Labour Economics

The call center industry is booming in the Philippines. Around the year 2005, the country overtook India as the world's voice capital, and industry...

In 2008 the world experienced the Great Recession, a financial and economic crisis of enormous proportions and the greatest economic downturn since...

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governmentsand why we cant see itOne in four American workers says their workplace is a dictatorship. ...

While overall unemployment has declined, the unemployment rate remains nearly twice as high for young people 16 to 19 years of age and nearly three...

Fostering positive relationships between employers and employees is crucial to ensure employee commitment and engagement, as well as overall busine...

There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and...

While sexual harassment of women in the workplace has been discussed for decades it is still a pervasive problem. This book looks at the history...

Interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand newsrooms, MPs' offices, and film sets, but they also deliver aid in Afghanistan, design high-e...

This thought-provoking and challenging book is about sex and profits. It is not a book about Women's Lib, but it is a book that will lead to the re...

A legal thriller, a close account of the tortuous 10-month negotiations, in the mid-1980s, for the big play that eventually put both the NBA's play...

An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to make it in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work...

Job satisfaction is a central concept in work and organizational psychology as it is associated with important individual as well as organizational...

The European labour market models are at a crossroads. Almost all Western European countries have experienced a lack of job creation, productivity ...

In an era of continued globalisation and economic-restructuring youth employment constitutes what many commentators regard as one of the key policy...

In an era of continued globalisation and economic-restructuring youth employment constitutes what many commentators regard as one of the key policy...

The U.S. veterinary medical profession contributes to society in diverse ways, from developing drugs and protecting the food supply to treating com...

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...