Labour / income economics

Rethinking Unequal Exchange traces the structural forces that have created the conditions for the increasing use, production, and circulation of temporary migrant nurses worldwide.

With the growth of knowledge-based economies, cities across the globe must compete to attract and retain the most talented workers.

With the growth of knowledge-based economies, cities across the globe must compete to attract and retain the most talented workers.

The Canadian population is aging, bringing with it an increasing number of social and economic challenges.

The Canadian population is aging, bringing with it an increasing number of social and economic challenges.

Continuities and Discontinuities assesses the making of Canadian social and labour market policy in the context of two factors—globalization and neoconservatism.

A meeting of twenty-four journeymen printers at the York Hotel in Toronto in 1832 marked the birth of Canada’s earliest and still continuing labour organization.

While the unemployment rate for young people has always tended to be well above the average, this tendency has been greatly accentuated in recent years.

This study uses a simple model of information gathering to generate policy recommendations concerning education in Ontario, especially at the post-secondary level.

Samuel Gompers, the charismatic chief of the American Federation of Labor at the turn of the century, claimed to represent the interests of all workers in North America, but it was not until American corporations began to export jobs to Canada via branch plants that he became concerned with representing Canadian workers.

In the cities of Northeast Brazil where 50 per cent of the population lives in poverty, children play a key role in the local economy—in their households, in formal jobs, and in the thriving informal sector (washing cars, shining shoes, scavenging for recyclables, etc.

In the cities of Northeast Brazil where 50 per cent of the population lives in poverty, children play a key role in the local economy—in their households, in formal jobs, and in the thriving informal sector (washing cars, shining shoes, scavenging for recyclables, etc.

Workfare: Ideology for a New Under-Class reveals the double standards of Neo-Liberal "e;newspeak.

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

Have Mulroney, Reagan and Thatcher beaten labour into the ground?

This book explicitly addresses racism in the paid workplace, showing how racism, and by corollary sexism, are systemic to society.

Working people are more knowledgeable and actively engaged in learning than public discussion generally assumes.

This collection of original essays investigates the social, political, and economic transformations associated with the emergence of the so-called new economy, and their impact on the organization of work within Canada.

"e;Published Under the Garamond ImprintFrom the Introduction:"e;"e;This book proposes a substantial revision of the orthodox Marxist approach to understanding group consciousness and action.

The first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery.

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Sporting contests have provided mass entertainment throughout history, and today generate revenues of approximately $200 billion annually in the US alone.

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.

The final out of the World Series marks the beginning of baseball's second season, when teams court free agents and orchestrate trades with the hope of building a championship contender.

Poverty is a paradoxical state.

Growing interest in the field of mental health in the workplace among policy makers, clinicians, and researchers alike has been fueled by equal employment rights legislation and increasing disability statistics in mental heath.

Surveys the history of youth unemployment and identifies key issues underlying the current crisis.

Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too.

Doors to Jobs: A Study of the Organization of the Labor Market in California explores the challenges of connecting job seekers with employment in California during the 1930s.

Building value in our global economy increasingly demands creating new opportunities and solving new problems.

With talent shortages looming over the next decade, what can companies do to attract and retain the large number of professional women who are forced off the career highway?

Drawing on data collected in London's precarious labour market during the COVID- 19 pandemic, this book explores the pragmatic actions of precarious work that produce simultaneous security and vulnerability.

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes makes the case that one percenters like him should pay their fortune forward in a radically simple way: a guaranteed income for working people

The first half of Chris Hughes' life followed the perfect arc of the American Dream.

The overarching goal of South Africa's National Development Plan (NDP) is to eliminate poverty, reduce inequality, lower unemployment and increase the labour participation.

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

This book addresses the controversial call for international labor standards, seeking to productively further this debate by considering the economic implications and history of these standards.

Women, Family, and Work is a collection of original essays on a wide variety of topics related to the economics of gender and the family.

This book is a study of contemporary changes in French employment relations and management.

Kirsten Sehnbruch uses the case study of Chile to show the failures and inner-working of neo-liberal labour policy.

This new edition of a classic feminist book explains how one of the great historical revolutions - the ongoing movement toward equality between the sexes - has come about.

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Mario Baldassarri and Francesco Busato evaluate the impact produced by a new cycle of structural reforms over European Union economies.

This volume is a collection of selected papers using the framework of inframarginal analysis of the division of labour held at Monash University on 6-7 July 2001.

This book enables the reader to understand labour markets and shows how to forecast the need for skills in developing countries.

Globalization and the growing integration of national markets have had profound effects on the operation of markets, not least labour markets.

When economists claim that rules are coordinating devices, they do not explain how those rules operate in the reality of organizational life.

Processes of knowledge production and dissemination are increasingly set in an international context.

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Jim Allen*, Yuki Inenaga**, Rolf van der Velden* and Keiichi Yoshimoto*** * University of Maastricht ** University of Tsukuba *** Kyushu University 1.

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.

Working through Barriers deals with the role host countries' institutional characteristics play in the labour market integration of immigrants in the European Union.