Labor category: 1449 books
Refugees, Recent Migrants and Employment
Challenging Barriers and Exploring Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2008
Upheavals in vast areas of the world have led to a growing number of international refugees, a significant proportion of which have made their way to the West. At the same time, economic and social pressures, together with skills and labour shortages, have encouraged the migration for work of millions...
Disparity and Discrimination in Labour Market Outcomes in India
A Quantitative Analysis of Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2019
“The author has done a service to this line of study by collating and analysing a novel dataset in a manner that is going to be of use for researchers of the labour market in India, a subject in need of critical enquiry.”
– Shanti Chakravarty, Professor of Economics, Bangor University,...
Jobless Citizens
Political Engagement of the Young Unemployed
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth. The authors show how unemployment affects the personal, social, and political life of young people. Focusing on the case of Geneva in Switzerland, the study shows the importance of socioeconomic, relational, psychological,...
by Bob Barnetson
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
How does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and governments and economists to investigate the ways in which labour power is produced and reproduced in...
Gendered Work in Asian Cities
The New Economy and Changing Labour Markets
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Do the new Asian economies encourage gender equality? Ann Brooks provides a unique insight into this question by assessing the impact of the new economy and the changing labour market on women in Asia. Theoretical debates around globalization, gender and social change are combined with empirical research...
Unemployment in China
Economy, Human Resources and Labour Markets
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Unemployment in China offers a new and invaluable insight into the Chinese economy, keenly analyzing the new directions the world's next superpower is now taking.
Successfully bringing together a wide range of research and evidence from leading scholars in the field, this book shows how...
South Asian Migration in the Gulf
Causes and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
This volume explores the reasons behind, and impact of, the migration of South Asian nationals (from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bhutan and Maldives, Afghanistan and Myanmar) in the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE and Bahrain). The authors provide a broad...
Working in the Service Sector
A Tale from Different Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The rise to prominence of the service sector - heralded over half a century ago as the great hope for the twenty-first century - has come to fruition. In many cases, employment in the service sector now outnumbers that in manufacturing sectors, and it is accepted that in all developed countries, the...
Global justice networks
Geographies of transnational solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the ‘global justice movement’. Through a detailed study of a grassroots peasants’ network in Asia (People’s Global Action), an international trade union network (the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mining and...
Rural Wage Employment in Developing Countries
Theory, Evidence, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
There is a striking scarcity of work conducted on rural labour markets in the developing world, particularly in Africa. This book aims to fill this gap by bringing together a group of contributors who boast substantial field experience researching rural wage employment in various developing countries....
by Paul Levy
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2014
The decline in private sector unions in America is well documented, but some unions have bucked this trend, most notably the 2.1 million member Service Employees International Union. Its former president liked to say: “We use the power of persuasion first. If it doesn’t work, we try the persuasion...
Towards a New Industrial Democracy
Workers' Participation in Industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This title, originally published in 1986, explores the political and economic conditions of the 1980s, and reflects the world-wide interest in industrial democracy. Each chapter analyses the main adaptations in policy, theory and experimentation that have occurred in industrial democracy in the 1980s....
by Michael Poole
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
First published in 1975, Workers’ Participation in Industry provides a fresh perspective on a highly significant issue. Its principal argument is that developments in workers’ participation and control cannot be satisfactorily understood except by reference to broader questions concerning the...
Women and the Labour Market in Japan's Industrialising Economy
The Textile Industry before the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
During the period of industrialisation in Japan from the 1870s to the 1930s, the textile industry was Japan's largest manufacturing industry, and the country's major source of export earnings. It had a predominantly female labour force, drawn mainly from the agricultural population.
This book examines...