Labour Economics

This edited volume assesses from a variety of perspectives the policies introduced to support the development of household services across Europe. ...

In the decades after World War II, inflation undermined the aspiration for full employment in Australia. This book tells the story of how the Austr...

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...

This book explores the extent to which a transformation of public employment regimes has taken place in four Western countries, and the factors inf...

This volume of original essays considers how the International Labour Organization has helped generate a set of ideas and practices, past and prese...

In Who Needs Jobs?, Lemieux explains how jobs are not the goal of economic life and how creating jobs should not be the goal of public policy. He d...

People regularly multitask, though we have been warned about the mental costs of task-switching in psychology and the popular press. Meanwhile, eco...

In Who Needs Jobs?, Lemieux explains how jobs are not the goal of economic life and how creating jobs should not be the goal of public policy. He d...

Perspectives on Human Capital and Assets goes beyond the current literature by providing a platform for a broad scope of discussion regarding HC&am...

The Rebirth of the Greek Labor Market provides evidence of the macroeconomic evolution of the Greek economy, as well as current conditions in the l...

Scholars have studied the nineteenth century's unprecedented labor flows in global and specific country contexts, but have lacked a comprehensive a...

When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and Economics, was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was immediately haile...

Employment Relations in South Korea provides readers with an overarching view of Korean employment relations and insight into recent changes, and a...

This book presents the economic heartbeat and institutional details that shaped Athenian society during the Classical period (508-323 BCE), employi...

The growing use of nuclear medicine, the potential expansion of nuclear power generation, and the urgent needs to protect the nation against extern...

In this vibrant new history, Phil Tiemeyer details the history of men working as flight attendants. Beginning with the founding of the profession i...

In the blizzard of attention around the virtues of local food production, food writers and activists place environmental protection, animal welfare...

Beginning in October 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a set of workshops designed to gather informatio...

A magisterial overview of the history of the fight for leisure in the United States

Labour Law Utopias: Post-Growth & Post-Productive Work Approaches engages with new socioeconomic ideas that look beyond the current growth-driv...

Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. Leaving her home, she ...

This book examines how language is a central resource in transforming migrant women into transnational domestic workers. Focusing on the migration ...