Labour Economics

Globalization has transformed how nations, firms and workers compete in the international economy over the past half century. This book by Gary Ger...

This book, which was first published in 1972, is not a collection of case-studies in cost-benefit analysis, of which there had been already several...

Colin Winston traces the Libres' emergence following the collapse of Catholic syndicalism in Catalonia and shows how, in the period up to the Civil...

Have you ever felt totalled? This book provides a utopian vision which could replace the overbearing truth that capitalism encompasses the entire...

The coveted Made in Italy label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing. The phrase evo...

This book presents a comparative historical overview of female employment patterns across the Mediterranean region, analyzing how the relationship ...

Seeking to historicize the 2007-2009 Great Recession, this volume of essays situates the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the c...

Employment relations in advanced, post-industrial democracies have become increasingly insecure and uncertain as the risks associated with work are...

Seeking to historicize the 2007-2009 Great Recession, this volume of essays situates the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the c...

In order to describe how the elites in two political systems grappled with the potentially explosive influx of foreign labor, Gary Freeman analyzes...

A unique account of labor relations in the modern Chinese economy, Beyond the Iron Rice Bowl brings together more than thirty in-depth case studies...

Historical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet f...

In the years since 2007 the U.S. economy has endured a severe financial crisis, a Great Recession, and continuing heavy unemployment. These events ...

The Surplus American considers a future where increasing numbers of Americans will be rendered jobless and redundant. Exploring the ongoing crisis ...

Despite a growing literature debating the consequences of neo-liberal political and economic policy in the former Eastern bloc, the idea of neo-lib...

Anti-competitive business cartels, engaging in practices such as price fixing, market sharing, bid rigging and restrictions on output, are now subj...

Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy is a re-imagining of the...

No sector has been as vital as oil to the Russian economy since Vladimir Putin came to power. The longest serving leader since Stalin, Putin has pr...

A groundbreaking consideration of death from capitalism, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuryFrom a 2013 Texas fertilizer plant explosi...

Labor Economics has comprehensive coverage, and gives instructors the flexibility to tailor their text precisely to the course that they want to te...

From Chinatown to Every Town explores the recent history of Chinese immigration within the United States and the fundamental changes in spatial set...

This book examines the migration trends, drivers, and impacts among skilled workers within the European Union (EU). It assesses the economic benefi...

A pioneering account of the surging global tide of market powerand how it stifles workers around the worldIn an era of technological progress and e...

'Remi Adekoya is a welcome blast of unsentimental rigour into a race debate clogged up with emotion and moralism. His dissection of the economic un...

As globally recognized arbitration experts, the authors of THE LABOR RELATIONS PROCESS bring nearly a century of combined experience with the labor...

Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of unders...

THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ORGANIZED MIND 'Everyone we know needs this remarkable book ... Essential for...

Combining critical race studies with cultural production studies, Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work is the only academic bo...

This report is intended to provide conceptual and empirical learnings to help support the ongoing implementation of a continent-wide 'Digital Trans...

Far-reaching changes in technology, climate, and global economic integration are transforming the world of work in ways that we do not yet fully un...

Introducing a New Economics is a groundbreaking textbook that heralds a revolution in the teaching of economics. Students and lecturers alike are r...

A groundbreaking consideration of death from capitalism, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuryFrom a 2013 Texas fertilizer plant explosi...