Labor category: 1449 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The Russian Revolution excited men, and captured their imaginations. It seemed to herald the fulfillment of the nineteenth-century socialist movement. Socialists believed that with the proper use of technocracy they could scourge poverty and hunger from the earth. They felt that a social system based...
Working for Justice
The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Working for Justice, which includes eleven case studies of recent low-wage worker organizing campaigns in Los Angeles, makes the case for a distinctive "L.A. Model" of union and worker center organizing. Networks linking advocates in worker centers and labor unions facilitate mutual learning and synergy...
The Employee
A Political History
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
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 bargaining. Tracing the history of the term since...
Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest
Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
From its inception in 1966, the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) has grown to employ approximately 20,000 workers annually, the majority from Mexico. The program has been hailed as a model that alleviates human rights concerns because, under contract, SAWP workers travel legally,...
by W. Stanley Jevons
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
W. Stanley Jevons was a central figure linking political economy with social policy, and The State in Relation to Labour is the quintessential product of that fusion. Jevons reviews how legislation enacted for the protection of labor re-established the social contract on a new industrial footing....
The Struggle for America's Promise
Equal Opportunity at the Dawn of Corporate Capital
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
In The Struggle for America's Promise, Claire Goldstene seeks to untangle one of the enduring ideals in American history, that of economic opportunity. She explores the varied discourses about its meaning during the upheavals and corporate consolidations of the Gilded Age. Some proponents of equal...
What Do Unions Do?
A Twenty-year Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
One of the best-known and most-quoted books ever written on labor unions is What Do Unions Do? by Richard Freeman and James Medoff. Published in 1984, the book proved to be a landmark because it provided the most comprehensive and statistically sophisticated empirical portrait of the economic and...
by Takao Kato
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
With the financial crisis and Great Recession, some economists have begun to question the orthodox approach to production and capital/labor relations over the last two to three decades. This orthodoxy has been thrown into question due to concerns of poor corporate decision-making, corporate capture...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Creating jobs and increasing productivity are at the top of agenda for policymakers across the world. Knowledge accumulation and skills are recognized as central in this process. More-educated workers not only have better employment opportunities, earn more, and have more stable and rewarding jobs, but...
Digitized Labor
The Impact of the Internet on Employment
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
As with previous technological revolutions, innovations in the online world have triggered transformations in the labor market and the economy. While the Internet is trumpeted as a great job creator, there are also downsides that need to be identified and dealt with. The book discusses the following...
Labor’s Share of Income
Another Key to Understand China’s Income Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
This book analyzes the decrease in labor share in China, which is a ratio of national income distribution to capital at three different levels (macro, meso, and micro) and from three different perspectives (growth, transition and opening up). The worsening income distribution has been a key issue...
International Labor Mobility
Unemployment and Increasing Returns to Scale
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Migration of workers within and across national boundaries is an important issue in an age of increasing levels of innovation and invention which economizes cost and helps large scale production.
This book analyses the implications of migration for the levels of unemployment and distinguishes between...
by Yumiko Nakahara
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book is the first to cover the research of whole aspects of international mobility to and from Taiwan of both skilled and unskilled workers. The migration of skilled workers is a field that has not been well researched, although it is becoming very important for the economic growth of newly developing...
The Changing Japanese Labor Market
Theory and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
This book reappraises the Japanese employment system, characterized by such practices as the periodic recruiting of new graduates, lifetime employment and seniority-based wages, which were praised as sources of high productivity and flexibility for Japanese firms during the period of high economic...