Labour / income economics

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

A theoretical, practical approach to the field of lean production from multiple perspectives: five disciplines, ten industries, and seven countries.

A theoretical, practical approach to the field of lean production from multiple perspectives: five disciplines, ten industries, and seven countries.

Discusses human trafficking out of the Russian Federation since the collapse of the Soviet state, and labour migration into and within Russia.

Discusses human trafficking out of the Russian Federation since the collapse of the Soviet state, and labour migration into and within Russia.

Presenting twenty-two years of multidistrict litigation data, this book exposes a systematic lack of checks and balances in our courts.

Presenting twenty-two years of multidistrict litigation data, this book exposes a systematic lack of checks and balances in our courts.

Studies the question of achieving and sustaining high rates of growth and economic development in India.

Basic income can no longer be dismissed as a utopian idea - it's being tested worldwide.

This book provides the why, who, and how of international migration, explaining how it affects the jobs, wages, and welfare of people.

A critical assessment of European social policy that suggests ways to improve coverage of fundamental labour standards in Europe.

A critical assessment of European social policy that suggests ways to improve coverage of fundamental labour standards in Europe.

A detailed account of the lives of state welfare workers as they accommodate, resist and flounder in times of austerity.

This book argues that the period from World War I to the Great Depression was an incubating era when innovative and lasting policy paradigms emerged.

A detailed account of the lives of state welfare workers as they accommodate, resist and flounder in times of austerity.

This book argues that the period from World War I to the Great Depression was an incubating era when innovative and lasting policy paradigms emerged.

This book presents new data to give an overview of shadow economies from OECD countries and propose solutions to prevent illicit work.

This book presents new data to give an overview of shadow economies from OECD countries and propose solutions to prevent illicit work.

This book examines the evolution of economic inequality in China from 2002 to 2007; a sequel to Inequality and Public Policy in China (2008).

This book looks at the success of attempts to expand the boundaries of the postwar welfare state in The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

This book looks at the success of attempts to expand the boundaries of the postwar welfare state in The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

La procrastinazione è una realtà per tantissime persone specialmente nella società attuale.

Procrastination is the reality of countless people, especially today.

Un libro sobre cómo vencer la procrastinación.

It redraws, rewrites and relooks at Bangalore from the perspectives of the city''s female, male, and transgender street-based sex workers.

A deeply researched account of the life and legacy of the man who defined the profession of private eyeAllan Pinkerton, the world's most famous private detective, has been an enduring source of fascination since the nineteenth century.

The book examines how globalised urban labour and property markets are produced by agrarian actors, institutions, spaces and territories.

Focusing on migrant workers, this book explores the different forms work takes, in the context of economic precarity and fragmentation.

Focusing on migrant workers, this book explores the different forms work takes, in the context of economic precarity and fragmentation.

Purchase of gendered labour and environmental services below costs of production become reverse subsidies, captured by global brands.

Increased concentration and rising market power require new rules.

Increased concentration and rising market power require new rules.

An accessible, rigorous presentation of Marx''s argument in the three volumes of Capital and of longstanding debates in Marxist economics.

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

Intensive study of small firms in industrial clusters and locations on how to create jobs and achieve Make in India goals.

Why did the world''s nations fight the Covid-19 pandemic in such different ways and with such varying results?

Why did the world''s nations fight the Covid-19 pandemic in such different ways and with such varying results?

Inner city slums, migrant settlements, construction workers, highlight informal work as underpinning urban poverty and marginalization.

This book is about unequal development and labour in Brazil, with particular reference to the economic and social development of the Northeast region, which has suffered persistent disadvantage.

This book is about unequal development and labour in Brazil, with particular reference to the economic and social development of the Northeast region, which has suffered persistent disadvantage.

This book provides an original contribution to contemporary research surrounding the environmental, humanitarian and socio-political crises associated with contemporary capitalism.

This book provides an original contribution to contemporary research surrounding the environmental, humanitarian and socio-political crises associated with contemporary capitalism.

Over the past 50 years the global labour market is transforming from reliable employment to low-wage and unstable informal and precarious jobs.

Over the past 50 years the global labour market is transforming from reliable employment to low-wage and unstable informal and precarious jobs.

Originally published in 1963, The Railwaymen recounts the struggle of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants from its foundation in 1872 until the first national railway strike in 1911 to gain recognition from the companies and a reduction in the excessive hours of labour and the scandalously high accident rate among railwaymen.

Originally published in 1963, The Railwaymen recounts the struggle of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants from its foundation in 1872 until the first national railway strike in 1911 to gain recognition from the companies and a reduction in the excessive hours of labour and the scandalously high accident rate among railwaymen.

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).