Labour Economics

This title was first published in 2003. During the last twenty years, the longer-term sustainability of social insurance systems has become a major...

First published in 1988, this book sets out to reinterpret the changing place of working-class association in capitalist Britain. It argues that in...

Employment has changed dramatically in the last few decades with the onset of neoliberal globalization. This change has become the objective of inq...

Over a quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall and 10 years after their accession to the European Union (EU), Central and Eastern Eu...

This book deals with the transformations of both accumulation process and labour in the transition from a Fordist to a cognitive capitalism paradig...

Contemporary capitalistic systems have been undergoing profound transformations determined by the transition towards the so-called knowledge based ...

This title was first published in 2003. Most European cities have experienced problems in certain neighbourhoods that are termed deprived or exclu...

Executive search, headhunting, is now one of the archetypal new knowledge intensive professional services, as well as a labor market intermediary b...

This volume compares the planning of economic conditions under the very different political systems of Soviet Russia, Fascist Germany and Italy and...

This title was first published in 2002: Analyzing labour market trends in sub-Saharan Africa since 1970, this volume employs data collected from th...

The working poor of the world are observed to engage in long hours in hard jobs and to work more if wages are further reduced. Mainstream economics...

Following the 2008 global financial crisis, the viability of globalised financial capitalism was called into question. The resulting fear and uncer...

The Challenge of Labour (1980) explains the changing forms of labours relationship with British society during the period of 1850 to 1930 as the e...

It has been over a century since Cooperative System of Education, a work-study programme for higher education, was initiated by Herman Schneider at...

One cannot conceive of capitalism without labor. Yet many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to di...

The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthrop...

This title was first published in 2002: Health systems across the globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or improving hea...

This book is about the relationship between firm dynamics, innovation and globalization, the processes that are essential for long term economic gr...

Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both lab...

This book offers an analysis of external dimensions of an emerging economy, India, in the backdrop of neoliberal globalisation. External dimensions...

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Com...

Through a series of studies, the overarching aim of this book is to investigate if and how the digitalization/digital transformation process causes...

This book is concerned with the gender order of post-Fordism, and especially the labour demanded from many women by post-Fordist capitalism. It map...

Originally published in 1865, the following book is made up of a course of lectures, which the author delivered in the University of Cambridge in t...