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Employment Futures: Reorganization, Dislocation, and Public Policy.

The reviewer, Alfred Diamant, is a professor of political science and West European studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.

This work will not attract a wide readership. It should, however, for it deals with one of the more intractable problems of the U.S. political economy. Moreover, Osterman examines crucial issues of the American educational system by stressing links among that system, its outputs, and the labor market. He does so in good part by a careful comparative study of labor-market functioning in Sweden and the Federal Republic of Germany.

The reason this book will not get the readership it deserves is twofold. It is a book for specialists, so that even social scientists fluent in other branches of these disciplines, such as this reviewer, find the going tough. Readability is further reduced by an uncompromisingly tight focus on the issues, with little effort to lighten the nonspecialist reader’s task. At the same time, the author works hard at summarizing preceding arguments and taking the reader over terrain that had previously been covered in the book. These might seem to be contradictory complaints, but they are not; the summarizing of earlier arguments is just as difficult to manage as their original presentation.

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Non-Compete Contract Basics – The Employer Perspective

A non-compete contract is an agreement signed by an employee or contractor where he/she agrees that they will not engage in certain employment within a certain geographic area for a certain period of time after they quit or are fired. A non-solicitation contract is an agreement signed by an employee or contractor where he/she agrees that they will not contact and/or solicit an employer’s customers and/or remaining employees for a certain period of time after they quit or are fired.

I previously authored an article for MITECHNEWS.com on non-compete contracts from an employee perspective. This article will address non-compete and non-solicitation agreements from the employers point of view.

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Gender Distribution in Organizations

“Gender bilingual organizations” is a find of Avivah Wittenberg-Cox. She wrote a new book, “Because, like every author, I thought there was a book screaming to be written.” (1)
The book presents seven steps to building “bilingual’ organizations.”

One of the questions Avivah poses on the gender issue is: “how can you be sure to have hired the best candidates when you only recruit men?”

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