In the 1990s, states in what would become the eastern edge of the European Union transformed their political systems and economies, leaving state socialism behind for liberal democracies and free markets.
Employment Expansion and Population Growth: The California Experience, 1900-1950 provides a detailed analysis of the dramatic population growth and employment trends that shaped California's development during the first half of the 20th century.
In the 1990s, states in what would become the eastern edge of the European Union transformed their political systems and economies, leaving state socialism behind for liberal democracies and free markets.
In einer Welt, die von technologischen Innovationen, demografischen Veränderungen und globaler Vernetzung geprägt ist, wird der Fachkräftemangel oft als eines der drängendsten Probleme unserer Zeit dargestellt.
On August 3, 1981, over 12,000 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association (PATCO) walked off their jobs, striking for higher pay, shorter hours, and increased benefits.
This first ethnographic study of factory workers engaged in radical labor protest gives a voice to a segment of the Japanese population that has been previously marginalized.
Both Yuk-ling, a busy Hong Kong mother of two, and Chi-ying, a young single woman from a remote village in northern China, work in electronics factories owned by the same foreign corporation, manufacturing identical electronic components.
Challenging prevailing theories of development and labor, Gay Seidman's controversial study explores how highly politicized labor movements could arise simultaneously in Brazil and South Africa, two starkly different societies.
This lucid, hard-hitting book explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy: the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that depends on their labor to maintain its status as a world economic leader.
This first ethnographic study of factory workers engaged in radical labor protest gives a voice to a segment of the Japanese population that has been previously marginalized.
Both Yuk-ling, a busy Hong Kong mother of two, and Chi-ying, a young single woman from a remote village in northern China, work in electronics factories owned by the same foreign corporation, manufacturing identical electronic components.
Challenging prevailing theories of development and labor, Gay Seidman's controversial study explores how highly politicized labor movements could arise simultaneously in Brazil and South Africa, two starkly different societies.
This lucid, hard-hitting book explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy: the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that depends on their labor to maintain its status as a world economic leader.
This book discusses the dogmatic (that what is settled) and the dynamic (that what is changing) aspects of the relationship between blockchain and the law from a critical perspective.
This book discusses the dogmatic (that what is settled) and the dynamic (that what is changing) aspects of the relationship between blockchain and the law from a critical perspective.
With growing international competition, American firms have been gaced with increasing pressures to produce better products, cut costs, and improve efficiency.
As automation and the decline of manufacturing fuel fears of a coming age of mass unemployment, basic incomea government cash grant given unconditionally to allhas won wide support across the ideological spectrum, from Silicon Valley to labor.
Leading scholar Alex Dupuy investigates themes of class, power, and gender in Haiti in the capitalist world-economyfrom independence and indemnity to the US occupation and current crisis after the assassination of President Mose.
Community Wage Patterns offers an insightful analysis into the dynamics of wage levels and structures within Los Angeles County, providing a case study that extends its relevance to broader economic contexts.
This book brings together leading and emerging scholars and practitioners to present an overview of how regional, international and transnational courts and tribunals are engaging with the environment.
The book provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in Turkey's labour dispute resolution system, and helps compare the Turkish system especially with those in European countries.
With job prospects clouded for even the well-educated, those who leave school with no training beyond high school now face great challenges in making the transition from school to work.
El mundo de las relaciones laborales es cada vez más complejo, y el derecho laboral, en tanto busca regular los posibles conflictos que se dan entre los trabajadores y sus empleadores, debe mantenerse a la par.
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.
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.
One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "e;reform and openness"e; will lead to political liberalization.
