Labor category: 1449 books
The Future of Chinese Manufacturing
Employment and Labour Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
The Future of Chinese Manufacturing: Employment and Labour Challenges gives context and analysis on employment and labor issues in contemporary China, specifically relating to manufacturing industries. With one fifth of the world’s workforce, China has taken advantage of its cheap labor to serve...
Let Their People Come
Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
In Let Their People Come, Lant Pritchett discusses five "irresistible forces" of global labor migration, and the "immovable ideas" that form a political backlash against it. Increasing wage gaps, different demographic futures, "everything but labor" globalization, and...
Globalization and Labor Conditions
Working Conditions and Worker Rights in a Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2006
This book explains how three major mechanisms of globalization international trade, international migration, and the activities of multinational companies have altered working conditions and labor rights around the world during the late 20th century. Drawing on analyses of a database on international...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
The effective utilization of available resources is a pivotal factor for production levels in modern business environments. However, when resources are limited or in excess, this effects organizational success, as well as the labor market. The Handbook of Research on Unemployment and Labor Market Sustainability...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999
Modern labor economics has continued to grow and develop since the first volumes of this Handbook were published. The subject matter of labor economics continues to have at its core an attempt to systematically find empirical analyses that are consistent with a systematic and parsimonious theoretical...
Labor Before the Industrial Revolution
Work, Technology and their Ecologies in an Age of Early Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
One cannot conceive of capitalism without labor. Yet many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to directly engage with labor at all. This collection of essays strives to correct this oversight and to reintroduce labor into the great debates about capitalist...
Migrating to Opportunity
Overcoming Barriers to Labor Mobility in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The movement of people in Southeast Asia is an issue of increasing importance. Countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are now the origin of 8 percent of the world's migrants. These countries host only 4 percent of the world's migrants but intra-regional migration has turned Malaysia,...
Beyond $15
Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The inside story of the first successful $15 minimum wage campaign that renewed a national labor movement
With captivating narrative and insightful commentary, labor organizer Jonathan Rosenblum reveals the inside story of the first successful fight for a $15 minimum wage, which renewed a national...
The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor
Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old?
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
The bureau of labor statistics reports that in 2008 there were 16.1 million union members in the United States; 2.2 million are represented by the Service Employees' Industrial Union (SEIU)
Written by a long time labor leader with first hand insights into the topic
The economic crisis...
by Vernon M. Jr. Briggs, Walter Fogel, Fred H. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
The Chicano Worker is an incisive analysis of the labor-market experiences of Mexican American workers in the late twentieth century. The authors—each established in the fields of labor economics and research on Chicano workers—describe the major employment patterns of the Chicano labor force and...
by Prof. Michael Huberman
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
It has become commonplace to think that globalization has produced a race to the bottom in terms of labor standards and quality of life: the cheaper the labor and the lower the benefits afforded workers, the more competitively a country can participate on the global stage. But in this book the distinguished...
by Richard T. Ely
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This early work by Richard T. Ely was originally published in 1886 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Labor Movement in America' is an academic work on early American communism, co-operation in America, the economic value of labor organisations, and much more....
The Redistribution Recession
How Labor Market Distortions Contracted the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Redistribution, or subsidies and regulations intended to help the poor, unemployed, and financially distressed, have changed in many ways since the onset of the recent financial crisis. The unemployed, for instance, can collect benefits longer and can receive bonuses, health subsidies, and tax deductions,...
Solidarity Forever?
Race, Gender, and Unionism in the Ports of Southern California
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) remains one of the best examples of a labor union that traces its origins to radical anti-racist principles. Today, very few mainstream unions remain that were founded on militant, radical, and “anti-racist” principles. The ILWU remains the...