resources. The chapters, by his students and colleagues, explore and extend Briggs's work on employment, education and training, immigration, and local labor markets. His unwavering emphasis on institutional reality, public policy, and economic dynamics animates the entire collection.


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The world of child labor : an historical and regional survey
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ISBN: 9780765617071 0765617072 1315698773 1317453867 9786612554735 1849727112 0765626470 1282554735 9781849727112 9780765626479 9781315698779 6612554738 9781317453840 9781317453857 1317453859 Year: 2009 Publisher: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe,

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This definitive resource details both the current and historical state of child labor in each region of the world, focusing on its causes, consequences, and cures. Including contributions by an international team of child labor scholars, researchers, policy-makers, and activists, as well as a wealth of current statistical data, it is the most comprehensive reference available on the subject.


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Offshoring of American jobs : what response from U.S. economic policy?
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ISBN: 0262013320 9786612694271 0262258579 1282694278 9780262258579 9781282694279 9780262013321 0262258013 9780262258012 6612694270 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

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