Labour Economics

Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big...

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

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

In book two of the series My Job: Real People at Work Around the World, author Suzanne Skees profiles three professionals from each of the followin...

[Casss] core principlea culture of respect for work of all kindscan help close the gap dividing the two Americas. William A. Galston, The Brooking...

Une meme question a ete posee a une equipe de chercheurs specialises dans les relations du travail dans les principales economies post-industrielle...

The 116th Congress recently enacted benefits related to two unemployment insurance (UI) programs: Unemployment Compensation (UC) and Disaster Unemp...

If you could instantly make the worlds poor twice as rich but at the same time make the worlds rich twice as prosperous wouldnt you do it? This i...

This book presents urban transition experiences over nearly three decades in Bangalore based on the narratives of the city's street-based sex worke...

This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American iden...

We are led to believe that an endemic of overwork, debt, the underfunding of public services, gross inequality and poor mental health are sadly una...

For almost 150 years, scholars have been debating how to interpret Marxs seminal work Capital while they had access to just some of Marxs economic ...

2020 Book of the Year  International Labor History Association Honorable Mention Philip Taft Labor History Prize This rich history details the...

The idea was simple: pack a suitcase, go to another city where you have no connections and try to find a job, anonymously. That was the idea that t...

In Bridging the Divide, Jack Metzgar attempts to determine the differences between working-class and middle-class cultures in the United States. Dr...

An invigorating, thought-provoking, and positive look at the rise of automation that explores how professionals across industries can find sustaina...

An accessible overview of the power of women in the economy and the obstacles they face Women are joining the workforce in increasing numbers, mak...

In The Coming Jobs War, Clifton makes the bold assertion that job creation and successful entrepreneurship are the worlds most pressing issues righ...

The author, Dr. Samwel Nyagucha Oresi, is an Economist by profession with a bias in Labour Economics and a special interest in Human Resource Manag...

Millions of young people-and increasingly some not-so-young people-now work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand magazine offices...

How, and why, did human trafficking out of Russia escalate at the beginning of the twenty-first century? Why did some labour migrants from Uzbekist...