Labor category: 1449 books
Hog Wild
The Battle for Workers' Rights at the World's Largest Slaughterhouse
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
When Smithfield Foods opened its pork processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, in 1992, workers in the rural area were thrilled to have jobs at what was billed as “the largest slaughterhouse in the world.” However, they soon left in droves because of the fast, unrelenting line speed and high...
Economy in Society
Essays in Honor of Michael J. Piore
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Prominent economists discuss internal labor markets, the dynamics of immigration, labor market regulation, and other key topics in the work of Michael J. Piore.
Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work
Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
With a growing prominence of sophisticated econometric research in a much-expanded field of New Economics of Participation (NEP), it is of particular value to learn about real-world examples of participatory and labor-managed firms in the advanced market economies through extensive case studies. In...
by Mattoo Aaditya ; Carzaniga Antonia
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2003
The WTO is today dealing with an issue that lies at the interface of two major challenges the world faces, trade liberalization and international migration. Greater freedom for the "temporary movement of individual service suppliers" is being negotiated under the General Agreement on Trade in Services...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
For economists, policy-makers, and historians who want to learn how the Korean labor market dealt with the 1997 financial crisis and how this informed future policies, this volume provides a succinct summary of what Korean experts know and how they view the problems the country must overcome to continue...
Asian Development Outlook 2016
Asia's Potential Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The annual Asian Development Outlook analyzes economic performance in the past year and offers forecasts for the next 2 years for the 45 economies in Asia and the Pacific that make up developing Asia. Global headwinds notwithstanding, developing Asia will continue to contribute 60% of world growth....
by Gary Chaison
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This book explains how collective bargaining has changed in important and lasting ways over the past decade. We are now seeing a new and powerful strain of the concession bargaining that traces its roots back to the early 1980s. The collective bargaining of the past decade can be characterized as...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The economic literature on international migration interests policymakers as well as academics throughout the social sciences. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
The economic literature on international migration interests policymakers as well as academics throughout the social sciences. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late...
Sport and Migration
Borders, Boundaries and Crossings
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
From Major League Baseball to English soccer’s Premier League, all successful contemporary professional sports leagues include a wide diversity of nationalities and ethnicities within their playing and coaching rosters. The international migration of sporting talent and labor, encouraged and facilitated...
Learning by Doing
The Real Connection between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
“Bessen sets out to refute the arguments of . . . techno-pessimists, relying on economic analysis and on a fresh reading of history” (The Wall Street Journal).
Technology is constantly changing our world, leading to more efficient production. But where once technological advancements dramatically...
Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries
A Theoretical Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
In development literature Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is traditionally considered to be instrumental for the economic growth of all countries, particularly the developing ones. It acts as a panacea for breaking out of the vicious circle of low savings/low income and facilitates the import of capital...
The Internet, Organizational Change and Labor
The Challenge of Virtualization
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2003
As we devote increasing amounts of time time at work and at home to the Internet and computer networks, our daily lives are dramatically being reshaped. We are better informed and can work more efficiently, yet there is anxiety about the security of our jobs. Examining what is happening to work, organizations and unions in the a
Gender and Time Use in a Global Context
The Economics of Employment and Unpaid Labor
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This edited volume uses a feminist approach to explore the economic implications of the complex interrelationship between gender and time use. Household composition, sexuality, migration patterns, income levels, and race/ethnicity are all considered as important factors that interact with gender and...