Labour category: 1663 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Both parties and interest groups matter to democracy. Historically, examples of close relationships between the two abound. But perhaps the best known because it was supposedly the most intimate and politically important is the relationship between left-of-centre parties and trade unions. Whether...
Smart Public Procurement and Labour Standards
Pushing the Discussion after RegioPost
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Smart procurement aims to leverage public buying power in pursuit of social, environmental and innovation goals. Socially-orientated smart procurement has been a controversial issue under EU law. The extent to which the Court of Justice (ECJ) has supported or rather constrained its development has...
Heavy Burdens on Small Shoulders
The Labour of Pioneer Children on the Canadian Prairies
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
The phrase "child labour" carries negative undertones in today's society. However, only a century ago on the Canadian Prairies, youngsters laboured alongside their parents' working the land, cleaning stovepipes, and chopping wood. By shouldering their share of the chores, these children...
A Long Way Home
Migrant Worker Worlds 1800-2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialization been as comprehensively based on migrant labour as in South Africa. Rather than focusing on the well-documented narrative of displacement and oppression, A Long Way Home captures the humanity, agency and creative modes of self-expression...
by K. D. Ewing, Hugh Collins, Aileen McColgan
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Building on their successful cases and materials book, Collins, Ewing and McColgan present an entirely restructured and freshly written new textbook on employment law. Comprehensive and engaging, it combines detailed analysis and commentary on the law with short contextual extracts to fully equip...
Criminal Capital
Violence, Corruption and Class in Industrial India
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Criminal Capital explores the relationship between neoliberalism, criminality and the reshaping of class in modern India. It discusses how the political vocabularies of urban industrial workers reflect the processes by which power is distributed across the region. Based upon field research among a...
by Leanne O'Leary
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
This book examines the employment arrangements of professional athletes in the Premier League football competition, the National Basketball Association competition and rugby union played at an international level. It describes the organisation and regulatory frameworks of these three professional...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
This 2016 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook provides an in-depth review of recent labour market trends and short-term prospects in OECD countries. Chapter 1 examines recent labour market developments, with a special focus on vulnerable youth who are neither working nor in education or training....
Property, Labour and Legal Regulation
Dignity or Dependence?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
In this revealing comparative study, Mark Findlay examines the problematic nexus between undervalued labour and vulnerable migration status in dis-embedded markets. It highlights the frustrations raised by timeless regulatory failure and the chronic complicity of private property arrangements in delivering...
Intelligent Control
Developments in Public Order Policing in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Massive public protests have had a prominent presence at the turn of the millennium, with many thousands of protestors controlled by small, yet, increasingly specialized police forces. Investigating the ways in which police practices have evolved in relation to labour strikes and protests, Intelligent...
Basics of German Labour Law
The Employment Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Its a guide for German Labour Law and gives an overview of the main aspects of the individual employment relationship between employers and employees.
The Future Regulation of Work
New Concepts, New Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Labour law is in crisis. Global economic factors and the changing contours of work and workplace relations have led to a reorientation of the social, economic, political and cultural environment within which labour law has developed. This is not a jurisdictional problem but rather is deeply entrenched...
Making work more equal
A new labour market segmentation approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This book presents new theories and international empirical evidence on the state of work and employment around the world. Changes in production systems, economic conditions and regulatory conditions are posing new questions about the growing use by employers of precarious forms of work, the contradictory...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
The current economic and financial crisis erupted several years ago. Its effects impacted deeply upon society, in which legal rules and social patterns have developed to enable the establishment of civilisation, justice and peace. Over time it has become more and more obvious that policy, financial...