Labour Economics Books

New and Published Books

1. Employment and Inclusive Development

   By Rizwanul Islam, Iyanatul Islam

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   Issues relating to employment and labour have once again come to the fore of global policy debates in the wake of the widespread unemployment that has accompanied the current financial crisis. In the developing world, there is a growing realization that productive employment promotion and social...

   Published February 16th 2015 by Routledge
2. The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm (Routledge Revivals)

   A New Model for the East and West

   By David Ellerman

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   When this book was first published in 1990, there were massive economic changes in the East and significant economic challenges to the West. This critical analysis of democratic theory discusses the principles and forces that push both socialist and capitalist economies toward a common ground of...

   Published February 13th 2015 by Routledge
3. Everyday Economic Practices

   The 'Hidden Transcripts' of Egyptian Voices

   By Savinna Chowdhury

   Series: New Political Economy

   This book brings to the forefront the significance of local everyday economic practices to development policymaking. Chowdhury's objective in unearthing these diverse activities is two-fold. She demonstrates why it is a misrepresentation to characterize all that is economic as "capitalism...

   Published February 9th 2015 by Unknown
4. Markets for Schooling

   An Economic Analysis

   By Nick Adnett, Peter Davies

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Nick Adnett and Peter Davies develop an economic analysis of schooling markets, emphasizing both the strengths and weaknesses of orthodox analyses. They explain the economic and social contexts that have generated the widespread desire to reform state schooling and develop a systematic analysis of...

   Published February 9th 2015 by Routledge
5. Elements of Cost-Benefit Analysis (Routledge Revivals)

   By E. J. Mishan

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   This book, which was first published in 1972, is not a collection of case-studies in cost-benefit analysis, of which there had been already several in use employing techniques of varying degrees of sophistication. Nor is it a manual of instruction with particular orientation for less developed...

   Published February 9th 2015 by Unknown
6. The Labour Movement in the Global South

   Trade Unions in Sri Lanka

   By S. Janaka Biyanwila

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Based on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation. It centres on movement politics of unions; explains union capacities to mobilise workers as a part...

   Published February 9th 2015 by Routledge
7. Migration, Work and Citizenship in the New Global Order

   Edited by Ronaldo Munck, Carl Ulrik Schierup, Raúl Delgado Wise

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   Any consideration of global migration in relation to work and citizenship must necessarily be situated in the context of the Great Recession. A whole historical chapter – that of neoliberalism – has now closed and the future can only be deemed uncertain. Migrant workers were key players during this...

   Published February 1st 2015 by Routledge
8. Bridge Employment

   A Research Handbook

   Edited by Carlos-María Alcover, Gabriela Topa, Emma Parry, Franco Fraccaroli, Marco Depolo

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development

   With the long-term trend toward earlier retirement slowing, and the majority of older workers remaining in employment up to and beyond statutory retirement age, it is increasingly important that we understand how to react to these changes. Bridge employment patterns and activities have changed...

   Published January 2nd 2015 by Routledge
9. The Applied Economics of Labour

   Edited by Mark P. Taylor

   This book provides an introduction and overview to seven applied financial studies on the theme of labour. The studies cover a wide range of topics, from the individual effects of becoming disabled on key aspects of labour market outcomes in Germany, to testing whether there is evidence of...

   Published December 24th 2014 by Routledge
10. Globalization, Knowledge and Labour

    Education for Solidarity within Spaces of Resistance

    Edited by Mario Novelli, Anibel Ferus-Comelo

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    This book begins from the central premise that progressive social change requires collective struggle underpinned by a clear strategy, and that processes of neoliberal globalisation have altered the cartography upon which social struggle takes place. Drawing on insights from the knowledge...

    Published December 23rd 2014 by Routledge