Labor category: 1449 books
by Gary N. Chaison
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2005
Unions in America provides a concise and current introduction to what America's labor unions do and why they do it. In this engaging text, author Gary Chaison portrays America's unions as complex, self-governing organizations that are struggling to regain their lost membership, bargaining power, and...
Hidden Heads of Households
Child Labor in Urban Northeast Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
In the cities of Northeast Brazil where 50 per cent of the population lives in poverty, children play a key role in the local economy—in their households, in formal jobs, and in the thriving informal sector (washing cars, shining shoes, scavenging for recyclables, etc.). Why children migrate to...
Urban China in the New Era
Market Reforms, Current State, and the Road Forward
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book aims to provide a scholarly account of recent understandings and reflections on some of the prevalent and emerging issues in urban and regional China, such as urbanization, inequality, hukou (household registration) reforms, labor relations, not-in-my-backyard protests and environmental...
The People Factor
Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Successful businesses have spent the past two decades retooling and rethinking how to manage their people better. Most big companies that have survived and prospered in the 21st century view employees as a vital strategic asset. In comparison, the U.S. federal government is a Stone Age relic, with...
by George J. Borjas
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Nearly 3% of the world's population no longer live in the country where they were born. George Borjas synthesizes the theories, models, and econometric methods used to identify the causes and consequences of international labor flows, and lays out with clarity a full spectrum of topics with crucial implications for framing debates over immigration.
by George J. Borjas, Barry R. Chiswick
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
This book presents a series of research articles written over the past four decades by leading economists George J. Borjas and Barry R. Chiswick. Borjas and Chiswick are leading experts on the adjustment of immigrants in their destination country and their impact on the economy. Although they worked...
Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies
Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Over the last several decades, employers have increasingly replaced permanent employees with temporary workers and independent contractors to cut labor costs and enhance flexibility. Although commentators have focused largely on low-wage temporary work, the use of skilled contractors has also grown...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Harold Gibbons was a progressive unionist who came to St. Louis during the 1940s. He was considered a likely successor to James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa as President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters until the two labor leaders clashed in 1963. Before this they were a tandem as president and...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
In November 1953 American Federation of Labor boss William DeKoning Sr. and eight other union officials were indicted for extortion of money from building contractors in Hempstead, Mineola and other Long Island cities. The builders were forced to contribute to a union defense fund or accept the appointment...
The Corporation as Family
The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable growth of corporate welfare programs in American industry. By the mid-1920s, 80 percent of the nation's largest companies--firms including DuPont, International Harvester, and Metropolitan Life Insurance--engaged in some form of welfare...
The Mighty Experiment
Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
By the mid-eighteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade was considered to be a necessary and stabilizing factor in the capitalist economies of Europe and the expanding Americas. Britain was the most influential power in this system which seemed to have the potential for unbounded growth. In 1833,...
The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage
How Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption, and Savings
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
While this book contains numerous facts and empirical findings and touches on policy issues, its main contribution to the existing literature lies in the theoretical perspective it offers. The core of this book is a general equilibrium theory of labor and marriage presented in Chapter 2, which provides...
Human Capital
A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, Gary S. Becker is a pioneer of applying economic analysis to human behavior in such areas as discrimination,...
by Moser Caroline; Dani Anis A.
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2008
Given the lack of adequate universal social welfare for those unable to find jobs in the salaried formal sector, the livelihoods and well-being of most poor people depends heavily on their asset base. This includes their ability to access and accumulate assets, obtain decent returns from these assets,...