Labour / income economics

This book examines the concept of globalised identities and the way in which agency is exercised over identity construction by women working in India's transnational call centre industry.

This book examines the concept of globalised identities and the way in which agency is exercised over identity construction by women working in India's transnational call centre industry.

Since the end of the Second World War, society has been characterised by rapid and extensive political, economic, scientific, and technological change.

Since the end of the Second World War, society has been characterised by rapid and extensive political, economic, scientific, and technological change.

Tough Choices or Tough Times, the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, shows how the dynamics of the global economy will lead to a steady decline in the American standard of living if this country does not undertake the first thorough overhaul of its education system in a century.

Bringing together researchers from the fields of social policy, economics, sociology and clinical psychology, this book offers new evidence on the inter-related problems faced by disability claimants, and identifies important lessons for policy.

Bringing together researchers from the fields of social policy, economics, sociology and clinical psychology, this book offers new evidence on the inter-related problems faced by disability claimants, and identifies important lessons for policy.

Fundamental Economic Principles, Methods, and Tools for Addressing Human Systems Integration Issues and Tradeoffs Human Systems Integration (HSI) is a new and fundamental integrating discipline designed to help move business and engineering cultures toward more human-centered systems.

This Element uses Austrian economics, public choice, and institutional economics to explain the origins and consequences of property rights.

This Element uses Austrian economics, public choice, and institutional economics to explain the origins and consequences of property rights.

The book provides valuable insights on the dynamics of women''s mobility, autonomy and agency in India''s informal labour market.

Focuses on various aspects of urbanisation in India and its impact on socio-economic variables.

Provides insights into the complexities of the process and growth of industrialisation as it has played out in contemporary India.

An empirical investigation into the impact of immigration on institutions and prosperity.

An empirical investigation into the impact of immigration on institutions and prosperity.

The supposed link between immigration and crime is a highly contentious issue.

The supposed link between immigration and crime is a highly contentious issue.

Follows young indigenous migrants from the hills of Northeast India to megacities like Bangalore and Mumbai.

Considers the policy debates surrounding unemployment in Western Europe after the outbreak of the Great Recession.

Explores the combination of capital''s changing composition and labour''s subjective agency.

Analyzes causes of union decline in the US, and offers legal reforms aimed at reversing that trend.

Munger predicts that smartphones will allow the ''transactions cost economy'' to commodify excess capacity, promoting sharing instead of owning.

Studies conceptual foundations of GVC analysis, twin pillars of ''governance'' and ''upgrading'', and detailed cases of emerging economies.

Explores the emerging issues of virtual work and looks at how employers have turned to technology during the pandemic.

Examines the relationship between the extent of redistribution and the components of the Mirrlees framework.

Algorithms will be what we want them to be: we must choose the world we want to live in.

Examines the relationship between the extent of redistribution and the components of the Mirrlees framework.

Considers the policy debates surrounding unemployment in Western Europe after the outbreak of the Great Recession.

Explores the mobilities of capital and labour in the contemporary global economy.

Explores the emerging issues of virtual work and looks at how employers have turned to technology during the pandemic.

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

Explores the extent to which global retail opens up new channels to leverage more gender-equitable gains in sourcing countries.

Algorithms will be what we want them to be: we must choose the world we want to live in.

Munger predicts that smartphones will allow the ''transactions cost economy'' to commodify excess capacity, promoting sharing instead of owning.

Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India''s changing political economy.

Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India''s changing political economy.

Examines upgradation and innovation by firms in GVCs through case studies of China, India, South Korea, the Philippines and Sri Lanka.

Examines inequality in overall distributions of income and expenditure, and disparities across gender, region, caste, race, and access to education.

Analyzes causes of union decline in the US, and offers legal reforms aimed at reversing that trend.

Presents a new framework for Austrian capital theory, starting from the notion that capital is value.

This book is about the death of the garment industry in Nepal and the Maoist-led labour uprising that followed.

Analyses the dynamics of capital-labour bargaining in the context of the changing nature of the state and market in India.

An analysis of labour internationalism that explores in depth the experience of the Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights (SIGTUR).

An analysis of labour internationalism that explores in depth the experience of the Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights (SIGTUR).

Leading scholars from a range of disciplines come together in an inclusive discussion of the latest techniques and issues examined by the capability approach.

Explores the sustainable farming movement through reference to three detailed case studies of organisations operating in rural India.

This book argues that liberalization of industrial relations has been a universal tendency among European countries over the last thirty-five years.

This book argues that liberalization of industrial relations has been a universal tendency among European countries over the last thirty-five years.

This book uses economic theory to argue that labor-managed firms are rare due to market failures rather than any inherent organizational defects.