Labour Economics

The 1970s was a golden age for representations of African American life on TV sitcoms: Sanford & Son, Good Times, The Jeffersons. Surprisingly...

The current literature regarding employment among persons with disabilities produces research results dependent on definitions of work disability, ...

This is a collection of essays by an array of contributors from the Global Labour Column, which highlights and examines class struggle as the core ...

This is a darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerit...

An issue for Congress and state and local governments is whether the pay and benefits of public workers are comparable to those of workers in the p...

Veterans'' employment outcomes in the civilian sector are an issue of ongoing congressional interest that has received particular attention during ...

Trade unions have repeatedly been challenged by neoliberal programmes implemented within Member States of theEuropean Union (EU) and at the Europea...

This book explores the dynamics of the Chinese labor market, the largest in the world. The sheer scale of rural laborers living in cities is the ul...

This study seeks to critically examine the field and function of social stratification, with emphasis on Africana phenomena. Phrased another way, t...

Based on over two years of participant-observation in labor brokerage firms, factories, schools, churches, and peoples homes in Japan and Brazil, S...

Economics plays a key role in human rights issues as decision-makers weigh the incentives associated with choosing how to use scarce resources in t...

*A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Pick* *A Newsweek & Refinery29 Most Anticipated Book of 2021*Timely and urgent. The New York Times...

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

Since the onset of the Great Recession, Germanys economy has been praised for its superior performance, which has been reminiscent of the economic ...

Data from the United States Census of Population indicate that there has been a dramatic increase in the labor force participation of married women...

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 ...

In late 2006, Saket Soni, a twenty-eight-year-old Indian-born community organizer, received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker i...

Family policy paradoxes examines the political regulation of the family in Sweden between 1930 and today. It draws attention to the political attem...

This volume considers how women are shaping the global economic landscape through their labor, activism, and multiple discourses about work. Bringi...

During the long sixties, baby boomers raised on democratic postwar ideals demanded a more egalitarian society for all. While a few became vocal lea...

Its hard to escape the feeling that in Britain today nothing works. In the face of mounting inflation and widespread industrial action, this book o...

Why in 2015 are there still large gender differences in economic success? This volume consists of a set of state of the art research articles to an...

Alternative types of ownership and participatory managerial practices have recently been intensively debated. The Great Recession has revived inter...

For most countries, women's labor force participation and hours of work has risen while men's have fallen. Concomitantly, men's and women's wages a...

This volume analyses employee participation in under- researched countries and whose economic institutions differ from the Anglo-American context. ...

This volume contains new important research on worker well-being. Topics include employment contracts, compensation schemes, worker productivity, r...

Critics on the left and the right typically agree that globalization, the loss of manufacturing jobs, and the expansion of the service sector have ...

After three decades of economic reform, China is experiencing substantial demographic changes and a steady structural transformation toward a marke...

Research in the Sociology of Work (RSW) is a twice yearly publication that examines current issues related to the sociology of work. The series pro...

This volume contains eight new and innovative research articles relevant to researchers and policy makers. Each chapter deals with an aspect of hum...

This volume contains new important research on worker well-being in a changing economy. Topics include employee compensation, human capital investm...

From famously humble origins, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history. In its effort to provide its trademark f...

The United States has seen a dramatic rise in the number of informal day labor sites in the last two decades. Typically frequented by Latin America...

An excellent summary of why and how we work. People Management magazine What do we know about the current state of work and employment and what doe...