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Prison Labor in the United States

An Economic Analysis

by Asatar Bair
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007

This book is the only comprehensive analysis of contemporary prison labor in the United States. In it, the author makes the provocative claim that prison labor is best understood as a form of slavery, in which the labor-power of each inmate (though not their person) is owned by the Department of Corrections,...
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The Death and Life of American Labor

Toward a New Worker's Movement

by Stanley Aronowitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014

The decline of the American union movement—and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of labor Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues...
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by Susan Archer Mann
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

Susan Mann focuses on a longstanding controversy in sociological theory: why has agriculture been traditionally resistant to wage labor? Capitalist develoment has been slower and more uneven in agriculture than in other spheres of production, and major parts of the rural economy remain almost preindustrial...
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by Hamid R. Ekbia, Bonnie A. Nardi
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017

An exploration of a new division of labor between machines and humans, in which people provide value to the economy with little or no compensation. The computerization of the economy—and everyday life—has transformed the division of labor between humans and machines, shifting many people...
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Industrial and Labor Economics

Issues in Developing and Transition Countries

by Saibal Kar, Debabrata Datta
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014

This book is an attempt to capture and analyze several idiosyncratic features of industry and labor in the developing world. Available books and graduate-level texts in labor economics largely discuss industrial and labor market situations prevalent in developed countries, where well-defined institutional...
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Merchants of Labor

Recruiters and International Labor Migration

by Philip Martin
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017

Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year and, if they pay an average $1,000 to recruiters, moving workers over borders is a $10 billion a year business. Merchants of Labor examines the businesses that move low-skilled workers over national borders, asking how much they collect...
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Labor Rising

The Past and Future of Working People in America

by Richard Greenwald, Daniel Katz
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012

When Wisconsin governor Scott Walker threatened the collective bargaining rights of the state’s public sector employees in early 2011, the massive protests that erupted inresponse put the labor movement back on the nation’s front pages. It was a fleeting reminder of a not-so-distant past when...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015

This book fills an important gap in the knowledge about labor market conditions in Egypt in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings, and it analyzes the results of the latest round of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey carried out in early 2012. The chapters cover topics that are essential to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018

The Tunisian Labor Market in an Era of Transition is a comprehensive examination of the central labor market issues facing this key Arab country. It includes contributions on the size, structure, and evolution of the labor force, the characteristics of labor demand, employment policies and regulations,...
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by Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, Alexander J. S. Colvin
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015

Compelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor relations, Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, and Alexander J. S. Colvin give us the first textbook to focus on the workplace outcomes of the production of goods and services in emerging countries. In Labor Relations in a...
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Against Labor

How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism

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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and offer incisive portraits of people and organizations that aggressively opposed unions....
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Labor and Employment Relations in a Globalized World

New Perspectives on Work, Social Policy and Labor Market Implications

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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

This book explores the new challenges for work and employment relations in the wake of globalization. It describes contemporary developments and ways in which labor relations systems are evolving around the world and in Turkey. Authors combine the latest information with in-depth insights on a variety...
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Trade and the Labor Market

Effect on Wage Inequality in Japan

by Kojiro Sakurai
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017

This book presents an integrated overview and evidence, taking Japan as an example, on how international trade, especially with developing countries, affects labor market in developed countries, which has been keenly debated among international and labor economists since the late 1980s. The unique...
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The Job Guarantee and Modern Money Theory

Realizing Keynes’s Labor Standard

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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017

The contributors to this edited collection argue that a flexible Job Guarantee program able to react to an economy’s fluctuating need for work would stabilize the labor standard, the value of employment in relation to money. During economic downturns, the program would expand to provide more public...
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