Labour Economics

This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global...

The contributors show that the current understanding of trafficking excludes large groups of people who, due to their migration status, experience ...

This book examines the international trends and associated developments in gender equality policy including corporate governance such as gender quo...

Since its inception Research in Labor Economics has published over 350 articles encompassing a wide range of themes and spanning an array of labor ...

Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies ...

Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies ...

A classic since its original publication, Women Have Always Worked brought much-needed insight into the ways work has shaped female lives and sensi...

The global focus of corporations, government institutions, and NGOs have led to a defining question of the era: How do foreigners feel about workin...

Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century. It is woven into the very fabric of social and political d...

From Finland to Kenya to Stockton, California, more and more governments and private philanthropic organizations are putting the idea of a Universa...

From Finland to Kenya to Stockton, California, more and more governments and private philanthropic organizations are putting the idea of a Universa...

This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face si...

While much is known about the situation in the labour market in the form of gender pay and earnings gaps, rather little is understood about their s...

Susan Eisenberg began her apprenticeship with Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1978, the year president Jimmy Ca...

Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics (1890) Founder of Modern (Neo-classical) Economics. His book Principles of Economics was the dominant tex...

In many countries, the number of people working beyond pension age is increasing. This volume investigates this trend in seven different countries,...

As the worlds factory China exerts an enormous pressure on workers around the world. Many nations have had to adjust to a new global political and ...

In Our Unions, Our Selves, Anne Zacharias-Walsh provides an in-depth look at the rise of women-only unions in Japan, an organizational analysis of ...

Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to thi...

Basic income is one the most innovative, powerful and controversial proposals for addressing poverty and growing inequalities. This book examines t...

Md Saidul Islam and Md Ismail Hossain investigate how neoliberal globalization generates unique conditions, contradictions, and confrontations in l...