Labour Economics

This title was first published in 2000. The UNDP announced on 29th July 1999 that 'A human crisis of monumental proportions is emerging in the form...

Title first published in 2003. This informative volume addresses the impact of the EU on national policies to combat poverty in European member sta...

First published in 1997, this volume responds to a world in the midst of a telecommunications revolution. What this means is that societies through...

This title was first published in 2002: Health systems across the globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or improving hea...

This short book examines the availability and adoption of new education technologies in higher education institutions in India. It provides a summa...

Published in 1998, this book looks at unemployment in Ireland, the country's most serious social and economic problem. It is the major contributor ...

The book is a collection of essays written by scholars of global repute in honour of Professor Sunanda Sen. Each paper is well-researched and offer...

Title first published in 2003. In recognition of the power of organised labour, the ANC Government elected in 1994 granted South Africa's unions un...

The idea of comparing rewards with others has a long and persistent presence in the social sciences, and can be found in many psychological, social...

This title was first published in 2000: Marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntrees first study of poverty in York, this volume examines the modern ...

Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the politicalrevolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ong...

Greeces economy and society have undergone important structural changes in recent years as a result of the financial crisis and consequent austerit...

There are 60 million health care workers globally and most of this workforce consists of nurses, as they are key providers of primary health care. ...

Turkey has experienced growth in both the population and the workforce. However, female participation in the workforce in Turkey is extremely low, ...

Labour migration has been on the agenda of many countries around the globe at the same time as governments of both sending and receiving countries ...

Contemporary mainstream economists see social wealth as the sum of individual incomes, but for three centuries many economists saw wealth as consis...

Thousands of gifted individuals, including women and underrepresented minorities, remain a disproportionally small fraction of those in science, te...

The book intends to capture the most critical issue that has cropped up as an aftermath of the Corona pandemic- the phenomenon of widening of globa...

This volume is a collection of 14 conference papers discussing India's development story around the three themes of sustainable development goals (...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Policymakers throughout Europe are enacting policies to support youth labour market ...

Decent Work-Life in Business: Essential Tool for Sustainable Development presents a detailed discussion of the concept of decent work-life and its ...

Inequality has dramatically increased in America, with few solutions on the horizon. Serious social inequalities persist. For example, the 14 riche...

This title was first published in 2000: The book will be a set of essays addressing various aspects of regulation. It will concentrate on regulatio...

This title was first published in 2000: Analyzing the poverty trends in Mexico during the 1980s and early 1990s, this work is concerned with the ex...

This title was first published in 2003. During the last twenty years, the longer-term sustainability of social insurance systems has become a major...

First published in 1988, this book sets out to reinterpret the changing place of working-class association in capitalist Britain. It argues that in...

Employment has changed dramatically in the last few decades with the onset of neoliberal globalization. This change has become the objective of inq...

Over a quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall and 10 years after their accession to the European Union (EU), Central and Eastern Eu...

This book deals with the transformations of both accumulation process and labour in the transition from a Fordist to a cognitive capitalism paradig...

Contemporary capitalistic systems have been undergoing profound transformations determined by the transition towards the so-called knowledge based ...

This title was first published in 2003. Most European cities have experienced problems in certain neighbourhoods that are termed deprived or exclu...

Executive search, headhunting, is now one of the archetypal new knowledge intensive professional services, as well as a labor market intermediary b...

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

This title was first published in 2002: Analyzing labour market trends in sub-Saharan Africa since 1970, this volume employs data collected from th...

The working poor of the world are observed to engage in long hours in hard jobs and to work more if wages are further reduced. Mainstream economics...

Following the 2008 global financial crisis, the viability of globalised financial capitalism was called into question. The resulting fear and uncer...

The Challenge of Labour (1980) explains the changing forms of labours relationship with British society during the period of 1850 to 1930 as the e...

It has been over a century since Cooperative System of Education, a work-study programme for higher education, was initiated by Herman Schneider at...

One cannot conceive of capitalism without labor. Yet many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to di...

The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthrop...

This title was first published in 2002: Health systems across the globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or improving hea...

This book is about the relationship between firm dynamics, innovation and globalization, the processes that are essential for long term economic gr...

Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both lab...

This book offers an analysis of external dimensions of an emerging economy, India, in the backdrop of neoliberal globalisation. External dimensions...

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Com...

Through a series of studies, the overarching aim of this book is to investigate if and how the digitalization/digital transformation process causes...

This book is concerned with the gender order of post-Fordism, and especially the labour demanded from many women by post-Fordist capitalism. It map...

Originally published in 1865, the following book is made up of a course of lectures, which the author delivered in the University of Cambridge in t...