Political Science : Labor & Industrial Relations - General

Gratuity provides a perspective on nonstandard compensation that demonstrates the process by which tipping norms have an impact on the experiences of workers......

With technology and globalization advancing at breakneck speed, the world economy becomes more complex by the day. Activists, politicians, and media enablers......

This is the eBook version of the printed book.Within 20 years-- possibly far sooner--China will have the world's largest economy. Already, China is the #......

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...

Between a River and a Mountain details American labor's surprisingly complex relationship to the American war in Vietnam. Breaking from the simplistic story ......

How do women choose between work and family commitments? And what are the causes, limits, and consequences of the "subtle revolution" in women's choices over......

This eloquent, streetwise book is a paean to America's Rust Belt and a compelling exploration of four milieus caught up in a great transformation of city lif......

The only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry, this book focuses on the reemergence of sweatshops in the Unite......

Although slavery is illegal throughout the world, we learned from Kevin Bales's highly praised exposé, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, ......

""Sherman's insightful ethnography sheds light on the interactional dimension of symbolic boundaries and class relations as they are lived by luxury hotel cl......

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 first comprehensive history of labor relations and the working class in twentieth-century Monterrey, Deference and Defiance explores how both workers and......

A major new study of the role of women in the labor market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different ......

This book addresses the changing nature of work, workers, and their organizations in the media, information, and knowledge industries. It begins with a conci......

In this book Robin Cohen shows how the preferences, interests and actions of the three major social actors in international migration policy  global capital......

A universal concern in reforms involving private participation in infrastructure is the effect such reforms have on labor. Fears of job loss and changes in e......

Over the next two decades, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region faces an unprecedented challenge. In 2000, the labor forces of the region totaled s......

Inequality and Economic Development in Brazil is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject go......

Better a Hundred Friends than a Hundred Rubles? is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the ......