Labour / income economics

This book is the only comprehensive analysis of contemporary prison labor in the United States.

This book explores two recent crises in British political economy: the crisis of 1976-9, for which the trade unions were impugned, and the 2007 economic crisis, for which bankers were (at least initially) blamed.

Consumer society in the United States and other countries is receding due to demographic ageing, rising income inequality, political paralysis, and resource scarcity.

Age of Productivity offers a look at how the low productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean is preventing the region from catching up with the developed world.

Focusing on migrant workers, this book explores the different forms work takes, in the context of economic precarity and fragmentation.

Asia has undergone rapid economic transformation over the past two decades.

Oil fuels the global economy and remains a staple of our energy system.

How do changes at home, in the labor market and on the job affect worker well-being?

The fourth industrial revolution is developing globally, with no geographical centre.

From the rise of fully automated factories to the creation of new migrant workforces, the world of work, employment and production is rapidly changing.

How do women choose between work and family commitments?

In today's rapidly changing world a constant renewal of knowledge and skills in every human endeavour can be observed.

This revised and updated book provides unique insight into cross-border labor mobility, from the ancient forms of slavery to the present day.

In the new global economy, where rapid technological change is the norm, the skills of the workforce are a key to local economic vitality.

Imagine a workplace where workers enjoyed a well-paid job for life, one where they could start their day with a pint of stout and a smoke, and enjoy free meals in silver service canteens and restaurants.

Originally published in 1988, this book compiles a collection of works investigating the impact of recession on women's employment.

Consumption, Jobs and the Environment argues that the present pattern of development, based on everlasting economic growth, is completely unsatisfactory from a welfare point of view.

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In production and service sectors we often come across situations where females remain largely overshadowed by males both in terms of wages and productivity.

Since actuarial education was introduced into China in the 1980s, Chinese scholars have paid greater attention to the theoretical research of actuarial science.

A two-volume set intended for readers interested in understanding the political and cultural underpinnings of socioeconomic inequality across the globe, Inequality around the World examines key drivers and shapers of inequality at the local, national, and international level.

This book provides a framework to understand the disregarded aspect of emerging market growth which is informal employment.

This book strengthens our understanding of Indian manufacturing.

This title was first published in 2000: Marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntree's first study of poverty in York, this volume examines the modern impact of poverty on health, nutrition, crime, gender and ethnicity.

This book focuses on skilled labour migration from Malaysia to Singapore.

There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment.

This book assesses the capacity of the rural populace in terms of their ability to perceive a change in climatic variables and, if so, how they react to these changes in order to minimize the adverse effect of climate change.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

This book offers a timely exploration of how climate change manifests in the global workplace.

Revolutionary feminism is resurging across the world.

London's Global Office Economy: From Clerical Factory to Digital Hub is a timely and comprehensive study of the office from the very beginnings of the workplace to its post-pandemic future.

The economic recession of the 1980s changed the face of industrial relations in Britain.

Ernest Aves (1857-1917) was an influential social analyst and civil servant.

The transformation of women's lives over the past century is among the most significant and far-reaching of social and economic phenomena, affecting not only women but also their partners, children, and indeed nearly every person on the planet.

This book lays down a marker as to the state of economists' understanding of the National Football League (NFL) by assembling sophisticated, critical surveys of by leading sports economists on major topics associated with the league.

This important book contains case studies with substantive analysis of Chinese workers in a variety of settings: state enterprises, urban collectives, township and village enterprises, domestic private enterprises, and foreign funded enterprises.

This book presents an in-depth examination of China's population control policies from their establishment to the present and explores the developing implications of these policies on the Chinese labour market.

Forty-five contributions from renowned international specialists in the field provide readers with expert analysis of the core issues related to the welfare state, including regional depictions of welfare states around the globe.

This first book of a three-volume study examines the way trade policies in developing countries affect the level and composition of employment.

One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "e;reform and openness"e; will lead to political liberalization.

This book is a Festschrift in honor or Professor Rod Fort, one of the leading contributors to the emerging field of sports economics in the past half century.