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50th celebratory volume
This 50th Celebratory Research in Labor Economics volume contains ten original and innovative articles each written by stellar senior scholars in labor economics addressing aspects of worker well-being.
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Always on strike
A history of the I.W.W.’s golden years as lived by one of its’ guiding lights.
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Beyond liberal egalitarianism
An original and convincing political and philosophical argument that capitalism—even when highly regulated—will always breed massive inequality
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Beyond marx
A wide ranging and deeply engaged examination of the role slaves and unfree workers play in the global capitalist economy.
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Big data applications in labor economics
Big Data Applications in Labor Economics showcases news original research using Big Data to gain new insights into how labor markets work. The volume is compiled by Solomon Polachek, a pioneer in gender-related labor market research, and Benjamin Elsner, an expert on causal inference and the econ...
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Breaking ground
Exploring the multifaceted relationship between gender and the construction industry, this work addresses the scarcity of women in construction and demonstrates how we can overcome these challenges.
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Capital accumulation and migration
An important and ground breaking work on the importance of migration in the context of development studies
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Capitalism's contradictions
Henryk Grossman’s substantial essays highlight vital but still neglected aspects of Marx’s economic theory
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Career and family
Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in EconomicsA renowned economic historian traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at homeA century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose betwee...
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Causes and consequences of global migration
The book summarizes scholarly knowledge on why people migrate to western countries, and how this impacts on the receiving economies and societies.
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Change at home, in the labor market, and on the job
How do changes at home, in the labor market and on the job affect worker well-being? This volume of Research in Labor Economics contains eight original and insightful articles answering this question. Seven deal with demographic and labor market change, and one deals with wage differences essenti...
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China on strike
Through first person accounts, this book details the growing unrest, destabilization and strikes in factories that are gripping China.
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Competition in the promised land
From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban spa...
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Conflict and shifting boundaries in the gig economy
Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book draws on legal, HRM, occupational psychology and economic perspectives to innovatively explore the conflicts and blurring boundaries affecting the Gig Economy in terms of the worker, employee identity, status and relationships, and team and career ma...
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Considering class
Considering Class shows why the process of reconstructing class consciousness must take place on the terrain of cultural and subjective formation where everyday values, habits and media practices are in play.
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Disability and the future of work
This volume of Research in Social Science and Disability brings together leading research that examines how systemic policies and practices, pandemic-driven transformations, and strategies for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) continue to shape the employment landscape for workers with disab...
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Disposable domestics
This classic work sheds light on the lives and struggles of immigrant women domestic workers.
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Economy, gender and academy
Relying on a variety of examples from Latin America and the Caribbean, this book counteracts the gender gap by focusing on what you need to know to analyze the modernization of business management and economic growth as well as design effective public policies that allow for greater participation...
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Employability in the eu
This volume provides a multidisciplinary and evidence-based exploration of the key factors shaping employability across the EU. It critically engages with issues such as skills mismatches, youth unemployment, gender disparities, informal work, and migration, offering insights into persistent chal...
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Empowering women through italy's recovery and resilience plan
Empowering Women through Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan provides a comprehensive examination of women’s empowerment within the framework of Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).
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Factors affecting worker well-being
This volume puts the spotlight on worker well-being. It looks at key questions such as: How important is incentive pay in increasing worker productivity? Does monitoring productivity affect a worker's earnings trajectory? How is the decision to retire different in two-earner families compared to ...
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Gender convergence in the labor market
This volume contains new and innovative research articles on issues related to gender convergence in the labor market. Topics include patterns in lifetime work, earnings and human capital investment, the gender wage gap, gender complementarities, career progression, the gender composition of top ...
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Global "body shopping"
How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible labor management system--a flexibility widely regarded as the modus operandi of global capitalism...
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Gurus, hired guns, and warm bodies
Over the last several decades, employers have increasingly replaced permanent employees with temporary workers and independent contractors to cut labor costs and enhance flexibility. Although commentators have focused largely on low-wage temporary work, the use of skilled contractors has also gro...
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Health and labor markets
This volume investigates the relationship between a nation's health policies, employee health, and the resulting labor market outcomes. Containing nine original and innovative articles, it is a fundamental text for anyone interested in labor economics.
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How labour built neoliberalism
In this timely and controversial treatment of the Australian labour movement, Humphrys examines the role of the Labor Party and trade unions in constructing neoliberalism in Australia.
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In marx's laboratory
Marx's most widely debated text, the unfinished manuscript the Grundrisse, is here discussed as the laboratory for his mature ideas.
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Inclusive developments through socio-economic indicators
Proposing issues that hinder equal development, Inclusive Developments through Socio-economic Indicators: New Theoretical and Empirical Insights focuses upon the roles of different socio-economic indicators in explaining the convergence or inclusiveness of income across groups of varying wealth a...
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Income inequality around the world
Research in Labor Economics volume 44 contains new and innovative research on the causes and consequences of inequality and well-being of the workforce.
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Industrial colonialism in latin america
Confronting the critical problems of Latin American development, this volume expertly roots these challenges in the structures of colonialism.
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Inequality
Research in Labor Economics volume 43 contains new and innovative research on the causes and consequences of inequality.
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Labor conflict and capitalist hegemony in argentina
A compelling case study of the impacts of Neoliberalism on Argentina’s auto industry.
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Labor in the age of finance
From award-winning economic historian Sanford M. Jacoby, a fascinating and important study of the labor movement and shareholder capitalismSince the 1970s, American unions have shrunk dramatically, as has their economic clout. Labor in the Age of Finance traces the search for new sources of power...
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Lived experiences of exclusion in the workplace
Lived Experiences of Exclusion in the Workplace shares the emotional expressions of those who have faced alienation and marginalisation, providing guidance on how to trigger inclusion through various, often simple measures.
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Macroeconomics of western balkans in the context of the global work and business environment
New forms of employment, such as gig economy jobs, part-time, temporary, informal, and unpaid family work, are on the rise. The COVID-19 crisis accelerated the use of new technologies in work. This book urges governments to adapt to these changes and position their economies for the digital age.
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Making the cut
An in-depth look at how employers today perceive and evaluate job applicants with nonstandard or precarious employment historiesMillions of workers today labor in nontraditional situations involving part-time work, temporary agency employment, and skills underutilization or face the precariousnes...
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Marx and social justice
A detailed and comprehensive overview of the ethical, political, and economic foundations of Marx’s theory of social justice in his early and later writings.
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Marx on capitalism
A reconstruction of Marx’s account of capitalism based on a systematic retranslation of the texts
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Marx's economic manuscript of 1864-1865
With this volume, Marxist scholars can finally compare Engels’s Volume III with Marx’s original manuscript and evaluate the differences.
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Marx’s capital
When he died, Marx left his opus Capital unfinished. But how incomplete was the project? This volume offers the first comprehensive answer.
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Mobility and inequality trends
Mobility and Inequality Trends is the 30th volume of Research on Economic Inequality and features insightful and original papers from the 9th Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting.
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Not working
A candid explanation of how the labor market really works and is central to everything—and why it is not as healthy as we thinkRelying on unemployment numbers is a dangerous way to gauge how the labor market is doing. Because of a false sense of optimism prior to the COVID-19 shock, the working w...
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Poor workers' unions
Illuminates key connections between the social justice movements of the last fifty years and today's most innovative labor organizing.
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Radical unionism
Though often seen as opposing ideas, Darlington engagingly traces the entwined legacy of revolutionary syndicalism and the communist movement.
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Revolutionary teamsters
Engaging and well researched, Revolutionary Teamsters is the story of a strike that sparked the labor upsurge of the 1930s
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Seeing through the eyes of the polish revolution
Jack Bloom tells the story of Poland's revolution through the stories and experiences of its rank and file participants
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