Labour Economics

Every year over 200 million peasants flock to China's urban centers, providing a profusion of cheap labor that helps fuel the country's staggering ...

In late 2006, Saket Soni, a twenty-eight-year-old Indian-born community organizer, received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker i...

Family policy paradoxes examines the political regulation of the family in Sweden between 1930 and today. It draws attention to the political attem...

This volume considers how women are shaping the global economic landscape through their labor, activism, and multiple discourses about work. Bringi...

During the long sixties, baby boomers raised on democratic postwar ideals demanded a more egalitarian society for all. While a few became vocal lea...

Its hard to escape the feeling that in Britain today nothing works. In the face of mounting inflation and widespread industrial action, this book o...

Why in 2015 are there still large gender differences in economic success? This volume consists of a set of state of the art research articles to an...

Alternative types of ownership and participatory managerial practices have recently been intensively debated. The Great Recession has revived inter...

For most countries, women's labor force participation and hours of work has risen while men's have fallen. Concomitantly, men's and women's wages a...

This volume analyses employee participation in under- researched countries and whose economic institutions differ from the Anglo-American context. ...

This volume contains new important research on worker well-being. Topics include employment contracts, compensation schemes, worker productivity, r...

Critics on the left and the right typically agree that globalization, the loss of manufacturing jobs, and the expansion of the service sector have ...

After three decades of economic reform, China is experiencing substantial demographic changes and a steady structural transformation toward a marke...

Research in the Sociology of Work (RSW) is a twice yearly publication that examines current issues related to the sociology of work. The series pro...

This volume contains eight new and innovative research articles relevant to researchers and policy makers. Each chapter deals with an aspect of hum...

This volume contains new important research on worker well-being in a changing economy. Topics include employee compensation, human capital investm...

From famously humble origins, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history. In its effort to provide its trademark f...

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...

An excellent summary of why and how we work. People Management magazine What do we know about the current state of work and employment and what doe...

In this provocative new study, Zak Cope makes the case that capitalism is empirically inseparable from imperialism, historically and today. Using a...

The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth Richard Wilkinson'One of the most talked-about books to the moment...

Imagine a workplace where workers enjoyed a well-paid job for life, one where they could start their day with a pint of stout and a smoke, and enjo...

The essential anthology on the most effective ways to organize a labor movement for environmental justice, from leading organizers in the fieldThe ...