Darwin Paperback: 23 (Darwin College Lectures, Series Number 23) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521131952 ISBN 13: 9780521131957

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Leading authorities from the history of science, economics, philosophy and English literature as well as the biological sciences field provide accounts of the influence of the thoughts, ideas, research and writing of Darwin on the arts, society and science. Written for the non-specialist reader interested in any of these disciplines.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

William Brown is the Master of Darwin College and Professor of Industrial Relations in the Economics Faculty at Cambridge University. He was previously Director of the ESRC's Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick. His research has been concerned with collective bargaining, pay determination, incomes policy, payment systems, arbitration, minimum wages, and the impact of legislative change. His publications include Piecework Bargaining (1973), The Changing Contours of British Industrial Relations (1981), The Individualisation of Employment Contracts in Britain (1998) and The Evolution of the Modern Workplace (2009). He was a foundation member of the Low Pay Commission, which fixes the UK's National Minimum Wage and is now a member of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) Panel of Arbitrators, the Union Modernisation Fund Advisory Board. In 2002 he was awarded a CBE for services to employment relations.

Andrew Fabian is the Vice-Master of Darwin College and Royal Society Professor of Astronomy at the Institute of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge. His research interests centre on black holes and clusters of galaxies. He has organised several previous Darwin Lecture Series (Origins in 1986, Evolution in 1995 and Conflict, with Martin Jones, in 2005). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and was awarded an OBE in 2006.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521131952
• ISBN 13: 9780521131957
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 226
• Herausgeber: Brown William
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