Labour Economics

As firms increasingly rely on knowledge as a key factor for innovation, the ability to innovate is increasingly perceived as a key asset for being ...

Feminism, Gender and Universities demonstrates the positive and robust impacts that feminism has had on higher education, through the eyes and in t...

Mainstream economic textbooks propose a kind of economic world which can only exist in fictitious markets where producers and consumers interact li...

«Just wage and just working conditions have always occupied a central position in Catholic social ethics. The social teaching of the Catholic Churc...

This book examines the implications of China’s economic reforms for domestic work and domestic workers. The author examines the factors that give r...

The study investigates the Greek Social Economy, including foundations, associations, mutuals, cooperatives and related entities under a single, co...

The prevailing view of industrialization has focussed on technology, capital, entrepreneurship and the institutions that enabled them to be deploye...

From his early economic works on, Marx conceived the labour of any kind of society as a set of production activities and analysed the historical mo...

The book merges the views of regional development and innovation environments with the international migration of highly skilled labour. Globalisat...

The voluntary provision of public goods is a puzzle for scholars from economics and related disciplines. While different incentives have been propo...

Two and a half million men and women are under lock and key in the US prison system, including nearly 5 percent of the adult African American male ...

Taking a unique comparative approach to the respective development paths of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), this book shows that people and ...

Based on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union st...

The purpose of this book is to introduce novice researchers to the tools of meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis and to summarize the state o...

This book examines the implications of China’s economic reforms for domestic work and domestic workers. The author examines the factors that give r...

This book provides, for the first time, a systematic and comprehensive narrative of the history of one central idea in economics, namely the divisi...

Is the EU enlargement the success EU institutions proclaim? Based on fifteen years of fieldwork research across Central and Eastern Europe and on m...

The Progressive Era is generally regarded as a period of extraordinary social, political, and economic change, affecting virtually every aspect of ...

`Provides a wide-ranging and though-provoking analysis of non-union forms of employee-representation. While it will unquestionably be of interest t...

The prevailing view of industrialization has focussed on technology, capital, entrepreneurship and the institutions that enabled them to be deploye...

This compelling ethnography of women working in Bulgaria’s popular sea and ski resorts challenges the idea that women have consistently fared worse...

Do the new Asian economies encourage gender equality? Ann Brooks provides a unique insight into this question by assessing the impact of the new ec...

The attempt of the Grameen Bank to alleviate poverty and enhance the skills and productivity of its rural women clients provides the fascinating ba...

This compelling ethnography of women working in Bulgaria’s popular sea and ski resorts challenges the idea that women have consistently fared worse...

The Surplus American considers a future where increasing numbers of Americans will be rendered jobless and redundant. Exploring the ongoing crisis ...

Youth labor is an important element in our modern economy, but as students’ consumption habits have changed, so too have their reasons for working....

An in-depth look at urban youth in the Republic of Georgia offering new perspectives on how time and marginality are interlinked 

How the temp industry undermined the idea that workers are a company's chief asset

How computer technologists developed an occupational identity that persists in cyberspace long after the dot-com bubble has burst

Youth labor is an important element in our modern economy, but as students’ consumption habits have changed, so too have their reasons for working....

How the temp industry undermined the idea that workers are a company's chief asset

High technology will destroy more jobs than it creates. This grim prediction was first published in the 1994 edition of The Jobless Future, an eeri...

Over recent years, many companies have developed an awareness of the importance of an active, rather than passive, approach to wellbeing at work. W...

How computer technologists developed an occupational identity that persists in cyberspace long after the dot-com bubble has burst

"Few of the countless real-life stories of workplace discrimination suffered by men and women every day are ever told publicly. This book boldly an...