Labour Economics

Globalization of production has created opportunities and challenges for developing country producers and workers. This volume provides solutions-o...

The financial crisis is destroying wealth but is also a remarkable opportunity to uncover the ways by which debt can be used to regulate the econom...

This volume seeks to go beyond the microeconomic view of wages as a cost having negative consequences on a given firm, to consider the positive mac...

This book analyzes three points: employment conditions for migrant workers, the impact of industrialization as part of industrial clusters upon sur...

This book explores the means through which the garment industry contributes to industrialization, poverty reduction, empowerment of undereducated w...

This sweeping survey of the history of work, from hunter-gatherers to dotcom telecommuters, deftly compresses thousands of years of human evolution...

The past few decades have witnessed the economic and geopolitical rise of a number of large middle-income countries around the world. This volume f...

In 2001 Germany and Austria became the last EU states to lift transnational controls restricting access to their labour markets for citizens of ex-...

David Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful n...

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Compe...

This book explores growth and structural change in the labor force that accompany economic development. It reports on labor force characteristics i...

Every year over 200 million peasants flock to China's urban centers, providing a profusion of cheap labor that helps fuel the country's staggering ...

Stephen Innes studies the relationship between work, land, and community in seventeenth-century Springfield, Massachusetts. Using analytical concep...

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. An Approach to Manpower Problems. 2. Manpower Planning and the Market. 3. A New Concept of the Employment Service. ...

This book explores the history and global expansion of AB Volvo, one of the hundred largest corporations in the world, through the experiences of i...

Basic Income in Japan is the first collective volume in English entirely devoted to the discussion of Japan's potential for a basic income program ...

From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City of New York through their struggles. Start...

In a turbulent global economy, the popular idea of declining farms and factories is largely unfounded. UN and World Bank data show growing output e...

Bringing together important contributions from leading Israeli Jewish and Palestinian scholars, this comprehensive and multi-disciplinary volume ad...