Labour and income economics Books

In A Better Bargain, Martin Manley delivers a compelling case for a modern form of income bargaining to grow America’s vital middle class. He describes why investments in education, technology, or trade are unlikely to raise the pay of...

Due to technical advances in production and communication technology, outsourcing - contracting out production of intermediate materials and services - has affected the economic growth of the ASEAN region. This new book fills an important gap in the...

This book is concerned with the rapid and varied changes in the nature of work and work relationships which have taken place in recent years. While technological innovation has been a key contributor to the nature and pace of change, other social and...

The literature on gender and professions shows that professional careers continue to be impacted by gender - albeit with important differences among professions and countries. Much less researched is the issue of the significance of gender and age-cohort...

New developments in the Asia Pacific are forcing regional officials to rethink the way they manage security issues. The contributors to this work explore why some forms of security cooperation and institutionalisation in the region have proven more...

Since the terrorist attacks on 9/11, the political roles of religious institutions and groups have captured inernational attention. This book examines how religious institutions and organizations in various Asian countries are influencing democratic...

This timely work examines the scale and root causes of terrorism across Southeast Asia, including the role of al-Qaeda's ascendancy in the region. It begins with an overview of the analytical and theoretical framework for discussing the subject...

The implications of globalization for labour are more often asserted than analyzed. This collection, and its companion volume The Global Economy, National States and the Regulation of Labour edited by by Paul Edwards and Tony Elger, seek to remedy this...

With close attention to the spheres of sport and religion as important sites of moral currency, this book draws on media coverage of major cases of hypocrisy, attending to differing meanings and consequences of hypocrisy within the US, France and Iceland...

In this book, the author argues that a new form of capitalism is emerging at the threshold of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. He asserts that we are in the midst of a transition from democratic capitalism to feudal capitalism and highlights how...

Work Under Capitalism synthesizes recent institutionalist and Marxist ideas about the organization of production, situating production within a social context. Starting with the transaction rather than the individual, it builds upon a coherent theory and...

As a product of its time, the call centre utilises new developments in telecommunications and information technology to offer cost-efficient delivery systems for customer care. Efficiency, productivity and flexibility are all embodiments of neoliberal...

The high growth performance of the Indian economy since the launch of economic reforms in the early 1990s has been much lauded. But how much of this growth has made its way to the poor? In a radical assessment ofinclusive growth this book probes the...

This book contains the 9th Inaugural Lecture Series 2018 of the University of Lagos, Nigeria, delivered by Dafe Otobo on 4 July 2018. According to Professor Otobo, “this is a small part in the on-going attempt at placing state policies,...

Le moyen-âge présente un singulier phénomène. La société est assaillie par des maux sans nombre ; une plainte amère et profonde sort de chaque siècle : cette plainte, d'âge en âge, est répétée par l'histoire, et jusqu'à la renaissance, parmi ceux qui...

Master's Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Sociology - Social System and Social Structure, grade: 4, Stockholm University, language: English, abstract: This study seeks to examine the socio-economic changes experienced in the Kibbutz Amir in...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich VWL - Arbeitsmarktökonomik, Note: 1,7, Hochschule Schmalkalden, ehem. Fachhochschule Schmalkalden (FB Wirtschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Diplomarbeit untersucht den gegenwärtigen Zustand und die...

This is the second Images of America book showcasing the rich history of the town of Burrillville. Incorporated in 1806, the town grew in prosperity because of the many woolen mills that sprang up along its rivers and streams. This photographic history...

The book develops a cross-disciplinary paradigm, with economics at its core, to better understand gender in China and women in management in the Chinese business context.

The sports agent has become a significant figure in contemporary sports business. Drawing on extensive empirical research into football around the world, this book explains what agents do, how their role has changed, why this is important for future...

In the present age of temp work, telecommuting, and outsourcing, millions of workers in the United States find themselves excluded from the category of "employee"--a crucial distinction that would otherwise permit unionization and collective...

This handbook presents comprehensive theoretical, empirical and historical accounts of the political economy of informal work from the late twentieth century to the present. It examines the rich and varied analysis and critique of the informalization of...

Arbeit rur aIle - immer noch eine realistische Perspektive? In den letzten J ahren hat die Arbeitslosigkeit in der Bundesrepublik dramatisch zugenommen; die Zahl der Arbeitslosen liegt gegenwartig im Jahresdurchschnitt bei rund...

Die hier vorgelegte Studie uber Berufsbiographien von Industriearbeitern stutzt sich auf empirisches Material, das im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojektes an der FU Berlin zwischen 1972 und 1974 erhoben wurde. Zwischen 1971 und...

Wer sich mit dem raschen, in allen Bereichen der modernen Gesellschaft in die Augen springenden und in seinen Erscheinungsformen iiberaus vielfaltigen sozialen Wandel befaBt, der wird versucht sein, Bewegungen, die sich...

"Die Arbeitszeit" hat in den letzten Jahren zunehmend Offentliche Beachtung erfah­ reno Mehrere Stromungen trafen hierbei zeitlich zusammen: Traditionelle Bestre­ bungen zur Verkiirzung der Lebensarbeitszeit als ein Element der...

Die Hochschule fUr Wirtschaft und Politik Hamburg, 1948 als Akademie fUr Ge­ meinwirtschaft gegriindet, ist eine wissenschaftliche Hochschule, die eine integrierte wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftliche Ausbildung in den...

Der vorliegende Band enthalt eine Auswahl von Arbeitspapieren des Instituts fUr Kon­ sum-und Verhaltensforschung an der Universitat des Saarlandes. Das erste Heft dieser Papiere erschien im November 1971. Seitdem sind in...

Discover the Dawn of a New Era: The Ties Between Artificial Intelligence and Our FutureImagine a world where every aspect of life is enhanced by artificial intelligence-our jobs, our ethical decisions, and even the way we interact with one another. "When...

This study examines fundamental theoretical and conceptual issues of social change in Latin America in the context of detailed empirical analysis. It challenges the major assumptions and propositions that underlie globalization theory, reworking and fine...

This book examines recent developments in Brazilian labour relations. Analysing the current state of labour relations in Brazil, the author shows how the proposals advanced by the new unionism have put strong pressure on the corporate system still...

This book provides insight into the potential for the market to protect and improve labour standards and working conditions in global apparel supply chains. It examines the possibilities and limitations of market approaches to securing social compliance...

Economy, Work and Education: Critical Connections addresses effects of neoliberal capitalism in particular regard to work and education. The book elaborates key aspects and problems of generalized policy models of knowledge-based economies and learning...

Unfree labor has not disappeared from advanced capitalist economies. In this sense the debates among and between Marxist and orthodox economic historians about the incompatibility of capitalism and unfree labor are moot: the International Labour...

This book examines the factors driving youth unemployment in South Africa, exploring potential future outcomes of its mass unemployment, and offering a variety of strategies to avoid an impending crisis in the country.Utilizing scenario analysis rooted...

The analysis of the various components of human work is the most important approach to a systematic study of people at work. This approach is aimed at the examination of individual activities with respect to the role they play in the conflict of...

The Hallowing of Work is a book that contains a series of addresses given by Francis Paget at Eton in January 1888. The book was first published in 1892 and is a collection of insightful and inspiring speeches that focus on the importance of work and its...

How do people in customer service adopt the 'frame of mind' that allows them to provide exceptional service? It's called Jetiquette. At the age of nine, Gailen David dreamed of a career in the airline industry. Armed with a notebook, telephone and...

The emergence of new platform business models, notably the sharing economy, is impacting the economy in various ways, altering the structure of many industries, and raising a number of economic and political issues.This book investigates the widespread...

Although sociologists have written extensively on the broad subject of occupational careers, generally they have referred only incidentally to organizational careers within work organizations. In this pioneering sourcebook, now considered a classic,...

This book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states, flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization, where many people, who are forced by the circumstances to be...

Research in recent decades has proven that the seemingly disparate worlds of family life and the workplace are in fact closely intertwined. Moreover, scholars have begun to recognize the extent to which community life influences the work-family...

Video games challenge our notions of identity, creativity, and moral value, and provide a powerful new avenue for teaching and learning. This book is a rich and provocative guide to the role of interactive media in cultural learning. It searches for...

This groundbreaking book shows how major shifts in federal policy are spurring local public housing authorities to demolish their high-rise, low-income developments, and replace them with affordable low-rise, mixed income communities. It focuses on...

The Physiology of Industry is a remarkable work which set out to challenge the current theory surrounding the economics of labour, supply and demand. First published in 1889, Hobson's first book outlines some of the key areas of his theory of...