Labour Economics

In Our Unions, Our Selves, Anne Zacharias-Walsh provides an in-depth look at the rise of women-only unions in Japan, an organizational analysis of ...

Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to thi...

Basic income is one the most innovative, powerful and controversial proposals for addressing poverty and growing inequalities. This book examines t...

Md Saidul Islam and Md Ismail Hossain investigate how neoliberal globalization generates unique conditions, contradictions, and confrontations in l...

This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state. Using the emirate of Dubai as a case study, Migrant Du...

This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state. Using the emirate of Dubai as a case study, Migrant Du...

Examining the new realities of economic immigration to Europe, this book focuses on new trends and developments, including the rediscovery of econo...

Our health, our income and our social networks at older ages are the consequence of what has happened to us over the course of our lives. The situa...

The new macroeconomics is about distributions and flows, rather than points and intersections. Market frictions imply that the search for trading p...

Work is now more deadly than war, killing approximately 2.3 million people a year worldwide. The United States, with its complex regulatory system,...

The Egyptian economy has faced many challenges in the decade since the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. Not only was job creation anaemic from 2012 to 2...

La présente étude s'appuie sur des données démographiques, des travaux de recherche, des entretiens avec des informateurs clés, ainsi que des étude...

In this latest work by the prolific Mexican theorist Adrián Sotelo Valencia, the COVID-19 pandemic is shown to have merely exacerbated the profound...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This absorbing study examines the remarkable campaign for do...

THE FIVE-DAY WORKING WEEK MUST CHANGE: HERES HOW.Fingers crossed that this book will shake up the five-day working week. - Sir Christopher Pissarid...

This report examines the role of economic and social policies in understanding the evolution of inequality and poverty in Malawi over the past thre...

In this edition of the Demographic Observatory, the impact of population dynamics is illustrated through an analysis of selected indicators of labo...

In a rapidly urbanizing world, mayors often see migrants as a burden to their cities' labor markets and a threat to their development. Drawing on n...

This open access book intends to contribute to the debate on migrant labour exploitation by exploring the extent to which the EU and the European c...

This provocative book makes a compelling case for reducing the number of workdays in a week to four. Globalization has brought with it fiercer comp...

This book evaluates the global labour market in the context of gender equality, and the associated policies and regulations, particularly in develo...

This book explains the role of formal labour market institutions in keeping the labour utilisation in Central and Eastern Europe above the level ch...

The Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work analyzes how offshoring investments function as a platform for intercultural encounters among corporate a...

In the present stage of international capitalist development, women are increasingly being drawn into paid employment by multinational and state in...

South Africa's current political upheavals are the most significant since the transition from apartheid. Its powerful trade unions are playing a ce...

Drawing on a longitudinal study of the lives of NEET young people, this book looks beyond dominant discourses on youth unemployment to provide a ri...

Drawing on a longitudinal study of the lives of NEET young people, this book looks beyond dominant discourses on youth unemployment to provide a ri...

This book explores the combination of capital's changing composition and labour's subjective agency to examine whether the waning days of the 'swea...

Latinas on the Line provides a compelling analysis and historical and theoretical grounding of the oral histories, never before seen, of Latina inf...

The poems in Millrat are full of blessed and flawed humanity, based on author Michael Caseys experience working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massac...

Redundancies upend peoples lives, cause enormous stress, and lead to debilitating personal debt. The societal harm caused by mass layoffs has been ...

This open access book intends to contribute to the debate on migrant labour exploitation by exploring the extent to which the EU and the European c...

How can I create engagement strategies that will empower employees to succeed? This book offers a practical resource for developing an effective en...

How can I create engagement strategies that will empower employees to succeed? This book offers a practical resource for developing an effective en...

The creative sector is considered to impact on employment and creative sectors employment growth. Using a fixed effects model with time-lags, evide...

In response to the complexities of social change that have become evident in the 21st century, there is a need for innovation in career theory that...

Three million workers delivered health and social care in the UK in 2019, accounting for a tenth of the workforce. These frontline workers were the...

'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...

Transforming the economic lives of people in extreme poverty and vulnerability is a persistent challenge and drives economic inclusion programs wor...

This report puts the creation of more productive and better-paying jobs at the center of country growth strategies, presenting new data revealing h...

The complex and dramatic history of an illegal teachers strike that forever altered labor relations and Minnesota politics   When viewed from our t...

With a new preface and a new epilogue co-written with Jorge Ramirez-Lopez, this updated edition of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate ...