Labour / income economics

This book explores the ways in which neoliberal capitalism has reshaped the lives of working-class men around the world.

The call center industry is booming in the Philippines.

The prevailing view of industrialization has focussed on technology, capital, entrepreneurship and the institutions that enabled them to be deployed.

Debate surrounding the employability of graduates has been around for many decades, and interest in this area has grown particularly since the start of this century.

First published in 1997, this volume responds to a world in the midst of a telecommunications revolution.

Covering cost structures and cost problems as well as costing methodologies, this book, first published in 1988, aims to enhance understanding of the economics of all types of transportation: freight and passenger, by truck, rail, bus and air.

Originally published in 1993, this book contains 3 studies on Africa: Algeria, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

This book argues for a moral consideration of animal work relations.

This book examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on changing labour markets and accelerating digitalisation of the workplace in Central and Eastern Europe.

Using an interdisciplinary lens, this book innovatively explores the conflicts and shifting boundaries in organisational, professional, legal and economic structures, caused by the rise of the gig economy.

This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind.

An engaged workforce is critical to the high performance and success of any organization.

First published in 1987, Incentives and Economic Systems is a selection of papers presented at the Eighth Arne Ryde Symposium at Frostavallen, Sweden on how institutions attempt to guide individual behaviour by manipulating the social and economic incentive system.

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

Labor and the Economy provides the theory, empirical studies of the labor force, and public policies that flow from the theories and empirical studies in the field of labor economics.

Under the rule of the current economic order, social injustice is ever-increasing.

This book discusses the political economy of the SARS epidemic and its impact on human resources in East Asia, as it occurred in 2003.

This title was originally published in 1977.

The Tunisian Labor Market in an Era of Transition is a comprehensive examination of the central labor market issues facing this key Arab country.

Focuses on the relationship between the production of commodities and the process of social reproduction of the labouring population

With the growth of knowledge-based economies, cities across the globe must compete to attract and retain the most talented workers.

This unbiased look at the minimum wage debate in America traces the history of minimum wage policy at both the federal and state levels, discusses the controversies swirling around the issue, and examines the veracity of claims made by people on both sides of the debate.

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

Originally published in 1977, this book examines the choice of new production techniques available to the publicly owned industries during their first thirty years and the effectiveness with which these techniques were put to use.

Artificial intelligence and the autonomous robots of the Fourth Industrial Revolution will render certain jobs and competences obsolete but will also create new roles, which in turn require new sets of skills.

Will technological improvement and growth in the rest of the world cause a decline in American living standards?

This volume examines the economics of aquatic sports.

This first book of a three-volume study examines the way trade policies in developing countries affect the level and composition of employment.

Informal work - family care, voluntary work, and undeclared or unregulated work - is a critical form of labor in today's economy, yet remains underanalyzed and examined.

This edited volume uses a feminist approach to explore the economic implications of the complex interrelationship between gender and time use.

Analyzes the causes of the decline in labor''s global fortunes from 1975 to the 2000s.

The chapters in this collection are based on qualitative fieldwork studies and collectively offer the reader a perspective on women, work, and gender relations that is at once multidisciplinary and feminist.

Industrial Relations in a Changing World (1975) shows how industrial relations embrace very deep-rooted attitudes and institutions, and that change, if it is to be radical, is slow.

Factor Supply and Substitution, the second in a three-volume study entitled Trade and Employment in Developing Countries, extends the analysis of trade regimes and employment both in depth for single countries and through cross-country analyses.

This book, originally published in 1984, established the need for a strategic managerial response to the new technology, which relies on an understanding of the real effects of technology - on organisational structure, manageemnt style and employee relations.

Current debates concerning the future of social security provision in advanced capitalist states have raised the issue of a citizen's basic income (CBI) as a possible reform package: a proposal based on the principles of individuality, universality and unconditionality which would ensure a minimum income guaranteed for all members of society.

First published in 1978.

This book clarifies the mechanism of widening income inequality and declining labor share in macroeconomics, growth, technology, and the labor market, and provides policy implications.

Precarity is a key theme in political discourse, in media and academic discussions of employment, and within the labour movement.

Are women paid less than men when they hold comparable jobs?

This book examines the role of tax policy in the incidence of socio-economic inequality.

Since its launch in 2006, the Hamilton Project at Brookings has produced extensive research on how to create a growing economy that benefits all Americans.