Labour / income economics

This book provides an overview of youth labour force and workforce participation in India and explores the dynamics of changing youth labour market in India.

Expectations, Employment and Prices brings Keynesian economics into the 21st century by providing a new paradigm that explains how high unemployment could potentially persist forever without a little help from the government.

This book upturns many established ideas regarding the economic and social history of Quebec, the Canadian province that is home to the majority of its French population.

This work is a comprehensive account of the condition of women in every walk of life.

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In this stimulating and highly original work, Kevin Doogan looks at contemporary social transformation through the lens of the labour market.

The author introduces the concept of economic woman and makes her visible in duality with and opposition to the exclusive model of economic man.

This book provides, for the first time, a systematic and comprehensive narrative of the history of one central idea in economics, namely the division of labour, over the past two and a half millennia, with special focus on that having occurred in the most recent two and a half centuries.

This work, originally published in 1989, examines a highly important phenomenon: the growth of profit-sharing and share-ownership schemes for employees within the company.

The nature of employment is changing: low wage jobs are increasingly common, fewer workers belong to unions, and workplaces are being transformed through the growth of contracting-out, franchising, and extended supply chains.

This volume contains new important research on worker well-being in a changing economy.

From his early economic works on, Marx conceived the labour of any kind of society as a set of production activities and analysed the historical modes of production as specific ways of distributing and exchanging these activities.

In this book, the author argues that a new form of capitalism is emerging at the threshold of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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

During the last two decades, India has experienced a high growth rate, but the contribution from productivity growth and technological progress has been very low.

Working Without Commitments offers a new understanding of the social and health impacts of this change in the modern workplace, where outsourcing, limited term contracts, and the elimination of pensions and health benefits have become the new standard.

Vice President Joseph Biden has blamed tuition increases on the high salaries of college professors, seemingly unaware of the fact that there are now over one million faculty who earn poverty-level wages teaching off the tenure track.

This book is a theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of UK trade union engagement with climate change over the last three decades.

A recurring theme in the history of modern Britain in the twentieth-century has been the failure of its manufacturing industry and the record of disorder and conflict in the industrial workplace.

The unprecedented Covid-19 crisis revealed the scale and scope of a new type of economy taking shape in front of our very eyes: the digital economy.

Mass media has frequently covered stories concerning "e;outsourcing"e; or the moving of U.

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

This book analyzes the structural factors that underlie the persistent mass poverty and extreme inequality in South Asian countries.

First published in 1998, this volume represents the outcome of a seminar as part of the continuing efforts of the Convocation of the University of Dar es Salam to maintain a dialogue with the Government of Tanzania on its socio-economic problems.

Bringing together important contributions from leading Israeli Jewish and Palestinian scholars, this comprehensive and multi-disciplinary volume addresses the most recent developments and outcomes of the labor market integration of the Palestinian minority inside Israel.

In a time of changing technology and cultural shifts, it is difficult to measure some aspects of the workforce.

Analyses the employment practices of individual firms in Japan: wages, training, promotion, transfers and turnover.

How well does the consumer price index (CPI) reflect the changes that people actually face in living costsfrom apples to computers to health care?

A map which shows where innovation is clustered worldwide is also a map of the location of the highly skilled and talented labour.

An investigation into why most developing countries have failed to exploit their economic potential by China''s most renowned economist.

The idea of Self and the authenticity of particular identities have been rapidly dissolving in the acids of post-modern globalising capitalism.

The book examines the integration of European trade union movement and explores the prospects for European or transnational solidarity among workers.

Originally published in 1989, this study provides an informed and critical analysis of local partnerships between the private and public sectors in response to the unemployment problems.

Based on documents from a long-lost and unexplored colonial archive, Slavery by Any Other Name tells the story of how Portugal privatized part of its empire to the Mozambique Company.

The book conducts a comparative study on the form of enterprise, focusing on broadly defined cooperative firms in comparison with conventional capitalist firms.

This book sheds light on state and society relations in China under the Nationalist and Communist regimes.

Gender inequality is a global problem.

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.

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The outcome of three years of research on the role of institutions in labor markets at the research unit Labor Market Policy and Employment of the Social Science Research Center Berlin, these seven contributions were originally presented at a conference in December 1992 before a group of experts i

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

This Palgrave Pivot features original research studies of wage inequality in African countries including South Africa, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Over the last fifteen years, the deregulation of Britain's labour market has led to economic growth, employment opportunities, and a more diverse workforce: the 'fat years'.

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