Labor category: 1449 books
From Convergence to Crisis
Labor Markets and the Instability of the Euro
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
What explains Eurozone member-states' divergent exposure to Europe's sovereign debt crisis? Deviating from current fiscal and financial views, From Convergence to Crisis focuses on labor markets in a narrative that distinguishes the winners from the losers in the euro crisis. Alison Johnston argues...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The aging and migration megatrends and their impact on spatial – regional and local – labor market performance is the core theme of this book, and thus together define its scope and focus. The contributions provide an overview of key aging and migration issues in various countries together...
by Lone Engbo Christiansen, Joana Pereira, Petia Topalova
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
With an aging population and declining productivity growth, Europe faces serious challenges to raising its output growth. Adding to these challenges are the various gender gaps in the labor market. Despite significant progress in recent decades, there are still fewer women than men participating in Europe’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Outlining important policy requirements for Bangladesh to become an upper middle-income country, the book presents research work conducted during the project “Changing Labor Markets in Bangladesh: Understanding Dynamics in Relation to Economic Growth and Poverty,” sponsored by the International...
Youth Labor in Transition
Inequalities, Mobility, and Policies in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
Exacerbated by the Great Recession, youth transitions to employment and adulthood have become increasingly protracted, precarious, and differentiated by gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Youth Labor in Transition examines young people's integration into employment, alongside the decisions...
Blood on Steel
Chicago Steelworkers and the Strike of 1937
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
On Memorial Day 1937, thousands of steelworkers, middle-class supporters, and working-class activists gathered at Sam's Place on the Southeast Side of Chicago to protest Republic Steel’s virulent opposition to union recognition and collective bargaining. By the end of the day, ten marchers had been...
The Annotated Works of Henry George
Social Problems and The Condition of Labor
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
This is the first fully annotated edition of Social Problems (1883) and The Condition of Labor (1891), two important works by one of America’s most popular social economists. Social Problems grew out of a series of articles Henry George (1839-1897) published in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper...
When Good Jobs Go Bad
Globalization, De-unionization, and Declining Job Quality in the North American Auto Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewn—studies on the impact of globalization on workers have tended to focus on the worst jobs and the worst conditions. But in When Good Jobs Go Bad, Jeffrey Rothstein looks at the impact...
by Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The 2008 global financial and economic crisis led to a significant increase in unemployment rates in most developed economies, yet despite the rising supply of labor, a high share of employers claim that they cannot find the right talent and skills. Concerns that economic restructuring and changing...
Toward a New Social Contract
Taking on Distributional Tensions in Europe and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
The growing economic fissures in the societies of Europe and Central Asia between generations, between insiders and outsiders in the labor market, between rural and urban communities, and between the super-rich and everyone else, are threatening the sustainability of the social contract. The institutions...
by Yu Hong
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
In Labor, Class Formation, and China's Informationized Policy of Economic Development, Yu Hong examines crucial connections between the evolving political economy of information and communications technology (ICT) and the reconstitution of class relations in China. Situating China's ICT development...
Part of the Family?
Nannies, Housekeepers, Caregivers and the Battle for Domestic Workers' Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Love and compassion are at the heart of domestic labor, yet historically, domestic workers have been rendered invisible—by society and in the eyes of the law. Mostly foreign-born women, these workers have been excluded from labor protections that workers in the rest of the economy take for granted....
by Margo L. Azzarelli, Marnie Azzarelli
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
On an August morning in 1877, a dispute over wages exploded between miners and coal company owners. A furious mob rushed down Lackawanna Avenue only to be met by a deadly hail of bullets. With its vast coal fields, mills and rail lines, Scranton became a hotbed for labor activity. Many were discontented...
Indonesia
Enhancing Productivity through Quality Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The book focuses on Indonesia's most pressing labor market challenges and associated policy options to achieve higher and more inclusive economic growth. The challenges consist of creating jobs for and the skills in a youthful and increasingly better educated workforce, and raising the productivity...