Labour Economics

Work is widely thought to have become more precarious. Many people feel that unions represent the interests of protected workers in good jobs at th...

Vidarbha a major cotton growing region in central India has been the epicentre of a protracted agrarian crisis. Chronic indebtedness and farmers' ...

Offering the six historical essays from the out-of-print Bicentennial volume originally published by the U.S. Department of Labor, this book tells ...

Feminism is once again on the political agenda. Across the world women are taking to the streets to protest unfair working conditions, abortion law...

This volume of Research in Law and Economics contains articles that address important legal and economic developments in the areas of healthcare, i...

In the field of 'climate change', no terrain goes uncontested. The terminological tug of war between activists and corporations, scientists and gov...

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...

In this trailblazing manifesto, political economist Ricardo Tranjan places tenants and landlords on either side of the class divide that splits Nor...

Named one of the Best Business Books of 2023 by the Financial TimesThinkers50 2023 Winner: Talent AwardFrom MIT professor and pre-eminent voice on ...

Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. A...

This handbook focuses on two sides of the lean production debate that rarely interact. On the one hand, management and industrial engineering schol...

Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to...

Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) ...

Although the economic recession that began in December 2007 has officially ended, unemployment rates still remain close to 10%. Especially hard hit...