Labour Economics

The emergence of open unemployment is an unavoidable consequence of postcommunist transition. Some countries-notably in the former Soviet Union-ini...

First published in 1993, The History of the Yorkshire Miners 1881-1918 is concerned with the workers in the Yorkshire coal industry, their union, a...

First published in 1989. In the decade before this book was originally published, employee share ownership and profit sharing had increased markedl...

The emerging conflict between the US and China has an inherent tendency towards a development of deglobalization. It is the historical prerequisite...

Originally published in 1999, this volume integrates several streams of research on the antecedents of innovation to test a model of individual inn...

This book, originally published in 1977, is a comparative study of worker participation in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Britain. The first part ...

Venezuela’s Oil (1978) explains the years of social injustice faced by oil-producing countries that led to the founding of OPEC. Venezuela, a found...

How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop is an empirically based exploration of the challenges and opportunities non-permanent workers face in a...

Originally published in 1982, The Railwaymen examines the impact of the transformation which took place in the British Railways in the second half ...

When this book was first published in 1967, it was one of the first pieces of research to systematically examine the manpower problems associated w...

Natural resource extraction and primary commodity export remain persistent features of the Latin American economy. This edited volume traces the po...

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...

Focuses on vital contemporary issuesWomen in the work force today are still subjected to the glass ceiling, sexual discrimination, income inequalit...

German unification brought fundamental, often traumatic changes for the people in eastern Germany. Women as a group were arguably more deeply aff...

This study combines an industry level and a firm level analysis on the wage and employment effects of multinational companies. This has not been at...

Britain and America were the first two countries with mechanised cotton manufacturing industries, the first major factory systems of production and...

This is the second volume in the author's ongoing inquiry into the extent of income inequality in the East European socialist countries and the eff...

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

This book strengthens our understanding of Indian manufacturing. It argues that structural transformation should be guided by the given factor endo...

Chronology of Venezuelan Oil (1969) covers all aspects of the Venezuelan petroleum industry’s historical evolution: technical, legal, economic, soc...

In the modern globalized world of work, society’s capitalist and patriarchal norms perpetuate old and create new differences based on gender, class...

Feminism, Diversity and HRD aims to enhance critical understandings of feminism, diversity and HRD theorization and practice in the global politica...

Drawing on over 30 years of consulting experience and a multi-disciplinary background, Philip Grant challenges conventional wisdom on managing perf...

Published in the year 1977, Inflation and Wages in Underdeveloped Countries is a valuable contribution to the field of Economics.