Business & Economics : Labor

A basic knowledge of economics is critical for making informed decisions in today's world. By offering courses and materials that are more relevant to our st......

Below the middle class managers and professionals yet above the skilled blue-collar workers, sales and office workers occupied an intermediate position in ur......

This book explores the assumption that an insecure workforce imposes costs on the wider economy and society through lower rates of skill formation, reduced c......

Examining how youths in fourteen industrialized societies make the transition to adulthood in an era of globalization and rising uncertainty, this collection......

A brilliant and beautiful book, the mature work of a lifetime, must reading for students of the globalization debate. ---Tom Hayden "Slaves to Fashion is a...

Putting Faith in Partnerships addresses a major conceptual change in American domestic policy, begun by Reagan and now fully realized by the Bush administrat......

The ICT sector is crucial as a driver of economic and social growth. Not only is it an important industry in its own right, but it also provides the communic......

New York is the city that never sleeps. This luminous book peels back the cover of darkness over the city as it hums along in the night, revealing a hidden...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese labour market institutions and practices with respect to employment issues and labour payments. It co......

Japanese labour market practices have attracted considerable attention in the West for two reasons. Firstly, innovative human resource management (HRM) is re......

The prevailing view among economists and policy makers is that money has no impact on production in a longer term characterised by full price and wage flexib......

Labour Market Reform in China documents and analyses institutional changes in the Chinese labour market over the last twenty years, and argues that further r......

This book describes in much detail both how and why franchising works. It also analyses the economic tensions that contribute to conflict in the franchisor-f......

Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism is the first study of labour and labour policy during the critical period of the Soviet Union's postwar recovery and the la......

An inclusion failure has become highly visible in the advanced economies of the West. Too many able-bodied people are subject to chronic joblessness and, whe......

The social agenda of the European Union is shifting towards broad social initiatives that align social and economic objectives with the promotion of employme......

At a time when governments and policy-makers put so much emphasis on 'the knowledge economy' and the economic value of education, human capital theory has ne......

There is widespread acceptance that much of the developed world faces a potential pensions and welfare crisis as a result of declining birth rates and an age......

The relationship between fertility and the participation rate of women in the workforce is an increasingly important area of study for economists, demographe......

Globalization has fundamentally changed the game of business. Strategic frameworks developed for the analysis of purely domestic business necessarily fall sh......