Labour Economics

Globalization of production has created opportunities and challenges for developing country producers and workers. This volume provides solutions-o...

The financial crisis is destroying wealth but is also a remarkable opportunity to uncover the ways by which debt can be used to regulate the econom...

This volume seeks to go beyond the microeconomic view of wages as a cost having negative consequences on a given firm, to consider the positive mac...

This book analyzes three points: employment conditions for migrant workers, the impact of industrialization as part of industrial clusters upon sur...

This book explores the means through which the garment industry contributes to industrialization, poverty reduction, empowerment of undereducated w...

This sweeping survey of the history of work, from hunter-gatherers to dotcom telecommuters, deftly compresses thousands of years of human evolution...

The past few decades have witnessed the economic and geopolitical rise of a number of large middle-income countries around the world. This volume f...

In 2001 Germany and Austria became the last EU states to lift transnational controls restricting access to their labour markets for citizens of ex-...

David Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful n...

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Compe...

This book explores growth and structural change in the labor force that accompany economic development. It reports on labor force characteristics i...

Every year over 200 million peasants flock to China's urban centers, providing a profusion of cheap labor that helps fuel the country's staggering ...

Stephen Innes studies the relationship between work, land, and community in seventeenth-century Springfield, Massachusetts. Using analytical concep...

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. An Approach to Manpower Problems. 2. Manpower Planning and the Market. 3. A New Concept of the Employment Service. ...

This book explores the history and global expansion of AB Volvo, one of the hundred largest corporations in the world, through the experiences of i...

Basic Income in Japan is the first collective volume in English entirely devoted to the discussion of Japan's potential for a basic income program ...

From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City of New York through their struggles. Start...

In a turbulent global economy, the popular idea of declining farms and factories is largely unfounded. UN and World Bank data show growing output e...

Bringing together important contributions from leading Israeli Jewish and Palestinian scholars, this comprehensive and multi-disciplinary volume ad...

During the last decade, many European countries introduced extensive reforms to the way that income protection and activation programmes for the un...

This bookexamines inclusive growth in a range of social and economic areas in India, including physical infrastructure, vulnerable sections of the ...

Generations of feminists have linked women's empowerment, autonomy, and oppression to issues involving work. Most conflated women's economic and po...

This book sheds light on the impact of the Great Recession from the perspective of both developing and developed countries. It traces the complex a...

In this gripping book, Dr. Samli makes the case that the US economy is shifting for the worse, tilting towards a finance-driven economy, and argues...

Offering a comparative perspective, this book examines working poverty - those in work who are still classified as 'poor'. It argues that the growt...

Contesting claims that postwar American liberalism retreated from fights against unemployment and economic inequality, The Problem of Jobs reveals ...

This book assesses the phenomenon of international framework agreements (IFAs), examining their implementation and impact around the world as well ...

Regulating for Decent Work is a response to the dominant deregulatory approaches that have shaped labour market regulation in recent years. The int...

Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in ...

Management & Workplace Culture Book of the Year, 2020 Porchlight Business Book AwardsA Publishers Weekly Fall 2020 Big Indie BookThe dark side ...

This comprehensive and instructive study examines the relative success or failure of government policies in preventing and alleviating unemployment...

Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for r...

Management & Workplace Culture Book of the Year, 2020 Porchlight Business Book AwardsA Publishers Weekly Fall 2020 Big Indie BookThe dark side ...

Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for r...

There is a modest but growing body of scholarly literature on experiences of retail work, with only a handful of studies existing on retail organiz...

Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environme...

The authors investigate the phenomenon of highly skilled Chinese returnees and their impact on the development of the Chinese economy and society, ...

With unemployment at historically high rates that show signs of becoming structural, there is a pressing need for an in-depth exploration of this e...

This edited volume assesses from a variety of perspectives the policies introduced to support the development of household services across Europe. ...

In the decades after World War II, inflation undermined the aspiration for full employment in Australia. This book tells the story of how the Austr...

With unemployment at historically high rates that show signs of becoming structural, there is a pressing need for an in-depth exploration of this e...

This book explores the extent to which a transformation of public employment regimes has taken place in four Western countries, and the factors inf...

This volume of original essays considers how the International Labour Organization has helped generate a set of ideas and practices, past and prese...