Labour Economics

Job loss is one of the most important issues in the capitalist world today: endless reports document the increasing scale of unemployment. This tit...

At the time in which this book was first published in 1987, mass unemployment had emerged as the dominant, most visible, problem of the West Europe...

Informal work – family care, voluntary work, and undeclared or unregulated work – is a critical form of labor in today’s economy, yet remains under...

This book explores how far existing networks of overseas Chinese and new flows of migrants act as drivers of economic relations between China and t...

This book provides an introduction and overview to seven applied financial studies on the theme of labour. The studies cover a wide range of topics...

The high growth performance of the Indian economy since the launch of economic reforms in the early 1990s has been much lauded. But how much of thi...

This volume compares the planning of economic conditions under the very different political systems of Soviet Russia, Fascist Germany and Italy and...

How can unions move from a defensive strategy to one of class transformation? Mulder demonstrates how the current union strategies of class blindne...

Against the background of increasing interest in the changing nature and quality of work, The Political Economy of Work offers a new and unique ass...

This book proposes a new, pragmatic way of approaching economic development which features policy learning based on a comparison of international b...

The rate of economic change in East Asia over the past two decades has been astounding. High levels of growth have been experienced by a number of ...

Based on a collection of labour contracts and other documents, this book examines the legal, economic and social relations of labour as they develo...

Precarious employment presents a monumental challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societie...

The recent recession has led to an ongoing crisis in the youth labour market in Europe. This timely book deals with a number of areas related to th...

This volume contains both theoretical and applied on the concept of equality of opportunity which says that a society should guarantee its members ...

This book begins from the central premise that progressive social change requires collective struggle underpinned by a clear strategy, and that pro...

The increasing amounts of money paid out in compensation to corporate executives have become the subject of a heated public policy debate on both s...

As Secretary General of the ICF and previously Assistant General Secretary of the IMF, Charles Levinson played an important part in developing the ...

Originally written as a series of pamphlets and at a time of high unemployment, this volume discusses free trade, monetary policy, wages and employ...

The Great Depression of the 1930s with its dramatic unemployment rates was one of the most striking economic events of the past century. It shook e...

Ernest Aves (1857-1917) was an influential social analyst and civil servant. This title, first published in 1907, during Aves’ work for the Board o...

Precarious employment presents a monumental challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societie...

Throughout the OECD, 30% of the average firm’s total labour costs comprises items which are other than direct remuneration. This reissue, first pub...

This book is the only comprehensive analysis of contemporary prison labor in the United States. In it, the author makes the provocative claim that ...

Miracle for Whom? offers a fresh and insightful perspective to the debate on rising income inequality in Chile, and on the broader question of how ...

First published in 1896, this seminal work considers the Question of the Unemployed at the height of imperialist capitalism. Hobson proposes a cont...

Critically examining economic developments within the last sixty years, this book argues that a crisis in global social reproduction is altering ex...

This book contends that high fertility is rational in that it achieves short term economic benefit and long term old age-support for families. Wide...

First published in 1987, this Routledge Revival reissues the first systematic and integrated analysis of working time and employment, reaching to t...

While gender has so often been found to be an important determinant of prevalence and outcomes of mental illness, economists have rarely focused on...

Millions of people—nearly 3 percent of the world’s population—no longer live in the country where they were born. Every day, migrants enter not onl...

Over the course of the 20th century, American domestic service changed from an occupation with a hierarchical, top-down structure to one in which r...

When Poland and Ukraine introduced their political, social and economic system reforms at the beginning of the 1990s, both economies were at a simi...

During the past 30 years, China has undergone extensive economic reform, replacing the government’s administration of enterprises with increasing l...

Globalisation is often considered as not only generating jobs, but also having a negative effect on those at the bottom of the labour supply chain....

As wealth inequality skyrockets and trade union power declines, the living wage movement has become ever more urgent for public policymakers, acade...