Labour Economics

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...

During the last decade, many European countries introduced extensive reforms to the way that income protection and activation programmes for the un...

This bookexamines inclusive growth in a range of social and economic areas in India, including physical infrastructure, vulnerable sections of the ...

Generations of feminists have linked women's empowerment, autonomy, and oppression to issues involving work. Most conflated women's economic and po...

This book sheds light on the impact of the Great Recession from the perspective of both developing and developed countries. It traces the complex a...

In this gripping book, Dr. Samli makes the case that the US economy is shifting for the worse, tilting towards a finance-driven economy, and argues...

Offering a comparative perspective, this book examines working poverty - those in work who are still classified as 'poor'. It argues that the growt...

Contesting claims that postwar American liberalism retreated from fights against unemployment and economic inequality, The Problem of Jobs reveals ...

This book assesses the phenomenon of international framework agreements (IFAs), examining their implementation and impact around the world as well ...

Regulating for Decent Work is a response to the dominant deregulatory approaches that have shaped labour market regulation in recent years. The int...

Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in ...

Management & Workplace Culture Book of the Year, 2020 Porchlight Business Book AwardsA Publishers Weekly Fall 2020 Big Indie BookThe dark side ...

This comprehensive and instructive study examines the relative success or failure of government policies in preventing and alleviating unemployment...

Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for r...

Management & Workplace Culture Book of the Year, 2020 Porchlight Business Book AwardsA Publishers Weekly Fall 2020 Big Indie BookThe dark side ...

Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for r...

There is a modest but growing body of scholarly literature on experiences of retail work, with only a handful of studies existing on retail organiz...

Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environme...

The authors investigate the phenomenon of highly skilled Chinese returnees and their impact on the development of the Chinese economy and society, ...

With unemployment at historically high rates that show signs of becoming structural, there is a pressing need for an in-depth exploration of this e...