Labour / income economics

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.

First published in 1993, The Corporate Paradox is the first major, in-depth study of the franchise relationship and how it functions.

The essential guide to finding a job onlineThis definitive guide to harnessing the Internet's powerful research capabilities has been thoroughly updated to include the latest online job searching techniques.

During the 1960s and 1970s, teachers, sanitation workers and many other public employees rose up to demand collective bargaining rights in one of the greatest upsurges in labor history.

In this day and age, much has been discussed as to what it means 'to be an Arab'.

YOU can create the next breakthrough innovationA revolution is under way.

Executive Compensation Best Practices demystifies the topic of executive compensation, with a hands-on guide providing comprehensive compensation guidance for all members of the board.

A History for the Future will be of interest to all those who reflect on the relationship between memory, giving meaning to the past, writing history, and a society's common aspirations.

Originally published in 1982, The Railwaymen examines the impact of the transformation which took place in the British Railways in the second half of the 20th Century on the people who maintained British railway services and reveals the change which took place in the union to which most of them belonged: the National Union of Railwaymen (now part of the National Union of Rail and Maritime Transport Workers: RMT).

Employment has changed dramatically in the last few decades with the onset of neoliberal globalization.

Turbulence--rapid and sometimes tumultuous changes--has characterized the labor markets of the 1970's and 1980's.

First published in 1970.

Thought-provoking and clearly explained, the new edition provides students of international economics and international business with a rigorous explanation of global economic theory and policy, both current trends and historic developments.

This book offers an analysis of the key issues faced by women in the labor market in the 21st century.

Like many industrialised nations, the current employment trend in Japan centres on diversification of the labour market with an increased use of temporary labour.

The so-called 'Spanish miracle', beginning in the mid-1990s, eventually became a nightmare for the majority of the population, culminating in the present-day economic and political crisis.

This book examines the implications of China's economic reforms for domestic work and domestic workers.

The prevailing view of industrialization has focussed on technology, capital, entrepreneurship and the institutions that enabled them to be deployed.

Originally published in 1982 Diversity and Decomposition in the Labour Market, is an edited collection addressing the contemporary sociology of the labour market.

Current and historical examples in the labour movement worldwide have helped to debunk the myth that workers cannot run production.

This book identifies the root causes of income inequality in underdeveloped economies and proposes new solutions for structural reform in economies that have long neglected and exploited working people.

This book is devoted to offering a new concept of non-employment caused by social exclusion.

Due to technical advances in production and communication technology, outsourcing - contracting out production of intermediate materials and services - has affected the economic growth of the ASEAN region.

Throughout the last decade, the 'gig economy' has emerged as one of the most significant developments in the world of work.

Why was Winnipeg the scene of the longest and most complete general strike in North American history?

The so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution has prompted companies to adapt to a new business paradigm based on digital interconnection and the ability to respond quickly to the needs of consumers and users.

This book goes beyond traditional minimum wage research to investigate the interplay between different country and sectoral institutional settings and actors' strategies in the field of minimum wage policies.

This book brings together scholars from the fields of politics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and economics, to explore pathways towards implementing a Basic Income in Australia.

No sector has been as vital as oil to the Russian economy since Vladimir Putin came to power.

The Multilevel Politics of Trade presents a timely comparative analysis of eight federations (plus the European Union) to explore why some sub-federal actors have become more active in trade politics in recent years.

Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant.

First published in 1997, this volume responds to a world in the midst of a telecommunications revolution.

This introductory text on labour economics covers topics such as: the shift in America from a manufacturing-based economy to a service economy; the changes in the economic conditions in the US; the implications of NAFTA and GATT; and the labour markets.

Since the mid-1980s, mass migration from the countryside to urban areas has been one of the most dramatic and noticeable changes in China.

Explores how labour struggles in the post-1977 period in Sri Lanka provided important resistance to capitalist processes.

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 is the second book of a two-volume set that continues Adam Smith's work, using the tools mathematical, experimental, and behavioural economists have developed since 1776.

First published in 1986.

Economic inequality has recently gained considerable academic attention.

First published in 1921, Industrial Fatigue and Efficiency aims to provide a fairly complete overview of industrial fatigue and its influence on efficiency.

This book attempts a representation of society in contemporary India through an ethnography woven around long-standing intractable conflicts - of displacement and rehabilitation, patriarchy, insurgency and counter-insurgency operations, and climate change.

Inflation is the economic plague of the modern world, completely undermining conventional theory and policies for its containment, and setting governments, management and labour on a dangerous collision course.

This book offers a fresh perspective on gender debates in Nepal and analyses how the international migration of the first generation of professional female Nepali nurses has been a catalyst for social change.

Originally published in 1985, this book examines the extent of Scottish migration and Scottish involvement in the process of development.

Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training).

Studies labour relations in the Indian auto industry by drawing upon a range of critical social and economic theories.

This book argues that a satisfactory theory of the international division of labour must come to grips with the problems of economism, functionalism and determinism that have sometimes characterised Marxian approaches to this theme.

Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua: State, Class, and the Dilemmas of Agrarian Policy offers a penetrating analysis of the challenges faced by the Sandinista regime following the overthrow of the Somoza dynasty in 1979.

This is a book on how and why workers come together.

This book explores endogenous institutional change and the global, cyclical, and power-based drivers that underpin it.