Labour / income economics

Brings together academics, lawyers, trade unionists and industrial relations experts to provide an incisive analysis of the impact of globalisation and deregulation on gender inequality in employment.

The transformation of the Vietnamese economy from socialist planning to a market economy has led to Vietnam having one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world; and to also to Vietnam engaging much more with the international economy, joining the World Trade Organisation in 2006.

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

Employee participation and voice (EPV) concern power and influence.

From autumn 1998 to spring 2000, about 3,000 graduates each from nine countries in the European Union (Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom), one EFTA country (Norway), one of the Central and Eastern European countries in transition (the Czech Republic) and one econo- cally advanced country outside Europe (Japan) provided information through a wr- ten questionnaire on the relationship between higher education and employment three to four years after graduation.

The book analyzes the rise and evolution of the Temporary Work Agencies' (TWAs) field in Italy.

Gendered Trajectories explores why industrial societies vary in the pace at which they reduce gender inequality and compares changes in women's employment opportunities in Japan and Taiwan over the last half-century.

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

This book presents an empirical investigation into the relationship between companies' short-term response to capital and labor market frictions and performance.

This innovative text grounds the economic analysis of labor markets and employment relationships in a unified theoretical treatment of labor exchange conditions.

Originally published in 2004.

An accessible, rigorous presentation of Marx''s argument in the three volumes of Capital and of longstanding debates in Marxist economics.

First published in 1891, this seminal work examines the primary causes of poverty during the industrial age.

This annual publication provides detailed statistics on labour force, employment and unemployment, broken down by gender, as well as unemployment duration, employment status, employment by sector of activity and part-time employment.

The Tunisian Labor Market in an Era of Transition is a comprehensive examination of the central labor market issues facing this key Arab country.

Starting in the 1990s, San Francisco launched a series of bold but relatively unknown public policy experiments to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers.

This book examines the role of creative mental labor in determining long-term economic growth, production costs, and product pricing.

This book provides an insightful guide to the economic challenges currently defining Europe.

This title, originally published in 1925, provides a scientific exploration of some of the forms of co-operative organisation which had attained considerable development in other countries, but were little known to English students of the movement.

This book explores the changing nature of growing-up working-class in post-Soviet Russia, a country dislocated by the experience of neo-liberal economic reform.

This book, first published in 1932, provides a survey of the subject of railway economics as a whole, including the theory and practice of railway charging; State regulation and ownership; railway amalgamation; railway capital; railway organization and labour problems.

Originally published in 1987, this book focusses on the debate around the international role of the working class and other dominated classes such as the rural and urban poor.

First published in 1955, The Social Foundations of Wage Policy provides a comprehensive study of British wage and salary structure.

Tobacco is reported to be the second major cause of death in the world and there is ever-increasing interest in the costs of smoking, especially in the light of evidence of the health effects of second-hand smoke.

Historian Laura Robson unveils the dark heart of our purportedly humanitarian international regime.

Following the 2008 "e;global"e; financial crisis, the viability of globalised financial capitalism was called into question.

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.

Global Talent seeks to examine the utility of skilled foreigners beyond their human capital value by focusing on their social capital potential, especially their role as transnational bridges between host and home countries.

This book combines classic and recent studies investigating challenges to Emiratization - full employment of Emirati nationals who make up only about 10% of the total workforce - in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Unemployment in China offers a new and invaluable insight into the Chinese economy, keenly analyzing the new directions the world's next superpower is now taking.

This book explores the experience of China's migrant labourers in Shanghai from anthropological, and gendered analyses, offering extraordinary insights into the life-world of the marginalized people.

Reforms in labour and product markets play a central role in government policies.

In All I Want Is a Job!

An in-depth look at how employers today perceive and evaluate job applicants with nonstandard or precarious employment historiesMillions of workers today labor in nontraditional situations involving part-time work, temporary agency employment, and skills underutilization or face the precariousness of long-term unemployment.

In this book Brown argues that workers in East and Southeast Asia are significant actors in political change.

This book is about families who combine home life and income-producing work under the same roof.

This Element explains how divisions between insiders and outsiders among firms and workers in the Arab world hold back development.

This edited volume offers a global overview of the immediate impacts the COVID pandemic had on local and national film, television, streaming, and social media industries-examining in compelling detail how these industries managed the crisis.

Despite many advances, 20 American workers die each day as a result of occupational injuries.

For the past three decades, we have been steadily creating an extreme 'time-crunch economy' that has affected jobs, portfolios, businesses and lives.

This title was first published in 2002: Advancing the understanding of a transition society, this book presents an in-depth analysis of social structures in modern Russia.

The ageing, financial and labour market challenges facing the old age pension systems of the member states of the European Union are well known.

This international collection studies how the financial crisis of 2007 and the ensuing economicand political crises in Europe and North America have triggered a process ofchange in the field of economics, law andpolitics.

Economists measure the effects of immigration through the yardstick of income.

US Labor in Trouble and Transition tells the story of union decline in America and of the split in the labor movement it led to, following the dismal tale of union mergers and management partnerships that accompanied the retreat from militancy since the 1980s.

This book argues that the period from World War I to the Great Depression was an incubating era when innovative and lasting policy paradigms emerged.

The 2008 global financial and economic crisis led to a significant increase in unemployment rates in most developed economies, yet despite the rising supply of labor, a high share of employers claim that they cannot find the right talent and skills.