Labour Economics

The call center industry is booming in the Philippines. Around the year 2005, the country overtook India as the world's voice capital, and industry...

In 2008 the world experienced the Great Recession, a financial and economic crisis of enormous proportions and the greatest economic downturn since...

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governmentsand why we cant see itOne in four American workers says their workplace is a dictatorship. ...

While overall unemployment has declined, the unemployment rate remains nearly twice as high for young people 16 to 19 years of age and nearly three...

Fostering positive relationships between employers and employees is crucial to ensure employee commitment and engagement, as well as overall busine...

There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and...

While sexual harassment of women in the workplace has been discussed for decades it is still a pervasive problem. This book looks at the history...

Interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand newsrooms, MPs' offices, and film sets, but they also deliver aid in Afghanistan, design high-e...

This thought-provoking and challenging book is about sex and profits. It is not a book about Women's Lib, but it is a book that will lead to the re...

A legal thriller, a close account of the tortuous 10-month negotiations, in the mid-1980s, for the big play that eventually put both the NBA's play...

An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to make it in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work...

Job satisfaction is a central concept in work and organizational psychology as it is associated with important individual as well as organizational...

The European labour market models are at a crossroads. Almost all Western European countries have experienced a lack of job creation, productivity ...

In an era of continued globalisation and economic-restructuring youth employment constitutes what many commentators regard as one of the key policy...

In an era of continued globalisation and economic-restructuring youth employment constitutes what many commentators regard as one of the key policy...

The U.S. veterinary medical profession contributes to society in diverse ways, from developing drugs and protecting the food supply to treating com...

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...

Algorithms are probably the most sophisticated tools that people have had at their disposal since the beginnings of human history. They have transf...

A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even f...

A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even f...

The events leading to the Marikana massacre not only shattered South Africa's image of itself as a democracy in which workers had a respected place...

Personnel Economics in Practice, 3rd Edition by Edward Lazear and Michael Gibbs gives readers a rigorous framework for understanding organizational...

*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017* *Winner of the 2016 Labor History Best Book prize* Over a million p...

* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Po...

'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it... Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason'Gu...

How the European Union handles posted workers is a growing issue for a region with borders that really are just lines on a map. A 2008 story, disse...

As the financial crisis continues to cast its long shadow over Europe, the view that immigrants compete unfairly for jobs and present an unsustaina...

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments--and why we can't see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a dictators...

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has declared the U.S. economy to be in recession since December 2007. In response to high unemploym...

Millions of U.S. workers have little or no savings for retirement, potentially adding to future strains on state and national safety net programs. ...

In an increasingly global economy, and with retirement starting for the Baby Boomer generation, Congress has indicated a strong interest in ensurin...

Workers'''' compensation insurance covers nearly all workers in the U.S. and provides those who are injured or become ill as a result of work with ...

A BLOOMBERG BOOK OF THE YEAR ''This book will challenge you to rethink some of your assumptions about democracy, capitalism, and globalization.'' -...

The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new per...