Author : Gerald Berk
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780120915460
Volume 2 in a series which takes a multi-disciplinary approach to labour studies, emphasizing applied analysis. The series publishes books on economic, historical, industrial relations, and legal and sociological papers under the broad spectrum of labour studies.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labor Office
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Labour in the global South is an exciting contribution to the new field of global labour studies. It identifies in ten clearly written chapters the innovative and creative responses to the challenges facing labour worldwide.? -Edward Webster, University of Kassel, Germany, and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Author : K. Papadakis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230319440
This book assesses the phenomenon of international framework agreements (IFAs), examining their implementation and impact around the world as well as their promotion of ILO standards. This volume includes contributions from fifteen international specialists to give a comprehensive discussion of the 80-plus IFAs that existed in July 2010.
Author : Marcus Taylor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1509504109
From the rise of fully automated factories to the creation of new migrant workforces, the world of work, employment and production is rapidly changing. By reshaping the global distribution of wealth, jobs and opportunities, these processes are unleashing profound social and environmental tensions, as well as new political movements. As a means to address these crucial themes, Global Labour Studies elaborates an innovative interdisciplinary framework that builds upon the concepts of power, networks, space and livelihoods. This approach is deployed to explore core topics including global production networks, labour market dynamics, formal and informal sectors, migration and forced labour, agriculture and environment, corporate social responsibility and new labour organizations. Written in a lively and engaging format that draws upon a diverse range of illustrative case studies, the book provides the reader with an accessible repertoire of analytical tools and offers an essential guide to the field. This makes it a uniquely rich text for undergraduate courses on global labour issues across the fields of geography, politics, sociology, labour studies and international development.
Author : Emanuele Dagnino
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1443873845
Several major transformations have characterized the world of work in recent years. Those transformations follow different patterns in different countries, yet their dynamics are so interrelated that it is often hard, if not impossible, to distinguish the causal relationships among them. Technological advances, globalization, old and new media, demographic changes, and new production and economic systems are all key factors acting on this ongoing transformation which is impacting both the world of work and society as a whole. In the spirit of Karl Polanyi, the well-known scholar who described the rise of market-based societies, we are led to wonder if we are witnessing a new “Great Transformation of Work”, on such a scale that it might change the very meaning of work in our society, and even its anthropological connotations. Accordingly, this volume investigates and discusses the different aspects of this transformation from a comparative perspective. In order to propose better solutions to cope with these changes, it is necessary to analyze their ongoing dynamics. Lawmakers, unions, scholars and practitioners are all called to do their part in order to achieve the goals of sustainability and fairness of our economic systems.
Author : Andreas Bieler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000581152
Against the background of the global economic crisis since 2007/2008 and increasing inequality across the world, the Global South has experienced widespread, large-scale industrial action, including in countries such as China, Brazil, India and South Africa, which had been hailed as the new growth engines of the global political economy as part of the so-called BRICS. This volume systematically evaluates how the new forms of labour mobilization witnessed in the past ten years responded to the predominance of the informality-precarity complex of industrial relations and what conclusions can be drawn for potentially successful strategies against exploitation in the future. Can we identify a convergence of new approaches across the Global South, or do we witness an ongoing fragmentation of actors, models and strategies? In addressing this question, consideration is given to issues of class as well as gender and race. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Globalizations.
Author : Daniel Maul
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 3110646668
This book is the first comprehensive account of the International Labour Organization’s 100-year history. At its heart is the concept of global social policy, which encompasses not only social policy in its national and international dimensions, but also development policy, world trade, international migration and human rights. The book focuses on the ILO’s roles as a key player in debates on poverty, social justice, wealth distribution and social mobility subjects and as a global forum for addressing these issues. The study puts in perspective the manifold ways in which the ILO has helped structure these debates and has made – through its standard-setting, technical cooperation and myriad other activities – practical contributions to the world of work and to global social policy.
Author : Ronaldo Munck
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Austan Goolsbee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022680545X
A calculation of the social returns to innovation /Benjamin F. Jones and Lawrence H. Summers --Innovation and human capital policy /John Van Reenen --Immigration policy levers for US innovation and start-ups /Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr --Scientific grant funding /Pierre Azoulay and Danielle Li --Tax policy for innovation /Bronwyn H. Hall --Taxation and innovation: what do we know? /Ufuk Akcigit and Stefanie Stantcheva --Government incentives for entrepreneurship /Josh Lerner.
Author : Anthony Forsyth
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1443855979
This volume includes a number of papers written in English and published in the last fifteen years in which the Italian labour market faced many changes. The book not only provides the international readership with a frame of reference – in both conceptual and legal terms – that helps to appreciate the Italian Labour Law currently in force, but also represents a contribution to moving beyond the self-referential nature of the Italian debate on the reform of labour laws. As such, the book supplies the reform process of the Italian labour market with an international and comparative dimension which – in accordance with the programmatic approach of Marco Biagi – will also feed the debate at the national level.
