Labour / income economics

Choose your hours, choose your work, be your own boss, control your own income.

Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge.

Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops.

France is often described as one of the last Western economies unable to reform itself in the face of globalization.

Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment.

Corporations are among the most powerful institutions of our time, but they are also responsible for a wide range of harmful social and environmental impacts.

Starting in the 1990s, San Francisco launched a series of bold but relatively unknown public policy experiments to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers.

With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today.

The United States is among the most affluent nations in the world and has its largest economy; nevertheless, it has more poverty than most countries with similar standards of living.

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system.

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

Challenging many common perceptions, this is the first book fully dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon-the large numbers of skilled urban workers who are now coming across the border from Mexico's cities.

This study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country.

Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives a rare insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California.

From the time of Booker T.

How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's economy seems to demand.

The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species.

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In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles.

The only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.

A commonplace assumption about American workers is that they lack class consciousness.

How do women choose between work and family commitments?

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the cryptocurrency phenomenon from a financial/monetary point of view.

Choose your hours, choose your work, be your own boss, control your own income.

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

Building and sustaining cybersecurity in the enterprise isn't just a technical challenge; it is an organizational imperative.

This business law course offers a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental legal principles and ethical considerations essential for any business professional.

Emerging trends in Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) refer to the new and transformative developments, practices, and technologies that are currently gaining prominence in the field of industrial engineering and management.

This is the benchmark book for building client relationships, growing a practice, and avoiding litigation--written in association with the world's leading organization for financial services professionals.

This is the benchmark book for building client relationships, growing a practice, and avoiding litigation--written in association with the world's leading organization for financial services professionals.

This book contributes to our understanding of the transformation of work in the information economy, through a detailed examination of labor markets in Silicon Valley.

Society is rapidly changing its expectations of professionals in all arenas.

For the past three decades, we have been steadily creating an extreme 'time-crunch economy' that has affected jobs, portfolios, businesses and lives.

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.

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.

For the past three decades, we have been steadily creating an extreme 'time-crunch economy' that has affected jobs, portfolios, businesses and lives.

What factors affect the ways individuals participate in labor markets?

What new tools and models are enriching labor economics?

This book examines how the economic performance of immigrants is shaped by national and urban social institutions.

In Breaking Away from Broken Windows Ralph Taylor uses data on recent Baltimore crime-reduction efforts to attack the 'broken windows' thesis--that is, the currently fashionable notion that by reducing or eliminating superficial signs of disorder (dilapidated buildings, graffiti, incivil behavior by teenagers, etc.

Race, Gender, and Discrimination at Work is a review of the determinants of wage and employment discrimination by firms against minorities and women.

According to Ivar Berg's performance criteria, over half of the U.

This book examines how the economic performance of immigrants is shaped by national and urban social institutions.

In Breaking Away from Broken Windows Ralph Taylor uses data on recent Baltimore crime-reduction efforts to attack the 'broken windows' thesis--that is, the currently fashionable notion that by reducing or eliminating superficial signs of disorder (dilapidated buildings, graffiti, incivil behavior by teenagers, etc.

Race, Gender, and Discrimination at Work is a review of the determinants of wage and employment discrimination by firms against minorities and women.

According to Ivar Berg's performance criteria, over half of the U.

Higher education and research are now at the centre of economic and social policy in advanced information societies.

Higher education and research are now at the centre of economic and social policy in advanced information societies.

Published in 1998.

Published in 1998.