Labor category: 1449 books
Employers’ Economics versus Employees’ Economy
How Adam Smith’s Legacy Obscures Public Investment in the Private Sector
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book argues that economic activity in the public sphere now underwrites private corporations, and rejects rigid adherence to traditional economic theories that no longer apply. Adam Smith's widely used "merchant's model" assumes that most investment is private, when in fact research...
Unemployment Dynamics in the United States and West Germany
Economic Restructuring, Institutions and Labor Market Processes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In writing this book, I increasingly became aware of the extent to which much of the finest social science research has been devoted to the issue of unemployment. Unemployment rightly is a key issue in the social sciences for search of social and political answers to the economic, social and psychological...
Income Inequality in OECD Countries
What are the Drivers and Policy Options?
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This book provides a comprehensive review of income inequality issues in the OECD in a cross-country setting. It presents a wealth of data and analysis on the formation of inequality and identifies groups of countries that share similar inequality patterns. It also reviews developments at the extremes...
Jobs For Development
Challenges and Solutions in Different Country Settings
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This book is a sequel to the World Bank's World Development Report 2013: Jobs. The central message of that report was that job creation is at the heart of development. Jobs raise living standards and lift people out of poverty, they contribute to gains in aggregate productivity, and they may even...
Work and Idleness
The Political Economy of Full Employment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Work and Idleness develops the view that redistributing employment is a `feasible capitalist' solution, not just to the unemployment which particular groups suffer, but also to the work that others have to contend with, including many women. Putting the redistribution of employment on the policy agenda...
Comparable Worth
Theories and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume provides a detailed description of the situation of women in employment in the early 1990s and considers how sociological and economic theories of labor markets illuminate the gap in pay between the sexes.
Freedpeople in the Tobacco South
Virginia, 1860-1900
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Throughout the colonial and antebellum periods, Virginia's tobacco producers exploited slave labor to ensure the profitability of their agricultural enterprises. In the wake of the Civil War, however, the abolition of slavery, combined with changed market conditions, sparked a breakdown of traditional...
Rediscovering Collective Bargaining
Australia's Fair Work Act in International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book examines countries that have tried, with varying degrees of success, to use legislative strategies to encourage and support collective bargaining, including Australia’s Fair Work Act. It is the first major study of the operation and impact of the new collective bargaining framework introduced...
Households, Employment, and Gender
A Social, Economic, and Demographic View
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
During the twentieth century arrangements governing love, work, and their routinization in households and employment underwent a transformation. During this period women gained employment opportunities. This reduced sex differentiation, but did not equalize the roles or power of men and women. The...
by Tibor R. Machan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Examining some of the special ethical dimensions of work, the contributors look at the basic issues of the labor market and offer some controversial alternatives to conventional ways of understanding that market. Morality and Work confronts issues with a bold, candid approach that is sometimes unsettling but always thought-provoking.
by Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Solomon W. Polachek
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Informality and informal employment are wide-spread and growing phenomena in all regions of the world, in particular in low and middle income economies. A large part of economic activity in these countries is not registered or under-declared and many workers enter employment relationships that do...
by Paul J.J. Welfens, David B. Audretsch, John T. Addison
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
High unemployment rates in the period of an internationalization of economies and an intensified technological competition are the main problems that exist in most EU countries. Taking stock of unemployment patterns, technological trends and employment opportunities in the EU and the US is crucial...
by David F Noble
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Focusing on the design and implementation of an important new production technology—computer-based automatic machine tools—David F. Noble challenges the idea that technology has a life of its own which proceeds along a singular path. Such as seen, technology has been both a convenient scapegoat...
Hiring the Black Worker
The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In the 1960s and 1970s, the textile industry's workforce underwent a dramatic transformation, as African Americans entered the South's largest industry in growing numbers. Only 3.3 percent of textile workers were black in 1960; by 1978, this number had risen to 25 percent. Using previously untapped...