Labour Economics

This text uses an innovative approach to the dynamics of labour's decline and proposes policy initiatives necessary for its revitalization. The book emphasises the need for restructuring of capitalism on a global scale and challenges traditional economic and industrial relations wisdom...

This study examines the transformation in the USA from an organized to a mainly private labour market. The author first discusses the manifold historical conditions that set the stage for the competitive non-union alternative and then asks what makes the non-union system work...

This study examines the transformation in the USA from an organized to a mainly private labour market. The author first discusses the manifold historical conditions that set the stage for the competitive non-union alternative and then asks what makes the non-union system work...

This book addresses the intractable problem of achieving gender equity at work, framed by two questions: Why are there so few women in engineering? And why is this so difficult to change?..

Despite its decline throughout the advanced industrial nations, child labour remains a major social, political and economic concern. This work considers the issue in three parts, covering historical and theoretical perspectives...

Case studies of Chinese workers in a variety of settings: state enterprises, urban collectives, domestic private enterprises and foreign funded enterprises, are examined through an analytical framework which lays out why labour rights violations have been occurring in China...

Case studies of Chinese workers in a variety of settings: state enterprises, urban collectives, domestic private enterprises and foreign funded enterprises, are examined through an analytical framework which lays out why labour rights violations have been occurring in China...

Controlling Soviet Labour..

This title was first published in 2003. In the early 1990s, Australia Sweden and the UK dismantled the old centralised pay setting systems that set the pay of civil servants and adopted decentralised systems and pay systems. Consequentially, these systems are now being considered by many other Europ..

Originally published in 1970. During the times of planned population movements and new towns, this book presents research on the facts and trends of employment generated by the regional economy and its relationship with the size and socio-economic character of local workforce, using the example of t..

This title was first published in 2001. The emergence of the European Works Councils (EWCs) is one of the most important developments in international industrial relations and the most significant intervention by the European Union in the industrial relations field. This volume is the second of thre..

In this book, the authors illustrate, with reference to a wide range of cases, how the transformation of work - based in Western dominant models of capitalist wage-labor – is taking place in particular parts of each of the four worlds. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_  ..