Labour Economics

Win in a world of increasing choice by becoming the clear, unique fit. The gig economy is made up of project-based, or on-demand services, that can...

Only 15% of employees worldwide are engaged at work. This represents a major barrier to productivity for organizations everywhere - and suggests a ...

Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year and, if they pay an average $1,000 to recruiters, moving workers over borders is a...

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

Poor Workers' Unions Illuminates key connections between the social justice movements of the last fifty years and today's most innovative labour or...

China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary and most u...

The global recession has had political consequences across the world, but nowhere greater than in the periphery of Europe. In response, a massive w...

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...

This new edition Workbook has been fully updated for 2019 and covers Theme 3 Business behaviour and the labour market A-level Paper 1 Markets and b...

Over the last forty years, the landscape of the United States has been fundamentally transformed. It is partially visible in the ascendance of glit...

This book has both empirical and theoretical goals. The primary empirical goal is to examine the evolution of industrial relations in Western Europ...

The Arab Spring exposed the fundamental weakness of the non-oil Arab economies, namely, the imbalance between population growth and the labour mark...

From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon''s CamperForce programme in Texas, American employers have discover...

By bringing together the views of employers, unions and academics, the second edition of Employment Relationships provides an unrivaled introductio...

Computing and information and communications technology (ICT) has dramatically changed how we work and live, has had profound effects on nearly eve...

U.S. agencies with responsibilities for enforcing equal employment opportunity laws have long relied on detailed information that is obtained from ...

This volume includes a number of papers written in English and published in the last fifteen years in which the Italian labour market faced many ch...

A pension is a voluntary benefit offered by employers to assist employees in providing for their financial security in retirement. Public and priva...

Tens of thousands of foreign nationals travel to the United States each year under the H-2A (agricultural) and H-2B (nonagricultural) visa programs...

Worldwide labor migration has transformed and reshaped various fields of government policy and professional practices. Labor migration is associate...

As the military draws down its forces, many veterans will enter the civilian workforce and may seek educational and training opportunities to furth...

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workers drive our nation''''s innovation and competitiveness by generating new ideas, new c...

After a sustained economic growth period at the end of the last century and the beginning of this one, Latin America still faces high inequality an...

From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City of New York through their struggles. Start...

Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforceyoung adults, parents, formerly incar...

The crucible of North American neo-liberal transformation is heating up, but its outcome is far from clear. Continental Crucible examines the clash...

With the financial crisis and Great Recession, some economists have begun to question the orthodox approach to production and capital/labor relatio...

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020The acclaimed new book from the celebrated author of The Road to Somewhere'Brilliant, will bec...

The global economic crisis has had numerous implications for individuals, businesses and policy makers, but none were as profound and as socially a...