Labour Economics

Decent Work-Life in Business: Essential Tool for Sustainable Development presents a detailed discussion of the concept of decent work-life and its ...

Inequality has dramatically increased in America, with few solutions on the horizon. Serious social inequalities persist. For example, the 14 riche...

This title was first published in 2000: The book will be a set of essays addressing various aspects of regulation. It will concentrate on regulatio...

This title was first published in 2000: Analyzing the poverty trends in Mexico during the 1980s and early 1990s, this work is concerned with the ex...

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...