Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff's now classic 1984 book What do unions do? stimulated an enormous theoretical and empirical literature on the economic impact of trade unions. Trade unions continue to be a significant feature of many labour markets, particularly in developing countries, and issues of labour market regulations and labour institutions remain critically important to researchers and policy makers.
The relations between unions and management can range between cooperation and conflict; unions have powerful offsetting wage and non-wage effects that economists...
Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff's now classic 1984 book What do unions do? stimulated an enormous theoretical and empirical literatur...
The global financial crisis and subsequent increase in social inequality has led in many cases to a redrawing of the boundaries between formal and informal work. This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of informal work in today s global economy, presenting economic, legal, sociological, historical, anthropological, political and cultural perspectives on the topic.
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Workers and the Global Informal Economy "explores varying definitions of informality in the backdrop of neo-liberal market logic, exploring how it manifests itself in different regions around the world, and its...
The global financial crisis and subsequent increase in social inequality has led in many cases to a redrawing of the boundaries between formal and ...
The recent recession has led to an ongoing crisis in the youth labour market in Europe. This timely book deals with a number of areas related to the context, choices and experiences of young people, the consequences of which resonate throughout their lives. The focus of the contributions to this volume is on issues which, whilst undoubtedly important, have thus far received less attention than they arguably deserve.
The first part of the book is concerned with issues related to education and training, covering matters such as the role of monopsony in training, the...
The recent recession has led to an ongoing crisis in the youth labour market in Europe. This timely book deals with a number of areas related to th...
Employment has changed dramatically in the last few decades with the onset of neoliberal globalization. This change has become the objective of inquiry from different perspectives, such as development studies, labour economics or industrial relations, focusing on different units of analysis.
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The Political Economy of Employment Relations" provides an exceptional contribution to existing literature by presenting alternative theory and practice on employment relations. It is within this critical theoretical intervention that solidarity economies emerge as a unique theoretical...
Employment has changed dramatically in the last few decades with the onset of neoliberal globalization. This change has become the objective of inq...
