Labour category: 1663 books
A Rational Wages System
Some Notes on the Method of Paying the Worker a Reward for Efficiency in Addition to Wages
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
It is universally admitted that the war will bring about great changes in industry. The readjustment of financial affairs, the greatly increased taxation, the displacement of labour due to the employment of men now at the front, the dilution of labour by the employment of women, the development of...
Losing Labour's Soul?
New Labour and the Blair Government 1997-2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Based on extensive original research and interviews with a wide variety of key players, this is a compelling assessment of the Labour Party in power.
Beginning with a detailed account of the development of New Labour, including the ideological tensions within the party, Eric Shaw provides a...
Governing International Labour Migration
Current Issues, Challenges and Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book offers a critical examination of the way in which the nature and governance of international labour migration is changing within a globalizing environment.
It examines how labour mobility and the governance of labour migration are changing by exploring the links between political...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Labour law is widely considered to be in crisis by scholars of the field. This crisis has an obvious external dimension - labour law is attacked for impeding efficiency, flexibility, and development; vilified for reducing employment and for favouring already well placed employees over less fortunate...
by Guy Davidov
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The mismatch between goals and means is a major cause of crisis in labour law. The regulations that we use - the legal instruments and techniques - are no longer in sync with the goals they are supposed to advance. This mismatch leads to a problem of coverage, where many workers who need the protection...
by Brian Bercusson
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
European Labour Law explores how individual European national legal systems, in symbiosis with the European Union, produce a transnational labour law system that is distinct and genuinely European in character. Professor Brian Bercusson describes the evolution of this system, its national, transnational...
Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations
The Commodification of Illicit Flows
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Although much literature on human trafficking focuses on sex trafficking, a great deal of human trafficking results from migrant workers, compelled - by economic deprivation in their home countries - to seek better life opportunities abroad, especially in agriculture, construction and domestic work....
'An Impartial Umpire'
Industrial Relations and the Canadian State 1900-1911
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
This book is an insightful and detailed analysis of Canadian labour relations policy at the beginning of the 20th century, and of the formulation of distinctive features which still characterize it today. The development and reception of this policy are explained as a product of ideological and economic...
Enhancing Capabilities through Labour Law
Informal Workers in India
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
In 2002 the International Labour Organization issued a report titled ‘Decent work and the informal economy’ in which it stressed the need to ensure appropriate employment and income, rights at work, and effective social protection in informal economic activities. Such a call by the ILO is urgent...
Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era
The Regulatory Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In the global era, controversies abound over temporary labour migration; however, it has not previously been subjected to a sustained socio-legal analysis on a comparative basis, critiquing the underpinning concepts conventionally accepted as fundamental in this area. This collection of essays aims...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
With the Maritime Labour Convention now in force (as of August 2013), the shipping industry is faced with a new international convention that has comprehensive implications across all sectors. This vital text provides timely analysis and thought-provoking essays regarding the Convention’s application...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
To what extent is labour law an autonomous field of study? This book is based upon the papers written by a group of leading international scholars on this theme, delivered at a conference to mark Professor Mark Freedland's retirement from his teaching fellowship in Oxford. The chapters explore the...
The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron tells the story of Canada's workers from the mid-nineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early...
by Kevin Gray
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
One of the most remarkable aspects of South Korea’s transition from impoverished post-colonial nation to fully-fledged industrialized democracy has been the growth of its independent and dynamic labour movement. Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation examines current trends and transformations...