Labour Economics

Dissatisfied with the explanations of the business cycle provided by the Keynesian, monetarist, New Keynesian, and real business cycle schools, Edm...

Between the end of World War I and the Great Depression, over 58,000 Mexicans journeyed to the Midwest in search of employment. Many found work in ...

This book explores the growing tension between the requirements of employers for a flexible work force and the ability of parents and communities t...

In an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate.

In the 1990s, before the bubble of the "miracle economy" burst, corporate America grew fat on the miseries of the American worker. Media attention ...

How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many ...

Panel Data and Structural Labour Market Models" is the latest volume in a series of four, reporting on the original work of an international group ...

The labor of black workers has been crucial to economic development in the United States. Yet because of racism and segregation, their contribution...

A deep question in economics is why wages and salaries don't fall during recessions. This is not true of other prices, which adjust relatively quic...

This first ethnographic study of factory workers engaged in radical labor protest gives a voice to a segment of the Japanese population that has be...

Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic is the a...

An inciteful ethnography of cross-border elder care workers. The precarious situation in the successor states of Yugoslavia created a specific dyna...

Birth rates are dropping to ever-lower levels around the world. Populations are growing more slowly and, in some cases, beginning to decline. Rapid...

This compelling book provides concrete examples and practical guidelines for addressing the most serious economic challenge facing the United State...

Food, televisions, computer equipment, plumbing supplies, clothing. Much of the material foundation of our everyday lives is produced along the U.S...

Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment. Cut ...

This volume contains nine original innovative chapters on worker well-being. Three chapters are on time allocated to work and human capital acquisi...

Laid Off, Laid Low provides a sobering portrait of the ailing American labor system and the social and political consequences of increasing job ins...

Elizabeth Ferry explores how members of the Santa Fe Cooperative, a silver mine in Mexico, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globali...

Elizabeth Ferry explores how members of the Santa Fe Cooperative, a silver mine in Mexico, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globali...