Labour / income economics

The contributors investigate the inter-relationships between migrant remittances and the family in Asia.

The EU's 'social dimension' today is a product of the ideology of the 1990s.

Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life.

This book examines the everyday-life patterns of young adults under circumstances of vulnerability and precariousness.

Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life.

This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times.

This book demonstrates how rethinking and adapting basic employment services into labor intermediation services can help address the many labor market disconnections of developing country economies.

This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face significant challenges from state and industry suppression and by current lack of formal organization.

This edited volume assesses from a variety of perspectives the policies introduced to support the development of household services across Europe.

The assumptions made in the media regarding graduate skills and occupations are no longer valid within the changing educational context.

Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to democracy in 1994.

The book deals with the key aspects of social and economic inequalities developed during the transition of the formerly planned European economies.

The authors investigate the phenomenon of highly skilled Chinese returnees and their impact on the development of the Chinese economy and society, and on the transformation of China into a key player on the global stage.

This book analyzes three points: employment conditions for migrant workers, the impact of industrialization as part of industrial clusters upon surrounding and outlying villages, and the labour market in industrial clusters.

Employment Relations in South Korea provides readers with an overarching view of Korean employment relations and insight into recent changes, and also to help the general public understand more easily the various phenomena and changes in Korean employment relations.

Scholars have studied the nineteenth century's unprecedented labor flows in global and specific country contexts, but have lacked a comprehensive analysis of the world's old economic core, the Mediterranean.

This book examines the work of Milton Friedman, which is amongst the most significant in modern economics and, equally, amongst the most contentious.

Labour: A Heterodox Approach provides a theoretical reconstruction of the labour and job market by examining it in a rich historical context.

This volume goes beyond a narrow conceptualization of macroeconomic stability and explores the link between socio-economic policies, structural transformation and inclusive development.

People regularly multitask, though we have been warned about the mental costs of "e;task-switching"e; in psychology and the popular press.

The volume is at the forefront of the academic and policy debates on effective labour regulation, offering innovative approaches to research and policy.

This volume seeks to go beyond the microeconomic view of wages as a cost having negative consequences on a given firm, to consider the positive macroeconomic dynamics associated with wages as a major component of aggregate demand.

An introduction to work and society for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

There is a modest but growing body of scholarly literature on experiences of retail work, with only a handful of studies existing on retail organizing.

In Who Needs Jobs?

This Handbook focuses on the complexity surrounding the interaction between trade, labour mobility and development, taking into consideration social, economic and human rights implications, and identifies mechanisms for lawful movements across borders and their practical implementation.

In a turbulent global economy, the popular idea of declining farms and factories is largely unfounded.

The Economics of Urban Diversity explores ethnic and religious minorities in urban economies.

Betrayed takes a new approach to the subject of global poverty, one that doesn't blame the West but also doesn't rely on the West for solutions.

In light of the decline of trade union membership and the role TU are expected to play in industrial relations, this book explores the consequences of government action and the economic policies on TU membership, investigating the forms of political action undertaken by TU and reviewing the conditions under which these actions succeed or fail.

Toward a Future Beyond Employment proposes that as poor nations move to the emerging stage and as emerging economies become advanced, advanced economies are transitioning to a stage of their own, to a type of post-employment economy where society works less, consumes less, but instead has more time.

The past few decades have witnessed the economic and geopolitical rise of a number of large middle-income countries around the world.

This book explores the history and global expansion of AB Volvo, one of the hundred largest corporations in the world, through the experiences of its workers in Sweden, Mexico, South Africa, and India.

In this gripping book, Dr.

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 2001 Germany and Austria became the last EU states to lift transnational controls restricting access to their labour markets for citizens of ex-communist countries.

The reason for the depth the 2008's global depression lies in the intractability of modern economic systems.

This book explores the widening gap between the wage packets of skilled and unskilled workers that has become a pressing issue for all states in the globalized world economy.

In the decades after World War II, inflation undermined the aspiration for full employment in Australia.

In the midst of growing criticism of current economic orthodoxies and welfare systems, basic income is growing in popularity.

The Organisation of Employment explores the diversity in the organisation of employment among advanced industrial societies.

Labour process theory is consolidated in Working Life to develop a credible account of the relationships between capitalist political economy, work systems and the strategies and practices of actors in the employment relationship.

An investigation into the labor force in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries primarily focusing on labor migration and remittances.

This exciting and timely collection brings together international and national scholars and advocates to provide historical overviews of efforts to pass basic income guarantee legislation in their respective countries and/or across regions of the globe.

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

Basic income is one the most innovative, powerful and controversial proposals for addressing poverty and growing inequalities.

A theoretical discussion and internal critique of mainstream law and economics scholarship, especially as it approaches the issue of paternalism.

This book proposes a path-breaking study of the economics of multilingualism at work, proposing a systematic approach to the identification and measurement of the ways in which language skills and economic performance are related.

This book proposes a path-breaking study of the economics of multilingualism at work, proposing a systematic approach to the identification and measurement of the ways in which language skills and economic performance are related.

In this volume, we examine the challenges and opportunities created by global migration at the start of the 21st century.