Labor category: 1449 books
Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work
The Case of Italy
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
The international literature on non-standard employment has mostly focussed on its impact on employment, and more recently on working and living conditions. This volume explores these issues with special reference to Italy. Italy is characterized by very low participation rates (particularly women’s),...
The Economics of Workers' Management
A Yugoslav Case Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The object of this study, originally published in 1972, consists in developing, against the background of Yugoslav theory and practice, a general theory of the behaviour of economic productive units (the enterprises), managed by those who work therein (the workers or producers) whose reward for work...
The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargement
A New Regional Geography of Europe?
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Floro Ernesto Caroleo and Francesco Pastore This book was conceived to collect selected essays presented at the session on “The Labour Market Impact of the European Union Enlargements. A New Regional Geography of Europe?” of the XXII Conference of the Italian Association of Labour Economics (AIEL)....
Changing Fortunes
Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Most information about the incomes of people in Britain today, such as provided by official statistics, tells us how much inequality there is or how many poor people there are in a given year and compares those numbers with the corresponding statistics from the previous year. Missing from snapshot...
Systems of Innovation
Technologies, Institutions and Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The systems of innovation approach is considered by many to be a useful analytical approach for better understanding innovation processes as well as the production and distribution of knowledge in the economy. It is an appropriate framework for the empirical study of innovations in their contexts...
by Laurent Baronian
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
From his early economic works on, Marx conceived the labour of any kind of society as a set of production activities and analysed the historical modes of production as specific ways of distributing and exchanging these activities. Political economy on the contrary considers the labour only under the...
Insecurity, Precarious Work and Labour Markets
Challenging the Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Precarity is a key theme in political discourse, in media and academic discussions of employment, and within the labour movement. Often, the prevailing idea is of an endless march of precarity, rendering work ever more contingent and workers ever more disposable. However, this detailed study of the...
by Peter C. Dooley
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2005
Exploring the origins and development of the labour theory of value, Peter Dooley examines its emergence from the natural law philosopher of the sixteenth and seventeenth century and its domination of the classical school of economics. This book will prove to be essential reading for all students of the history of economics.
The Transformation of Employment Relations in Europe
Institutions and Outcomes in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Since the 1980s, the process of European economic integration, within a wider context of globalization, has accelerated employment change and placed a new premium on ‘flexible’ forms of work organization. The institutions of employment relations, specifically those concerning collective bargaining...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Almost everyone residing in a developed nation knows someone who has engaged in paid work that is licit but not reported to the government (e.g., babysitting, gardening, construction, financial consulting). But while most acknowledge that such work is helpful to the individuals involved, and that...
Bleakonomics
A Heartwarming Introduction to Financial Catastrophe, the Jobs Crisis and Environmental Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
This is a darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity and financial instability.*BR**BR*Rob Larson holds mainstream economic theory up against the grim reality of a planet in meltdown. He looks at scientists’...
Rural Labour Mobility in Times of Structural Transformation
Dynamics and Perspectives from Asian Economies
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2017
This book examines essential issues and perspectives on rural labour, helping readers understand the changes that are currently taking place in the labour markets, especially with regard to migrants from rural to urban areas, their socio-economic conditions, factors contributing to such mobility and...
Job-rich Growth in Asia
Strategies for Local Employment, Skills Development and Social Protection
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Jobs-rich Growth in Asia discusses some of the most pressing issues that countries in Southeast Asia are facing in regard to boosting local employment and skills development while advancing social protection strategies in emerging, fast-growing labour markets. A joint OECD/ILO initiative, this book...
by Cultural Human Resources Council, Work In Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Your special talents — be they artistic or managerial — combined with your passion and commitment to the arts, probably played a significant role in getting your organization where it is today. Look at the contributions of others on your team. Chances are that some or all of them brought significant...