Labour / income economics

This book provides an original contribution to contemporary research surrounding the environmental, humanitarian and socio-political crises associated with contemporary capitalism.

'This book makes an important contribution to the history of household labour relations in two contrasting societies.

In the past three decades, China has successfully transformed itself from an extremely poor economy to the world's second largest economy.

With a focus on the European labour market, this book seeks to understand how digital transformation affects changes in employee-employer relations.

This is the first book to document thoroughly the lifestyle and collective experience of the many thousands of black sailors during this time period.

This book analyzes the choices and constraints of management within the Bangladesh garment industry and how management negotiates these challenges to ensure the global garment supply chain is sustainable.

The papers in this volume examine the conditions and consequences of micro-electronic technology within one or more of various spheres of the labour process.

Increasing labour market flexibility is at the top of the European agenda.

First published in 1992, this book explains how pension funds work in order to highlight their impact on the economy as a whole.

While colonial imposition of the Canadian legal order has undermined Indigenous law, creating gaps and sometimes distortions, Indigenous peoples have taken up the challenge of rebuilding their laws, governance, and economies.

When this book was first published in 1990, there were massive economic changes in the East and significant economic challenges to the West.

This book brings together distinguished scholars who analyze the recent resurgence of inflation from the point of view of conflict among social classes over the appropriate distribution of income.

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 Europe Countries (CEECs) still show marked differences with the rest of Europe in the fields of labour, work and industrial relations.

The "e;informal"e; economy economic activity and income outside government regulation, taxation and observation is, by its very nature, difficult to quantify.

Over the past 50 years the global labour market is transforming from reliable employment to low-wage and unstable informal and precarious jobs.

This book evaluates changes needed to improve the usefulness and cost-effectiveness of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).

This book combines demand-led growth models and the institutionalist approach, in order to explain the macroeconomic performance of the main European countries in recent years followed by which a coherent explanation of the institutional change since the Great Recession, including the economic policy response to the economic and financial crisis (2008) and to the debt crisis (2010) is provided.

Originally published in 1987, this book examines how much industrialisation improved the standard of living of the British worker, based on the experience of one representative city: Glasgow.

In the years since 2007 the U.

This book analyses the 2018 Global Compact on Migration and the need for, and difficulties of adopting a multilateral agreement on migration.

The Gig Economy in India explores the topic of gig work in India's digital political economy, and the relationship between key factors such as start-ups, state governments, and platform providers.

This book reframes tourism, as well as leisure, within mobilities studies to challenge the limitations that dichotomous understandings of home/away, work/leisure, and host/guest bring.

Government interference in free enterprise is growing.

This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind.

Employment Relations is widely taught in business schools around the world.

First published in 1989.

Projecting win-win situations, new economic opportunities, green growth and innovative partnerships, the green economy discourse has quickly gained centre stage in international environmental governance and policymaking.

The global financial crisis and subsequent increase in social inequality has led in many cases to a redrawing of the boundaries between formal and informal work.

An important fresh theoretical framework for examining the key influences on the competitiveness of firms.

This book contends that high fertility is rational in that it achieves short term economic benefit and long term old age-support for families.

Social protection systems and labour markets have undergone major changes in the past two decades.

The book offers a concise account of modern Japanese economic history and the essence of postwar macroeconomic issues and policy.

This title was first published in 2003.

Covering cost structures and cost problems as well as costing methodologies, this book, first published in 1988, aims to enhance understanding of the economics of all types of transportation: freight and passenger, by truck, rail, bus and air.

This pathbreaking volume conveys the "e;state of the art"e; of contemporary research on productivity growth and international competitiveness--arguably the most important problems facing contemporary economics.

Unfree labor has not disappeared from advanced capitalist economies.

In Domestic Economies, Susanna Rosenbaum examines how two groups of women-Mexican and Central American domestic workers and the predominantly white, middle-class women who employ them-seek to achieve the "e;American Dream.

In today's workplaces we work harder and longer, labouring under the illusion that this will bring us more wealth.

The outstanding moral problem of our time is the emergence of an underclass, provoking both pity and an angry political backlash.

The Routledge International Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies is a timely volume that provides an overview of this interdisciplinary field that emerged in response to the widespread decline of manufacturing and heavy industry from the 1980s onward.

Work is widely thought to have become more precarious.

Exacerbated by the Great Recession, youth transitions to employment and adulthood have become increasingly protracted, precarious, and differentiated by gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.

This book focuses on issues that are relevant for the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.

How has the recession affected the conduct of human resource management?

Personnel economics, the use of economics for studying human resource issues, is becoming a standard course in business and economics departments around the world.

This book studies changes in the employment relationship and the implications for labor and employment law.