Labour Economics

Millions of U.S. workers have little or no savings for retirement, potentially adding to future strains on state and national safety net programs. ...

In an increasingly global economy, and with retirement starting for the Baby Boomer generation, Congress has indicated a strong interest in ensurin...

Workers'''' compensation insurance covers nearly all workers in the U.S. and provides those who are injured or become ill as a result of work with ...

A BLOOMBERG BOOK OF THE YEAR ''This book will challenge you to rethink some of your assumptions about democracy, capitalism, and globalization.'' -...

The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new per...

In Putin's Labor Dilemma, Stephen Crowley investigates how the fear of labor protest has inhibited substantial economic transformation in Russia. P...

In Putin's Labor Dilemma, Stephen Crowley investigates how the fear of labor protest has inhibited substantial economic transformation in Russia. P...

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

In Re-Union, David Madland explores how labor unions are essential to all workers. Yet, union systems are badly flawed and in need of rapid changes...

Informality and informal employment are wide-spread and growing phenomena in all regions of the world, in particular in low and middle income econo...

Economic events such as the recent global economic crisis can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the individual and house...

Each year, 200 million workers from China's vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migr...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Guy Standing...

Shortlisted for the CMI Management Books of the Year Awards. An expert on innovation argues that many capable women are losing out at work, and th...

This book explores the ways that women combine motherhood with paid work in contemporary Ireland and the consequences for individual women, familie...

Once upon a time, Britain forged a mighty industrial empire - built with the blood, sweat and tears of society''s most vulnerable members. Children...

Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you re wearing out, But human creatures lives! Stitch stitch stitch, I...

The book uses a comparative study of Germany and Britain to reveal how national institutions shape the labour market careers of higher education gr...

The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century-and perhaps for the last forty years-and the...

Notoriously Militant is a primer on worker militancy. 'Ordinary' workers made history every day, through direct democracy and members' activity in...

This is an iconoclastic work, based on a vast knowledge of the relevant literature and on archival materials in French, English, and Russian. It ef...

For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It's a situation that we in...