Labour Economics Books

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1. Non-Mainstream Dimensions of Global Political Economy

   Essays in Honour of Sunanda Sen

   Edited by Byasdeb Dasgupta

   The book is a collection of essays written by scholars of global repute in honour of Professor Sunanda Sen. Each paper is well-researched and offers a new dimension to the understanding of the current global crisis, finance and labour including the epistemological viewpoints regarding the current...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. International Trade Unionism (Routledge Revivals)

   By Charles Levinson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   As Secretary General of the ICF and previously Assistant General Secretary of the IMF, Charles Levinson played an important part in developing the countervailing labour response to the multinational corporations. His earlier work, Capital, Inflation and the Multinationals (Routledge Revivals, 2013)...

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
3. Marx and Living Labour

   By Laurent Baronian

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   From his early economic works on, Marx conceived the labour of any kind of society as a set of production activities and analysed the historical modes of production as specific ways of distributing and exchanging these activities. Political economy on the contrary considers the labour...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
4. Globalization, Outsourcing and Labour Development in ASEAN

   By Shandre Thangavelu, Aekapol Chongvilaivan

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   Due to technical advances in production and communication technology, outsourcing – contracting out production of intermediate materials and services – has affected the economic growth of the ASEAN region. This new book fills an important gap in the literature looking at the impact outsourcing has...

   Published May 1st 2013 by Routledge
5. Knowledge, Innovation and Internationalisation

   Essays in Honour of Cesare Imbriani

   Edited by Piergiuseppe Morone

   Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

   As firms increasingly rely on knowledge as a key factor for innovation, the ability to innovate is increasingly perceived as a key asset for being competitive in international markets. This new volume argues that innovation, knowledge and internationalisation should be viewed as tightly related...

   Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge
6. Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism

   West African Labour Mobility and EU Borders

   By Hannah Cross

   Series: Routledge Research on the Global Politics of Migration

   People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe. This book offers an explanation for this phenomenon that is based on close analysis of the contradictory economic and political agendas that create and constrain...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. Labour Market Economics (Routledge Revivals)

   By D Sapsford

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1981, Labour Market Economics develops the basic economic theory of introductory courses within the context of labour market analysis and applies it both to particular features and special problems of the subject. The author begins by outlining the nature of the area and the...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. The Value Dimension (Routledge Revivals)

   Marx versus Ricardo and Sraffa

   By Ben Fine

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   The essays in this edited collection, first published in 1986, focus on important debates surrounding the central Marxian problem of the transformation of values into prices. The collection brings together major contributions on the value theory debate from the decade prior to the book’s...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
9. Recession at Work

   HRM in the Irish Crisis

   By Bill Roche, Paul Teague, Anne Coughlan, Majella Fahy

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   How has the recession affected the conduct of human resource management? How have HR departments and managers fared? Have leading firms taken measures to sustain and revive their businesses through innovative HR measures? How have union representation and influence been affected? Is the recession...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
10. Widening Income Distribution in Post-Handover Hong Kong

    By Hon-Kwong Lui

    Before the handover to China in 1997, Hong Kong’s economic growth was very strong and the unemployment rate dropped to a record low of 2.2 per cent. In recent years, the widening income dispersion in Hong Kong has caught public attention. This book investigates the economic development and changes...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge