Labour / income economics

The call center industry is booming in the Philippines.

This book examines how convicts played a key role in the development of capitalism in Australia and how their active resistance shaped both workplace relations and institutions.

Economy and Architecture addresses a timely, critical, and much-debated topic in both its historical and contemporary dimensions.

The concept of economic democracy is traditionally identified with workplace democracy and participation at the enterprise level.

How can American unions survive in our increasingly globalized business environment?

Over the last 30 years, Economic Policy has strived to produce policy relevant and rigorous analyses of the economic challenges of the time.

This book explores structural changes in Greenland's economy and labour markets due to the transformative effects of climatic changes and growing international attention.

Globalisation is often considered as not only generating jobs, but also having a negative effect on those at the bottom of the labour supply chain.

Presenting twenty-two years of multidistrict litigation data, this book exposes a systematic lack of checks and balances in our courts.

Originally published in 1993, this book contains 3 studies from Latin America: Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela.

Collected from published, archival, and private sources, these letters place the Petworth immigrants in the context of their times and challenge the image of English immigrants to 1830s Upper Canada as officers and gentlewomen.

This book delves into the intricate challenges faced by Indian youth as they enter the labour market.

Labor in the Twentieth Century provides the comparative method of reviewing labor in five advanced democratic countries.

How are we to make sense of the way work is organised and controlled?

This book examines the effectiveness of trade and non-trade policies to combat the menace of child labour.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art review of the relationship between technology and economic growth.

Munger predicts that smartphones will allow the ''transactions cost economy'' to commodify excess capacity, promoting sharing instead of owning.

Informal work - family care, voluntary work, and undeclared or unregulated work - is a critical form of labor in today's economy, yet remains underanalyzed and examined.

This book examines the commercialisation of domestic and care work through private agencies that organise transnational care arrangements by brokering migrant workers.

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

This book deals with the transformations of both accumulation process and labour in the transition from a Fordist to a cognitive capitalism paradigm, with specific regard to Western economies.

Community Wage Patterns offers an insightful analysis into the dynamics of wage levels and structures within Los Angeles County, providing a case study that extends its relevance to broader economic contexts.

France is often described as one of the last Western economies unable to reform itself in the face of globalization.

This anthology honors the life and work of American economist John E.

The Economics of Immigration summarizes the best social science studying the actual impact of immigration, which is found to be at odds with popular fears.

First published in 1976, this book traces the development of the Yugoslav economy from the end of the Second World War to the beginning of 1975, which the author argues was a highly productive era of social innovation.

This book explores the restructuring of the labour market and the opportunities that have resulted from economic globalization.

Holden is one of the few brands that has an emotional grip on Australia (Qantas being another).

This book analyzes education in Japan from the viewpoint of "e;the stagnant current Japanese economy"e;.

This timely analysis examines the complex state of youth unemployment across Europe and offers cogent policy suggestions for addressing this longstanding societal problem.

Originally published in 1972, Industrial Relations in the Common Market is a comparative study of the members of the Common Market, exploring the range of industrial relations and some of the contemporary issues and problems that they faced.

An examination of the ways that digital technologies play an increasingly important role in the lives of precarious workers, far beyond the gig economy apps like Uber and Lyft.

First published in 1976, this book traces the development of the Yugoslav economy from the end of the Second World War to the beginning of 1975, which the author argues was a highly productive era of social innovation.

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.

The book collects articles published by Daniel Hamermesh between 1969 and 2013 dealing with the general topic of the demand for labor.

This title was first published in 2000: Equity and Efficiency Policy provides a completely new perspective on post-reform community care, analyzes its fairness, effectiveness and efficiency in a new way and uses its powerful new techniques applied to a major national collection of evidence to suggest how to develop the Modernization Agenda.

This is the first book to look at the European Union and single currency from the perspective of member-states.

This is the second of two volumes of original research undertaken by Canadian trade unionists (the first volume was published in 1995).

A theoretical discussion and internal critique of mainstream law and economics scholarship, especially as it approaches the issue of paternalism.

Originally published between 1951 and 1987, the 8 volumes in this set: Provide 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.

European Trade Unionism (1973) examines the differences between the trade union movements of Europe, alongside noting their similarities.

A Brookings Institution Press and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation publicationThe trend toward greater decentralization of governance activities, now accepted as commonplace in the West, has become a worldwide movement.

Young men choosing a traditional working career 189 Young women making modern choices 191 The struggles of young men versus the success of young women 192 CONCLUSIONS Changing economies, changing households 195 Jane Wheelock and Age Mariussen Summing up 195 Institutional comparisons: empirical analysis 197 Theoretical implications 201 Policy implications 204 Bibliography 207 Index 231 ix ILLUSTRATIONS Figures 1.

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