Labour Economics

Hegemony and the Politics of Labour takes up a question that goes to the heart of the debate about politics, capitalism, and discourse: how can lab...

Originally published in 1987, this book examines how much industrialisation improved the standard of living of the British worker, based on the exp...

Originally published in 1979, this book examines differing forms of international, interracial working- class action and the relationship between w...

Pioneering work on the musical material from the archives of the English court was undertaken by Nagel (1894), Lafontaine (1909) and Stokes (in the...

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of contemporary issues in international trade and economic development. Emphasising the significance of...

This volume presents a theoretical and strategic discussion on the linkages between sustainable graduate employability, skill building and economic...

What do human beings do when they work, how is work organized, and what are its multidimensional – economic, social, political, biographical, ecolo...

First published in 1977, On the Economic Identification of Social Classes centres around the economic identification – the definition in terms of p...

The outcome of three years of research on the role of institutions in labor markets at the research unit Labor Market Policy and Employment of the ...

This book is about unequal development and labour in Brazil, with particular reference to the economic and social development of the Northeast regi...

The characteristics, nature, determinants, and size of the informal economy differ from country to country. While much research has been carried ou...

This book is about unequal development and labour in Brazil, with particular reference to the economic and social development of the Northeast regi...

Originally published in 1979, the purpose of this book is to introduce a theory of the distribution of national income between wages, profits and o...

This classic study of the effect of unemployment and of the ways of relieving it upon actual, typical families of the 1930s and 1940s is a vivid, s...

The last twenty-five years of the twentieth century was a period of extraordinary change in organizations and the economies of the developed world....

This book assesses the effects of globalization and neoliberal economic regimes in low- and middle-income countries, primarily on industries, inves...

The outcome of three years of research on the role of institutions in labor markets at the research unit Labor Market Policy and Employment of the ...

Over the past 50 years the global labour market is transforming from reliable employment to low-wage and unstable informal and precarious jobs. Thi...

The successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact ...

The U.S. labor movement may be on the verge of massive growth, according to Dan Clawson. He argues that unions don't grow slowly and incrementally,...

Japanese scholars have begun to challenge conventional wisdom about effective labor organizing, and Ikuo Kume has written the first book in English...

The main purpose of this book is to enhance the understanding of differences in productivity performance between countries and sectors and to impro...

This collection of case studies incorporates many voices from the Asian Pacific American business community. Through numerous interviews, Diana Wu ...

This book analyzes Chinese history, politics, and economic development through the lens of labor allocation within the world's largest workforce. C...

This supplement focuses on the NBA with particular reference to pay and performance. In-depth analyses of positional pay variations, player negotia...

Pioneering work on the musical material from the archives of the English court was undertaken by Nagel (1894), Lafontaine (1909) and Stokes (in the...

German unification brought fundamental, often traumatic changes for the people in eastern Germany. Women as a group were arguably more deeply aff...

This volume presents the single most comprehensive source of knowledge on the career development of racial and ethnic minorities. In so doing, it s...

Despite much debate in recent years about the economic and professional impact of foreign engineers and computer professionals in the United States...

Between the world wars, unemployment spread throughout the industrialised world like a disease. In Bread and Work, Matt Perry places this global un...

The implications of globalization for labour are more often asserted than analyzed. This collection, and its companion volume The Global Economy, N...

This six-volume set focuses on Latin American, Caribbean, and Asian immigration, which accounts for nearly 80 percent of all new immigration to the...

First Published in 1971. This volume is an historical look at Kenyan international firms and labour, starting in 1945 and ending at the years of in...