Labor category: 1449 books
Prison Labor in the United States
An Economic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
This book is the only comprehensive analysis of contemporary prison labor in the United States. In it, the author makes the provocative claim that prison labor is best understood as a form of slavery, in which the labor-power of each inmate (though not their person) is owned by the Department of Corrections,...
The Death and Life of American Labor
Toward a New Worker's Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The decline of the American union movement—and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of labor
Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues...
by Susan Archer Mann
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Susan Mann focuses on a longstanding controversy in sociological theory: why has agriculture been traditionally resistant to wage labor? Capitalist develoment has been slower and more uneven in agriculture than in other spheres of production, and major parts of the rural economy remain almost preindustrial...
by Hamid R. Ekbia, Bonnie A. Nardi
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
An exploration of a new division of labor between machines and humans, in which people provide value to the economy with little or no compensation.
The computerization of the economy—and everyday life—has transformed the division of labor between humans and machines, shifting many people...
Industrial and Labor Economics
Issues in Developing and Transition Countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
This book is an attempt to capture and analyze several idiosyncratic features of industry and labor in the developing world. Available books and graduate-level texts in labor economics largely discuss industrial and labor market situations prevalent in developed countries, where well-defined institutional...
Merchants of Labor
Recruiters and International Labor Migration
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year and, if they pay an average $1,000 to recruiters, moving workers over borders is a $10 billion a year business. Merchants of Labor examines the businesses that move low-skilled workers over national borders, asking how much they collect...
Labor Rising
The Past and Future of Working People in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
When Wisconsin governor Scott Walker threatened the collective bargaining rights of the state’s public sector employees in early 2011, the massive protests that erupted inresponse put the labor movement back on the nation’s front pages. It was a fleeting reminder of a not-so-distant past when...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
This book fills an important gap in the knowledge about labor market conditions in Egypt in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings, and it analyzes the results of the latest round of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey carried out in early 2012. The chapters cover topics that are essential to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
The Tunisian Labor Market in an Era of Transition is a comprehensive examination of the central labor market issues facing this key Arab country. It includes contributions on the size, structure, and evolution of the labor force, the characteristics of labor demand, employment policies and regulations,...
by Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, Alexander J. S. Colvin
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Compelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor relations, Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, and Alexander J. S. Colvin give us the first textbook to focus on the workplace outcomes of the production of goods and services in emerging countries. In Labor Relations in a...
Against Labor
How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and offer incisive portraits of people and organizations that aggressively opposed unions....
Labor and Employment Relations in a Globalized World
New Perspectives on Work, Social Policy and Labor Market Implications
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This book explores the new challenges for work and employment relations in the wake of globalization. It describes contemporary developments and ways in which labor relations systems are evolving around the world and in Turkey. Authors combine the latest information with in-depth insights on a variety...
Trade and the Labor Market
Effect on Wage Inequality in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This book presents an integrated overview and evidence, taking Japan as an example, on how international trade, especially with developing countries, affects labor market in developed countries, which has been keenly debated among international and labor economists since the late 1980s. The unique...
The Job Guarantee and Modern Money Theory
Realizing Keynes’s Labor Standard
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
The contributors to this edited collection argue that a flexible Job Guarantee program able to react to an economy’s fluctuating need for work would stabilize the labor standard, the value of employment in relation to money. During economic downturns, the program would expand to provide more public...