Labour / income economics

This is the first book to look at the European Union and single currency from the perspective of member-states.

In Western Europe, the notion of social exclusion is rapidly diffusing in recent years.

This volume collects original contributions and recent research in economic theory and the political economy of unemployment and inflation from a team of internationally renowned scholars.

This book examines racial and ethnic discrimination in the labour markets and workplaces of western Europe.

Are jobs and wages, particularly those of the low-skilled, undermined by trade and investment with Asian and other emerging economies?

An overview of many currently topical issues around food and agriculture, with particular emphasis on their implications for development.

This book is about two polemical issues in labour studies, namely, the notions and determinants of labour productivity and flexibility.

How can we account for the dynamic growth of East and Southeast Asian countries?

Wages are a vital economic variable in their influence on employment and unemployment and as the main source of personal income, affecting both living standards and labour incentives.

The growth of the services sector in developing countries and their increased participation in trade in services have far-reaching implications for promotion of employment and income and management of international migration.

An era of economic globalisation and inward investment has seen much interest in Japanese labour management techniques.

Growth patterns have changed radically over the last two decades, to which capital and the labour markets appear to have failed to adapt.

The book examines the effect of labour markets on economic performance in an international perspective; Europe, Japan and the US.

Based on original data obtained from a purpose-designed nationwide household sample survey, the volume contains studies of the overall distribution of income, inequality and poverty in rural areas, wage employment in rural industries, urban wage inequalities, and the relationship between education and income.

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.

An examination of contemporary British industrial relations from the early post-war decades (1945-70) to the present.

This collection of papers considers how people who are low paid can be given better opportunities in the British labour market.

This book represents an advance in our knowledge of the labour market.

Multinationals have global reach in their search for profits; women, even more than men, are confined to their immediate community in their search for jobs.

This volume contains a series of essays which examine microeconomic or structural issues and attempt to explain why alternative prescriptions to monetarism could have avoided the massive rise in unemployment in the 1980s.

A companion text to "e;Making the Economy Work"e;, this covers aspects of the Employment Institute's published output in its first three years.

How are we to make sense of the way work is organised and controlled?

In the present stage of international capitalist development, women are increasingly being drawn into paid employment by multinational and state investment in the Third World.

By an international forum of contributors, this is the result of a conference organized by the Department of Economics of the University of Limburg and the European Production Study Group.

An attempt to analyse employment in Britain in which the author examines developments in the labour market since the war and assesses the contribution of national policy and ideology.

A study containing a combination of theory, ethnography and history, focusing upon critical issues of economic organization and change.

A discussion of the power relationships between employers, workers and their organizations in capitalist societies.

An investigation into the changing fortunes of working people in a capitalist society.

An attempt by Conservative MPs to put forward and explain their views regarding the so-called technological revolution.

Information about women's occupational mobility is required to resolve issues about women's role in class analysis, about theories of the operation of labour markets, and for understanding changes in the industrial structure.

In the mid-1980s the world's industrialised economies entered their second decade of stagnant growth and mass unemployment paralleled only by the Great Slump.

The papers in this volume examine the conditions and consequences of micro-electronic technology within one or more of various spheres of the labour process.

Increasingly high unemployment has brought with it a multitude of consequences affecting those without jobs and, beyond them, their families, friends and communities.