Labour Economics

In Putin's Labor Dilemma, Stephen Crowley investigates how the fear of labor protest has inhibited substantial economic transformation in Russia. P...

In Putin's Labor Dilemma, Stephen Crowley investigates how the fear of labor protest has inhibited substantial economic transformation in Russia. P...

Stitching the 24-Hour City reveals the intense speed of garment production and everyday life in Dongdaemun, a lively market in Seoul, South Korea. ...

In Re-Union, David Madland explores how labor unions are essential to all workers. Yet, union systems are badly flawed and in need of rapid changes...

Informality and informal employment are wide-spread and growing phenomena in all regions of the world, in particular in low and middle income econo...

Economic events such as the recent global economic crisis can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the individual and house...

Each year, 200 million workers from China's vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migr...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Guy Standing...

Shortlisted for the CMI Management Books of the Year Awards. An expert on innovation argues that many capable women are losing out at work, and th...

This book explores the ways that women combine motherhood with paid work in contemporary Ireland and the consequences for individual women, familie...

Once upon a time, Britain forged a mighty industrial empire - built with the blood, sweat and tears of society''s most vulnerable members. Children...

Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you re wearing out, But human creatures lives! Stitch stitch stitch, I...

The book uses a comparative study of Germany and Britain to reveal how national institutions shape the labour market careers of higher education gr...

The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century-and perhaps for the last forty years-and the...

Notoriously Militant is a primer on worker militancy. 'Ordinary' workers made history every day, through direct democracy and members' activity in...

This is an iconoclastic work, based on a vast knowledge of the relevant literature and on archival materials in French, English, and Russian. It ef...

For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It's a situation that we in...

The economic crisis has highlighted major shortcomings in the EU flexicurity strategy which, although suitable to tackle structural unemployment in...

How can the simple choice of a mens suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown...

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

One of the worlds leading experts on international trade explains that we must look beyond globalization to explain rising inequality.Globalization...

The number of women in positions of power and authority in Japanese companies has remained small despite the increase in the number of educated wom...

Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap, disposable labour. The fa...

'Revolutionises our understanding of the carceral state' - Fidelis Chebe, Director of Migrant Action During 2019-20 in England and Wales, over 17 ...

The ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking on and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of cont...

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

According to public opinion data over the past decade, most Americans hold center-left attitudes regarding key economic and social policy issues...

Far from witnessing the beginning of the end of organized labour as a major political force, Rethinking Global Labour argues that, post-financial c...