Labour / income economics

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.

The failure of command central planning in the twentieth century has led to a general disillusionment within the socialist movement worldwide.

Facing economic upheaval and growing inequality, people in local communities are fighting for economic justice.

As the dust settles on nearly three decades of economic reform in Latin America, one of the most fundamental economic policy areas has changed far less than expected: labor regulation.

This is a darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity and financial instability.

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.

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.

Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics (1890) - Founder of Modern (Neo-classical) Economics.

Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century.

First published in 1973, this volume concentrates upon contemporary issues of a theoretical and methodological nature in the study of organizations.

This report examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Nordic labour markets and the associated policy responses undertaken in the areas of unemployment benefits, job retention schemes, active labour market policies and skill development policies.

Originally published in 1979, the purpose of this book is to introduce a theory of the distribution of national income between wages, profits and other categories of income.

This volume gathers recent insights into the determinants, developments and outcomes of employee share ownership.

This book examines the relationship between retirement and health of older people in Japan's super-aging society and provides a key to understanding the remarkable longevity of the population.

Originally published in 1985, New Nationalisms in the Developed West is a collection of interdisciplinary and insightful essays on modern nationalist movements.

The global Basic Income debate is now widespread, diverse, and relatively well resourced by academic and more popular literature: but that does not mean that there is universal agreement about every topic of discussion.

Contemporary capitalistic systems have been undergoing profound transformations determined by the transition towards the so-called knowledge based economy, i.

This book aims to provide a scholarly account of recent understandings and reflections on some of the prevalent and emerging issues in urban and regional China, such as urbanization, inequality, hukou (household registration) reforms, labor relations, not-in-my-backyard protests and environmental governance.

South Asia Migration Report 2020 documents key themes of exploitation and entrepreneurship of migrants from the region.

This book provides an accessible presentation of the standard statistical techniques used by labour economists.

Voici la seconde édition de La méthode des cas, parue aux Presses de l'Université Laval en 2005.

From award-winning economic historian Sanford M.

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

Bernan Press proudly presents the 15th edition of Employment, Hours, and Earnings: States and Areas, 2020.

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

Originally published in 1986, this book was published at a time when the manufacturing structure of advanced economies was transformed.

Originally published in 1994 this book undertakes a comprehensive study dealing with the effects of machine flexibility, tool magazine capacity, varying production demands and different oeprating policies on the production planning problems.

With unemployment at historically high rates that show signs of becoming structural, there is a pressing need for an in-depth exploration of this economic injustice.

Issues relating to employment and labour have once again come to the fore of global policy debates in the wake of the widespread unemployment that has accompanied the current financial crisis.

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide federal research and development funding to small businesses.

Fintech Explained provides a rigorous, accessible introduction to the landscape of fintech.

Leo Troy describes and analyzes the changes in the economy and labor markets and the subsequent and continuing changes in unions.

Wages are a vital economic variable in their influence on employment and unemployment and as the main source of personal income, affecting both living standards and labour incentives.

First published in 1997, this volume examines why, while mature welfare states are being trimmed and privatised, new social welfare arrangement are implemented in formerly communist and newly industrialised countries.

The Disintegration of the Soviet Economic System (1992) examines in detail the collapse of the Soviet economic system, and is set in its political context, both international and domestic.

This book investigates the population and labour management reforms implemented since the reform and opening up of China in the early 1980s, giving insights into the economic and social implications of these reforms and future prospects for population governance.

This book investigates the population and labour management reforms implemented since the reform and opening up of China in the early 1980s, giving insights into the economic and social implications of these reforms and future prospects for population governance.

The overarching goal of South Africa's National Development Plan (NDP) is to eliminate poverty, reduce inequality, lower unemployment and increase the labour participation.

The deterioration of employmentconditions for an increasing number of employees in late capitalism hasprompted researchers to find ways to conceptualise, as well as measure, these observed new tendencies.

Management and labor have been adversaries in American and Canadian workplaces since the time of colonial settlement.

This book presents a series of research articles written over the past four decades by leading economists George J.

Provides a timely and comprehensive overview of self-employment and entrepreneurship in our modern economy.

This book looks at the dynamic relationship between women's productive and reproductive work in a Global South country from a Global South perspective.