Labour Economics

Fostering positive relationships between employers and employees is crucial to ensure employee commitment and engagement, as well as overall busine...

There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and...

While sexual harassment of women in the workplace has been discussed for decades it is still a pervasive problem. This book looks at the history...

Interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand newsrooms, MPs' offices, and film sets, but they also deliver aid in Afghanistan, design high-e...

This thought-provoking and challenging book is about sex and profits. It is not a book about Women's Lib, but it is a book that will lead to the re...

A legal thriller, a close account of the tortuous 10-month negotiations, in the mid-1980s, for the big play that eventually put both the NBA's play...

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

Job satisfaction is a central concept in work and organizational psychology as it is associated with important individual as well as organizational...

The European labour market models are at a crossroads. Almost all Western European countries have experienced a lack of job creation, productivity ...

In an era of continued globalisation and economic-restructuring youth employment constitutes what many commentators regard as one of the key policy...

In an era of continued globalisation and economic-restructuring youth employment constitutes what many commentators regard as one of the key policy...

The U.S. veterinary medical profession contributes to society in diverse ways, from developing drugs and protecting the food supply to treating com...

The United States has seen a dramatic rise in the number of informal day labor sites in the last two decades. Typically frequented by Latin America...

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

A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even f...

A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even f...

The events leading to the Marikana massacre not only shattered South Africa's image of itself as a democracy in which workers had a respected place...

Personnel Economics in Practice, 3rd Edition by Edward Lazear and Michael Gibbs gives readers a rigorous framework for understanding organizational...

*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017* *Winner of the 2016 Labor History Best Book prize* Over a million p...

* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Po...

'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it... Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason'Gu...

How the European Union handles posted workers is a growing issue for a region with borders that really are just lines on a map. A 2008 story, disse...

As the financial crisis continues to cast its long shadow over Europe, the view that immigrants compete unfairly for jobs and present an unsustaina...

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments--and why we can't see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a dictators...

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has declared the U.S. economy to be in recession since December 2007. In response to high unemploym...