Labour / income economics

Explores the sustainable farming movement through reference to three detailed case studies of organisations operating in rural India.

This handbook brings together scholars from various disciplines and from around the world to examine the history, characteristics, effects, viability and implementation of basic income.

Migration, Unemployment and Trade focuses on the issues of migration, welfare and unemployment in a trade and development framework.

Despite the influence corporations wield over all aspects of everyday life, there has been a remarkable absence of critical inquiry into the social constitution of this power.

In The Financiers and the Nation (1934) Mr.

The deep recession and slow recovery of the Canadian economy in the 1980s and the lengthy recession of the early 1990s raised serious questions about economic policy making.

This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth.

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The chapters in this volume study transnational social relationships and cross-border connections between 'ordinary' people that arise from the increasingly large-scale mobilities and migrations between Thailand and 'the West'.

Is China becoming the "e;workshop of the world"e; in the same way as Britain and the United States once were; or is China - as some multinational companies believe - simply a processing segment in global production networks?

The health care system in Canada receives a great deal of international attention, but it is subject to considerable critique and debate locally.

News stories on the impact of job loss appear daily in the media.

Originally published in 1992 and now with an updated Preface this book analyses the development of innovations using a network perspective.

At least six different Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments are underway or planned right now in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Kenya.

Examines inequality in overall distributions of income and expenditure, and disparities across gender, region, caste, race, and access to education.

This book explores a quiet revolution reshaping global capitalism: the rise of employee ownership, worker cooperatives, and profit-sharing enterprises.

Explores the combination of capital''s changing composition and labour''s subjective agency.

First published in 1983, State Policies and Internal Migration presents a comprehensive overview of migration influencing policies and programmes in the developing countries.

The numbers of workers employed on a temporary basis has grown massively over the last few decades.

Originally published in 1987, this book focusses on the relationship between higher education and employment and is based on 21 national case studies.

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Digital revolution demands new approaches to regulating work.

Seeking to extend our understanding of the contemporary global political economy, this book provides an important and original introduction to the current theoretical debates about social reproduction and argues for the necessity of linking social reproduction to specific contexts of power and production.

This book, first published in 1982, summarises the history and organisation of the group of co-operatives centred in Mondragon.

This book offers a critical and comparative understanding of post-industrial development, highlighting the driving forces and limitations, strategies, sources of funding, tools and technologies for its implementation.

The Decline of Trade Union Organisation (1987) considers the reasons behind the decline in trade union membership and discusses the prospects for recovery.

Originally published in 1982, this book begins with a wide-ranging and critical review of both first and second generation theories of inflation (and the related problem of unemployment), including the classical approach to macroeconomics.

More than three billion people in the world live on less than two-and-a-half U.

In this book, originally published in 1918, the Leonard S.

This work argues that the successful implementation of a share economy requires some substantial changes in the typical structure of property rights of modern capitalism.

In a turbulent global economy, the popular idea of declining farms and factories is largely unfounded.

This book examines the large-scale return migration of South and Southeast Asian workers triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring its causes, consequences, challenges, and policy responses.

This is an academic inquiry into how labor power has been dehumanized and commodified around the world through the ages for capital accumulation and industrialization, and colonial and post-colonial economic transformation.

This book provides a concise and accessible history of the relationship between the individual and capitalism in the United States.

Precarious employment presents a monumental challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship.

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The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.

Children throughout the world are engaged in a great number of activities classifiable as work.

Safety at Work and the Unions (1983) surveys the whole field of safety at work.

Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant.

This book explores how education influences economic and social development.